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Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Germany (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Automotive startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Automotive startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
UVC Partners
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$91M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $750k–$16M
KfW
VC Fund
7 Germany, India, Kenya Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $1.6M–$17M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $563k–$4.3M
Axel Springer Digital Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, The Netherlands Series A, Seed Real Estate, Internet, Digital Media $475k–$26M
coparion
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $2M–$54M
DN Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $111k–$24M
High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $665k–$16M
MAHLE
VC Fund
4 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Automotive, GreenTech, Lifestyle
STS Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $27k–$2.7M
Scania Growth Capital
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Germany, Finland Series A, Seed Manufacturing, Logistics, Industrial Automation
BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Italy, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $428k–$5.9M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
Capnamic Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.7M–$28M
HV Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.3M–$80M
Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $3.3M–$11M
TA Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet $350k–$14M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $820k–$7M
Atlantic Labs
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Information Technology $850k–$27M
Vito Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Finland, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things $4.3M–$16M
Peter Mertens
Angel
3 Germany, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Automotive, Information Technology $1.5M–$4.6M
Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2M–$16M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $500k–$33M
Porsche Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Israel Series B, Seed, Series A Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology $1.5M–$74M
kopa ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Energy Management, Solar, Energy $2.8M–$4.4M
Alpana Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $822k–$45M
Cavalry Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$25M
WEGVISOR
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Manufacturing, Medical, Internet
HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS $307k–$9.1M
WestTech Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1M–$12M
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
Angel
2 Germany Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
EOS VC Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Gaming $50k–$19M
Maniv Mobility
VC Fund
2 Israel, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed, Series B Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software $2M–$126M
HR Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Series A Travel, Information Technology, Software $134k–$6.4M
Target Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $1.5M–$20M
Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $964k–$46M
GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A Logistics, Wearables, Automotive
Continental
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles $6.5M–$59M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $120k–$5.4M
Partech
VC Fund
2 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1M–$54M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$85M
Basinghall Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $3.5M–$85M
Allianz X
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance $6.4M–$20M
Troy Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Transportation, Software, Air Transportation $14M–$56M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $1.1M–$107M
Intel Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, China, Israel Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software $3.5M–$67M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, E-Commerce $107k–$3M
Fabian von Kuenheim
Angel
2 Germany Seed Automotive, Developer Tools, Data Integration
IT-Farm
VC Fund
2 United States, Japan, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.8M–$9.6M
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 8 in the past 12 months

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $4.7M–$25M; Series B $2.5M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Stabl Energy — Stabl Energy is a developer of a technology that significantly improves battery storage systems.
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
  • ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
  • FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
  • Driveblocks — driveblocks' Mapless Autonomy Platform enables heavy duty vehicles to reliably detect objects and perceive their sourrounding without relying on high-definition maps. It's applications are container terminals, mining, agriculture, and hub-to-hub logistics. The technology unlocks cost-saving potentials, safety improvements and more efficient workflows.
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Automotive startups

KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$10M; Series B $3.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniper — Uniper is an international energy company with about 11,000 employees. They combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. Uniper is a German energy company based in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed by the separation of E.ON's fossil fuel assetsinto a separate company that began operating on 1 January 2016.
  • NamPower — NamPower is the national power utility of Namibia and specializes in the generation and transmission of electricity.
  • Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 10 in the past 12 months

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $563k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • MiViA — From microstructure segmentation to grain size measurement! Our AI engine provides a fast and reliable metallographic analysis for metallic products.}
  • BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
  • BirdsView — BirdsView is to 'assist small e-commerce firms in transforming their own consumer data into effective, tailored marketing tactics and turning one-time purchases into devoted patrons.
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Axel Springer Digital Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the Venture Capital unit of Axel Springer SE, investing in digital companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Real Estate, Internet, Digital Media
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $475k–$4.5M; Series A $2.9M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.
  • Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
  • Goggo Network — Autonomous Mobility as a Service. We deploy and operate fleets of shared autonomous vehicles to transport people and goods.
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coparion
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.9M; Series A $4.5M–$14M; Series B $9.6M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
  • ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
  • Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 10 in the past 12 months

