Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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75 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $909k–$33M |
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
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34 | Germany, United States, Finland | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.1M–$31M |
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
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32 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $932k–$15M |
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UVC Partners
VC Fund
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21 | Germany, Switzerland, Denmark | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $2M–$110M |
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund
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17 | Germany, United States, Austria | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $30k–$5.9M |
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KfW
VC Fund
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17 | Germany, India, Kenya | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $2.2M–$17M |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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16 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$91M |
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund
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15 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | $110k–$71M |
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Atlantic
VC Fund
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15 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $850k–$32M |
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
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15 | Germany, Austria, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid | $1.4M–$28M |
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
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14 | Germany, Italy, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $428k–$23M |
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FTTF
VC Fund
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13 | Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing | $274k–$44M |
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Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund
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13 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $4.2M–$74M |
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coparion
VC Fund
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13 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, FinTech | |
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Capnamic
VC Fund
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12 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $1.8M–$30M |
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MIG Capital
VC Fund
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12 | Germany, France, Austria | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | $1.6M–$54M |
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Target Partners
VC Fund
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11 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $1.2M–$20M |
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Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund
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11 | Germany, Portugal, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $159k–$7.7M |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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10 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.5M–$80M |
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IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund
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10 | Germany, United States | Seed, Grant | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $80k–$3M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2.1M–$110M |
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b2venture
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.3M–$52M |
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bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $461k–$18M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $549k–$30M |
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Brandenburg Kapital
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $823k–$14M |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $1M–$15M |
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First Momentum Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, Switzerland, France | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $878k–$10M |
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redalpine
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.6M–$59M |
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Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Energy, Information Technology | $1.2M–$27M |
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BlueYard Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Internet | $1.2M–$47M |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $4.5M–$99M |
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
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7 | Germany, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | $2.7M–$35M |
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$37M |
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Senovo
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, Sweden | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$68M |
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La Famiglia
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $2.2M–$95M |
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APEX Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care | $511k–$21M |
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L-Bank
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Taiwan, Portugal | Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $212k–$72M |
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Matterwave Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Austria, France | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.9M–$18M |
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Fluxunit - Osram Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, 3D Technology, Manufacturing | $2.9M–$31M |
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Born2Grow
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Finland, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Medical, Health Care | $1.1M–$3.3M |
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Angel Invest
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $655k–$21M |
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IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A | Software, Electronics, Manufacturing | $1.3M–$5.9M |
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, Australia, United States | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion | $549k–$20M |
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AM Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Software | $412k–$14M |
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Switzerland, France, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $1.2M–$45M |
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LBBW VC
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | |
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Robin Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.1M–$6.3M |
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Christian Dahlen
Angel
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6 | United States, Germany, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, Information Technology | $235k–$6M |
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | |
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High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 543
- Round size: Seed $909k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- syte — Syte is an artificial intelligence engine that helps real estate developers in their search for sites. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Münster, Germany.
- Tangany — Tangany is a German provider of a regulated digital asset custody solution.
- NAVAN Technologies — NAVAN Technologies, Inc., (NAVAN) is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which establishes a direct, physical connection into cells to overcome a huge challenge faced by researchers globally: delivering material into hard-to-transfect-cells in an efficient yetgentle and non-perturbative manne
Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 227
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Series A $3.9M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2010
Portfolio highlights
- EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
- XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
- OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $932k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
- Primogene —
- b.sure — b.sure help brands, agencies and event organizers to make their offline events as measurable as their online marketing.
UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Round size: Seed $2M–$11M; Series A $5M–$55M; Series B $5.5M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tanso — Tanso aims at making sustainability accounting as integrated, transparent, and verifiable as financial accounting. Tanso Technologies enables industrial companies to become part of the solution to a lower-carbon economy.
- Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
- Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $151k–$3.4M; Series A $30k–$5.9M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
- Solar Materials — SOLAR MATERIALS developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
- Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.
KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, India, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$7.7M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vectoflow — Vectoflow is an innovative company developing fluid-dynamic metrology devices for fluid flow and dynamics measurement. It offers standardized and customized flow measurement technology that measures the static and total pressure, velocity, and angle of attack of a flow. These products are used in motorsport, aviation, turbine machine development,and research sectors.
- Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.
- CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 318
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Getsafe — Manage your insurance effortlessly in one app and get rewarded with Safepoints when you stay safe.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $110k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- odacova — Odacova is a SaaS company that provides individualized nutrition for corporate cafeterias and employee eating, utilizing web, Android, and iOS platforms.
- eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
- Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $4.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cluno — Cluno is an online car subscription service providing rental cars irrespective of any contracts. Cluno's digital car subscription challenges traditional car ownership models in the mobility market and expands the space between hourly and years-long commitments with a flexible option and transparent, fully predictable costs. The carsubscription is offered at a monthly package price, which covers almost all car-related costs such as maintenance, wear and tear, seasonal tires, warranty, registration, vehicle tax, insurance, and vehicle inspections. The minimum booking period is six months per vehicle. Subject to a notice period of three months, customers can change their vehicle after the minimum period, pause their car subscription, or continue on with their Cluno car indefinitely.
- bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
- tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Austria, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$12M; Series B $5.5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $106M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Sunhat — Sunhat empowers sustainability teams to deliver audit-ready responses for customer questionnaires, reporting checklists and ESG ratings.
- gridscale — Private & Public Cloud von gridscale. Drag. Drop. Klick. Fertig - Klicken statt coden! So leicht bringst du deine Anwendungen in die Cloud.
- Validaitor — Validaitor is the one-stop-shop that brings together AI red-teaming, governance, risk management and compliance management in a single environment.
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Browse database — It's Free!Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Round size: Series A $428k–$23M; Series B $732k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tado° — Tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
- 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.
- StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.
Deep Tech Start-Ups without a proven use case have hard times raising capital in early stages. We help to overcome this financing gap.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$11M; Pre-Seed $274k–$4.4M; Series A $5.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xpoli — Using sensor technology in combination with artificial intelligence (AI) Xpoli measures and evaluates shopping patterns in retail business.
- Sovity — sovity enables data sharing and data driven business models with a holistic Software-as-a-Service based on International Data Spaces (IDS).
- constellr — Smart Farming and Climate Monitoring from Space. At constellr, we are using cutting-edge beyond-visual imaging technology to revolutionise the way we assess crucial aspects of our planet's health.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 70
- Round size: Seed $4.2M–$13M; Series A $15M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- constellr — Smart Farming and Climate Monitoring from Space. At constellr, we are using cutting-edge beyond-visual imaging technology to revolutionise the way we assess crucial aspects of our planet's health.
- Vaeridion — Vaeridion offers green air mobility technology and services which helps electric microliners to fly with the low energy consumption.
- INBRAIN Neuroelectronics — We are scientists, doctors, techies and humanity lovers, with the mission of building neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders.
Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
- Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
- Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.8M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $216M in 2022
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- Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
- SurFunction — SurFunction is a system provider for contactless surface modification. It employs surface structures inspired by nature to improve and make items more sustainable, while actively contributing to society and beneficial ecological change.
- Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
MIG Capital is one of the leading German VC Investors. We invest in European Deep Tech and Life Sciences from early to late stage (Seed, Series A, and beyond). We use investments to shape a better tomorrow, today. Our team currently manages 17 MIG public venture capital funds regulated by BaFin, the German financial markets authority. These fundsoperate with more than EUR 1.2 billion capital committed by >60,000 private investors across Germany and Austria.Today, our portfolio consists of 30 companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$28M; Series B $1.6M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- AMSilk — AMSilk produces and distributes high-quality silk biopolymers for use in textile products, medical devices, and cosmetics.
- Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
- ASTRA Therapeutics — Astra - Therapeutics
Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Germany.The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalinvestors in Europe and the USA. They founded or led companies their selves, developed or sold technology products their selves. They have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. They understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight.Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. They open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. They support you in business development, in international expansion, in closing OEM or distribution contracts, and in acquisition decisions. In addition, several dozen European and US entrepreneurs and top managers, as well as a number of US venture capitalists, have personally invested in their funds and thus have a particularly strong interest in your company's success.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$7.8M; Series B $2.4M–$20M; Series C $3.1M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- tado° — Tado° is The Heating App for private homes and small businesses. It adjusts to the residents' behavior in real time and also takes current weather forecasts and building characteristics into account. tado° GmbH is a Munich based Tech Startup bringing Internet of Things into the Cleantech Market. It was founded by Christian Deilmann, JohannesSchwarz, Valentin Sawadski and Leopold von Bismarck in 2011. A team of qualified young professionals has been working on the development of tado° for approximately two years in Munich.
