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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
75 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $994k–$40M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
33 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.1M–$31M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
33 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $932k–$15M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
21 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $2M–$110M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
17 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
KfW
VC Fund
17 Germany, India, Spain Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2.2M–$17M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$75M
Atlantic
VC Fund
15 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Financial Services $850k–$32M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
15 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $219k–$71M
EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
14 Germany, Austria, France Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid $1.4M–$28M
BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
14 Germany, Italy, United States Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $428k–$23M
coparion
VC Fund
13 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech
Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund
13 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing $4.2M–$74M
FTTF
VC Fund
13 Germany, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $274k–$44M
Capnamic
VC Fund
12 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
MIG Capital
VC Fund
12 Germany, France, Austria Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics $1.6M–$54M
Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund
11 Germany, Portugal, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $159k–$7.7M
Target Partners
VC Fund
11 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software $1.2M–$20M
IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States Seed, Grant Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $80k–$3M
HV Capital
VC Fund
10 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
10 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$110M
b2venture
VC Fund
10 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.3M–$52M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $1M–$9M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $549k–$33M
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $461k–$18M
Brandenburg Kapital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Health Care $823k–$14M
BlueYard Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Internet $1.2M–$47M
redalpine
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$59M
First Momentum Ventures
VC Fund
8 Germany, Switzerland, France Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $878k–$10M
Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
8 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Energy, Information Technology $1.2M–$27M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$33M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $4.5M–$150M
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Italy Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $2.7M–$35M
Verve Ventures
VC Fund
7 Switzerland, Germany, France Series A, Seed, Series B Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $1.4M–$43M
L-Bank
VC Fund
6 Germany, Taiwan, Portugal Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $212k–$72M
Fluxunit - Osram Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, 3D Technology, Manufacturing $2.9M–$31M
APEX Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care $511k–$28M
Angel Invest
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $655k–$21M
IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
VC Fund
6 Germany, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Electronics, Manufacturing $1.3M–$5.9M
Robin Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.1M–$6.3M
LBBW VC
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
AM Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Software $412k–$12M
Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.7M–$39M
Matterwave Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, Austria, France Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2M–$16M
Born2Grow
VC Fund
6 Germany, Finland, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Medical, Health Care $1.1M–$3.3M
Senovo
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$68M
TEV Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, Australia, United States Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $549k–$20M
Christian Dahlen
Angel
6 United States, Germany, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, Information Technology $235k–$6M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$95M
SquareOne
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 75 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 557
  • Round size: Seed $994k–$7.4M; Series A $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • QphoX — QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
  • Zimory — Founded in 2007, Zimory provides carrier-grade cloud infrastructure management software that allows service providers, enterprises and cloud brokers to fully leverage the power and elasticity of cloud computing. Zimory’s intelligent Cloud Suite simplifies, automates and expedites the creation, launch and management of all types of cloudenvironments – whether public, private, virtual private or hybrid. Zimory software is also a key enabler of cloud marketplaces for enterprise services, applications and infrastructure. Headquartered in Berlin, Zimory has development centers in Erfurt, Germany and Minsk, Belarus, a subsidiary office in New York City and is expanding its expertise and presence globally.
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 33 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 235
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.9M; Series A $3.9M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $26M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • CatalYm — Catalym develops antibodies against a placental factor which is overexpressed by various tumour types.
  • 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.
  • ProGlove — ProGlove makes award-winning wearable wireless barcode scanners using BLE or RF technology for ergonomic and efficient hands-free workflows.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 33 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $932k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
  • Packwise — Packwise is bringing Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to the Internet of Things. Their Packwise Smart Cap makes a container intelligent and allows for improved and automated packaging management and logistics. Millions of IBCs are being used by chemical, pharmaceutical and food companies every day. Their Packwise Smart Cap is narrow-band LPWANconnected and provides users with real-time information on the state and location of containers.Packwise develops ready-to-use web applications and can be integrated with existing in-house IT or software through web service API.Packwise GmbH is a German company based in the Silicon Saxony. Packwise is Europe’s pioneer in digital industrial packaging management (IBCs and drums).
  • HandsOn Robotics
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 21 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • 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.
  • Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
  • Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 17 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • Round size: Seed $151k–$3.8M; Series A $30k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% 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.
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 17 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, India, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$7.7M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GermanSubCo — Vulcan Energie Ressourcen GmbH ("GermanSubCo") is the primary German holding subsidiary of Vulcan Energy Resources. It focused on lithium extraction combined with geothermal renewable energy production in the Upper Rhine Valley.
  • Power Finance Corporation — Power Finance provides financial products and related advisory, and other services to the power sector in India. It offers fund based financial policies/products, including asset acquisition; bridge, corporate, short term, and rupee and foreign currency term loans; short term loan for SPV; buyer’s line of credit; and credit facility forpurchase of power. Power Finance's fund based financial policies/products also include debt refinancing; energy saving projects; fuel supply projects and equipment manufacturers financing; grants/interest free loans for studies/consultancies; lease financing for wind power projects and purchase of equipment; line of credit for import of coal; takeout financing; and solar PV policy to private sector. Its non-fund based products comprise guarantee, guarantee for credit enhancement, and letter of comfort. Power Finance also provides consultancy services in the areas of procurement of power by distribution licensees; renewable and non-conventional energy schemes; selection of developers for coal blocks; selection of EPC contractors; reform, restructuring, and regulatory aspects; capacity building and human resource development; and execution of ultra-mega power projects, and independent transmission projects. It serves state electricity boards, state power utilities, central power sector utilities, power departments, equipment manufacturers, private power sector utilities, joint sector power utilities, and other state departments engaged in the development of power projects. Power Finance began operation in 1986. It has its headquarters in New Delhi in India.
  • Grenergy Renovables — Entwicklung von Photovoltaik und Speicher Projekten und Speicher Projekten mit Grenergy. Willkommen bei Grenergy
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 16 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 328
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • Neuracore — Neuracore is a robot learning platform that helps to train robots and deploy intelligent behaviour.
  • Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 15 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 199
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $5.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

