Top 15 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Germany in July 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Germany in July 2025
Investor | Crowdfunding Germany investments |
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Heartcore Capital | 3 |
Headline | 3 |
Creathor Ventures | 2 |
HV Capital | 2 |
Redstone.VC | 2 |
BPO Capital | 1 |
Dominik Briggs | 1 |
Christian Edler | 1 |
Monkfish Equity | 1 |
Jannis Choulidis | 1 |
Thomas Quandt | 1 |
Björn von Siemens | 1 |
Tiburon | 1 |
Rouven Dresselhaus | 1 |
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer | 1 |
Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Denmark, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
- Veda — Veda is the largest vault infrastructure platform in DeFi, enabling institutions to launch and manage onchain financial products at scale.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.
- NetBox Labs — NetBox Labs makes the management of complex networks easier for operators by delivering open and composable products. The company's product NetBox Cloud offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open-source NetBox.
- Things — Things offer product development and various information such as CAD, drawings, parts configuration, and price information.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
- Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Flank — Legal OS automates high volume legal queries & requests for the world's fastest growing technology companies, saving time & generating new revenue.
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, France
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- Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
- Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
- Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
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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Investment focus
- B2B, B2C, SaaS
- Series A
- Germany
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
Dominik Briggs
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Crowdfunding
- Angel, Funding Round
- Germany
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 — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
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 $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
- Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ 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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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
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.
Jannis Choulidis
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
- River Platform Company — Orchestrate IRL events at massive scale by leveraging volunteer hosts from your community. Monetize community events with our sponsorship marketplace.
Thomas Quandt
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
Bjorn von Siemens possesses a native drive and understanding for applying technologies to solve challenges in healthcare. Bjorn earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. He conductedseveral years of postgraduate research at the University of St. Gallen as well as at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. Prior to founding caresyntax®, Bjoern was active as an investor and advisor for technology ventures. He is a recognized thought-leader in the areas of applied IoT and AI technologies in healthcare.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States
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- Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
- friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
- Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
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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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Spain
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- 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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