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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Germany in January 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in January 2025

Investor Finance Germany investments
Speedinvest 8
redalpine 7
Earlybird Venture Capital 7
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds 6
DvH Ventures 5
Point Nine 5
another.vc 4
Atlantic Labs 4
Investitionsbank Berlin 3
Volta Ventures 3
coparion 3
HV Capital 3
Redstone.VC 3
New Wave (VC) 3
Kreos Capital 3
Fly Ventures 3
DN Capital 3
Avala Capital 3
bmp Ventures 3
Kilian Thalhammer 3
Michael Brehm 3
finleap 3
Loric Ventures 2
STS Ventures 2
Carlo Kölzer 2
Marc McCabe 2
Marcus Borner 2
Index Ventures 2
Rocket Internet 2
Cannonball Capital 2
ING Ventures 2
Creandum 2
Karl-Heinz Flother 2
Calm/Storm Ventures 2
Kai Hansen 2
Tiny VC 2
Global Founders Capital 2
Tiburon 2
Tiny VC 2
Project A Ventures 2
BayBG Venture Capital 2
Luca Ascani 2
Raffael Johnen 2
Stefan Glänzer 2
Bayern Kapital 2
UNIQA Ventures 2
LIQUiDITY Group 2
Manta Ray Ventures 2
Digital Pioneers 2
Picus Capital 2
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Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 40 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
  • Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.
redalpine VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 15 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
  • Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
  • OrthoPulse — OrthoPulse is a medical device manufacturer that produces dental care equipment, treatment control apps, and photo biomodulation solutions.
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 35 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GEMMABio — GEMMABio, a new therapeutics company, will serve as the research and innovation arm to speed the research of and global access to life-changing advanced therapies for those living with rare diseases.
  • 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.
  • Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 60 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pagent — Pagent develops AI systems.
  • Refoxy Pharma — Developer of therapeutic medicines intended to treat age-related diseases and improve healthy longevity.
  • 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.
DvH Ventures VC Fund · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.
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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.
Point Nine VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
  • Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
  • Root Global — We help companies along the agricultural supply chain get to Net Zero.
another.vc VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Switzerland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
  • AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Atlantic Labs VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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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.
Investitionsbank Berlin VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Grant, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
  • Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
  • CyberTide — CyberTide is an AI-based Data Leak Prevention Solution
Volta Ventures VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies (SaaS) in the Benelux region
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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 — Fero uses predictive AI to customize the payment process and pathway uniquely for every individual customer. Acknowledging the uniqueness of each customer and personalizing their checkout experience on an individual basis leads to an enhanced customer experience and, consequently, higher conversion rates. FERO's AI engine empowers itsclientsto strategically determine when to offer pricier payment methods and when to provide more economical choices, effectively lowering payment expenses while preserving conversion rates.
  • Ecochain Technologies — Ecochain is a life cycle assessment software and services company that helps companies reduce their environmental footprint. Learn more.
coparion VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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
HV Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 21 investments in the past 12 months
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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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.
  • Tourlane — Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
  • 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.
Redstone.VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 investments in the past 12 months
The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
  • ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
New Wave (VC) VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Finance, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
  • Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
  • Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Kreos Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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 Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • carbmee GmbH — Automate your companys carbon & ESG reporting & reduce Scope 1,2,3 emissions. Decarbonization tool based on data & science. Enterprise climate platform.
  • Lakera — 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 leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.
DN Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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).
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
  • Plumery — Plumery provides an innovative Digital Banking Platform, empowering you to elevate your customer digital banking experiences.
  • Evidently — Evidently is a Cognitive AI platform powering the future of data-driven medicine. The EHR-embedded Evidently app gives clinicians superpowers to provide faster and better care.
Avala Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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.
bmp Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Kilian Thalhammer Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout
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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.
Michael Brehm Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
  • Atheneum — Powered by a network of 1,000,000+ experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.
finleap VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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
Loric Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Technology is transforming the way we live, work and play. Loric Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive solutions globally, with a focus on fin- and urbantech and impact.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SaveIN — SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions.We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, andunbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.
  • SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets
  • Lun — Your all-in-one heat pump platform. Streamline system design, lead qualification, scheduling, quoting and much more.
STS Ventures VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
STS Ventures is a tech-oriented VC that is strongly differentiated from other venture capital funds primarily by its focus on camel tech start-ups and its investment focus on niche markets. Camel start-ups are companies that are resilient and resistant and can therefore survive even under difficult economic conditions, pandemics or global crises.The VC bundles the business angel activities of the Cologne-based serial entrepreneur and investor Stephan Schubert. In addition, business angels, entrepreneurs and family offices who are friends or in close business association with Stephan Schubert invest jointly with him through STS Ventures. Since the advent of the internet in Europe in the late 1990s, Stephan Schubert has invested in numerous technology-driven start-ups and has become one of the most active and experienced business angels in Germany.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • GIPEDO — We believe sport content consumption will become more diversified in the future, not less. Hence, we put clubs and rights holders into control by providing a platform that turns stadiums into digital assets to supercharge content monetisation.
  • Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
  • Golfstrom Energy GmbH — Embedded financial services for renewable energy
Carlo Kölzer Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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.
Marc McCabe Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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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.
Marcus Borner Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
  • Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Reverse.supply — reverse.supply helps brands & retailers become more sustainable by enabling them to own the resale of their products
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 56 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
  • Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
  • Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.
Rocket Internet VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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 Capital VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany
Cannonball is a partnership-led investment office. We accompany our capital investors to investment success.
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Investment focus
  • Finance, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Deep Neuron Lab — Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.
ING Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Creandum VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 15 investments in the past 12 months
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Sweden, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
  • Appcharge — Appcharge helps mobile game publishers sell in-game items directly to their players with branded web stores, global payments, and gamified offers. Boost profits by 35% and build stronger player loyalty with the fastest-growing DTC platform for top-grossing mobile games.
  • Kurrent — Persist your application data as streams of events with our open-source database, EventStoreDB. We believe it's the best data storage solution for event-sourced systems. Available for free download on most platforms or use our managed service Event Store Cloud.
Karl-Heinz Flother Angel · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo
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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.
Calm/Storm Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
  • Linq — The safest way to send intimate content
  • Univa Health — Univa's objective is to provide evidence-based clinical tools that address the detrimental impact of eating disorder diseases on both the individual and their families.
Kai Hansen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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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.
Tiny VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
  • Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
  • Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
  • Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
  • Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Tiburon VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
  • Eprazel — Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning. Their team consists of seasoned professionals all working together to build best-in-class products that serve the $13 trillion US commercial real estate market.
  • FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
Tiny VC VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 27 investments in the past 12 months
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
  • USA cash app account — If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop
  • Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.
Project A Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
BayBG Venture Capital VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
  • Parkstory — Parkstory offers fully automated parking solutions that are supported by artificial intelligence.
  • 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.
Luca Ascani Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
  • 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: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Raffael Johnen Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Software
  • Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Nigeria, Germany, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
  • Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
  • Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.
Stefan Glänzer Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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.
Bayern Kapital VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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!
  • Loyalift — Loyalift unlocks the power of "hidden" consumer data through AI-driven analytics, combine it with customer internal data and enables brand to take strategic decisions in the most efficient way. With an annual video marketing spend of €144 billion lacking in effectiveness tracking, Loyalift addresses the critical gap in understandingconsumer interactions and brand perception in digital spaces. Our innovative AI platform not only analyzes video content (both live and saved) but also provides contextual insights into user interactions, offering brands a unique tool for measuring call-to-actions, brand perception, and market desires.Our solution enables seamless integration of customer data from CRM & ERP systems with Loyalift's insights, facilitating direct communication through a sophisticated AI model. This integration empowers brands to make strategic decisions based on a holistic view of market feedback and internal data analytics. Loyalift's vision is to transform customer relationships by consolidating diverse data endpoints, guiding brands toward informed strategic decisions and enhanced market positioning. Experience the future of market analytics with Loyalift, where every piece of data tells a story.
  • StrategyBridgeAI — Automated data-driven analyses for any company out there. Our users include: Private equity, corporate strategy, M&A advisors & consultants.
UNIQA Ventures VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
LIQUiDITY Group VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Liquidity provides growth funding from $3m to $100m - 24 hours to Term Sheet - No Covenants. A global fintech and fund management company, that provides rapid, scaled debt facilities to finance growth across all stages and verticals of the global tech market.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Education
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Private Equity
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Actnano — Actnano is a nanotechnology company that specializes in automotive, consumer electronics, and smart coating solutions that make products water-resistant. The company enables the protection of a variety of materials from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. Its technology provides a broad spectrum of transparent nano guard coatings thatcan be applied to electronic devices in a way that makes them water-resistant to IPx7 levels, enabling clients to keep their electronics and gadgets protected and last long in an economical way.actnano was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Fashinza — New Generation Supply Chain And Product Development Platform For Fashion Industry. No matter where you are! We provide one stop solution from design to delivery.
  • Top Doctors — Top Doctors is an online platform for identifying, interacting, and booking e-consultations with medical specialists in private healthcare. The company represents over 60,000 of the world’s top physicians and uses the latest innovation and technology to bring them closer to the patients. Top Doctors represents doctors in the US, Europe, and LatinAmerica. The company has become a reference for providing trustworthy and up-to-date information on choosing leading national and international medical professionals, covering the full range of specialties and all the latest medical treatments. The company accounts for over 1 million users on its site per month, and it has satisfied over 10 million patients’ needs when selecting the best doctors from all around the world.
Manta Ray Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Aqtual — Clinically-Actionable Insights From Circulating DNA In Blood
  • Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
  • Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
Digital Pioneers VC Fund · Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
Das exklusive Barclays Arena Hamburg stellen kostenfrei eine EventLoge. Wir wollen spannende StartUps in einem kleinen privaten Kreis zusammenbringen.
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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.
Picus Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 24 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Omni HR — Omni HR helps companies automate the end-to-end employee journey including onboarding, time off, employee management, and more. Easy to use and customizable!
  • Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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