Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Germany (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Christian Dahlen
Angel
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8 | United States, Germany, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $235k–$4.8M |
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Hanno Renner
Angel
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5 | Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$32M |
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Michael Wax
Angel
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5 | Germany, Denmark | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$32M |
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel
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5 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$24M |
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Matthias Hilpert
Angel
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4 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $800k–$15M |
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Jens Hilgers
Angel
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4 | United States, Germany, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Gaming, Video Games, Software | $1.7M–$60M |
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Robin Haak
Angel
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4 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$40M |
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Andre Schwammlein
Angel
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4 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Rental, Solar | $2.9M–$30M |
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Jochen Engert
Angel
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4 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Rental, Travel | $1.5M–$30M |
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Andreas Kupke
Angel
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4 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $538k–$29M |
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Dario Suter
Angel
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3 | Germany, Liechtenstein | Seed, Angel, Series A | TV, Internet, Software | $481k–$4.9M |
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Rolf Schromgens
Angel
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3 | Germany, Spain, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, Education | $450k–$3.4M |
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Robert Leshner
Angel
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3 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $1M–$25M |
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Daniel Dines
Angel
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3 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $1.9M–$54M |
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Daniel Krauss
Angel
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3 | Germany, Israel, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Rental, Information Technology | $1.4M–$30M |
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Julius Göllner
Angel
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3 | Germany, Poland, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $329k–$6.5M |
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Nicolas Peters
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$4.8M |
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Heikki Nousiainen
Angel
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2 | Finland, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Big Data, Software | |
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Stefan Tietze
Angel
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2 | Germany, France | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, Service Industry | $1.1M–$3.6M |
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Andreas Perreiter
Angel
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2 | Germany | Angel, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, B2B, Travel | |
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Stephan Schuller
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Debt Collections, Embedded Systems | |
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Christoph Miller
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, AgTech, Retail | |
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Eduard Kucera
Angel
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2 | United States, Poland, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | Seed, Series A | Robotics, Software, 3D Technology | $120k–$32M |
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Susanne Klatten
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed | Computer, Electronics, Innovation Management | |
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Tobias Tschoetsch
Angel
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2 | Germany | Angel, Pre-Seed, Private Equity | SaaS, Mobile, Soccer | |
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Franz Humer
Angel
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2 | Austria, Germany | Seed | SaaS, Robotics, Software | $1.6M–$1.6M |
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David Rosskamp
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Blockchain | $1.1M–$20M |
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Martin Ott
Angel
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2 | Germany, Ireland, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Legal, Internet, Information Technology | $221k–$8M |
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Richard Schwenke
Angel
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2 | Germany | Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, Software, Marketing | |
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Alfred Bauer
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Robotics, Security | |
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Erik Muttersbach
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2.8M–$32M |
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Torsten Reil
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $3M–$26M |
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Peter Mertens
Angel
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2 | Germany, Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Automotive, CleanTech | $414k–$4.9M |
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Christoph Behn
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials | $1.1M–$6.9M |
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Janosch Kühn
Angel
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2 | Germany, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, Medical, Internet | $2.7M–$8.2M |
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Jack Fuchs
Angel
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2 | United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Human Resources, SaaS | $720k–$8.2M |
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Gary Bradski
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Angel | Beauty, Animation, 3D Technology | $2M–$6M |
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Max Tayenthal
Angel
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2 | Germany, Argentina | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $20M–$35M |
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Michael Black
Angel
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2 | Israel, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Angel | Computer Vision, 3D Technology, Machine Learning | $11M–$19M |
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Jeremy Yap
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $125k–$6.3M |
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Nadav Ben-Chanoch
Angel
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2 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $120k–$30M |
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $1.4M–$58M |
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Felix Haas
Angel
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2 | Germany, France, Belgium | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Local, Mobile | $1M–$11M |
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Moritz Zimmermann
Angel
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2 | Germany, Latvia, Denmark | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Cloud Data Services | $2.5M–$31M |
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Christophe Maire
Angel
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2 | Germany, Spain, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $197k–$8.1M |
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Patrick Pichette
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $913k–$95M |
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Walter Kortschak
Angel
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2 | United States, Israel, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $100k–$100M |
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Mario Götze
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$60M |
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Paul Schwarzenholz
Angel
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2 | Germany, Sweden | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $1.9M–$3.4M |
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Patrick Andrae
Angel
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2 | Germany, France, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Travel, FinTech, Tourism | $1M–$6.2M |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $235k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Almetra — 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
- Rencore — Simplify Microsoft 365 governance for Teams, SharePoint, Azure, Power Platform and much more. Try the award-winning software from Rencore today.
