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Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Germany (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Video Games startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Video Games startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Holger Hübner
Angel
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, SaaS, Audio
HV Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.3M–$80M
Everblue Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, eSports
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $107k–$13M
Skycatcher
VC Fund
2 Bangladesh, India, Singapore Seed, Series A Online Games, Video Games, Transportation $825k–$11M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Internet $3.5M–$16M
Sumit Gupta
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Argentina Seed, Post-IPO Equity SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising $2M–$2M
Oliver Stahl
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Angel Gaming, Video Games, Organic Food
Myke Naef
Angel
1 Switzerland, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, SaaS, Sports
Manouchehr Shamsrizis Alma Mater Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany Pre-Seed Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Play Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain $700k–$8.2M
3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Romania, Poland Series A, Seed Software, Internet, SaaS $702k–$9M
Björn Kolbmüller
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Fashion, E-Commerce, Gaming
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1.9M–$100M
Bolero Holdings
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Content, Training, Enterprise
Dan Gilbert
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Germany Series B, Series A, Series D Sports, Digital Media, Internet $1.6M–$40M
Go4it Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Brazil, France Series A, Series C Sports, Digital Media, Food Processing $3.6M–$61M
BLN Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Video Games, Gaming $125k–$8M
Günther Strunk
Angel
1 Germany Pre-Seed Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Harri Manninen
Angel
1 Finland, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, PC Games $348k–$10M
Paul Schwarzenholz
Angel
1 Germany, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, Information Services
APX
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $54k–$3.4M
Vester Partners
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Content, Training, Enterprise
Firegroup Holding AG
VC Fund
1 Germany Pre-Seed Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Die Brückenköpfe
VC Fund
1 Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Life Science $5.4M–$19M
Morten E. Wulff
Angel
1 Denmark, Sweden, Germany Seed, Angel Gaming, Content, Soccer $517k–$1.2M
High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $665k–$16M
Kliwla Family Office AG
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed MMO Games, Video Games, Online Games
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $725k–$30M
Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund
1 Finland, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Health Care $129k–$6.4M
TheVentureCity
VC Fund
1 United States, Spain, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$8M
YuChiang Cheng
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Series A eSports, Video Games, Gaming
Anton Gauffin
Angel
1 Finland, United States, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps $193k–$9M
Modern Times Group
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Gaming, Online Games, Software $1M–$15M
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $1.3M–$36M
Michael Wieser
Angel
1 Austria, Germany Seed Gaming, Computer, Video Games
DN Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $111k–$24M
Jan Dzulko
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Internet, Health Care, Online Portals
byFounders
VC Fund
1 Denmark, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps $1M–$15M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $820k–$7M
Johannis Hatt
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Gaming
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $360k–$18M
Vito Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, Finland, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things $4.3M–$16M
Joseph Tsai
Angel
1 United States, China, Germany Seed, Series A, Series D Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
WestTech Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1M–$12M
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Holger Hübner
Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Holger Hübner

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • musicube — Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology. Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.).
  • RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
  • HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 14 in the past 12 months

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Everblue Management
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $107k–$7.5M; Series A $2.1M–$13M; Series B $2.7M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $86M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Skycatcher
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups

High-conviction investing in Internet and software companies globally

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Video Games, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Bangladesh, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $825k–$4M; Series A $4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 90% lead, 10% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Onmeta — Onmeta
  • Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
  • Stratosphere Games — Berlin-based Stratosphere Games is a mobile development studio formed by gaming veterans from Splash Damage, Riot Games, Smilegate, Huuge and Nexon. Stratosphere works with partners like Gearbox, Boombit and 505 Games worldwide to deliver AAA-quality games. Backed by our own development architecture, we create next-gen experiences for your pocket,with a strong focus on high-end production values, leading-edge multiplayer features, and innovate engagement and retention elements. For more information, visit http://www.stratosphere-games.com.
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Video Games startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sumit Gupta
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Argentina

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
  • Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.
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Oliver Stahl
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Oliver Stahl

