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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023

Investor Education Germany investments
Verena Pausder 10
Stefan Peukert 4
Thomas Bachem 3
Michael Brehm 3
Ulf Stahrenberg 3
Martin Ostermayer 3
Daniel Schütt 3
Jens Begemann 3
Feliks Eyser 3
Stefan Glänzer 3
Mario Götze 3
Dirk Freise 3
Nicolaus Schefenacker 3
David Nothacker 3
Christophe Maire 3
Ingo Drexler 2
Daniel Krauss 2
Peter Schuepbach 2
Thomas Baum 2
Udo Schloemer 2
Julius Koehler 2
Nikolaus D. Bayer 2
Bjorn Jopen 2
Matti Niebelschuetz 2
Ina Schlie 2
Christian Dereser 2
Chris Hitchen 2
Christian Reber 2
Carsten Maschmeyer 2
Christian Hülsewig 2
Gunter Thielen 2
Lea-Sophie Cramer 2
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz 2
André Schürrle 2
Benedikt Ilg 1
Jakob Schreyer 1
Tijen Onaran 1
Marco Aschinger 1
Julius Jürging 1
Stephan Bals 1
Matthias Hofmann 1
Alexander Brand 1
Thomas Witt 1
Robin Behlau 1
Pascal Christian Weinberger 1
Markus C. Mueller 1
Robert Maier 1
Jakob Riegger 1
Patric Fassbender 1
Stefan Mader 1

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Verena Pausder
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Verena Pausder

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Stefan Peukert
Angel · Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Founder of Masterplan.com Founder of Employour Group (Ausbildung.de, meinpraktikum.de, trainee.de) - sold to Bertelsmann 2015

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Germany

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.
  • Choosy — Choosy findet, was dir schmeckt. Lecker und ausgewogen durch die Woche. Individuell. Gesund. Abwechslungsreich.
  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
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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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Michael Brehm
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and starting an investment company, Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000’s, he was Executive Director andInvestor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing, but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style, as well as their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
  • Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.
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Ulf Stahrenberg
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ulf Stahrenberg is a product director at Oply GmbH. Prior to this, Ulf served as chief product officer at MONOQI. He held positions at Zalando, txtr, and Strategies4Change.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Blinkist — Blinkist offers the key insights from top nonfiction in a made-for-mobile format. Get up to 65% off audiobooks, too. Learn anytime, anywhere!
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Martin Ostermayer
Angel

CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Spain, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
  • Hyrise Academy — Want to work at a top tech company? Apply now and interview with 70+ top European tech companies such as Hubspot, Asana or Personio. Get support from our team until you're hired. 100% free, no experience required.
  • Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
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Daniel Schütt
Angel · Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Founder of Masterplan.com, a corporate education company. Prior to Masterplan.com Daniel founded Employour what was sold in 2015 to European Media Company BERTELSMANN.

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-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.
  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
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Jens Begemann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Jens Begemann

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Investment focus

  • B2C, EdTech, Children
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Klima — Klima combines the most effective actions an individual can take to fight climate change today.
  • Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
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Feliks Eyser
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Learning, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Junto — Junto is an EdTech that offers digital live training for companies.
  • cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
  • ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
  • LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
  • ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
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Mario Götze
Angel · German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 12 investments in the past 12 months

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Vivalyx — Vivalyx Omnisol will be a process- and cost-effective one-stop solution for all preservation applications, allowing NMP without the use of blood or human products.
  • Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
  • LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
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Dirk Freise
Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

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Investment focus

  • Education, Software, TV
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
  • 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.
  • Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
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Nicolaus Schefenacker
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Restaurants
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
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David Nothacker
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Procurement
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
  • Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
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Christophe Maire
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
  • Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
  • RetentionGrid — The RetentionGrid.com website is now part of EcommerceIntelligence.com - read the full details here and learn how our mission and values are aligned to help Shopify store owners.
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Ingo Drexler
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
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Daniel Krauss
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

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  • Software, Rental, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
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Peter Schuepbach
Angel · Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland

