Luca Eisenstecken
Investor at Factorial HR
Greater London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
Partner in the growth stage investment team of Atomico, a European VC, focusing on tech b2b Series B to pre-IPO investing. We are currently investing out of our $1.24 billion 6th fund. Involved in the Atomico investments into Aiven, Attentive, CADDi, ChannelEngine, Commsor, Factorial HR, Infarm, Bird (formerly MessageBird), Raycast, Scoutbee and TestGorilla. Furthermore, historically also was involved with Graphcore (acquired by Softbank), Peakon (acquired by Workday), Pipedrive (majority investment from Vista Equity Partners) and Quid (merged with NetBase). https://atomico.com/team/luca-eisenstecken
Principal
2021 - 2022
VP
2019 - 2021
Associate
2018 - 2019
Investor & Board Observer
2025
CADDi is a Tokyo & Chicago based provider of an AI data platform for manufacturing companies globally, turning static, outdated and costly, but highly entrenched, legacy software solutions into dynamic systems of insights & enablement and as a result, is slated to become the global de-facto manufacturing system of record long term. Atomico led a $38m Series C Extension, joining existing investors including Arena Holdings, DCM Ventures, DST Global, Global Brain, Globis Capital and World Innovation Lab.
Investor & Board Member
2024
Raycast is a fully remote provider of a productivity software platform built to combat digital fragmentation and help people achieve a perfect state of productivity, acting as the ultimate shortcut to everything. Atomico led a $30m Series B with participation from existing investors Accel, Coatue & YC and new investors Atlassian Ventures, WiL, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Thomas Dohmke (GitHub) & Tobi Lütke (Shopify).
Investor & Board Member
2022
Factorial is a Barcelona based all-in-one people-first automated HR management platform for SMBs globally that incorporates recruiting, onboarding, absence management, payroll, and time tracking amongst many other features into one horizontal platform. Atomico led a $120m Series C with participation from GIC and all existing investors including Creandum, CRV, K-Fund and Tiger Global. Factorial closed a subsequent $80m go-to-market investment from General Catalyst in April 2024.
Investor & Board Member
2022
TestGorilla is a fully remote provider of an online pre-employment testing platform with a wide-ranging library of more than 400 scientifically validated tests set out to eliminate hiring bias, creating a level playing field where candidates get to compete on equal terms. Atomico co-led a $70m Series A with Balderton Capital and participation from existing investors Notion, Partech and CapitalT.
Investor & Board Member
2022
ChannelEngine is a Leiden, Netherlands based global ecommerce marketplace operating platform & management suite, providing a data-driven enablement, orchestration and automation layer to brands, wholesalers and retailers, connecting them to global marketplaces. Atomico led a $50m Series B with participation from General Catalyst and existing investors Inkef Capital and Airbridge Equity.
Investor & Board Observer
2021
Aiven is a Helsinki based open source data infrastructure platform providing fully managed services for Apache Kafka & Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana, Clickhouse and M3 on all major clouds globally. Atomico led a $100m Series C at an $800m valuation with participation from Salesforce Ventures, WiL, and existing investors Earlybird and IVP. Aiven raised a subsequent internal $60m Series C extension co-led by IVP and WiL at a $2b valuation in October 2021 and a $210m Series D at a >$3b valuation in May 2022 led by Eurazeo and BlackRock, with Atomico doubling down in both rounds.
Investor
2022
Commsor is a remote first company building the world’s only full-stack community company, creating the software, community, education, and services for companies looking to transform and harness the power of Community-Led Growth. Atomico anchored a community-led $50m Series B with participation from Slack Fund alongside 150+ founders and operators, as well as existing investors like Felicis Ventures, 776 and SignalFire.
Commsor is your community operating system. Unlock insights, measure impact, and build a community-led company.
Raised $66,000,000.00 from Andreas Klinger, Neel Mehta, Slack Fund, Philip Sheibley, Nisha Baxi, AAFM, Des Traynor, Daria Byrne, Colin Kennedy and Kiren Srinivasan.
Investor
2020
Attentive is a New York based personalized text messaging SaaS platform that works with over 2,000 leading businesses, driving billions of dollars in transactions. Atomico participated in a $230m Series D led by Coatue at a $2.2b valuation, joining existing investors like Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia, IVP, Sapphire Ventures and others. Subsequently, Attentive raised a $470m Series E in March 2021 led by Coatue at a $7.0b valuation.
Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates businesses with AI powered SMS and e-mail marketing solutions.
Raised $863,000,000.00 from Irving Investors.
Investor & Board Member
2020
Scoutbee’s AI-powered supplier discovery software suite helps procurement leaders see deep supplier insights to make more confident buying decisions, delivering a massive ROI to the largest global organisations. Atomico led a $60 million Series B with participation from Lakestar, Next47 and exiting investors HV, 42Cap and Toba Capital.