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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Germany

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds 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 Startup Investors in Germany

Investor	Education Germany investments
HV Capital	14
Verena Pausder	11
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	10
IBB Ventures	9
Sven Gabor Janszky	9
DvH Ventures	6
APX	5
Emerge	5
Owl Ventures	5
allygatr	5
Angel Invest	5
Enjoyventure Management	5
Speedinvest	5
La Famiglia	4
Capnamic Ventures	4
Saarbruecker 21	4
TEV Ventures	4
Educapital	4
b2venture	4
Grazia Equity	4
Atlantic Labs	4
Holtzbrinck Digital	4
Sparkmind.vc	4
Stefan Peukert	4
Daniel Schütt	3
FJ Labs	3
Bayern Kapital	3
NRW.BANK	3
Cherry Ventures	3
Project A Ventures	3
Michael Brehm	3
Ulf Stahrenberg	3
WestTech Ventures	3
David Nothacker	3
Feliks Eyser	3
Tiny VC	3
Mario Götze	3
Thomas Bachem	3
Goodwater Capital	3
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen	3
Basinghall Partners	3
Martin Ostermayer	3
Possible Ventures	3
Jens Begemann	3
Stefan Glänzer	3
Lima Ventures	3
Christophe Maire	3
Nicolaus Schefenacker	3
Dirk Freise	3
Daniel Krauss	2

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delli — We're a company just starting out on our mission to make good food accessible and enjoyed by all.
Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
Bioniq — Bioniq offers a data-driven approach to disease prevention and health promotion. To do this, the company has created a digital platform that aggregates and analyzes data from blood tests, genetic tests and microbiota tests using AI over time.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TRAIT — TRAIT Running Coach app for your iphone or ipad tablet.
DemoSquare — DemoSquare is a pioneer in the realm of public-affairs management connect businesses with government affairs by putting regulatory monitoring on autopilot.
ABH Optics ApS — ABH Optics provides the world's thinnest and lightest eyeglass lenses.

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

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

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.
Quantistry — Revolutionize your R&D with QuantistryLab. Explore 100 million structures and run your own simulations from Quantum to AI. Get started today!
Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.

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.

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
OneTwenty — OneTwenty is an early-stage health tech start-up that develops multiple Machine Learning based solutions for people with diabetes as well as Medtech companies for sensor optimization, biomarker prediction, glucoregulatory models, and iAGC (interoperable automated glycemic controller). Our solution demonstrates unprecedented precision in bloodglucose prediction 120 minutes in advance. OneTwenty revolutionizes the life of people with Type 1 diabetes.
HealthCaters — HealthCaters is a connected care solution for companies that allows them to empower their employees to take control of their health.

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform

Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
Niyyah — The goal of Niyyah is to give consumers a guided approach to comprehending the Quran in a way that is understandable, significant, and useful. With its short material, tailored suggestions, and gamified elements like leaderboards and prizes, it fits in easily with its users' everyday routines and gives them insight into the Quran'steachings and practical application of faith.
Solvely.ai — Inspire Every Human Mind

Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.The firm has invested in 24 companies across the education spectrum encompassing early childhood, K-12, higher education, and career mobility/professional learning. Owl leverages its deep domain expertise and takes an active hands-on approach to helpentrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category-leading companies.The firm was founded in 2014 and has over $600 million in assets under management.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Authentica Solutions — Authentica Solutions provides innovative solutions and products for education that empower learners, educators, and administrators.

allygatr builds and invests into HR Tech companies and helps them thrive. Our mission: Transforming HR & recruitment and leading it into the 21st century. Together with our allies, we want to cover the whole HR value chain: - Attract & Select - Motivate - Train & develop - Retain

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
Talentlobby — Talentlobby specializes in people consultants for the hospitality and catering sectors who rely on cutting-edge hiring practices.
HR Autopilot — HR-Autopilot offers workforce management services. The company provides a software solution that links several HR systems, automates workflows, and eliminates manual chores to help reduce errors. Large firms and organizations, for example, benefit from its strong HR system integration and process automation.

