Top 45 Big Data Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026
A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 45 Big Data Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026
| Investor | Big Data Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Volker Rofalski | 3 |
| Holger Hübner | 2 |
| Jörg Gerbig | 2 |
| Carsten Erdt | 2 |
| Felix Haas | 2 |
| Andreas Burike | 1 |
| Lars Ettrup | 1 |
| Bob van Luijt | 1 |
| Keith Grose | 1 |
| Andrea Kranzer | 1 |
| Kamil Mieczakowski | 1 |
| Heikki Nousiainen | 1 |
| Rouven Dresselhaus | 1 |
| Heissam Hartmann | 1 |
| Felix Leonhardt | 1 |
| Michael Shaulov | 1 |
| Michael Diehl | 1 |
| Thomas Dohmke | 1 |
| Tim Marbach | 1 |
| Constanze Buchheim | 1 |
| Kai Hansen | 1 |
| Max Tayenthal | 1 |
| Dr. Cornelius Boersch | 1 |
| Carlo Kölzer | 1 |
| Oliver Lesche | 1 |
| Alexander Burlis | 1 |
| Roland Fassauer | 1 |
| Maximilian Tayenthal | 1 |
| Benedikt Kraus | 1 |
| Gerald Schoenbucher | 1 |
| Lars Kamp | 1 |
| Stefan Glänzer | 1 |
| Sebastian Diemer | 1 |
| Dieter Staib | 1 |
| Michael Brehm | 1 |
| Hartmut Ostrowski | 1 |
| Edmund Ahrend | 1 |
| Oke Göttlich | 1 |
| Henning Thies | 1 |
| Patrick Joest | 1 |
| Tim Ringel | 1 |
| Moritz Luck | 1 |
| Daniel Kondermann | 1 |
| Michael Shmilov | 1 |
| Ingo Drexler | 1 |
Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Clevver — Clevver offers digital virtual office services, worldwide at over 130 high profile locations. Services include prestigious legal addresses, mail digitization and handling, local phone numbers in over 80 countries, incorporation services in over 30 countries as well as bank accounts for international businesses.Clevver’s cloud based platformoffers a one-stop-shop solution to digitally manage the legal structure of your international activities and keep your companies up to date on required filings with a Compliance Center. The Clevver software is also available as white label enterprise solutions that includes the services ClevverMail, ClevverAddress and ClevverNumber. With its subsidiary Clevver Legal Services LLP, Clevver also offers tax & accounting consulting services as well as special service incorporation projects.
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
Holger Hübner
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Investment focus
- B2B, SaaS, Audio
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- musicube — MassiveMusic is a global music and sound partner specializing in sonic branding, sound strategy, music innovation & licensing.
- RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
- HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.
Jörg Gerbig
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Big Data
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Osterus — Osterus treats every aspect of a resume as a data point, whether it is the education, languages, email address, hobbies, work experience, spelling and structure - we analyse and correlate the data. This does not only position us within the H.R. space but offers us to provide data in two completely separate areas, all representing lucrative markets.
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Carsten Erdt - Founder and Managing Director @ Erdt Group
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
- Tracktics —
- Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
- Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
- Todaytickets — Todaytickets enables consumers to book last-minute deals for events with just three fingertips. At the same time, Todaytickets helps the live entertainment industry to monetize their unsold ticket inventory (up to 40% of the available tickets) last-minute.Todaytickets offers a curated daily selection of event deals close to you – rangingfrom AAA concerts of artists such as Rihanna, Elton John, Deep Purple or Lil Wayne to theatres, operas, shows and sport events. The company guarantees a discount between 20 to 50% compared to the official pre-sale ticket price and/or exclusive goodies such as complementary seating category upgrades or free drinks. You can book your tickets at the very last minute (up to 60 minutes before the event) with your iPhone or webbased. Show your e-ticket at the venue, join the party and experience more today!Todaytickets is funded bei EPIC Companies, the company builder of the TV station conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the leading media corporations in Europe with a reach of more than 41 million TV households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore several well-known business angels invested in the „Experience more today“ concept, among others Roman Kirsch (former founder & CEO FAB.com Europe), Christian Tiessen (former Chief Sales Officer FAB.com Europe) and Felix Haas (former founder & CEO amiando).The management team consists of Christian Miele (former Director Global Venture Development – Rocket Internet, Investment Analyst – Bertelsmann India Investments, Member of the Board – German Startup Association), Gleb Tritus (Serial Enterpreneur; founder of the online marketing agency Affaires Media and local search engine Townster) and Michael Jaeger (former Head of Sales / Operations of the last minute hotel booking app JustBook).
Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, 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
- Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
Lars Ettrup - Co-Founder, CEO @ Linkfire
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Investment focus
- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Bob van Luijt is the founder of Weaviate and an angle investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- P-1 AI — P-1 AI is a technology company focused on developing an artificial general engineering intelligence (AGEI) designed to help humanity design physical systems with far greater efficiency and complexity than currently possible.
- Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
- FlyMy.AI — Real-time AI cloud
Keith Grose is currently non-executive director for Zero Hash and an active angel/advisor for early stage startups. He previously led Europe and international expansion for Plaid, and served as COO at SequenceHQ (backed by a16z). He is currently based in London and spent a decade in the SF Bay Area at Google and Bain. Keith Grose attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cerve — The Cerve platform establishes a personalised, 2-way and automated communication between wholesalers and B2B buyers online — delivering bespoke and dynamic product catalogues, pricing, delivery terms and deals to each and every buyer on any platform and device.As an end-to-end platform, Cerve provides wholesalers with a full set of productsincluding an AI infrastructure, an ordering platform, a sales app and a wholesaler platform.
- MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
- Stellar Fusion — Stellar Fusion is at the forefront of transforming the equities market by modernizing investor relations and equity analysis. Our platform provides advanced tools and real-time insights, enabling seamless interaction between IR teams, analysts, and financial data.
Andrea Kranzer is an angel investor based in Mannheim, Germany. She invests in IT and healthcare Startups mainly in the seed and early-stage phase. Her special areas of expertise are strategy development, business modelling and marketing. She is a respected speaker and mentor in the German Startup Scene. Besides that, she is founder and CEO of„balloonas“, an internet plattform for kids-birthday-parties, which provides cool ideas and planning tools for parents who are organizing a kids birthday party. She holds a PhD degree in healthcare economics and worked for Roche Diagnostics and Bertelsmann.
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Investment focus
- Software, B2B, Music
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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.
- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Kamil Mieczakowski is the Principal at Notion Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
- GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
- Munch — Create anything from a captivating portfolio to a full-blown online store in minutes, with no subscription fee.
Heikki Nousiainen
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Finland, Germany
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria, Ukraine
Portfolio highlights
- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
- Inventorum — Inventorum’s software enables small retailers to manage their offline and online businesses by supporting daily processes such as point of sale and inventory management. Inventorum combines cash management, inventory management, customer support and e-commerce capability in one system.
- Rubina Real Estate — A full service real estate agency based in Berlin with offices in Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Washington and Singapore.
Felix Leonhardt Managing Director & Founder purefood. Enabled over 450.000 school lunches in Burundi & Mali until today through our brand Lycka. Using consumerism to fight for a world without hunger. Passionate about sustainable development and sustainable sourcing in the food sector. Loves to cook, sometimes even with success.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, Developer APIs
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bavest Technologies — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is alsoa recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Station70 — Station70 provides scalable and resilient disaster recovery solutions.
- Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs builds technology that makes financial markets safer and more accessible. Its risk management systems, oracles, and AI models help leading protocols secure billions in value while democratizing access to sophisticated financial tools.
- Borderless.xyz — Borderless.xyz is a global payments infrastructure startup that enables transactions using internet-native money, such as stablecoins and real-world assets.
Michael Diehl is a Partner at Activa Capital. Michael Diehl co-founded the firm and is also responsible for the investor relations and co-investments. Prior to founding the firm, he was a Director of French equities at UBS Warburg and worked as a French Equity Specialist at Bankers Trust Paris. Michael Diehl founded and was also a Director ofFrench Equity Sales and Analysis at Nomura Bourse. Formerly, he was a French Equity Analyst at Kleinwort Benson and established the Paris-based Equity Research Department. Michael Diehl has over 20 years of private equity and capital markets experience. He has particular expertise in the corporate and financial services sectors. Michael Diehl holds an M.B.A. from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and is a graduate (Sciences Commerciales et Industrielles) of the University of Geneva.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Internet
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- neuroflash — Use our AI text and image generator to generate the highest content quality in 7 different languages. Content creation has never been easier!