- Terrantic — A stealth mode company.
Hanno Renner is based out of Munich, Bayern and is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Personio Foundation. Hanno previously worked at Quarterdeck Life Ltd as a Skipper of Sailing Yachts. Hanno Renner attended Columbia University.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $11M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CodeWords — CodeWords is a technology startup working on AI systems for workflow automation. Their platform CodeWords lets anyone create automations and AI workflows by chatting with AI. Agemo's technology is designed to build code-based workflows and systems that can autonomously reason through software.
- CedarDB — One Database, Endless Possibilities
- Regulate — Accessible Breathwork for Professionals
Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.5M; Series A $12M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- avoltra — Energie intelligent beschaffen, steuern und transparent auswerten.
- sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
- Regulate — Accessible Breathwork for Professionals
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 258
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5.1M; Series A $2.9M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zeit AI — Zeit AI, founded by former Palantir engineers, generates a structured data base atop your tabular data files which you can query using natural language. For example, you suspect an efficiency in your organisation and you have a bunch of data files, instead of reading through all of them one by one in excel, you explore them in Zeit AI. Theycurrently offer a two-week pilot program where their engineers develop tailored solutions for data challenges involving CSV, Excel, or PDF files.
- Mantic — Mantic is a world-class technical team on a mission to solve the next AI grand challenge: predicting global events with superhuman accuracy, and deploying this capability to power radically improved decision-making in business and government.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $800k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Hive Robotics — Hive Robotics GmbH is developing scalable, cutting-edge technology designed to safely and securely command, control, and connect any type of robot or unmanned system, enabling advanced swarming and teaming capabilities across a wide range of operational environments, from industrial automation to defense and disaster response.
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.
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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$16M; Series A $4M–$21M; Series B $18M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
- NAO — NAO curates innovative and hard-to-find investments and creates unprecedented access to sustainable, long-term wealth creation through crowdinvesting.
- 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.
Robin E. Haak is a German political scientist, tech entrepreneur, operator, and investor with a track record of founding, scaling, and exiting companies—as well as building and managing high-impact funds.He co-founded the AI/ML job matching platform Jobspotting, which later merged with SmartRecruiters. Through the merger, Haak became ashareholder, as well as Global COO and Managing Director of SmartRecruiters, where he built international go-to-market and fundraising operations. Under his leadership the company scaled strongly, surpassing $100M ARR, achieving unicorn status, and was acquired by SAP; SmartRecruiters is now fully integrated into SAP.Beyond that exit, Haak has invested in nearly 100 companies globally, spanning early-stage angel through growth equity. Notable investments include N26 (as the first check investor), Algolia, Aircall, Frontify, Coralogix, Epsor, Planity, Platform.sh, Wo\men Inc., Arx Robotics, and many others.He co-founded Wo\men Inc., a platform advocating for gender equality and diversity in technology, where he contributed as Founder and Chief Marketing Officer.Haak also co-created Revaia, a Paris–Berlin growth equity fund with an ESG and crossover strategy. He was central to raising its first €250 million fund, which has since grown to approximately €600 million assets under management.Today, Haak leads Robin Capital, a Solo GP venture capital firm that has now entered its second fund generation. Starting with €15 million in committed capital in Fund I, Robin Capital has expanded its focus beyond enterprise and B2B SaaS into deeptech, robotics, AI, and highly defensible products. The firm continues to back exceptional founders across Europe, with particular strength in the DACH region.In addition to founding and investing, Haak serves on several boards and advisory roles — including as Advisory Board Member of Slush and Stepstone — leveraging his experience to support founders, guide strategy, and scale businesses.Haak studied Political Science (with emphasis on History, Law, and Theology) at the University of Salzburg, and holds an MBA in Media Management from the Hamburg Media School / University of Hamburg.Outside his professional work, he has a deep interest in viticulture and spends part of each year harvesting grapes at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy, which he sees as a grounding counterpoint to the fast pace of venture capital. He also used to fight Muay Thai in Thailand, still trains regularly, and enjoys traveling, cooking, and reading.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 82
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Series A $13M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Colare — Colare is an AI-powered hiring platform that uses real engineering simulations to help hardtech companies assess and hire engineers faster and more accurately.
