Top 50 Enterprise Software Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 Enterprise Software Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
| Investor | Enterprise Software Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Hanno Renner | 4 |
| Michael Brehm | 3 |
| Johannes Reck | 2 |
| Bastian Nominacher | 2 |
| Sekip Can Gokalp | 2 |
| Torsten Reil | 2 |
| Lars Hinrichs | 2 |
| Michael Wax | 2 |
| Frank Freund | 1 |
| Victor Jacobsson | 1 |
| Christopher Oster | 1 |
| Patrice Deckert | 1 |
| Falk F. Strascheg | 1 |
| Marc Rindermann | 1 |
| Tom Preston-Werner | 1 |
| Tamaz Georgadze | 1 |
| Pieter Abbeel | 1 |
| Felix Jahn | 1 |
| Dirk Hoke | 1 |
| Gary Hromadko | 1 |
| Mostafa Akbari-Hochberg | 1 |
| Christian Vollmann | 1 |
| Olivier Pomel | 1 |
| Jude Gomila | 1 |
| Daniel Rubin | 1 |
| Barrick B Rothschild | 1 |
| Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer | 1 |
| Patrick Andrae | 1 |
| Immad Akhund | 1 |
| Dr. Ulrich Piepel | 1 |
| Dr. Marcell Vollmer | 1 |
| Jan Dzulko | 1 |
| Ameet Patel | 1 |
| Ali Kutay | 1 |
| Christian Dahlen | 1 |
| Mirko Novakovic | 1 |
| Janis Zech | 1 |
| Andreas Bodczek | 1 |
| Klaus Hommels | 1 |
| Carsten Thoma | 1 |
| Nelson Holzner | 1 |
| Richard Socher | 1 |
| Florian Reike | 1 |
| Philipp Kloeckner | 1 |
| Heinz Raufer | 1 |
| Andy Goldstein | 1 |
| Nicolas Dessaigne | 1 |
| Jan Bohl | 1 |
| Benjamin Rohe | 1 |
| Pehong Chen | 1 |
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After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.
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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Parloa — Transform your customer service with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform across all channels.
- Amie — Meet the all-in-one calendar. Schedule time for todos, events, and contacts with joy. Try it for free!
- DataGuard — Are you looking to turn your privacy posture into a competitive advantage? Stay fully compliant with latest data privacy regulations. Talk to an expert now
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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- 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.
Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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- Internet, Software, Transportation
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RYDES — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
- Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.
- NAVIT — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
Co-Founder and Co-CEO Responsible for EMEA & APAC, global operations, finance, HR and the overall direction for Celonis.
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- SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, France, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Pelico — Pelico is a data management platform that assists operational teams in achieving predictable results. It empowers factory teams to build resilient operations to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost. Its factory operations management system enables teams to continuously anticipate parts shortages, act fast with AI-assistedrecommendations, and collaborate across teams on the implementation of corrective actions.
- DataGuard — Are you looking to turn your privacy posture into a competitive advantage? Stay fully compliant with latest data privacy regulations. Talk to an expert now
- Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.
Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.
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- Software, SaaS, Banking
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.
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- Software, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
- Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.
Lars Hinrichs first logged onto the internet in 1989 with an acoustic coupler and hasn't logged off since. This early passion for all things digital kick-started his entrepreneurial streak that remains strong today.One of his first efforts, politik-digital.de, was an award-winning platform for politics and new media he launched at 22.Following that early success, his next venture, a respected new media consulting firm, went bust -- but not without first paying rich dividends in learning.Lars applied those learnings to his third major effort, XING, a highly successful business networking platform. As Founder and CEO, Lars oversaw its 2006 IPO, making XING the world's first Web 2.0 company to go public. He then successfully steered it for two years post IPO, beating all predicted indices and developing a regrettable taste for high calorie energy drinks. He also became active in investing in -- and helping secure funding for -- a wide range of tech startups, proving his instinct for great talent and game-changing ideas.When heâ's not working on his fourth (and most exciting) start-up yet, Lars can be found advising on the Global Leaders of World Economic Forum, the Young Global Leaders, and helping Germany with their digital strategy as part of the UNICEF council.He also looks back fondly on his ten days of official learning at Harvard Kennedy School - John F. Kennedy School of Government and his countless days of unofficial learning as an enthusiastic TEDster.And in those welcome moments when he is offline, Lars enjoys being regularly humbled and awed by his two wonderful children.
