Top 50 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Germany (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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13 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.6M–$80M |
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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10 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $1.1M–$33M |
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Good Seed Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $25k–$21M |
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GGF
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing | $2M–$22M |
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Döhler Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing | $1.3M–$11M |
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Freigeist Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, The Netherlands, Bulgaria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Food and Beverage, Apps | $549k–$20M |
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Shio Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery | $531k–$6.5M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2M–$110M |
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$20M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $549k–$33M |
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.1M–$32M |
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Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund
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6 | The Netherlands, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $1.5M–$45M |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.4M–$75M |
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Simon Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, Austria, The Netherlands | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage | $1.7M–$57M |
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World Fund
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Energy, Chemical, Biotechnology | $4.5M–$66M |
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better ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$6.9M |
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Sustainable Food Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, Germany | Pre-Seed, Seed | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $100k–$3.5M |
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, Australia, United States | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion | $549k–$20M |
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Capnamic
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $1.8M–$30M |
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $214k–$6.4M |
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Vorwerk Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Health Care, Software | $3.3M–$88M |
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Übermorgen Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Switzerland, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Energy, Renewable Energy | $300k–$12M |
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
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4 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Software | $538k–$18M |
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Katjes Greenfood
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Food Processing | $3.5M–$10M |
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Blue Horizon Corporation
VC Fund
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4 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $450k–$28M |
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SFO
VC Fund
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4 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet | $1.6M–$16M |
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Monkfish Equity
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, Austria | Seed, Series A | Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $475k–$15M |
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Atlantic
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $878k–$30M |
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La Famiglia
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$95M |
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Graphit NeoTaste
VC Fund
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4 | Germany | Seed | Food and Beverage, Organic Food, B2B | $721k–$1M |
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LeadX Capital Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | SaaS, Software, Restaurants | $120k–$16M |
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Oyster Bay Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Pet | $1.4M–$27M |
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Point Nine
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $900k–$62M |
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Käfer Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Food and Beverage, Apps | $219k–$987k |
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Bitburger Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Austria, Australia | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace | |
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Feast Ventrues
VC Fund
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3 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Health Care, Organic Food | $2.6M–$6.6M |
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Stray Dog Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology | $1.7M–$27M |
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TQ Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $2.1M–$72M |
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CPT Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing | $1.3M–$226M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$32M |
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Agronomics
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Finland, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing | $894k–$55M |
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Grazia Equity
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Series B, Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology | $1.1M–$59M |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $1M–$9M |
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Discovery Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $1.3M–$44M |
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True Growth Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Denmark, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, Financial Services | |
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Felix Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care | $1.8M–$106M |
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$75M |
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blueworld.group
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS | $4.9M–$9.3M |
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Lowercarbon Capital
VC Fund
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology | $3.7M–$150M |
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Pale blue dot
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Energy | $1M–$33M |
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 448
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
- Isar Aerospace — Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets in an automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. The company was founded in 2018 in Europe.
- Fifth Dimension AI — Boost your productivity with our AI Assistant for property professionals. Supercharge your real estate teams across investment, asset management, research, and marketing.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 583
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
- FINE Legal — fine. holt Dir Dein Geld einfach, digital und ohne Risiko.
- NAVAN Technologies — NAVAN Technologies, Inc., (NAVAN) is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which establishes a direct, physical connection into cells to overcome a huge challenge faced by researchers globally: delivering material into hard-to-transfect-cells in an efficient yetgentle and non-perturbative manne
Good Seed Ventures is a Venture Capital firm that exclusively invests in sustainable food tech.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $25k–$7M; Series A $6.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
- Libre Foods — MEAT, BUT MAKE IT MUSHROOMS. GET READY TO TASTE THE POWER OF FUNGI
- Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$16M; Pre-Seed $2M–$3.7M; Series A $3.8M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $106M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Wallround — Wallround is a startup that creates AI-powered technology that "allows for an accurate cost forecast and profitability calculation for planned renovations with just a few mouse clicks."
- Planetary — Planetary uses biomass and precision fermentation techniques to create meat and dairy alternatives.
- WeSort.AI — WeSort.AI: KI-basierte Abfallsortierung und Systeme zur granularen Analyse von Abfallobjekten. Mehr erfahren.
Döhler Ventures is a long-term oriented & entrepreneurial investor empowering early-stage startups in the nutrition & technology ecosystem.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.1M–$8.1M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- All G — All G is on a mission to harmonize the perfection of nature with science to deliver ethical and sustainable cultured dairy and plant-based meat alternatives to the world.
- Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.
- SuperBrewed Food — White Dog Labs is developing new probiotics for animals and humans. WDL is a biotechnology company founded upon synthetic biology and bioprocess development.
Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, The Netherlands, Bulgaria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $549k–$3.6M; Series A $4.2M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- BioThrust — Our Bionic Bioreactors are the first ever solution to controllable & scalable cell therapy manufacturing and stem cell-based biomanufacturing.
- Collie — Discover how Collie helps farmers achieve higher grass yields, increased milk production, and reduced labor. Manage your pastures easily with our innovative app.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $531k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
- Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 272
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zaro — Zaro is a workspace platform that brings AI agents and apps together in one place to automate repetitive business tasks and accelerate important work. The company deploys AI agents that handle real tasks while connecting the apps teams already rely on, enabling operations to scale without scaling headcount. Everything runs on a simple credit-basedmodel where customers only pay for what they use, and users can start free. Zaro enables modern teams to automate busywork, automate the repetitive, and focus on work that moves the business forward. The platform turns AI from a buzzword into something teams use daily for running their business operations.
- Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
- Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $603k–$3.9M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
- Finperks — Finperks provides a unified API platform that orchestrates prepaid products like gift cards, cashback, employee benefits, and crypto off-ramps for banks, fintechs, HR platforms, and crypto providers.
- SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
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.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 549
- Round size: Seed $980k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.1M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
- ForTunes — ForTunes puts comprehensive data analytics at the fingertips of millions of music creators. Serving the new generation of artists, producers & their representatives.
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 243
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.9M; Series A $3.9M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
- Hema.to — Hema.to provides fully automated, AI-powered blood cancer detection suggestions based on flow cytometry data.
- ProGlove — ProGlove makes award-winning wearable wireless barcode scanners using BLE or RF technology for ergonomic and efficient hands-free workflows.
Keen Venture Partners is a radically human venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and Series B stages
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.8M; Series A $6.4M–$27M; Series B $8.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- EclecticIQ — EclecticIQ Threat Intelligence Center is a Cyber Threat Intelligence tool that helps with threat hunting, threat analysis, incident response, and more.
- allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.
- ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 347
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
- Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
- Brightpick — Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robotin the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to reduce their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed across the US and Europe.
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”.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$9.3M; Series A $1.7M–$14M; Series B $32M–$57M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $123M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- eternal.ag — eternal.ag develops robotics and AI solutions for greenhouse farming. It builds autonomous robots, like its flagship Harvester for tomatoes, to address labor shortages and enable year-round fresh produce production.
- Pacifico Biolabs — Pacifico Biolabs offers fermentation biotechnology for development, production and distribution of sustainable and food alternatives.
European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.
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- Industry: Energy, Chemical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$10M; Series A $10M–$66M; Series B $20M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Barocal — Barocal is a Zero-carbon refrigeration pioneer.
- Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
- Lithosquare — Lithosquare is a mining company that specializes in the extraction of non-ferrous metal ores.
At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enzo — Enzo is a Heidelberg based InsurTech startup offering modern and smart insurance coverage for homeowners. Instead of just reacting to claims, Enzo takes a proactive customer-focused approach to prevent damages from happening at all. Thus, Enzo is leading a paradigm shift in a €100+ billion market that has barely improved customer experience forover 100 years. Our Goal is to become Europe's smartest homeowners insurance.
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- Tokura — Tokura focused on redesigning outpatient surgery (Ambulantes Operieren) through an integrated system of specialised facilities, experienced teams, and automated technology.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $934k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Propel Foods — Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology.
- Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
- High Time Foods — High Time Foods provides shelf-stable and moldable plant-based meat alternatives to foodservice operators. Their first product is a plant-based chicken alternative that does not require refrigeration. The product is moldable and can be used in any cuisine as a substitute for chicken.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.7M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COMPEON — COMPEON is Germany’s leading financing portal for SMEs. Companies can obtain tailored offers from various financing partners for their planned projects by submitting a query free of charge at www.compeon.de. COMPEON works with more than 220 banks, leasing companies and special providers and handles financing enquiries with a total volume of €2.5billion every year. In addition to credit, loans and leasing agreements, the firm brokers also factoring and alternative financing products – such as mezzanine capital, purchase and project financing or private debt.The fintech company has been on the market since 2013. In addition to its three founders and managing directors Kai Böringschulte, Dr Nico Peters and Dr Frank Wüller, COMPEON is owned by DvH Ventures, b-to-v and Tengelmann Ventures.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
- Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $216M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- yasp — yasp mission is to transform complex AI capabilities into practical, effective tools that empower businesses in the evolving digital landscape.
- Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
- Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $214k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $542k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 90
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$12M; Series A $5.5M–$33M; Series B $10M–$88M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Averia — Averia is focused on geotechnical and environmental engineering. The company supports businesses in geotechnical engineering, hydrogeology, environmental technology.
- aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
- Pace Club — Pace Club is aimed at a growing target group of fitness enthusiasts who want to combine training, performance development and community.
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $300k–$4.1M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecair — Ecair provides software for indoor air quality and energy management. The platform aggregates data from connected sensors to track pollutants, CO2, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter in real time. Dashboards, alerts, and APIs support building operations, facility managers, and ESG teams. Algorithms estimate exposure, flag ventilationissues, and suggest HVAC adjustments to balance comfort, health, and energy use. Reporting tools support certifications and compliance, and data exports integrate with BMS, CMMS, and data warehouses. Services include device provisioning, calibration management, and analytics consulting for multi-site portfolios.
- Verna — Verna is a business using geospatial data science to address the climate and nature crises.We help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns – e.g. through woodland creation, habitat creation and enhancement, and regenerative agriculture.Verna wasestablished in Borehamwood, Hertford.
- Exnaton — Exnaton offers a flexible SaaS platform for the decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy future. We move ahead with energy communities. Exnaton offers software for energy communities and dynamic energy tariffs. With our SaaS solution, utilities can easily build a digital customer channel, offer new renewable energy products, and reduce manual effort for managing distributed resources. We enable energy communities according to REDII, models for shared investments in photovoltaic, batteries and more, collective self-consumption billing, self-consumption communities and participation models for tomorrow's energy market.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $538k–$2.6M; Series A $7.6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Leaders21com — They offer our customers an exciting portfolio of practical training and services. Based on our many years of experience and our specially developed leadership approach. Flexibility and situational action are essential leadership qualities. That is why we also structure our cooperation with our customers in exactly the same way - flexible andadapted to individual requirements. Digital and analog.
- The Joy Club — The Joy Club offers online activities, events, classes, and experiences for elderly people to remove loneliness.
- Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
Katjes Greenfood is an impact investor in the rapidly growing market for sustainable food brands. Based in Dusseldorf, we are specialists within the consumer-packaged goods segment and focus on Series A funding in order to support disruptive start-ups within Germany and the US.Katjes Greenfood is part of the Katjes Group and we love to share ourindustry knowledge with our founder teams for growing strong and impactful food brands.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
- Rethink Foods Company — Rethink Foods Company focuses on making plant-based and clean-label ice creams. Rethink Foods Company was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
- The Rainforest Company — The Rainforest Company рrоvіdеs natural food products to change the lifestyle of its customers. It specializes in vegan, superfoods, acai, organic, healthy food products, and transparency. The Rainforest Company was founded in the year 2016 and is located in Berlin.
Blue Horizon is accelerating the transition to a sustainable food system that delivers outstanding returns for the planet and people.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $2M–$12M; Pre-Seed $450k–$6.3M; Series A $2M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- WOW EARN — Discover WOW EARN, the all-in-one Web3 app with crypto mining, multi-chain wallet, staking NFTs, and marketplace dApps. Join the global Web3 community today.
- EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.
- foodforecast — AI supported solution to reduce food waste.
SFO is a venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on cleantech, foodtech, mobility, digital transformation, and automation. We provide capital as well as strategic guidance and access to a robust network of industry experts, investors, and partners. SFO is dedicated to fostering sustainable growth by combining entrepreneurialexpertise with reliable equity financing, offering long-term support without fixed investment timelines.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Series A $3.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
- yummy — Multichannel Convenience Food
Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ 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.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $475k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dogo — Dogo app - dog trainer in your pocket. Strengthen your friendship with training
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 212
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.3M; Pre-Seed $878k–$5.3M; Series A $5.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vyoma GmbH — Vyoma ensures satellite safety and real-time mapping of space objects with cameras on satellites paired with automation services.
- bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 113
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $7.4M–$95M; Series B $22M–$95M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $99M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
- Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
- NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
Graphit NeoTaste is an family investment office.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, B2B
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $721k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HÄppi —
- Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
- Polly — Polly is a beverage manufacturing firm that offers alcohol-free distilled drink alternatives to spirits, and aperitifs.
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Browse database — It's Free!Driving digital transformation of consumer industries. As a leading growth capital investor, we combine deep investment experience with commercial reach.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Restaurants
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $120k–$394k; Pre-Seed $120k–$550k; Series B $5.3M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- Motatos — Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers.
- Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
- Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
Venture capital firm with a focus on healthy, sustainable and functional food & beverage companies as well as disruptive ag-tech companies.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.3M; Series A $13M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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- Amatera — Amatera is a biotechnology research company that leverages the latest techniques in biotechnology, to create coffee varieties. Amatera urges to make coffee varieties more sustainable and climate resistant to fill that massive demand. Founded by Omar Dekkiche and Lucie Kriegshauser in 2022 and is located in Paris, France.
- eternal.ag — eternal.ag develops robotics and AI solutions for greenhouse farming. It builds autonomous robots, like its flagship Harvester for tomatoes, to address labor shortages and enable year-round fresh produce production.
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 260
- Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $10M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
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- Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
- Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
Käfer Capital is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $219k–$987k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
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- Ordio — Ordio vereinfacht Schichtplanung, Zeiterfassung, Urlaubsplanung und Aufgabenverwaltung in einer Plattform die Teams entlastet und Prozesse beschleunigt.
- Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
- Unifai — Unifai automates, optimises and standardises processes in hotels:Against the backdrop of quickly rising digitalization needs, as well as high losses due to COVID within the hotel industry, Unifai's mission is to shape and sustain the future of modern hospitality by creating viable digitalization efforts via an intuitive platform to achieveunprecedented value, saving costs and helping their clients to arrive at operational excellence at the core.In other words, Unifai aims to help hospitality providers to arrive at digital excellence ahead of the industry by supporting them with the digital tool they need to succeed. Unifai is offering:- A smart management dashboard to deliver the ability to interconnect a hotels' workforce- A data analytics system to give an overview of important KPIs- A Maintenance Registration and Preventative Maintenance tool to spot and repair broken items faster - - An automated Lost & Found tool to digitize items that have been forgotten to enable employees to return lost items to customers as quickly as possible- An optimized smart mobile app to give every employee a central access- A handbook function to train new employees as efficiently as possible and to give staff the necessary information at hand for every situation
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.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Australia
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- Total investments: 19
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Magaloop — MAGALOOP IS PURSUING THE VISION OF CONNECTING GLOBAL INDEPENDENT RETAIL WITH FMCG´S ON ITS DIGITAL MARKETPLACE
- HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
- O.c. Hairsystems — O.c. Hairsystems offer hair replacement solutions for men.
Feast Ventures is a early-stage venture capital investor aiming to back founders in delivering their mission to create a new nutrition epitome. Founded in 2022, the Munich-based micro fund is dedicated purely towards the Food & Agriculture supply system.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Health Care, Organic Food
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
- Pumpkin Organics — Pumpkin Organics is an innovative baby food concept that values vegetables and good healthy eating from the very first bite. Our recipes are 100% organic with nothing extra – no added sugars, salt, preservatives or additives.
- EVANIUM Healthcare — At EVANIUM, we make plant compounds like polyphenols and flavonoids more effective by improving their solubility, stability, and absorption. Our OPTISOLV® Technology helps deliver natural actives into food, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products — more effectively and efficiently. Our goal is to support brands in creatingtheir next product innovation. Developed in Germany. Produced in Europe.
Investing in a healthier, humane, and more sustainable future.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$7M; Series A $8.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2018
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- Pacifico Biolabs — Pacifico Biolabs offers fermentation biotechnology for development, production and distribution of sustainable and food alternatives.
- Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.
- Helios Artificial Intelligence — Helios is the world's best AI software to predict agricultural supply chain disruptions. Helios' AI platform aggregates billions of data points to provide you with a global, real-time view into the climate, economic, and political risks affecting your suppliers.
Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 169
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series A $6.5M–$40M; Series B $18M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
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- Copperlane —
- TILT — Tilt is a live auction app where you can bid on clothing, sneakers and rare collectibles in real time. Join live stream auctions across the UK and Europe. Download on iOS and Android.
- Architect — Architect provide frontier AI lab for chip design.
Investing in the Future of Protein.We invest in visionary founders creating the future of food and materials.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Series A $6M–$46M; Series B $15M–$226M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
- Xias Bio — Xias Bio is a biotechnology startup specializing in the production of recombinant proteins, offering formulators advanced soluble, active ingredients with improved attributes such as enhanced gel and film formation, as well as antioxidant properties. The company creates non-immunogenic natural motifs to produce a better delivery platform offunctionalities for research, beauty, and healthcare.
- Asterix Foods — Asterix Foods is a biotechnology company designed to build protein production using plant-cell culture techniques. The company's platform is developing and growing bioactive proteins for food that are scalable, functional, and complex, enabling users with plant cell-cultured and animal-free proteins.It was founded in 2022 and is located inTel Aviv, Israel.
