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Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Germany in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Germany in February 2025

Investor	Hardware Germany investments
Michael Wax	5
Christian Dahlen	5
Hanno Renner	5
Jochen Engert	3
Andre Schwammlein	3
Daniel Dines	3
Nicolas Peters	3
Chris Schagen	3
Charlie Songhurst	3
Christophe Maire	3
Johannis Hatt	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Matthias Hilpert	2
Tobias Tschoetsch	2
Stephan Schuller	2
Eduard Kucera	2
Patrick Pichette	2
Moritz Zimmermann	2
Erik Muttersbach	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Peter Mertens	2
Andreas Perreiter	2
Julius Göllner	2
Felix Haas	2
Stephan Berendsen	2
Mirko Novakovic	2
Jens Hilgers	2
Georgina Smallwood	2
Walter Kortschak	2
Christoph Behn	2
Dario Suter	2
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	2
Jeremy Yap	2
Martin Sinner	2
Torsten Reil	2
Julian Teicke	2
Alfred Bauer	2
Rolf Schromgens	2
Louis Pfitzner	2
Gary Bradski	2
Robert Leshner	2
Michael Black	2
Paul Schwarzenholz	2
Richard Schwenke	2
Andreas Kupke	2
Jack Fuchs	2
Patrick Andrae	2
Vitaly Laptenok	1
Nicolas Keller	1
Maximilan Claussen	1

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Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
NOVUS GmbH — NOVUS revolutionises the world of motorbikes and creates the first urban premium electric motorbike.The automotive industry is since 2018 in the process of an unstoppable transformation towards electric vehicles. The motorbike industry, on the other hand, is now at the tipping point of this transformation. Urban premium mobility must ensuresustainability and satisfy the need for individualisation. With NOVUS, we are driving the necessary change in the motorbike industry and urban mobility.We use our high-tech and design expertise to develop a unique concept that combines the advantages of bicycles and motorbikes. We unite the lightness and agility of an eBike with the performance and sovereignty of a motorbike. Based on an electric engine and futuristic design, we create the architecture of tomorrow's two-wheeler.NOVUS will be the new premium supplier for urban electric mobility. We focus on direct distribution and subscription models, completing our D2C portfolio with vehicle individualisation and customer-oriented after-sales service. Our central intelligence – the NOVUS-OMNI system and the My NOVUS app – integrates seamlessly into the digital lives of our customers. We thus create the foundation for digital business models and enable sharing & fleet solutions for B2B customers as well.NOVUS is the promise of driving the future today.BE AHEAD
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

clous — Hybrid automated mechanical engineering
Alphadoc — The developer experience platform built for growth.
comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.

After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Shipping
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.

Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.

Daniel Dines is Co-founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI software worldwide. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is tomake software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace -- a vision dubbed One Robot for Every Person.Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era, helping businesses of all sizes digitize everyday business operations and apply AI to drive true digital transformation. This era brings tremendous value to businesses and new career opportunities for people – which is why Dines aims to democratize RPA via free training and software, as well through UiPath’s Academic Alliance program, which trains and certifies university students, youth, and traditionally underrepresented groups – with an eye toward preparing people for the jobs of the future.Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth – delivering intelligent automation solutions to thousands of companies around the world, including government agencies and many of the Fortune 500. He has raised more than $1B from top-tier venture capital firms, with a post-money valuation of $7B.Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting the 250,000 developers who are building automations on UiPath’s RPA platform.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Goodlegal — Goodlegal is the One-Stop-Shop for all your Legal needs. Get an out-of-the-box Legal Infrastructure Platform to handle all your problems.
Avi Medical — Avi Medical is a digital health care company that provides telemedicine services. Its platform enables patients to book appointments, manage their health data, and chat with the practitioner. The company uses data-driven medicine to provide patients and healthcare workers with a streamlined, more modern experience.

Nicolas is co-CTO and brings several years of industrial experience in software engineering to the company. Before joining Signavio he worked for SAP India and Sensomi. Nicolas holds an MSc in IT Systems Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Growblocks — Driving revenue growth is complicated. Teams need to collaborate, work with data and keep everyone on track in order to succeed.Growblocks strives to apply our winning formula to the B2B Scale-Up community helping our customers reach their revenue growth dreams - faster.We believe that when enough brains are applied, every problem is solvableand our team of brains is world class.Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.

