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Top 50 Automotive VC Funds & Investors in Germany (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Germany Automotive startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Automotive startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
13 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $680k–$31M
DN Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1M–$82M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$175M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $1.1M–$132M
KfW
VC Fund
7 Germany, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $115k–$17M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $608k–$15M
Porsche Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Automotive, Transportation, Software $2M–$74M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$11M
Capnamic
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
Atlantic
VC Fund
5 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
MAHLE
VC Fund
5 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Automotive, GreenTech, Lifestyle
Continental
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, China Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence $6.5M–$101M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.3M–$75M
eQventure
VC Fund
4 Austria, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Automotive $540k–$13M
Vector Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Automotive, Robotics $3.5M–$6.4M
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
4 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$17M
coparion
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$44M
Axel Springer Digital Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, The Netherlands Series A, Seed, Series B Internet, Real Estate, Digital Media $475k–$112M
DEPO Ventures
VC Fund
4 Czech Republic, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $300k–$4.3M
IT-Farm
VC Fund
3 United States, Japan, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Medical $1M–$36M
MBG Schleswig-Holstein
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence $147k–$2M
Scania Growth Capital
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Germany, Canada Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B Manufacturing, Logistics, Industrial Automation $1.4M–$600M
kopa ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Energy, Software, Renewable Energy $736k–$218M
Discovery Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Software, FinTech $1.3M–$44M
Bâloise Holding
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, France Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Automotive, Service Industry $6.5M–$8.7M
NAP
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$28M
nbr technology ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Automotive, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$7.9M
MANN+HUMMEL
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series C Hardware, Analytics, CleanTech $3.6M–$33M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $162k–$12M
BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Italy, United States Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1.2M–$28M
Troy Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Transportation, Travel $2.2M–$56M
Antler
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
HV Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$75M
Alpana Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Health Care $729k–$45M
Creandum
VC Fund
3 Sweden, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$80M
EOS VC Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Australia Grant, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Gaming $50k–$30M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $563k–$34M
Target Partners
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS $1.5M–$31M
Schwarzwälder Bote
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series C SaaS, FinTech, Consumer $1.2M–$8M
Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $2.6M–$17M
Seventure Partners
VC Fund
3 France, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $1.1M–$63M
STS Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Internet $33k–$4M
Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.1M–$30M
TA Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Health Care $150k–$28M
MobilityFund
VC Fund
3 Germany, Israel, Poland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Transportation, Logistics $561k–$11M
MBG Baden Wuerttemberg
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $687k–$30M
BMW i Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Automotive, Information Technology $7M–$68M
TUDAG
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Automotive startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in various sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 851
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $911k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
  • Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 9 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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’s previous 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, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 468
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $9M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • sherpa — AI agents that run your external workforce end-to-end, autonomously and far beyond your MSP and VMS.
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Automotive startups

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$32M; Series B $6.5M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $276M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Reverion — Reverion develops reversible and carbon-negative power plants using patented biogas technology for renewable energy.
  • Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
  • Kuro Technology — Kuro Technology develops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for general contractors in the construction sector. The software automates the analysis of complex project documents, including architectural plans, technical specifications, and bills of quantities, to identify structural or legal contradictions before construction begins. It processes unstructured data to streamline pre-construction workflows, specifically optimizing risk management, cost estimation, and subcontractor bidding. The technology functions as an enterprise data hub to preserve and transfer operational knowledge across different building projects.
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share. The requesting company has to be located in Bavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies. Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 272
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.3M; Series A $3.9M–$32M; Series B $3.9M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • Arcos — Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company that builds and operates modern infrastructure protection and alarm management systems.
  • HyImpulse Technologies — HyImpulse develops dedicated sub-orbital and orbital launch services using hybrid propulsion-based launch vehicles. Their SR75 is a single stage sounding rocket using a hybrid rocket engine to deliver institutional and commercial experiments into a micro gravity environment during a suborbital flight.
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 7 in the past 12 months

