Top 50 Digital Media Startup Investors in Germany in May 2025

Investor	Digital Media Germany investments
Picus Capital	4
Concentric	2
DvH Ventures	2
Scala Ventures	2
Carbon Removal Partners	2
Steffen Zoller	2
Monkfish Equity	2
Gunter Thielen	2
finleap	2
Ananda Impact Ventures	2
Ventech	2
Thomas Bachem	2
Christian Vollmann	2
TEV Ventures	2
Norrsken VC	2
Antler	2
Jochen Tuchbreiter	1
Revel Partners	1
Headline	1
LBBW VC	1
HV Capital	1
NewAlpha Asset Management VC	1
Gero Decker	1
Airbridge Equity Partners	1
High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch	1
Klaas Kersting	1
Tengelmann Social Ventures	1
CHECK24 Ventures	1
European Union	1
Brandenburg Kapital	1
Berlin Ventures	1
Wille Finance	1
OHA Osnabrück Healthcare Accelerator	1
pd ventures	1
NIBC Bank N.V.	1
Sven Fund	1
Torben Schreiter	1
Just Beyer	1
JOT-Berlin	1
Speedinvest	1
Henrik Larsen	1
IBB Ventures	1
Oliver Roskopf	1
Marcus Erken	1
Jörn Lubkoll	1
4finance	1
Robert Maier	1
KfW	1

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
SmartSolar — SmartSolar is a Saigon-based EnergyTech company working to decarbonise Southeast Asia. With SmartSolar, businesses save on their electricity bill from day 1. SmartSolar is currently busy building the critical financing infrastructure to get SMBs equipped with solar energy. We help our customers save money and enable our partners to reach morecustomers. Renewable energy is at an inflection point across the region and we are on a mission to make it available for everyone.
Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bipa — Bipa is a company that allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin starting from R$1 using Pix and Lightning Network.
LN Markets — The first Lightning-native Bitcoin derivatives trading platform.
Anchor Watch — Insure your Bitcoin - Protect your bitcoin with regulated insurance and enterprise-grade multi-institutional custody.

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
OneTwenty — OneTwenty is an early-stage health tech start-up that develops multiple Machine Learning based solutions for people with diabetes as well as Medtech companies for sensor optimization, biomarker prediction, glucoregulatory models, and iAGC (interoperable automated glycemic controller). Our solution demonstrates unprecedented precision in bloodglucose prediction 120 minutes in advance. OneTwenty revolutionizes the life of people with Type 1 diabetes.

Venture Capital and Start Up support, www.scala-ventures.com, Scala Ventures

Investment focus

Internet, Social Media, Digital Media
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

adQuota — adQuota is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based premium mobile advertisement platform. adQuota provides publishers of mobile websites and applications with a platform and tools to monetize their mobile publications, and creates rich mobile advertising experiences. It focuses on Rich Media formats for apps and web sites on both mobile devices andtablets. adQuota adStudio provides creative and technical production of Display Banner Ads, Rich Media Ads and Coupon Campaigns.More than 200 publishers use adQuota, which reaches more than 35 million readers and app-users monthly.
prettysocial media — prettysocial media is the European Social Media Service Provider and Network enabling clients and publishers to monetize their Social Media appearance. By creating sophisticated Content Marketing concepts and formats and distributing those in all relevant social channels, brands communicate, engage and interact with their audience. Combiningcutting edge technology with excellent business intelligence the company delivers insight, strategy and results in all social and digital marketing channels.prettysocial’s Native Avenue Platform is providing a unique and innovative technology to book complex Content Marketing concepts into its Premium Publisher Network, connecting sophisticated Brand Advertising concepts with the reach and engagement of 100’s of leading local, national and international newspaper and magazine publishers.

Specialists in carbon removal investments

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, Service Industry, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Tset — Tset is a software company that develops a SaaS enterprise solution for product cost and CO2 emission estimation.
Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Everest Carbon — Everest Carbon Inc. develops breakthrough measurement technology for robust quantification of carbon dioxide removal through Enhanced Weathering.

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
voiio — voiio is a leading provider of family benefits for companies and their employees. We make families smile! Our B2B platform enables employees to book and find 1,350+ high quality family services suited to any situation and phase in a family’s life-cycle. Till today hundreds of companies, ranging from SME to Fortune500, trust voiio. Get in touch andfind out how to easily unleash the full economic potential of a family friendly company culture. If you want to have an impact and change the future of work to a better please, get in touch and join our team.
marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.

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 — 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.

