# Top 45 Beauty Startup Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Christophe Maire
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

## Sebastian Pollok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Beauty

Sebastian Pollok is Founding Partner of Visionaries Club, an early stage VC fund backed by leading European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior, Sebastian co-founded and ran AMORELIE, which he successfully grew to > USD 60m revenue, >20% EBITDA and a team of 100 employees. AMORELIE was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in2018 at a valuation > USD 100m. Prior to AMORELIE, Sebastian worked as a VC for e.ventures in San Francisco and studied at WHU, St. Gallen, HKUST and Kellogg School of Management. Sebastian is a business angel in startups such as Ree Technology, Choco, Sunshine Smile and Lillydoo and a limited partner in funds such as Cherry Ventures, Project A and La Famiglia. He also sits on the board of Cherry Ventures and Founders Pledge.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Grazia Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale.
In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

## Bitburger Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bitburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace

In the mid of 2018, Bitburger Holding founded the investment company Bitburger Ventures for its investments in start-ups. The aim is to combine the growth potential of young, innovative companies with the financial strength and access to different expertise along the value chain of the Bitburger Group. Our heritage as a medium-sized family businesswith a long-term orientation distinguishes Bitburger Ventures from pure financial investors and offers young entrepreneurs a unique added value. Our activities focus primarily on the German-speaking area, where we have been operating for 200 years. Through our industrial holdings in leading medium-sized companies that are successful in various industries and in international markets, we have direct access to different networks and various competencies. We are pragmatic, accessible and credible and expect the same from our venture partners.Bitburger Ventures invests venture capital in the form of minority holdings in already established start-ups, preferably in the Seed to Series B phase. Our investment focus is on consumer-facing business models, but we are also interested in leading alternative technology and service solutions. Following the tradition of a family business, we sustainably support our portfolio companies on their growth path. Bitburger Ventures also invests in international venture capital funds.

## Oliver Pabst
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, SaaS, Beauty

Oliver Pabst

## Christopher North
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

## JMES Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Film, Beauty

JMES Investments is an Angel & Seed Investment company from Berlin.

## Astutia Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Online Portals

Astutia Ventures GmbH

## Nils Glagau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Personal Health, Food Processing

Nils Glagau

## OMR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Software, Wellness

OMR is the platform for marketing makers. We inspire, inform and create chances to network: with our events, seminars, blog, podcast and reports.

## Conny & Co
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wollerau, Schwyz, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Insurance

We are an international investment company with the mission of backing promising startup companies in the most exciting high-growth markets.

## Andreas Burike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Human Resources

Andreas Burike - CFO @ AnyDesk

## Julius Göllner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity.

## Heartcore Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Matthias Storch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements

Matthias Storch - Vorstand @ Good Brands

## Marc Langner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements

Marc Langner's investment manager and is responsible for generating the Deal inflows. In addition, the contract negotiations for investment in his area, taking care of the portfolio companies and the implementation of exits fall.Previously, Marc Langner worked as CFO for the software company GiP GmbH in Offenbach and was responsible for theIT service GaVI GmbH in Mannheim, the multi-year plan and the Strategic cost management. In the areas of due diligence and business valuation Marc Langner was for several years active as a consultant and project manager at Ernst & Young, leading expert and transaction-related business valuations through to different occasions.Marc Langner is a reviewer and jury member at many well-known business plan competitions, such as start2grow, Science4Life and the Hightech Award CyberOne.In addition to his professional activity he supports the Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen and Mannheim University in master's degree programs as a freelance lecturer on the topics of business modeling, business valuation and venture capital.

## Judith Williams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales

Judith Williams

## Andre Sierek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements

Andre Sierek - CEO @ BitterLiebe

## Stephan Schubert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Internet

Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

## Dominik Richter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Cloud Data Services, Health Care

Dominik Richter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion forEntreprenuership, building great companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

