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Top 30 Beauty Angel Investors in Germany

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Beauty startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Beauty companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Beauty Angel Investors in Germany

Investor	Beauty Germany investments
Christophe Maire	3
Sebastian Pollok	2
Oliver Pabst	2
Heinz Raufer	1
Julius Göllner	1
Tarek Muller	1
Ingo Weber	1
Alexander Frolov	1
Andreas Burike	1
Stephan Schubert	1
Marc Langner	1
Dominik Richter	1
Michael Moritz	1
Matthias Storch	1
Tobias Eismann	1
Karl-Heinz Holland	1
Judith Williams	1
Michael Oschmann	1
Irène Kilubi	1
Timo Weltner	1
Christopher North	1
Roman Kirsch	1
Steffen Zoller	1
Andre Sierek	1
Martin Avetisyan	1
Nils Glagau	1
Edwin Okyere	1
Ralf Dummel	1
Aaron Sen	1
Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen	1

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Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
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Sebastian Pollok is Founding Partner of Visionaries Club, an early stage VC fund backed by leading European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior, Sebastian co-founded and ran AMORELIE, which he successfully grew to > USD 60m revenue, >20% EBITDA and a team of 100 employees. AMORELIE was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in2018 at a valuation > USD 100m. Prior to AMORELIE, Sebastian worked as a VC for e.ventures in San Francisco and studied at WHU, St. Gallen, HKUST and Kellogg School of Management. Sebastian is a business angel in startups such as Ree Technology, Choco, Sunshine Smile and Lillydoo and a limited partner in funds such as Cherry Ventures, Project A and La Famiglia. He also sits on the board of Cherry Ventures and Founders Pledge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
Aeditive — Construction, Concrete 3D Printing, Automation, Robotics, Digital Concrete
Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge

Oliver Pabst

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Beauty
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Nanoleq — Nanoleq provides full solutions to precisely monitor vital signs and health in clothes. Join the future of health monitoring textiles.
Recare — Recare developed a software platform for discharge management and supply control in hospitals and other medical facilities. With its B2B marketplace, Recare is trying to end the paperwork in the German healthcare system.
Salonmeister — Salonmeister is revolutionizing the last bastion of telephone reservation: beauty-salons and barber shops. With the vision to become the internet’s first address for beauty-bookings Salonmeister was founded in 2012. Today, it is not only that booking platform the founders once dreamed of, but Salonmeister became an expert in regards to schedulingand customer management for local beauty service providers. The Salonmeister calendar is a full fledge customer management tool tailored to the needs of the beauty industry delivering real value to merchants and their customers alike: up-to-date service and less stress for the merchant.

Heinz Raufer

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
ShopVibes — We're building a connected world of e-commerce where everyone can easily present their products on any channel. Join now to get ahead of your competition!

Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kurabu — KURABU verbindet nahtlos eine umfangreiche Verwaltungssoftware mit einer modernen Vereinsapp. Starte jetzt kostenlos & unverbindlich!
Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
SalesPlaybook — Leading European startups to their sales goals & beyond

Tarek Müller (29) is one of the co-founders and managing directors of ABOUT YOU,which is among the fastest-expanding e-commerce start-ups in Europe and Hamburg’s first unicorn with a value of more than USD 1 billion. Müller has been developing digital business models for online retail for over ten years and is responsible for marketing and brandsat ABOUT YOU. The entrepreneur founded his first online shop at the age of 13. He subsequently built up countless e-commerce models in various industries as a managing partner. Starting in 2007, he also established service companies to support clients with the development and execution of new business models. One of the digital agencies founded by him was acquired by the Otto Group and formed the core team of the Collins e-commerce project, which gave rise to ABOUT YOU. With its consistent focus on personalisation, inspiration and mobile shopping, ABOUT YOU generated a revenue of €283 million in 2017/18. It is now one of the largest fashion e-tailers in Germany. Born in Hamburg, Tarek Müller is also founder and partner in eTribes Framework GmbH, which was established in 2011. He is active as an investor and a business angel as well. All in all, he holds stakes in more than 15 companies.In 2010, he established the code.talks developers’ conference in Hamburg together with Sebastian Betz. This attracted approximately 1,800 attendees and 120 national and international speakers in 2016. It is considered the largest conference for developers in Europe. Müller won the ‘e-Star Personality Award’ in 2014; the business magazine Capital ranked him among their ‘Junge Elite – Top 40 unter 40’ (‘Young Elite – Top 40 Under 40’) in both 2015 and 2016; and the US magazine Forbes featured him as one of the brightest European entrepreneurs in the 2018 edition of ‘30 under 30’.

