Top 50 Music Startup Investors in Germany (May 2026)

Portfolio highlights

• Enote — Enote is an innovative digital sheet music app, described by The Guardian as “a gamechanger for musicians". The company has developed a world-leading AI-technology, that allows to digitize paper sheet music into fully digital musical scores. This brings long awaited innovation to over 200 million musicians around the world, making sheet musicmore affordable, convenient and interactive than ever.

Portfolio highlights

• 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.

Portfolio highlights

• Endel — Personalized soundscapes to help you focus, relax, and sleep. Backed by neuroscience.
• Overplay — Videos you Play. Games you Make
• VersusGame — VersusGame offers creators and brands the opportunity to cultivate a community with an interactive content solution that rewards knowledge

Portfolio highlights

• Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
• Gusto Collective — First brandtech group using the latest technology to help brands create content and experiences across the physical and virtual worlds.
• OneFootball — OneFootball covers over 100 international soccer leagues and competitions live and in incomparable detail.

Portfolio highlights

• Span.IO — Span reinvented the electrical panel. Control every circuit in your home from your phone. Contact us!
• Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
• Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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.

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!

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

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.

Portfolio highlights

• navabi — navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labelsvia worldwide express delivery.The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
• ZooRoyal — ZooRoyal is an online platform that offers accessories and supplies for pet dogs, cats, reptiles, horses, fish, and more. Its operations are based in Würselen, Germany.
• rankingCoach — rankingCoach offers a complete digital marketing app for small businesses and a variety of resellable digital marketing solutions including SEO, local marketing, brand watch, Google Ads, and social media marketing. rankingCoach app creates a tailored digital marketing strategy based on the individual requirements of each business. This marketingplan is supported by easy to follow step-by-step video tutorials and specialized tools for each key digital marketing approach, including AI-generated Google Ads; keyword finding and tracking tools for SEO, as well as newsfeeds for review and brand monitoring.These award-winning products from rankingCoach are available in 32 countries and 14 languages, directly as well as from numerous well-known hosting companies, TELCOs, online publishers, website builders, CMSs, and businesses in the MarTech sector.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• Skoove — Explore the magic of learning piano and discover your own little musical getaway. Join over 1 million people enjoying interactive piano lessons for beginners and advanced players.
• Xambala — Xambala, Inc. delivers message stream processing subsytem for the financial market. The company has a development center in Chennai, India.
• Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

Portfolio highlights

• musicube — Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology. Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.).
• RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.

Portfolio highlights

• LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
• In-Seam — IN-SEAM. LUXURY, CONNECTED.
• AltSchool Africa — Let's invest in your Future. Learn highly sought after tech skills without hassle. A program designed to arm you with the skills and knowledge required to boldly launch your tech career.

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• Meteory — Meteory is a forward-thinking SaaS company that uses satellite data to monitor vital environmental changes.Meteory's software employs powerful data analytics and machine learning algorithms to assist businesses and organizations in better understanding their environmental effect and identifying areas for improvement.
• AgStacked — AgStacked helps fresh produce purchasers to improve data communication with their growers, suppliers, and distributors. AgStacked platform enables quality management, quality networking, and insight and intelligence.
• Atopia Space — Discover atopia - the metaverse for arts & culture

Portfolio highlights

• GiveGab — GiveGab provides services for fundraising professionals to raise money online. Designed for cause-based organizations, community foundations, and education institutions, GiveGab offers a complete suite of products and services. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York.
• Rheonix — Rheonix, Inc. operates as a biomedical device company. Its products include CARD (Chemistry And Reagent Device) system to miniaturize and automate new and existing assays in multiple fields. Its products and technology are used in human/veterinary in vitro diagnostics, food/water testing, SNP analysis for personalized medicineapplications, homeland security/defense applications, process control and final product QC, and tissue culture analysis in a research or production setting. Rheonix, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Ithaca, New York.
• POM - The Peace of Mind Company — Everyone deserves to feel safe. POM Safe's personal safety device gives you peace of mind with just a tap of a button. No more fumbling with your phone.

Portfolio highlights

• GAMURS Group — GAMURS Group is a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment media network - we own and operate a network of digital publications and social media communities.
• Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
• Closing Theory — Closing Theory Studios is a new mobile games studio. Our first title, House Rush, is entering playtest soon! Sign up to check it out.

Portfolio highlights

• Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
• Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
• RetentionGrid — The RetentionGrid.com website is now part of EcommerceIntelligence.com - read the full details here and learn how our mission and values are aligned to help Shopify store owners.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.
• Walnut — Create an interactive product demo easily with Walnut demo creation software! Customize your product demonstrations without coding, collect powerful insights, save time and resources, and master your sales experience. Discover our platform today.
• Talon Cyber Security — Talon is the pioneer in cyber security solutions for the hybrid workforce, providing a secure and isolated browser-based endpoint environment.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.
• Meshcapade — Meshcapade (Germany) is revolutionizing the world of human body modeling, sizing, and animation. Meshcapade employs a state of the art statistical model of body shape that encodes realistic shapes, sizes, and motions. We make animating, simulating, and recognizing human bodies effortless, and to bring realistic virtual humans into simulation and3D environments.