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- Apps, Software, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- doo — doo is an event management platform. They believe, in a world where online marketing is overdosing individuals, face-to-face events are more important than ever. That is why, the focus of events must be on building and deepening relationships with your customers. Their utmost goal at doo is to manage your attendees through the entire attendeejourney and allow you to personally engage with the right attendees at the right time with the right content. Only then can you present a memorable and personalized event experience for all of your customers and prospects, whatever they may seek from the event.
- Planetly — Planetly is building the software to analyze, reduce and offset your carbon footprint. They believe in transparency & action to fight the climate crisis. Therefore we made it our mission to build the tools for the economy to step up to their responsibility! With our software you analyze the footprint of your organization based on your realdata, you find where you can reduce it in the most pragmatic way and you offset the rest.
- Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
- Parloa — Transform your customer service with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform across all channels.
- how.fm — Training software for better onboarding processes and digital store floor management. Train staff with no effort and language barriers.
Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.
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- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
- 8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
- Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.
Victor Jacobsson is an Independent Advisor to startups and Investors.As an entrepreneur victor co-founded Victor has a masters degree from the
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- E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- hakuna — Integrate the right protection for all kinds of products directly into your online shop. Make your customers happy and benefit from additional revenue at the same time!
Christopher Oster
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- Software, Insurance, Procurement
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lhotse — Lhotse helps you optimize the costs you're not looking at by taking the hassle out of indirect spend. The next gen procurement & sourcing system.
- Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures
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- Software, SaaS, Content
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Tidy — Turn your browser into a second brain. Be 20x faster at finding the docs and people that make your work better
Falk F. Strascheg is a Member of Advisory Board of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG. He is Founding Partner Extorel GmbH in 1997 and also is its Managing General Partner. In May 2002, Mr. Strascheg established Munich University of Applied Sciences' Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship.
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- Sports, Coupons, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Snow & Alps — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
- Testbirds — QA und UX Software Crowdtesting mit Testbirds. Nutzen Sie die Power von echtem Nutzerfeedback, um Ihre digitalen Produkte zu optimieren. Testing Reality. Real users. Real devices. Real impact.
Marc Rindermann
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- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Flexperto — Flexperto is the Communication Cloud for more efficient sales. Everything that salespersons have done so far offline, is now also possible online with Flexperto. Schedule appointments, clarify questions in the video chat, view documents together, sign contracts or say hi to customers on WhatsApp. And thanks to CRM integration, the entirecustomer dialogue is centrally documented.Flexperto is operating a SaaS model and has experienced rapid growth in the past 3 years. It's customers are primarily large international enterprises in the insurance and financial industry. Our currently 30 employees are working mainly in the headquarter in Berlin.
Tom Preston-Werner - Cofounder @ Preston-Werner Ventures
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- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- MoneyHash — MoneyHash provides access to payment and fintech services across the Middle East & Africa with one simple integration.
Tamaz Georgadze As CEO he leads Raisin and takes in particular care of partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line forEMEA countries. He served some of the very largest retail, universal and wholesale banks throughout Europe and in Asia. Tamaz holds a PhD in agricultural economics, graduated with honors in law (both from University of Giessen) and international economics (from Tbilisi State University).
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Philippines, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- 8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
- BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with BillEase and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
- Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.
Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machinelearning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter's work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
- Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- 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.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Dirk Hoke is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airbus Defence and Space as of 1 April 2016. He started on 1 January as Deputy CEO. He is a member of the Airbus Group Executive Committee. Dirk Hoke joined Airbus Group from Siemens, where he had been CEO of the Large Drives Business Unit since 2014. He has held various executive-level positionsat Siemens since becoming CEO of the Cluster Western & Central Africa in 2008. His career spans 21 years and five continents. In 1994, Dirk Hoke began his professional career as R&D Engineer for process and software analysis in the automotive industry at Renault in Paris. In 1996, he joined Siemens through an international trainee programme with assignments in Germany, Argentina and Austria. He then held various management posts in the Transportation Systems Division based in Germany. He relocated to Sacramento, USA, as Head of the Transportation Systems restructuring team in 2001. Dirk Hoke continued his professional career at Siemens as General Manager for the Transrapid Propulsion and Power Supply Subdivision from 2002 to 2005 including the Shanghai “Maglev” project. He was then promoted to President of Siemens Transportation Systems China and made Siemens the largest foreign railway supplier in the country. In 2008, Dirk Hoke moved to Morocco to lead Siemens’ Africa activities. He returned to Germany in 2011 to become the Division CEO of Industrial Solutions with the special task to build up the services business for the Industry Sector. Afterwards, he was called upon to restructure the Large Drives Business Unit. Dirk Hoke holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany. In 2010, Dirk Hoke became a member of the Young Global Leader Class of the World Economic Forum and in 2013, member of the Baden Baden Entrepreneur Talks. Born on 2 April 1969, Dirk Hoke is married with two children
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- Software, Open Source, Fraud Detection
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.
