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Top 50 Automotive VC Funds & Investors in Germany (June 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
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.1M–$31M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $909k–$33M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $2M–$110M
KfW
VC Fund
7 Germany, India, Kenya Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2.2M–$17M
MAHLE
VC Fund
5 Germany, Israel, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Automotive, GreenTech, Lifestyle
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $932k–$15M
coparion
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech
Porsche Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series A, Series B, Seed Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology $2M–$74M
Axel Springer Digital Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, The Netherlands Series A, Seed Internet, Real Estate, Digital Media $475k–$34M
DN Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $300k–$65M
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
4 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $505k–$16M
Target Partners
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $1.2M–$20M
Continental
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Automotive, Software, Autonomous Vehicles $6.5M–$101M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.1M–$110M
STS Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Internet $27k–$4M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $549k–$30M
Vito Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Finland, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things $1.6M–$41M
MBG Schleswig-Holstein
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Internet of Things, Sensor $143k–$2M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $1M–$15M
MANN+HUMMEL
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Canada Seed, Series A, Series C Hardware, CleanTech, E-Commerce $3.6M–$30M
Helvetia Venture Fund
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech $3.3M–$20M
EOS VC Fund
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, Gaming $50k–$30M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
TA Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, India Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Health Care $150k–$24M
Alpana Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Switzerland, Germany Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Information Technology $850k–$14M
BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Italy, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $428k–$23M
nbr technology ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Automotive, Sensor, Software $1.1M–$7.7M
kopa ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Energy Management, Solar $1.1M–$219M
Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $2M–$20M
Troy Capital Partners
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Transportation, Travel $2.2M–$56M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
Capnamic
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
Atlantic
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Financial Services $850k–$32M
HV Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
NAP
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$30M
Scania Growth Capital
VC Fund
3 Sweden, Germany, Finland Series A, Seed Logistics, Manufacturing, Industrial Automation $10M–$105M
DEPO Ventures
VC Fund
2 Czech Republic, United States, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Saint-Gobain NOVA
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Iceland Seed, Series B Software, Energy, Information Technology
Hevella Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, Canada, Austria Seed, Series A E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
GETTYLAB
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A Logistics, Wearables, Automotive
Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1.3M–$76M
Allianz X
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series B, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance
Tiburon
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Maniv Mobility
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, India Series A, Seed, Series B Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
Basinghall Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
MBG Baden Wuerttemberg
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Phoenix Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Japan Series A, Series B Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
GOOSE Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany Series B, Series A, Seed Health Care, Semiconductor, Chemical
TUDAG
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Electronics, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 10 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 inBavaria. 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 227
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.9M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
  • XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
  • inContAlert — inContAlert is a deep tech start-up disrupting the field of incontinence. The technology of inContAlert helps people with bladder dysfunction to monitor the filling level of their urinary bladder.inContAlert, therefore, developed an mHealth device, which collects and analyzes data with the help of deep learning algorithms. The information is thendisplayed on an app and sends an alert to incontinence patients when a predefined filling level is reached. inContAlert thereby minimizes the risk of an uncontrolled loss of urine or the harmful distension of the bladder. With the help of inContAlert, incontinence patients can go back to normal and live a carefree life.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 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 varioussectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 542
  • Round size: Seed $909k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
  • envelio — We are driving forward the energy transition with our smart grid solutions for grid operators. Get information now and plan smart!
  • Atriva Therapeutics — Therapies against viral infections. First-in-class host-targeting therapies to treat respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19 and influenza.
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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, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 128
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Series A $5M–$55M; Series B $5.5M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tanso — Tanso aims at making sustainability accounting as integrated, transparent, and verifiable as financial accounting. Tanso Technologies enables industrial companies to become part of the solution to a lower-carbon economy.
  • Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
  • Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Automotive startups

KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$7.7M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vectoflow — Vectoflow is an innovative company developing fluid-dynamic metrology devices for fluid flow and dynamics measurement. It offers standardized and customized flow measurement technology that measures the static and total pressure, velocity, and angle of attack of a flow. These products are used in motorsport, aviation, turbine machine development,and research sectors.
  • Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.
  • CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.
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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, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Israel, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 5 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 currentfund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 137
  • Round size: Seed $932k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
  • Primogene
  • b.sure — b.sure help brands, agencies and event organizers to make their offline events as measurable as their online marketing.
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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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Porsche Ventures
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 4 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$17M; Series A $2M–$60M; Series B $14M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • &Charge — &Charge is your e-mobility platform which rewards your activities and shopping trips with free energy for your electric car.
  • Customcells Group — With our combined strengths, we are uniquely positioned to deliver customer-centric premium battery technology at scale.
  • Black Semiconductor — Our technology integrates high-speed graphene photonics directly onto any electronic chip, inspiring innovators to rethink compute architectures.
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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
  • Geography: Germany, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $475k–$4.5M; Series A $2.9M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.
  • 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.
  • Group Nine Media — Group Nine Media is a family of digital media brands - Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker, and POPSUGAR.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 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’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 273
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Weezy — Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping. The application enables users to discover their favourite groceries, snacks, drinks, home essentials and OTC pharmaceuticals in one tap away. Users can easily browse the aisles from their home or office.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London,England.
  • GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
  • Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
  • ALLSIDES — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
  • Wave Photonics — Wave Photonics is leading the revolution in rapid PIC design technology. We are enabling rapid, fabrication-tolerant photonic integrated circuit development for any wavelength or platform.
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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 capitalinvestors 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, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Series A $1.2M–$7.8M; Series B $2.4M–$20M; Series C $3.1M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • tado° — Tado° is The 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° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
  • 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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Continental
VC Fund · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 3 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: Automotive, Software, Autonomous Vehicles
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Series A $6.5M–$58M; Series B $13M–$60M; Series C $15M–$101M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 4.screen — The Driver Interaction Platform. Connect with drivers in real-time to deliver personalized and targeted campaigns.
  • Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
  • Kopernikus Automotive — autonomous cars, self-driving cars, middleware, store, commerce, car tuning
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 254
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series A $7.2M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lunos
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
  • JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.
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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, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Replique — Replique is an online first fully encrypted 3D printing platform that makes spare part management more sustainable to large OEMs.
  • UpsellGuru — UpsellGuru is the most exciting way to offer upgrades and increase hotel revenue. Highest upsell conversion for hotels worldwide.
  • Talentspace — Talentspace is the hybrid & virtual career fair platform that brings real hiring results. Our event experience is the branding that employers need to attract talent.
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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: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 338
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
  • Silverflow — Silverflow offers global payment technology to power financial institutions.
  • Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
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Vito Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $1.6M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Soley — Strategisches Produktportfolio-Management einfach digitalisieren mit Soley: Produktportfolio-Analyse und Produktportfolio-Optimierung auf Knopfdruck.
  • Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
  • Artisense Corporation — Pocket-sized camera module enables centimeter-precise positioning in any environment. Indoors and outdoors. Critical for autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping.
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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 equitycapital 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, Sensor
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $880k–$2M; Pre-Seed $143k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DISS-CO — Discover how to implement the best GRC Software for your company today. Ready in 7 minutes. Easy to use with automated workflows
  • 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 — IoT driven Trade Finance Smart Letter of Credit (SmartLoC) helps Importers and Exporters, avoid the very complex and expensive Letter of Credit financing tool and mitigate risk for incomplete or damaged shipments by offering Supply-Chain Visibility as well as IoT-based secure and reliable payment of transactions.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
  • dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
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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, CleanTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$5.9M; Series C $16M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ZwitterCo — ZwitterCo is revolutionizing water & wastewater treatment with cutting-edge membrane technology, along with providing sustainable, high-efficiency solutions.
  • Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
  • 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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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
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$4.1M; Series A $5.3M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Napo Pet Insurance — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
  • Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
  • Benefit Büroservice — Benefit Büroservice is a office management company.
