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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Germany

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

Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Germany

Investor	Finance Germany investments
Speedinvest	8
redalpine	7
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	6
Earlybird Venture Capital	6
Point Nine	5
DvH Ventures	5
Atlantic Labs	4
another.vc	4
HV Capital	3
Volta Ventures	3
bmp Ventures	3
finleap	3
coparion	3
Michael Brehm	3
Redstone	3
New Wave (VC)	3
Kreos Capital	3
Fly Ventures	3
Kilian Thalhammer	3
DN Capital	3
Avala Capital	3
Bayern Kapital	2
Kai Hansen	2
Calm/Storm Ventures	2
Stefan Glänzer	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Saarbruecker 21	2
Bruce Wallace	2
Rocket Internet	2
Cannonball Capital	2
Tiny VC	2
Marc McCabe	2
Futury Capital	2
Picus Capital	2
ING Ventures	2
Global Founders Capital	2
BayBG Venture Capital	2
Project A Ventures	2
Rancilio Cube	2
Karl-Heinz Flother	2
Guillaume "G" Cabane	2
Investitionsbank Berlin	2
André M. Bajorat	2
TX Ventures	2
Luca Ascani	2
Index Ventures	2
Carlo Kölzer	2
UNIQA Ventures	2
La Famiglia	2
Digital Pioneers	2

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.
InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Proofs — The go-to-market for software. AI Agents building proof-of-concept apps and integrations on top of APIs
M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

BlueLayer — BlueLayer transforms the management of carbon projects with a cutting-edge software stack that frees up valuable resources to bring more quality credits to market.
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
SynthFlow AI — Forget lengthy development cycles and expensive machine learning teams. With Synthflow you can build sophisticated, tailored AI agents without technical skills or coding - just bring your data and ideas.
SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets

We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

8links — Advanced Battery Tech at Scale with 8inks: Revolutionize cell design, manufacturing, and chemistry for TWh-level solutions .
mimic — mimic builds scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
Isospec Analytics SA — Isospec Analytics SA is a life science company that aims at simplifying molecular identification. We are unlocking the potential of glycomics and metabolomics in disease biomarker discovery and for the development of safer nutritional and pharmaceutical products.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Creator.Bid — Hub for the AI Creator Economy
Storyblok — Storyblok is an intuitive content management system that helps your developer and marketing teams get value from your content faster and create innovative digital experiences.

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Propellant.digital — We are a Netherlands based FinTech that is focused on bring together public and private data to power business decisions in a low cost way. Born in 2021, our mission is to organise financial markets information and make it transparent, accessible, affordable and useful to all parties in the ecosystem. Propellant.Digital is headed up by foundersVincent Grandjean, and Allan Horgan, both professionals who have a long history in the financial market technology sector and wanted to leverage their experience to create a solution that was low cost.
Fero — Welcome to FERO
Ecochain Technologies — Ecochain is a life cycle assessment software and services company that helps companies reduce their environmental footprint. Learn more.

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

Neotiv — Enabling cognitive health
RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
InLine-Med — Radiologists perform safe, precise & easy interventions with the InLine-Med surgical tools and assistance devices.

finleap is Europe's leading fintech ecosystem, headquartered in Berlin. finleap was founded in 2014 by IONIQ Group and Ramin Niroumand, and has since built and scaled 18 companies and added more to its ecosystem through acquisitions.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Penta — Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily.Penta's mission is to disrupt businessbanking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Qwist — We enable partners to deliver seamless, digitized financial services to customers with our full-stack Open Banking platform. Learn more here.
ELEMENT Insurance — ELEMENT is your partner for everything you need to distribute insurance products | ELEMENT Insurance

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
Crafthunt — Find your dream job - Discover Crafthunt – Europe's largest platform for construction site jobs.Browse new jobs anonymously without being discovered by your current employer.Discover jobs for site managers, foremen, bricklayers, plant mechanics, and more...Save time in your job search and also be proactively approached by companiesacross 21 languages.Sign up and discover the best engineering offices, construction companies & craft businesses in Europe with Crafthunt!
Wave Photonics — Wave Photonics utilizes computational techniques to accelerate integrated photonics product designs.The company is developing a platform that provides optimized designs and streamlined integration between the supply chain using a software tool for predicting the performance and variation of a component for a given fabrication process and anoptimizer to generate a foundry-specific component library.Wave Photonics is headquartered in Bristol, Bristol.

New Wave is a seed only fund, whose purpose is to back the next generation of successful European founders. New Wave was co-founded by two early-stage investors Pia d'Iribarne (ex-Accel, Stride) and Jean de La Rochebrochard (Kima), and is backed by a group of iconic founders (Free, Zenly, Voodoo, Sorare) and GPs from the best later-stage funds(Coatue, Benchmark, DST, Insight Partners).