Peter Schüpbach , 53, investor and founder of SwissCommerce a platform and incubator for niche market ecommerce.He founded in 2008 Fashion Friends Ltd - the first online shopping club for designer clothes and accessories in Switzerland. Before starting his career, he worked for various Internet start-ups as a business angel (Xing, StudiVZ,plazes, NetMoms etc.) operate. In addition, he was until mid 2008 Chairman and principal shareholder of Geneva Logic, a leading software provider in the education market, which was acquired by Netop A / S.He is also a partner in the NewBorn Ventures, which invests in various Internet and software projects or is engaged. Peter Schüpbach he was named "Swiss Business Angel of the Year 2005".He was co-founder in 1986 of the software vendor Miracle Software AG and was more than 10 years as its CEO. He led the company with over 350 employees and offices in several countries in 2000 to the stock market. Had but a year later the operation close. Peter Schüpbach is married and has three children.

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Investment focus

  • Education, Mobile, iOS
  • Funding Round, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Givve — givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. Age pyramid, shortage of skilled workers, fluctuation – the labour market situation is facing various challenges. In this development, the position of the employee has changed: In the future it will be the employee who can choose their employer, and not theother way around. The attractiveness of a company decides on its success on the market – and becomes the decisive advantage in the competition with other companies. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.
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  • tutoria GmbH — tutoria offers qualified individual tutoring for pupils and students. It allows the user to spot the best tutor in his or her region. All tutors are certified and checked by tutoria and can be booked on demand. We make sure that the learning process is monitored on an ongoing basis through the submission of an online progress report after eachlesson. In addition, you will receive a personal steering cockpit and supporting applications. The pedagogic support team of tutoria will be happy to assist you via phone or email. tutoria enables you to organize your tutoring and learning online!
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Thomas Baum
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Baum is Partner at Redstone, a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm that manages multiple corporate and institutional venture funds. Thomas is also Managing Director and CFO of Rebate Networks, a company builder and investment firm focused on E-Commerce ventures.He started his Internet career in 2000 as CFO and Co-Founder of yousmile.de AGand Mentasys GmbH (bought by Lycos). In 2008 he then joined VZ Netzwerke, Germany’s largest Social Network as CFO.He studied International Business and Management in Germany and France and now lives in Berlin, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Education, Marketing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
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Udo Schloemer
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largest startup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines hisone of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

  • Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
  • Actio — Learn from the best experts. Live, interactive classes and consultation in topics around Business, Finance, Arts, Love & Relationship, Career, Yoga, Nutrition, and many more. Book 1-on-1 consultation or group sessions. Download for free!
  • Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
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Julius Koehler
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder. He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
  • Root Global — Root Global is the ClimateOS of the F&B industry. Turn emission reduction targets into reality, with verified data collection and quantifiable reduction levers all the way to your agricultural producers.
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Nikolaus D. Bayer
Angel · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.

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Investment focus

  • Education, SaaS, EdTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • limbiq.com — limbiq is a centralized software platform designed to help businesses achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time updates, even on the SKU level, across all modes of transport. Our customers enjoy productivity gains of 60% or more, and cost savings of 40-60% due to lower safety stock levels and reduced process-related costs. With limbiq, you can collaborate seamlessly with all your partners along the supply chain and be automatically alerted when schedules change. Schedule a free personalized demo to see how limbiq can work for you and your team.
  • Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Bjorn Jopen
Angel · Gräfelfing, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

In 2000, Björn started FairControl GmbH, a consulting company in the field of trade fair and event success control, and sold FairControl in 2012 to the MCI Group from Switzerland. In the years that followed, he built FaceAdNet into the largest German social online publisher. The company was acquired by Ströer AG in 2015. Björn was then managingdirector of Ströer Social Publishing for three years. He has been involved in various start-ups since 2012, brings his experience and knowledge to the table and helps the founders operationally. Björn is also active in restructuring. Together with partners, he takes over the majority of digital companies and puts these companies back on the road to success. In addition to his passion as an entrepreneur, Björn finds balance in sporting activities such as tennis, surfing, fitness and skiing.

