# Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Germany in June 2026

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech

Verena Pausder

## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

## IBB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.

## Emerge VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.

## Sven Gabor Janszky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech

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.

## Allygatr
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, SaaS

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

## Angel Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## Owl Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

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.

## DvH Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Financial Services

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## b2venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## APX
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Enjoyventure Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

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

## TEV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

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.

## Atlantic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<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.

## La Famiglia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Possible Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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.

## Udo Schloemer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Apps

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.

## Holtzbrinck Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, Internet

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

## Jens Begemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2C, EdTech, Children

Jens Begemann

## Educapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

## Capnamic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Stefan Peukert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning

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

## NRW.BANK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology

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.

## Grazia Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology

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.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Bayern Kapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Landshut, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Saarbruecker 21
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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.

## Sparkmind.vc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, EdTech

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.

## Feliks Eyser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Learning, Medical

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

## Christophe Maire
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

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.

## Ulf Stahrenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps

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.

## Daniel Schütt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, SaaS

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.

## David Nothacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

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

## Lea-Sophie Cramer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Food Delivery

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]

## Stefan Glänzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media

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.

## Lima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

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.

## Martin Ostermayer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Apps, Software

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.

## Dirk Freise
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, TV

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

## Thomas Bachem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Education, Information Technology

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.

## Nicolaus Schefenacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

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

## WestTech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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.

## Vorwerk Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

Backing early-stage startups that drive positive impact for people and planet

## Tiny VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Backing great companies when they're tiny

## Brandenburg Kapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## Peak
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

## noa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

A/O PropTech's purpose is to transform the built world and make it more digital, climate-conscious & efficient by applying innovative Tech and business models.

## AQAL Integral Investing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology

Munich-based AQAL Group is an active technology and impact holding company using the Integral Investing approach. Focus: exponential technology and digital evolution (Internet infrastructure, artificial intelligence, blockchain & financial tech, B2B IT solutions, Industry 4.0), green technology (renewable energy, energy efficiency, cleantech, circular economy), and life in the 21st century (future mobility, food, life science, med tech, media & entertainment tech).

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