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Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Digital media startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Digital media companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023

Investor Digital Media Germany investments
Picus Capital 3
Monkfish Equity 2
Gunter Thielen 2
Scala Ventures 2
TEV Ventures 2
Concentric 2
finleap 2
DvH Ventures 2
Christian Vollmann 2
Thomas Bachem 2
Ventech 2
Tengelmann Social Ventures 1
Norrsken VC 1
Jochen Tuchbreiter 1
Kinled Holding 1
CHECK24 Ventures 1
4finance 1
Klaas Kersting 1
Ananda Impact Ventures 1
Airbridge Equity Partners 1
Rouven Dresselhaus 1
Rolf Schromgens 1
Sven Fund 1
LBBW VC 1
Robert Maier 1
Philipp Kreibohm 1
Oliver Roskopf 1
NIBC Bank N.V. 1
Jörn Lubkoll 1
Just Beyer 1
German Startups Group 1
Michael Schrezenmaier 1
pd ventures 1
Heliad Equity Partners 1
Berlin Ventures 1
Speedinvest 1
WestTech Ventures 1
ApolloCapital 1
Headline 1
High-Tech Grunderfonds 1
APX 1
Robert Maier 1
Ulitzka Venture Capital GmbH 1
10x Group 1
Stefan Mader 1
Steffen Zoller 1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch 1
Peter Pohlmann 1
Heiko Hubertz 1
Revel Partners 1

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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 27 investments 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

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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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Monkfish Equity
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Dogo GmbH — Download Dogo, a positive dog training app with clicker. Train your puppy at home and become best friends with your dog. +100 tricks & games.
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
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Gunter Thielen
Angel

Former CEO of Bertelsmann

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Internet, Education
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
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Scala Ventures
VC Fund · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

Venture Capital and Start Up support, www.scala-ventures.com, Scala Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Social Media, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • prettysocial media — prettysocial media is the European Social Media Service Provider and Network enabling clients and publishers to monetize their Social Media appearance. By creating sophisticated Content Marketing concepts and formats and distributing those in all relevant social channels, brands communicate, engage and interact with their audience. Combiningcutting edge technology with excellent business intelligence the company delivers insight, strategy and results in all social and digital marketing channels.prettysocial’s Native Avenue Platform is providing a unique and innovative technology to book complex Content Marketing concepts into its Premium Publisher Network, connecting sophisticated Brand Advertising concepts with the reach and engagement of 100’s of leading local, national and international newspaper and magazine publishers.
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
  • Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
  • Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.
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Concentric
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

  • Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
  • ThingTrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
  • Superscript — Specialist insurance advice for digital businesses and emerging risk. Get business insurance that's as cutting edge as you are. Book a call.
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finleap
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

finleap is Europe's leading fintech ecosystem, headquartered in Berlin. finleap was founded in 2014 by IONIQ Group and Ramin Niroumand, and has since built and scaled 18 companies and added more to its ecosystem through acquisitions.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Penta — Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily.Penta's mission is to disrupt businessbanking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • finleap connect — We enable partners to deliver seamless, digitized financial services to customers with our full-stack Open Banking platform. Learn more here.
  • ELEMENT Insurance — ELEMENT is your partner for everything you need to distribute insurance products | ELEMENT Insurance
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DvH Ventures
VC Fund · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 9 investments in the past 12 months

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

  • Dr. Vivien Karl — Dr. Vivien Karl relies on a cream for moisturizing care against vulva dryness.
  • Virtonomy GmbH — Virtonomy is shortening time-to-market of medical products by conducting data driven studies on virtual patients.
  • Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.
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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • xolo — Xolo is a 3D printing firm that offers a volumetric printing solution to various industries.
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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Thomas Bachem
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Internet, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
  • WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.
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Ventech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in the past 12 months

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Treon — The foundation for massive IoT
  • Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
  • Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
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Tengelmann Social Ventures
VC Fund · Mülheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Tengelmann Social Ventures GmbH was founded as a sister company of Tengelmann Ventures GmbH and is a subsidiary of the Tengelmann Group. Tengelmann Social Ventures strives to finance social businesses and to support social entrepreneurs with advice. Good social business ideas are often not pursued in the early stages, due to lack of capital and notenough consultation. Tengelmann Social Ventures aims to close this gap through early commitment.

