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Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in February 2025

Investor	Education Germany investments
HV Capital	14
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	12
Emerge	9
IBB Ventures	9
Owl Ventures	6
DvH Ventures	6
Angel Invest	5
Enjoyventure Management	5
Speedinvest	5
b2venture	5
allygatr	5
APX	5
Saarbruecker 21	4
Sparkmind.vc	4
TEV Ventures	4
La Famiglia	4
NRW.BANK	4
Grazia Equity	4
Atlantic Labs	4
Educapital	4
Holtzbrinck Digital	4
Capnamic Ventures	4
Cherry Ventures	3
Bayern Kapital	3
FJ Labs	3
noa	3
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen	3
Lima Ventures	3
Tiny VC	3
Goodwater Capital	3
Basinghall Partners	3
Possible Ventures	3
WestTech Ventures	3
Project A Ventures	3
ES KAPITAL	2
BlueYard Capital	2
Egora Holding	2
Factorial Capital	2
JVH Ventures	2
Foundamental	2
bmp Ventures	2
Peak	2
Vorwerk Ventures	2
Stride.VC	2
Hannover Beteiligungsfonds	2
Tengelmann Social Ventures	2
AENU	2
EquityPitcher Ventures	2
redalpine	2
Tiny VC	2

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pagent — Pagent develops AI systems.
AUDAVIS — AUDAVIS is developing the most innovative approach that will revolutionize auditing. With data-driven full automation by AUDAVIS and a new AI-based approach, every financial statement becomes a breeze with unprecedented efficiency.
Lindis Blood Care — Lindis Blood Care´s mission is to optimise the outcome of cancer surgeries by developing a Medical Device to remove cancer cells from blood during cancer surgeries to enable Autologous Blood Transfusion.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
LearnWise AI — Transform your institution's student support with AI. Cut support costs by 50%, provide 24/7 assistance, and integrate with 400+ EdTech tools. Trusted by leading universities.

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

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.

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

Jotit — Jotit is a cutting-edge educational technology startup that uses handwriting tools to help kids, instructors, and parents stay organized.
Smalt — Smalt recruits and trains young tradespeople in our innovative hybrid academies. Our B2B customers can also take advantage of our world-class, digitised installation services. Our highly skilled staff are outfitted with cutting-edge technology to provide high-quality installations for our partners.
Starbridge — Prioritize accounts, scale personalized outbound and automate proposal writing. Fueled by data on historical purchases, competitor contracts & planned spend.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
cognee inc — cognee helps you create a GraphRAG and supports Vector Stores, Graph stores, and various LLM providers
Synthera AI — Synthetic Data for Financial Markets using Generative AI

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

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
1Komma5° — KOMMA5 ° offers all owners of electric vehicles free electricity, which we refinance through trading with so-called GHG quotas. 1KOMMA5 ° encourages to lead a self-determined and CO2-neutral life.
assemblean — assemblean goal is to construct the digital manufacturing infrastructure of the future. We want to make it possible for everyone to build physical items as readily as software.

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.

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
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

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.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

We are 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.

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

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
ScrapBees — ScrapBees is a pick-up service for the recycling of scrap metal from commercial businesses and private households.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

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

ZAGENO — ZAGENO is a multi-vendor, online marketplace of life science products which, by simplifying the procurement process, saves more time for science.
XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
Formo — We're Formo, the future of dairy. Using micro fermentation, we create animal-free cheeses that humans love.

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, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

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 an EdTech company creating the framework that will drive education in the future!
Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.

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.

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

OCELL — Building the Operating System of Sustainable Forestry
Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
Dexory — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.

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

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Robeaute — Redesigning the future of neurosurgery by creating the new standard device that will provide surgeons with seamless access to delicate areas of the brain parenchyma and with real-time data.
Courtyard — Turn your trading cards, sneakers, watches, and more into tradable Connected Collectibles and earn a percentage of all future sales.

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

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
OCELL — Building the Operating System of Sustainable Forestry
StrategyBridgeAI — Automated data-driven analyses for any company out there. Our users include: Private equity, corporate strategy, M&A advisors & consultants.

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

nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.
Baton Market — Small business owners & buyers, you're 10X more likely to close the deal with Baton Market than the competition. Get the modern, dedicated business brokerage experience you deserve.
Berry Street — Nutrition therapy by registered dietitians covered by insurance.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Splight — Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry.
ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard — Wildsense monitors forest health using satellite imagery to help foresters better adapt to climate change-related risks like insect outbreaks and drought.
Smalt — Smalt recruits and trains young tradespeople in our innovative hybrid academies. Our B2B customers can also take advantage of our world-class, digitised installation services. Our highly skilled staff are outfitted with cutting-edge technology to provide high-quality installations for our partners.

