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Top 50 Hardware VC Funds & Investors in Germany (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Germany Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund
55 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $665k–$16M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
30 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $563k–$4.3M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
23 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $750k–$16M
KfW
VC Fund
17 Germany, India, Kenya Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $1.6M–$17M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
17 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.5M–$91M
EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
14 Germany, Austria, France Series A, Seed Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy $1.4M–$12M
BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
13 Germany, Italy, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $428k–$5.9M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
13 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $29k–$4.3M
coparion
VC Fund
12 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech $2M–$54M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
12 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$40M
Atlantic Labs
VC Fund
12 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, Information Technology $850k–$27M
MIG Capital
VC Fund
11 Germany, Austria, Canada Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical $1.6M–$26M
Target Partners
VC Fund
11 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $1.5M–$20M
Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund
11 Germany, Portugal, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $1.1M–$7.5M
FTTF
VC Fund
11 Germany, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $268k–$4.3M
Capnamic Ventures
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.7M–$28M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $107k–$13M
b2venture (formerly btov Partners)
VC Fund
9 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.1M–$30M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
9 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States Seed, Grant Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $80k–$3M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $500k–$33M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $725k–$30M
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $450k–$7M
Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
7 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$8.8M
Brandenburg Kapital
VC Fund
7 Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $696k–$7.4M
Wellington Partners
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3M–$43M
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Italy Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $1.1M–$16M
SPDG
VC Fund
6 Belgium, France, Germany Series B, Seed, Series A Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles $2.1M–$24M
Senovo
VC Fund
6 Germany, Sweden, Austria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.6M–$28M
TEV Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, Australia, United States Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $536k–$13M
HV Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.3M–$80M
Born2Grow
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical Device $1.1M–$3.3M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$95M
Target Global
VC Fund
5 Germany, Israel, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $2M–$100M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $11k–$8.4M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services $3.5M–$85M
AM Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B 3D Printing, Advanced Materials, Software $800k–$12M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $820k–$7M
Unger Group
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed, Series A B2B, Real Time, Blockchain $161k–$1.1M
SquareOne
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $321k–$9M
TUDAG
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology $2.5M–$8.6M
Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2M–$16M
IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
VC Fund
5 Germany, Austria Seed, Series A Electronics, Software, Medical Device
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$20M
BlueYard Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, France Seed, Series A Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet $1.1M–$42M
WestTech Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1M–$12M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
5 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $3.5M–$16M
Fluxunit - Osram Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Agriculture $2.9M–$31M
Hannover Beteiligungsfonds
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed, Series A Mobile, Apps, Information Technology $1.1M–$4.3M
Verve Ventures
VC Fund
5 Switzerland, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $911k–$18M
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High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 55 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 64 in the past 12 months

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 373
  • Round size: Seed $665k–$5.1M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
  • Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
  • traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 30 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 10 in the past 12 months

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $563k–$3.5M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • MiViA — From microstructure segmentation to grain size measurement! Our AI engine provides a fast and reliable metallographic analysis for metallic products.}
  • BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
  • BirdsView — BirdsView is to 'assist small e-commerce firms in transforming their own consumer data into effective, tailored marketing tactics and turning one-time purchases into devoted patrons.
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 23 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4.6M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
  • FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
  • Driveblocks — driveblocks' Mapless Autonomy Platform enables heavy duty vehicles to reliably detect objects and perceive their sourrounding without relying on high-definition maps. It's applications are container terminals, mining, agriculture, and hub-to-hub logistics. The technology unlocks cost-saving potentials, safety improvements and more efficient workflows.
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 17 investments in Germany Hardware startups

KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$10M; Series B $3.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uniper — Uniper is an international energy company with about 11,000 employees. They combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. Uniper is a German energy company based in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed by the separation of E.ON's fossil fuel assetsinto a separate company that began operating on 1 January 2016.
  • NamPower — NamPower is the national power utility of Namibia and specializes in the generation and transmission of electricity.
  • Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 17 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $4.7M–$25M; Series B $2.5M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Stabl Energy — Stabl Energy is a developer of a technology that significantly improves battery storage systems.
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
  • ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 14 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
  • Vivacity Labs — VivaCity's AI solution provides detailed and anonymous data insights to help optimise transport networks, improve urban infrastructure efficiency & save lives.
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Series A $428k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
  • ChargeOne — The complete charging solution for your e-mobility.
  • SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Hardware startups

