Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Germany (May 2026)
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Atlantic Labs
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Software, Information Technology | $850k–$27M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $1.9M–$100M |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Internet | $820k–$7M |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $1.3M–$80M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $725k–$30M |
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Acton Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Canada, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $3.2M–$53M |
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LITTLEROCK
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, India, Vietnam | Seed, Series A, Series B | Fitness, E-Commerce, Lifestyle | |
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APX
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $54k–$3.4M |
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42CAP
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, France, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$25M |
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Volker Rofalski
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce | |
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Capnamic Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.7M–$28M |
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Jens Schumann
Angel
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3 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Northzone
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Sweden, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $2.3M–$52M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $500k–$33M |
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EOS VC Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Software, Gaming | $50k–$19M |
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Basinghall Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B | |
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Index Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.2M–$50M |
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Carsten Erdt
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Information Technology, Software, SaaS | |
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Seed X Liechtenstein
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS | $737k–$11M |
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Rocket Internet
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | $589k–$40M |
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $2M–$16M |
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Redalpine
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $800k–$59M |
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Moonfire Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, B2B | $2.7M–$6.5M |
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Denmark, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $964k–$46M |
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High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology | $665k–$16M |
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Frank Freund
Angel
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2 | Germany, The Netherlands | Seed, Series A, Angel | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | |
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Transamerica Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $2M–$50M |
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Spain, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $3.5M–$16M |
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Mediahuis Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B | Software, B2B, SaaS | $2.1M–$6.4M |
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Collective Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Estonia, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering | FinTech, Blockchain, Software | |
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Smart Partnership Capital.
VC Fund
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1 | Belarus | Seed | ||
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Philipp Pausder
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Recruiting | |
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Joachim Bernecker
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | |
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Companisto
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Information Technology, Health Care | $107k–$2.5M |
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Hevella Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $2.1M–$3M |
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Benjamin Minack
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Recruiting, Staffing Agency | |
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Mathis Buchi
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Recruiting, Human Resources, Mechanical Engineering | |
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Discovery Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce | $3.2M–$17M |
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Rainer Strack
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Recruiting, Staffing Agency | |
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Adevinta Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Spain, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Automotive, Rental, FinTech | $3.2M–$107M |
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Niklas Plath
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Internet | |
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Astutia Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, Online Portals | $2.4M–$3.9M |
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Cipio Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, France | Series B, Series C | Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software | $5M–$31M |
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Bonsai Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United States, France | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Logistics | $804k–$17M |
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Armira
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Series A | Recruiting, Human Resources | |
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BV Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Private Equity, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Analytics | $3M–$150M |
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LEA Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Private Equity | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $3.8M–$13M |
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SEEK
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Human Resources, Recruiting, Software | $4.6M–$70M |
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Wellington Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3M–$43M |
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NFQ Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism | $1.3M–$11M |
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Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $850k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SureIn — small business insurance manager
- Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 196
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$11M; Series A $5.5M–$27M; Series B $8M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Buycycle — Buycycle is an online market place that offers pre-owned bikes. Buycycle is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2021.
- HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
- Narval — Securely use your digital assets with web3-native policy controls over any key storage & custody model
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $820k–$4.3M; Series A $2.1M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $32M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- nuwo — Workplace as-a-Service. nuwo is the #1 platform for financing, equipping and managing hybrid workspaces
- MERSOR — MERSOR is an online marketplace for stylish and pre-curated gifts with a unique and innovative customer experience. We aim to make gifting easy, fast and fun again by not only providing the perfect gift but also assisting the customers in their overall gift management.
- Wonnda — Wonnda is the digital infrastructure where buyers and suppliers collaboratively build the consumer products of tomorrow
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 333
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $2.1M–$33M; Series B $4.3M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
- NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 751
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $3.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
- Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Series A $3.2M–$13M; Series B $6M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $215M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Klaus — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
- Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
- ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.