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, Series A, Funding Round
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.
Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
Zenesis — Zenesis intends to change the way engineering planning processes are carried out.

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 — Enhanced, Qualified and Rational KYC (Know Your Customers) and KYB solutions at Enqura. Discover our banking and finance security solutions.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Outcome — Our mission: Give companies the power to continuously evolve
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

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, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.
Kast — Kast Finance provides open access, financial freedom, and rapid gratification services.
Final Round AI — Final Round AI is an AI-driven platform designed to fundamentally change the job search process.

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.

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

tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
Hippos Exoskeleton — Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries.

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.
ClimateChoice — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn 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

ENAPI — As an infrastructure layer company, ENAPI focuses on building the most secure, reliable, and scalable platform for stakeholder collaboration in the EV industry. ENAPI exists to commoditize connectivity and, thus, fuel the green mobility revolution.
11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Vaeridion — Clean and affordable air mobility before 2030.

Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft der Kreissparkasse Esslingen-Nürtingen mbH

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Gyde — Gyde offers digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching for managers.
VISPA — Your virtual unlimited space for innovation projects, workshop facilitation, and agile meetings. With more than 30 available pre-built templates.
NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.

Egora Holding is an investment company and concentrates on investments in Broadband Communications, Industrial Optronics,

Investment focus

Online Portals, Music, FinTech
Funding Round, Series A, Series D
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Skoove — Explore the magic of learning piano and discover your own little musical getaway. Join over 1 million people enjoying interactive piano lessons for beginners and advanced players.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

Factorial is an investment business.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Oboe — Oboe is an AI-powered educational platform that offers resources for learning.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.
Symbiotic Security — Symbiotic Security revolutionizes cybersecurity with an AI-driven coach, offering real-time detection, remediation, and training within the developer's IDE.

Angel and Seed stage investments in fast growing and highly scalable startups in growing markets led by dedicated entrepreneurs that are passionate about what they are doing. We invest in people that we would love to work with and who are capable to implement the quick iterations needed to make a startup company successful.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

DBtune — Most databases are shipped with very conservative default settings across a host of parameters to ensure that they can function properly for a wide variety of applications. However, once a database has been installed and applied to a particular application, there is plenty of room to tune these parameters in a way that improves your particulardatabase performance.
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
Composo — No more testing by vibes. Conduct data-driven evaluation to find the best prompts, models & end to end architecture for LLM applications.

Foundamental is the first partner to exceptional founders re-creating the real world globally

Investment focus

Construction, Software, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Desteia — Revolutionize your supply chain operations with cutting-edge technology. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools to enhance visibility, optimize your logistics, and fuel your growth plan.
Infra.Market — Various types of Building & Construction Materials Supplier in Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai. Infra market is solution/retail store for all types building and construction supplies & Civil products .
Tangible — Tangible is a climate technology company focused on building sustainable materials that are not harmful to the environment. Tangible is a unified software platform that catalyzes the adoption of sustainable building materials by allowing real estate developers, architects, and contractors to seamlessly identify, manage, and report on products thatmeet their carbon, environmental, and social goals.Founded in 2021 by Nicole Granath and Anneli Tostar, Tangible is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
Meela — Meela AB matches individuals with psychologists or psychotherapists for online and in-person therapy.
OpusFlow — OpusFlow is an all-in-one ERP system for the installation industry.

Vorwerk Ventures is an independent €150m Venture Capital Fund grown out of the Vorwerk Group in late 2019 and defines itself through a strong commitment towards consumer-facing digital businesses. Our unique direct selling experience in addition to an outstanding track record in Venture Capital provides added value for forward-thinkingentrepreneurs. Headquartered in Berlin Germany, we currently have more than €250m in assets under management and are constantly on the look-out for promising opportunities starting with Seed/Series A investments of €1m to €10m and ensuring continuous support reserving up to €15m for upcoming financing rounds. An outstanding founding team, an existing market presence and a well-defined exit strategy framed by a consumer-centric business model are key requirements to us when it comes to making an investment decision.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sunhero — Sunhero delivers custom-built solar panel solutions. Sunhero offers consumers a hassle-free method of installing customised photovoltaic solar systems on their homes, be that either purchasing outright or renting for a 20 year period.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
Sorella Care — Sorella is the first network of multidisciplinary health places for women. Sorella ensures that every woman, regardless of age, has access to a comprehensive care pathway offered by women's health specialists.