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Investment focus

  • Medical, Education, E-Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
  • 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.
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Matti Niebelschuetz
Angel

Matti Niebelschuetz is the Founder, MD Delivery, and Future of Work Enthusiast at CoachHub. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
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Ina Schlie
Angel · Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Training, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
  • DeepSkill — DeepSkill is a tech-driven agency & platform that enables every employee to profit from tailored coaching-programs for the first time with the help of a modular coaching system and intelligent algorithms.
  • Living Brain — Living Brain is a biotechnology company that develops a new method of rehabilitation treatment using virtual reality.
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Christian Dereser
Angel

Christian Dereser

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Investment focus

  • Education, SaaS, EdTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
  • Kindaling — The Berlin based Parent-Tech Start-Up Kindaling is the leading online platform for kids and family activities in DACH. The Kindaling website shows various inspirations for family activities, all family friendly places in your city, the next holiday camp for your kids or a variety of bookable courses for pregnancy, children or parents.Discoverand book your next activity with Kindaling, for more time with your family.Kindaling was founded in 2016 and is managed by Christopher Lansloot and Elena Margulis .
  • FRAMEN — Advertise in locations with an addressable context. Reach people without them opening an app to skip your ad. Inside of Hotels, Offices, Gyms, etc.. Click here
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Chris Hitchen
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
  • Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
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Christian Reber
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months

Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
  • Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.
  • Mason — Mason was an AI-powered SQL editor for teams.
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 21 investments in the past 12 months

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
  • Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
  • AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
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Christian Hülsewig
Angel · Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Christian Hülsewig is a Founder and CEO at Schüttflix. He attended Bentley University 2004 - 2008.

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Investment focus

  • Construction, EdTech, Marketplace
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
  • Schüttflix — Schüttflix is a digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel.
  • comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.
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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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Lea-Sophie Cramer
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1]

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sustainability
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Circus — Circus provides convenient, sustainable and affordable solution in food delivery.
  • Circus — At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
Angel

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
  • Kumpan Electric — Kumpan electric (e-bility GmbH) is a manufacturer of E-Scooters and offers e-mobility solutions and portable energy storage systems– made inEurope! Kumpan electric develops, produces, and sells stylish electric vehicles (20-120 km/h) and energy storage systems for end consumers, fleets, and sharing companies (B2C, B2B).
  • Hintbox — Whistleblower-System, Hinweisgebersystem, SaaS
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André Schürrle
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

André Schürrle

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Investment focus

  • Fantasy Sports, EdTech, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fancurve — Fancurve is a digital sports fashion platform that empowers fans to express their passions, personalities and connection through premium digital wearables.
  • LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
  • Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!
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Benedikt Ilg
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Benedikt Ilg is the CEO and co-founder of Flip. He attended DHBW Stuttgart.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Learning, Management Consulting
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Gyde — Gyde offers digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching for managers.
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Jakob Schreyer
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Jakob is CEO of orderbird, a berlin based start-up. Before co-founding orderbird AG, Jakob worked as a marketing and strategy consultant for Red Bull‘s lead agency Kastner&Partners in NYC and a german based start up in San Francisco, planing the US market entry.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, FinTech, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • NAO — NAO curates innovative and hard-to-find investments and creates unprecedented access to sustainable, long-term wealth creation through crowdinvesting.
  • 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.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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Tijen Onaran
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education
  • Seed, Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • beatvest — An investment platform supporting do-it-yourself portfolio building with education and tools
  • Laori Drinks — Laori Drinks provides alcohol-free drinks.
  • Pumpkin Organics — Pumpkin Organics is an innovative baby food concept that values vegetables and good healthy eating from the very first bite. Our recipes are 100% organic with nothing extra – no added sugars, salt, preservatives or additives.
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Marco Aschinger
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Marco Aschinger

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Internet, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Compounder — Compounder is a platform that allows domestic and international prospective students to effortlessly apply to private universities online. We match prospective students from all over the world with private universities that are a good fit for them.
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Julius Jürging
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Julius is Senior Investment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and focuses on investments in educational technology and science. He globally sources opportunities and is also active in portfolio management.Prior to Holtzbrinck Digital, Julius gained experience at Zalora, a Rocket Internet Company in Southeast Asia and at the VC fund BDMI. Juliuscompleted his bachelor studies in Business Administration at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and graduated with a Master degree in Digital Business from IE Business School Madrid.Apart from technology, Julius loves to travel the world and spends his leisure time at the lakes & mountains around Munich.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
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Stephan Bals
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Stephan Bals