## Tarek Muller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Software, Wellness

Tarek Müller (29) is one of the co-founders and managing directors of ABOUT YOU,which is among the fastest-expanding e-commerce start-ups in Europe and Hamburg’s first unicorn with a value of more than USD 1 billion. Müller has been developing digital business models for online retail for over ten years and is responsible for marketing and brandsat ABOUT YOU. The entrepreneur founded his first online shop at the age of 13. He subsequently built up countless e-commerce models in various industries as a managing partner. Starting in 2007, he also established service companies to support clients with the development and execution of new business models. One of the digital agencies founded by him was acquired by the Otto Group and formed the core team of the Collins e-commerce project, which gave rise to ABOUT YOU. With its consistent focus on personalisation, inspiration and mobile shopping, ABOUT YOU generated a revenue of €283 million in 2017/18. It is now one of the largest fashion e-tailers in Germany.
Born in Hamburg, Tarek Müller is also founder and partner in eTribes Framework GmbH, which was established in 2011. He is active as an investor and a business angel as well. All in all, he holds stakes in more than 15 companies.In 2010, he established the code.talks developers’ conference in Hamburg together with Sebastian Betz. This attracted approximately 1,800 attendees and 120 national and international speakers in 2016. It is considered the largest conference for developers in Europe. Müller won the ‘e-Star Personality Award’ in 2014; the business magazine Capital ranked him among their ‘Junge Elite – Top 40 unter 40’ (‘Young Elite – Top 40 Under 40’) in both 2015 and 2016; and the US magazine Forbes featured him as one of the brightest European entrepreneurs in the 2018 edition of ‘30 under 30’.

## Martin Avetisyan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Consumer Goods

Martin Avetisyan

## Karl-Heinz Holland
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Beauty

Karl-Heinz Holland

## Alexander Frolov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Email, Beauty, Mobile

Alexander Frolov

## Roman Kirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

## 468 Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.

## Saarbruecker 21
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Steffen Zoller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

## Tobias Eismann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Wellness, Social Media

Tobias Eismann - Managing Director and CEO @ Metacrew

## JVMO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

We invest in tech-enabled health wellness and longevity companies to keep people healthy.

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

## Michael Moritz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Beauty

studied Economics and Law at Albrecht-Ludwigs University in Freiburg and at Cologne University.At the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin he worked on the restructuring and privatisation of medium-sized stakeholdings. At Doertenbach & Co. GmbH, Frankfurt, he was employed as Corporate Finance Consultant and assisted mid-sized businesses and theirowners, in particular, in their strategic acquisitions and divestments. All in all, he participated in more than 150 successful transactions. Michael Moritz is a consultant to the Mittelstandsbeirat of KfW Group and is a member of the Federal Association of Owner Managed and Family Enterprises (ASU).

## XAnge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

For 20 years, XAnge has been a key venture capital fund in Europe. With 70 startups in its portfolio, XAnge invests early in innovative tech companies.

## Michael Oschmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CRM, Advertising, Professional Services

Michael Oschmann - CEO @ Müller Medien

## The Enabling Company
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Beauty

The Enabling Company is a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media serves as a strategic partner and investor that invests in start-ups.

## BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Consulting, B2B

BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH operates as an investment arm of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.

## BayBG Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## b2venture (formerly btov Partners)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. With investment teams in Digital and Industrial Tech, Btov invests EUR 50m per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

## Henkel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Beauty, Manufacturing

Henkel Ventures is Henkel’s corporate venture capital engagement, combining all venture activities across the company’s three business units (Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care). Henkel Ventures actively evaluates and manages equity investments and joint development projects with start-up companies to explore newtechnologies, applications and business models in areas of strategic interest for Henkel.

## Timo Weltner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Beauty, Venture Capital

Timo Weltner is a CEO & Co-Founder at ORCAYA GmbH.

## Heinz Raufer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B

Heinz Raufer

## TEV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

## Ingo Weber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Fitness, InsurTech

Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital

## Vorwerk Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

Vorwerk Ventures is an independent €150m Venture Capital Fund grown out of the Vorwerk Group in late 2019 and defines itself through a strong commitment towards consumer-facing digital businesses. Our unique direct selling experience in addition to an outstanding track record in Venture Capital provides added value for forward-thinkingentrepreneurs. Headquartered in Berlin Germany, we currently have more than €250m in assets under management and are constantly on the look-out for promising opportunities starting with Seed/Series A investments of €1m to €10m and ensuring continuous support reserving up to €15m for upcoming financing rounds. An outstanding founding team, an existing market presence and a well-defined exit strategy framed by a consumer-centric business model are key requirements to us when it comes to making an investment decision.

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