KfW is a development and promotional bank that offers financing, investment, and advisory services aimed at social, environmental, and economic development. It provides loans and grants for small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, and municipalities, supports energy efficiency and climate protection initiatives, and offers funding for housing and education. KfW works domestically in Germany through subsidiaries like KfW IPEX-Bank and DEG, and abroad via development bank operations, supporting infrastructure, renewable energy, vocational training, and public institutions. It mobilises capital from international financial markets and government mandates to carry out its activities. It ensures that supplier engagements adhere to sustainability and compliance standards in its procurement.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$2.6M; Series A $2.2M–$7.5M; Series B $3.8M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge Data Centres is one of the fastest growing data centre providers in Europe. Find out more about us!
  • Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
  • Österreichische Glasfaser-Infrastrukturgesellschaft — Österreichische Glasfaser-Infrastrukturgesellschaft plans, builds, finances and operates fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. The company focuses on passive fiber infrastructure and acts as a neutral active network operator for internet service providers. It offers open access networks on which more than 20 internet providers sell retail tariffs. öGIG connects single-family homes, multi-dwelling buildings, enterprises and public institutions and supplies wholesale fiber access rather than its own internet products. The company supports municipalities, developers and property managers with planning, rollout and in-building installation of fiber connections.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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 current fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $608k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
  • Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
  • HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.
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Porsche Ventures
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Porsche Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in frontier technology to advance the industrial sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Transportation, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$17M; Series A $2M–$60M; Series B $11M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $117M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • &Charge — &Charge is your e-mobility platform which rewards your activities and shopping trips with free energy for your electric car.
  • South 8 Technologies — South 8's LiGas cells are engineered to deliver unmatched performance and safety in the most demanding environments.
  • Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • xHeron — xHeron uses artificial intelligence to automate guest service for short-term rental businesses.
  • Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
  • Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.6M–$23M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $210M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Omegga GmbH — Omegga uses AI-powered spectroscopy to end chick culling: non-invasive, early, and cost-effective in-ovo sexing for hatcheries worldwide.
  • Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 283
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $4.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cygrid — Cygrid turns identity data into quantified risk scores and automated enforcement, delivering predictable risk reduction and measurable ROI. Our solution uses AI agents to continuously assess identity risk and reduce exposure across cloud and SaaS environments. Cygrid covers human, non-human, and AI agent identities, providing unified visibility across the entire identity landscape. We help CISOs, CTOs, CROs, and technical teams uncover hidden attack paths, reduce the identity attack surface, and make the identity space measurable, actionable, and controllable for Enterprises. Cygrid platform makes Identity risk management simple. Our team will be happy to talk to you and see how our solution will help you to manage cyber risks for identities efficient and secured. Cygrid builds a high ownership culture focused on trust, accountability, and results. We work in a flexible hybrid model, encourage direct communication, and expect initiative from every team member. We value integrity, continuous learning, and strong collaboration across product, engineering, and security. Identity Security made easy!
  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
  • Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems,Its platform enables precise, adaptable connections between chips, fibers, and light sources beyond traditional packaging constraints.This company focuses on scalable photonic integration to accelerate the development of high-performance optical systems.
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1819
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.8M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.
  • Clarity Care AI — Clarity Care AI develops healthcare artificial intelligence software that supports care delivery and operations. The platform assists clinicians and care teams with documentation, task management, and communication around patient needs. Features include note drafting, summarization of patient information, and notifications that flag items requiring follow-up. Integrations connect to existing tools to streamline handoffs and keep records consistent across teams. Analytics highlight trends in patient status and operational workload to inform daily decisions. Implementation services, training resources, and ongoing product support help healthcare organizations adopt and use the software.
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MAHLE
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

