Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Germany (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Verena Pausder
Angel
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13 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech | $1.1M–$18M |
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Sven Gabor Janszky
Angel
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech | $54k–$1M |
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Stefan Peukert
Angel
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4 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning | $686k–$1.2M |
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Jens Begemann
Angel
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4 | Germany | Seed, Series A | B2C, EdTech, Children | $4M–$5.3M |
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Mario Götze
Angel
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4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$60M |
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Udo Schloemer
Angel
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4 | Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Education, Apps | $1.1M–$9M |
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Michael Brehm
Angel
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3 | Germany, Italy, Austria | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Finance, Education | $197k–$12M |
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Christophe Maire
Angel
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3 | Germany, Spain, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $197k–$8.1M |
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David Nothacker
Angel
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3 | Germany, Spain, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, SaaS | $1.4M–$24M |
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Lea-Sophie Cramer
Angel
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3 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Food and Beverage, FinTech, Food Delivery | $1.1M–$12M |
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Thomas Bachem
Angel
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3 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Education, Information Technology | $340k–$686k |
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Feliks Eyser
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Learning, Medical | $3.2M–$27M |
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Marcus Stahl
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Education, EdTech, Mobile | $542k–$2.9M |
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Patric Fassbender
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Education, EdTech, Mobile | $542k–$2.9M |
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Ulf Stahrenberg
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps | $161k–$2M |
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Daniel Schütt
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, SaaS | |
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media | $197k–$14M |
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Nicolaus Schefenacker
Angel
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3 | Germany, Spain, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, SaaS | $1.4M–$14M |
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Dirk Freise
Angel
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3 | Germany, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Software, Health Care | $680k–$3.6M |
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Martin Ostermayer
Angel
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3 | Germany, Spain, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, Apps, Software | $1.1M–$5.3M |
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Felix Haas
Angel
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2 | Germany, France, Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Local, Mobile, Sports | $1M–$11M |
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Robert Maier
Angel
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2 | Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, Education | $542k–$16M |
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Bjorn Jopen
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Medical, Education, E-Learning | |
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André Schürrle
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Software, Fantasy Sports | $3.2M–$10M |
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Matti Niebelschuetz
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Series A | EdTech | |
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Nikolaus D. Bayer
Angel
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2 | Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Education, SaaS, EdTech | $700k–$1.1M |
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Gunter Thielen
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Internet, Education | |
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Ben Drury
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed | Music, EdTech, Children | $1.5M–$4M |
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Julius Koehler
Angel
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2 | Germany, Spain, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Web Apps | $1.6M–$14M |
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Christian Hülsewig
Angel
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2 | Germany | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Construction, EdTech, Robotics | $1.4M–$50M |
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Christian Reber
Angel
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$15M |
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Dr. Andreas Hettich
Angel
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2 | Germany | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Consulting, E-Learning | |
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ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, Battery | $1.1M–$2.1M |
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Bastian Karweg
Angel
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2 | Germany | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Consulting, E-Learning | |
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Enrico Noseda
Angel
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2 | Ukraine, Italy, France | Pre-Seed, Angel | SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Email | |
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Ersin Pamuksüzer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Series A | Education, Life Science, Virtual Reality | $300k–$500k |
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Daniel Krauss
Angel
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2 | Germany, Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Rental, Information Technology | $1.4M–$30M |
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Christian Dereser
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, SaaS | $700k–$2.3M |
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
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2 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $89k–$22M |
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Ingo Drexler
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, Austria | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$18M |
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Ina Schlie