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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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 842
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
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- Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
- Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $894k–$11M; Series A $6M–$47M; Series B $2.4M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- SuperMeat — SuperMeat is an Israeli bio-tech and food-tech company, developing a technology to create clean meat from chicken cells in a safe and controlled environment, external to the animal’s body. SuperMeat is set to revolutionize the meat industry from its core, aspiring to secure a better future for humans and animals alike. Clean meat is grown in acontrolled, sterile environment without the use of antibiotics and without any possibility of fecal contamination, such as salmonella. Clean meat will require significantly less resources for its production (99% less land, 90% less water), making it both a healthy and sustainable food source for the coming century.
- Liberation Bioindustries — Liberation Labs believe that by innovating technology, It can free the world from the costs of industrialized agriculture and unlock a new era of accessible, healthy foods. The mission is to make precision fermentation by commercializing purpose-built manufacturing facilities for industrial biotech.
Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $1.1M–$53M; Series B $4M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
- XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
- Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 213
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$9M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- SkillYoga — Get a personal yoga training plan based on your goals and experience. Functional, down-to-earth yoga training: anytime, anywhere. Become a better athlete today!
- Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
We are a team of investors who have walked the talk. We see ourselves as supporters of ambitious companies worldwide. Having scaled businesses from ideation to pre-IPO, we reinvest what we have learned in the past decade.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.8M; Series A $11M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
- CopilotKit — CopilotKit is the full-stack framework for building user interactive agents and copilots. The company behind the AG-UI Protocol.
- Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Denmark, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
- Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
- Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$22M; Series A $5M–$34M; Series B $11M–$106M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Zyg — ZyG is an Operating System for eCom scale, turning great products into successful brands. ZyG's platform is designed to help product inventors and DTC brands validate, scale, and finance their growth, powered by data-driven AI agents
- Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
- Adverity — Adverity is the fully-integrated data platform for businesses to easily automate the connectivity, transformation, and governance of data at scale.
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
- Linexa — Linexa develops cloud-based SaaS for decoding complex shop floor automation—parsing PLC, HMI, SCADA, and MES systems into a unified, searchable model.
- Yoummday GmbH — yoummday‘s concept is based on the sharing economy‘s principles. Among an innovative software solution, the marketplace is matching clients and freelancing call center agents whom we call talents. Through the concept, the platform provides a solution to work as a freelancing talent globally. Moreover, the provided technology enables the possibilityfor the talents to work from home.Additionally, a customer‘s project can be implemented efficiently, individually, and flexibly. Next to a talent pool with above 20,000 registered talents, yoummday offers managed services for corporate clients, as well as a self-managing possibility. Both services are allowing the client to monitor the project in real-time based on personally defined KPI‘s. By giving talents up to 80% of the revenue, the motivation is increasing, because the freelancing talent is earning twice as much as a call center agent in their country they live in. The client only has to pay a yoummday provision as well as the talent remuneration which is leading to cost savings up to 40%. Furthermore, yoummday is responsible for training and quality checks which are regularly analyzed and individually modified.Founded in 2016 by Klaus Harisch, Pablo Harisch, and Lion Harisch, yoummday is constantly looking for motivated, self-empowering, curious, critical thinking and problem-solving employees who want to innovate the call center business. The Tech startup is constantly fast-growing and the vision is to create a brand that is an outstanding example as a leading shared economy company that is offering the main assets which are the talents an ecologically friendly way to work from home. Next to a fixed salary, employees are offered various tangible and intangible benefits that are individualized based on the needs of the employee. yoummday is a group-orientated company which is focusing on the employee as the core asset. The headquarter is based in the heart of Munich and a second branch is located in Sofia.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $4.9M–$9.3M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RECUP — RECUP they offer catering services for their customers, with recup and rebowl products..
- cuisyn — gastronomy holding shaping the future of gastronomy
- Pactos — Pactos streamlines and digitizes processes to enable large and medium-sized businesses to effectively and centrally procure and manage their contingent labor.
Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 204
- Round size: Seed $3.7M–$12M; Series A $10M–$50M; Series B $20M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $350M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Terraton — Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators.
- Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of energy with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
- Atana Elements — Atana is a data-driven resource company that accelerates the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals.
We invest in diverse and ambitious founders building scalable companies that help us reduce or reverse climate change.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$2.9M; Series A $12M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
- Pollen — Pollen is developing a universal battery-swapping network for mopeds and motorcycles, enabling riders to quickly exchange depleted batteries for fully charged ones, reducing downtime and supporting efficient, scalable electric mobility in urban environments.
- Tangible — Tangible empowers hardware companies with sustainable asset-based lending solutions. Our platform streamlines debt funding, compliance automation, and financial product design, enabling efficient capital mobilization and comprehensive reporting for a greener future. Scale your business with Twist.
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