MAHLE is an international development partner and supplier to the automotive industry. With its products for combustion engines and their peripherals as well as solutions for electric vehicles, the group addresses all the crucial issues related to the powertrain and air conditioning technology—from engine systems and components to filtration tothermal management. In 2015, the group generated sales of approximately EUR 11.5 billion with around 76,000 employees and is represented in 34 countries with over 170 production locations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, GreenTech, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inspekto — Out-of-the-box visual quality inspection for industry, easy to set up and scale
  • Sunmaxx — SunMaxx Solar is a manufacturer of solar hot water collectors and system components including evacuated tubes, flat plates and solar storage.
  • Sunmaxx PVT — Sunmaxx develops, produces & sells innovative PVT systems that use the ideal available and sustainable energy source.
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Continental
VC Fund · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Our Goal: Healthy Mobility - clean, safe and connected. Our heart beats for this. Learn more about it on our homepage.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$62M; Series B $13M–$67M; Series C $15M–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 4.screen — The Driver Interaction Platform. Connect with drivers in real-time to deliver personalized and targeted campaigns.
  • Ingeek — Ingeek provides information security consulting and services.
  • asellerate — Retromotion is a D2C multichannel e-commerce platform for high-quality old- and youngtimer spare parts and matching accessories. Retromotion offers a 360 degree E-Commerce approach to their clients, including B2C Fulfillment and Direct Customer Service.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering, business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 239
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.9M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $6.2M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
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eQventure
VC Fund · Graz, Steiermark, Austria · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $540k–$1.2M; Series A $781k–$5.6M; Series B $4.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Diamens — Diamens is a company focused on femtech that develops a non-invasive menstrual blood-based molecular diagnostic to detect women-specific diseases like endometriosis.
  • Respory — Make customer behaviour visible across your store and turn real customer journeys and interactions into better retail decisions.
  • 2nd Cycle — 2nd Cycle creating a cost-effective, fully automated, and scalable solution for modules for a second life cycle.
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Vector Venture Capital
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Vector Venture Capital GmbH is targeted promotion of young start-up companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Robotics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 94% lead, 6% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • JUCR — JUCR is revolutionizing the way people charging their electric vehicles. Don’t think about the process itself - just pick the right location and you’re ready to go! Never worry about where to charge, how much it will cost, or when is the best time for doing this. With a global charging flatrate and more than 250,000 charging points you can enjoythe freedom every time.
  • UpVisit — UpVisit is a digital operating system for upgrading physical spaces, with DeepTech access and a focus on consistently connecting the analog and digital worlds.
  • Dissecto — Simplify security testing with dissecto. From automated testing tools over pentests to workshops: we help secure embedded systems and meet compliance standards.
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 20 in the past 12 months

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 179
  • Round size: Seed $460k–$7.8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • FermLabs — Ferm Labs ingredient startup specializing in proprietary, high-yield bioprocessing platforms.
  • LimX Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
  • Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
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coparion
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
  • Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
  • Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 28 in the past 12 months

Cherry Ventures is Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of founders and operators with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Spotify, Zalando, and Uber. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from go-to-market strategy, scaling the business, and team formation across all crucial stages in their journey. We look for founders with a vision to create revolutionary technologies - whether it’s AI, healthcare, robotics, consumer, or others - that impact society and change the world for the better. Cherry has invested in the pre-seed and seed stages of over 130 companies across Europe, including Flix, Auto1, Flaschenpost, Amboss, Manual, Numa, Moss, The Exploration Company, Qualifyze, Swap, Dash0, Proxima Fusion and Tacto. Cherry has offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. www.cherry.vc

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $500M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Spiich Labs — AI for revenue teams that win on relationships. Spiich preps your meetings, updates your CRM and drafts follow-ups. Reps save 9+ hours every week.
  • Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
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Axel Springer Digital Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the Venture Capital unit of Axel Springer SE, investing in digital companies globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Digital Media
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $475k–$4.9M; Series A $2.9M–$34M; Series B $7M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wunderflats — Find verified mid-term furnished apartments across Germany and Europe. Sign contracts online, move in within days with Wunderflats.
  • 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 — Goggo is developing the legal and engineering framework of European autonomous mobility networks.Goggo strives to lead the driverless revolution in order to solve the transportation challenges of today heavy traffic, pollution etc. their vision is to provide all people with autonomous, electric and shared mobility solutions through the creation ofAutonomous Mobility Networks.
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DEPO Ventures
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Depo Ventures is an investment group that manages an angel fund, angel network and provides capital advisory services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Czech Republic, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $564k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tapaya — Tapaya is payment infrastructure for fintechs, PSPs and software platforms across Europe: embed Tap to Pay, terminal and online payments in your own product.
  • ArcSpace — ArcSpace is a SpaceTech company that develops proprietary high energy electron beam technology to cut, join, and weld materials under vacuum conditions. This compact system enables the maintenance, infrastructure assembly, and in-orbit repair of satellites that were not originally designed for servicing.
  • Zvook — Zvook is an compact, low-cost acoustic sensor using ML to detect low-altitude threats; weatherproof and extendable.
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IT-Farm
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfolio companies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.5M; Series A $1.6M–$16M; Series B $2.5M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubitus — As cloud gaming enablers, Ubitus' GPU virtualization, Streaming technology and hybrid cloud deployment can serve different kinds of solutions for Telco, Game companies to quick enter cloud gaming market. Moreover, Ubitus provide Global distribution and New Media content solution for new media studio and fashion brand to help them distribute rich media contents worldwide.
  • POPS Worldwide — POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Southeast Asia. With over 4 billion monthly views of its music and entertainment content, POPS is the fastest growing digital entertainment media company with hundreds of artists, content creators and partners from broadcast television, publishing and production in the POPS Network.POPS also produces a wide variety of original content for its industry-leading owned and operated channels like POPS Music, POPS Kids, POPS TV, Beauty Me, HerVoice and CoolTV that target highly sought after demographics: teens, kids, women and men.
  • Global Equipment Services — As a strategic partner to developers of multi-sector products, Averna provides innovative automated testing tool and quality assurance solutions.
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MBG Schleswig-Holstein
VC Fund · Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

The MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Schleswig-Holstein mbH was founded in 1994 on the initiative of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein as a regional investment company. MBG Schleswig-Holstein is a full member of the Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften eV (BVK). The task of MBG is to strengthen the equity capital base of medium-sized companies in Schleswig-Holstein, thereby also improving the conditions for raising debt capital. As a rule, MBG participates in so-called silent participations in medium-sized companies. In individual cases, however, it also engages itself in the form of open participations. 19 employees of MBG currently serve more than 500 companies and a portfolio of more than 100 million euros.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $880k–$2M; Pre-Seed $147k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Naotilus — Process automation for district heating, district cooling by deploying high performing databases, using timeseries, AI
  • PANDA — PANDA created a unique Machine Learning Framework (Open Source) for industrial use, which processes all types of data uniformly & visualizes the correlations in the data without the need for programming. This enables to identify and eliminate the root causes of production problems (downtime & waste).The business model is based on providingthe algorithms in a toolbox (subscription model) for its customers (from sensors to data acquisition and fully automated Analysis with AI). The toolbox can be adapted to any factory and enables the equipment of single machines/ plants up to whole factories of industrial companies. Due to the OpEx model, customers do not have to make large investments to implement AIoT.
  • SmartLoC — SmartLoC is a fintech company that provides trading solutions, IoT baked tracking, payment solutions, and supply chain management services.
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Scania Growth Capital
VC Fund · Södertälje, Vasternorrlands Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Scania has founded Scania Growth Capital for investments in high-growth companies with strategic relevance to its ecosystem of customers and partners in the automotive- and transport industries.Scania Growth Capital invests in companies that support the shift towards a more sustainable transport system, and in ventures that may discoverdisrupting technologies and business models in the automotive and transport industries.It also provides a platform where Scania can support capable entrepreneurs with a large ecosystem, as well as broad and deep industry knowledge, which will add great value to the portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Logistics, Industrial Automation
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Series A $6.7M–$105M; Series B $30M–$600M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Waabi — Waabi operates as a self-driving technology start-up. Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before.
  • vialytics — vialytics' mission is to digitize road management in cities, municipalities and counties. Providing up-to-date image data and automatic evaluation, vialytics's AI simplifies the day-to-day work of our partner municipalities— from road inspection to maintenance management. We save cities time, money, and manpower, all while making roadssafer. Over 400 partner municipalities in the US and Europe trust in vialytics.
  • Black Semiconductor — Our technology integrates high-speed graphene photonics directly onto any electronic chip, inspiring innovators to rethink compute architectures.
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kopa ventures
VC Fund · Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $736k–$1.5M; Series A $7.4M–$218M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
  • Tomorrow — Sustainable banking. Green Finance. A credit card that is ecological, ethical and uses your money to generate a positive environmental impact. A bank that funds and promotes Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power and sustainable agriculture.
  • Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
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Discovery Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We are a team of investors who have walked the talk. We see ourselves as supporters of ambitious companies worldwide. Having scaled businesses from ideation to pre-IPO, we reinvest what we have learned in the past decade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $12M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tendos — AI platform for manufacturers in the construction industry
  • CopilotKit — The Enterprise-Ready Frontend Stack for Agents. CopilotKit lets you integrate LLMs or agents with real-time context, UI control, and full flexibility.
  • Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
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Bâloise Holding
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Bâloise Holding provides insurance and pension solutions. Bâloise Holding offers various non-life insurance products, including accident, health, general liability, motor, fire and other property, marine, credit protection, and legal expenses insurance. Bâloise Holding was founded on 1863 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Automotive, Service Industry
  • Stage:Seed, Corporate Round, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Corporate Round $6.5M–$8.7M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DUKE — Duke is a technology company that operates a real time car logistics system. Our Mission is to provide an insane customer experience for car rental. Duke offers on demand rental cars through a 24/7 delivery service.
  • MOBIKO — Mobiko offers commute mobility services to make it easy for people to travel and manage travelling expenses.
  • TRONITY — TRONITY is a german based startup ​that offers a software-only solution for managing electric vehicle insights. The solution allows consumers to access, own, and manage all aspects of their electric vehicles without the need for any additional hardware. In addition to providing access to a fully digital driver's logbook, the solution alsoallows customers to compare their own vehicle data with that of a virtual fleet. Through an active driver engagement TRONITY helps drivers of electric vehicles to optimize their driving experience.For more information, visit http://www.tronity.comTRONITY - Your Car. Your Data.
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NAP
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 10 in the past 12 months

