Top 10 Crowdfunding VC Funds & Investors in Germany (August 2026)
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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–$58M |
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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 | $1.1M–$87M |
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DVC
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$10M |
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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 | $1.6M–$75M |
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Finland, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $460k–$17M |
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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–$30M |
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BPO Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Series A | B2B, B2C, SaaS | |
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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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T0 Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, France, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, Information Technology | $1.9M–$17M |
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APX
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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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: 206
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$27M; Series B $9.6M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $250M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- PhaseTree — Materials design simulation company - PhaseTree ApS
- 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.
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: 501
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Cameo — Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talentacross all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
- Getta — We partnered with danisauto.com, to give you the best car buying experience.
- Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
DVC is the collective umbrella of specialized syndicates that invest in companies from pre-seed through pre-IPO. Our investment team comes from diverse backgrounds and are founders and operators.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.5M; Series A $2.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
- CopilotKit — The Enterprise-Ready Frontend Stack for Agents. CopilotKit lets you integrate LLMs or agents with real-time context, UI control, and full flexibility.
- HackerPulse — HackerPulse is a growth copilot for software engineers. Trusted by 16.000+ software engineers.
HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.
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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: 467
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$35M; Series B $7.7M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
- Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
- Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $460k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Nomerra — The AI Coworker in Private Market Operations
- LimX Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
- Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
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–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $94M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- AYOXXA — AYOXXA is a biotech company commercializing innovative technology developed at the National University of Singapore (NUS). AYOXXA’s patented technology platform is producing a new generation of biochips – merging biology with IT. This allows the biochip to accumulate large numbers of applications – measuring multiple protein markers for cancer,allergies, cardiovascular and infectious diseases – in a single test.
- Tacalyx — Tacalyx develops therapeutics targeting cancer-specific carbohydrate antigens on the surface of metastatic malignant tumors where no satisfactory treatments exist.The name Tacalyx is derived from TACA (Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen) and ‘lyx’ from the term Glycocalyx, the glycan-containing layer covering cells. Cancer cells differ fromnormal cells by displaying aberrant carbohydrate structures on their surfaces promoting metastasis, angiogenesis or suppression of the immune system. TACAs result from the aberrant glycosylation that is seen with transformation to a tumor cell and represent attractive targets for cancer treatment since they are displayed with high cancer specificity and enhance tumor virulence via the mentioned diverse mechanisms.
- 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.
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
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. TRVG was started in 2004 and went IPO with over 1 b$ in revenue on NASDAQ in 2016. It was then labelled one of the first real Unicorns in Germany. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience.As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses. So far, the Monkfish team has invested in over 50 start-ups in Europe, Asia, the US and South Africa.
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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 — 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.
T-0 Ventures is a FinTech focused Venture Capital fund investing across Europe from pre-seed to Series A.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.5M; Series A $2.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Napo Pet Insurance — UK pet insurance with dental cover, direct vet payments and free 24/7 video vet calls. Get a 5% multi-pet discount!
- SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 207
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $61M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
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