Angel
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2 | Germany, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | E-Learning, SaaS, Chemical | $1.2M–$2.7M |
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Peter Schuepbach
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Angel, Series A | Mobile, Education, iOS | |
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Thomas Baum
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Education, Marketing | |
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Rolf Schromgens
Angel
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2 | Germany, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Travel | $307k–$3M |
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Clément Delangue
Angel
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2 | United States, France, Japan | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $900k–$106M |
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Chris Hitchen
Angel
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2 | Germany, Australia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Internet | $584k–$15M |
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Julia Wilde
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | EdTech, Children, Education | |
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Marc Puškaric
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care | |
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Julius Jürging
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care | |
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy | $15k–$1.2M |
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Verena Pausder
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Series A $7.9M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Karri — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
- Sitegeist —
Scientist, Chairman, Speaker, Investor, Author, Future Coach. I’m Founder and Chairman of the Germany based “2b AHEAD Group”, which is Europe's leading strategic foresight institute. Using scientific methods we analyze and predict the future of industries, technologies and business models. Backed by our future studies we consult corporates andmedium size companies for future strategies. Within my twenty years’ experience I wrote eight books about trends and strategy, became a well-known interview expert and a popular keynote speaker on conferences and business events. In my RULEBREAKER Society, an executive network of disruptive innovators, we are regularly visiting the innovation hotspots in Israel, Silicon Valley and Shanghai/Shenzhen and meeting the people who are actually working on shaping our future.I build startups in our own 2b AHEAD Ventures company builder and invest in international deep tech startups through my family office. Beside that I manage 3 investment funds in my 2b AHEAD Group which currently consists of 33 early and later stage deep tech companies in Australia, US, UK, Israel and Europe. Before entering my innovation carrier, I worked for more than ten years as editor and prime time anchor at German public radio. I am playing chess, running marathons and I climbed the Kilimanjaro several times.
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- Industry: Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $54k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CamHera — Future of Selfie
- X-Therma — At X-Therma, we're advancing regenerative medicine and organ transplantation with a novel biopreservation solution.
- JANSZKY GmbH — Family Investment Office of Sven Gabor Janszky, one of the leading futurists in Europe.
Founder of Masterplan.com Founder of Employour Group (Ausbildung.de, meinpraktikum.de, trainee.de) - sold to Bertelsmann 2015
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- Industry: Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Pre-Seed $686k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
- 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.
- Choosy — Choosy findet, was dir schmeckt. Lecker und ausgewogen durch die Woche. Individuell. Gesund. Abwechslungsreich.
Jens Begemann
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- Industry: B2C, EdTech, Children
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $4M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klima — Klima combines the most effective actions an individual can take to fight climate change today.
- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
- StratifAI — Building the next generation of biomarkers for precision oncology
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.2M; Series A $9.6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
- Helical — The full power of DNA & (m)RNA Bio Foundation Models in one open-core platform. Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI.
Udo Schloemer is the Managing Director at Viva Forever. Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largeststartup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines his one of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
- Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
- Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Angel $197k–$932k; Series A $580k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bonagora — Bonagora is the online wholesale marketplace for the Home & Living industry. Bonagora streamlines the procurement process between wholesalers and retailers by creating a virtual showroom. Bonagora enables retailers to have real-time access to new vendors and products from around the world, and it empowers them to control their entire buyingprocess from one easy-to-use platform.
- meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $318k–$8.1M; Angel $197k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $800k–$3.8M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
- Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
- RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4.4M; Series A $5.3M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
- TradeLink — Frictionless supply chain collaboration.
Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1]
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Food Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- HELLO INSIDE — Glukose-Monitoring zeigt dir, wie Mahlzeiten, Stress und Schlaf deine Energie, dein Gewicht und deine Hormone beeinflussen. 12.000+ Frauen vertrauen Hello Inside. 30-Tage-Program
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Internet, Education, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Pre-Seed $340k–$686k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
- Wundertax — Wundertax provides online tax returns filing and related services.
- 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.
Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.
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- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Medical
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$5M; Series A $6.4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Truckoo — Sell to a global audience, receive bindings bids. Buyers can be assured that all vehicles were inspected by us. We organize papers and transport.
- Wisefood — Wisefood develops new patented recipes and also manufacturing methods to replace disposable plastic tableware with edible variants
- Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.
Marcus Stahl is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Boxine.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $542k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.