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $148k–$2.4M; Series A $29k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.5M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Neotiv — Enabling cognitive health
  • Wingfield — Wingfield ist dein Zugang zu einem virtuellen Tenniserlebnis.
  • InLine-Med — Radiologists perform safe, precise & easy interventions with the InLine-Med surgical tools and assistance devices.
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coparion
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 12 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 90
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.9M; Series A $4.5M–$14M; Series B $9.6M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
  • ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
  • Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 23 in the past 12 months

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 247
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $4.8M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Binalyze — Binalyze enhances all your digital forensics and incident response processes at max speed.
  • ColibrITD — Quantum Computing Software Algorithm
  • Re-Fresh Global — Re-Fresh Global brings sustainability innovation into the manufacturing industry. Our patented biotechnology transforms textile waste into recycled raw materials: nanocellulose, ethanol, and sanitized textile pulp.
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Atlantic Labs
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

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  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 156
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $850k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SureIn — small business insurance manager
  • Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
  • Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
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MIG Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Zusammen gestalten wir die Unternehmen von morgen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$9M; Series B $1.6M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • AMSilk — AMSilk produces and distributes high-quality silk biopolymers for use in textile products, medical devices, and cosmetics.
  • mbiomics — mbiomics is a biotechnology company.
  • Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
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Target Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Germany.The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalinvestors in Europe and the USA. They founded or led companies their selves, developed or sold technology products their selves. They have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. They understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight.Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. They open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. They support you in business development, in international expansion, in closing OEM or distribution contracts, and in acquisition decisions. In addition, several dozen European and US entrepreneurs and top managers, as well as a number of US venture capitalists, have personally invested in their funds and thus have a particularly strong interest in your company's success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$9.1M; Series B $2.4M–$20M; Series C $3.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $73M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • tado° — Tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
  • NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
  • Dedrone — Dedrone is the global leader in anti-drone / counter-drone solutions with the most customers in more countries
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Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups

The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.1M; Series A $1.1M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • coapp — coapp brings people and resources together under your brand and handles social and financial transactions between them. Easy!
  • MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
  • Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
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FTTF
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Deep Tech Start-Ups without a proven use case have hard times raising capital in early stages. We help to overcome this financing gap.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $814k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $268k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DGG — 3D production teams rely on RapidCompacts speed, quality, and scalability to meet the growing demand for 3D content.
  • constellr — Smart Farming and Climate Monitoring from Space. At constellr, we are using cutting-edge beyond-visual imaging technology to revolutionise the way we assess crucial aspects of our planet's health.
  • Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
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Capnamic Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Series A $2.4M–$11M; Series B $4.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
  • Dexory — Robotics, AI, automation, digital twin technology, data-led, inventory checks
  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $107k–$7.5M; Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $2.7M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $86M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • bNear — bNear is the digital space for all distributed- & hybrid teams - Safe and convenient in Microsoft Teams!
  • Companyon Analytics — Companyon Analytics provides data security, cloud infrastructure, information technology, technical solutions, and consultancy services.
  • Refined Laser Systems — Refined Laser Systems is a dynamic biophotonics company.It specialises in creating innovative laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology.
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b2venture (formerly btov Partners)
VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 190
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.6M; Series A $3.8M–$14M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • AI21 Labs — AI21 Labs is an AI lab & product company whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans.
  • Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
  • NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $5.5M–$27M; Series B $8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Buycycle — Buycycle is an online market place that offers pre-owned bikes. Buycycle is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2021.
  • HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
  • Narval — Securely use your digital assets with web3-native policy controls over any key storage & custody model
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IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $643k–$3M; Grant $80k–$161k
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 27 in the past 12 months

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
  • Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
  • Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 36 in the past 12 months