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Investment focus

  • Education, SaaS, Video
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Hashtag You — We aim to build the next generation of social media brands by leveraging our expertise in influencer marketing and creating strong brand-based communities.
  • CareerFoundry — Transform your career with a CareerFoundry Program. Everything you need to go from complete beginner to fully qualified designer, developer or analyst within...
  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 15 investments in the past 12 months

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
  • Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
  • Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.
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Jochen Tuchbreiter
Angel · Ismaning, Bayern, Germany

Jochen Tuchbreiter servers as a CEO at Hetzner Cloud GmbH.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Advertising, Digital Media
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Wagawin GmbH — Discover LivingAds, the world's leading audience engagement technology that enables meaningful conversations between brands and consumers. In order to do so, our technology gets users to engage with mobile ads, allowing us to identify and activate audiences with the highest affinity to the brand, product or service, generating impressive results. Check it out!
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Kinled Holding
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kinled was founded in 1980 to retain the investment assets of the Aisher family.In 1990, the investment focus shifted to a portfolio of early stage investments applying Kinled’s company development experience alongside the endurance and passion of family owned investments together with the strategic focus of venture capitalists.Since then,Kinled has taken 8 companies to public markets and many more to successful trade sales at significant multiples.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Cobee — Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters.Cobee provides a subsidy toyour employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App.Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
  • Nanoflex Robotics — Nanoflex Robotics develops a soft robotic system that precisely inserts specially made guidewires and catheters deep into the brain. The company provides patented magnetic navigation technology but also the necessary surgical devices. Nanoflex Robotics was established in May, 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • PreComb Therapeutics — functional precision medicine, oncology, cancer, discovery, organoid, predictive, ai, 3DTwin, data mining, therapy guidance, automated, immune oncology, 2curex, xilis, usz, dkfz, nct, switzerland
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CHECK24 Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

CHECK24 Ventures is the venture capital division of the CHECK24 group that provides young internet companies with seed and growth financing. It works independently from CHECK24 and makes the financially driven investment decision in growth companies in the areas of financial technology, insurance technology, online marketplaces and software sectorsin Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Eckhard Juls and Heinrich Blase founded it on November 1, 2016, with its headquarters in Frankfurt in Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, EdTech, Legal Tech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • campstar — campstar is a travel platform that provides campers everything needed for camping adventure. From booking campsites and renting camper vans to finding camping equipment- campstar covers campers with all they need for the next camping experience!campstar introduces camping to the digital world. By using intelligent technologies, campstar bringscampers and campsite owners together and creates worldwide camping community.campstar offers campground owners flexible options to present their campground in the online world. This goes from online advertisements, including well managed booking requests to more customer transparency through feedback. Furthermore, customer can profit from cross-selling of campervans and equipment.
  • Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
  • Risk42 Software — The answer to Risk | Infinity - Real-Time Risk Management | Risk42
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4finance
VC Fund · Riga, Riga, Latvia

4finance is a global leader in digital consumer finance. We get money to people in a fast, convenient way that fits their lifestyle.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Ad Network, Digital Media
  • Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Vane — Vane is a leading and fast-growing technology-enabled finance provider dedicated to digital media companies globally. Through its technology platform, BillFront frees up working capital within the industry, thereby enabling its clients’ to accelerate their growth. BillFront provides financing between €50,000 and several millions of euros per monththrough integrating into its customers’ invoicing systems. The company was founded in 2015 and is run out of Berlin with offices in London & New York. The BillFront team is led by former media M&A banker, Greg Dimitriou.
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Klaas Kersting
Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
  • Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
  • Aggero — Data-driven end-to-end technology platform that connects brands to gamers.
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Ananda Impact Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
  • Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
  • OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Airbridge Equity Partners is an investment firm providing flexible investment solutions to technology-driven companies in Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • The Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Rinkel — In 2014, Jeroen and Jesper founded Rinkel with a clear vision: to drastically change the way entrepreneurs communicate with their customers.They came up with the idea of an accessible telephone switchboard for small businesses, allowing you to use a virtual number on your mobile phone or computer. No long-term contracts or slow support. JustRinkel.* Founded in 2014 by two nerds * Fully developed in-house * 10,000+ business users
  • delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
  • Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
  • Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
  • Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
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Rolf Schromgens
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • inne — Inne is a Berlin-based biotech startup that builds a hormone-based mini lab for women with a mission to make natural contraception convenient and accurate. They aim to help women tune into their bodies and make informed decisions about their fertility and overall female health.Inne uses biochemistry and an app to track hormones and understandwhat it means and how they affect a woman's everyday fertility.
  • Bunch AI — Try Bunch: the AI coach that makes it easy for ambitious leaders to learn and grow.
  • Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
  • SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
  • Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.
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LBBW VC
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
  • Code Intelligence — Always be a step ahead. Find and fix vulnerabilities before others do. Run automated security tests with each pull request!
  • specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.
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Robert Maier
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Robert Maier