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
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Matthias Hofmann
Angel · Düren, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Matthias Hofmann is the Co-Founder of HKS-Assekuranzkontor.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
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Alexander Brand
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Alexander Brand is a co-founder and the managing director of Brand worked seven years for Siemens, most recently as senior vice president for EMEA sales operations in Munich. Prior to working for Siemens, he served12snap AG. He started his career at A.T. Kearney and Siemens Management Consulting in New York, Munich, and Paris.Brand holds a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, United States, and a degree in industrial engineering and economics from the University of Karlsruhe. He currently resides in Munich together with his wife Andrea and their two children.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, iOS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Catchys — CATCHYS is an online search engine for fashion, furniture, watches and jewelery. CATCHYS already brings together over 5 million products on one page and offers the largest selection of new and used designer deals from international online shops. At catchys.de you'll find the complete range of international second hand and second seasonmarketplaces - from Zara to Prada. Clearly displayed so can also find the very special favorite part for the best price. The fashion tech startup is based in Munich.
  • 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.
  • Nuki Home Solutions — Nuki Home Solutions is the leading supplier of smart home solutions in Europe. The company aims to make access controls smarter and physical keys irrelevant. We believe in the power of mobile technology innovations and use it to facilitate our daily lives.The company is headquartered in Graz, Austria. Nuki Home Solutions operates in the DACHregion, France, UK, BENELUX, Spain and Italy and is working with partners to ensure availability in other European markets.The company’s first product Nuki turns a smartphone into a smart key in only a few minutes. The Smart Lock is mounted on the inside of the existing door lock and is Europe’s first Bluetooth Smart Lock with permanent Internet access. The smart door lock delivers maximum convenience to its customers. By using Bluetooth, Nuki opens the entrance door automatically as soon as an authorized person approaches and closes the door at the push of a button, when you leave the building.
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Thomas Witt
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tech entrepreneur of the first internet hour ► CTO for the last 25 years ► Started programming at 8 ► Plugged into the internet since 1990 ► Co-founded my first software company right after high school ► Angel Investor: Started a CTO Angel Collective »Expedite Ventures«, (pre-)seed investments & hands-on mentoring for tech founders - especiallyfirst-time tech founders, female founders and immigrant founders.All my angel investments are done through Expedite Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • CMS, SaaS, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • w3.fund — A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.
  • JustRelate — JustRelate helps medium-sized as well as large companies and public institutions building Digital Experience Platforms (DXP).
  • Scrivito — Scrivito is a decoupled/headless enterprise web CMS designed to be the flexible basis for all your websites and apps. It delivers content to all kinds of channels and devices.
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Robin Behlau
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Robin Behlau is the Co-Founder and Member of the Board at Aroundhome and the Founder and CEO of Valyria.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Fitness, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
  • Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
  • Gyde — Gyde offers digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching for managers.
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Pascal Christian Weinberger
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Pascal Christian Weinberger - CEO & Co-Founder @ Bardeen

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Software, Communities
  • Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Estonia, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Zowie — Zowie is the brain powering customer service automation. Plug in Zowie AI Chatbot in minutes, automate in hours. No code. Zowie self-learns. Get a free demo!
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
  • Envelop Risk — Envelop Risk Analytics is a cyber insurance specialists, combining insurance expertise with artificial intelligence-driven cyber risk modeling.
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Markus C. Mueller
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Entrepreneur since 2002 where he founded ubitexx - a European market leader in Mobile Device Management (MDM). In 2011 he sold ubitexx to BlackBerry and stayed with them as an Executive until April 2015 - lately as the Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director Europe. Now he is a co-founder and CEO of Nui Care GmbH in Munich.

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Investment focus

  • E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
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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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Jakob Riegger
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Jakob Riegger

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Investment focus

  • Education, E-Learning, Edutainment
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
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Patric Fassbender
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.

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Investment focus

  • EdTech, Mobile, Soccer
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
  • Kursinsel — We empower children to discover their interests and pursue their passions from the comfort of their homes. Providing access to a large variety of interactive online courses from drawing, dancing, science to Minecraft and many more.
  • Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.
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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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