- Jobspotting — Jobspotting is a recommendations engine that suggests relevant jobs to users based on their skills and experience. The engine is powered by Skills Graph and Semantic Analysis technology. The company was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by ex-Googlers Hessam Lavi, Jan Backes and Manuel Holtz. Robin Haak joined the founding team in 2014 aftermeeting them through the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator Programme, of which he was a co-founder. Jobspotting successfully acquired seed funding.
- Marble Imaging — We are a data EO company based in Germany building our own constellation of VHR satellites providing daily EO analytics & insights of our planet
Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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- Industry: Software, Rental, Solar
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$7.7M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- YGO.AI — YGO enables travel companies to grow faster and run leaner by turning existing platforms into fully AI-powered booking ecosystems.
- feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus
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- Industry: Software, Rental, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
Andreas Kupke is the COO at Finanzcheck.de.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$29M; Pre-Seed $538k–$2M; Series A $6.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- encosa — encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns.
- Urban Ray — Urban Ray makes goods accessible anytime for everyone.
- Vaeridion — Vaeridion offers green air mobility technology and services which helps electric microliners to fly with the low energy consumption.
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- Industry: TV, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Liechtenstein
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Angel $481k–$494k; Series A $2.8M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flimmer — FLIMMER is a Berlin-based production company for film, television and creative storytelling. Discover our productions, work and team.
- 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.
Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $450k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
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.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.2M; Series A $9M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Degen War$ — Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain.
- Forum Markets — Born from Ethereum. Built for everyone
- Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.
Daniel Dines is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer of UiPath. Daniel Dines attended the University of Bucharest.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$7.4M; Series A $6M–$35M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
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.
- Nomos — Energy products under your brand. Customers pay less for power and hardware pays back faster.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Rental, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$6M; Series A $4.2M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- YGO.AI — YGO enables travel companies to grow faster and run leaner by turning existing platforms into fully AI-powered booking ecosystems.
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Poland, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.5M; Angel $329k–$555k; Pre-Seed $538k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scripe — Scripe combines content strategy and insights from high-converting LinkedIn posts to help your sales & marketing teams create content that turns consumers into customers.
- Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
- Planted Green — Planted is a leading Sustainability as a Service provider that offers comprehensive support to service based companies in their ESG management on the way to Net Zero. With state-of-the-art technology, in-depth expert support and scientific standards, Planted helps companies with their double materiality analysis, carbon footprinting,decarbonisation, CSRD reporting and biodiversity protection
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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$4.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Almetra — 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 — Parloa is the AI agent management platform for enterprise CX. Build, test, and scale voice and chat AI agents that turn conversations into loyalty.
- Admi — Admi is a government technology company that helps towns and municipalities develop and operate photovoltaic systems on public lands.
Heikki Nousiainen
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- Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kamupak — Kamupak is a circular economy technology company solving the global waste problem with reuse
- GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Stefan Tietze is a founder of gebraucht.de.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Service Industry
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Lumiform — Lumiform is the deskless worker OS that helps businesses digitize and automate workflows for frontline teams.
- Jus Mundi — Building the global rule of law is everyone’s responsibility. Jus Mundi democratizes access to all legal resources thanks to a search engine that combines international legal expertise with artificial intelligence
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.