Stride.VC is a London-based seed-stage tech fund; a small team of dedicated venture investors backing small teams of passionate entrepreneurs. We favour prototypes over powerpoints and whiteboards over boards. We love our craft.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
DeepOpinion — Explore DeepOpinion's AI-powered Generative Automation for enterprises. Enhance business processes in finance, insurance, and manufacturing with our advanced AI solutions.
Kashmir Intelligence — Cloud Beating, on-prem AI Infrastructure - powering downstream operations for enhanced efficiency, cost savings, and security.

Hannover Beteiligungsfonds is a micro-venture capital company specialized in seed stage investments.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

iotis — Iotis creates a digital experience backed by data in the field of sports and technology. Iotis was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Hannover, Germany.
Wingfield — Wingfield develops a system intended to transform any tennis court in the world into a smart court. The system is a combination of hardware and artificial intelligence and keeps track of the score, analyzes strokes and gives personal feedback right after matches or practice sessions and the system only costs a fraction of a professional system andis easily set up, enabling players to get the same game analytics as the professionals do.
Cruisewatch — Cruisewatch helps you finding your perfect cruise at the best price. Use our price prediction and get informed as soon as prices change.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

AENU is an evergreen impact fund that focuses on stage-agnostic long-term investments in climate-tech and social impact companies.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

alcemy — Concrete is the most widely used building material on our planet. The only thing mankind uses more of is water. With a wave of urban development coming in the next few decades, concrete is also a rapidly growing trillion-dollar market. However, cement and concrete production is responsible for 8% of the global CO2 emissions, making its growth a bigcause for concern.Low-carbon concrete exists - but until now it has been too sophisticated to be produced reliably and on a large scale. It contains very little burnt limestone - responsible for the strength of concrete and CO2 emissions. This makes low-carbon concrete vulnerable to fluctuations in raw materials and operating conditions and thus difficult to produce with reliable quality. Adding to the challenge: the final quality of concrete can only be measured weeks AFTER it has been processed on the construction site - far too late to be corrected. This is why our world is still built on more robust, high-carbon concrete. Using alcemy's software, cement and concrete producers receive precise quality predictions already during production. Based on these prediction models, our AI identifies which production parameters need to be adjusted to mitigate the impact of fluctuations. Thus, the quality of cement and concrete can be optimized BEFORE delivery – for the first time in history.The result is significantly more consistent product quality, allowing producers to safely replace burnt limestone with less expensive, low-carbon materials found in nature. In this way, they can also avoid payments for CO2 emission certificates in the EU. Saving costs, bringing production processes up to speed for 21st century concrete recipes, and saving half of Europe’s CO2 emissions goes hand in hand at alcemy. Join us on our journey to make low-carbon concrete a reality!
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard — Wildsense monitors forest health using satellite imagery to help foresters better adapt to climate change-related risks like insect outbreaks and drought.

EquityPitcher is an Early-Growth Venture Capital firm that supports promising startups from the DACH region. Through close cooperation with renowned industry experts, investors and exit partners, we pave the way for entrepreneurs to attain the three decisive success factors: know-how, contacts and capital.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

sewts — Founded in 2019 and based in Munich, sewts GmbH provides cutting-edge perception software, pushing the boundaries of robotics in processing of easily deformable materials. sewts has developed and demonstrated a unique technology that uses high-precision finite element method (FEM) simulations to efficiently train machine learning algorithms. Theintelligent software solution enables countless applications in industrial automation like the handling of textiles in industrial laundries or the manufacturing of garment. sewts is backed by APEX Ventures, Bayern Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, UnternehmerTUM Initiative for Industrial Innovators and a couple of highly experienced business angels.
vestr — Vestr facilitates the creation and life-cycle management of actively managed investment products and offers a software-as-a-service to its clients. The software engine handles everything from portfolio rebalancing to investor reporting and audit trails, so issuers and portfolio managers can focus on their core competencies. vestr is a pure playtechnology company and does not issue their own structured products.
Wingtra — WingtraOne is an easy-to-use drone that delivers consistent, high-quality survey data faster and at a lower cost than other surveying tools.

redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Submix — Submix is a music technology startup that is changing how musicians, producers, and audio professionals work on music projects.
VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.

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