Atomico Invests $4.2 Million in Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder

BERLIN – 16. November 2011 – 6Wunderkinder, a rising leader in the productivity sector, today announced that it has secured a $4.2m investment from Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm led by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström. The Series A financing round is secured alongside additional investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds.
6Wunderkinder currently offers a widely popular cross-platform and cloud-based task management tool called Wunderlist – an application that allows users to make detailed, easy to navigate ‘to do’ lists, which can be shared with friends, family and colleagues. Its highly anticipated and soon-to-be launched product Wunderkit is a state-of-the-art platform that provides a central place for individuals to focus on their personal and professional work, with an emphasis on collaboration. To receive an invitation to the beta, users can sign up at www.wunderkit.com.
Since it was founded 15 months ago, 6Wunderkinder has become one of the most closely watched companies in the European tech arena. The popularity of Wunderlist has also brought 6Wunderkinder worldwide attention, earning Apple’s “App Of The Week” in 104 countries and is currently one of the most downloaded productivity apps in the world. Wunderlist has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times, has 1.5 million registered users and is available in 30 languages.
The funding round will be used primarily to accelerate product development for Wunderkit and add key employees to the company‘s marketing and sales teams. This will allow 6Wunderkinder to meet the growing demand of its products around the world, help in advancing its technology and strengthening user experience and support. 6Wunderkinder has already had measurable success with its Wunderlist app but looks to raise the bar with Wunderkit, which will bring together several online tools already familiar to consumers and developers alike. The concept is to bring personal and professional work together and allow individuals to collaborate freely with their friends, family and colleagues.
Christian Reber, CEO of 6Wunderkinder, commented: “I am thrilled to have world-class investors like Atomico partnering up with us. Atomico shares the belief that outstanding companies are created by great individuals with innovative ideas. With this round of funding, we will be able to scale our products, radically disrupt the productivity marketplace and reach millions of new customers all over the world“.
Niklas Zennström, Founding Partner at Atomico, said: “We are delighted to make this investment. The company has brilliant management, has already got great traction in the market, and has a huge opportunity in front of it. We were particularly impressed by the international outlook of the team, and the potential for growth in markets across the world. This is precisely the kind of investment that we love to make at Atomico.”

6Wunderkinder
6Wunderkinder, a Berlin-based start-up founded in August 2010, creates multi-platform productivity solutions for individuals, groups and businesses. Wunderlist is free and available for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android and the Web. The company’s next product, Wunderkit, is targeting a late 2011 launch and aims to become the industry-standard productivity platform. 6Wunderkinder has secured investment from e42, High-Tech Gründerfonds and T-Venture, the corporate venture arm of Deutsche Telekom AG. For more information about 6Wunderkinder, please visit: http://www.6wunderkinder.com

Atomico
Atomico is a leading international venture capital firm formed in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, a successful serial-entrepreneur and co-founder of Skype, Kazaa and other companies. Atomico seeks to deliver outsized returns to investors by being the partner, and investor of choice, for fast-growing technology companies that will become global category winners. It has so far invested in more than 50 companies on four continents.
Atomico is headquartered in London with offices in São Paulo and Beijing. For more information about Atomico, please visit: http://www.atomico.com

High-Tech Gruenderfonds
High-Tech Gruenderfonds invests in young, high potential high-tech start-ups. The seed financing provided is designed to enable start-ups to take an idea through prototyping and to market launch. Typically, High Tech Gruenderfonds invests EUR 500,000 in the seed stage, with the potential for up to a total of EUR 2mm per portfolio company in follow-on financing. Investors in this public/private partnership include the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the KfW Banking Group, as well as twelve industrial groups of ALTANA, BASF, B. Braun, Robert Bosch, CEWE Color, Daimler, Deutsche Post DHL, Deutsche Telekom, Qiagen, RWE Innogy, Tengelmann and Carl Zeiss. High-Tech Gruenderfonds has about EUR 560.5 million under management in two funds (EUR 272 million EUR HTGF I, EUR 288.5 million HTGF II).