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- Industry: Information Technology, B2B, Travel
- Stage:Angel, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany
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- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
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- Industry: FinTech, Debt Collections, Embedded Systems
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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
Christoph Miller is based out of Hamburg and is the Founding Partner of Oyster Bay Venture Capital. Christoph previously worked at Drinks & More GmbH & Co. KG as a Managing Partner. Christoph Miller attended the University of Hamburg.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, AgTech, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- air up — air up is a provider of a drinking bottle system that provides scent-flavored water. The innovation uses retronasal olfaction—where the brain perceives scent through the mouth as taste—to allow the user to enjoy flavored water without added sugars or artificial ingredients.
- Stenon — Stenon is a laboratory independent real-time soil analyst that offers solutions for agriculture.
- Your Super — Your Super is a direct-to-consumer superfoods supplement company that provides natural, organic, and delicious products. The company's plant-based Superfood and Protein mixes and bars contain 5-6 naturally dried superfoods. Every ingredient is grown, harvested, 3rd party tested, and packaged 100% sustainably. The ingredients are certifiedorganic, Non-GMO certified, Glyphosate-Free, plant-based, and gluten-free.Your Super was established in 2015 and is based in Venice, CA.
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.
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- Industry: Robotics, Software, 3D Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Poland, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $120k–$4.5M; Series A $9.9M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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
- 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.
Susanne Klatten is an entreprenuer and investor.
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- Industry: Computer, Electronics, Innovation Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
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.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Soccer
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Private Equity
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Prematch — Prematch is digitizing grassroots football. As a data-powered social platform for grassroots football, Prematch is covering all divisions below the professional level. Every player receives their personal profile with personal performance data and a gamified market value, complemented by personalised news and various social features.
- Productsup — Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer (P2C) platform enabling manufacturers, brands, service providers, and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. The Productsup P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller andvendor onboarding. It processes over two trillion products a month for over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, handling more monthly data requests than Google’s consumer search service.
Dr. Humer joined Pappas Ventures in October 2013 as a Venture Partner, bringing a wealth of leadership experience in the pharmaceutical and life science industry. Currently the chairman of Roche Holding Ltd, he will retire from that position in March 2014. He became Chief Executive Officer for Roche Group in 1998, previously serving as ChiefOperating Officer and Head of Pharmaceuticals (F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd). Franz began his career in the pharmaceutical industry in 1973, joining Schering Plough Corporation as assistant to the vice president of Europe, Africa, Middle East operations and general manager of Ecuador, UK and Portugal. After leaving Schering Plough, he held various managerial positions (including director) at Glaxo Holdings plc, where he was responsible for research, business development, manufacturing, commercial strategy, and all operations outside the United States. In addition to his role as Chairman of Roche, Franz currently serves as the Chairman of Diageo plc and as a director of CitiGroup Inc.Franz also serves as Chairman for INSEAD, for the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and for the Friends of Phelophepa Foundation. In 2000, he received the Oliver R. Grace Award for distinguished service in advancing cancer research. Franz holds a Doctor of Law from the University of Innsbruck and an MBA from INSEAD. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Basel and from the School of Pharmacy, University of London.Franz is reuniting with Art Pappas and Ernie Mario, who all served together in the early 1990s as senior executives and board members for Glaxo Holdings.
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- Industry: SaaS, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Austria, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- WAKU Robotics — WAKU Robotics enables warehouses, DCs, and factories to select, implement, and operate the best robotic solutions. Mobile robots can be compared and procured via our marketplace ‘Lotsofbots.com’. We represent all major robot brands and are committed to extending their sales reach. Our SaaS product ‘WAKU Sense’, an agnostic robot control tower,enables robot operators to increase robot utilization, reduce downtime, and prevent vendor lock-in.
David Rosskamp is the Founding Partner of Magnetic, a technology investor for critical industries. Before Magnetic, he co-managed June Fund, investing a series of funds. He started his investing career as a technology investor at Earlybird. Prior to that, he built up Saatchi Art, the world's largest art platform, gallery and community.David holds an M.A. with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Master of Law and Business from WHU and legal degrees (Staatsexamen, LL.B.) with distinction from Bucerius Law School.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.6M; Series A $5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Grover — Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015.