The Expert Founders Fund

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$5.9M; Series A $5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Almetra — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
  • Zalera — Zelara is an agentic lifecycle system that works on top of your CRM stack to increase customer activation, retention, and lifetime value.
  • SPREAD AI — SPREAD AI develops engineering intelligence software that enables organizations to unify, analyze, and act on complex product data across the entire product lifecycle. The company provides a platform that aggregates structured and unstructured data from systems such as engineering tools, production systems, and documentation into a single,connected data layer. Its core technology creates a “product twin,” a graph-based representation that models how mechanical, electrical, and software components interact within a product. This allows engineering teams to understand dependencies, assess the impact of changes, and make informed decisions based on a complete view of product behavior.SPREAD AI integrates with existing enterprise systems rather than replacing them, acting as a layer that connects data sources and enables real-time analysis and workflow automation. It also provides customizable applications and low-code tools that allow teams to build domain-specific solutions tailored to their engineering needs. The platform incorporates artificial intelligence and automation capabilities, including AI agents that assist with tasks such as data mapping, validation, troubleshooting, and requirements analysis. These tools help reduce manual work and enable faster resolution of engineering issues across development, production, and aftersales processes.
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nbr technology ventures
VC Fund · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

nbr technology ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bareways — Bareways develops AI-driven software solutions to enable driving assistance functionalities outside of urban- or high way environments.
  • gestigon — gestigon was founded in 2011. Despite of being a rather young company in the automotive market, they target to be global market leader in all solutions that they bring into serial production.During the last years the company practically doubled in size every year – regardless which measure you apply: people, customer base, experience or squaremeters. They also greatly expanded their lines of code, financials and revenues. They managed to hire rock-star-developers building the #BestTeamEver. The majority of the experience and lines of code as well as the solutions and products are home-grown. As well as their enthusiasm!Since early 2017 they are part of the Valeo group, a leading tier one with more than 90,000 employees all over the globe. Sharing visions, focusing on people and customers, reusing experience, optimizing market focus are the core elements of their joint success.
  • German Autolabs — German Autolabs builds powerful voice assistance tools to augment the daily workflows of professional drivers, couriers and delivery teams.
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MANN+HUMMEL
VC Fund · Ludwigsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

As a global leader and expert in the field of filtration MANN+HUMMEL develops innovative solutions for the health and mobility of people. A wide range of products and services enables us to meet the needs of our customers and society.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Hardware, Analytics, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$6.7M; Series A $31M–$33M; Series C $16M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
  • Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
  • asellerate — Retromotion is a D2C multichannel e-commerce platform for high-quality old- and youngtimer spare parts and matching accessories. Retromotion offers a 360 degree E-Commerce approach to their clients, including B2C Fulfillment and Direct Customer Service.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 6 in the past 12 months

