Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
| Investor | Publishing Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Müller Medien | 6 |
| HV Capital | 4 |
| DTCP | 4 |
| Speedinvest | 3 |
| pd ventures | 3 |
| bmp Ventures | 3 |
| Sven Fund | 3 |
| Rocket Internet | 3 |
| RTP Global | 3 |
| Rouven Dresselhaus | 2 |
| Nordwest-Zeitung | 2 |
| Redalpine | 2 |
| Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments | 2 |
| New Enterprise Associates | 2 |
| Headline | 2 |
| Neuhaus Partners | 2 |
| Frontline Ventures | 1 |
| Jonathan Keidan | 1 |
| Berlin Ventures | 1 |
| Hasso Plattner Ventures | 1 |
| Antler | 1 |
| Airbridge Equity Partners | 1 |
| Werner Zahnt | 1 |
| Sebastian Picardo | 1 |
| Dennis Weidner | 1 |
| Gaingels | 1 |
| Mathias Kutzner | 1 |
| Torch Capital | 1 |
| Trafo Investment | 1 |
| CASSIUS Family | 1 |
| Mehrdad Piroozram | 1 |
| Klaas Kersting | 1 |
| Felix Haas | 1 |
| Patrice Deckert | 1 |
| Georg Kofler | 1 |
| Xploration Capital | 1 |
| IBB Ventures | 1 |
| Bigpoint | 1 |
| Itai Tsiddon | 1 |
| Groupe M6 | 1 |
| Jens Hilgers | 1 |
| Christian Vollmann | 1 |
| Carsten Maschmeyer | 1 |
| LBBW VC | 1 |
| High-Tech Grunderfonds | 1 |
| Harald Nieder | 1 |
| Felix Capital | 1 |
| Klaus Hommels | 1 |
| Erik Bovee | 1 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 1 |
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Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.
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- SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
- handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
- DoxyChain — End-to-end encrypted document management on blockchain. Store, share, sign or certify anything.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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.
DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series C, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- vHive — vHive is the only software solution that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives to create digital twins of their assets.
- Axonius — Learn why IT and security teams trust Axonius to manage and secure their cybersecurity assets and SaaS apps.
- Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.
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- Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
- asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
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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- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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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- Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
- Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.
Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
- Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
- The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.
A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.
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- SaaS, Social, Content
- Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
- AX Semantics — AX Semantics no-code content generation software helps you create incredible content for product detail pages in 110 languages at scale.
Redalpine is one of the leading European Venture Capital investors with a focus on highly scalable start-ups. The firm's mission is to help talented entrepreneurs turn an ambitious vision into reality by providing money, experience, coaching, and a strong network. The firm is focused on seed and early-stage investments in disruptivetechnologies in tech and health tech. Redalpine launched its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007, following the founding partners’ track record of some excellent trade sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. In 2021 Redalpine closed its sixth fund (Redalpine Capital VI) and currently has approx. USD 1 Billion in AUM. The highly interdisciplinary Redalpine team supports more than 70 portfolio companies with operational and sector-specific expertise and with a rich international network.Redalpine started with its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007 based on the track-record of some excellent trade-sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. Redalpine sucessfully launched Redalpine Capital II in 2012 and Redalpine Capital III in 2016. The funds are registered in Luxemburg and backed by dozens of experienced entrepreneurs and investors representing various countries, and a broad range of industries.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zealy — A simple, fun & creative way to join trendy communities, make an impact and earn rewards.
- Genialis — Genialis is a precision medicine data science company focused on new ways to treat disease. Blending computational biology and AI-based methods, Genialis merges and models data at the intersection of clinical and translational medicine and drug discovery. Genialis is trusted by biopharma and big pharma alike, to validate targets, predict biomarkersand optimally position novel drugs. Together, Genialis and its partners are bringing improved solutions to drug discovery to change people's lives.
- Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com
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- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
- Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
- Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’slifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.
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- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
- Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.
- Pulumi — Pulumi's open source infrastructure as code SDK enables you to create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud, using your favorite languages.
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.
- NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
- Trellis Research — Trellis Research is a research tool for litigators.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Spain, Israel
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.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- Docbot Labs — Scattered and unfindable information is a productivity nightmare. dot puts an end to the chaos and helps you find, organise, and share resources with your team seamlessly.
- Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
- ClimateAligned — AI-driven platform for a climate view on financial products
Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
- Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
- Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.
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- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
- 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.
