Top 15 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)
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Headline
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, Brazil | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1M–$88M |
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Heartcore Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Denmark, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1.3M–$76M |
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Creathor Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $2M–$20M |
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Finland, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $505k–$17M |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.5M–$80M |
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Björn von Siemens
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical, Software | |
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Christian Edler
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $497k–$555M |
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Jannis Choulidis
Angel
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1 | Germany | Angel | E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media | |
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Monkfish Equity
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Austria | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $475k–$15M |
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Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet | $100k–$3.2M |
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Dominik Briggs
Angel
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1 | Germany | Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Crowdfunding | |
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BPO Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Series A | B2B, B2C, SaaS | |
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Thomas Quandt
Angel
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1 | Germany | Angel | E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media | |
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Mexico | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $221k–$66M |
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Tiburon
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $203k–$4.9M |
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Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 451
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$88M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
- Closinglock — Closinglock is modernizing the real estate world’s way of transferring information to eliminate wire fraud & protect buyers.
- Carewell — Shop home healthcare supplies like adult diapers, nutrition shakes & first aid. Get 30% off first Autoship. Friendly customer service. Helpful caregiver articles.
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Denmark, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.6M–$76M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- zolar — With the zolar online configurator, homeowners can customise the components of their PV system to suit their individual requirements and receive personal assistance from one of our solar energy experts at the same time. zolar’s extensive network of local partner companies takes care of the installation on site. The Berlin-based start-up employsaround 200 employees across Germany and pursues the vision of installing a PV system on every roof in the world in order to make private households more independent from the mains grid. The dovetailing of energy generation, electricity storage and mobility allows customers to design electrified and smart households. As a next green energy company, zolar enables its customers to become energy providers for their own four walls, neutralise their carbon footprint and, in turn, make an effective contribution to climate protection.
- TrapLight Games — A hard-hitting mobile game studio from Finland. Traplight is a premium mobile games studio with 10+ years of game development expertise at the highest level. Our ambition is to create world class, chart topping, scalable game services.
- Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.
We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Series A $2M–$12M; Series B $5.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- SIRION BIOTECH — Viral Vector Technology as key enabler for innovative therapeutics. Viral vectors are a tool commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into cells. This technique enables research of gene function and innovative therapeutics designed to correct defective genes and cancer. These technologies also assist in the discovery ofnew drug, food and cosmetic compounds. SIRION is a global leader in viral vector technology for gene modification of mammalian cells. Along with custom services, the company stands ready to outlicense its unique technologies. An initial target currently being pursued by one of SIRION's partners is a gene therapeutic for cervical cancer. The company started business in 2007 and since then has been changing the paradigm of viral vector supplies. Specifically, all commonly applied vector types are now available within a matter of weeks - adenovirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentivirus - and a full range of virus related services is at your fingertips spanning from particle production to virus driven cell modelling, all at highest titers and in quantities required for preclinical, clinical and animal testing.The company is easily accessible with presence in Munich, Tokyo, New Hampshire and Tel Aviv. Commercial arrangements range from fee-for-service over exclusive rights on single clones all the way to milestone & licensing arrangements. The business model proves successful: an annual 70% growth since 2007 and experienced in more than 500 projects for both the academic and industry sector.The company is privately held and has over the years raised funds from 8 investors both private and government. In order to support further growth and to benefit from technology development in this exciting industry, the company welcomes new investors. Please contact Management for further information about the company and its future plans.
- CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.
- Chundsell Medicals — Chundsell Medicals AB was founded in 2007 as a spin off from Karolinska Institutet, Solna, in order to commercialize the research results of Chunde Li and his group on prostate cancer genomics. The first product: The Prostatype® Test System can assess prostate cancer aggressiveness in conjunction with currently used clinical parameters. TheProstatype® Test System measures the expression pattern of three selected and specific prostate cancer embryonic stem cell genes in tumor cell tissue specimens. These expression patterns together with a group of a selected number of known clinical parameters will help the health care professional to predict the disease outcome, the overall survival as well as cancer specific survival of patients.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $505k–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
- Ventive Group — Ventive Group is a venture capitalist that provides personalized advice to support innovative startups and SMEs.
- Wave Photonics — Wave Photonics is leading the revolution in rapid PIC design technology. We are enabling rapid, fabrication-tolerant photonic integrated circuit development for any wavelength or platform.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 431
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$34M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
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.
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
Björn von Siemens is the Co-Founder and CFO of Caresyntax. He previously worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Healthcare Consumer. Björn von Siemens attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
- friendfund — Checkout the full domain details of Friendfund.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
- Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $700k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $497k–$11M; Series A $10M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Jannis Choulidis
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- friendfund — Checkout the full domain details of Friendfund.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
- River Platform Company — Orchestrate IRL events at massive scale by leveraging volunteer hosts from your community. Monetize community events with our sponsorship marketplace.
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $475k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dogo GmbH — Dogo app - dog trainer in your pocket. Strengthen your friendship with training
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.2M; Angel $880k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ProcessOut — Route transactions, analyze and report on your entire payment ecosystem and switch on providers in one click. Trusted by leading brands.
- SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
- Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Spherity — Spherity builds applications, giving any entity a unique identifier linked to a digital twin with access to a scalable and self-sovereign transaction layer.
- friendfund — Checkout the full domain details of Friendfund.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
BPO Capital is a venture capital company founded in 2014 by Benjamin Otto with the goal of supporting young entrepreneurs and participating in good ideas. More and more, the ethical claim in the selection of investments in the foreground. With the BPO, Benjamin Otto makes investments, which may or may not have a business impact on the Otto Group.All investment decisions are made only by the board of BPO Capital and not by the Otto Group.
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- Industry: B2B, B2C, SaaS
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Exporo — Exporo offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge.The idea begins in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance, as banks no longer finance entire projects as usual due to stricter regulation,and that private investors only have a lot of money, with good conditions and easy to invest in real estate. The result of this observation is the firm decision to develop its own online marketplace to offer real estate projects as an investment opportunity and to provide capital directly between private investors and real estate companies.Simon Brunke, Björn Maronde, Tim Bütecke and Julian Oertzen founded the online platform in 2014, they are constantly evolving and they are board members of Exporo AG. The company now employs more than 120 people and is based in Hamburg's HafenCity.
- Spryker — Spryker is an Enterprise B2B, B2C, and Marketplace solution recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce
Thomas Quandt
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- friendfund — Checkout the full domain details of Friendfund.com. Click Buy Now to instantly start the transaction or Make an offer to the seller!
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
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!
Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $203k–$4.9M; Series A $2.2M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
- FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
- FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.
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