They look to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs who are working on ideas that have the potential to distrupt their respective landscape from every angle within the next years. LITTLEROCK is an active investor, leading or co-leading investment rounds. They make early stage initial investments in start-ups typically post launch, with an impressiveevidence for the proof-of- concept of the underlying business model/scalability They are looking for founding teams and/ or start-ups that tackle big markets, bring something new to the table and execute scalable business models. Beyond that, they seek visionary, disciplined and inspiring founders who, like us, love challenging the status quo.
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- Industry: Fitness, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, India, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
- FinTecSystems — FinTecSystems (FTS) was founded in Munich in 2014 and is one of the leading banking API and smart data providers in Germany. Alongside the Open Banking platform that the company uses to provide Account Information and Payment Initiation Services, FinTecSystems has primarily focussed on the analysis of financial data through an analytics platform.Banks, FinTechs and payment service providers use FinTecSystems’ solutions to make real-time loan decisions, minimize credit risks and initiate online transfers. In March 2019, TÜV-certified FinTecSystems received BaFin authorization as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With 40 staff across five locations, FTS partners include N26, Santander, DKB and Deutsche Handelsbank.
- Green City Solutions — Green City Solutions addresses the global problem of air pollution by combining a special, vertically installed moss culture with Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology.The product, called the “CityTree”, combines specific plants that eat particulate matter (PM) and refreshes air by cooling and humidification. The construction contains sensorscollecting environmental and climatic data, to regulate and control the unit and ensure that the plants vitally perform. The data we collect can be also used to dense the grid of environmental data.
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 158
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $54k–$900k
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $59M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
- Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
42CAP is a seed stage investment firm based in Munich, Germany. They initially invest € 0.5 to 1.5m in seed-stage tech- and data-driven companies across Europe with global ambition.With eCircle they previously built one of Europe’s largest SaaS companies and sold the profitable business to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M; Series A $1.1M–$7.5M; Series B $3.2M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
- smatch — Smatch takes care of stock management and helps retailers to better buy merchandise.
- Customs4trade (C4T) — Customs4trade simplifies Global Customs Management and Trade Compliance with a user-friendly software solution, CAS, which offers end-to-end automation.
Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7.5M; Series A $2.4M–$11M; Series B $4.3M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
- Dexory — Robotics, AI, automation, digital twin technology, data-led, inventory checks
- ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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- Industry: Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Adtriba — Data-driven marketing analytics, unbiased, cross-channel and easy to use multi-touch attribution, unified marketing measurement and marketing mix modelling
- aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
- Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
Northzone is a venture capital fund with a perspective shaped by lives as entrepreneurs. Since 1996, they've made over 175 investments and invest from Seed to Growth. They've partnered with the founders of Spotify, Avito, iZettle, Klarna, Hopin, and hundreds of others to build category-defining businesses. They've raised €1bn inSeptember 2022.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$25M; Series B $5M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1B in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
- Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
- Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 274
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
- Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
- Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.3M; Grant $50k–$50k; Series A $2.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
- SparkChange — SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, enabling investors to achieve both financial returns and positive environmental impact. The company was established by experts in environmental products and capital markets technologies to set a new standard in carbon investing. For more information, visit:https://sparkchange.io/
- Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).
Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 866
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5.8M; Series A $3.1M–$22M; Series B $6.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
Carsten Erdt - Founder and Managing Director @ Erdt Group
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
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- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Seed X is a European-focused venture capital firm with strong roots in Liechtenstein. We help driven startups scale by providing a strong network of experienced entrepreneurs and industry leaders.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $972k–$11M; Pre-Seed $737k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Numarics — Numarics® is Switzerland’s first 100% digital accounting ecosystem, with a consistent mobile-first approach. Accounting, payroll, tax returns, invoicing, document management are now streamlined via the Numarics Ecosystem in the app or on the web, and make business management for entrepreneurs simple, accessible and transparent.Numarics wasdeveloped in 2020 by experts in the fields of accounting, digitalization, artificial intelligence and auditing with the vision of seamlessly integrating accounting into the lifestyle of today's entrepreneurs.