Johannis Hatt is one of the founders of Productsup.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

INSRD — Elevate your startup's growth with tailored coverage, digital comfort and unparalleled service. From newborn to unicorn, insuring your success.
Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Tobias Tschoetsch is the founder and managing director of Tschoetsch holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s degree in management from Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Soccer
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
Productsup — The Productsup P2C (product-to-consumer) platform empowers companies to master commerce anarchy and win product orders again and again. Take control today!

Stephan Schuller

Investment focus

FinTech, Debt Collections, Embedded Systems
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

FOMA — FOMA (Gesellschaft für Forderungsmanagement mbH ) is a German platform Eco-system for the B2B credit management sector. Our goal is to make receivables management & debt collection for companies digital, efficient, sustainable and customer-oriented - we are leading the way & redefining credit management

Eduard Kucera is a Member of the Board of Directors at AVAST Software since February 2014. Eduard was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors from the incorporation of AVAST Software a.s. in December 2006 until January 2014. Since 1991, Eduard was responsible for the activities of our predecessor entity, ALWIL Software partnership.From 1991 to 2009, Eduard also served as AVAST Chief Executive Officer, directing day-to-day operations that included the transition to a free software distribution model in 2002. Prior to co-founding AVAST, Eduard was a Computer Hardware Specialist at the Czech Computer Research Institute (VUMS). In 2009, Eduard was named Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year 2009" for the Czech Republic. Eduard holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences degree in experimental Physics from Charles University in Prague.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Portfolio highlights

Keboola — A dataops platform built to set up data practitioners for success. Sign up today and create a free account!
Photoneo Brightpick Group — Next generation of 3D robot vision for flexible automation
Manta — Get a holistic view of your data pipelines to boost your data governance, achieve DataOps, and migrate to the cloud without a hassle.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Moritz co-founded hybris in 1997 with an idea for a highly innovative packaged e-commerce application that has now evolved into a leading platform for multichannel communication and sales. With his team, he develops innovative products for hybris clients and supports their e-commerce and PIM multichannel strategies. Moritz holds an MBA from MunichSchool of Management and a bachelor’s degree from the University of St. Gallen.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Software Engineering
Seed, Funding Round, Private Equity
Germany, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
Productsup — The Productsup P2C (product-to-consumer) platform empowers companies to master commerce anarchy and win product orders again and again. Take control today!
Operations1 — With Operations1 the B2B software company cioplenu GmbH delivers a cloud software for adaptive employee-led production processes (Adaptive Process Execution). The solution provides intuitive worker guidance and connects the organization in manufacturing companies. Customers such as Bosch, Stabilo or Trumpf benefit with Operations1 from increasedproductivity, enhanced quality and higher machine availability. At its core, the modular solution uses digital documents such as work instructions and checklists for process guidance and is used in a wide range of application areas such as maintenance, quality inspection, HSSE, audits and in manufacturing and assembly processes. Around the document core, planning, analysis, and incident management functionalities complete the offering to holistically accompany operational employees in their daily work.The clipboard becomes a tablet, complexity becomes simplicity, blindspot becomes transparency.

Erik Muttersbach is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Managing Director of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.
Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.

Peter Mertens

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.

Andreas Perreiter is a co-founder of amaysim, a mobile service company based in Australia. Previously, he was the managing director of ampage Ventures & Consulting. Perreiter studied at the Technical University of Munich.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Angel, Series B, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

vr-on — vr-on, www.vr-on.com, was founded in 2016 by industry experts with almost two decades of experience in virtual reality technologies. The high-tech startup, based in Munich, is winner of the “Innovations-Preis-IT” 2018. vr-on's mission is to democratize the use of virtual reality-related applications in enterprises. vr-on offers STAGE Cloudthe unique end-to-end cloud solution for multi-user enterprise VR applications.www.vr-on.cloud
Clevver — Clevver offers digital virtual office services, worldwide at over 130 high profile locations. Services include prestigious legal addresses, mail digitization and handling, local phone numbers in over 80 countries, incorporation services in over 30 countries as well as bank accounts for international businesses.Clevver’s cloud based platformoffers a one-stop-shop solution to digitally manage the legal structure of your international activities and keep your companies up to date on required filings with a Compliance Center. The Clevver software is also available as white label enterprise solutions that includes the services ClevverMail, ClevverAddress and ClevverNumber. With its subsidiary Clevver Legal Services LLP, Clevver also offers tax & accounting consulting services as well as special service incorporation projects.
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kurabu — KURABU verbindet nahtlos eine umfangreiche Verwaltungssoftware mit einer modernen Vereinsapp. Starte jetzt kostenlos & unverbindlich!
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.

Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

Stephan Berendsen is a Founder and Managing Director of Germany-based Berendsen Holding GmbH.

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Wearables
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Nimmsta — 50% effizienter picken mit der NIMMSTA Industrial Smart Watch. Wir revolutionieren die Prozesse der Intralogistik.
memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
Spree Interactive — SPREE Interactive delivers non-violent, multiplayer, free-roaming, turnkey virtual reality attractions. Perfect for family entertainment centers and trampoline parks.

CEO at Dash0 Angel Investor at New Forge

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

AQUATY — The AQUATY platform equips investors and innovators with the essential tools for hassle-free investment transactions and operations in private capital markets.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.

Jens Hilgers a serial entrepreneur with His primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build his first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 he had consider myself a veteran in the eSports industry. Building companies and making ideas become reality is what he really loves.Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of his daily work. He is a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. He has team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.For 22 years now he has been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 he is also actively investing in and supporting selected startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.

Georgie Smallwood is the Chief Product Officer at N26. In her role, Georgie leads the global product strategy and the team responsible for its delivery. With over 12 years experience in global digital and software companies such as Xero, News Ltd and Scout24, her leadership, strategic thinking and operational effectiveness has benefited from herbreadth of experience. Leading large teams in multiple locations, Georgie leans into the challenges of scaling global businesses and believes that growth and change are always successful when done with high levels of communication (verbal and non verbal) and respect throughout an organization.

Investment focus

Retail, Software, Children
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Kindora — Kindora buys, sells, and rents premium pre-owned items – from cots and strollers to nursery furniture – after a deep clean.
Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
LiSA — Offer shoppable live video streams to all your online audiences in ONE highly engaging and conversion-boosting experience. Live Stream Shopping Software tailored to all your needs.

Walter Kortschak is the Managing Partner at Firestreak Ventures. He attended Caltech, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Langbase — Langbase helps developers ship composable AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).Langbase is the composable AI infrastructure and developer experience to build, collaborate, and deploy any AI agents (AI features). Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone, any developer not just AI/ML experts. We are the only composable AIinfrastructure. That's all we do.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.

Dario Suter

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Online Portals
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Flimmer — Auf dvd-palace.de findet jeder Film-Fan das Richtige. Wir haben eine riesen Auswahl an DVDs. Mit Preisvergleich.
Neufund — We create blockchain-based solutions and services, which include fundraising and investing platform, Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) Manager, Light wallet, post-investment instruments, and others.
ROY Kombucha — ROY is a Berlin-based Kombucha brewery that handcrafts high-quality, organic Kombucha in cans. It is a naturally refreshing and energizing drink made with highest-quality teas.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
Hero Software — Hero Software offers cloud software solutions.
persomatch GmbH — persomatch offers the first B2B AdTech SaaS solution for job advertising at the largest job marketplace Google via Google Ads, Google for Jobs and Google SEO

Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.

Julian Teicke has 4 current jobs including Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman at handly, Co-Founder and CEO at wefox, and Founder at EMPAUA. Additionally, Julian Teicke has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & COO at DeinDeal. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Insurance
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

CNDO — Touch Grass. Together.
NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
dao — We use modern technology to revolutionize residential property management

Alfred Bauer - Founder and CEO @ Articon-Integralis

Investment focus

Retail, Robotics, Security
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

KEWAZO — The Startup KEWAZO offers LIFTBOT, a robotic material hoist which transports scaffolding parts on construction and industrial sites.
Signatrix — AI-based Visual Intelligence Platform for brick-and-mortar retail stores. Truly understand your store with instant notifications, forensic analysis, and actionable analytics - automatically and in real-time.

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.

Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Greece, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Sirius — Sirius is an online music platform. They offer digital space for music teaching with sound and data protection, enabling musicians to create their virtual music classrooms. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

Gary Bradski is the Board Member at Occipital Inc.Gary is the creator (and active director) of OpenCV. He recently founded Industrial Perception, and has been involved in several other computer vision related companies in the past, including VideoSurf and Willow Garage. Gary has his finger on the pulse of everything computer vision related,which makes him an enormous technical asset.

Investment focus

Beauty, Animation, 3D Technology
Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Meshcapade — Foundation models that enable digital humans to see, understand, and move.
LUUM — LUUM Lash is revolutionizing the beauty industry with the world's first robotic lash extensions. The power of machine learning, AI and robotics combine to help lash artists improve efficiency, precision and overall results.

Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
Bonsai — An experimental, mixed ERC-20 / ERC-721 implementation with native liquidity, fractionalization and unique art. 100000 $BONSAI Token is linked to 1 BONSAI NFT!
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

Michael Black received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia (1985), his M.S. from Stanford (1989), and his Ph.D. from Yale University (1992). He has held positions at the University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, and Brown University. He is an Honorarprofessor at the University of Tuebingen and one of the founding directors at the Max PlanckInstitute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he leads the Perceiving Systems department. He was a Distinguished Amazon Scholar (VP, 2017-2021). His work has won several awards including the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award (1991), Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize (1999 and 2005), the 2010 Koenderink Prize, the 2013 Helmholtz Prize, and the 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he co-founded Body Labs Inc., which was acquired by Amazon in 2017.

Investment focus

Computer Vision, 3D Technology, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Angel
Israel, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Body Labs — Body Labs is a horizontal solution provider of human-aware AI that understands the way we move and how we’re shaped to make our world more personal. The company is comprised of the best in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and body modeling. It aims to deliver human-aware AI as the next digital platform to empower the capture and use of 3Dbody motion and shape for numerous industries.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Meshcapade — Foundation models that enable digital humans to see, understand, and move.
Datagen Technologies — Datagen offers synthetic image datasets, accessible via platform or api. Design and generate human centric datasets with granular control.

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

Richard Schwenke

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Marketing
Funding Round, Private Equity
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Productsup — The Productsup P2C (product-to-consumer) platform empowers companies to master commerce anarchy and win product orders again and again. Take control today!

Andreas Kupke is the COO at Finanzcheck.de.

Investment focus

Drones, Biotechnology, Satellite Communication
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

GovRadar — GovRadar accelerates and simplifies the procurement process for the public sector. Our procurement platform helps public authorities procure innovations efficiently - automated and in compliance with procurement law. The SaaS solution generates tender documents in a few clicks rather than months.
Urban Ray — Urban Ray makes goods accessible anytime for everyone.
Vaeridion — Clean and affordable air mobility before 2030.

Mr. Fuchs has a deep understanding of marketing and sales, business development, finance and corporate strategy. Before joining NextBio, Mr. Fuchs was CFO of ForteBio, a private life science company. Previously, he has held Finance, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management positions at a number of private companies includingIPWireless and Lumitrend. Mr. Fuchs also held several senior positions with Becton Dickinson & Company including Vice President of e-Business, North American Business Leader, Vice President Worldwide Marketing, and Director of Corporate Planning. In addition, Mr. Fuchs was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where his client focus was health care and wireless communications. Mr. Fuchs is also a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business at The University of California at Berkeley. He also teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University in the graduate engineering school. He holds an AB in Engineering Sciences with Honors from Dartmouth College and he received his MBA from Stanford University as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Investment focus

Human Resources, SaaS, Solar
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bluecrew — Bluecrew is the first hourly workforce-as-a-service provider: combining W-2 labor, a workforce management platform, and data + analytics for workplaces who have hourly workers and fluctuating demand.
Luminovo — We are building data-driven and collaborative EMS RfQ software that gives you a breakthrough competitive advantage by automating and streamlining your processes
Swift Solar — Swift Solar is a US solar technology company building high-performance perovskite tandem products. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.

Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.

Vitaly Laptenok - Co-Founder @ BetterMe

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Blloc — The ultimate smartphone experience. Boost your productivity. Focus on what matters.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.
Emergent Games — As Featured On Approach Emergent Games is a leading metaverse and blockchain games studio that brings together industry veterans from PlayStation, Activision and NCsoft, with blockchain technologists from Pluto Labs. Jargon-free, pick up and play, with true AAA production values, our games will offer the option to play just for fun, or allow players engage with

Nicolas Keller

Investment focus

Animation, 3D Technology, Computer Vision
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meshcapade — Meshcapade (Germany) is revolutionizing the world of human body modeling, sizing, and animation. Meshcapade employs a state of the art statistical model of body shape that encodes realistic shapes, sizes, and motions. We make animating, simulating, and recognizing human bodies effortless, and to bring realistic virtual humans into simulation and3D environments.

Maximilan Claussen - Founder and Partner @ System.One

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, Developer Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
Tinkergarten — Tinkergarten's outdoor educational program helps families raise healthy, confident, and capable kids. Our classes for kids and DIY activities nurture important skills through play.

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