Top 15 Email Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)

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• CYBRET AI — Continuous Black, Grey, and White box pentesting. Cover authorized targets, prove exploitable findings with replay evidence, and ship the fix.
• Orbio — AI agents that own HR work end to end: hiring, onboarding, engagement. Enterprise-grade security and AI governance.
• Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.

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• 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 — ClimateChoice provides the AI-powered Climate Intelligence Platform designed for procurement- and climate teams to accelerate Scope 3 decarbonization. Companies use it to automate time-consuming and costly supplier engagement processes and collect audit-ready data at scale. Trusted by leaders like T-Systems, Lenovo, o2 Telefónica, and EnBW.Inorder to accelerate knowledge sharing, we support businesses to exchange best practices across a number of touchpoints, including an annual conference, a blended-learning program, regular webinars and an online magazine.

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• Lassie — The AI for independent doctors.
• Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
• Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.

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• Fyxer AI — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
• Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
• Lovable — Build apps, websites, and digital products faster using Lovable's AI-powered platform, no deep coding skills required.

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• Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
• Ricehouse — Ricehouse creates sustainable construction materials from organic waste from the rice industry to create natural building materials such as rice straws, husks, and chaff. Their products include insulating panels, base plasters, screeds and subfloors, cladding systems, and vertical matt-closing components. The goal of Ricehouse is to construct ahouse made entirely of rice and everything that houses humans, from the smallest to the largest scales.
• Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

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• Uniwhere — Developer of a university college app that helps students stay on top of their academic life. It syncs with college data and shows it to the student. It's the University Dashboard.
• SpeedLegal — SpeedLegal simplifies time-consuming contracts into easy-to-understand reports. Our AI platform instantly understands your contract, clarifies each clause, and verifies that each term complies with market standards. We take care of the details so you can focus on the big picture.
• Cambridge Nucleomics — Cambridge Nucleomics offers direct native RNA quantification tech using custom probes and single-molecule detection.

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• Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
• Smartblue — Smartblue develops and runs software and processes to monitor and optimize zero emission energy systems. As a hardware independent specialist Smartblue delivers a software service for the maintenance, life-cycle management, production forecasting and remote control of photovoltaic and energy storage systems all together in one centralized “SmartControl” Operations and Control Center web application. We help our customers drive down overall operational cost through automation, smart failure detection and big data analysis on imminent defects.
• OMEICOS Therapeutics — OMEICOS Therapeutics is developing a novel, first-in-class, small molecule utilizing a new Mode of Action. OMEICOS' novel therapeutic strategy is based upon the discovery of natural metabolites of omega-3 fatty acids that mediate a strong anti-arrhythmic effect. In contrast to all other anti-arrhythmic drugs, OMEICOS' substances activatean endogenous cardio-protective signaling pathway that not only stabilizes the heart rhythm but shall provide curative effects to the diseased organ by preventing its electrical and structural remodeling.

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• Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with shipments from brokers across the nation.
• FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance — FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• Finom — Finom is an online payment solution for entrepreneurs that makes it easy to open a business account and securely manage their finances.

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• mika — mika is an accounting solution firm that offers monthly bookkeeping, payroll, invoice management, and financial planning services.
• 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.
• Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.

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• EnOcean — EnOcean is a pioneer for the digitization of our world. With our energy harvesting technology, we deliver the data for the Internet of Things in a resource-saving, self-powered and maintenance-free way.
• PandoLogic (formerly RealMatch) — Unlock the power of PandoLogic's programmatic job advertising AI platform, revolutionizing recruitment software for efficient and effective hiring. Experience the future of recruiting by requesting a demo today.
• Inge Watertechnologies — Inge develops ultrafiltration technology for drinking water, sea water, waste water, and processed water.

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• Vela — Vela is a leading independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading. Our software enables clients to rapidly access global liquidity, markets, and data sources for superior execution. We help firms successfully differentiate and innovate in an ever-changing, increasingly regulated, and fiercelycompetitive landscape, while also reducing total cost of ownership. Vela’s market data, execution and automated trading software deliver a unique, ultra-low latency technology stack to simplify and streamline electronic trading. We leverage the latest innovations in technology to deliver cutting-edge performance, features and reliability. Our modular stack provides access to a comprehensive set of trading data and risk APIs and can be delivered “as-a-Service” from multiple co-location data centers globally. With access to more than 250 venues, Vela provides global coverage across all major asset classes. Clients are supported by an award-winning team of technical and business experts available 24x7 from our multiple offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Vela’s clients include traders, market makers, brokers, banks, investment firms, exchanges, and other market participants.
• Pluralsight — Pluralsight is the technology workforce development company that helps teams know more and work better together with stronger skills, improved processes and informed leaders.
• Profluent Bio — Profluent Bio is an AI-first protein design company that designs novel, optimal proteins that bypass existing barriers in industry.

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• nyra health — nyra health is an artificial intelligence and evidence-based neurological research tablet app that offers a revolutionary form of therapy. nyra health was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
• Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
• Beren Therapeutics — Founded to serve patients through transformative medicines

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• Belo — Crypto for everyone, everyday
• Senticell — Senticell is a biotechnology and molecular diagnostics company developing a breakthrough platform that uses red blood cell (RBC) DNA and cfDNA analysis to revolutionize non-invasive disease detection. The research demonstrates that RBCs act as immune-responsive biosensors, capable of carrying molecular and genetic biomarkers from across the body -unlocking a powerful and previously untapped gateway for liquid biopsy and precision diagnostics. By harnessing this cellular intelligence, we enable early disease detection, biomarker discovery and AI-driven diagnostic insights to support precision medicine and personalised treatment outcomes.
• Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.

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• Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
• myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.

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• Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
• Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
• Searchmetrics — Where enterprises go to win in AI search