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $7.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.
  • Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
  • GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
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High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 64 in the past 12 months

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 373
  • Round size: Seed $665k–$5.1M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
  • Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
  • traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
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MAHLE
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

MAHLE is an international development partner and supplier to the automotive industry. With its products for combustion engines and their peripherals as well as solutions for electric vehicles, the group addresses all the crucial issues related to the powertrain and air conditioning technology—from engine systems and components to filtration tothermal management. In 2015, the group generated sales of approximately EUR 11.5 billion with around 76,000 employees and is represented in 34 countries with over 170 production locations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, GreenTech, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inspekto — Inspekto is a German industrial company with Israeli DNA, introducing the new Autonomous Machine Vision Category.
  • Sunmaxx — SunMaxx Solar is a manufacturer of solar hot water collectors and system components including evacuated tubes, flat plates and solar storage.
  • Sunmaxx PVT — Sunmaxx develops, produces & sells innovative PVT systems that use the ideal available and sustainable energy source.
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STS Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

STS Ventures is a Cologne-based industry agnostic early-stage investor. We typically invest in firms headquartered in the DACH region. A typical initial investment ranges from €200k - €500k with up to a total of €5 million per company through follow-up investments. To help build a strong foundation, we prefer to be amongst the first investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mogenius — mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, andrepetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.
  • Replique — Shift from a physical to a digital inventory and on-demand production to provide trusted parts anytime, anywhere via our decentral network.
  • SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
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Scania Growth Capital
VC Fund · Södertälje, Vasternorrlands Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Scania has founded Scania Growth Capital for investments in high-growth companies with strategic relevance to its ecosystem of customers and partners in the automotive- and transport industries.Scania Growth Capital invests in companies that support the shift towards a more sustainable transport system, and in ventures that may discoverdisrupting technologies and business models in the automotive and transport industries.It also provides a platform where Scania can support capable entrepreneurs with a large ecosystem, as well as broad and deep industry knowledge, which will add great value to the portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Logistics, Industrial Automation
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
  • vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
  • SiB Solutions Group — SiB Solutions' Intelligent Video and AI Services are for logistics-intensive companies. Subscribe to save money, improve quality and to go greener.
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Series A $428k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
  • ChargeOne — The complete charging solution for your e-mobility.
  • SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $5.5M–$27M; Series B $8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Buycycle — Buycycle is an online market place that offers pre-owned bikes. Buycycle is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2021.
  • HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
  • Narval — Securely use your digital assets with web3-native policy controls over any key storage & custody model
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Capnamic Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Series A $2.4M–$11M; Series B $4.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
  • Dexory — Robotics, AI, automation, digital twin technology, data-led, inventory checks
  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 14 in the past 12 months

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$33M; Series B $4.3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
  • NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
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Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$3.9M; Series A $5.4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • INKI.TECH — Equip your business with high-end, secure IT equipment through INKI's device-as-a-service model. Reduce operational costs, increase agility, and embrace sustainability while minimizing total cost of ownership.
  • CamperBoys — CamperBoys rents out fully equipped camper vans in Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig-Halle & Berlin.
  • Urban Connect — Urban Connect is a corporate mobility platform offering company employees access to a fleet of low-carbon, shared vehicles like e-bikes, bikes, e-scooters and e-cars. The offering is structured as a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solution. The company services large blue chip clients like Roche, Avaloq, Hilti, Sonova or Zurich Insurance. The team iscomposed of a number of people from different nationalities & backgrounds, all with the common goal of helping companies reduce their carbon and space footprints.
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

TA Ventures is globally-minded and network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups in Europe and North America shaping the industries of tomorrow. Our ticket size starts from $100k up to $1M. We offer speed of execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. Drawing upon our network, we support our portfoliocompanies by proactively soliciting large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. We utilize our industry knowledge and network to give portfolio companies and partner VCs access to the highly skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing teams in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
  • Utorg — Utorg is a fintech company that offers а modern on/off-ramp and web3 consumer infrastructure to deliver а top-notch user experience. The company is EU-based and holds a license for providing a virtual currency service, in particular exchanging a virtual currency against fiat currency, virtual currency wallet service, and exchanging virtualcurrency against a virtual currency.Utorg was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 10 in the past 12 months

