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Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Germany in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Germany in January 2026

Investor	Beauty Germany investments
Christophe Maire	3
Sebastian Pollok	2
HV Capital	2
Oliver Pabst	2
Bitburger Ventures	2
Grazia Equity	2
Christopher North	1
Julius Göllner	1
YZR Capital	1
Nils Glagau	1
Slingshot Ventures	1
OMR	1
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen	1
Conny & Co	1
Heartfelt Capital	1
XAnge	1
b2venture	1
JVMO	1
JMES Investments	1
Dominik Richter	1
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	1
JamJar Investments	1
468 Capital	1
Henkel Ventures	1
Ingo Weber	1
Irène Kilubi	1
Michael Oschmann	1
Stephan Schubert	1
Dora Osinde	1
Edwin Okyere	1
Cornelia Hoppe	1
Heartcore Capital	1
Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen	1
TEV Ventures	1
Timo Weltner	1
V3 ventures	1
Heinz Raufer	1
Martin Avetisyan	1
Andreas Burike	1
The Enabling Company	1
Ralf Dummel	1
Alexander Frolov	1
Marc Langner	1
BayBG Venture Capital	1
Vorwerk Ventures	1
Tarek Muller	1
Roman Kirsch	1
Tobias Eismann	1
Aaron Sen	1
Karl-Heinz Holland	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

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
RetentionGrid — 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.

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

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
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.

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.

In the mid of 2018, Bitburger Holding founded the investment company Bitburger Ventures for its investments in start-ups. The aim is to combine the growth potential of young, innovative companies with the financial strength and access to different expertise along the value chain of the Bitburger Group. Our heritage as a medium-sized family businesswith a long-term orientation distinguishes Bitburger Ventures from pure financial investors and offers young entrepreneurs a unique added value. Our activities focus primarily on the German-speaking area, where we have been operating for 200 years. Through our industrial holdings in leading medium-sized companies that are successful in various industries and in international markets, we have direct access to different networks and various competencies. We are pragmatic, accessible and credible and expect the same from our venture partners.Bitburger Ventures invests venture capital in the form of minority holdings in already established start-ups, preferably in the Seed to Series B phase. Our investment focus is on consumer-facing business models, but we are also interested in leading alternative technology and service solutions. Following the tradition of a family business, we sustainably support our portfolio companies on their growth path. Bitburger Ventures also invests in international venture capital funds.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Austria, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Magaloop — MAGALOOP IS PURSUING THE VISION OF CONNECTING GLOBAL INDEPENDENT RETAIL WITH FMCG´S ON ITS DIGITAL MARKETPLACE
HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
O.c. Hairsystems — O.c. Hairsystems offer hair replacement solutions for men.

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.

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
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ascendx Cloud — Supercharge Salesforce with connected apps that streamline sales, automate data, and drive enterprise-scale growth - Salesforce Solutions By Ascendx
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

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

We back ambitious HealthTech founders solving complex healthcare challenges. We provide capital, deep sector expertise, and hands-on support to build global champions.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Poland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vetnio — Vetnio is an AI scribe that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
DeepLife — DeepLife uses deep learning on multi-omics data to model cells and efficiently engineer their behavior.DeepLife is a biotech company with a mission to build the next generation of system biology. The company works in a highly collaborative translational manner, to facilitate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to patients. Thecompany operates through collaboration with academic groups in their respective areas of expertise.
Caire — The Future of health measurements is contactless

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.

Slingshot Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in fast growing companies, with a focus on B2C and B2B2C businesses.We back ambitious, talented and charismatic entrepreneurs and actively help them accelerate their businesses with our knowledge, experience and international network of people and companies. By providing smart capital we helpthese start- and scale-ups catapult their business to the next level.We currently manage a portfolio of multiple investments, all with a base in the Netherlands and all with a cross-border ambition. Our portfolio includes companies such as VanMoof, Wonderkind, Boldking, Wasteless, Temper, Swishfund & more.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
Cruit — Turn your employees into top talent recruiters. Automate referrals, gamify rewards, and hire smarter with Cruit - seamless ATS integration, real-time tracking, and proven results.
Unravel — Embed video first travel inspiration and AI curated journeys directly in your app. A plug-and-play upgrade that boosts engagement, conversion and loyalty. The fastest way to add travel superpowers to your app.

