Top 10 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Germany

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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 10 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in Germany

Investor	Crowdfunding Germany investments
Heartcore Capital	3
Headline	3
HV Capital	2
Redstone	2
Creathor Ventures	2
Christian Edler	1
Monkfish Equity	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
Thomas Quandt	1
BPO Capital	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Quesma — At Quesma we help customers to innovate faster by re-shaping the way applications are built and connected to their DBs. Quesma database gateway enables development teams to modernise and evolve application architecture.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Helcim Inc. — Helcim is a payments company that lets businesses accept credit cards with ease. Helcim focuses on delivering a better payment service by making it easier to sign up, providing smarter payment tools, and making it more affordable to get paid.
Carewell — Are you a caregiver? At Carewell, find the best home health products with discreet packaging & the support you need with guides, articles, and 24/7 service. 30% OFF 1st Autoship!
Prescient AI — Industry-leading marketing & media mix modeling (MMM) & marketing attribution software powered by AI. Get actionable insights in 36 hours.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.
Rabot Charge — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hiboo — Hiboo is data infrastructure platform that helps you collect, control, and visualise your equipment data.
Chipmetrics — Test chip, test elements and test wafer business concept builder for advanced materials and microelectronics manufacturing. Expert in thin film conformality characterization. Mission is to accelerate applications of conformal 3D thin films. Main product line: PillarHall test chips.
Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Dogo GmbH — Download Dogo, a positive dog training app with clicker. Train your puppy at home and become best friends with your dog. +100 tricks & games.
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.

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.

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.
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Thomas Quandt

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!

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.