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $820k–$4.3M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • nuwo — Workplace as-a-Service. nuwo is the #1 platform 
for financing, equipping 
and managing hybrid 
workspaces
  • MERSOR — MERSOR is an online marketplace for stylish and pre-curated gifts with a unique and innovative customer experience. We aim to make gifting easy, fast and fun again by not only providing the perfect gift but also assisting the customers in their overall gift management.
  • Wonnda — Wonnda is the digital infrastructure where buyers and suppliers collaboratively build the consumer products of tomorrow
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Atlantic Labs
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $850k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SureIn — small business insurance manager
  • Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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Vito Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Vito Ventures invests in break-through tech and business startups in the fields of IoT, B2B marketplaces, enterprise, SaaS and energy tech. Vito Ventures backs ambitious founders and startups applying technology to solve fundamental problems of society ranging from climate change to energy security. They believe that superb engineering andradical entrepreneurial thinking is needed to tackle major challenges of the upcoming decades. With its investments they empower startups, which will make a difference both within their industry and beyond. Through its industrial investor base, they have access to extensive resources (e.g., R&D facilities, global market reach, mass production capabilities). Its portfolio companies can actively leverage their investor’s domain expertise and knowledge base in the fields of Cooling-, Heating- and Energy-technology, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things. Whether it is developer capacity or prototyping experience, they want to build bridges and open doors whenever possible.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers
  • Crate.io — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
  • Micropsi Industries — Micropsi Industries is a robotics software company. Our AIs allow robots to learn from humans and act in dynamic environments.
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Peter Mertens
Angel · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
  • DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
  • Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund · Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
  • Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 27 in the past 12 months

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
  • Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
  • Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
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Porsche Ventures
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Series B $9M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
  • ZEDEDA — ZEDEDA provides a simple and scalable cloud-based orchestration solution that delivers visibility, control and security for distributed edge computing.
  • Actnano — Actnano is a nanotechnology company that specializes in automotive, consumer electronics, and smart coating solutions that make products water-resistant. The company enables the protection of a variety of materials from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. Its technology provides a broad spectrum of transparent nano guard coatings thatcan be applied to electronic devices in a way that makes them water-resistant to IPx7 levels, enabling clients to keep their electronics and gadgets protected and last long in an economical way.actnano was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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kopa ventures
VC Fund · Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy Management, Solar, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
  • Carbonfuture — At Carbonfuture, we build trust throughout the carbon removal journey with our rigorous, data-driven approach, ensuring unmatched quality and reliability of carbon removal.
  • Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
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Alpana Ventures
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $822k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$8M; Series B $3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
  • Nezasa — Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode
  • Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.
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Cavalry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Openvolt — A developer friendly API for unlocking access to smart meter data across Europe. Build more impactful apps in Energy Efficiency, ESG, EV Charging, Demand Response and a host of other use cases.
  • Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
  • SERA Intelligence — SERA Intelligence is an AgTech company that offers a cultivation management & analytics platform for greenhouses using machine learning.
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WEGVISOR
VC Fund · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We effectively support start-ups through early-stage capital, network, know-how, follow-up financing and personality development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Medical, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BDK Group — Autoglas der Zukunft
  • Infrasolid — Innovative infrared sources for gas detection & spectroscopy. Infrasolid's infrared radiation sources are based on a patented nanotechnology in combination with the self-supporting monolithic structure.
  • Suburban Seafood — Premium producer of shrimp larvae and prawns.
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Seed $307k–$2.1M; Series A $1.5M–$9.1M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.
  • Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
  • Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
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WestTech Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $3M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
  • Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
  • THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.
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ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
Angel · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
  • Kumpan Electric — Kumpan electric (e-bility GmbH) is a manufacturer of E-Scooters and offers e-mobility solutions and portable energy storage systems– made inEurope! Kumpan electric develops, produces, and sells stylish electric vehicles (20-120 km/h) and energy storage systems for end consumers, fleets, and sharing companies (B2C, B2B).
  • Hintbox — Whistleblower-System, Hinweisgebersystem, SaaS
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EOS VC Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.3M; Grant $50k–$50k; Series A $2.1M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
  • SparkChange — SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, enabling investors to achieve both financial returns and positive environmental impact. The company was established by experts in environmental products and capital markets technologies to set a new standard in carbon investing. For more information, visit:https://sparkchange.io/
  • Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).
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Maniv Mobility
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Israel, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Series A $4M–$14M; Series B $18M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $100M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
  • River — Empowering people, improving lives.
  • NeoLogic (VLSI) — NeoLogic was founded to address the increasing workloads of video, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, and more in the cloud and at the edge. we developer a unique technology that cuts down the transistor count of circuits by a factor of up to 3x at any technology node.
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HR Ventures
VC Fund · Dreieich, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

