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Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Germany in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Education startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Education companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Germany in December 2024

Investor	Education Germany investments
Verena Pausder	12
Sven Gabor Janszky	9
Udo Schloemer	4
Stefan Peukert	4
Mario Götze	4
Jens Begemann	4
Daniel Schütt	3
Thomas Bachem	3
David Nothacker	3
Nicolaus Schefenacker	3
Dirk Freise	3
Stefan Glänzer	3
Christophe Maire	3
Michael Brehm	3
Ulf Stahrenberg	3
Martin Ostermayer	3
Feliks Eyser	3
Bjorn Jopen	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Nikolaus D. Bayer	2
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz	2
Gunter Thielen	2
Julius Koehler	2
Robert Maier	2
Patric Fassbender	2
Chris Hitchen	2
Christian Hülsewig	2
Clément Delangue	2
André Schürrle	2
Christian Reber	2
Christian Dereser	2
Lea-Sophie Cramer	2
Peter Schuepbach	2
Ingo Drexler	2
Carsten Maschmeyer	2
Ina Schlie	2
Matti Niebelschuetz	2
Ben Drury	2
Rolf Schromgens	2
Marcus Stahl	2
Thomas Baum	2
Johannes Wimmer	1
Alexander Luik	1
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Wallwiener	1
Alexander Drusio	1
Jakob Schreyer	1
Olav Sehlbach	1
Daniel Crasemann	1
Carmen Kroll	1
Felix Jahn	1

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Verena Pausder

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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.
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CamHera — Future of Selfie
GeneNeer — GeneNeer is a biotechnology company that has developed a proprietary technology for locking and unlocking traits for complete GM containment.
JANSZKY GmbH — Family Investment Office of Sven Gabor Janszky, one of the leading futurists in Europe.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Apps
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

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.

Founder of Masterplan.com Founder of Employour Group (Ausbildung.de, meinpraktikum.de, trainee.de) - sold to Bertelsmann 2015

Investment focus

Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

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.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Jens Begemann

Investment focus

B2C, EdTech, Children
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

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+.

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.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
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.
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.

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.
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David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Procurement
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
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.

Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Restaurants
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain, Switzerland

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

Investment focus

Education, Software, TV
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Finland

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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 1,000,000+ experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany

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!

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.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Spain, Finland

Portfolio highlights

heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
Hyrise Academy — Want to work at a top tech company? Apply now and interview with 70+ top European tech companies such as Hubspot, Asana or Personio. Get support from our team until you're hired. 100% free, no experience required.
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.

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.

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.

Investment focus

Medical, Education, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
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.

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
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.

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Degura — Degura provides portals for the pension plans of the companies.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

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 — 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.

Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

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.
Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

Christian Hülsewig is a Founder and CEO at Schüttflix. He attended Bentley University 2004 - 2008.

Investment focus

Construction, EdTech, Robotics
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.
Unchained Robotics — Unchained Robotics engages in the development of artificial intelligence-based control system for robots for electronics production.

Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Letta — Letta specializes in memory management technology, enabling AI models to remember users and conversations. Its featured products include Hosted Cloud and Lett_ API. Hosted Cloud creates, deploys, and manages agents at scale with Letta Cloud. Also, its Lett_ API adds memory to LLM services to give them reasoning capabilities and transparentlong-term memory powered by MemGPT.
Marimo — Marimo is an open-source reactive platform for developers working on Python.
Galileo — Inspecting Your ML Data Needs a Purpose-built Tool

André Schürrle

Investment focus

Software, Sports, Fantasy Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, France

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.

Christian Dereser

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, EdTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

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

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]

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

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.
Circus Group — At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

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.

Investment focus

Education, Mobile, iOS
Funding Round, Series A, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

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.
theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.

Investment focus

E-Learning, SaaS, Virtual Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel

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.

Matti Niebelschuetz is the Founder, MD Delivery, and Future of Work Enthusiast at CoachHub. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin.

Investment focus

EdTech
Seed, Series A
Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Music, EdTech, Children
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

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+.

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
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.

Marcus Stahl is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Boxine.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

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.

Johannes Wimmer

Investment focus

Medical, Education, Health Care
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

medudy — Medudy is a healthcare start-up that makes medical education universal by using a doctor-centric streaming and learning platform for a modern global healthcare. We use artificial intelligence to provide physicians around the globe equal access to up-to-date and verified medical knowledge in up to 50 different languages. We bring experts together,around the latest content and resources for the daily practice. We care for people, as we care for quality and make learning for doctors, very personal. The vision of this digital knowledge transfer is to optimize diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and ultimately improve patient care.

Alexander Luik

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series D
Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Ordio — Building the Category Leader for Deskless Workforce Management. All processes digitally optimized by Ordio lead to time savings, cost reduction & effectiveness - in an industries with increasing administrative burden and suffering core business.
Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
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.

Christian Wallwiener is a Managing Director, WMC Healthcare.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Software
Seed
Germany

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.
Climedo — Climedo’s mission is to bring the best treatment to every patient by empowering healthcare professionals with intelligent software solutions. Our cloud-based platform enables cutting-edge clinical validation and product surveillance of medical devices and pharmaceutical products. By connecting all stakeholders (medical device manufacturers, pharmacompanies, CROs, hospitals), we allow for increased performance, better cost-efficiencies - and ultimately - accelerated medical innovation.

Alexander is an Investment Advisor and supports Capnamic Ventures and portfolio companies as an external consultant in the areas of online marketing, operations and tech. Alexander has a watchful eye on new issues and existing KPIs, questions existing analyses and likes to get things moving forward.He is an entrepreneur himself and was alsoworking a long time for Rocket Internet in Berlin. Alexander´s work is his hobby and that is why in his free time, besides sports, he devotes himself to everything that has to do with digital marketing.

Investment focus

EdTech, Children, Education
Seed
Germany

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.

Jakob is CEO of orderbird, a berlin based start-up. Before co-founding orderbird AG, Jakob worked as a marketing and strategy consultant for Red Bull‘s lead agency Kastner&Partners in NYC and a german based start up in San Francisco, planing the US market entry.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

NAO — NAO curates innovative and hard-to-find investments and creates unprecedented access to sustainable, long-term wealth creation through crowdinvesting.
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.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

BA4V Partner. With over 25 years experience in the health care sector, Mr. Sehlbach has extensive knowledge of demographic change. As an active veteran business angel, he brings extensive expertise with regards to social entrepreneurship to the table.

Investment focus

Nursing and Residential Care, E-Learning, Elder Care
Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Novaheal — Novaheal is a learning platform for trainees and young professionals in nursing.
Workbee — Workbee is a job platform focused on care workers. The aim of Workbee is to find a better job for carers and to make the caring profession more attractive. The core product is recruiting-as-a-service: employers book a subscription and receive a recruiting flat rate.

Daniel Crasemann started his career as an investment banker at the Berenberg Bank in Hamburg. In 1986 he moved to Lausanne and received his master's degree in business administration (MBA) in the following year. After having been a partner at Engel & Völkers for eight years, he became an active managing partner of the DWI Group in 1996,since then particularly focussing on marketing, acquisition and sales.

Investment focus

E-Learning
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pinktum — Pinktum provides digital learning experiences for personal development.

Carmen Kroll

Investment focus

EdTech, Eyewear, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
YGO Trips — 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.
Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.

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