- Keyzy — Keyzy is a zero deposit, rent to buy solution helping young professionals, key workers and other first-time buyers to become future homeowners within 5 years.
- Next Gate Tech — Next Gate Tech is a Luxembourg based, data-driven FundTech that provides innovative Software-as-a-Service solutions for the asset management industry. Our mission is to enhance the Fund industry technology, thanks to machine learning, data analytics, and smart automation. We capitalize on the rapid emergence of cloud-based computing frameworks tooffer fast, accurate, and robust solutions to our clients. We provide intelligent, adaptive, and dynamic automation solutions through a web platform to help industry players manage middle and back-office processes.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $589k–$4.3M; Series A $3.8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
- Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
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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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6.7M; Series A $2M–$24M; Series B $12M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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.
At Moonfire, we team up with the most innovative early-stage founders to invest where our sectors of focus intersect with global technological disruption.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Filigran — Provide cyber threat intelligence, adversary simulation and crisis management solutions to cybersecurity teams across the world.
- Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
- Beyond Work — Beyond Work is a human-ai work platform, shaping how Large Language Models (LLMs) can make human work more rewarding. This team of veterans from Tradeshift and Uber is setting out to redefine how work gets done. It is already in trial with Fortune 500 enterprises.
Heartcore Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm devoted to backing founders building category-defining consumer internet brands.Founded as Sunstone Capital in 2007, Heartcore has raised over $500 million in committed capital across four fund generations. The firm has offices in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris but invests across Europe andoccasionally in the United States. Heartcore has backed more than 70 exceptional founding teams.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Denmark, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $964k–$9M; Series A $3M–$19M; Series B $9.6M–$46M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
- Quell — An immersive first-person fitness game you can play anywhere - Quell is the future of fitness gaming.
- Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 373
- Round size: Seed $665k–$5.1M; Series A $1.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
- Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
- traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
- 8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
- Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.
Transamerica Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the Aegon Group and Transamerica. Transamerica Ventures invests in early-stage, high-growth technology companies throughout the United States and around the world. Transamerica Ventures is an extension of Aegon’s innovation strategy and makes equity investments in companies that alignwith and help facilitate these strategic goals.The broad range of companies and market sectors into which Transamerica Ventures invests or looks to potentially invest includes communication technologies, marketing and social media platforms, financial technology and financial services (FinTech/FinServ), big data, enterprise IT, content and other B2B and B2B2C opportunities.Transamerica Ventures adds strategic value to its portfolio companies by providing them with the unique opportunity to leverage the global networks and resources of one of the world’s leading life insurance, pension and asset management firms. Transamerica Ventures puts its entrepreneurs first and supports them with strategy and business development and by creating partnerships with the Aegon/Transamerica organization.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$20M; Series A $3.1M–$8.9M; Series B $2M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- CompStak — Timely, analyst reviewed commercial lease comps, sale comps, and property details.
- Quantemplate — Insurance data integration, automation, validation & analytics. Automate all your insurance and reinsurance data preparation, including Bordereaux Management, MGA Reporting, Exposure Management, Fleet Auto, Aggregation and Clash with integrated data quality assurance. Turn all of your insurance data sources into insights you can trust with the Quantemplate SaaS platform.
- Coverfox Insurance — Coverfox.com: Compare/Buy/Renew Insurance Plans Online Instantly. Car, Bike, Term, Health, ULIPs, all forms of Insurance from various Insurers under one roof.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
- Softgarden — Mit der Talent Acquisition Suite von softgarden begeistern und stellen Sie die besten Kandidaten schneller ein. Bewerbermanagement, Arbeitgeber-Reputation, HR Marketing.
- Searchmetrics — As part of Conductor, we help enterprises drive more revenue from search. Learn more about our SEO solutions.
Mediahuis Ventures is a venture capital investment firm.
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- Industry: Software, B2B, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$6.4M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Bunch AI — Try Bunch: the AI coach that makes it easy for ambitious leaders to learn and grow.