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Organic Food
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fridai the Gamer Assistant — Fridai is the voice assistant for gamers. A voice assistant delivering the unique experience of undisrupted gaming sessions and personalized gaming. Fridai is like having a friend sitting next to you while gaming to help you with whatever you need so you can focus on immersing yourself in your favorite games. With Fridai, the gamer assistant theyuse the most natural extension of gaming – voice access – to create voice enabled tools for gamers and transform the gaming experience into a seamless, frictionless one.
  • Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
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Myke Naef
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Myke Naef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Sports
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
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Manouchehr Shamsrizis Alma Mater Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Holding von Manouchehr Shamsrizi, Gründer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
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Play Ventures
VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $700k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Raleon — Create engaging experiences that convert more users and increase loyalty, powered by Raleon's engagement platform.
  • move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
  • Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
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3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Romania, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $702k–$2.6M; Series A $750k–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Autenti — Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies.
  • Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
  • ShiftMed — ShiftMed offers a uniquely efficient and user-friendly approach to on-demand staffing for the healthcare industry with 90%+ show rates.
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Björn Kolbmüller
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Björn Kolbmüller is co-founder and managing director of zenloop, a SaaS platform for feedback mgmt. using the Net Promoter System (NPS) method. After studying business administration at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Björn Kolbmüller began his professional career at Mister Spex. In 2008 he joined Procter & Gamble's brandmanagement team. Afterwards he co-founded the online perfumery Flaconi together with Paul Schwarzenholz, where he was responsible for marketing, product and tech until the sale to Pro7Sat1. In addition to zenloop, Björn Kolbmüller is an active business angel and passes on his experience to young start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • straede — straede primarily focuses on cycling clothing.
  • Kittl — Kittl is the most intuitive and easy-to-use design platform which helps you to create stunning designs that impress everyone. Easily learn new design techniques and improve yourself to become a better creator.
  • Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Bolero Holdings
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Bolero Holdings is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Training, Enterprise
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
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Dan Gilbert
Angel · Detroit, Michigan, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Dan Gilbert is Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He was an Investor at StockX. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Digital Media, Internet
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Series A $1.6M–$6M; Series B $10M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
  • 100 Thieves — 100 Thieves is the premier lifestyle brand and gaming organization. Find out more about 100 Thieves and shop the latest premium apparel drops at 100thieves.com.
  • WSC Sports — Our AI-driven platform enables sports media rights owners to automatically generate personalized sports videos in real-time to engage with each and every type of fan on every platform.
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Go4it Capital
VC Fund · Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.

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  • Industry: Sports, Digital Media, Food Processing
  • Stage:Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $3.6M–$50M; Series C $58M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adventure — Adventure is platform for entrepreneurs and companies, that helps the company achieve more, faster and better.
  • Fazenda Futuro — Fazenda Futuro is a food tech company that produces flat meat. It offers its first product, the Futuro Burger which is made of pea, soy, and chickpea. The company currently sells its products in approximately 2,000 places across Brazil, with a major presence in the south and southeast of the country, besides Brasilia and Salvador.
  • Future Farm — Future Farm engages in the production and supply of plant-based protein that captures the taste and texture of real meat.
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BLN Capital
VC Fund · Schönefeld, Brandenburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Video Games, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$8M; Series A $6.4M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Günther Strunk
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Günther Strunk

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
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Harri Manninen
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Harri Manninen - Founding Partner @ Play Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $348k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FitXR — Enjoy your workout, not just the results. Try FitXR for 7 days free.
  • StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
  • 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".
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Paul Schwarzenholz
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
  • Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
  • repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
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APX
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Vester Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Vester Partners is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Training, Enterprise
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
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Firegroup Holding AG
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Firegroup Holding AG is a Swiss holding company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
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Die Brückenköpfe
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Die Brückenköpfe is a management consulting and investing firm focused on the German healthcare market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Life Science
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • keleya — Keleya enables women and their partners to have a safe and relaxed pregnancy, birth experience and motherhood by providing them with personalized, expert based information, workouts and nutrition plans and a matching midwife. Founded in 2017, Kelaya is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Recare — Recare developed a software platform for discharge management and supply control in hospitals and other medical facilities. With its B2B marketplace, Recare is trying to end the paperwork in the German healthcare system.
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Morten E. Wulff
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Founder & Chairperson at GameAnalytics - changing game development. ALso, Advisor & miniature-investor in 10+ companies; mostly in the Nordic start-up community with connections to several major VC companies as well a track record of working with top business angels such as Morten Lund, Tommy Ahlers, Thomas Mygdal, Klaus Lovgreen, JimmyMaymann, Michael Arrington.As entrepreneur Morten has been involved with more than 10 start-ups including TraceWorks, Wulffmorgenthaler, Get In, Wordy (Winner Seedcamp 2010), Lovemade™, and Hello Fitness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Content, Soccer
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $517k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
  • Umami Games — It a game developing company by using hyper casual studio.
  • StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
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High-Tech Grunderfonds
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 64 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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!
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Kliwla Family Office AG
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