Investment focus

Beauty, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
Swan Beauty — SWAN | Beauty wird smart. Bist du ready to glow? Dann entdecke jetzt unseren SWAN Beauty Booster, bestehend aus Smart Mirror und App. Sign up now!
charles — Charles develops software that helps companies integrate their existing e-commerce and chatbot tools into one interface.

Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital

Investment focus

Beauty, Fitness, InsurTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

emplu — 360° benefit and compensation platform
YAS.life — YAS.life develops digital health services for health insurance companies, insurance companies and corporate health management companies.Our Mission: Change Habits! We support users and employees in permanently integrating health-conscious behaviour into their everyday lives. We have already successfully positioned ourselves in our target marketwith our motivation app YAS.
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Alexander Frolov

Investment focus

Email, Beauty, Mobile
Seed, Post-IPO Equity
Germany, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

gitti — gitti is a direct-to-consumer beauty company with a focus on conscious beauty innovations
Yandex — Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia. It is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website.According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended September 30, 2015, theygenerated 57.1% of all search traffic in Russia. They also operate in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.

Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Human Resources
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
RideBee — RideBee is developing a platform for companies that supports the formation of carpools for employees and simplifies their daily organization.
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Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
kaufDA — kaufDA is a German site for local search and local promotion search. The company enables users to look for the best local sales online, search brochures of local retailers and find stores near them.
Freshnails — Freshnails provides a concept for beauty lounges and offers its customers professional beauty treatments in an exclusive ambience.

Marc Langner's investment manager and is responsible for generating the Deal inflows. In addition, the contract negotiations for investment in his area, taking care of the portfolio companies and the implementation of exits fall.Previously, Marc Langner worked as CFO for the software company GiP GmbH in Offenbach and was responsible for theIT service GaVI GmbH in Mannheim, the multi-year plan and the Strategic cost management. In the areas of due diligence and business valuation Marc Langner was for several years active as a consultant and project manager at Ernst & Young, leading expert and transaction-related business valuations through to different occasions.Marc Langner is a reviewer and jury member at many well-known business plan competitions, such as start2grow, Science4Life and the Hightech Award CyberOne.In addition to his professional activity he supports the Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen and Mannheim University in master's degree programs as a freelance lecturer on the topics of business modeling, business valuation and venture capital.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bedrop — Bedrop offers a wide range of natural beauty products.

Dominik Richter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion forEntreprenuership, building great companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Cloud Data Services, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

studied Economics and Law at Albrecht-Ludwigs University in Freiburg and at Cologne University.At the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin he worked on the restructuring and privatisation of medium-sized stakeholdings. At Doertenbach & Co. GmbH, Frankfurt, he was employed as Corporate Finance Consultant and assisted mid-sized businesses and theirowners, in particular, in their strategic acquisitions and divestments. All in all, he participated in more than 150 successful transactions. Michael Moritz is a consultant to the Mittelstandsbeirat of KfW Group and is a member of the Federal Association of Owner Managed and Family Enterprises (ASU).

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OYESS Beauty — OYESS Beauty provides sustainable, natural lip care and beauty products with selected organic ingredients.

Matthias Storch - Vorstand @ Good Brands

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bedrop — Bedrop offers a wide range of natural beauty products.

Tobias Eismann - Managing Director and CEO @ Metacrew

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Social Media
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Swan Beauty — SWAN | Beauty wird smart. Bist du ready to glow? Dann entdecke jetzt unseren SWAN Beauty Booster, bestehend aus Smart Mirror und App. Sign up now!

