Top 30 ESports Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023

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• Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
• Rally — Rally gives ecommerce merchants the freedom to build a checkout experience that reflects their brand. We are part of a growing headless commerce ecosystem, playing a critical role in joining a multi-dimensional, flexible frontend experience with the backend that best suits the merchant. Our goal is to give merchants the tools to create a seamlesscheckout experience, connect more deeply with their customers, and significantly impact revenue growth. We appreciate a decentralized ethos and are merchant and revenue-focused, always. Merchants should own their checkout and Rally is here to help them do that.
• Generate Biomedicines — Generate Biomedicines is a biotechnological company focusing on creating breakthrough medicines.

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

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• Luda — Lifting people through play
• Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
• Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.

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• Bigblue — Bigblue's technology allows brands to sell more with effortless e-commerce logistics, prime-like deliveries, branded tracking e-mails and a returns portal.
• Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
• Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.

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• LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
• Lition Energie — Lition Energy was an marketplace that connects renewable energy prodcuers and consumers directly. It was a governmental-licensed electrecity provider in Germany. It supplied over 20.000 households with 70.000 people with clean energy before it closed down as part of the European Energy Crisis in the winter of 2021.
• Deep Neuron Lab — Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.

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• AskBrian — AskBrian created an AI assistant that empowers business professionals to focus on high-value work by taking care of tedious tasks for you. Meet Brian.
• YAS.life — YAS.life develops digital health services for health insurance companies, insurance companies and corporate health management companies.Our Mission: Change Habits! We support users and employees in permanently integrating health-conscious behaviour into their everyday lives. We have already successfully positioned ourselves in our target marketwith our motivation app YAS.
• hitcap esports GmbH — hitcap esports is an online-based platform that connects esports gamers and fans.

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• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
• Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers

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• Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
• Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
• House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.

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• Material Bank — Material Bank International
• Rock The Bells — Rock The Bells is an online store for hip-hop culture merchandise.
• East Asian Super League — EASL creates a premier basketball league while elevating the sport in Asia as the region’s first professional intra-club basketball league. EASL is the premier regional championship competition for club basketball in East Asia.

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• Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
• FLUX — FLUX provide “FLUX Header Bidding Solution” that creates fair competition opportunities and significantly increases advertising revenue within the header bidding server, ad requests are sent to SSPs and ad exchanges all at once, so it is possible to have a pure price competition without prioritization, and to determine the highest bid amount andvalue of the advertising space. I can. Then, the price of the highest bid ad in the header bidding and the ad set in the ad server are competed, and the ad with the higher bid is delivered.
• Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.

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• Adventure — Adventure is platform for entrepreneurs and companies, that helps the company achieve more, faster and better.
• Fazenda Futuro — Fazenda Futuro is a food tech company that produces flat meat. It offers its first product, the Futuro Burger which is made of pea, soy, and chickpea. The company currently sells its products in approximately 2,000 places across Brazil, with a major presence in the south and southeast of the country, besides Brasilia and Salvador.
• Future Farm — Future Farm engages in the production and supply of plant-based protein that captures the taste and texture of real meat.

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• Bayes Holding — Dojo Madness develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. It offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis,gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. Dojo Madness offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. Christian Gruber, Jens Hilger, Markus Fuhrmann, and Mathias Kutzner founded Dojo Madness on December 29, 2014. It has its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.

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• WARD — WARD is a fantasy sport game, where fans can watch their favourite eSports matches and predict what will happen in real time.WARD is a startup out of Berlin which has created a “pick and predict” real-time prediction smartphone game, where players can win real prizes. People love to watch e-sports. We believe on these occasions they still want tobe able to participate.However, until now no product has offered anything other than the ability to watch. There’s been no way for fans to spectate, participate, analyse and predict the outcomes of their favourite games.
• MVision AI — MVision develops technology that improves the treatment of various types of cancer by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company has been built on the idea to be an impactful organisation by bringing AI assisted diagnosis and treatment to whoever needs it, especially in developing countries. This dramatically improves treatmentoutcome and saves money.The founding team consists of AI PhD’s, data platform architects and physicists with experience from companies such as Varian Medical Systems and GE healthcare.
• Polka Dot Studio — PolkaDot, based in Helsinki, Finland, is a female led mobile games studio that creates fashion and lifestyle games for women. This is highly underserved audience with big spending potential and demand for new experiences. Our first game is a social mobile game where female players can interact with the brands they know, and influencers theyidolize, through fashion, in a fun and rewarding way.