- NavVis — NavVis next-generation technology for the built environment enables accurate mobile mapping of indoor spaces and enterprise-ready digital twin solutions.
- Dedrone — Dedrone is the global leader in anti-drone / counter-drone solutions with the most customers in more countries
The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Portugal, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.9M; Series A $1.1M–$7.7M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nuuEnergy — nuuEnergy is a tech-enabled solution aiming to revolutionize the heat pump installation industry. By leveraging technology and industry expertise, we streamline the purchasing and installation process. Our unique approach, refinanced through innovative strategies, promotes a self-reliant and carbon-neutral lifestyle for all our customers.
- ValueDesk — Wir machen Kostenoptimierung zu Ihrem Kernprozess.
- Kynda — Keen 4 Greens offers a wide range of vegan products. Founded in 2019, Keen 4 Greens is based in Hamburg, Germany.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 427
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $658k–$3M; Grant $80k–$165k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
- Flexvelop — Flexvelop combines financial technology with circular economy to add innovative values to the core function of equipment funding.Local vendors and online-shops integrate Flexvelop as a seamless embedded payment option. Business customers are now able to #flex new equipment per click right at the point of sale. Insurance is already covered, andour customers have now the weekly option, to buy- or return their equipment, easily. This enables a new world of worry-free and flexible business growth.We #flex business equipment from €300 up to €20.000 per item; e.g. coffee-machines, laptops, gym- or dental-equipment,... anything you need for your business.NEXT GENERATION PAYMENTS + Technological Innovation: fully automatic embedded payment option + Economical Innovation: optionality (rent/buy/return) + insurance included + Ecological Innovation: sustainability (contributing to a circular economy) = Enabling worry-free flexible business developmentForget renting. Forget leasing. Grow smart - flex it!
- eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
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Browse database — It's Free!Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 254
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series A $7.2M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022
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- Lunos —
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
- JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Series A $4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $135M in 2021
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- assemblean — assemblean goal is to construct the digital manufacturing infrastructure of the future. We want to make it possible for everyone to build physical items as readily as software.
- Seven Senders — Excellent international delivery is a competitive advantage. Connect with Seven Senders and benefit. Find out more now!
- Sitegeist —
bm|t supports innovative and growth-oriented companies in Thuringia with equity investments and venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $461k–$7M; Series A $1.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Leapter — Leapter is the trust engine for AI agents. Build logic tools for AI Agents and de-risk your AI workflows with visual, executable blueprints for deterministic decisions.
- Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
- warmwind — warmwind operates as an AI operating system for visual process automation.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 338
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
- Silverflow — Silverflow offers global payment technology to power financial institutions.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $823k–$6.1M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
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- Kupando — Kupando is a biopharmaceutical company that develops agonists to stimulates innate immunity.
- ThinkSono — ThinkSono Guidance enables any non-ultrasound trained healthcare professional to scan for blood clots (DVT). It reduces waiting times, negative DVT cases and can be used at the point of care.
- ALVA Energie — Alva delivers turnkey solar systems with integrated energy, heating, and e-mobility for buildings
Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 206
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022
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- Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
- dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
Pre-Seed B2B Tech VC - Engineers at heart, investors by choice
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$10M; Pre-Seed $878k–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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- Telura — Telura is a deep-tech business that uses next-generation drilling to enable geothermal energy everywhere. Telura creates electric impulse drilling technology, which breaks rock from within using high-voltage pulses.
- Gauss Fusion — Gauss Fusion focuses on the commercialization of magnetic confinement fusion power plants. The company aims to act as the architect of the first industrialized gigawatt-class power plant. Gauss Fusion collaborates with various industries to build fusion power plants, contributing to the clean energy movement. The company is involved in developingfusion materials and strategies to ensure energy security for future generations by establishing fusion power as a safe and clean energy source.
- InSpacePropulsion Technologies — Cost-effective, robust, and quickly available propulsion solutions, based on 10+ years of R&D and 40 years of combined experience in space propulsion.
redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$29M; Series B $15M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013
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- N26 — N26 is the Mobile Bank. Free bank account and Mastercard that you can manage directly from your phone. Open your bank account online in minutes.
- LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Series A $4M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $293M in 2022
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- Calipsa — Advanced video analytics for real-time security and forensic analysis. Calipsa is a cloud-based platform that uses AI to extract operational intelligence from video systems.
