# Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Germany in June 2026

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Dagmar Wöhrl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce

Dagmar Wöhrl

## Döhler Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing

Döhler Ventures is a long-term oriented & entrepreneurial investor empowering early-stage startups in the nutrition & technology ecosystem.

## Good Seed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.

## Shio Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery


Shio Capital

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## Freigeist Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps

Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.

## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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

## GGF
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing

The Green Generation Fund invests in early stage Food Tech and Green Tech companies that make our lives and diets more sustainable, healthy and ethical. 

## seed + speed Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage

Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.

## Nils Glagau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Wellness

Nils Glagau

## Cherry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

## Bayern Kapital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Landshut, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## TEV Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion

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

## Sustainable Food Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing

SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant

## Saarbruecker 21
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

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

## Vorwerk Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software

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

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale.  If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

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

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

## Tillman Schulz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, E-Commerce

Tillman Schulz

## better ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce

At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.

## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech

Verena Pausder

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

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

## Calm/Storm VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Software

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.

## Tijen Onaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education

Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women

## LeadX Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Restaurants

Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.

## Graphit NeoTaste
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ellmau, Tirol, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, B2B

Graphit NeoTaste is an family investment office.

## Oyster Bay Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Pet

Venture capital firm with a focus on healthy, sustainable and functional food & beverage companies as well as disruptive ag-tech companies.

## Ole Strohschnieder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Food and Beverage, B2B, Beauty

Ole Strohschnieder is the Co-Founder and CMO of JustSpices.

## Übermorgen Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

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

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

## Blue Horizon Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology

Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.

## Monkfish Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.

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

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

## Point Nine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Agronomics
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Douglas, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing

Venture capital investment can raise funds for your small business. Venture Capital Firms in the UK like Agronomics is a biotech venture capital firm which invest into the clean meat sector.

## SFO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Weingarten, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet

SFO is an entrepreneur from the start-up environment and medium-sized companies. SFO offers complementary expertise, reliable capital, and an effective network.

## Simon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

Simon Capital is an early-stage VC fund with €105M capital ready to invest in innovations that will improve our everyday lives, following the mission of investing “for the next generation”.

## First Momentum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Pre-Seed B2B Tech VC - Engineers at heart, investors by choice

## Dennis Aogo
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software

Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer.

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

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.

## Stefan Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Eyewear, Organic Food

Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

## kopa ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy Management, Solar, Energy

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

## Roger Hassan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ilford, Redbridge, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Grocery, Medical

Roger Hassan is the Founding Partner at Shorea Ventures.

## blueworld.group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS

Entrepreneurship. Ingenious. Smart. Responsible.
blueworld.group combines the three core components of entrepreneurship: founding, investing and developing. blueworld.group acts as an investor and idea generator for both early-stage and established companies in a wide range of industries. blueworld.group works hand in hand with pioneeringcompanies, their managers and employees to create outstanding performance as well as genuine and sustainable value. Always with the aim of harmonizing progress and sustainability in all dimensions.

## Bitburger Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bitburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace

In the mid of 2018, Bitburger Holding founded the investment company Bitburger Ventures for its investments in start-ups. The aim is to combine the growth potential of young, innovative companies with the financial strength and access to different expertise along the value chain of the Bitburger Group. Our heritage as a medium-sized family businesswith a long-term orientation distinguishes Bitburger Ventures from pure financial investors and offers young entrepreneurs a unique added value. Our activities focus primarily on the German-speaking area, where we have been operating for 200 years. Through our industrial holdings in leading medium-sized companies that are successful in various industries and in international markets, we have direct access to different networks and various competencies. We are pragmatic, accessible and credible and expect the same from our venture partners.Bitburger Ventures invests venture capital in the form of minority holdings in already established start-ups, preferably in the Seed to Series B phase. Our investment focus is on consumer-facing business models, but we are also interested in leading alternative technology and service solutions. Following the tradition of a family business, we sustainably support our portfolio companies on their growth path. Bitburger Ventures also invests in international venture capital funds.

## Movendo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Netherlands, Missouri, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Retail, Pet

Movendo Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm seeks opportunities to support innovative businesses across various sectors.

## Käfer Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Parsdorf, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps

Käfer Capital is a venture capital firm.

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

Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1]