Top 10 Social Startup Investors in Germany (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series B, Series C, Series A | E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail | $4.3M–$65M |
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Lakestar
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, FinTech, Information Technology | $2M–$91M |
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Venista Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Mobile, Software | $1.1M–$1.6M |
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $107k–$3M |
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Martin Ott
Angel
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1 | Germany, Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Legal, Information Technology, Internet | |
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Social, Content | |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | $764k–$50M |
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Fosun International
VC Fund
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1 | China, Israel, United States | Series A, Series B, Series C | Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $1.4M–$50M |
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Deutsche Telemedien
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Social, E-Commerce | |
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pd ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Series A, Seed | Internet, Online Portals, SaaS | $2.6M–$17M |
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Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 151
- Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $3.5M–$33M; Series B $16M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Mindgard — Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against Artificial Intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape.
- Neko Health — Neko Health is a Swedish health-tech business. Its ambition is to build a healthcare system that can help people stay healthy by focusing on prevention and early detection. Neko has created a new medical scanning technology concept that allows for comprehensive and non-invasive health data collection that is both convenient and economical for thegeneral people.
- Dexory — Robotics, AI, automation, digital twin technology, data-led, inventory checks
Venista Ventures backs aspiring founders in pre-seed and seed rounds with a strict geographical focus on Germany.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
- ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
- Connect Earth — Connect Earth is an environmental data company that builds the infrastructure for climate-conscious products by aggregating and standardising environmental data and making it available through developer-first toolkits. The core product is an API solution that calculates the carbon impact of spend-based financial transactions of consumers and companies.
They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $107k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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- Industry: Legal, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
- IDnow — IDnow - The identity verification platform. Built for security. Loved by users. Compliant with regulations (e.g. AML, KYC). Available in 195 countries.
- Mobius Labs — Mobius Labs licenses out lightweight, state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms that empower the edge with true visual intelligence.
Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.
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- Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Round size: Seed $764k–$14M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $2.7M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.
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- Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: China, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$9M; Series B $2.7M–$40M; Series C $4.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saphlux — Saphlux develops, manufactures, and supplies semi-polar gallium-nitride (GaN) materials for nitride-based solid-state lighting and power devices. Major applications include high-power blue LEDs, green LEDs, Micro-LEDs, laser diodes, VCSELs, IGBTs, etc. Benefits of semi-polar materials have long been proven in addressing the fundamentalbottlenecks in first generation c-plane GaN materials such as efficiency droop, green gap, and wavelength shift in LEDs and lasers. However, the mass-production of large-area, high-quality and low-cost semi-polar GaN materials has been rather challenging.Based on the research from the Nitride Group at Yale University, Saphlux was founded in 2014 by Prof. Jung Han and Dr. Chen Chen to resolve these problems. The company successfully developed the world's first stacking-fault-free semi-polar GaN-on-sapphire materials. Raised over $11 million from Venture Capitals, Saphlux has now built a dedicated production line to mass-produce 4-inch (20-21) GaN-on-sapphire templates for industry clients.
- Litecore — Litecore is a manufacturer of optoelectronic devices and processors for broadband, large data centers, and information security.
- Lanvin Group — Lanvin group is a fashion industry that oversees the labels lanvin, caruso, wolford, sergio rossi, and st. John knits. It is offering this assistance along with in-depth information about and connection to the fashion markets.
Deutsche Telemedien assists small and medium-sized companies in digitizing their local marketing and a driver of digital transformation. Deutsche Telemedien publishes the telecommunications directories Das Telefonbuch, yellow pages, yellow pages regional, and Das Örliche. This has grown into a digital platform - with numerous innovative servicesand features.
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- Industry: SaaS, Social, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LODGEA — Website Builder For Vacation Rentals, Hotels & More With Booking Engine And Marketing Automation. Set up your own booking platform in just a few steps including website, booking engine and advertising options.
- 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.
pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.
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- Industry: Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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.
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Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.
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Neotaste
— Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
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Nord Security
— Nord Security is the leader in the field of online privacy and security. Our security tools have earned praise from respected experts and tech outlets.
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Patronus Group
— Rethinking elderly healthcare
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