Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
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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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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- 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.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Luda — Lifting people through play
- Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
- Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.
IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.
- Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
March Capital is a top-tier venture growth firm headquartered in Santa Monica, California and investing globally since 2014. March identifies entrepreneurs with a provocative vision to lead the future and later-stage companies poised for hyper-growth, then dares to go all in by leading rounds with deep conviction and concentration risk. With $1B+in capital over 4 funds and across 30 market-leading technology companies, March accelerates the digital transformation of Cloud-based software, automation, AI, & IT infrastructure. Our vision is to create a best-in-class technology investment platform by combining intense sector focus, patience, access to a global leadership network (including founding The Montgomery Summit), and high-impact portfolio engagement to inspire & to accelerate extraordinary companies.
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- Software, Analytics, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Germany
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- Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
- Rally — Rally gives ecommerce merchants the freedom to build a checkout experience that reflects their brand. We are part of a growing headless commerce ecosystem, playing a critical role in joining a multi-dimensional, flexible frontend experience with the backend that best suits the merchant. Our goal is to give merchants the tools to create a seamlesscheckout experience, connect more deeply with their customers, and significantly impact revenue growth. We appreciate a decentralized ethos and are merchant and revenue-focused, always. Merchants should own their checkout and Rally is here to help them do that.
- Generate Biomedicines — Generate Biomedicines is a biotechnological company focusing on creating breakthrough medicines.
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United States
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- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
- Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner).
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, United Kingdom
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- AskBrian — AskBrian created an AI assistant that empowers business professionals to focus on high-value work by taking care of tedious tasks for you. Meet Brian.
- YAS.life — YAS.life develops digital health services for health insurance companies, insurance companies and corporate health management companies.Our Mission: Change Habits! We support users and employees in permanently integrating health-conscious behaviour into their everyday lives. We have already successfully positioned ourselves in our target marketwith our motivation app YAS.
- hitcap esports GmbH — hitcap esports is an online-based platform that connects esports gamers and fans.
PreSeed Ventures is the biggest and most succesful early stage investor in Denmark. For more than 20 years, PreSeed Ventures have assisted and financed talented entrepreneurs with early-stage investments, and we hold more than 70 companies in our portfolio.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
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- Jabbr — Jabbr allows to capture boxing matches with a virtual video production.Its goal is to make video production and advanced performance analytics in combat sports available to anyone with a smartphone.
- Marts — Marts is an integrated platform that enhances the capacities of IT departments by eliminating these inefficiencies. Put unconnected systems and intimidating spreadsheets behind. IT asset management, support services, and procurement are all integrated into one platform by Marts.
- NORTHSTAKE — Providing institutional investors with access to future economies through secure and trustworthy investment pathways for digital assets
TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States
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- MiViA — From microstructure segmentation to grain size measurement! Our AI engine provides a fast and reliable metallographic analysis for metallic products.}
- BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
- BirdsView — BirdsView is to 'assist small e-commerce firms in transforming their own consumer data into effective, tailored marketing tactics and turning one-time purchases into devoted patrons.
Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.
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- Apps, Wellness, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Turkey, Germany
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- Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
- Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
- Digime3D — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
Rheingau Founders is a Berlin&Munich based Venture Capital firm active since 2011. Focusing on pre-seed to Series A investments in Europe, predominantly B2B in the fields of Marketplaces, Software as a Service, InsurTech, and eHealth. Rheingau targets start-ups that have the potential to sustainably disrupt existing processes and value chains.Besides the financial investment, we offer strategic support through the mentorship of our partners.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Poland
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- OpenReplay — OpenReplay is a session replay stack that lets you see what users do on your web app, helping you troubleshoot issues faster.
- NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
- Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.
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- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Sweden, Denmark
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- Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
- Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
- Elements Advisors — See how Elements can help you quickly demonstrate your value, so you can get new clients. Guaranteed, or your money back.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.
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- Computer, Collaboration, Software
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Finland
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- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Somewhere — Somewhere is the visual platform for sharing your work. The company aims to bring innovation to a space dominated for years by a single "big blue" category leader by building a platform that represents what work is actually like today and in the future.
Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, The Netherlands
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- Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
- Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
- LEVY Health — The first digital platform for holistic fertility medicine.
Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.
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- Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
- House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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- Video Streaming, Music, Video
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Austria, Germany
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- StreamTV Media — STREAM.TV is one of the world's top media brands in live streaming and offers major products in all live streaming areas.
- Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
- Audiotool — Produce beats & songs in the free online studio, remix tracks, collaborate with creators worldwide and listen to music by Audiotool artists. Join our community & start making music now.
Björn Bauermeister is the co-founder and Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures.Bjoern Bauermeister, CFA attended Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
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- Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
- Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Germany
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- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Germany, United States
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- 3D Spark — Profitability and Sustainability Aligned using 3D Spark's Platform - Empowering Manufacturing with Insights and Efficiency!
- Stargazr — Stargazr is a AI-powered software that enables you to understand your financial data
- Neuralfinity — Neuralfinity provides computer AI services. They generalise machine learning models by utilising an ML API as a service.
Seed-to-A engineers. We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.
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- Software, eSports, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Rig.dev — Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability.
- Teamway — Teamway is the new way to hire world-class remote tech talents on-demand. We connect great companies with the best tech talent in a remote and elastic setup.
- Humani — We unleash humans inner superpower
We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.