- GridCARE — GridCARE is the essential one-stop power solution for AI data centers, delivering energy security and resilience at unprecedented speed.
- Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 107
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $185M in 2022
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- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Rapidata — Fast and reliable data labeling that powers your AI. Define your label needs now and get the results in minutes.
- Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
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Browse database — It's Free!Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 822
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
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- TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 377
- Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$85M; Series C $12M–$99M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $615M in 2024
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- 32Co — Collaborate on treatments with the UK's top orthodontists using advanced aligner materials.
- GoCardless — GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn ofpayments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Series A $8M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022
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- Ona — Your mission control for software projects & software engineering agents. Keep momentum on any device with sandboxed dev environments in our cloud or your VPC.
- Ardent AI —
- ConfigHub Inc. — ConfigHub will unify and centralize software infrastructure configuration in a way that existing tools do not.
Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $2M–$9.2M; Series A $2M–$13M; Series B $5M–$68M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
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- FINDIQ — FINDIQ is a young company based in the heart of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe industrial zone. We have developed a novel strategy as a software producer to intelligently integrate knowledge management and help solutions for machine service. FINDIQ develops its service solution with the industry, whether for machine makers, operators, or service providers.
- synthavo — synthavo: Identifizieren Sie jedes Ersatzteil mit nur einem Smartphone-Foto in unter 2 Sekunden.
- FlowFuse — FlowForge is an open-source and low-code development platform for integration and automation at enterprise scales, built on Node-RED. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $7.4M–$95M; Series B $22M–$95M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $99M in 2023
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- Equipme — Equipme seamlessly connects businesses with service providers to make it easier for customers to obtain services in a frictionless manner.
- Luminovo — We are building data-driven and collaborative EMS RfQ software that gives you a breakthrough competitive advantage by automating and streamlining your processes
- Replo — Customizable Shopify pages for serious ecommerce teams. Build Product Pages, Home Pages, Blogs and Ad Landing Pages with Replo. Made for marketing, integrated with Shopify - join 50,000+ stores in building better and faster pages with Replo.
APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $511k–$3M; Series A $2.2M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
- HyperHeat — HyperHeat is building a cutting-edge, all-electric heating solution designed to reach temperatures of up to 2,000°C. Using renewable electricity HyperHeat is providing an efficient alternative to fossil fuel combustion. With an efficiency rate of up to 98%, HyperHeat is ideal for retrofitting industrial processes, enabling significant CO2reductions across industries like steel, cement, and chemicals. The scalable technology offers a cost-efficient approach to decarbonizing thermal processes, with a potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 4.5 gigatons annually.
- TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.
The L-Bank is committed to ensuring a high-performing economy, a high quality of life and a secure future. For individuals who want to gainfully employ their strengths or need support to develop them. For businesses that create jobs through their commitment and for communities seeking to improve the quality of their inhabitants' lives. Inshort: for Baden-Württemberg.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Taiwan, Portugal
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- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Pre-Seed $212k–$4.4M; Series A $6M–$72M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
- HappySupport — HappySupport is a self-updating Help Center platform for B2B and B2C SaaS companies. The product records user interface actions in the customer's software as DOM and CSS selector chains, not as pixel screenshots or video. A GitHub integration tracks the customer's front-end source code and updates affected guides automatically when theunderlying UI changes.HappySupport ships in three components. HappyRecorder is a Chrome browser extension used to capture guide content. HappyAgent is the GitHub Sync engine that maintains documentation against the source. HappyWidget is an in-product overlay that surfaces relevant guides inside the customer's application.The company was co-founded by Henrik Roth and Niklas Gysinn and is based in Germany.
- meinhaus.digital — meinhaus.digital provides an AI-powered platform to simplify planning, costing, and financing for home renovations and refurbishments of existing properties.
We empower early-stage hardware and software companies to reshape industrial value chains and become global leaders.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 56
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$7.2M; Series A $2.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- equal1 — Equal1 Quantum System-on-a-Chip (QSoC) integrates all essential quantum computer elements onto a single chip, powering our scalable, datacenter-ready quantum servers.
- Firecell — Firecell is a Telecommunications Industry.
- Innerspace — Innerspace develops novel, psychologically based training solutions for critical applications in the life science industry. Cleanroom operators are prepared for the key moments of their work using the DeepTraining approach, implemented in virtual reality. With regular practice in virtual space, they can deepen their behaviour patterns and theirunderstanding of production in critical areas of activity.