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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, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$5.3M; Grant $50k–$50k; Series A $1.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gapless — Gapless is building a blockchain based platform for collectible cars, and later on we want to move into all things collectible.
  • Captrace — CAPTRACE offers innovative software and services for the management of equities and investors. Its disclosure services provide issuers full transparency over their investor structure and present best-in-class solutions for forthcoming disclosure regulations in Germany and Europe broadly. CAPTRACE's registry service offers a unique custodysolution that secures the safekeeping of securities with distributed ledger technology (DLT) and a central depository.
  • Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 205
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.7M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
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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 extensiveinternational 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: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $150k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aurora Labs — Aurora Labs is pioneering the use of Software Intelligence to solve the challenge of automotive software development. Created using Aurora Labs' Line-Of-Code Intelligence™, the Automotive Software Intelligence (ASI) solution collects granular and actionable data from complex automotive systems, applying AI to enable software transparency andmanagement. Aurora Labs' ASI solution detects and validates changes in the software lines-of-code for OTA updates, and analyses dependencies and software behaviour to enable predictive software maintenance throughout the vehicle lifecycle. Aurora Labs provides automotive development teams unique tools to roll out new technologies and services on time and on budget.Aurora Labs, founded in 2016, has raised $34m and has been granted dozens of patents. Aurora Labs has customers around the world and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices in Germany, North Macedonia, and the US.
  • Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
  • Tortoise — Tortoise is an automated delivery platform for the retail and logistics industries. It was founded by David Graham and Dmitry Shevelenko. Companies like Lyft, Microsoft, and Samsung have brought David in when developing novel technologies and concepts. Meanwhile, Dmitry oversaw the new modality partnership strategy at Uber and led Uber’s firstdeals with JUMP, Getaround, and the public transit ticketing system Masabi. Together, the two have identified some of the biggest pain points in logistics and shared micromobility and are setting out to tackle them together.
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Switzerland, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$4M; Series A $2.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
  • 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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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, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 115
  • Round size: Series A $428k–$23M; Series B $732k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • tado° — Tado° is The 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° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
  • IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
  • StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
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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, Sensor, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.7M
  • 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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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: Software, Energy Management, Solar
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.4M; Series A $7.1M–$219M
  • 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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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
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 93
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • SIRION BIOTECH — Viral Vector Technology as key enabler for innovative therapeutics. Viral vectors are a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into cells. This technique enables research of gene function and innovative therapeutics designed to correct defective genes and cancer. These technologies also assist in the discovery ofnew drug, food and cosmetic compounds. SIRION is a global leader in viral vector technology for gene modification of mammalian cells. Along with custom services, the company stands ready to outlicense its unique technologies. An initial target currently being pursued by one of SIRION's partners is a gene therapeutic for cervical cancer. The company started business in 2007 and since then has been changing the paradigm of viral vector supplies. Specifically, all commonly applied vector types are now available within a matter of weeks - adenovirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentivirus - and a full range of virus related services is at your fingertips spanning from particle production to virus driven cell modelling, all at highest titers and in quantities required for preclinical, clinical and animal testing.The company is easily accessible with presence in Munich, Tokyo, New Hampshire and Tel Aviv. Commercial arrangements range from fee-for-service over exclusive rights on single clones all the way to milestone & licensing arrangements. The business model proves successful: an annual 70% growth since 2007 and experienced in more than 500 projects for both the academic and industry sector.The company is privately held and has over the years raised funds from 8 investors both private and government. In order to support further growth and to benefit from technology development in this exciting industry, the company welcomes new investors. Please contact Management for further information about the company and its future plans.
  • CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.
  • Chundsell Medicals — Chundsell Medicals AB was founded in 2007 as a spin off from Karolinska Institutet, Solna, in order to commercialize the research results of Chunde Li and his group on prostate cancer genomics. The first product: The Prostatype® Test System can assess prostate cancer aggressiveness in conjunction with currently used clinical parameters. TheProstatype® Test System measures the expression pattern of three selected and specific prostate cancer embryonic stem cell genes in tumor cell tissue specimens. These expression patterns together with a group of a selected number of known clinical parameters will help the health care professional to predict the disease outcome, the overall survival as well as cancer specific survival of patients.