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab Thunder — LabThunder provides a cloud-based laboratory management software platform designed to digitize operational workflows. The system centers on centralizing equipment management, automated maintenance scheduling, digital logbooks, and AI-supported knowledge management to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally, we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CONXAI — AI that understands construction
  • SPiNE — SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage.
  • TalentRocket — Talent Rocket is a job search engine that enables its users to find jobs with a suitable work environment for them. Job seekers can select their preferred company culture, follow their favorite companies, and start career conversations with employers. Talent Rocket was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Troy Capital Partners
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Multi-stage venture capital. Partnering every step of the way

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.6M; Series A $5M–$56M; Series B $14M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $68M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Dack — Operto's comprehensive hospitality management software streamlines operations, enhances guest experiences, and drives growth.
  • dot.LA — dot.LA is a digital newsroom covering L.A.'s startup and tech community. dot.LA’s mission is to celebrate and empower the Los Angeles startup and tech community, fueling innovation around the world.
  • Archer — Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds ofup to 150mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

HV Capital operates as a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across Europe at all stages, from early seed funding to growth investments. The firm partners with founders to support company development over the long term, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network. HV Capital invests across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports companies throughout multiple funding rounds

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 518
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$35M; Series B $7.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
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Alpana Ventures
VC Fund · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $729k–$4M; Series A $2.1M–$14M; Series B $3M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinay — Sinay provides numerous solutions for maritime sector stakeholders, such as collecting and analysing maritime data.
  • Nezasa — Discover how to grow your business with Nezasa TripBuilder, the world's leading travel commerce solution for travel businesses.
  • Tinamu — Trusted inventory intelligence delivered in real-time
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Creandum
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Sweden, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 334
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$19M; Series A $5.2M–$31M; Series B $10M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $545M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Atlas Bio — Atlas Bio is a biotechnology company that develops a predictive foundation AI model of human biology.
  • MACHENTA — Machenta develops artificial intelligence and robotics software focused on instant learning for robots. The company builds systems that enable robotic platforms to learn manipulation and control tasks rapidly, reducing the need for extensive manual programming or long training cycles. Its software is used to help automated machines adapt to diverse environments and handle complex physical interaction workflows. Machenta operates in robotics and AI software as well as broader information technology services and experimental research on natural sciences and engineering. Its work targets organizations that deploy or develop robotic systems and require advanced learning capabilities integrated into their hardware and infrastructure.
  • Ares Intelligence — Ares Intelligence conducts automated internal interviews across a company's workforce to analyze operational inefficiencies and identify where the business can integrate artificial intelligence effectively.
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EOS VC Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Gaming
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6M; Grant $50k–$50k; Series A $1.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
  • Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).
  • Stableton Financial — Explore private blue-chip tech investment opportunities with Stableton. Diversify your portfolio with top private tech companies, offering liquidity, transparency, and growth potential.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 454
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $563k–$4.5M; Series A $3.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Lightbase — An always up-to-date view of your entire IT ecosystem for faster decisions and confident transformation at scale
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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Target Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Germany. The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in Europe and the USA. They founded or led companies their selves, developed or sold technology products their selves. They have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. They understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight. Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. They open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. They support you in business development, in international expansion, in closing OEM or distribution contracts, and in acquisition decisions. In addition, several dozen European and US entrepreneurs and top managers, as well as a number of US venture capitalists, have personally invested in their funds and thus have a particularly strong interest in your company's success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$8M; Series B $3.3M–$20M; Series C $3.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $85M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • tado° — Tado° develops a heating app for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real-time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. Tado° is committed to changing how heating and cooling systems function in structures, minimizing energy waste, and lowering carbonemissions. The company regulates indoor temperatures using automation and various control methods. The company's application allows users to modify settings, track usage, and access reports. Integration with smart home systems enables temperature adjustments via voice commands. Features such as geofencing change settings based on occupancy, while weather adaptation adjusts heating or cooling according to forecasts. Intelligent scheduling helps users create personalized temperature plans, and automation capabilities handle climate control without requiring manual intervention.
  • NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
  • Dedrone — Dedrone is the global leader in anti-drone / counter-drone solutions with the most customers in more countries
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Schwarzwälder Bote
VC Fund · Hechingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Schwarzwälder Bote is an online media company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Consumer
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • eduBITES — eduBITES provides a new university and corporate learning experience.
  • holo|one — holo|one is a software company developing “sphere” – the award-winning, standardized Mixed Reality (MR) platform solution. It hails from Switzerland, with offices in Zurich, the Bay Area, and Chongqing, China.
  • German Autolabs — German Autolabs builds powerful voice assistance tools to augment the daily workflows of professional drivers, couriers and delivery teams.
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Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4.9M; Series A $5.9M–$17M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.6M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $54M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Napo Pet Insurance — UK pet insurance with dental cover, direct vet payments and free 24/7 video vet calls. Get a 5% multi-pet discount!
  • Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
  • INKI.TECH — Equip your business with high-end, secure IT equipment through INKI's device-as-a-service model. Reduce operational costs, increase agility, and embrace sustainability while minimizing total cost of ownership.
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion. Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion under management as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations. Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors. The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$24M; Series B $3.3M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
  • Kainova Therapeutics — Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on GPCR in immuno-oncology. Discover more than you think on our innovative cancer treatments tackling GPCR mediated-immunosuppression
  • Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
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STS Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