Gary Hromadko - Venture Partner @ Crosslink Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series C, Series D, Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tabula — Tabula, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, develops programmable logic devices for programmable logic, memory, and signal processing applications. It offers 3-D programmable logic devices that support a portfolio of soft IP cores, including DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers, PCI Express, gigabit and 10 gigabit Ethernet, soft CPUs, sRIO, CPRI,and OBSAI; and Spacetime, a programmable logic architecture that reconfigures logic, memory, and interconnect at multi-GHz rates. Tabula, Inc. was formerly known as Everychip, Inc. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
- Databox — Databox is an application that operates as a personal data assistant for businesses. It pulls all users data into one place, so they can track performance and discover insights in real-time. Databox is a winner of AP Best Big Data Startup Award. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Scriptics — Scriptics is a developer of business integration tools.
Mr. Mostafa Akbari serves as President and Founder of HoloBuilder Inc. Mr. Akbari serves as Managing Director of bitstars GmbH. He started developing AR-Applications for Mac and PC. He contributes experience with start-ups as well as his network from the Web 2.0 and founding scene. Additionally he offers a wealth of experience regardingMultichannel-Marketing and Social Media. His knowledge from researching eLearning and Mobile Media were applied
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- Software, Construction, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RIIICO — RIIICO is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of software and artificial intelligence.
- 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.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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- 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.
Olivier Pomel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, growing the development team from a handful to close to 100 of the best engineers in NYC until the company’s acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier heldsoftware engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is an original author of the VLC media player and holds an MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
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- Software, Information Technology, Developer Tools
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Dataiku — Dataiku is a centralized data platform that moves businesses along their data journey from analytics at scale to enterprise AI. By providing a common ground for data experts and explorers, a repository of best practices, shortcuts to machine learning and AI deployment/management, and a centralized, controlled environment, Dataiku serves as acatalyst for data-powered companies.Customers like Unilever, GE, and FOX News Group use Dataiku to ensure they are moving quickly and growing exponentially along with the amount of data they’re collecting. By removing roadblocks, Dataiku ensures more opportunities for business-impacting models and creative solutions, allowing teams to work faster and smarter.
- Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
- Synthesia — Create AI videos by simply typing in text. Make engaging videos for e-learning, customer onboarding, etc. No need for actors, cameras or audio equipment.
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Monitaur — Reduce operational overhead, improve security, optimize performance, and deliver amazing customer experiences with our end-to-end, hybrid observability & APM platform built for decentralized apps and infrastructure.
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
Daniel I. Rubin joined Alloy Ventures in 1999 after a 15-year career in business development, marketing and sales at leading technology companies. At Alloy, he focuses on investments in semiconductors, cleantech, and software-as-a-service. Before becoming a venture capitalist in 1999, Dan was a successful technology entrepreneur and alsoheld a variety of executive-level sales, marketing and business development jobs in the IT industry. In 1991, he was a co-founder of Artisan Components and served as the initial VP of sales and marketing. He was the VP of business development through the company's initial public offering in 1998.The company was later acquired by ARM Ltd. for $1 billion.Prior to Artisan Components, Dan worked at semiconductor capital equipment company Ultratech Stepper in many roles, including director of product marketing and managing director of Asian operations. He received a BA in Physics from Pomona College (1982).Dan serves on the board of directors of CiraNova, Ensenda, Molecular Imprints, Gradient Design Automation, Integrated Materials,Teradici, IPExtreme, and Integrated PhotoVoltaics. He is a board observer at Ellie Mae.