KLIWLA is a single family office that was created in 2016 with an endowment style investment philosophy similar to Yale and Harvard universities and a portfolio divided across a wide spectrum of asset classes.A proven investment approach is employed to seek out globally leading fund managers across traditional asset classes as well asalternatives (Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge Funds), with a successful track record.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: MMO Games, Video Games, Online Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stratosphere Games — Berlin-based Stratosphere Games is a mobile development studio formed by gaming veterans from Splash Damage, Riot Games, Smilegate, Huuge and Nexon. Stratosphere works with partners like Gearbox, Boombit and 505 Games worldwide to deliver AAA-quality games. Backed by our own development architecture, we create next-gen experiences for your pocket,with a strong focus on high-end production values, leading-edge multiplayer features, and innovate engagement and retention elements. For more information, visit http://www.stratosphere-games.com.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 36 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Reaktor Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $129k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $161k–$1.8M; Series A $1.7M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
  • Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
  • Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.
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TheVentureCity
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$750k; Series A $4.5M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
  • Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
  • BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
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YuChiang Cheng
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift. YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
  • VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
  • G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
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Anton Gauffin
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Anton Gauffin is the Founder of Sumoing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$9M; Pre-Seed $348k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
  • Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
  • Mainframe Industries — We are developing a cloud-native sandbox MMO with a team consisting of former CCP, Remedy, Blizzard and Next Games veterans. Want to join?
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Modern Times Group
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

MTG is a pure-play esport and gaming entertainment investment company, with some of the strongest brand in our portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Online Games, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.5M; Series A $2.7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dazzle Rocks — Dazzle Rocks We are making games for the social generation. A new take on the real-time MMO genre, mobile-first.
  • Legendary Play — Legendary Play creates mobile games for esport fans. The company was established in 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
  • Joyride — Bringing NFT's and tokens to mobile e-sports, hypercasual, and social game creators. Join the Joyride ecosystem and get access to market leading tools for blockchain game development, publishing, and scaling.
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Series A $1.3M–$8M; Series B $3.5M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
  • Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
  • Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
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Michael Wieser
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Michael Wieser studied law in Vienna and Singapore. He co-founded two start-ups (IT provider / energy storage) and also gained experience in private equity. Michael has been investing as a business angel for 10 years and is now a partner at Helvetia’s VC fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Computer, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Austria, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Benefit Büroservice — Benefit Büroservice is a office management company.
  • Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 220
  • Round size: Seed $111k–$7M; Series A $1.6M–$17M; Series B $7.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Jan Dzulko
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Jan Dzulko is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everphone. He previously worked at M Cube Incubator as a Chief Executive Officer. Jan Dzulko attended the University of Mannheim.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Health Care, Online Portals
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • emplu — 360° benefit and compensation platform
  • 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.
  • Workbee — Workbee is a job platform focused on care workers. The aim of Workbee is to find a better job for carers and to make the caring profession more attractive. The core product is recruiting-as-a-service: employers book a subscription and receive a recruiting flat rate.
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byFounders
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 7 in the past 12 months

byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $2.1M–$2.1M; Series A $5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
  • 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.
  • Jellatech — Jellatech is a B2B biotech business based in Raleigh, NC, and with R&D in Wageningen, Netherlands. Jellatech is producing high-quality, pure, animal-free collagen and gelatin. Founded by a group of innovators, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, Jellatech is eliminating the dependency on animals, to make better ingredient products -starting with collagen and gelatin.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 10 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Johannis Hatt
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Johannis Hatt is one of the founders of Productsup.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • autengo (acquired by Alzura.com - b2b marketplace for the automotive aftermarket) — autengo offers Software-as-a-Service solutions for car dealerships by providing a product and service cloud for sales and marketing
  • Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
  • Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $360k–$3.8M; Series A $2.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
  • Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
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Vito Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Vito Ventures invests in break-through tech and business startups in the fields of IoT, B2B marketplaces, enterprise, SaaS and energy tech. Vito Ventures backs ambitious founders and startups applying technology to solve fundamental problems of society ranging from climate change to energy security. They believe that superb engineering andradical entrepreneurial thinking is needed to tackle major challenges of the upcoming decades. With its investments they empower startups, which will make a difference both within their industry and beyond. Through its industrial investor base, they have access to extensive resources (e.g., R&D facilities, global market reach, mass production capabilities). Its portfolio companies can actively leverage their investor’s domain expertise and knowledge base in the fields of Cooling-, Heating- and Energy-technology, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things. Whether it is developer capacity or prototyping experience, they want to build bridges and open doors whenever possible.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Series A $4.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers
  • Crate.io — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
  • Micropsi Industries — Micropsi Industries is a robotics software company. Our AIs allow robots to learn from humans and act in dynamic environments.
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Joseph Tsai
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups

Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: United States, China, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cambium Carbon — Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse.
  • WNBA Enterprises — WNBA Enterprises is a privately held company that owns and operates women’s basketball teams in the United States. It assists basketball coaches at all levels in teaching the fundamentals of the game. WNBA Enterprises was founded in 1996 and is based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It operates as a subsidiary of National Basketball Association, Inc.
  • Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.
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WestTech Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Video Games startups, 6 in the past 12 months

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $3M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
  • Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
  • THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.
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Video Games Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 37 deals from 73 investors.

73
investors
in Germany Video Games startups
37
deals
in Germany Video Games startups
$241k
median round
in Germany Video Games startups
32%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage
75/25
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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