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 751
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
  • Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
  • Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
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bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
VC Fund · Erfurt, Thuringen, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen is a regional venture capital and private equity company with fokus on investments in the State of Thüringen in Germany only. We invest in innovative companies with strong growth potential across all sectors and all phases of the corporate lifecycle.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$7M; Series A $1.1M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • rooom.com — rooom is a global startup based in Germany, launched in 2019. The company’s experienceCloud is an all-in-one platform for creating, managing and promoting engaging 2D, 3D, AR & VR experiences. It works across all desktop and mobile devices. rooom’s experienceCloud is designed to cover the marketing and visualization needs of differentindustries through their comprehensive product portfolio. These include eventCloud (optimized for virtual events, exhibitions, conferences, meetings), spaceCloud (real estate, property, museums), productCloud (3D products, product showrooms) and immerseCloud (tours, guides, 3D books). rooom’s eventCloud is routinely hosting up to 200,000 users for hybrid events like IFA, Berlin and for global customers such as Porsche, Deutsche Telekom, DHL and E.ON. rooom has won over 20 awards, including the Global Eventex Award (twice), the Innovation & Excellence Award and the German Innovation Award.
  • tediro — tediro develops a mobile robotics platform for multiple applications in healthcare primarily therapy and diagnostics
  • Coachwhisperer — Coachwhisperer offers smart intercom and monitoring system for coaches and athletes.
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Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4M; Series A $3.4M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
  • Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
  • Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.
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Brandenburg Kapital
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $696k–$2.1M; Series A $2.7M–$7.4M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
  • mama health — mama health is a platform to find others around the world living the same journey as you - and learn form each other's experience.
  • DearEmployee — DearEmployee is the Workplace Mental Health Platform. As a corporate health start-up, we support employers in designing healthy and motivating working conditions for their employees in order to reduce mental stress and to increase employee productivity. Using the DearEmployee platform, companies can easily and digitally measure mental stress at theworkplace in a scientific way, and subsequently sign up to tailored health and HR measures. The solution also meets the legal requirements for mental health risk assessment in Germany.
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Wellington Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 172
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$28M; Series B $6.7M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
  • Minervax — MinervaX is pursuing the development of a vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections by utilizing a particular fusion protein : click to read more
  • Seamless Therapeutics — Seamless Therapeutics is changing the paradigm of gene editing through a pioneering approach to restore health in patients with severe conditions in a safe and precise manner. Seamless technology platform unlocks the reprogramming of recombinases, a highly versatile class of enzymes.
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund · Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$4.9M; Series B $1.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
  • Build38 — Build38 is a global provider of mobile application protection solutions. Its solution represents a new generation of app-hardening technologies and service that protects apps from known and unknown attacks and opens the market to new digital business models. Build38 protects applications across various industries including automotive, financial,public transport and health care. Build38 is headquartered in Munich with global offices in Barcelona and Singapore. The company is a spin out of Giesecke + Devrient and ranks among the best IT Security startups in Germany. Build38 is an official GARTNER In-App Shielding Market Guide Vendor since 2019 and the first to combine: In-App Shielding + In-App Monitoring + AI-based In-App Reaction.
  • QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
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SPDG
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

SPDG is a single family office representing the Périer-D'Ieteren branch. It co-controls the D’Ieteren Group, together with the other D'Ieteren family members. Since 1805, the Group has developed strong brands mainly in the automotive industry: D'Ieteren Auto, the leading importer of Volkswagen brands in Belgium, and Belron, theglobal leader in vehicle glass repair and replacement. Next to its role as a major shareholder of D'Ieteren, SPDG has developed its investing activities to drive innovation and generate lasting impact in road mobility & smart cities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Belgium, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$19M; Series A $4.2M–$15M; Series B $4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IVEX — At IVEX, we are creating a safety co-pilot to make existing decision making platforms for autonomous driving safe. Our technology is based on years of research performed at KU Leuven University in Belgium. Our unique IP and team experience in behavior planning and functional safety enables the development of safe and reliable autonomous systems toreduce the traffic victims to zero by 2030.
  • Hysopt — Hysopt is unique design software that helps building managers get the most out of their heating and cooling systems.
  • IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
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Senovo
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Sweden, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$10M; Series B $4.9M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Parloa — Transform your customer service with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform across all channels.
  • CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
  • IP Fabric — IP Fabric Network Assurance platform will help you automate network operations and prevent outages. Discover, Verify, Document & Visualize...
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $536k–$5.7M; Series A $3.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
  • Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
  • Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 14 in the past 12 months