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, South Africa
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- 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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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Airbridge Equity Partners is an investment firm providing flexible investment solutions to technology-driven companies in Europe.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, Germany, Italy
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- Rinkel — In 2014, Jeroen and Jesper founded Rinkel with a clear vision: to drastically change the way entrepreneurs communicate with their customers.They came up with the idea of an accessible telephone switchboard for small businesses, allowing you to use a virtual number on your mobile phone or computer. No long-term contracts or slow support. JustRinkel.* Founded in 2014 by two nerds * Fully developed in-house * 10,000+ business users
- delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
- Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Werner Zahnt has more than 15 years experience in the internet and mobile content, application and messaging sectors.Most recently, he was responsible for the world-wide mobile content business within VeriSign Inc, leading a team of 70+ people. He managed the integration and consolidation efforts of the 3united, mQube and VeriSign DCMS mobilecontent distribution products. For this effort he moved from Vienna, Austria to VeriSign headquarters in Mountain View, CA.Werner has deep product management and engineering experience paired with thorough financial expertise. He gained broad functional and process experience working in many different operational and executive roles.During his studies in business administration and informatics at the University of Business Administration and Economics in Vienna, Werner co-founded and was COO of SYSIS which merged with 2 other Austrian companies to become 3united. During his time at SYSIS he was also CEO of SYSIS d.o.o., a Croatian software engineering subsidiary in Zagreb.In 1999, Werner founded FUNDAQ, a subsidiary of SYSIS that pioneered the field of online social trading markets. FUNDAQ was sold after one year to Blue-C AG.Within SYSIS and 3united, Werner built a global mobile content distribution platform (CPS) from the ground up, and developed global partnerships with Ericsson and Napster. These initiatives led to one of the world’s most comprehensive global roll outs of mobile content services, with more than 25 deployments in 3 continents.Werner has joined The Merger where he focuses on Finance, Engineering and Product Management. Within Speedinvest Werner focuses on startup due diligence, financial and product management.
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- Software, Analytics, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, Slovenia
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- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- indoo.rs — ArcGIS Indoors is an indoor mapping, wayfinding & space management software, enabling organizations to build an indoor GIS. Learn how ArcGIS Indoors works.
- Payworks — Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point ofSale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019.
Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing, customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy, underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.
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- Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
- UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
- Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
Blockchain, Kryptowährungen, Entrepreneur, Mobilität, E-Commerce, Online-Marketing
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- News, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- savedroid — savedroid is the first AI saving & spending algorithm in Europe conveniently optimizing users’ lifestyle. Their free mobile app enables users to save up for their wishes without even thinking about saving. They create significant economic value for mass market users through automated savings AND situational relevant spend optimization. Theirself-learning AI algorithm analyzes users’ checking accounts, identifies saving potential and automatically transfers these savings to their users’ savings account managed by their partner bank Wirecard. Moreover, their self-learning AI algorithm automatically identifies saving potential for services such as utilities, cell, banking, insurances etc. and offers convenient and fast in-app contract switching via their B2B partnerships with Check24, Drillisch, Freenet, 1822direkt etc.savedroid earns recurring high margin affiliate revenues from B2B partners trough AI based lead generation in the categories of contract optimization, affiliate shopping, and consumer lending. Their AI analyzes a significant depth of financial and behavioral data enabling savedroid to anticipate users’ purchase decisions and proactively recommending situational relevant saving opportunities which help their users to reach their wishes even faster. Their data intelligence makes them the perfect match maker for an amplitude of situational relevant and recurring high margin B2B affiliate sales opportunities.
- CryptoTicker — CryptoTicker ist your platform for the most important Bitcoin, Ethereum and Blockchain news. You will find DeFi analyses, price predictions, and everything you need to get started with bitcoin.
- ePilot Mobility — The corporate benefit program for a sustainable future. Employers pay for their employees. These use electric cars
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
- Paxton AI — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
- Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision
Founder of DOJO Madness.
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- News, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RiseML — RiseML creates software to help machine learning teams scale their deep learning infrastructure. RiseML was founded in September 2016 by Henning Peters and Elmar Haussmann. They are building a unified interface for AI supercomputers.
- Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.
Torch Capital is a brand-focused investment firm built to shepherd the next generation of truly great mission driven consumer companies.
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- Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Crediverso — Crediverso is a financial marketplace where people can find credit cards, credit checks, and international money transfers. The platform of the company provides access to financial information and financial products such as credit information, credit cards, loans, money transfer feature, credit scores, and more, thereby enabling the US Latinoaudience by bridging the cultural gap.
- Sollis Health — Meet your new emergency contact. Let Sollis Health be your 24/7 medical concierge - your first call for any medical need anytime, anywhere. Apply online!
- Spark Advisors — Our experts will help find the best Medicare plan for you. Make informed healthcare decisions with the help of an experienced agent who works for you.