- Kadmos — Kadmos is a payment solution that revolutionizes salary payments for migrant workers. Founded in 2021, Kadmos is changing the way migrant workers receive their paychecks. Kadmos brings FinTech, low margins, and transparent FX to industries riddled with opaque mark-ups, kickbacks, and physical cash transactions.The company aspires to service allcompanies employing cross-border employees, in shipping and far beyond.
- Clarisights — Clarisights is the leading marketing analytics platform for Enterprises on G2. Connect, visualize and explore all your marketing data in one place. From questions to insights in minutes.
Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix
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- Industry: Legal, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $221k–$1.2M; Series A $6.2M–$8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
- IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
- Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.
Richard Schwenke
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Marketing
- Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Productsup — Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer (P2C) platform enabling manufacturers, brands, service providers, and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. The Productsup P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller andvendor onboarding. It processes over two trillion products a month for over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, handling more monthly data requests than Google’s consumer search service.
Alfred Bauer - Founder and CEO @ Articon-Integralis
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- Industry: Apps, Robotics, Security
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$4.2M; Series A $22M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 the all-in-one identity security platform for developers, machines, and AI agents. Manage identities, secrets, certs, and access.
- Orbem — Transform biological imaging with AI-powered MRI technology. Non-invasive solutions for poultry, fruits, nuts, and health. Building a sustainable future.
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.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3M–$5.8M; Series A $14M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
- Tacto — Tacto leverages AI to transform procurement, unlocking savings and efficiency gains for industrial companies. By analyzing millions of data points, Tacto uncovers hidden savings and drives measurable efficiency gains across the entire supplier base. With AI at its core, Tacto continuously identifies price deviations, inefficiencies, andconsolidation opportunities turning procurement from a reactive cost center into a proactive value driver for the business.
Peter Mertens
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, CleanTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $414k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Leegle — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.9M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 42watt — 42watt is the first retrofit marketplace for homeowners. The platform streamlines the home retrofit journey by connecting homeowners with tailored, end-to-end solutions across solar, heating, mobility, and electricity. Fully digital and manufacturer-independent, 42watt designs optimal systems, matches projects with vetted local installers, andensures real-time optimization. By handling the complexity, 42watt empowers installers to focus on delivering high-quality work.
- Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.
- Qnomx — Reduce expert workload per NGS case by up to 85%. Qnomx leverages AI to streamline NGS interpretation and generate clinician-ready reports.
Janosch Sadowski - Founder @ Kolibri Games
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- Industry: Apps, Medical, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ChefCoco — Our mission is to serve every table, every day.ChefCoco is already the largest corporate meal service provider in Berlin. Serving businesses, universities and large events with fresh, healthy & affordable meals. We build and operate industrial scale production kitchens, sourcing the highest quality ingredients, and being cooked by Michelintrained chefs. All our meals are delivered in premium reusable bowls.Reach out to hello@chefcoco.com to give your employees the best meal experience or if you want to join our team in building a category defining business.
- Treasure Play — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
- The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $720k–$8.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Silva is based out of San Jose, California and is the Chief Science Officer of Bonsai Robotics.
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- Industry: Beauty, Animation, 3D Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI 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.
Maximilian Tayenthal is Founder & Co-CEO at N26.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Series A $20M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- finmid — Scale bigger by building your business on finmid's lending infrastructure. Our APIs enable tech companies to offer credit cards, transaction-based lending, and working capital to their business customers.
- Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
- topi — Hardware, made simple. topi provides the underlying technology for the B2B subscription economy. Our platform enables retailers and manufacturers to offer hardware products as a monthly subscription.
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.
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- Industry: Computer Vision, 3D Technology, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $11M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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 teach AI 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.
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Angel $273k–$885k; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Staris — Staris is an AI-powered application security platform that continuously finds, proves, and explains exploitable vulnerabilities. Reduce false positives and validate real application risk with business context.