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Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $542k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Lilio — Lilio aids parents in caring for the well-being of their children and provides input on the baby's well-being at any time of day or night.
- Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.
Ulf Stahrenberg is a product director at Oply GmbH. Prior to this, Ulf served as chief product officer at MONOQI. He held positions at Zalando, txtr, and Strategies4Change.
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- Industry: Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $161k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blinkist — Blinkist offers the key insights from top nonfiction in a made-for-mobile format. Get up to 65% off audiobooks, too. Learn anytime, anywhere!
Founder of Masterplan.com, a corporate education company. Prior to Masterplan.com Daniel founded Employour what was sold in 2015 to European Media Company BERTELSMANN.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $573k–$3.2M; Angel $197k–$828k; Series A $2M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
- Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4.4M; Series A $5.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet
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- Industry: Education, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $680k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011.
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- Industry: Education, Apps, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Series A $4.8M–$5.3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AUDAVIS — AUDAVIS is developing the most innovative approach that will revolutionize auditing. With data-driven full automation by AUDAVIS and a new AI-based approach, every financial statement becomes a breeze with unprecedented efficiency.
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Graswald AI — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
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Browse database — It's Free!Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Local, Mobile, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, France, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.8M; Series A $6.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Pre-Seed $542k–$2.7M; Series A $4.2M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ABSORA —
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
In 2000, Björn started FairControl GmbH, a consulting company in the field of trade fair and event success control, and sold FairControl in 2012 to the MCI Group from Switzerland. In the years that followed, he built FaceAdNet into the largest German social online publisher. The company was acquired by Ströer AG in 2015. Björn was then managingdirector of Ströer Social Publishing for three years. He has been involved in various start-ups since 2012, brings his experience and knowledge to the table and helps the founders operationally. Björn is also active in restructuring. Together with partners, he takes over the majority of digital companies and puts these companies back on the road to success. In addition to his passion as an entrepreneur, Björn finds balance in sporting activities such as tennis, surfing, fitness and skiing.
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- Industry: Medical, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
- 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.
André Schürrle
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- Industry: Sports, Software, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $3.2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
- Virtex Apps — Virtex Apps, LLC is the creator of Virtex Arena, a multiplayer augmented reality competition hosted by sports teams to engage their fans in new ways. During half-time or other breaks in the sport, a new virtual competition can be started which fans can see on the field/court using an app on their own mobile devices. Audience members all seeand interact with the same virtual scene at the same time but from their own perspectives, as though the events were actually happening in front of them. The virtual world provides opportunities for increased advertising/sponsorship revenue, and fans will enjoy an innovative, memorable shared experience that can only occur at the team’s stadium.
- Virtex Stadium — Take over the stadium with your friends and view the game live in 3D. You have never been closer to the game before! Join Virtex Stadium now and never miss the live show!
Matti Niebelschuetz is the Founder, MD Delivery, and Future of Work Enthusiast at CoachHub. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin.
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- Industry: EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.
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- Industry: Education, SaaS, EdTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $700k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Twinetic — Twinetic brings together a team of experienced experts from the fields of IT, energy technology and management to jointly create innovative solutions for the energy transition.
- limbiq.com — limbiq is a centralized software platform designed to help businesses achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time updates, even on the SKU level, across all modes of transport. Our customers enjoy productivity gains of 60% or more, and cost savings of 40-60% due to lower safety stock levels and reduced process-related costs. With limbiq, you can collaborate seamlessly with all your partners along the supply chain and be automatically alerted when schedules change. Schedule a free personalized demo to see how limbiq can work for you and your team.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Former CEO of Bertelsmann
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Education
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnershipbetween BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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- Industry: Music, EdTech, Children
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 8tracks Radio — 8tracks is an internet radio and social network that streams user-curated song playlists that contain at least 8 tracks. 8tracks is a handcrafted internet radio network -- the social alternative to Pandora. Listeners tune into online mixtapes of 8 or more tracks, curated by people who know and love music, streamed in a legal, radio-style manner.
- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder. He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Web Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6.5M; Series A $5.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
- Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
Christian Hülsewig is a Founder and CEO at Schüttflix. He attended Bentley University 2004 - 2008.
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- Industry: Construction, EdTech, Robotics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Series A $7.9M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VESTIGAS —
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
- Unchained Robotics — Unchained Robotics engages in the development of artificial intelligence-based control system for robots for electronics production.
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Browse database — It's Free!Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$15M; Pre-Seed $500k–$6.3M; Series A $9.5M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
- VisionAI — VisionAI reimagines eCommerce search with AI agents that fix typos, understand natural language, and turn every query into revenue. Easy setup in 20 minutes.
- Dimension — The state of the art collaboration platform for modern engineering teams. Chat, project management, smart actions, and more, accelerated by AI.
Dr. Andreas Hettich
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- Industry: Software, Consulting, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doinstruct — Doinstruct offers mobile training solution for frontline workers.
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Battery
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
- Kumpan Electric — Kumpan electric (e-bility GmbH) is a manufacturer of E-Scooters and offers e-mobility solutions and portable energy storage systems– made inEurope! Kumpan electric develops, produces, and sells stylish electric vehicles (20-120 km/h) and energy storage systems for end consumers, fleets, and sharing companies (B2C, B2B).
- Hintbox — Whistleblower-System, Hinweisgebersystem, SaaS
Bastian Karweg is a Co-Founder & CEO at Echobot Media Technologies GmbH.
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- Industry: Software, Consulting, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Doinstruct — Doinstruct offers mobile training solution for frontline workers.
Enrico Noseda - Co-Founder and Advisor @ hlpy
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- Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Email
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Ukraine, Italy, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Quasara —
- Revisior — Revisior is the best service for working with feedback and NPS, building a complete business process for customer retention and return. We provide detailed service analytics in numbers, graphs, and dashboards for an entire situation understanding and prompt solution.We form a positive brand reputation by improving the quality of service. We helpbusinesses and governments to identify and solve customer problems quickly. Fast response to reviews from different communication channels (QR, Viber, SMS, Email, API).
- Uniwhere — Developer of a university college app that helps students stay on top of their academic life. It syncs with college data and shows it to the student. It's the University Dashboard.
Ersin Pamuksüzer
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- Industry: Education, Life Science, Virtual Reality
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $300k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.
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- Industry: Software, Rental, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.7M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
Christian Dereser
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- Industry: Software, Education, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Pre-Seed $700k–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
- Kindaling — The Berlin based Parent-Tech Start-Up Kindaling is the leading online platform for kids and family activities in DACH. The Kindaling website shows various inspirations for family activities, all family friendly places in your city, the next holiday camp for your kids or a variety of bookable courses for pregnancy, children or parents.Discoverand book your next activity with Kindaling, for more time with your family.Kindaling was founded in 2016 and is managed by Christopher Lansloot and Elena Margulis .
- FRAMEN — Advertise in locations with an addressable context. Reach people without them opening an app to skip your ad. Inside of Hotels, Offices, Gyms, etc.. Click here
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $106k–$4M; Angel $89k–$603k; Series A $1.6M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- Finperks — Finperks provides a unified API platform that orchestrates prepaid products like gift cards, cashback, employee benefits, and crypto off-ramps for banks, fintechs, HR platforms, and crypto providers.
- admark.ai — admark.ai combines cutting-edge AI language models with social media data
Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.3M; Series A $1.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.
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- Industry: E-Learning, SaaS, Chemical
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Re-Fresh Global — Re-Fresh Global brings sustainability innovation into the manufacturing industry. Our patented biotechnology transforms textile waste into recycled raw materials: nanocellulose, ethanol, and sanitized textile pulp.