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- Software, Video Games, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Sweden
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- Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
- Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
- The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States
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- bNear — bNear is the digital space for all distributed- & hybrid teams - Safe and convenient in Microsoft Teams!
- Companyon Analytics — Companyon Analytics provides data security, cloud infrastructure, information technology, technical solutions, and consultancy services.
- Refined Laser Systems — Refined Laser Systems is a dynamic biophotonics company.It specialises in creating innovative laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
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- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Italy, Malaysia
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- Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
- Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
- Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
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- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
- beatvest — An investment platform supporting do-it-yourself portfolio building with education and tools
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- 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!
Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures. We continuously seek innovations and disruptive business models in digital healthcare, medical technologies and health service providers,
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
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- Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
- anvajo — Originally started at TU Dresden, anvajo can now look back on several years of innovative research and successful product development with uninterrupted growth. As part of the business expansion and ongoing team building, anvajo moved into its new headquarters in Dresden in January 2020. On 1300 m² practically all areas, including development,production and support functions are united under one roof.
- Navignostics — Our mission is to identify the ideal treatment to battle each cancer patient’s disease and reduce suffering throughout their journey.At Navignostics we characterize tumors using spatial single-cell proteomics. We use our unique capabilities to identify a cancer treatment that will optimally fight each patient’s tumor. We also accelerate cancerdrug development by providing key insights into drug mechanisms and tumor features for companion diagnostic development.Our highly robust and reliable technology and our leading data analytics position us ideally to enable precision cancer diagnostics for patients and to provide services to pharma and biotech partners.This way we help people suffering from cancer by making more drugs available and by finding the right one for every patient.
Vela Partners is an AI-enabled venture investor based in San Francisco.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, South Korea
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- Vartana — Close more deals and increase cash flow with Vartana
- Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
- Lightup — Stay on top of data quality with Lightup.ai. Detect data drift and data outages before they hurt product experience and business decisions. Get started in minutes with a free trial. Continuously monitor all your data assets across the enterprise. Be data-driven with confidence.
Florian Körner
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- Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
- Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, Germany
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- Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
- Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
- Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
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- Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
- KITCHBO — KITCHBO baking mat. We eagerly anticipated your responses and feedback and were overjoyed that your enthusiasm for our project was shared. It undoubtedly benefited from having a few treats to sample that matched the product. And because the KITCHBO baking mat made everything so incredibly crispy and crunchy, we could practically hear the lionsfrolicking and knew we had done everything correctly.
- TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
This is really our website. We invest time into building companies, not websites.
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- Travel, Rental, iOS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Austria, Germany
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- PaulCamper — Hire out a private motorhome with insurance. Hire and hire out campers & caravans with PaulCamper. Personal, easy & safe.
- PlanRadar — PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.).Today, there are in each real estate project on average 1-2 issues per 100ft². PlanRadar's solution with web access and native apps for all kinds ofmobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows) supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information.Project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property &facility managers or investors and owners can record any kind of information (e.g. tasks, defects, ec.) in a cost & time-saving way directly on the site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real-time to responsible project stakeholders.PlanRadar has already more than 7,000 customers and more than 60,000 users from 45 different countries worldwide. Thousands of our users save already 7 working hours every single week.
- Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the Venture Capital unit of Axel Springer SE, investing in digital companies globally.
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- Real Estate, Internet, Digital Media
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, The Netherlands
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- Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.
- Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
- Goggo Network — Autonomous Mobility as a Service. We deploy and operate fleets of shared autonomous vehicles to transport people and goods.
Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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- B2B, Apps, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Sweden, Denmark
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- Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
- PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
Thomas Weidner
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- Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
- Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Germany
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- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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.
Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
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- ZAGENO — ZAGENO is a multi-vendor, online marketplace of life science products which, by simplifying the procurement process, saves more time for science.
- 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.
Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.
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- Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
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- Hitch — Hitch Offers Private and Shared Ridesharing Between Cities. Easily Book Online or via the Mobile App. Door-to-door and Station-to-station Rides Available.
- Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
- Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.
Alper Akcan
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- Apps, Fitness, mHealth
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
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- Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
- Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
- Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
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- Bigblue — Bigblue's technology allows brands to sell more with effortless e-commerce logistics, prime-like deliveries, branded tracking e-mails and a returns portal.
- Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
- Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.
aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, United States, Germany
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- Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
- ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
- Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food
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- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
- enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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- Video Streaming, Music, Video
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Austria, Germany
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- Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
- Audiotool — Produce beats & songs in the free online studio, remix tracks, collaborate with creators worldwide and listen to music by Audiotool artists. Join our community & start making music now.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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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- Fitness, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, India, Vietnam
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- 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.
Joshua Kimmich is a German professional footballer.
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- Sports
- Seed
- Germany
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- The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
Michael Schweikart is a Co-Founder at Tomorrow.
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- Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team.
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- Video, Sports, Publishing
- Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom
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- Grabyo — Cloud-native live production, video clipping and editing. Using Grabyo you can collaborate to create video content for every screen.
- The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models.
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- E-Commerce, Pet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
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- biddz — Buy biddz from your favorite artists, support them and participate in your collective financial success!
- Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
- Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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- Dogo GmbH — Download Dogo, a positive dog training app with clicker. Train your puppy at home and become best friends with your dog. +100 tricks & games.
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
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- Nerf IT — Nerf IT! is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
- Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
- Kassa — Kassa is an app that allows the user to easily share the expenses with their friends. The app reviews the user's balance of income and expenses, together with their savings to make financial decisions accordingly. Kassa keeps every mutual expense made to share it evenly.
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