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 333
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$33M; Series B $4.3M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • 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.
  • NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
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Born2Grow
VC Fund · Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Born2Grow is a german venture fund focusing on early stage investments. They invest up to 500k€ in innovative business models. They are based in Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Born2Grow focus on investments lies within the MedTech, BioTech, FinTech area as well as some other online industries

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.2M; Series A $3M–$3.3M; Series B $1.1M–$3.2M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Semorai — Semorai - Intelligent error management for manufacturers We are reinventing the future of quality and error control in the industrial industry with our unique AI-as-a-Service solution.
  • Doinstruct — Doinstruct offers mobile training solution for frontline workers.
  • traplinked — Digitale Fallensysteme - Endlich wissen, was los ist! Mit den traplinked Sensormodulen JERRY und TOM erhalten Sie in Echtzeit ein digitales Abbild Ihrer Kontrollpunkte.
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Series A $6.5M–$30M; Series B $40M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Equipme — Gear up your teams to do their best work with Equipme. Simplify asset and cost management, and partner with best-in-class service providers for seamless service delivery.
  • EthonAI — EthonAI develops accessible software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses at scale.
  • Replo — Customizable landing pages for serious e-commerce teams. Made for marketing, integrated with Shopify - learn more about building stores faster with Replo
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Target Global
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 17 in the past 12 months

Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 179
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$14M; Series A $2M–$32M; Series B $9.5M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lepaya — Lepaya boosts employee development with Power Skills training. Join the learning curve of a lifetime. Look at our Tracks!
  • luca — Your digital life is shaped by people who think they know you.
  • Communion — Build your buffer against the world and fix your relationship with money.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$4M; Series A $429k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 24 in the past 12 months

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Series A $3.5M–$23M; Series B $8M–$85M; Series C $8M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
  • Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
  • Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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AM Ventures
VC Fund · Starnberg, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We back trailblazing entrepreneurs who transform the world with industrial 3D printing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, Advanced Materials, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.4M; Series A $800k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evove — Evove envisage a day when precision membrane technology underpins circular economies by recycling water & harvesting valuable resources.
  • SCRONA Inc — Scrona is all about simplifying micro- and nanotechnology, from the consumer- and industry-perspective. We offer solutions for convenient microscopic visualization and develop an ink-jet related printing technology that will revolutionize micro- and nanofabrication.
  • Headmade Materials — Headmade Materials is a provider of the 3D-printing process Cold Metal Fusion (´Metal SLS`) for the serial production of metal parts.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 10 in the past 12 months

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $820k–$4.3M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • nuwo — Workplace as-a-Service. nuwo is the #1 platform 
for financing, equipping 
and managing hybrid 
workspaces
  • MERSOR — MERSOR is an online marketplace for stylish and pre-curated gifts with a unique and innovative customer experience. We aim to make gifting easy, fast and fun again by not only providing the perfect gift but also assisting the customers in their overall gift management.
  • Wonnda — Wonnda is the digital infrastructure where buyers and suppliers collaboratively build the consumer products of tomorrow
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Unger Group
VC Fund · Weiden, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Unger Group is an investment company that invests in real estate and equity investments. The company was founded by Peter Unger in Weiden, Bayern in 2004.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Real Time, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $161k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UX3D — UX3D provides the first visual glTF editor "Gestaltor". glTF is the format of choice in 3D Commerce, interactive 3D NFT and the metaverse.
  • CleverShuttle — CleverShuttle is a ridepooling app that provides affordable and eco-friendly door-to-door transportation. The berlin-based company CleverShuttle was founded by three school friends in 2014. Since then they have grown to the biggest RidePooling-Provider and ecofriendly driver service in Germany. Due to their fuellcell or battery electric vehicles,CleverShuttle is able to support a sustainable change in the mobility sector. They developed an algorithm, that automatically pooles passengers with similar routes. Thereby they achieve very high occupancy rates and reduce empty runs.
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SquareOne
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$4M; Series A $2.9M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
  • Flinn Comply — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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TUDAG
VC Fund · Dresden, Sachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