Peter Schüpbach , 53, investor and founder of SwissCommerce a platform and incubator for niche market ecommerce.He founded in 2008 Fashion Friends Ltd - the first online shopping club for designer clothes and accessories in Switzerland. Before starting his career, he worked for various Internet start-ups as a business angel (Xing, StudiVZ,plazes, NetMoms etc.) operate. In addition, he was until mid 2008 Chairman and principal shareholder of Geneva Logic, a leading software provider in the education market, which was acquired by Netop A / S.He is also a partner in the NewBorn Ventures, which invests in various Internet and software projects or is engaged. Peter Schüpbach he was named "Swiss Business Angel of the Year 2005".He was co-founder in 1986 of the software vendor Miracle Software AG and was more than 10 years as its CEO. He led the company with over 350 employees and offices in several countries in 2000 to the stock market. Had but a year later the operation close. Peter Schüpbach is married and has three children.
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- Industry: Mobile, Education, iOS
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Givve — givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. Age pyramid, shortage of skilled workers, fluctuation – the labour market situation is facing various challenges. In this development, the position of the employee has changed: In the future it will be the employee who can choose their employer, and not theother way around. The attractiveness of a company decides on its success on the market – and becomes the decisive advantage in the competition with other companies. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.
- Preloved —
- tutoria GmbH — tutoria offers qualified individual tutoring for pupils and students. It allows the user to spot the best tutor in his or her region. All tutors are certified and checked by tutoria and can be booked on demand. We make sure that the learning process is monitored on an ongoing basis through the submission of an online progress report after eachlesson. In addition, you will receive a personal steering cockpit and supporting applications. The pedagogic support team of tutoria will be happy to assist you via phone or email. tutoria enables you to organize your tutoring and learning online!
Thomas Baum is Partner at Redstone, a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm that manages multiple corporate and institutional venture funds. Thomas is also Managing Director and CFO of Rebate Networks, a company builder and investment firm focused on E-Commerce ventures.He started his Internet career in 2000 as CFO and Co-Founder of yousmile.de AGand Mentasys GmbH (bought by Lycos). In 2008 he then joined VZ Netzwerke, Germany’s largest Social Network as CFO.He studied International Business and Management in Germany and France and now lives in Berlin, Germany.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $307k–$3M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
- Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
- CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$28M; Pre-Seed $900k–$4M; Series A $7.7M–$106M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sourcepulse — Sourcepulse is the internal status page for software delivery, alerting teams before costly delays. We collect anonymous feedback from project members to identify exactly what to fix, just like how Sentry captures system details for production errors.
- Beside — Beside is an app that provides users with a dedicated second phone number for calls and texts. It includes AI-driven voicemail transcription, call summaries, and actionable to-dos for conversations. It also supports integration with tools like CRM systems and automation platforms to sync call data and notes.
- Helical — The full power of DNA & (m)RNA Bio Foundation Models in one open-core platform. Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI.
Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6M; Pre-Seed $584k–$3.8M; Series A $3.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- re:cap — re:cap enables companies in the subscription economy to trade future revenues for on-demand, non-dilutive capital. Fast, transparent and easy.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
Julia Wilde
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- Industry: EdTech, Children, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kursinsel — We empower children to discover their interests and pursue their passions from the comfort of their homes. Providing access to a large variety of interactive online courses from drawing, dancing, science to Minecraft and many more.
Marc Puškaric
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- Industry: E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
Julius is Senior Investment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and focuses on investments in educational technology and science. He globally sources opportunities and is also active in portfolio management.Prior to Holtzbrinck Digital, Julius gained experience at Zalora, a Rocket Internet Company in Southeast Asia and at the VC fund BDMI. Juliuscompleted his bachelor studies in Business Administration at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and graduated with a Master degree in Digital Business from IE Business School Madrid.Apart from technology, Julius loves to travel the world and spends his leisure time at the lakes & mountains around Munich.
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- Industry: E-Learning, Professional Services, Nursing and Residential Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit
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- Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Angel $15k–$140k
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
- Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
- admarket.co — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
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