- Metatheory — Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.
- Mirai — On-device SDK (developer suite) for running highly optimized inference, fine-tuning, and operating LLMs and other deep learning models on the device. We aim to make it easy for developers to choose and route the query to the right model and deploy it to the device in a couple of clicks.Mirai is addressing a significant gap in on-device AIinference and training. Current cloud-based models face high latency, privacy concerns, and reliance on constant connectivity. Developers also struggle with high costs for personalization (e.g., $100M per year for 1M MAU) which is the most crucial pain point now and a core of our GTM. There’s no existing developer-friendly solution for on-device mobile AI, fine-tuning, and management. Our vision involves expanding from a robust SDK to include a developer console for model management, benchmarks, and fine-tuning.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 232
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2.5M; Series A $4M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Swaap — We build & operate onchain trading systems. We are a group of scientists and technologists committed to build open systems.
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Skedway — Skedway connects software, AI, sensors, displays and automation into one intelligent operational layer for the physical workplace.
Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $6.4M–$45M; Series B $23M–$58M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lassie — AI that runs the doctor's office.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
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.
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- Industry: SaaS, Local, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, France, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $6.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Regulate — Accessible Breathwork for Professionals
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Cloud Data Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Latvia, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.1M; Series A $10M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Productsup — Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer (P2C) platform enabling manufacturers, brands, service providers, and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. The Productsup P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller andvendor onboarding. It processes over two trillion products a month for over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, handling more monthly data requests than Google’s consumer search service.
- 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.
- ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $568k–$8.1M; Angel $197k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $800k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
- Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
- 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.
Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $913k–$10M; Series A $10M–$95M; Series B $15M–$95M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
- Kaedim — AI-powered 3D asset creation service delivering fast, production-ready 3D assets. Scale 3D pipelines without hiring, accelerate 3D game art production, and reduce 3D asset costs by up to 90%.
- Clove — Building the financial institution of the future, to make money make sense.
Walter Kortschak is the Managing Partner at Firestreak Ventures. He attended Caltech, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swoop — Swoop operates as an internet marketplace platform that provides food delivery services while building a broader consumer super-app ecosystem. The company connects users with restaurants through a mobile and digital platform, enabling customers to browse menus, place orders, and receive deliveries via an independent rider network. Its deliverymodel relies on third-party couriers who fulfill orders, while the platform coordinates transactions, routing, and customer interactions. The company generates revenue through restaurant commissions and service fees applied to customer orders, rather than directly employing delivery personnel.
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Soma Energy — Soma Energy helps data centers run more effectively and generators trade more intelligently by optimizing the production, storage, and consumption of electricity.
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$6.2M; Series A $9.6M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodesage — Kodesage captures your company's collective knowledge to help understand and modernize legacy code
- BLOCKS — BLOCKS deploys an AI agent to monitor cloud usage patterns continuously. The agent identifies wasteful resource allocations and applies real-time optimizations autonomously. It differs from dashboards by taking direct action instead of just alerting users.
- Helical — The full power of DNA & (m)RNA Bio Foundation Models in one open-core platform. Accelerate Drug Discovery with AI.
Paul Schwarzenholz is absed out of Berlin, Berlin and is the Founder and Managing Director of Draxon. Paul previously worked at zenloop GmbH as a CEO and Founder. Paul Schwarzenholz attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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 is an induction-based immersion heater device that may heat water, baby milk, mulled wine, and other liquids directly in the vessel to the necessary temperature in an energy-saving method for a clean, healthy, and sustainable lifestyle and planet.
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Patrick Andrae is based out of Berlin, Berlin and is the Co-Founder & CEO of HomeToGo. Patrick previously worked at Home24 as a Director Business Development. Patrick Andrae attended the University of Münster.
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- Industry: Travel, FinTech, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1M–$6.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- YGO.AI — 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.
- Nox Mobility — Nox Mobility is a transportation company that operates sleeper trains and private cabins for travel and tourism sectors.
- YOUTH — Full health check-up in less than 2 minutes!
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