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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 still investing — raised $52M in 2021

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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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups, 7 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, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $151k–$3.4M; Series A $30k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
  • Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 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: 137
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $216M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
  • SurFunction — SurFunction is a system provider for contactless surface modification. It employs surface structures inspired by nature to improve and make items more sustainable, while actively contributing to society and beneficial ecological change.
  • 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 · 3 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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $4.6M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cluno — Cluno is an online car subscription service providing rental cars irrespective of any contracts. Cluno's digital car subscription challenges traditional car ownership models in the mobility market and expands the space between hourly and years-long commitments with a flexible option and transparent, fully predictable costs. The carsubscription is offered at a monthly package price, which covers almost all car-related costs such as maintenance, wear and tear, seasonal tires, warranty, registration, vehicle tax, insurance, and vehicle inspections. The minimum booking period is six months per vehicle. Subject to a notice period of three months, customers can change their vehicle after the minimum period, pause their car subscription, or continue on with their Cluno car indefinitely.
  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 427
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
  • Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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NAP
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6.3M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
  • UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
  • beSirius — beSirius transforms ESG chaos into clarity - connecting your data to spot trends, reveal revenue signals, and answer any stakeholder in minutes. Smarter decisions, faster deals, zero admin drain.
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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: Logistics, Manufacturing, Industrial Automation
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Germany, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
  • vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
  • Black Semiconductor — Our technology integrates high-speed graphene photonics directly onto any electronic chip, inspiring innovators to rethink compute architectures.
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DEPO Ventures
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

DEPO Ventures is an angel network and VC (Grouport and DEPO Angels Fund II), which connects world of startups and investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Czech Republic, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BlueQubit — BlueQubit is on a mission to democratize Quantum Computing and make it accessible to everyone. Through our BQ platform users can develop, test and run programs on Quantum Computers.
  • Finlay — Unmatched. | Finlay.ai
  • Protium Tech — Protium Tech provides smart solutions for a sustainable environment with a wide range of comprehensive products and customized services. It offers a package of technical support and advisory services in the hydrogen field, in addition to R&D in bio-hydrogen and wastewater treatment.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 350
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
  • Depop — Designer. Preloved. Vintage. Streetwear. Sneakers. Whatever your style. Find it on Depop.
  • VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
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Saint-Gobain NOVA
VC Fund · Courbevoie, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Saint-Gobain NOVA is the ventures arm of Saint‑Gobain.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Iceland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Treble — We develop next generation sound simulation and spatial audio technology for digital twins and virtual worlds.
  • Fortera — 8% of global greenhouse emissions are caused by cement manufacturing, accounting for more than 3.5 billion tons of CO2 produced each year. Fortera addresses CO2 emissions directly from the kiln.
  • FibreCoat — Making the future affordable. EM-Shielding Composites Sustainable https://fibrecoat.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20211004_FibreCoat_web.mp4 Shedule a meeting to solve your problem Mobility Affordable and damage-resistant materials for integrated EMI-shielding and weight reduction in EVs. Construction Easy retrofit shielding of electronics and people from 5G and other types of EM radiation. Government Specialized yarns for sensors, circuits, shielding and countermeasure materials. With
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Hevella Capital
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Canada, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • fulfin — Beantragen Sie Ihre Finanzierung jetzt und wachsen Sie mit Fulfin!
  • HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
  • ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
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GETTYLAB
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, Wearables, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ProGlove — ProGlove makes award-winning wearable wireless barcode scanners using BLE or RF technology for ergonomic and efficient hands-free workflows.