OMR is the platform for marketing makers. We inspire, inform and create chances to network: with our events, seminars, blog, podcast and reports.

Investment focus

Software, Beauty, Stock Exchanges
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.
Vickii — Vickii is an app designed for Gen Z (but anyone can use it) that aggregates content on specific stocks or ETFs.These can be tools, podcast snippets, or current events. If you own Apple stock, you'll receive all important Apple news in your feed. In general, an information platform designed to facilitate stock analysis and valuation. Or simplyimmersing yourself in financial gossip.
HOLY — HOLY is a company that specializes in the production of powder-based beverages. Their product line includes HOLY Energy® and HOLY Iced Tea®, both of which are marketed as having zero sugar and being sustainably packaged. The company's focus is on providing a unique taste experience while also promoting a sense of social responsibility. Theyoffer a variety of flavors and options for customers to try, and they also provide opportunities for interested individuals to join their team.

BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH operates as an investment arm of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Eduneon — Eduneon is developing a digital platform to help schools and municipalities plan and manage digital educational change in a systematic and ongoing manner. It uses software solutions to deliver sustainable and pedagogically meaningful media education.
Genow Ai — Genow centralizes and arranges enterprise knowledge, makes it readily available, and constantly enhances it using AI.
etalytics — Etalytics develops software solutions for the structuring and analysis of energy and data to reduce energy and CO2 emissions.

We are an international investment company with the mission of backing promising startup companies in the most exciting high-growth markets.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Insurance
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
Destinus — Destinus is a transportation technology company building near-space vehicles and the infrastructure to power the transportation network.
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.

We are the first investors for exceptional founders building transformative companies across Europe and the US.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, The Netherlands, Poland

Portfolio highlights

AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
Bendi — Bendi. Sustainability as a service. Tools tailor-made for fashion brands & retailers.
Theodosian — Theodosian is a cybersecurity company specialising in enterprise file encryption and access control solutions.

XAnge is a Franco-German team of venture capital investors that manages €450 million and invests in digital, deeptech, and impact startups.It is the innovation brand of the Siparex group, a major player in French private equity. XAnge is a key European investor in early-stage startups and is looking for game-changing startups and entrepreneurswho rock the code[s].The Paris, Ile-de-France-located company was founded in 2004.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
Ensweet — Ensweet is a telemedicine platform intended to offer telerehabilitation services to patients. They offer equipment so that everyone can exercise whenever possible, enabling patients to have accessible rehabilitation.
Diagnoly — Diagnoly provides AI-powered ultrasound assistant that enhances fetal screenings with real-time analysis, instant insights, and zero workflow disruption.

B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kiin Bio — Accelerate drug discovery with Virtual Scientists. Unified platform integrating 100+ specialized tools into one intelligent workflow.
assemblean — assemblean goal is to construct the digital manufacturing infrastructure of the future. We want to make it possible for everyone to build physical items as readily as software.
Nautica Technologies — Nautica Technologies is developing intelligent robotic technologies for autonomous ship hull cleaning and inspection. we operate at the convergence of robots, autonomy, and data to solve important difficulties in the marine industry.

We invest in tech-enabled health wellness and longevity companies to keep people healthy.

Investment focus

Health Care, Fitness, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Lumen — Lumen is a device and app that measures your metabolism in a single breath and provides daily personalized nutrition based on your metabolic data. Through the device and app, you can achieve your fitness goals whether they be weight loss, performance optimization, or simply improving your metabolic health.As a company, we are a team ofscientists, researchers, engineers, and designers, aimed at improving the way people understand their metabolism. We believe that a healthy metabolism is a key to better health and that everyone can attain it with a little help from Lumen.At Lumen, we are all about teamwork, friendship, and family. Curious about joining? We are always looking for creative people who share our passion for health and fitness to join our team.
Daybreak Health — Daybreak partners with youth, families, and schools to create personalized, easily accessible, and affordable mental health programs.
Neurohacker Collective — We are a collective of scientists, technologists, academics, and creatives empowering individuals with ethical and elegant tools for optimized wellbeing.

JMES Investments is an Angel & Seed Investment company from Berlin.