The TUDAG group of the TU Dresden is a combination of past ten companies whose job it is to the knowledge of the university market. The aim is to encourage industry and in particular SMEs in the development of new technologies and innovative products. Also for the training of highly qualified staff provides the group TUDAG extensive benefits.Morethan 500 scientists, engineers, project managers and lecturers of the group realize TUDAG individual innovations across the entire value chain. Here, they work in interdisciplinary teams to work closely with scientists from the Technical University of Dresden and other scientific institutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DyNAbind — DyNAbind is a privately-held biotech company from Dresden offering partnerships and solutions for better drug discovery with Dynamic DNA-Encoded Library (D-DEL) technologies.We have overhauled the DEL discovery process by introducing proprietary innovations in library design, selection and validation, all of which lead to a faster path tohigh-quality, relevant starting points for medicinal chemistry – and the only DEL platform on the market fully designed to integrate with a fragment-based discovery methodology.
  • Senorics — Senorics is a Spin-off of the Integrated Center of Applied Physics and Photonic Materials of the University of Technology Dresden, Germany, founded in 2017.The company specializes in designing and manufacturing optical spectroscopic sensor solutions for industrial applications, such as quality control and process monitoring. Products and servicesinclude customized sensors, corresponding software and calibration models. Developed proprietary new sensor technology for detecting visible and near-infrared light.
  • SmartNanotubes Technologies — SmartNanotubes Technologies is a start-up company's odor sensor works on the basis of nanotechnology.
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund · Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 92
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
  • Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
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IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
VC Fund · Magdeburg-rothensee, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt is a venture capital firm makes investments in territories such as Germany and Denmark.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Software, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wingfield — Wingfield ist dein Zugang zu einem virtuellen Tenniserlebnis.
  • Baby Sweets — Baby Sweets provides Online shop for beautiful and unusual baby clothes and accessories.Sales of own brands made in EU as well as international brands.
  • COMAN Software — COMAN Software provides innovative software for project management in machine and plant construction.
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.6M; Series A $6.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
  • Veratrak — Veratrak connects the life sciences supply chain, pairing innovation with breakthrough technologies to deliver remarkable results.
  • Gable — Bridge the communication gap between data producers and data consumers
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BlueYard Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 14 in the past 12 months

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cryptocurrency, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.3M; Series A $9.5M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Chemify — The aim of Chemify is to digitize chemistry and produce solutions to run chemical code for drug discovery, chemical synthesis, and materials discovery.
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
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WestTech Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $3M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
  • Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
  • THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Series B $3.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
  • Softgarden — Mit der Talent Acquisition Suite von softgarden begeistern und stellen Sie die besten Kandidaten schneller ein. Bewerbermanagement, Arbeitgeber-Reputation, HR Marketing.
  • Searchmetrics — As part of Conductor, we help enterprises drive more revenue from search. Learn more about our SEO solutions.
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Fluxunit - Osram Ventures
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Looking for venture capital? We are the Munich based corporate VC arm of ams OSRAM and invest in startups in photonics, opto-electronic and sensing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Agriculture
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$5.7M; Series A $4.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
  • iThera Medical — Due to its spatiotemporal resolution, penetration depth, sensitivity and specificity, optoacoustic imaging (OAI) can be used for a multitude of applications.
  • iLoF — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development
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Hannover Beteiligungsfonds
VC Fund · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Hannover Beteiligungsfonds is a micro-venture capital company specialized in seed stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Apps, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.4M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iotis — Iotis creates a digital experience backed by data in the field of sports and technology. Iotis was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Hannover, Germany.
  • Wingfield — Wingfield ist dein Zugang zu einem virtuellen Tenniserlebnis.
  • Cruisewatch — Cruisewatch helps you finding your perfect cruise at the best price. Use our price prediction and get informed as soon as prices change.
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 200
  • Round size: Seed $911k–$5M; Series A $2.1M–$12M; Series B $4.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MedTrace Pharma — MedTrace develops a hardware platform (MT-100) that automates the production and injection of the gold standard tracer 15O-water into the patient. MedTrace also develops an analytical software platform to interpret the results from the PET scanner.By use of 15O-water, doctors will increase sensitivity in the analysis of the patient while at thesame time increasing patient throughput up to a factor of 4 compared to today's clinical workhorse.
  • Hylomorph — Hylomorph is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative materials designed to transform the biocompatibility of implantable medical devices.
  • Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030
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Hardware VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 105 deals from 136 investors.

136
investors
in Germany Hardware startups
105
deals
in Germany Hardware startups
$3M
median round
in Germany Hardware startups
39%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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