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

Kreos Capital is Europe's largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. Since 1998, as the pioneer growth debt provider across the UK, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Israel: Kreos has completed nearly 450 transactions and committed €1.8 billion in 14 different countries. Kreos has aproven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos's international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Debt Financing, Series B, Post-IPO Debt
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
BiolineRx — BioLineRx is building a best-in-class pipeline designed to deliver meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients with certain cancers and rare diseases.
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
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.
Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials: Building novel solutions for clean air, water and energy with AI.

Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Vantik — Vantik is a 2017 launched, Berlin-based PensionTech startup. Their vision is a simple and secure private pension that is as flexible as life itself, their mission is to inspire millennials saving for their future. They are currently in their Seed phase, looking for highly motivated and inspiring team members who want to become part of a cool,motivated, and diversified team in the heart of Berlin.
LoanLink24 Mortgage — LoanLink24 is Germany's online mortgage broker that transforms the traditional process of getting home loans and helps expats get the best rate in buying property in Germany.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it

Avala Capital invests in high-growth companies with ambitious goals and the talents to achieve them. The company partners with exceptional entrepreneurs capable of disrupting a market by creating major change in a way which can be sustained and scaled. Its focus is on Internet business models, such as cloud, mobile, and online marketplaces as wellas on businesses heavily benefiting from offline to online conversion.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volocopter — Volocopter is here to change air transport and the aviation industry with the its all-electric air taxi. Discover it now!
Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
Talentspace — Talentspace is the hybrid & virtual career fair platform that brings real hiring results. Our event experience is the branding that employers need to attract talent.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Scavenger AI — Generative AI and Data Analytics for your daily business challenges. Scavenger uses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms to power its 3 tools: Purity, Quantum and Prophecy. Purity cleans and harmonizes the data. Quantum runs statistical algorithms and analyzes the data. Prophecy d
ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
Foundation Health — Foundation Health is a telehealth and nationwide pharmacies and diagnostic distribution centre

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Bruce Wallace is the Strategic Advisor at Brex.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Friday Finance — Access your bank accounts, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Set up Airbank for free in less than 10 minutes.
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.

Cannonball is a partnership-led investment office. We accompany our capital investors to investment success.

Investment focus

Finance, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Deep Neuron Lab — Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

We are looking for the newcomers, the architects of the future, the movers & shakers.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rail-Flow — Rail-Flow provides purchase and tender management, rail offer management, intermodal transportation management, intermodal capacity brokers, transport management, and automatic order entry. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
seedtrace — Manage, prove and communicate the social and ecological impact along your products' supply chains through our digital platform.
Digital Spine — Our mission is to disrupt the paradigm that buildings are mainly defined by bricks, concrete & steel. We are enhancing their purpose and definition with digital technology, realtime connectivity & user-centric software applications. We distill 90 years of experience in machinery & engineering into cutting edge cloud-based solutions& services.Our core competency is the digital transformation of vertical mobility & transport within the ecosystem of smart buildings.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Klarity — Automated document management for finance and accounting - Review, Reporting, and Audit Trail.
Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
Niva — Niva is a global business identity platform used to build trust in businesses across the globe.

ING Ventures is the venture capital arm of ING making minority investments in early stage companies that have a strategic relevance to ING. It targets disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact ING’s business and ensure customers and clients get access to best-in-class services. Based in Amsterdam but shadowing ING’s geographicfootprint of 41 countries, ING Ventures is a €300 million fund that not only drives innovation within ING, but also helps entrepreneurs with hands-on support, know-how, scaling expertise and access to our distribution network.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

OpenFin — OpenFin unified workspace for enterprise productivity powers desktops with the same app distribution, security and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
fintonic — Fintonic is a mobile-centric consumer banking platform that provides its users with insurance and investment products, and targeted loans. It offers an advanced access point for its users to enter all of their accounts as well as financial information to guide them through the analysis of millions of financial data points with relevant financialproducts.Fintonic´s algorithm analyses the suitability of a user for a loan and presents the user with pre-approved loans that can be contracted with a click of a button. The application is currently available in Spain and Chile with over 250,000 users. It was launched in 2012 and is based in Madrid, Spain.
EIT InnoEnergy — Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is the leading innovation engine in Sustainable Energy. With offices in Europe and US, the firm seeks to make equity minority investments in early-stage companies and through added value services make the business case bigger, sooner and safer (de-risking). Investment scope: climate tech and energy sectors.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Carv.com — Carv's AI recruiting platform is designed to take over repetitive admin tasks related to intakes and interviews, for a renewed focus on the candidate.
Elevate Pay — Bloom mobile banking app helps in money transfer in Sudan.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
Kloster Kitchen — Kloster Kitchen is a monastery kitchen as the root of unique taste.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Cube is the investment office founded by Rancilio family

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Convoy — Using technology and automation, the Convoy Platform seamlessly connects carriers with loads from shippers and 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 companies and freelancers that helps entrepreneurs manage their finances. It's easy to use, secure, and covers all business needs.

Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo

Investment focus

FinTech, CRM, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Clark — Clark is an insurance platform providing transparent, cheap and comprehensive insurance coverage. By combining technology and insurance expertise, Clark offers users simple, fair and customer-centric insurance advice. The Berlin-based company was founded in June 2015 by Dr. Christopher Oster and Steffen Glomb. Clark is supported by FinTechincubator FinLeap and the insurance think tank ITA - "Institute for Transparency".
Shore — Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system.Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.
CARL — Carl allows small and medium-sized companies and their advisors to find an acquirer or investor. Through a managed marketplace-approach, it enables a confidential channel to approach new investors and transact efficiently, easily and expand the reach in M&A processes. On the other hand, it allows investors to substantially increase relevantdeal flow and access opportunities, they otherwise would have missed. Furthermore, dedicated software allows for an efficient administration and processing of M&A deals. Carl caters to firms with revenues between $1M to $100M and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tavus — Programmatically create thousands of videos of yourself, without saying a word. AI generated videos for sales, product, marketing, recruiting, and more
Friday Finance — Access your bank accounts, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Set up Airbank for free in less than 10 minutes.
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) is the subsidy bank of the Federal Land of Berlin. With its newly orientated economic support and subsidy policy, it actively contributes towards developing Berlin as a business and industry location.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy
Seed, Grant, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
Lition Energie — Lition Energy was an marketplace that connects renewable energy prodcuers and consumers directly. It was a governmental-licensed electrecity provider in Germany. It supplied over 20.000 households with 70.000 people with clean energy before it closed down as part of the European Energy Crisis in the winter of 2021.
Deep Neuron Lab — Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.

Andre Bajorat is the Head of Strategy Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. He attended the University of Cologne from 1994 to 1997.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OWWN — wajve offers all financial services like banking, advice, and education in one app.
deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.
Compa — Payment platform for construction projects

We help smart startups to establish and enhance their products and services. We also assist our holdings with their strategic planning activities and offer them shared services and networking platforms. Our collaboration with these entrepreneurs is focused on the pursuit of long-term goals.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sinpex — One-stop-shop for digitized compliance, such as KYC, Client Onboarding, and other compliance processes. Benefit from faster client onboarding, less regulatory risk, and increased customer satisfaction. Powered by cutting edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) for banks, insurance, and crypto companies.
SaaScada — SaaScada is a fintech startup that provides a cloud-native platform for digital banking solutions. The company's configurable, cloud-native platform of open APIs enables existing financial institutions and new entrants to launch low-cost digital banking services in as little as 12 weeks. It provides a future-proof solution for product launchesand innovation by allowing clients to quickly create bespoke products and user experiences that can be launched seamlessly. SaaScada simplifies and accelerates the process of developing new services by redesigning how core banking services are delivered, allowing for launch in months rather than years in a cost-effective, compliant, and secure manner.
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for in house legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

Carlo Koelzer is a founding partner and member of 360T’s Group Executive Board and Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee member. Furthermore he is Global Head of FX of Deutsche Börse Group. Carlo started his investment banking career as a financial analyst for Hess & Co., New York, in the field of mergers & acquisitions and blocktrading. Later, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt and New York. Carlo has extensive in-depth process knowledge of Capital Markets notably Global Markets, Global Equities, Trading, Sales, Risk Control and Financial Accounting. Prior to founding 360T, Carlo headed a task force within the Internal Audit Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Investment focus

Small and Medium Businesses, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series C
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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.
future demand — future demand sells out your concerts, shows and games. We build software to predict demand years in advance, increase sales for low-demand events and set your team up for success.

UNIQA Ventures GmbH is the Venture Capital arm of UNIQA Insurance Group AG, a leading insurance carrier in Central & Eastern Europe and a pioneer in Corporate-backed Venture Capital in Austria and CEE. Based in Vienna, Austria, the firm is investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams and a clear vision to shape the future ofkey industries. Investment areas are the future of Health, Mobility, Intelligent Home and FinTech/InsurTech as well as enabling technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, ML/AI.

Investment focus

Insurance, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ifeel — Ifeel is the emotional well-being platform for modern organizations. Ifeel is a unique workplace mental health platform for companies.
goUrban — goUrban offers mobility solutions for sharing operators and B2B fleet management. The way of transportation and mobility is changing rapidly. For operating smarter and using the opportunities of the sharing economy we provide you our fleet management OS.
doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.

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 — Transform your customer service across all channels with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform.
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.

Das exklusive Barclays Arena Hamburg stellen kostenfrei eine EventLoge. Wir wollen spannende StartUps in einem kleinen privaten Kreis zusammenbringen.

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Banking
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.

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