Top 10 Social VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in October 2023

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• Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
• 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.
• Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.