Looking for venture capital? We are the Munich based corporate VC arm of ams OSRAM and invest in startups in photonics, opto-electronic and sensing.
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- Industry: Software, 3D Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $2.9M–$5.7M; Series A $4.2M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VividQ — Our holographic technology is uniquely positioned to enable truly immersive AR gaming experiences through four key features.
- Tensordyne — Discover Recogni's innovative solutions for AI inference computing, offering unprecedented performance, scalability, and sustainability. Explore our cutting-edge technology designed for diverse markets including automotive and intelligent autonomy.
- Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
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Browse database — It's Free!Born2Grow is a german venture fund focusing on early stage investments. They invest up to 500k€ in innovative business models. They are based in Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Born2Grow focus on investments lies within the MedTech, BioTech, FinTech area as well as some other online industries
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Finland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M; Series A $3M–$3.3M; Series B $1.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Semorai — The SEMORAI Engineering AI Suite is your App Store for AI agents for reliable support in demanding mechanical engineering. Connect comprehensive engineering knowledge with your company know-how to accelerate your processes through AI to an unprecedented degree.
- Doinstruct — Doinstruct offers mobile training solution for frontline workers.
- traplinked — Digitale Fallensysteme - Endlich wissen, was los ist! Mit den traplinked Sensormodulen JERRY und TOM erhalten Sie in Echtzeit ein digitales Abbild Ihrer Kontrollpunkte.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
- symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt is a venture capital firm makes investments in territories such as Germany and Denmark.
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- Industry: Software, Electronics, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $4.4M–$5.9M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
- Solar Materials — SOLAR MATERIALS developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
- PerioTrap Pharmaceuticals GmbH — PerioTrap is an early stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to eradicate the root cause of periodontitis
Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 88
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.7M; Series A $3.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- COMPEON — COMPEON is Germany’s leading financing portal for SMEs. Companies can obtain tailored offers from various financing partners for their planned projects by submitting a query free of charge at www.compeon.de. COMPEON works with more than 220 banks, leasing companies and special providers and handles financing enquiries with a total volume of €2.5billion every year. In addition to credit, loans and leasing agreements, the firm brokers also factoring and alternative financing products – such as mezzanine capital, purchase and project financing or private debt.The fintech company has been on the market since 2013. In addition to its three founders and managing directors Kai Böringschulte, Dr Nico Peters and Dr Frank Wüller, COMPEON is owned by DvH Ventures, b-to-v and Tengelmann Ventures.
- Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
- Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
We back trailblazing entrepreneurs who transform the world with industrial 3D printing.
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- Industry: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $412k–$3.3M; Series A $2.3M–$12M; Series B $11M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 66% lead, 34% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Soil Connect — Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil.
- Fortius Metals — Fortius Metals is an innovative metal 3D printing company. Fortius Metals provides patented high performance wire consumables for advanced manufacturing including welding, joining and 3D printing
- Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Switzerland, France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 245
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$15M; Series B $4.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Kiutra — We provide cryogen-free cooling systems that simplify low-temperature research. Our solutions offer fast cooldowns, automated control and millikelvin performance ideal for quantum technologies and material science.
- Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
- Axelera AI — Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AIhas R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
- Code Intelligence — Always be a step ahead. Find and fix vulnerabilities before others do. Run automated security tests with each pull request!
- Workdry International — Workdry International provides designed water and wastewater management and treatment solutions.
Robin Capital focuses on software and technology solutions that address meaningful problems but am vertical agnostic.
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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: 44
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.3M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
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.
- ARCA — Plataforma digital para planes de pensiones de empleo. Soluciones para gestoras, empresas y partners.
- Bounti — Bounti helps organizations steer, enable, and scale their frontline employees, combining training, quality control, communication, and operations execution into one intuitive app. With Bounti, companies can maintain consistent quality and operations, streamline training and reach their entire workforce in more than 100 languages.
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, Analytics, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $235k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
- Rencore — Simplify Microsoft 365 governance for Teams, SharePoint, Azure, Power Platform and much more. Try the award-winning software from Rencore today.
- 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.
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
- Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
- Atmen — Atmen, formerly known as Point Twelve, automates hydrogen and e-fuels certification, saving you up to 90% time in the process.
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