The international law firm Taylor Wessing has advised General Catalyst on the Series C financing round in Contentful. Together with the existing investors Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Point Nine Capital, around 28 million US dollars were invested in the company which was founded by Sascha Konietzke in May 2014; a total of approximately 45 million US dollars was channelled into the company.

Contentful offers a content management system (CMS) which allows for content to be distributed across various platforms more easily than with the classic products of competitors such as Adobe, Sitecore or Episerver. The clients of Contentful include Fortune 500 companies as well as disruptive tech companies and digital agencies such as Telus, Spotify, WeWork, Oscar, AKQA, Huge and R/GA.

“At General Catalyst, we focus on user-centric products that have the potential to become hugely useful in enterprises. Contentful is among this new ecosystem of platform services, which provide a fundamentally new infrastructure for building modern applications,” said Trevor Oelschig, Managing Director at General Catalyst.

Like the Series B lead investor Benchmark, the US-based venture capital fund General Catalyst, which raised total capital of over 3,75 billion US dollars, instructed a VC team led by the Berlin Partner Norman Röchert.

Taylor Wessing: Lead Partner: Dr. Norman Röchert (Partner, Corporate, Venture Capital, Berlin), Mark Barron (Partner, Corporate, Palo Alto) Christian Ahrendt (Associate), Dr. Sebastian Klabunde (Senior Associate) (both Corporate), Nico Jänicke (Partner, Employment Law), Dr. Gregor Schmidt (Partner, Technology, Media & Telecoms) (all Berlin), Dr. Bert Kimpel, Dr. Simon Weppner (both Tax Law Partners, Düsseldorf)