Karl-Heinz Holland

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OYESS Beauty — OYESS Beauty provides sustainable, natural lip care and beauty products with selected organic ingredients.

Judith Williams

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PÁPYDO — PÁPYDO produces sustainable and primarily wood-free products.
Womatics — Womatics produces pregnancy and breastfeeding easing products.
Chiengora — Chiengora produces clothing made from dog wool.

Michael Oschmann - CEO @ Müller Medien

Investment focus

CRM, Advertising, Professional Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Excelsea — The online marketing SaaS solution for agencies, publishers and multi-channel organisations.
Phonedeck — Phonedeck integrates mobile and video calling inside Salesforce. It is the first CTI solution for smartphones that makes it possible to remote control and track calls under the ‘real’ mobile number using regular carrier minutes. Phonedeck helps enterprises to manage and optimize business processes. The results are a large costs saving due tomobilizing sales teams and increasing the productivity.Phonedeck is Alcatel-Lucent and ISV Salesforce partner. In 2012 Phonedeck’s founder Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fitzek was awarded with the Vodafone Innovation Prize. Alcatel-Lucent awarded Phonedeck during its Munich Hackathon in June 2014 as Innovative Leader in IMS. In January 2015 Phonedeck has won Disruptive Innovator 2015 award at Enterprise Mobility Management Forum.Phonedeck´s supporters are business angels, the IBB bank of Berlin and the venture capital fund Atlantic Internet.
Salonmeister — Salonmeister is revolutionizing the last bastion of telephone reservation: beauty-salons and barber shops. With the vision to become the internet’s first address for beauty-bookings Salonmeister was founded in 2012. Today, it is not only that booking platform the founders once dreamed of, but Salonmeister became an expert in regards to schedulingand customer management for local beauty service providers. The Salonmeister calendar is a full fledge customer management tool tailored to the needs of the beauty industry delivering real value to merchants and their customers alike: up-to-date service and less stress for the merchant.

Irène Kilubi is a visionary at heart and an entrepreneur in spirit. She is a strategy expert for digital personal branding, start-up consultant and innovation scout all in one. A power woman with vision - creative approaches and the necessary motivation boost at the right time ensure her amazing success rate. She spent several years in companiessuch as BMW, Siemens and Deloitte. For four years now she has been anchored in the startup and online scene, tracking down trends, implementing strategies, target group-specific go-to-market, and branding strategies. She is also an Expert Advisor at the European Innovation Council of the European Commission. She believes in the unique and unmistakable diversity that lies within all of us.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

Timo Weltner is a CEO & Co-Founder at ORCAYA GmbH.

Investment focus

Beauty, Venture Capital
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

GRENION Group — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Fabrikatör - Virtual Head of Operations — Forecast, plan and execute your inventory operations with Fabrikator. Free up capital, buy less, sell more and grow faster. Start your 14 days free trial now!
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
Media4Care — Media4Care developed special media services for the care of seniors with cognitive impairments. In 2013, the first multimedia activation program Media dementia was developed in collaboration with doctors, professors and therapists. Using Media dementia care staff should be supported in the activation and employment of people with dementia. Themedia offer consists of illness for just movies, songs and games that can be used via an interactive online library.

Andre Sierek - CEO @ BitterLiebe

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bedrop — Bedrop offers a wide range of natural beauty products.

Martin Avetisyan

Investment focus

Beauty, Consumer Goods
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

gitti — gitti is a direct-to-consumer beauty company with a focus on conscious beauty innovations

Nils Glagau

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Personal Health
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
BIOTherma-Pad — BIOTherma-Pad is a completely biological cooling pad made of seaweed rather than the typical chemicals; it may cool little children's injuries or offer warmth if needed.
Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

Edwin Okyere is a team member at @RE SKIN COSMETICS.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

Aaron Sen

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OYESS Beauty — OYESS Beauty provides sustainable, natural lip care and beauty products with selected organic ingredients.

Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen is an african german young leader in business.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

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