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Education, Logistics
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
  • Homebell — Homebell is a business enterprise that offers reliable craftsmen services at a fixed quote and fair prices for home & living space projects.The company is focused on its customers' home and create ideal living spaces. A professional approach and a high-quality result are the most important values for them and its craftsmen. The companyorganize and realize their customers' plans so that they can lean back and enjoy the results. Quality, transparency and fair pricing are part of their complete service. They are the reliable partner for home improvement.
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Philipp Kreibohm
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Legal
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • 8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
  • ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
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Oliver Roskopf
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.

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Investment focus

  • Banking, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
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NIBC Bank N.V.
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investment in the past 12 months

NIBC is the bank of choice for decisive financial moments. Our Corporate Banking activities offer a combination of advice, financing and co-investment in the sectors Telecom, Media, Technology & Services, Food, Agri, Retail & Health, Industries & Manufacturing, Infrastructure & Renewables, Commercial Real Estate, Offshore Energyand Shipping & Intermodal. Consumer Banking offers residential mortgages and online retail saving deposits via NIBC Direct in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
  • Gigaclear — Gigaclear is one of the fastest and most reliable broadband networks in the UK. Delivered only to rural areas of England we deliver better broadband than is available to most towns and cities. With ultrafast, pure fibre broadband, available to every one of their customers, rural communities will be ready to meet the demands of Internet services ofthe future.Founded in December 2010 by Matthew Hare, the Chief Executive, the company has grown steadily ever since, key appointments have included Joe Frost in 2012 as Sales and Marketing Director and in March 2014 Simon Bullock joined the company as CFO.In May 2011 Ofcom applied the electronic communications code to Gigaclear for the purposes of the provision, by Gigaclear, of an electronic communications network in the United Kingdom. Also in May 2011 the company took a majority stake in local access pioneer Rutland Telecom and in September of that year the company started construction of its first fibre-to-the-premises network, which opened service in October 2011 in Hambleton in Rutland.During 2012 Gigaclear also delivered its first Gigabit fibre-to-the-premises network in the rural communities of Appleton, Eaton and Besselsleigh in Oxfordshire. During 2013 and 2014 the company opened new networks in Fyfield, Frilford, Farmoor, Stanton Harcourt, Woodeaton, Beckley and Northmoor in Oxfordshire, Godden Green in Kent and Uppingham in Rutland. At the end of 2015, Gigaclear had 27 rural networks live with 39 more in construction in Oxfordshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. In addition Gigaclear is building rural networks supported by BDUK Superfast Broadband grants in Gloucestershire, West Berkshire and Essex.Gigaclear delivers incredibly fast, and reliable broadband access, everyone connected to the network has the same level of service regardless of 'distance from the cabinet' or weather conditions.
  • Betty Blocks — The only no-code platform for full empowerment, innovation and agility. Create mobile, business and web applications at lightning speed with Betty Blocks
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Jörn Lubkoll
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jörn Lubkoll Jörn is a CEO, Inter.net Germany GmbH

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Investment focus

  • Audio, Video, Internet
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • doctape — doctape lets you view and organize all your files in the browser, including a wide range of different document, image, video & audio formats. No local software installation required! It's simple, fast & secure.doctape also act as the first real document hub by integrating 3rd party services (scanservices, print&mail, pos digitalbill, Dropbox, Google Docs) which will serve you with a 100% transition to your existing document-ecosystems, including paper.
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Just Beyer
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Just Beyer