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• PatronGG — PatronGG is a tech startup built by esports veterans with the goal of changing the way fans follow esports by providing them with a central place to track their favourite teams and players, take part in discussions & compete to be the #1 fan. Join our journey and build amazing fan experiences with us!Our first app “Fnatic Nation” was built asthe official fan app for Fnatic to help them grow, retain and monetize their fanbase. Now, we're scaling our mission across all teams by building one central app that unites all fans and teams in one place.
• Supercosi — Video Game Development & Edition

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• Sentryc — Protect your brand and your products from counterfeiters with Sentryc. We monitor over 120 marketplaces for you and remove potential counterfeits.
• PerfectBot — An AI chatbot that learns from your help center to instantly resolve tickets and free up your team.
• Rating Captain — Use our AI-driven technology to better understand your customers and automate your customer service.

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• G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
• 100 Thieves — 100 Thieves is the premier lifestyle brand and gaming organization. Find out more about 100 Thieves and shop the latest premium apparel drops at 100thieves.com.
• WSC Sports — Our AI-driven platform enables sports media rights owners to automatically generate personalized sports videos in real-time to engage with each and every type of fan on every platform.

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• Volocopter — Volocopter is here to change air transport and the aviation industry with the its all-electric air taxi. Discover it now!
• Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
• Talentspace — Talentspace is the hybrid & virtual career fair platform that brings real hiring results. Our event experience is the branding that employers need to attract talent.

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• Sonet.io — Sonet.io is a software that provides control access to SaaS, web applications, and servers to monitor user activity and prevent data theft.
• CloudWalk — Our vision is to create the best payment network worldwide
• Geminus — Geminus.AI uniquely leverages AI embedded in physics to deliver next generation digital twins enabling self-optimized design and operational intelligence. The company is based in Palo Alto, California and venture funded by The Hive.

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• Moonbug — Moonbug is a global entertainment company that creates and distributes inspiring and engaging stories to expand kids’ worlds and minds.Founded in 2018, with offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy andresilience to kids around the world.
• The Beachbody Company — Beachbody is a digital fitness and nutrition subscription company, with over two decades of creating innovative content and powerful brands. The Beachbody Company is the parent company to the Beachbody On Demand streaming platform (BOD), the live digital streaming platform Openfit and Myx fitness, the company’s connected fitness brand.
• Bayes Holding — Dojo Madness develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. It offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis,gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. Dojo Madness offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. Christian Gruber, Jens Hilger, Markus Fuhrmann, and Mathias Kutzner founded Dojo Madness on December 29, 2014. It has its headquarters in Berlin in Germany.

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• Dremo — Dreamo is a leading game developer making great games for friends, family, and people around the world.
• Runbear — Runbear optimizes customer support with data-driven insights from past incidents and your product's knowledge base.
• Polestar Games — Polestar Games creates the MMORPG 'Project N' for PC and console platforms. Project N is an open-world game set in a medieval dark fantasy setting. Many believe that market aspirations for a AAA-level MMORPG that supports both PC and consoles are unrealistic.

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• Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
• Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
• Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

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• Cambium Carbon — Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse.
• WNBA Enterprises — WNBA Enterprises is a privately held company that owns and operates women’s basketball teams in the United States. It assists basketball coaches at all levels in teaching the fundamentals of the game. WNBA Enterprises was founded in 1996 and is based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It operates as a subsidiary of National Basketball Association, Inc.
• Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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• Abc Doc — Abc Doc is a web-based service that recognizes bureaucratic letters, provides a summary, and suggests next steps.
• GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
• Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.

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• ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
• G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
• Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.

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• askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
• 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.
• Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.

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• Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
• Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
• G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.

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• Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
• VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
• G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.

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• 3D Spark — Profitability and Sustainability Aligned using 3D Spark's Platform - Empowering Manufacturing with Insights and Efficiency!
• Stargazr — Stargazr is a AI-powered software that enables you to understand your financial data
• Neuralfinity — Neuralfinity provides computer AI services. They generalise machine learning models by utilising an ML API as a service.

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• klaep — klaep is an app-based social network for musicians and singers, in which every user can record, edit and publish their own musical ideas and collaborate time-shifted with other users worldwide in split-screen videos (ReJam). All published compositions can be viewed, commented on and rated, so that pure music listeners also enjoy added value.
• Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
• Instagrid — Instagrid creates software-defined battery systems for advanced portable power supplies.