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 194
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.6M–$76M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Kaia Health — Kaia Health is a digital therapeutics company that creates evidence-based treatments for a range of disorders including back pain and COPD. Working with experts in various medical fields, the company uses machine learning to deliver individualized app interventions that aim to empower and motivate patients to take control and self-manage theircondition with digital alternatives from their home using devices they already own (i.e. smartphones and tablets).The company has enrolled more than 400,000 users to date in its digital therapy program. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
  • TrapLight Games — A hard-hitting mobile game studio from Finland. Traplight is a premium mobile games studio with 10+ years of game development expertise at the highest level. Our ambition is to create world class, chart topping, scalable game services.
  • Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
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Allianz X
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Allianz X invests in mature digital frontrunners in ecosystems relevant to insurance and asset management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Safeboda — At the click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first alternative to urban transportation for Africa’s booming young population. They are working to improve the industry for both drivers and passengers by increasing the number of safe trips taken per day and by making travel around cities convenient andstress-free.Founded in the heart of Kampala Uganda, they are truly an African business, designed for the African context.
  • OpenGamma — Join the leading firms using OpenGamma's derivatives margin analytics to improve their capital efficiency.
  • ESG Book — ESG Book combines cutting edge technology and proprietary research to fix a fundamental problem; markets need clearer ESG information to allocate finance efficiently to more sustainable outcomes.
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Tiburon
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
  • Eprazel — Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning. Their team consists of seasoned professionals all working together to build best-in-class products that serve the $13 trillion US commercial real estate market.
  • FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
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Maniv Mobility
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Maniv Mobility is a global venture capital fund investing in the world's leading mobility start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
  • FreshBus — Book bus tickets online at the best price on Fresh Bus. Travel in comfort with AC & electric buses. Book bus ticket booking service easy and securely.
  • Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.
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Basinghall Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
  • Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.
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MBG Baden Wuerttemberg
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 2 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, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • PartsCloud — PartsCloud is the operating system of spare parts logistics. We are giving every company the means to support their customers with the spare parts they need when they need them by offering them the necessary digital tools and connecting them to a portfolio of logistics service providers.
  • Validaitor — Validaitor is the one-stop-shop that brings together AI red-teaming, governance, risk management and compliance management in a single environment.
  • 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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Phoenix Venture Partners
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP) is a venture capital firm that invests in and partners with entrepreneurs to commercialize breakthrough materials science innovations. PVP’s team has a track record of founding, building, and investing in successful materials science start-ups. The firm’s investment strategy is flexible and predicated on assistingentrepreneurs with customer and supply chain partnerships, business development, as well as strategic and operational support. PVP collaborates with a select set of forward-looking global corporations on business development and innovation interests.Phoenix Venture Partners was founded in 2010 and is based in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Singapore and Cambridge, MA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Qolab — Qolab is spearheading global collaboration across the semiconductor ecosystem to develop utility-scale superconducting quantum computers.
  • Inkbit — Inkbit creats a next-generation additive manufacturing platform that combines 3D printing with machine vision. MIT-trained scientists and engineers combines expertise in industrial systems, design software, and material science to identify and seize opportunities for mass-market additive manufacturing.
  • Trace — Trace is the simplest way ever to create AR content and experiences for your product and business.
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GOOSE Capital
VC Fund · Houston, Texas, United States · 2 investments in Germany Automotive startups

GOOSE Capital is an exclusive group of Fortune 500 executives, industry leaders, and serial entrepreneurs investing in early stage ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Semiconductor, Chemical
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Vivalyx — Vivalyx Omnisol will be a process- and cost-effective one-stop solution for all preservation applications, allowing NMP without the use of blood or human products.
  • Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
  • FibreCoat — Making the future affordable. EM-Shielding Composites Sustainable https://fibrecoat.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/20211004_FibreCoat_web.mp4 Shedule a meeting to solve your problem Mobility Affordable and damage-resistant materials for integrated EMI-shielding and weight reduction in EVs. Construction Easy retrofit shielding of electronics and people from 5G and other types of EM radiation. Government Specialized yarns for sensors, circuits, shielding and countermeasure materials. With
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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 315 deals from 417 investors.

417
investors
in Germany Automotive startups
315
deals
in Germany Automotive startups
$5M
median round
in Germany Automotive startups
40%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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Who built Shizune?

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