- HiPeople — HiPeople is a talent insight and reference checks platform that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Hire better, faster by automating the reference check process.
Moving financial inclusion forward.
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- Industry: FinTech, Blockchain, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: Estonia, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nira — NIRA is an RBI approved instant loan app that provides low interest instant loans. NIRA Finance is the best app for salaried people where you can avail a loan up to 1 lakh on EMI using a secure 100% online process. Low Interest Loans up to 1 lakh for salaried.
- nuvo — Transform the way you import data with nuvo, to create fast, non-technical way to handle spreadsheet data.
- Flowers-Software GmbH — Flowers Software is an organization management for digitizing, simplifying and automating recurring workflows.Flowers -Software can be used independent of company size, industry, region, and existing company structure due to its highly flexible no-code process editor.
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Browse database — It's Free!Smart Partnership Capital is a venture capital fund. We invest in top-notch founders with global ambitions and projects, which solve real problems using technology.
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- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belarus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Lano — One smart platform to grow global teams We've built the infrastructure for your global growth Get in touch
- respond.io — Respond.io is a business messaging platform that connects contacts from Email, Whatsapp, Social Media, Website widget in one place.
- Wizart — Wizart Home Visualizer helps customers all over the world to choose and visualize finishing materials. Digital tools that boost your sales of finishing materials online and help your clients make decisions quickly
Philipp Pausder is the Co-Founder and MD of Thermondo. Prior to Thermondo, Philipp founded Clean Venture, a boutique M&A advisory firm for distributed energy deals. Clean Venture advised on deals across 4 continents with a total value greater than $1 billion. Before starting his own firm, Philipp worked for Applied Value, a Stockholm-basedstrategy and investment firm. Philipp was recognized as “Global Champion of Sustainable Innovation 2007” by Thunderbird University, USA for his development of business models for emerging markets. Philipp started his career as a global marketing manager at adidas AG launching innovation concepts to a global market place. He holds an MBA in Finance with highest distinction from IE Business School, Madrid and an MA in Business and Mass Communication from FU Berlin.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- PowerUs — PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
- 8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
Joachim Bernecker
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.
- MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
- GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
Companisto is an equity platform for startups. It enables investors to participate in the funding of companies with an investment of their choice, and in return share profits and increases in value of the startup or property. Companisto is the investment platform for startups and growth companies. Business angels and investors participate ingroundbreaking innovations, promising companies, and ideas that write history through venture capital. As a fintech company, they stand for lean processes, specialized knowledge, and efficient solutions. They are the driver of innovation in the field of professional online corporate finance. In a diverse society, they assume responsibility for the founding culture in Germany and Europe.
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- Industry: SaaS, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $107k–$2.5M; Equity Crowdfunding $107k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OMC°C — Micro Climate Cultivation is creating a scalable, seasonally farmed product system for vertical urban greening.
- INHUBBER — INHUBBER is a SaaS Contract Lifecycle Management platform based on Blockchain and AI. INHUBBER simplifies contracts, making them comprehensible, interactive and easy to manage. It reduces the time, costs and risks associated with negotiating, creating, approving and managing contracts.Founded in 2018 from an R&D project, INHUBBER receivedtwo competitive grants and evolved into a software company specializing in cloud-based Contract Management and digital signature solutions. In its MVP, INHUBBER offers a digital signature, a repository and an audit trail at the highest security level. The use of blockchain saves costs, increases transparency, compliance, and security.
- Living Brain — Living Brain is a biotechnology company that develops a new method of rehabilitation treatment using virtual reality.
Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- aidhere — Weight-loss solutions
- HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
- ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
Benjamin Minack
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- Industry: Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jomigo — We enable companies and freelance recruiters to successfully fill positions in our collaboration marketplace.
- SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets
Originally from Switzerland. Lived 7 years in Hong Kong and Korea. Co-Founder at Smallpdf - the online PDF software. Grew Smallpdf from 0 to 9 million users without marketing dollars. Loves solving big problems with technology that no one is looking at. Now focusing on changing how people do their tax declaration with Taxfix.de - the first mobiletax software.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources, Mechanical Engineering
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- PowerUs — PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
Micro VC supporting outstanding technology entrepreneurs across the globe.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
- Valve — Valve - the Global Industry System for Flexible Workspace
- hakuna — Integrate the right protection for all kinds of products directly into your online shop. Make your customers happy and benefit from additional revenue at the same time!
Rainer Strack
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- Industry: Recruiting, Staffing Agency
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Jomigo — We enable companies and freelance recruiters to successfully fill positions in our collaboration marketplace.
Adevinta Ventures is the early stage investment arm of Adevinta. We support startups using our knowledge and hands-on marketplace experience.
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- Industry: Automotive, Rental, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $3.2M–$7.5M; Series B $18M–$107M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 2trde — 2trde accelerates B2B used car trading!
- Cocoli — Cocoli offers furniture & home decor solutions.
- Spotawheel — Spotawheel is a trusted high-tech used cars B2C platform that redesigns the whole buy-sell process from scratch, ensuring value, transparency and customer satisfaction at the highest levels throughout.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
- WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Astutia Ventures GmbH
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $2.4M–$3.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Joblift — Find your dream job with Joblift! With millions of jobs sourced from thousands of job boards, employers and staffing firms, Joblift gives you the best and most relevant selection of job offers. Search now!
- Cubitabo AG — It engages in online retail of mattresses in Germany.
- StyleLounge — StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest.If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourselfwith a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part!
Cipio Partners is a leading European secondary direct and growth capital investment management and advisory firm. The firm makes direct investments in private growth stage technology businesses predominantly in Europe.Founded in 2003, Cipio Partners manages an international portfolio of private growth stage technology businesses in Europe fromoffices in Luxembourg and Munich.
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- Industry: Software, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Series B $5.2M–$14M; Series C $5M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $186M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Wire — Secure messaging, voice and videoconferences, file exchange end-to-end encrypted by design. For cloud, private cloud, and on-premises.
- NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
- Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.
Bonsai Partners is a Venture Capital investment company based in Madrid, Spain. We invest in both primary and secondary opportunities in Tech startups from Europe.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Logistics
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Spain, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $804k–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
- Deeploy — Deeploy creates software to enable interaction between humans and Machine Learning models. With our software ML deployments are manageable, accountable and explainable by design.
- Orain — Orain is an IoT payment platform that enables communication and interaction between humans and machines via mobile. Its system uses chatbots with artificial intelligence to guarantee a personalized and human purchase process in all self-service machines. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
Armira is an entrepreneurial industrial holding company, which participates in medium-sized companies in German-speaking countries. Our focus is on established, profitable companies with a turnover of up to 500 million euros.
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- Industry: Recruiting, Human Resources
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Workwise — Campusjager finds the right job for students and graduates.
- Yoummday GmbH — yoummday‘s concept is based on the sharing economy‘s principles. Among an innovative software solution, the marketplace is matching clients and freelancing call center agents whom we call talents. Through the concept, the platform provides a solution to work as a freelancing talent globally. Moreover, the provided technology enables the possibilityfor the talents to work from home.Additionally, a customer‘s project can be implemented efficiently, individually, and flexibly. Next to a talent pool with above 20,000 registered talents, yoummday offers managed services for corporate clients, as well as a self-managing possibility. Both services are allowing the client to monitor the project in real-time based on personally defined KPI‘s. By giving talents up to 80% of the revenue, the motivation is increasing, because the freelancing talent is earning twice as much as a call center agent in their country they live in. The client only has to pay a yoummday provision as well as the talent remuneration which is leading to cost savings up to 40%. Furthermore, yoummday is responsible for training and quality checks which are regularly analyzed and individually modified.Founded in 2016 by Klaus Harisch, Pablo Harisch, and Lion Harisch, yoummday is constantly looking for motivated, self-empowering, curious, critical thinking and problem-solving employees who want to innovate the call center business. The Tech startup is constantly fast-growing and the vision is to create a brand that is an outstanding example as a leading shared economy company that is offering the main assets which are the talents an ecologically friendly way to work from home. Next to a fixed salary, employees are offered various tangible and intangible benefits that are individualized based on the needs of the employee. yoummday is a group-orientated company which is focusing on the employee as the core asset. The headquarter is based in the heart of Munich and a second branch is located in Sofia.