Thomas Dohmke is the CEO of GitHub. He previously worked at Microsoft as a Principal Director of PM. Thomas Dohmke attended the University of Glasgow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Duranta — Duranta is the software platform transforming how landscapers and lawn care professionals grow and manage their businesses.
- Fastino — Fastino provides enterprise AI developers with high-performance, task-optimized language models built to scale.
- Resolve.ai — Resolve AI is a firm dedicated on automating software processes. The company creates AI solutions that can automatically troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Thailand, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Alpakas — Alpacas, in the storm of delivery services, offer a real alternative. With their e-cargo bikes, they deliver sustainable products, sustainably packaged, directly to their homes. Those delivery products include fresh foods, pastries, beverages, household products, and beauty care. They offer gift packs for new products and on a weekly sales basis.
- MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
Constanze Buchheim is a pioneering entrepreneur in Germany's digital economy and is regarded as a thought leader on the subject of "future leadership“ with a focus on building intrapreneurial cultures. For 15 years, she has been building and transforming digital teams in the new & old economy. In 2009, after having experienced thehypergrowth of spreadshirt and understanding that there is no market solution for companies in scale up situations, she founded the executive search consultancy i-potentials as an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs. As an advisory board member, angel investor and sparring partner, she prepares serial entrepreneurs and boards for the strategic challenges of future-proof leadership, recruiting and organizational and cultural architecture. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and "Manager Magazin" named her one of the 50 most influential women in German business. In 2020, she was selected by Focus magazine as one of the 100 Women of the Year.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Advertising
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
- Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
- Morphais VC —
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Maximilian Tayenthal is Founder & Co-CEO at N26.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- finmid — Scale bigger by building your business on finmid's lending infrastructure. Our APIs enable tech companies to offer credit cards, transaction-based lending, and working capital to their business customers.
- Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
- topi — Hardware, made simple. topi provides the underlying technology for the B2B subscription economy. Our platform enables retailers and manufacturers to offer hardware products as a monthly subscription.
Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
- TrueHome — TrueHome is a Mexican real estate company that aims to improve the real estate services in the country by providing the best selling experience for homeowners and taking care of the process from end to end. They offer their clients transparent processes about procedures and details that can be confusing, boring, and long. Their legal advisorsensure that the process is in order from documents and paperwork, to the contract and the credit process.TrueHome was founded in 2017 by Raúl Villarreal and is headquartered in Mexico City.
- 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.
Carlo Koelzer is a founding partner and member of 360T’s Group Executive Board and Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee member. Furthermore he is Global Head of FX of Deutsche Börse Group. Carlo started his investment banking career as a financial analyst for Hess & Co., New York, in the field of mergers & acquisitions and blocktrading. Later, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt and New York. Carlo has extensive in-depth process knowledge of Capital Markets notably Global Markets, Global Equities, Trading, Sales, Risk Control and Financial Accounting. Prior to founding 360T, Carlo headed a task force within the Internal Audit Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
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Investment focus
- Small and Medium Businesses, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
- FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- future demand — future demand sells out your concerts, shows and games. We build software to predict demand years in advance, increase sales for low-demand events and set your team up for success.
Oliver Lesche
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Investment focus
- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Alexander Burlis
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Big Data, Developer APIs
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bavest Technologies — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
Roland Fassauer is the Co-Founder HeyLara.de at l1r1.ai. He was a CIO at RECHNUNG.de/ Decimo gmbH. He attended Leipzig University.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Developer Tools
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- StromNow — Electric Car Charging App
- Steuerboard — Steuerboard serves as a collaborative platform facilitating digital interaction between tax advisors and clients. The mission of Steuerboard is to rethink the way accountants and clients work together.
Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, Spain
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- Vitt — Simple sharp startup setup
- Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.
- 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.