Investing in media technology
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- Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
- Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
- delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
Early stage VC focused on the consumer internet and brands that will shape tomorrow's culture.
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- E-Commerce, Gaming, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
- Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a full-suite loyalty provider delivering increased retention through unique brand-focused solutions
- Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.
Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc
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- Insurance, Apps, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cola — As the world’s first Messaging OS, Cola introduces interactive “Cola Bubbles” directly into the messaging stream, designed to make texting more convenient and give users access to the full functionality of their smartphone without ever leaving the conversation. Cola also serves as a platform for developers to create their own Cola Bubbles, bringingnew interactive experiences into text conversations and extending the functionality of existing products into Cola. You can do with one Cola Bubble what would usually take 10 or even 100 texts. Cola combines the ease and immediacy of texting, with the precision and interactivity of an app.Cola is led by a team of Silicon Valley veterans who have worked on some of the world’s most recognized tech products, such as the iMac, iPhone, Photoshop, and Nest, joining to advance texting beyond simple text, links, and pictures.
- Poshtel —
- Golf Post AG —
Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.
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- Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
- Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
- Aggero — Data-driven end-to-end technology platform that connects brands to gamers.
Felix Haas is a Founding Partner at 10x Group. Felix previously worked at XING Events GmbH sa a CEO and Co-Founder. He attended Stanford University and Technical University of Munich.Felix is an active Business-Angel and Seed-investor in 25+ German startups, including founding engagements at Kaeuferportal, Hitfox, Sponsorpay and Kreditech.He isCo-Founder and Executive Chairman of IDnow, the first online solution for convenient and secure online identification of government IDs in Europe.Felix co-founded amiando in 2006 and served as CEO and Head of Product from inception to exit to public listed company XING in 2010.Previously, he founded TiberiumSun Networks, a website networks for computer games and entertainment news with over 285 million page monthly impressions.Felix is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2010", "NYC Venture Fellow" by NYC Mayor Bloomberg and an advisor to the German Government for the "Young Digital Industry.He spent over two years in Silicon Valley, authored two patents for consumer internet products and enjoys flying planes in his spare time.Specialties: Interested in computer science and its applications, especially social consumer internet products. Focus on product development, team building, strategy, business development, talent management and software marketing.
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- Travel, Leisure, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures
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- Software, SaaS, Content
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Tidy — Turn your browser into a second brain. Be 20x faster at finding the docs and people that make your work better
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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- Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
- KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
- Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.
ploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwide.We go at great length to study markets, gain consumer and competitive insights and market intelligence. This enables us to identify hidden opportunities and be a knowledgeable, and valuable partner to early stage companiesWeare hands on, where founders need us the most and we support our best portfolio companies in subsequent rounds, making us a meaningful partner and a long term partnerXploration Capital is founded by a group of dreamers, idealists and in some way misfits. With more than 50 years of combined experience in investing, consutling and fudraising for entrepreneurs and companies from early stages to IPO, we decided to embark on an Xploratory journey into the future.We deeply care about how life is going to look like for next generations, as Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future, is to create it”, so we decided to make our lives mission in helping those who want to change the world - succeed.We have invested, exited and advised on more than US$5 billion worth of transactions, helping some of the most iconic companies launch, sacale and exit
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- E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Immigram — An immigration platform for IT specialists and entrepreneurs. We help professionals in the IT sector to move to the UK via getting the Tech Nation Endorsement and applying for a Global Talent Visa
- Mirai Flights — Mirai Flights is a UK-based service for instant booking charter flights with price transparency and focus on the UK, Europe, Middle East, and the CIS states. Mirai Flights connects clients to private jets, offering a suitable time and place of departure with an option to choose the class of the aircraft, price, number of passengers, comfort leveland a payment of up to €300.000 in one click. Founded in 2021, Mirai Flights aims to change the flyers' purchasing habits and save time. Its founders’ expertise is manifested by successful businesses in private aviation.
- Educate Online — Educate Online is an all-in-one platform that connects international students to UK, US and Canadian schools that teach online. Worldwide schooling platform for children from 4 to 18 years old, which is helping children study in the UK, Canadian and British schools remotely and at the same time receive diplomas equivalent to full-time diplomas andthen enter the world's top universities. The cost of obtaining such a high school diploma in Educate Online is $ 5-10K, which is 20-30 times lower than the cost of full-time education in a US / UK / Canadian school. Our mission is to provide quality school education to children in any part of the world and make it accessible to every child, regardless of social status and location. Educate Online has a partner network of more than 90 universities worldwide, where students can enroll with a guarantee.