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Submix — Submix is a music technology startup that is changing how musicians, producers, and audio professionals work on music projects.
Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

coapp — coapp brings people and resources together under your brand and handles social and financial transactions between them. Easy!
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
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.
NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

MARKT-PILOT — MARKT-PILOT is proud to support machine manufactures and help them better manage the after-sales and supply chain management issues. As of today, MARKT-PILOT used its innovative AI-based software to analyze and optimize parts pricing for over 70 machine manufacturers. The results show that more than 90 percent of parts have high sales and profitpotential, since they are either underpriced or overpriced. This means that machine manufacturers are missing out on millions of euros. With the MARKT-PILOT software, PRICE-RADAR, manufactures now have comprehensive market intelligence and thus enable an intelligent market-oriented pricing strategy.
SurFunction — SurFunction is a system provider for contactless surface modification. It employs surface structures inspired by nature to improve and make items more sustainable, while actively contributing to society and beneficial ecological change.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Seqstant — Seqstant offers the LiveGene platform for real-time pathogen analysis, allowing for sensitive, specific, and user-friendly real-time genetic diagnostics.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.

B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Orus Energy — Orus Energy leverages the power of AI to unlock potential of electrical flexibility in commercial buildings.
SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

VYTAL — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
ZAGENO — ZAGENO is a multi-vendor, online marketplace of life science products which, by simplifying the procurement process, saves more time for science.
Hypatos — Manual document processing is a major cost driver. Hypatos' deep learning tech automates complex document processing tasks. Make back office more efficient!

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
SynthFlow AI — Build AI Agents at Scale. No Coding Required.
SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets

Holtzbrinck Digital is a venture capital fund and venture builder from Munich.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Lecturio — Lecturio provides the highest quality medical education content delivered in the most advanced teaching platform for medicine. Built in collaboration with instructors from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown University and more, Lecturio combines excellent didactics with high-tech delivery. Leading universities around the world trust us to helpthem deliver their unique approaches to teaching medicine and the platform adapts to their curricula and teaching methods.
pflege.de — web care LBJ GmbH is a service portal for care and housing for the elderly. The company advices and supports for individual inquiry about their telephone counselling services. It also has a network of partners across the region that offers its users with holistic services and domestic and institutional care.Caregivers for the elderly iscategorized as nursing and long term. The company offers a wide range of services such as food on wheels, everyday companion, and households and clearing. Accessible bathroom facilities are provided to the elders. They are treated with bath lift, hip bath, and tub to shower services. Stair lifts are also provided under the categories of home lift, hoist, and platform lift. A wide range of services and products, including carephone, mobile emergency, emergency mobile application, senior phones, and hearing aids are distributed.web care LBJ GmbH is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2011 by Lars Kilchert and Benedikt Zacher.
AMBOSS — AMBOSS: The digital medical resource that supports physicians in the hospital and students in the classroom. Ideal clinical companion & exam prep tool.

Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
Swap Language — Swap Language is a language learning platform that delivers Danish lessons to companies and international employees.
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.

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.

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.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Comun — The Neo Bank for Latino families
Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
The Rounds — Zero-waste deliveries and refills of sustainable staples. Philadelphia | DC | Miami | Atlanta

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
AVES Reality — We create a VR twin of the world

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

widu — widu enables real estate and accommodation companies to source visuals (photography, video, drone) at scale through its serviced marketplace
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
Prothea Technologies — Prothea Technologies is a private medical technology business to provide lung cancer biopsy and therapy in a single hospital visit.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Swap — Shipping, tracking, package-protection, returns & cross-border all from one dashboard. This is ecommerce evolved.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
Mindfuel — Our Data Product Management software solution and value services help increase transparency across the entire value chain, slash costs and boost your data ROI.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

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!

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

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.

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.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Briefly Bio — The tool to make your lab work reproducible. Capture and share your lab work, clearly and consistently.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
Solideon — Additive Space Technologies uses additive manufacturing systems, a machine-learning collaborative system for building vehicles and infrastructure on Earth, the Moon, or Mars.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
Packwise — Packwise is bringing Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to the Internet of Things. Their Packwise Smart Cap makes a container intelligent and allows for improved and automated packaging management and logistics. Millions of IBCs are being used by chemical, pharmaceutical and food companies every day. Their Packwise Smart Cap is narrow-band LPWANconnected and provides users with real-time information on the state and location of containers.Packwise develops ready-to-use web applications and can be integrated with existing in-house IT or software through web service API.Packwise GmbH is a German company based in the Silicon Saxony. Packwise is Europe’s pioneer in digital industrial packaging management (IBCs and drums).
watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.

Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.

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.

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion 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+.

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.

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.

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.

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.

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.

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