BV partners with entrepreneurs and families to invest in sound businesses and provide them with significant strategic, operating, and analytical assistance.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $3M–$16M; Private Equity $50M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Imagenet — Imagenet is a premier technology company that has advanced the automation of business processes and document management through EDI, workflow systems and claims adjudication.
- Vitori Health — Vitori Health offers a comprehensive health plan that incorporates highly optimized medical and pharmacy supply chains as well as plan elements into a single vehicle. They combine tailor-made features, including concierge member support, unique medical payment controls, preferred surgical arrangements, optimized pharmacy sourcing and pricing, andopen employer contracting.
- The Hardenbergh Group — The Hardenbergh Group is a leader in Interim Medical Staff Services and Consulting solutions. Our medical staff professionals are ready to assist you.
LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$7M; Series A $4.3M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $214M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- Turn2x — TURN2X decarbonizes the industry by producing Renewable Natural Gas with a unique methanation process.
- Enabl — Using the enabl Digital Platform, customers can easily link their warehouse systems to our digital interface. Customers can quickly connect their vehicles to our drivers and, with a few clicks, schedule material transportation that meets their needs. Depending on the mission, a driver or an autonomous driving system executes the transport orderremotely. Our transport services are available for reservation at any time, with only the hours of service being charged.
SEEK is a diverse group of companies that have a unified purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and help organizations succeed. The Group encompasses a strong portfolio of employment, education, and volunteer businesses which span across Australia, New Zealand, China, South East Asia, Brazil, Mexico, Africa, andBangladesh. SEEK makes a positive impact on a truly global scale, operating in a total of 18 countries with market-leading positions in 14 countries. It creates world-class product technology solutions to address the needs of job seekers and hirers and facilitate the matching between job seekers and hirers across our online employment marketplaces. Online Education Services (‘OES’) offers leading online education and SEEK Learning offers trusted advice in relation to career-related education. SEEK’s commitment to having a positive impact on society is reflected through the diverse range of initiatives which its businesses across the globe partake in to support the communities they operate within. In Australia and New Zealand SEEK Volunteer is each country’s largest single source of volunteering opportunities offering not-for-profit organizations free access to post volunteer opportunities. This free marketplace is something SEEK is exceptionally proud of. Over its 20 years of operation, SEEK continues to innovate within the markets it operates in. It provides a culture of excellence and acceptance in our workplaces and celebrates the diversity of employees that contribute to the success of the organization.
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- Industry: Human Resources, Recruiting, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Series A $4.6M–$26M; Series B $5.1M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
- Employment Hero — Employment Hero is Australia's top cloud-based HR, payroll and benefits platform for employers & employees. FREE trial for...
- Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 172
- Round size: Series A $3M–$28M; Series B $6.7M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Nosto — Use Powerful Personalization Made Easy on e-Commerce Platforms. Nosto generates a 10-30% Average Increase in Revenue.
- Minervax — MinervaX is pursuing the development of a vaccine against Group B streptococcus (GBS) infections by utilizing a particular fusion protein : click to read more
- Seamless Therapeutics — Seamless Therapeutics is changing the paradigm of gene editing through a pioneering approach to restore health in patients with severe conditions in a safe and precise manner. Seamless technology platform unlocks the reprogramming of recombinases, a highly versatile class of enzymes.
NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.6M; Series A $2.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
- Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
- The Naked Market — The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.
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