Former CEO of Bertelsmann

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Education
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.

finleap is Europe's leading fintech ecosystem, headquartered in Berlin. finleap was founded in 2014 by IONIQ Group and Ramin Niroumand, and has since built and scaled 18 companies and added more to its ecosystem through acquisitions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Penta — Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily.Penta's mission is to disrupt businessbanking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Qwist — We enable partners to deliver seamless, digitized financial services to customers with our full-stack Open Banking platform. Learn more here.
ELEMENT Insurance — ELEMENT is your partner for everything you need to distribute insurance products | ELEMENT Insurance

We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Elio — Putting leading scientific data into context, to enable others to respond to climate change’s dynamism and act on solutions with confidence.
Ocean Ledger — Precision analytics to design, implement & monitor coastal mitigation and adaptation.
NatureMetrics — NatureMetrics is the World-Leading provider of Biodiversity monitoring data, using eDNA surveys, metabarcoding & more. Book your demo today!

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xpln.ai — Xpln.ai develops AI-driven solutions for measuring and optimizing ad effectiveness, 100% cookieless.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.
Omaha Insights — Omaha Insights is a company that provides standardized financial data and analytical tools to help investors do research and analysis.

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Rulemapping Group — Rulemapping Group is a rule-based AI platform that enables a level of end-to-end automation for rule-based processes. Automated decision-making solutions for digital legislation, administrative operations, legal procedures, and regulatory compliance.

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kapu — We are an online shopping community that helps you save even more on your everyday essentials when you buy together with your friends.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Beans — Beans is on a mission to help the planet by reducing food waste, saving products, and offering them through an online grocery platform at discounted prices.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!

Jochen Tuchbreiter servers as a CEO at Hetzner Cloud GmbH.

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Digital Media
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Wagawin GmbH — Discover LivingAds, the world's leading audience engagement technology that enables meaningful conversations between brands and consumers. In order to do so, our technology gets users to engage with mobile ads, allowing us to identify and activate audiences with the highest affinity to the brand, product or service, generating impressive results. Check it out!

We back exceptional founders, building enduring companies. Revel Partners is a team of serial founders who put entrepreneurs first, funding B2B software.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bliq — Discover the ultimate ride-hailing experience with Bliq! Find the fastest routes, compare fares, and enjoy transparent, reliable pricing. Your journey, your way.
Backflip — With fast analysis, tailored loans, and a smoother funding process, Backflip gives you the confidence and the cash to close your next great property deal.
Challenger — Challenger is a new way to play your favorite games for a chance to earn cash rewards. With Cash Play and Points Play, we offer gamers of all skill levels to earn while playing their favorite video games. Challenger is free to join and you get a sign up bonus. Join today.

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, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.

We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.
Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.

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

Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

Expert in investments targeting the entrepreneurial financial industry, NewAlpha launched the first French venture capital fund dedicated to Fintech start-ups in November 2015. The fund has made five Fintech investments in 2016.NewAlpha provides qualified investors with access to the most innovative and dynamic firms in the financial industrythanks to its wide range of products and services. On behalf of its clients, NewAlpha selects, finances and supports innovative entrepreneurial projects, mainly in asset management but also in related sectors such as services for investment managers or financial technologies (Fintech and Insurtech).

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
France, Canada, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Supervizor — Supervizor allows companies to automatically check all accounting and operational data, and detect errors and fraud. No setup or dry runs required.
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

Gero is a co-founder and CEO, Gero is responsible for Signavio’s overall strategic direction. He is a business process management expert and passionate about product innovation. Before creating Signavio, he worked for SAP and McKinsey. Gero holds a PhD in Business Process Management from Hasso-Plattner-Institute.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Printing
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

parlamind — parlamind is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Customer Service. Based on latest research in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning as well as state of the art cloud software the parlamind team is building an AI of the next generation. parlamind will analyse, route, and autonomously answer incoming customer communication, and thus worksseamlessly together with its human counterparts as a member in the customer service team. parlamind was founded in August 2015 by Dr. Tina Klüwer, Christian Wolf, Dr. Núria Bertomeu Castelló and Tobias Lehmann. The founders combine their experience from E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, and AI-Research from leading companies and research facilities like wirkaufens.de, German Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) and Searchmetrics.
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

Airbridge Equity Partners is an investment firm providing flexible investment solutions to technology-driven companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Apideck — Integrate and monitor APIs at warp speed. Apideck is the fastest way for developers to build integrations. Connect new APIs in minutes instead of days.
Passbolt — The open source password manager for teams. Passbolt simplifies password management, helps prevent data loss, stores data securely and enables secure password sharing.
ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
Eyeo — eyeo revolutionizes imaging with color splitter sensors. Capture sharper, brighter images in low light using optical waveguide innovation, discover how it works
AICA SA — AICA believes programming robots should be at everyone's reach. We combine Artificial Intelligence & an intuitive interface, to help you relocate your production.