STS Ventures is a tech-oriented VC that is strongly differentiated from other venture capital funds primarily by its focus on camel tech start-ups and its investment focus on niche markets. Camel start-ups are companies that are resilient and resistant and can therefore survive even under difficult economic conditions, pandemics or global crises. The VC bundles the business angel activities of the Cologne-based serial entrepreneur and investor Stephan Schubert. In addition, business angels, entrepreneurs and family offices who are friends or in close business association with Stephan Schubert invest jointly with him through STS Ventures. Since the advent of the internet in Europe in the late 1990s, Stephan Schubert has invested in numerous technology-driven start-ups and has become one of the most active and experienced business angels in Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
  • All About Accuracy — Sub-1mm accuracy and <1ms latency RF localization for physical AI. Train robots with ground-truth motion data cameras and GPS can't reach.
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund · Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.7M; Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
  • Tacalyx — Tacalyx develops therapeutics targeting cancer-specific carbohydrate antigens on the surface of metastatic malignant tumors where no satisfactory treatments exist.The name Tacalyx is derived from TACA (Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen) and ‘lyx’ from the term Glycocalyx, the glycan-containing layer covering cells. Cancer cells differ fromnormal cells by displaying aberrant carbohydrate structures on their surfaces promoting metastasis, angiogenesis or suppression of the immune system. TACAs result from the aberrant glycosylation that is seen with transformation to a tumor cell and represent attractive targets for cancer treatment since they are displayed with high cancer specificity and enhance tumor virulence via the mentioned diverse mechanisms.
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TA Ventures
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