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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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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
At Bigpoint, we are dedicated to expand the boundaries of free-to-play gaming so that everybody is able to play great games.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, News
- Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
- Luxodo — Luxodo GmbH operates luxury shopping platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
- Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.
Itai co-founded Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn with over $200m of revenues in 2021 which has raised over $200m, more than half of which in liquidity, over the past decade.Itai has led deals (issued lead TS) and/or served on boards in >$15b of cumulative enterprise value companies with over $1b of cumulative revenue. Among those areFrame.io (C/D lead, board until sold to Adobe for 1.3b in 2021); Forter (led series E in 2020 at $1.25b prior to a $3b round in 2021); Gcash ($2b round in 2021) and several earlier stage companies such as Commandbar ($19m Series A) and others. He lives in NYC, invests internationally as an agile solo GP in a highly concentrated manner, and usually writes checks of $1-30m
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
- CommandBar — Command Bar allows users to add a command bar to their app with one line of code, making it easy for them to learn and navigate their GUI.
- Thynk.Cloud — Thynk is designed by hoteliers for hoteliers to simplify and automate sales, operations, and data management. Every process is easier, faster, and fully integrated.
M6 Group has become over the years a powerful multimedia group, offering a wide range of programs, products and services available on a wide variety of media: television, Internet, mobile phone ... Second commercial channel market, the supply of M6 is complemented by W9 and 6b. The family of pay channels (Paris Première, Teva, serieclub, M6Music,M6 Boutique & Co, Girondins TV) enriches the Groupe offers programs with a wide presence on all distribution platforms.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
- Global Savings Group — The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores andbrands. GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions.
Jens Hilgers a serial entrepreneur with His primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build his first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 he had consider myself a veteran in the eSports industry. Building companies and making ideas become reality is what he really loves.Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of his daily work. He is a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. He has team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.For 22 years now he has been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 he is also actively investing in and supporting selected startups.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
- femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
- Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- xolo — Xolo is a 3D printing firm that offers a volumetric printing solution to various industries.
- marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
- Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
- AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
- Code Intelligence — Always be a step ahead. Find and fix vulnerabilities before others do. Run automated security tests with each pull request!
- specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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!
Harald Nieder is the General Partner at Redalpine. Attended University of Oxford.
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- FinTech, Analytics, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 011h — 011h Sustainable Construction SL. Building a green future.
- Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- SellerX — We buy and build Amazon businesses, helping entrepreneurs realise the next stage of their businesses, and their lives.
- Pigment — The all-in-one business planning platform for finance and revenue teams to plan & forecast your business in real-time, model scenarios and make better decisions
- Vue Storefront — Vue Storefront provides online shopping experiences like native apps, boosts site performance, & customization. Check other benefits!
Klaus Hommels is Founder of Lakestar. Lakestar invests in European as well as U.S. companies that show fast international growth. Klaus has been involved in the early days of investments such as Skype, Xing, King, Facebook, Spotify and Airbnb. More recent investments include online men's grooming business Harry's, GoEuro, Opendoor andFiveAI. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.
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- E-Commerce, Software, News
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
- Citra Style — Citra Style designs and produces fashion for Muslim Women that follows contemporary runway and mainstream trends. Products are available both online and offline across the globe, with strong footprint in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. The quality of merchandise is considered best in the segment.Citra Style’s fashion experts combinefashion items to looks which are made available online in a distinguished “Shop-By-Look” feature to inspire online shoppers.The team consists of Western born/raised Muslims with extensive fashion and ecommerce experience. Citra Style has a solid investor base that will help grow the company into a Multi 100 million USD business.
- Factory Berlin — Factory Berlin is the strongest innovation network in Europe: a curated community of 3500+ creators from the world of startups, tech, and corporates.
Erik Bovee is the investor and VP of business developemnt at MindsDB.He attended University of Oxford.
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- Human Resources, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
- Sunlight — Sunlight helps companies grow a highly engaging learning culture by facilitating their team’s access to any book, event or course in the world.
- Stateless — Stateless is reinventing connectivity. With software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) from Stateless colocation providers can dynamically deliver routing, security and automation services to network interconnection points through software. In doing so, providers can control and connect every endpoint, including portfolio data centers, tenant sites andhyperscale clouds. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spinoff of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.
- Flagship — Flagship develops a SaaS data science solution that brings predictive machine-learning intelligence to retail. Its centralized platform helps businesses make timely, data-driven decisions across internal stakeholders and channels. Flagship enriches retail brands' first-party data with machine learning algorithms to optimize customer retention,inventory sell-through, and revenue.
- Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.
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