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Top 50 Beauty Startup Investors in Germany in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 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 April 2025

Investor	Beauty Germany investments
Christophe Maire	3
HV Capital	2
Sebastian Pollok	2
Oliver Pabst	2
Bitburger Ventures	2
Grazia Equity	2
Martin Avetisyan	1
Julius Göllner	1
Karl-Heinz Holland	1
Aaron Sen	1
YZR Capital	1
Andreas Burike	1
Michael Moritz	1
Nils Glagau	1
Slingshot Ventures	1
OMR	1
Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen	1
Michael Oschmann	1
The Enabling Company	1
Ingo Weber	1
Heartcore Capital	1
Ralf Dummel	1
Irène Kilubi	1
Saarbruecker 21	1
Timo Weltner	1
Steffen Zoller	1
Christopher North	1
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen	1
Alexander Frolov	1
Stephan Schubert	1
TEV Ventures	1
Marc Langner	1
BayBG Venture Capital	1
V3 ventures	1
Conny & Co	1
Heartfelt Capital	1
XAnge	1
Vorwerk Ventures	1
Andre Sierek	1
Tarek Muller	1
Roman Kirsch	1
Dora Osinde	1
Edwin Okyere	1
b2venture	1
Judith Williams	1
Matthias Storch	1
Astutia Ventures	1
JVMO	1
Heinz Raufer	1
JMES Investments	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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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

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.

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, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Formo — We're Formo, the future of dairy. Using micro fermentation, we create animal-free cheeses that humans love.
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.
Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.

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

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

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.

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.

YZR Venture Capital is a vertical Venture Capital Fund backing Health Tech Entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
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.
Univa Health — Univa's objective is to provide evidence-based clinical tools that address the detrimental impact of eating disorder diseases on both the individual and their families.

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.

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.

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, Israel, 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.
Valyuu.com — Bye old products, hello Valyuu.
Spacegoods — Spacegoods | The Next Generation Wellness Brand We create all-in-one mushroom & adaptogen blends that help you unlock your very best self - tastes great, super potent, made in England - try for yourself today...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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
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.
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.

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

Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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.

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.

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

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.

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.
voiio — voiio is a leading provider of family benefits for companies and their employees. We make families smile! Our B2B platform enables employees to book and find 1,350+ high quality family services suited to any situation and phase in a family’s life-cycle. Till today hundreds of companies, ranging from SME to Fortune500, trust voiio. Get in touch andfind out how to easily unleash the full economic potential of a family friendly company culture. If you want to have an impact and change the future of work to a better please, get in touch and join our team.
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.

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

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
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Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

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

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
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.
Persival — Persival | Perception Sensor Simulation and Model Validation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Snack Food
Seed
India

Portfolio highlights

Ugaoo — Ugaoo is India's newest and greenest start-up with a vision to be the one stop shop for all gardening and farming needs. Being a retail online store, they have introduced a range of garden tools, and accessories, gardening seeds, plant protection and growth, organic gardening, gardening design ideas and a community where garden experts sharetheir knowledge and experiences. Apart from the widest range of products, Ugaoo also aims at providing sound and credible knowledge to India's avid gardeners and farmers while building a community for those who want to share their experiences and learn from one another.
Go Zero — Go Zero is an innovative ice cream company dedicated to provide deliciousness without guilt.
Salad Days — Est. in 2014, we farm, pluck, toss & deliver healthy, filling & tasty salads at affordable prices. Order online gourmet salads, sandwiches, pita pockets, cold pressed juices, smoothies & desserts.

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.

Heartfelt Capital is a early stage startup investor. VC in Berlin.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Epum — EpumRE empowers institutional CRE investors to see into the future using geospatial AI.
Stairpay — Stairpay mission is to simplify the process of shared ownership for first-time buyers and currently focuses on automating staircasing.
Bendi — Bendi. Sustainability as a service. Tools tailor-made for fashion brands & retailers.

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

TEEPTRAK — Optimise your industrial efficiency with TeepTrak. Improve your production and exceed your objectives today!
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Vertical Compute — vertical compute is a european deep-tech semiconductor startup committed to advancing how data-intensive workloads, like generative ai, are processed

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

Descycle — Descycle e-waste recycling clean technology
CoCoach — CoCoach concentrated on developing a feature-rich web platform specifically for health coaches.
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...

Andre Sierek - CEO @ BitterLiebe

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Dietary Supplements
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

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

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
1Komma5° — KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
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.

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.

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.

Astutia Ventures GmbH

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Online Portals
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Joblift — Find your dream job with Joblift! With millions of jobs sourced from thousands of job boards, employers and staffing firms, Joblift gives you the best and most relevant selection of job offers. Search now!
Cubitabo AG — It engages in online retail of mattresses in Germany.
StyleLounge — StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest.If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourselfwith a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part!

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.

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!

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.
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.

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