TA Ventures is a global, network-driven VC firm investing in early-stage tech startups that redefine the industries of tomorrow. We typically write initial checks of $100-250K for Pre-Seed and Seed companies and actively provide follow-on investments. We pride ourselves on swift execution, hands-on support, and leveraging our extensive international network. By connecting our portfolio companies with growth-oriented co-investors, we help them scale effectively through subsequent funding rounds. Additionally, we draw on our deep industry expertise to offer portfolio companies and partner VCs access to top-tier, cost-efficient R&D talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 317
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2.3M; Series A $2.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Willidrop — Willidrop is a B2B automotive logistics platform that optimizes cross-border vehicle transportation. The company provides a unified digital coordination layer that integrates real-time pricing, carrier matching, live tracking, and digital proof of delivery into a single workflow.
  • SpeedLabs — Live sports trivia questions. The best form of fan entertainment and engagement!
  • Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.
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MobilityFund
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable mobility by backing the best founders in European mobility start-ups. We invest in disruptive mobility start-ups with ambitious founders from Seed to Series A and onwards. Our experienced team includes entrepreneurs from Europe and Silicon Valley who partner with our companies as they scale to become global transportation leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Logistics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $561k–$7.3M; Series A $8M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MANSIO — MANSIO's unique IT solution enables cross-company relay transportation. Thereby, the semi-trailer is handed over from one truck to another at a parking lot along the route. After this “trailer swap”, the truckers drive back to their particular home regions with their own semi-truck and the swapped trailer from the opposite direction.In theMANSIO transportation system, empty runs to find return loads and parking-search-traffic are eliminated. Semi-trucks can be used very cost-efficiently in a second shift and - by that - generate additional revenue. In the future, the MANSIO trailer handover system will also allow battery-electric trucks with short ranges to be used on certain sections of long distance transport routes.
  • k2-mobility — Operators of heavy vehicle fleets are facing one of the most significant transformational challenges by switching to electric vehicles. The additional time for battery charging, the limited vehicle range as well as diligent planning of energy consumption need to be dynamically integrated and accounted for in their daily operations. K2Mobility's software PANION has a real-time connection to the transport and tour plans, to the vehicles, the chargers and the grid and is planning and optimizing charging for operational excellence, energy cost and Total Cost of Ownership.
  • FlowFox — Automated Container Releases, Container Drop-off Changes, Container Reuses and C/H Instructions.
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MBG Baden Wuerttemberg
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

MBG Baden Wuerttemberg is an investment company that helps small and medium sized companies strengthen their capital base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $949k–$6.5M; Series A $687k–$30M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Computomics — Computomics is a team of world-leading experts in plant research and bioinformatics, offering next-generation sequencing (NGS) analyses for agriculture biotech companies and crop scientists. Whether you are concerned with crop improvement, seed production or plant protection, Computomics helps navigate the complexities of grain, vegetable, fruitand other genomes. Our advanced bioinformatics services provide our customers with quality NGS data interpretation from state-of-the-art genomics tools and technologies. Let us help you achieve your research goals.
  • ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.
  • InSpacePropulsion Technologies — Cost-effective, robust, and quickly available propulsion solutions, based on 10+ years of R&D and 40 years of combined experience in space propulsion.
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BMW i Ventures
VC Fund · Mountain View, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We operate with the speed and rigor of a Silicon Valley VC firm, while leveraging the value-add of BMW as a corporate partner

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$50M; Series B $14M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GenXComm — GenXComm's Cellular Mesh-Based Technology for Public and Private Networks Offers Complete On-Site Coverage: Easy to Deploy, Fully Secure, & Highly Scalable
  • Vera — Digital Guardian Secure Collaboration (formerly Vera) enables zero-trust security for sensitive data, enabling organizations to protect any file, anywhere.
  • Plus One Robotics — The fastest and most reliable parcel handing robotics solutions in your warehouse.
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TUDAG
VC Fund · Dresden, Sachsen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

The TUDAG group of the TU Dresden is a combination of past ten companies whose job it is to the knowledge of the university market. The aim is to encourage industry and in particular SMEs in the development of new technologies and innovative products. Also for the training of highly qualified staff provides the group TUDAG extensive benefits.Morethan 500 scientists, engineers, project managers and lecturers of the group realize TUDAG individual innovations across the entire value chain. Here, they work in interdisciplinary teams to work closely with scientists from the Technical University of Dresden and other scientific institutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DyNAbind — DyNAbind is a privately-held biotech company from Dresden offering partnerships and solutions for better drug discovery with Dynamic DNA-Encoded Library (D-DEL) technologies.We have overhauled the DEL discovery process by introducing proprietary innovations in library design, selection and validation, all of which lead to a faster path tohigh-quality, relevant starting points for medicinal chemistry – and the only DEL platform on the market fully designed to integrate with a fragment-based discovery methodology.
  • Senorics — Material Sensing offers a way to identify and quantify materials quickly and easily. Its benefits are compelling and the possibilities it opens are broad.
  • SmartNanotubes Technologies — SmartNanotubes Technologies is a start-up company's odor sensor works on the basis of nanotechnology.
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Automotive VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 481 deals from 592 investors.

592
investors
in Germany Automotive startups
481
deals
in Germany Automotive startups
$4.2M
median round
in Germany Automotive startups
43%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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