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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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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
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.

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.

Tengelmann Social Ventures GmbH was founded as a sister company of Tengelmann Ventures GmbH and is a subsidiary of the Tengelmann Group. Tengelmann Social Ventures strives to finance social businesses and to support social entrepreneurs with advice. Good social business ideas are often not pursued in the early stages, due to lack of capital and notenough consultation. Tengelmann Social Ventures aims to close this gap through early commitment.

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, Video
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hashtag You — We aim to build the next generation of social media brands by leveraging our expertise in influencer marketing and creating strong brand-based communities.
CareerFoundry — Transform your career with a CareerFoundry Program. Everything you need to go from complete beginner to fully qualified designer, developer or analyst within...
Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.

CHECK24 Ventures is the venture capital division of the CHECK24 group that provides young internet companies with seed and growth financing. It works independently from CHECK24 and makes the financially driven investment decision in growth companies in the areas of financial technology, insurance technology, online marketplaces and software sectorsin Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Eckhard Juls and Heinrich Blase founded it on November 1, 2016, with its headquarters in Frankfurt in Germany.

Investment focus

Travel, EdTech, Legal Tech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

campstar — campstar is a travel platform that provides campers everything needed for camping adventure. From booking campsites and renting camper vans to finding camping equipment- campstar covers campers with all they need for the next camping experience!campstar introduces camping to the digital world. By using intelligent technologies, campstar bringscampers and campsite owners together and creates worldwide camping community.campstar offers campground owners flexible options to present their campground in the online world. This goes from online advertisements, including well managed booking requests to more customer transparency through feedback. Furthermore, customer can profit from cross-selling of campervans and equipment.
Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
Risk42 Software — The answer to Risk | Infinity - Real-Time Risk Management | Risk42

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member countries; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.

Investment focus

Health Care, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Atlante — The first EV Fastcharging Network enabled by renewables, energy storage and 100% grid-integrated.
Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
Tesla — Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses.

With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

family.cards — Family.cards provides elders with barrier-free access to digital solutions and all the tools they need to manage their circumstances.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

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Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

An international, Swiss-based family office, focusing on private equity (venture & buy-out), real estate and listed assets.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
France, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
Happydemics — Happydemics is the story of frustration become conviction. A frustration with the complexity of market research, neglected by decision-makers in favor of a simplistic and stereotypical vision of a target. But Happydemics is above all the conviction that they must reinvent the experience of studies for brands, but also for respondents, bydemocratizing access to the opinion of all people. Happydemics was born, and 5 years later, Their conviction is stronger every day!

OHA Osnabrück Healthcare Accelerator support startups from the entire healthcare sector.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Health Care
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ankaadia — We organize integration for international care professionalsAnkaadia is the software for the placement and integration of international care professionals in Germany. Ankaadia connects all parties involved in the integration process and thus ensures a fair and smooth integration process.It doesn't matter if you are a health care facility,a personnel service agency or a care professional. Everyone benefits from the transparency, process reliability and speed that Ankaadia offers.Ankaadia is a state-of-the-art cloud-based "Software as a Service" (SaaS) solution that runs on any modern browser and cell phone. The data processed in Ankaadia is stored encrypted in a European data center and is protected from unauthorized access. When processing personal data, we strictly adhere to the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO).
LipoCheck — LipoCheck is a healthtech startup that focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of lipedema, a condition that affects millions of women. The company offers a digital platform that serves as a support system for patients and treating physicians. LipoCheck's services include helping patients recognize lipedema and providing assistance inbecoming symptom-free. The platform was developed with the experiences of practicing doctors, product managers, and software developers. In addition to its digital services, LipoCheck also offers a range of merchandise including hoodies and shirts.
family.cards — Family.cards provides elders with barrier-free access to digital solutions and all the tools they need to manage their circumstances.

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

Investment focus

Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.