Investment focus

Apps, Film, Beauty
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

FOUNDD — FOUNDD is an app to find movies and shows with friends.
mixd.tv — At mixd.tv they are dedicated to let users find Online Video Data that matters to them. their team of Online Video Data Specialists is working hard on fulfilling their mission to bundle Online Video and surrounding data in one place.they are providing state-of-the-art web services for partners to build business models based on metadata ofhighest quality.
Mornin' Glory — Mornin’ Glory is a new brand for razors and blades, delivering two blades models for male wet shaving, directly to European mailboxes. A free handle is part of its delivery and gets shipped with the initial order. Mornin’ Glory launched new grooming products with fine natural ingredients. After-shave balm, pre-shave oil, and razor-burn relief aresome of its products, which were introduced in 2014. The grooming products of the company are made in Italy to assure high-quality and perfect skin care for men.Mornin’ Glory was founded in 2012 by Fabio Paltenghi and Nicolas Stoetter. It is based in Berlin, Germany.

Dominik Richter is the CEO and Founder 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 for Entreprenuership, buildinggreat 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.

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Build38 — Build38 is a global provider of mobile application protection solutions. Its solution represents a new generation of app-hardening technologies and service that protects apps from known and unknown attacks and opens the market to new digital business models. Build38 protects applications across various industries including automotive, financial,public transport and health care. Build38 is headquartered in Munich with global offices in Barcelona and Singapore. The company is a spin out of Giesecke + Devrient and ranks among the best IT Security startups in Germany. Build38 is an official GARTNER In-App Shielding Market Guide Vendor since 2019 and the first to combine: In-App Shielding + In-App Monitoring + AI-based In-App Reaction.
QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.

468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

UserHub — UserHub is a pricing tool based on users that assists SaaS firms in selling more seats.
Goodcarbon — goodcarbon is reinventing the way how Nature-based Solutions get funding with a platform that connects projects, investors, and companies.
YonedaLabs — Yoneda Labs suggests Reaction Conditions that work with no wet lab experimentation, and then we can help you optimise too, if necessary.

Henkel Ventures is Henkel’s corporate venture capital engagement, combining all venture activities across the company’s three business units (Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care). Henkel Ventures actively evaluates and manages equity investments and joint development projects with start-up companies to explore newtechnologies, applications and business models in areas of strategic interest for Henkel.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani) — Browse for Special Products, Grains, Oils & Masalas, Personal Care products online @ LoveLocal
Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
Eeden — Eeden engages in the manufacture and supply of textiles.

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
LemonDocs — Skin cancer rates have doubled in recent years. The most common problem is that the cancer is not detected early enough to be treated. In the fight against skin cancer, LemonDocs uses artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and its own specialist clinics to provide direct, fast, and comprehensive care for patients, with a focus on early preventionand personalised treatment.
Jupus — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.

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.

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.

Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
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.

Dora Osinde

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.

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.

Cornelia Hoppe

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Beauty
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eaze — At eaze, we are on the mission to democratise good sleep! With 1/3 of people suffering from sleep problems and prescription sleep medication as the current go-to solution, we set out to change this by offering the first digital sleep training. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, your personal sleep psychologist guides you through anindividualised sleep training that helps you to sleep better for good.
Kalia Lab — Kalia Lab offers cosmetic and skin care services.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Denmark, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.

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.

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

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.

We back founders who are building the consumer brands of tomorrow. V3 Ventures

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Food and Beverage
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
India, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
Jewelbox — Discover timeless elegance with Jewelbox lab grown diamond jewellery. Thoughtfully designed pieces that reflect luxury, innovation and conscious choices.
Antithesis — Antithesis offers a counterpoint to every other beauty brand out there.

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!

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
SKNUPS — Digital Fashion Collectibles Platform

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

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
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.

The Enabling Company is a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media serves as a strategic partner and investor that invests in start-ups.

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

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
ChargeOne — The complete charging solution for your e-mobility.
SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.

Backing early-stage startups that drive positive impact for people and planet

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
Circonomit — Building the world's environmental data infrastructure - We are the sustainability counterpart to what Excel, Sheets and Datev are to financial planning and accounting. Our mission is to create the first decision intelligence platform to bridge sustainability and finance by building the global standard for the collection and aggregation ofcorporate environmental data.
Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...

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.

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 — We own and operate leading digital products, including Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, and WeTransfer. And we develop the technology to power them.
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.

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!