HR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, which is part of the HahnAir Group. HR Ventures is based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. HR Ventures is also an EVCA member, the European private equity & venture capital association.HR Ventures was founded to support exceptional entrepreneurs in achieving their goals together aspartners. We define ourselves as an equal partner for all entrepreneurial challenges with in-depth expertise and a large network. The company builds a strong relationship with each founder to create outstanding companies. We are here to

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Nezasa — Nezasa’s travel booking solution empowers travel brands globally to combine all planning and booking related actions into one seamless end-to-end experience.Our tools, enable to plan and book any type of multi-product or multi-stop itinerary.TripBuilder Hyper-personalised packaging Real-time planning and booking of personalised itinerariesPowerful, easy to use and very interactive Deep integration possibilities into existing fulfilment landscapes Enterprise-grade, proven with large TO customersTripBooster Hyper-personalised In-Destination Upselling The extension of TripBuilder’s power throughout the entire travel lifecycle The perfect travel companion Seamless purchasing of perfectly fitting additional products Smart upselling recommendation, available in both a push and pull mode
  • Caravelo — Caravelo provides travel subscription solutions that increase revenue & market share, reduce seasonality, and create better customer experiences.
  • BYHOURS — The leader in Microstays and Hotels for the day. Book Hotel rooms in hourly rates for day use, also for the night. Choose the check-in time and pay per use in more that 4,000 Hotels near Airports, City Centres, Hospitals and Train stations in 20 countries. Join 250K customers worldwide who are enjoying flexibility in their hotel booking.
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Target Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Germany.The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalinvestors in Europe and the USA. They founded or led companies their selves, developed or sold technology products their selves. They have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. They understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight.Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. They open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. They support you in business development, in international expansion, in closing OEM or distribution contracts, and in acquisition decisions. In addition, several dozen European and US entrepreneurs and top managers, as well as a number of US venture capitalists, have personally invested in their funds and thus have a particularly strong interest in your company's success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$9.1M; Series B $2.4M–$20M; Series C $3.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $73M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • tado° — Tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
  • NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
  • Dedrone — Dedrone is the global leader in anti-drone / counter-drone solutions with the most customers in more countries
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Heartcore Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm devoted to backing founders building category-defining consumer internet brands.Founded as Sunstone Capital in 2007, Heartcore has raised over $500 million in committed capital across four fund generations. The firm has offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris but invests across Europe andoccasionally in the United States. Heartcore has backed more than 70 exceptional founding teams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Denmark, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $964k–$9M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $9.6M–$46M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
  • Quell — An immersive first-person fitness game you can play anywhere - Quell is the future of fitness gaming.
  • Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
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GETTYLAB
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

GETTYLAB backs engineers in the U.S., U.K. and E.U. — early-stage investments via FAST: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/f-st