NIBC is the bank of choice for decisive financial moments. Our Corporate Banking activities offer a combination of advice, financing and co-investment in the sectors Telecom, Media, Technology & Services, Food, Agri, Retail & Health, Industries & Manufacturing, Infrastructure & Renewables, Commercial Real Estate, Offshore Energyand Shipping & Intermodal. Consumer Banking offers residential mortgages and online retail saving deposits via NIBC Direct in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
Gigaclear — Gigaclear is one of the fastest and most reliable broadband networks in the UK. Delivered only to rural areas of England we deliver better broadband than is available to most towns and cities. With ultrafast, pure fibre broadband, available to every one of their customers, rural communities will be ready to meet the demands of Internet services ofthe future.Founded in December 2010 by Matthew Hare, the Chief Executive, the company has grown steadily ever since, key appointments have included Joe Frost in 2012 as Sales and Marketing Director and in March 2014 Simon Bullock joined the company as CFO.In May 2011 Ofcom applied the electronic communications code to Gigaclear for the purposes of the provision, by Gigaclear, of an electronic communications network in the United Kingdom. Also in May 2011 the company took a majority stake in local access pioneer Rutland Telecom and in September of that year the company started construction of its first fibre-to-the-premises network, which opened service in October 2011 in Hambleton in Rutland.During 2012 Gigaclear also delivered its first Gigabit fibre-to-the-premises network in the rural communities of Appleton, Eaton and Besselsleigh in Oxfordshire. During 2013 and 2014 the company opened new networks in Fyfield, Frilford, Farmoor, Stanton Harcourt, Woodeaton, Beckley and Northmoor in Oxfordshire, Godden Green in Kent and Uppingham in Rutland. At the end of 2015, Gigaclear had 27 rural networks live with 39 more in construction in Oxfordshire, Kent, Cambridgeshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. In addition Gigaclear is building rural networks supported by BDUK Superfast Broadband grants in Gloucestershire, West Berkshire and Essex.Gigaclear delivers incredibly fast, and reliable broadband access, everyone connected to the network has the same level of service regardless of 'distance from the cabinet' or weather conditions.
euNetworks Group — We believe that bandwidth changes everything, connecting everybody to everything, making anything possible.

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

Investment focus

Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.

Torben Schreiter Co-Founded Signavio GmbH in 2009 and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer. Schreiter is responsible for Signavio’s operations, partner sales, finances and HR. He worked as business process management consultant. He worked for SAP Australia and inubit. He holds a MSc in Software Engineering.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Chemical Engineering
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

Just Beyer

Investment focus

Funerals, Printing, Software
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Jot-Berlin is a group of angel investors.

Investment focus

News, Life Science, Social Media
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

EnliteAI — enliteAI is a technology provider for Artificial Intelligence. We are the maker of Maze, an open-source framework for applied Reinforcement Learning and Detekt, a modern geospatial data platform for object detection in mobile mapping data supporting the entire asset management life cycle.
HomeCooks — HomeCooks delivers chef-crafted meals from the UK's top independent cooks right to your door. Browse our weekly menus of authentic global cuisines, from spicy Asian delights to comforting home-cooked classics. With quick reheating, you can enjoy restaurant-quality meals anytime at home.
Rho Protocol — Rho Protocol is a next-generation decentralized exchange for interest rate swaps, offering institutions a secure and transparent solution to harness the potential of interest rates in Web3

Henrik Larsen is a Board member of Flextribe.

Investment focus

Printing, Logistics, Digital Media
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

IBB Ventures is for all those who make a difference and create a sustainable future. We invest public funds as venture capital and, together with Berlin startups, help to promote our capital as a business location.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.

Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
Rausgegangen — Rausgegangen is a privately held company that is generating the tips to go out in Cologne, every day.

Happy & curious.Dr. Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in Polish deep tech startups with global ambitions.In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had the privilegeto work with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he helped establish and run.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Poland, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
Airmo — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.

Jörn Lubkoll Jörn is a CEO, Inter.net Germany GmbH

Investment focus

Audio, Video, Internet
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

doctape — doctape lets you view and organize all your files in the browser, including a wide range of different document, image, video & audio formats. No local software installation required! It's simple, fast & secure.doctape also act as the first real document hub by integrating 3rd party services (scanservices, print&mail, pos digitalbill, Dropbox, Google Docs) which will serve you with a 100% transition to your existing document-ecosystems, including paper.

4finance is a global leader in digital consumer finance. We get money to people in a fast, convenient way that fits their lifestyle.

Investment focus

FinTech, Ad Network, Digital Media
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vane — Vane is a leading and fast-growing technology-enabled finance provider dedicated to digital media companies globally. Through its technology platform, BillFront frees up working capital within the industry, thereby enabling its clients’ to accelerate their growth. BillFront provides financing between €50,000 and several millions of euros per monththrough integrating into its customers’ invoicing systems. The company was founded in 2015 and is run out of Berlin with offices in London & New York. The BillFront team is led by former media M&A banker, Greg Dimitriou.

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the LÃ¤nder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uniper — Uniper is an international energy company with about 11,000 employees. They combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. Uniper is a German energy company based in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed by the separation of E.ON's fossil fuel assetsinto a separate company that began operating on 1 January 2016.
Vectoflow — Vectoflow is an innovative company developing fluid-dynamic metrology devices for fluid flow and dynamics measurement. It offers standardized and customized flow measurement technology that measures the static and total pressure, velocity, and angle of attack of a flow. These products are used in motorsport, aviation, turbine machine development,and research sectors.
Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.