Portfolio highlights

• Verve Ventures — 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.
• PresseTrends.com — What is happening today, this week or this month? Which people matter, what major events are taking place or which organizations are acting? These questions are topic in news and weekly magazines and can be found answered on www.pressetrends.com where the German speaking press can be searched.
• Uberchord — Uberchord is an interactive guitar teacher. Listens and adapts to personal progress, teaching you chords, rhythm, strumming and songs. Learn guitar!

Portfolio highlights

• yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
• Regimen — Regimen is the first effective digital therapeutic for men's most intimate health issues – starting with erections.
• Archilyse AG — Digital archive, smart plans Archilyse.one makes the quality of architecture and properties digitally and objectively measurable, comparable and understandable. This is all done using globally unique analyses, backed by AI. Start here and now: TEST NOW ARCHILYSE.ONE ADVISE ME

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

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.

Portfolio highlights

• MoodMe — Face InsightsAI for customer experience, emotional journeys & demographics analytics FACE INSIGHTSMeasure Emotional Journeys and Demographics of audiences on & off line. Detect Emotions, Gender, Age and Identify.AUGMENTED FACEPersonalize faces with Augmented Reality to create any type of engaging experiences. Face filters for your digital universeANIMOJIAnimate Characters in real time with Facial ExpressionsFACE NEURAL NETSAdvanced
• Uberchord — Uberchord is an interactive guitar teacher. Listens and adapts to personal progress, teaching you chords, rhythm, strumming and songs. Learn guitar!

Portfolio highlights

• biddz — Buy biddz from your favorite artists, support them and participate in your collective financial success!
• Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
• Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.

Portfolio highlights

• Hrmony — Hrmony introduces a highly innovative, digital and disruptive Platform to a traditional and antiquated yet global operating industry. The traditional tax-subsidized meal voucher market. Hrmony aims to replace the existing insufficient and technologically outdated solutions with a revolutionary and digital business model. With its Omni-Channelapproach, Hrmony enables employees to redeem vouchers for any food related item at any venue, giving them 100% acceptance across whole Europe. Hrmony is also the first to achieve a 100% tax and law compliant solution to ensure meal vouchers are only used in their originally intended way as a subsidization for food.
• Skoove — Explore the magic of learning piano and discover your own little musical getaway. Join over 1 million people enjoying interactive piano lessons for beginners and advanced players.
• Tausendkind — Tausendkind is the Children's Clothing Online Store for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, good friends - simply for those who wish to bestow a baby or small child is not only with children's and baby fashion. They have also a variety of other ways to discover beautiful gifts and necessities for your children. Likewise, you always getusing Their unique service that offers you advice and assistance, not only to issues relating to children's fashion the right answer. You will find thousands of child lovingly chosen children's and baby clothing that gives maximum comfort and your offspring will accompany you faithfully through the first months of life. The range also includes in addition to the children's fashion, fashion toy for young and old, well-known brands such as Brio and Haba, to smaller brands like Janod and Lilliputiens. The everyday life of families with young children living apart from children's clothing and toys but especially of practical accessories, not only parents in many situations in daily life to help with the little ones. Useful changing pads, hot water bottles and scrims, and practical items for soothing babies, such as mobile or music boxes, all this and much more can be found at their Baby Accessory again. If you are looking for products on special occasions is safe in their baby gifts find category - for baptism, birth, Christmas and Co. there with us something suitable, whether baby fashion, toys and accessories, you will always find a suitable gift.

Portfolio highlights

• Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
• GUURU — Convert undecided shoppers into confident buyers with instant, authentic advice from your expert community.
• Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

Portfolio highlights

• Ohlala — Ohlala is a platform for paid dates, to bring users in the most efficient and safe way in contact.Their product is a single page web application that behaves like a native app, relies heavily on React and is powered by Node.js.
• Sidestage — Sidestage is a community marketplace for listing, discovering and booking musicians.
• Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.

Portfolio highlights

• EnsoData — EnsoData helps sleep labs optimize the care continuum with sleep study management and AI Scoring for PSGs and HSATs.
• Arcascope — We create mobile apps based in circadian science to help people sleep and feel better.
• Mosanna Therapeutics — Improving the lives of patients with metabolic obstructive sleep apnea using a transformative approach

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

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

Portfolio highlights

• Wonderz — Wonderz help to democratize digital content distribution directly to their customers with the help of WunderBox
• sofatutor — The online learning platform sofatutor.com illustrates and visualizes all school material in 897 videos. Interactive practical exercises for each video, worksheets to print out, and the daily live help with experts guarantee an all-round service.
• Campaign — High-quality modern furniture built to last a lifetime. Our sectionals, sofa, loveseat & chair are designed with clean lines, a steel frame & durable fabric.