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Wearables, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ProGlove — ProGlove makes award-winning wearable wireless barcode scanners using BLE or RF technology for ergonomic and efficient hands-free workflows.
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Continental
VC Fund · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Our Goal: Healthy Mobility - clean, safe and connected. Our heart beats for this. Learn more about it on our homepage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$57M; Series B $12M–$59M; Series C $19M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 4.screen — 4.screen is a technology company that develops technologies for driver interactions. The 4.screen Mobility Experience Cloud (MXC) connects the car to the mobility ecosystem and provides a standardized interface for real-time communication with drivers. 4.screen shares a common goal with car manufacturers and businesses – placing the driver at thecenter of every equation. Car manufacturers and mobility service providers implement 4.screen APIs into their existing systems and applications to provide integrated services for seamless journeys. Businesses of all sizes - from local shops to global brands - use 4.screen to communicate with drivers directly through the vehicle's screen. Drivers enjoy frictionless access to the mobility ecosystem, see more relevant content and benefit from value-added services such as sponsored parking and charging. The 4.screen technology is developed by a team of automotive, marketing, and software experts who are committed to creating seamless experiences for drivers.
  • Autobrains — Inspired by the human brain, Autobrains Technologies is closer to how human driving works. Making roads a safer place for everyone.
  • Enjoy Move Technology — Enjoy Move Technology is a solution provider of a safety software platform for the intelligent driving domain controller.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.4M; Series A $3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
  • Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
  • Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 432
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.6M; Series A $2.5M–$25M; Series B $8M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
  • UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
  • Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $1.1M–$15M; Series B $8.5M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
  • ARX — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
  • twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
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Basinghall Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 24 in the past 12 months

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $8M–$85M; Series C $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
  • Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
  • Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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Allianz X
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Allianz X is the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group that invests in digital growth companies related to insurance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Series A $6.4M–$20M; Series B $11M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Safeboda — At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first alternative to urban transportation for Africa’s booming young population. They are working to improve the industry for both drivers and passengers by increasing the number of safe trips taken per day and by making travel around cities convenient andstress-free.Founded in the heart of Kampala Uganda, they are truly an African business, designed for the African context.
  • OpenGamma — Discover the new standard in cash and collateral management systems using smart workflows and analytics designed to increase returns. Explore our platform.
  • ESG Book — ESG Book combines cutting edge technology and proprietary research to fix a fundamental problem; markets need clearer ESG information to allocate finance efficiently to more sustainable outcomes.
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Troy Capital Partners
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Multi-stage venture capital. Partnering every step of the way

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Software, Air Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $15M–$56M; Series B $14M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $52M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Dack — DACK is the smartest and most complete software solution for optimizing guest experience.
  • dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
  • Archer — Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds ofup to 150mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 51 in the past 12 months

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.6M; Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $7.1M–$107M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
  • Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
  • Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
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Intel Capital
VC Fund · Santa Clara, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Intel Capital is uniquely positioned to help build the companies of tomorrow. Our investment team is backed with deep domain knowledge and the resources of Intel to assist companies in their paths to success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 821
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$20M; Series B $6M–$35M; Series C $6M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • MerQube — MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG.
  • wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $107k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
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Fabian von Kuenheim
Angel · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Fabian von Kuenheim - Managing Director & CEO @ Nubisio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Developer Tools, Data Integration
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • elastic.io
  • HIGH MOBILITY — Connect to live, vehicle-specific car data items using our API and marketplace. Over 500 supported models from top auto manufacturers.
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IT-Farm
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 9 in the past 12 months

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Japan, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.3M; Series A $1.8M–$9.6M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Finviet — Finviet operates a fintech platform with the goal of becoming a trustworthy and efficient financial technology company. The platform of the company specializes in financial services, telecommunication services, e-wallets and payment gateways, banking services, and agent banking.
  • Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
  • ImageBiopsy Lab — AI-driven software applications that enable orthopedists and radiologists to assess and predict bone health. A new dimension of MSK imaging diagnostics.
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Automotive Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 253 deals from 376 investors.

376
investors
in Germany Automotive startups
253
deals
in Germany Automotive startups
$4.3M
median round
in Germany Automotive startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
83/17
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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