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- Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- amberSearch (used to be ambeRoad) — Find internal information without having to ask your colleagues first. Spend your time on value-adding tasks instead of frustrating tasks like internal searching, asking around or unnecessary duplication.
- Ensenda — Local delivery companies do everything in a supply chain’s “last mile,” from installing appliances to delivering critical parts within an hour of ordering. Local delivery is a $46 billion industry and typically accounts for 28% of a company's transportation spend, yet most companies overlook this critical step in the supply chain despite thefact that customer loyalty and sales are closely tied to the delivery experience.Ensenda is the leading third party logistics provider (3PL) for the local delivery industry. Ensenda’ network of local carriers provides a wide range of local delivery programs in every market in the US and Canada
- Scifiniti — Scifiniti is an early stage company working to create a drop-in replacement for crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells. Rather than casting an ingot of polysilicon and then sawing it into wafers (to be processed into solar cells), Scifiniti's approach skips these steps and creates a wafer directly (although we can't say how) with a highquality crystal structure suitable for solar cells.
Alexander Rinke Co-CEO and Co-founder Celonis Alexander Rinke is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Celonis, the leader in the leader in turning process insights into action for business transformation. Under his leadership Celonis has been named by Gartner as the “clear market leader” in the process mining category, as well as becoming one of thefastest growing enterprise software companies and one of only 242 “unicorns” in the world valued at $1B. Alexander was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of top achievers under the age of 30 in 2015 and was recently appointed to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of how to accelerate and operational change that achieves productivity and an exceptional customer experience. Alexander studied Mathematics at Technical University of Munich and École Polytechnique in Paris.
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- Machine Learning, SaaS, Robotics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rasa — Build contextual AI assistants and chatbots in text and voice with our open source machine learning framework. Scale it with our enterprise grade platform.
- Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
- Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
Philipp was an unsuccessful gym goer and decided to found eGym in 2010 with the vision to make the gym work for everyone. Prior, he studied Business and Technology Management at Columbia University in New York, LMU Munich and Aarhus University. eGym combines latest machine technology, powered by German engineering, with the advantages of connectedmobile applications to deliver intuitive and effective workouts with more fun and data-driven member support. In addition eGym also supports Corporate Fitness offering easier access to gyms for employees in order to stay fitter, be more productive and less absent. In only a few years of strong growth, eGym developed to one of the major players in the European fitness market, implementing its technology at leading fitness chains and franchises. Overall, eGym raised over 90 Mio. USD in venture capital from large investors and is now entering the US market.
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- SaaS, Sales, Software
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Demodesk — Demodesk is the sales meeting platform that coaches reps live and automates non-selling tasks.Try for free and see why top revenue teams use Demodesk to boost productivity and increase close rates
- Personio — Personio is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2,000 employees. No hoops, no hype, just great HR. Learn more today.
Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster.
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- FinTech, Internet, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Lhotse — Lhotse helps you optimize the costs you're not looking at by taking the hassle out of indirect spend. The next gen procurement & sourcing system.
- Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
- Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
Immad Akhund is the CEO and Founder of Mercury.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
- Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
- Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.
Dr. Ulrich Piepel
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- Software, Procurement, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Dr. Marcell Vollmer
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- Software, Procurement, Enterprise Software
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Jan Dzulko is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everphone. He previously worked at M Cube Incubator as a Chief Executive Officer. Jan Dzulko attended the University of Mannheim.
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- Internet, Health Care, Online Portals
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- emplu — 360° benefit and compensation 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.
- Workbee — Workbee is a job platform focused on care workers. The aim of Workbee is to find a better job for carers and to make the caring profession more attractive. The core product is recruiting-as-a-service: employers book a subscription and receive a recruiting flat rate.
CTO//Investor//Whisperer to Leading Enterprise Companies Exits Acopia Networks, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Cyvera, Librato, Caspida, BlueBox Security, Nodeprime, APIGEE, SkyHigh, Solinea, Cask, Zscaler (TPG-IPO), Anaplan (IPO)
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- Software, SaaS, PaaS
- Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Hakimo — Hakimo automatically resolves false alarms so that your existing GSOC operators can handle more alarms as your company grows.
- Steadybit — Steadybit is a Chaos and Resilience Engineering platform that helps to proactively reduce downtime and provide visibility into systems to detect issues.
- TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- HiveMQ — HiveMQ is the proven enterprise MQTT platform designed to connect, communicate, and control IoT data under real-world stress. Learn more.
- REscan — Transforming spaces into data
- Strikedeck — Medallia's software platform provides keen insights to improve customer experience, contact center experience, employee experience and digital experience.
Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
- Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
- 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.
Currently CEO of Instana.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
- Edgeless Systems — Edgeless Systems builds the secure platform to store, analyze, and share data, using confidential computing.
Janis Zech is the Founder and CEO at Weflow.
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- B2B, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- JOBOX.ai — JOBOX.ai is a B2B stealth mode AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy.
- Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
Andreas Bodczek is passionate tech entrepreneur, seasoned board room executive, global mindset. Backing fellow entrepreneurs as active early-stage tech investor, and Point Nine Capital board partner. Co-founded, scaled and sold Fyber. Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, MD of Telefónica UK, member of Bertelsmann’s junior managementprogram.Excited about bold ideas in mobility, digital health, blockchain beyond crypto currencies.Interested in private equity operating partner assignments, management buy-in/buy-out scenarios, buy-and-build strategies, tech distress/transformation opportunities.
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- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Klaus Hommels is Founder of Lakestar. Lakestar invests in European as well as U.S. companies that show fast international growth. Klaus has been involved in the early days of investments such as Skype, Xing, King, Facebook, Spotify and Airbnb. More recent investments include online men's grooming business Harry's, GoEuro, Opendoor andFiveAI. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.
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- E-Commerce, Software, News
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
- Citra Style — Citra Style designs and produces fashion for Muslim Women that follows contemporary runway and mainstream trends. Products are available both online and offline across the globe, with strong footprint in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. The quality of merchandise is considered best in the segment.Citra Style’s fashion experts combinefashion items to looks which are made available online in a distinguished “Shop-By-Look” feature to inspire online shoppers.The team consists of Western born/raised Muslims with extensive fashion and ecommerce experience. Citra Style has a solid investor base that will help grow the company into a Multi 100 million USD business.
- Factory Berlin — Factory Berlin is the strongest innovation network in Europe: a curated community of 3500+ creators from the world of startups, tech, and corporates.
Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Ninetailed — Ninetailed is a composable API-first personalization, experimentation, and testing tool for dynamic websites, headless CMSs, composable content, and MACH.
Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.
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- FinTech, Banking, Big Data
- Seed
- India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Richard Socher is the CEO and Founder of you.com.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.
- Viva Translate — Save time on meeting summaries, transcriptions and translations with Viva Translate.
- Ambience Healthcare — Experience what it feels like to never have to type or dictate another note again.
Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.
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- FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abel — Abel is a technology platform that helps you lend to your business customers, capable of full automation and underpinned by the latest in risk intelligence. Our digital service automates origination, credit decisioning, loan servicing and ongoing risk monitoring front-to-back.
- Forest Park — Your modern operating system for institutional lending, in T+1.
- Unblock — Unblock is building a free, white-labelled, instant and local on and off-ramp to stable cryptocurrencies.
Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lhotse — Lhotse helps you optimize the costs you're not looking at by taking the hassle out of indirect spend. The next gen procurement & sourcing system.
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
Heinz Raufer
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- Information Technology, Software, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Secfix — Secfix helps companies get secure and compliant in weeks instead of months. We are on a mission to automate security and compliance for small and medium-sized businesses.We help SMEs to build their own ISMS and automate security standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, TISAX, BSI Grundschutz, GDPR, HIPAA, DiGA. Additionally, we have a pool of trustedand verified auditors and ethical hacking companies from Europe that offer pentest for-Web platforms -Mobile applications -IoT – Connected devices -Infrastructure & network -Social engineering -Information systemWe guarantee security and top-notch penetration testers only.
- ShopVibes — We're building a connected world of e-commerce where everyone can easily present their products on any channel. Join now to get ahead of your competition!
- ValueWorks.ai — ValueWorks - the intelligent operating system for executives. Our mission is simple. We enable executives to leverage all of their company's data to perform management tasks in a data-driven manner by integrating their key software systems.