Benedikt Kraus
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- Banking, FinTech, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States
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- Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
- Banking One — Banking One is able to predict which of retail banks customers are currently interested in financial products. Our product is used by sales managers in banks to filter out the most promising customers and distribute these customers to the sales agents. Resulting in higher earnings for the banks and happy customers since customers are contacted ifthere is a need and they will not be bothered for no reason.
Gerald Schoenbucher
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- Marketplace, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany
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- dao — We use modern technology to revolutionize residential property management
- Foodcircle — Foodcircle is a digital wholesale solution that facilitates and accelerates trade between suppliers and buyers of organic foods at competitive prices. Our global network comprises certified organic partners that are committed to the highest quality standards. As a state-of-the-art digital wholesaler, Foodcircle is providing innovative value chainsolutions alongside best-in-class service to food manufacturers Europe wide.
- Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
Lars Kamp is the CEO of Some Engineering. He attended the University of Passau.
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- Software, Cloud Data Services, iOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Germany
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- Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
- EasyPost — EasyPost's best-in-class Shipping APIs provide end-to-end flexibility and more control over parcel shipping and logistics processes for anyone shipping online.
- orderbird — The iPad POS system orderbird POS is a complete POS solution that is ideal for bars, restaurants and clubs. The cash register system can be individualized according to your needs. It will send the waiter's orders directly & wireless to the kitchen and bar. The iPad POS system will provide detailed reports per day, month, waiter and shift.The system operates via WiFi with pre-configured printers that are available in the orderbird store. orderbird POS is the perfect combination of low costs and high performance.orderbird was founded in 2011 by Jakob Schreyer, Bastian Schmidtke, Patrick Brienen and Artur Hasselbach with the goal of establishing a more affordable and intuitive POS system that fits the real needs of the modern catering industry. The fast-growing company is currently home to more than 100 employees at its Berlin location. Over 5,000 customers — restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, ice cream shops and beer gardens — in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland are already using the orderbird POS system.
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- Arthos — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
Sebastian Diemer is the CEO at Wallfair.
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- SaaS, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.
- Bullet Global GmbH — SaaS for SMEs
Dieter Staib
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- FinTech, Big Data, Developer APIs
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Bavest Technologies — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call.
i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Education
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Italy, Austria
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- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
- charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
- Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.
Hartmut Ostrowski is Members of the Supervisory Board at Bertelsmann.
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- Big Data, Real Estate, Smart Cities
- Seed
- Germany
Edmund Ahrend
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- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Oke Göttlich - Founder and CEO @ finetunes
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- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Henning Thies
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- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Patrick Joest is the Managing Director of musicwise.
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- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Tim Ringel is a Global CEO at Meet The People. He attended the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1996 to 2001.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Series E
- Germany, United States, Sweden
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- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- yamuntu — Get sponsored by brands, save money with your Instagram story and inspire your friends!
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Moritz Luck is the co-founder and invesor at
Phytonics.He attended Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
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- FinTech, Big Data, Developer APIs
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- syte — Syte is an artificial intelligence engine that helps real estate developers in their search for sites. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Münster, Germany.
- Bavest Technologies — Bavest is a Fintech company from Germany, democratizing financial data insights for retail investors and other companies. The platform provides powerful tools and comprehensive data to help retail investors make smarter investment decisions. Bavest also provides APIs and Whitelabel Solutions for other companies that want to enable their customersor clients investment intelligence.
Daniel Kondermann is the CEO and Founder at Quality Match.
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- Machine Learning, B2B, Music
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
- Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
Michael Shmilov has been a key member of the Viber Management team working alongside with the founding team since the launch of the company in December 2010. As Chief Operating Officer, Michael is responsible for the operational running of the fast-moving business. Viber has gained more than 800 million users since its launch. In his previous roleas Viber’s Head of Product, Michael was responsible for the long-term vision of the Viber platform, product planning, design and UX.Prior to Viber, Michael was Product Manager for iMesh, one of the world’s first peer-to-peer file sharing services. Michael’s love to product design and user experience drove him to establish a design and development studio and ‘UX Storytelling’, a hub designed for the UX and product management community to share stories and ideas.
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- B2B, Music, Big Data
- Seed
- Germany
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- Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.
Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, Austria
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- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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