Portfolio highlights

• Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
• TerraPay — Accelerating business growth with uninterrupted global payouts and collections
• Vitesse — Vitesse identified two underserved areas: local bank collections; and local bank payouts. Alongside our industry leading peer-to-peer platform, we’ll help you to manage your payments in the most simple and effective way.

Portfolio highlights

• IDAGIO — IDAGIO is the leading streaming service for classical music with more than 1.8 million app downloads and subscribers in 190 countries. Crafted in Berlin by a world-class team of over 80 passionate experts in music, technology, business and design, IDAGIO offers a search tailor-made for classical music, expert curation, and an expansive catalogue ofover 2 million licensed tracks. IDAGIO is available through the web app and for download via mobile app with three tiers offered to listeners: IDAGIO Free, IDAGIO Premium, and IDAGIO Premium+. Idagio was founded by Till Janczukowicz and Christoph Lange, a duo that combines longstanding experience in the management of classical music stars with knowledge of the dos and don’ts in the founder scene around music streaming services. For more information, visit www.IDAGIO.com or download IDAGIO for your mobile device from the App Store or Google Play Store.
• Patience — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
• Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Portfolio highlights

• Amuzed — AMUZED Music Manager Game
• Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
• Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.

Portfolio highlights

• Cappi — Cappi's mission is to empower the independent people of tomorrow.The Cappi team envisions a future which everyone can make a living by experiencing their authentic self.Today's generation share the unique passions to discover and experience the world. These generation has a craving to do what they love when they want in a happyenvironment and feel the power of living.By leveraging technologies human are able to delegate their financial task to an Artificial Intelligence creating financial freedom. This lifestyle is the foundation for the next generation of ambitious human in the changing world.Cappi is here to pave the way to rise the personnel wealth creation which we believe will cause the largest shift of empowerment in well-being. It will uplift individuality over institutions, enable people to work on their on terms, and lead to a more equitable future.
• Justhome — Discover how much home you can afford with our mortgage calculator. Explore the best mortgage rates in Germany. We're your go-to mortgage broker
• Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.

Portfolio highlights

• biddz — Buy biddz from your favorite artists, support them and participate in your collective financial success!

Portfolio highlights

• Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
• BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
• Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• Mimbi — Mimbi provides brands and agencies with a platform that allows them to better measure & optimize the impact of retail media campaigns
• OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
• Depot — The fastest place to build Docker images.

Portfolio highlights

• Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.

Portfolio highlights

• nScaled — Disaster Recovery is a solution that allows you to securely protect your critical workloads and instantly recover your critical applications and data no matter what kind of disaster strikes.
• RainStor — RainStor is a database designed to manage and analyze Big Data for large enterprises at the lowest total cost.RainStor delivers two editions of its database product, Big Data Retention and Big Data Analytics on Hadoop to efficiently manage multi-structured data sets, fully accessible for ongoing query and analysis to enable the most efficientdata management and faster query and analysis.RainStor's unique product capabilities include granular level data de-duplication and compression which reduces overall storage footprint by 95%+ and which not only speeds up query performance but significantly drives down costs. Compared to traditional relational or data warehouse approaches, RainStor can ingest volumes of network or machine generated multi-structured data at very high speeds with ongoing query access. Storage and hardware agnostic, you can run RainStor on a SAN, NAS, CAS or HDFS environment in addition to the Cloud.RainStor sells both directly and through leading partners which include Amdocs, Anritsu, AdaptiveMobile, Dell, Group2000, HP, Teradata among others. Leading use-cases include a primary data hub for machine generated data and Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. RainStor's HQ is in San Francisco, CA with offices in Gloucester, UK. www.rainstor.com
• MegaZebra — MegaZebra is a European Social Games developer and publisher. MegaZebra's social games and applications have been integrated into Facebook. Behind MegaZebra is a seasoned team including Henning Kosmack , Steffen Rusitschka, Christian Meister, and Mark Gazecki. In September 2009, MegaZebra received a first round financing from KIZOOTechnology Ventures.

Portfolio highlights

• IDAGIO — IDAGIO is the leading streaming service for classical music with more than 1.8 million app downloads and subscribers in 190 countries. Crafted in Berlin by a world-class team of over 80 passionate experts in music, technology, business and design, IDAGIO offers a search tailor-made for classical music, expert curation, and an expansive catalogue ofover 2 million licensed tracks. IDAGIO is available through the web app and for download via mobile app with three tiers offered to listeners: IDAGIO Free, IDAGIO Premium, and IDAGIO Premium+. Idagio was founded by Till Janczukowicz and Christoph Lange, a duo that combines longstanding experience in the management of classical music stars with knowledge of the dos and don’ts in the founder scene around music streaming services. For more information, visit www.IDAGIO.com or download IDAGIO for your mobile device from the App Store or Google Play Store.