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Investment focus

  • Funerals, Printing, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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German Startups Group
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital. Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a diversified portfolio of investments in youngcompanies and become the second most active venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights, Germany Venture Capital Overview). According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of extremely promising German startups of various maturity stages and includes some of the most successful and best-known German startups.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Apps, Advertising
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Savedo — Based in Berlin, Germany, Savedo is a European online marketplace for retail investment products that ensures safely deposited savings and better interest rates across the European Union. The platform supports the involved banks by handling their customer services and providing standardized account documents. Savedo enables its clients to easilyinvest across Europe without having to travel to the respective European country. Launched in 2014, Savedo’s team is comprised of experienced international finance specialists and online professionals.
  • Service Partner ONE — For building service contractors and their customers who are faced with the challenge of designing their processes as efficiently as possible using modern technologies Service Partner ONE offers the 'ONE' app suite which digitally embeds the entire value chain of building services and facility management with its app suite.Unliketraditional software providers 'ONE' combines in its user-oriented apps a combination of intuitive usability, various common IT-solutions, extraordinary comfort, mobile availability, and low prices.
  • Stryking Entertainment — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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Michael Schrezenmaier
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michael Schrezenmaier is CEO Europe at SumUp. Attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Education, Digital Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • Quix — A fully managed stream processing platform that helps teams transform data into products.
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
  • asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
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Heliad Equity Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Heliad - empowers Entrepreneurs. And Investors. Our mission is to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. We find, fund and support companies.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Financial Services
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, India, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Burnhard — Burnhard is a fast-growing direct-to-consumer brand that is reinventing BBQ because of its massive fan following - created by grillers, for grillers.
  • WorkMotion — WorkMotion offers Global HR Solutions to help companies navigate the New Ways of Working. Solutions fully compliant.
  • InstaFreight — InstaFreight is a digital forwarding company for B2B customers, that enables fast and uncomplicated processing of freight transports.Their goal is to become Europe's leading B2B online freight forwarding company. They stand for reliability, quality, efficiency and transparency.By offering innovative solutions and providing first-classservice, they reduce the complexity of the supply chain and ensure absolute transparency for their customers and carriers.
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
  • enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 53 investments in the past 12 months

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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WestTech Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments 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

  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, France

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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ApolloCapital
VC Fund

Private VC vehicle

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • BANOVO — Bathroom renovation is a construction company that specializes in bathroom renovation.
  • Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
  • optilyz — Learn more about optilyz and programmatic print. Find out how you can integrate letters, postcards & co. into your cross-channel marketing.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 28 investments in the past 12 months

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
  • NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
  • Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
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High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 64 investments 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

  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States

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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APX
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 19 investments in the past 12 months

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
  • ChipFlow — ChipFlow is an open-source semiconductor chip design platform.
  • 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.
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Robert Maier
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Service Industry
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
  • Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.
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Ulitzka Venture Capital GmbH
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Early stage investor. Focused on technologies in the digital advertising environment.

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Investment focus

  • DSP, Real Time, Advertising
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Unidesq — Unidesq enables global brands to manage leading technologies of the programmatic advertising ecosystem with one platform.Unidesq is a programmatic advertising and real-time bidding company based in the heart of Cologne-Ehrenfeld. As a transparent and independent provider, Unidesq develops innovative advertising strategies and technologies toconnect brands with people - a sustainable connection based on data, insights and personalized and relevant communication.
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10x Group
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months

10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

  • enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
  • finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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Stefan Mader
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Stefan Mader

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Investment focus

  • Education, Digital Media, Employee Benefits
  • Seed, Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
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Steffen Zoller
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Media4Care — Media4Care developed special media services for the care of seniors with cognitive impairments. In 2013, the first multimedia activation program Media dementia was developed in collaboration with doctors, professors and therapists. Using Media dementia care staff should be supported in the activation and employment of people with dementia. Themedia offer consists of illness for just movies, songs and games that can be used via an interactive online library.
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Dr. Cornelius Boersch
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
  • Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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Peter Pohlmann
Angel

Peter Pohlmann

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Internet, Education
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
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Heiko Hubertz
Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Digital Media
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

  • CASAFARI — The best-kept secret in property data for professionals across Europe. Access millions of properties, precise market analysis and leads.
  • i2x — For teams - Improve your communication skills on the phone with the i2x app, a communication trainer for Android and the web. i2x makes sure your calls are clear, on-brand and effective - through instant and personalized feedback.
  • GameInfluencer — Work with the leading influencer marketing agency for games! We help publishers and developers engage and activate audiences worldwide.
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Revel Partners
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

We back exceptional founders, building enduring companies. Revel Partners is a team of serial founders who put entrepreneurs first, funding B2B software.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Advertising, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Bliq — Discover the ultimate ride-hailing experience with Bliq! Find the fastest routes, compare fares, and enjoy transparent, reliable pricing. Your journey, your way.
  • Backflip — With fast analysis, fresh strategies, and a smoother funding process, Backflip gives you the confidence and the cash to close your next great property deal.
  • Challenger — Challenger is a new way to play your favorite games for a chance to earn cash rewards. With Cash Play and Points Play, we offer gamers of all skill levels to earn while playing their favorite video games. Challenger is free to join and you get a sign up bonus. Join today.
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