Thrive leads $30m series-B for Pitch

Private investors Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger and Rahul Vohra also joined the round.

US-based VC Thrive has previously invested in Monzo, Raisin and ResearchGate.

Pitch was founded by Christian Reber, the founder of Wunderlist. Reber's previous software company was sold to Microsoft in 2015 for a reported sum of between $100-200m.

Pitch has announced that it has now launched its software for use by customers.

Previous funding
BlueYard Capital led a €3m seed funding round for Pitch in February 2018, taking a 15% stake in the company, according to Gruenderszene.

BlueYard joined forces with Index Ventures to lead the company's $19m series-A in October 2018. Also participating were several private investors, as well as Slack Fund, the corporate investment arm of Slack.

Company
Based in Berlin and founded in 2018, Pitch develops software to help businesses make presentations. The company employs almost 40 people, according to LinkedIn.

People
Pitch Software – Christian Reber-Prevot (managing director).

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