Born in Philadelphia (USA), Andy Goldstein started his first European venture about 25 years ago after having finished his studies with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a double major in Entrepreneurial Management & International Business, graduating in May 1983 from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. In the sameyear, he founded North American Software in Vienna (Austria) and began publishing US software in Europe.In 1996, Andy created a new organization, MediaGold Software Publishing Group, targeting Europe’s biggest software markets - Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the UK and France - with localized consumer software. MediaGold had more than 30 employees and over €7m revenue annually when it was taken over by the French software corporation BVRP in 2003 and renamed to Avanquest Deutschland.Andy is a member of Avanquest Software’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. As European COO, he leads Avanquest’s European software business and is responsible for acquisitions of new developers and partners.
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- Software, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom
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.
- CRUX Knowledge — Crux quantifies knowledge. Crux empowers content providers to rise above information overload and engage users in exciting new ways.
Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.
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- Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Graneet — Graneet is a Digital Site Manager Assistant that is designed to help Construction Project Managers better track the financials and administrative processes of their projects (invoices, expenses, payments...).
- Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
- Iteration X — Iteration X allows teams to annotate and edit any website or web app collaboratively, right from the browser.
Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationallyrenowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years.Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.
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- Software, CleanTech, GreenTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
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- Labforward — Labforward is building the laboratory of the future. We are creating the operating system of the lab by connecting data, devices, and researchers.
- Hawa Dawa — Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems. Karim Tarraf, Matthew Fullerton, Yvonne Rusche, Jannai Falschberger, and Birgit Fullerton founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
Benjamin Rohé works as a Managing Director and Founder at GTEC.Benjamin Rohé , an entrepreneur who co-founded a public company amongst other startups and worked in the tech, renewable energy, digital space since 1997. He started his first company at the age of 17.Benjamin has been investing time and money into startups throughout Europesince 2007. He has given talks and lectures at different european universities as well as at various european startup and economic conferences. Those include the Economic Forum, Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Maastricht University, Center for Digital Technology & Management (Munich), European School of Management and Technology (Berlin) and the Zeppelin University where he also helped to create a investment fund for startups at the same university.In 2011 his business angel investment activities became more structured by forming angelfund.vc and bringing in a advisory board of industry experts. Benjamin also served as a Partner in the Venture Capital Funds of Redalpine Venture Partners AG in Switzerland. He is a accredited investor by the European Investment Fund (EIF - EAF).He co-authored with Gütt Olk Feldhaus Rechtsanwälte “Angel syndicates: Efficient investment in startups with syndication and sub-share agreements” for the Book "Guide for Business Angels" published by the Business Angel Network Germany and GoingPublic Media AG in December 2012.Since January 2015, Benjamin is heading the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC) in Berlin. Founding Partners include European School of Management and Technology, Noerr LLP, RWE, Henkel and 2 foundations.
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- SaaS, Internet, Software
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- parlamind — parlamind is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Customer Service. Based on latest research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning as well as state of the art cloud software the parlamind team is building an AI of the next generation. parlamind will analyse, route, and autonomously answer incoming customer communication, and thus worksseamlessly together with its human counterparts as a member in the customer service team. parlamind was founded in August 2015 by Dr. Tina Klüwer, Christian Wolf, Dr. Núria Bertomeu Castelló and Tobias Lehmann. The founders combine their experience from E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, and AI-Research from leading companies and research facilities like wirkaufens.de, German Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Searchmetrics.
- Customer Alliance — Ditch complex workflows & boring spreadsheets. Embrace efficiency with one platform for customer reviews, surveys, and satisfaction metrics.
Pehong Chen is the Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President & Chief Executive Officer of BroadVision.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series B, Angel
- United States, Taiwan, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tresl — Segments by Tresl is a self-guided data analytics platform that helps you build long-lasting customer relationships.
- Rosetta.ai — Rosetta.ai helps e-commerce increase conversion and enlarge order value with deep learning-based technology to analyze the individual consumer's hidden preferences and behaviors, predict future sales, and provide personalized recommendations for online and offline during the consumer's shopping journey.Different vertical e-commerce hasdifferent shopping behaviors and preferences. Rosetta.ai focuses on the vertical e-commerce industry, the fashion industry, and dives more into fashion, e.g. apparel, cosmetics, and accessory, etc., to build the dedicated deep learning models and algorithms for it and automatically arrange suitable models and algorithms for e-commerce.
- FreeDecision — FreeDecision offers instant credit solutions to financial institutions and merchants.
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