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.
  • 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.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 15 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 127
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$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

  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
  • Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
  • Emergence Therapeutics — Emergence Therapeutics is a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high-need cancers. Its lead program combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4 – an important target for a broad range of cancers which has been clinically validated as anADC target by enfortumab vedotin, now approved for the treatment of urothelial cancers by the US Food and Drug Administration. Emergence is also actively exploring opportunities to develop further first- or best-in-class ADCs driven by therapeutic need.
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 14 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$12M; Series B $5.5M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% 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.
  • Hololight — Leading XR streaming technology platform, support for all XR Devices and an immersive AR and VR experience.
  • Greenbird Integration Technology — Greenbird - a VC backed B2B SaaS - provides Utilihive, the Operating System for the Platformed Digital Utility and Energy Cloud. Utilihive is the Domain specific iPaaS purpose-built for Utilities driving the Digital Transformation and empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial IoT.Greenbird’s Utilihive is in full Productive Operationsfor Utilities serving moire than 65 million Clients in Scandinavia, Germany, UK, Middle East and Far East.Greenbird is recognized as Though Leader with Digital Innovation for the ongoing Energy Revolution.Greenbird is an Enterprise SaaS company offering Utilihive the Smart Utility Hub empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).Utilihive is a Big Data Integration Platform (Domain specific iPaaS) purpose built for Utilities. Utilihive is the “Operating System” for Smart Energy Services and the Energy Cloud.
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 14 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 117
  • Round size: Series A $428k–$23M; Series B $732k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

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.
  • 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.
  • DRACOON GmbH — Every company faces the challenge of storing, managing and sharing data digitally and securely. With our highly secure and platform-independent enterprise file service, we offer our customers maximum flexibility - and at the same time a 100% GDPR-compliant solution. This gives the world back its sovereignty over its data. Our solution DRACOON isthe market leader in the field of enterprise filesharing in the German-speaking area. We live, act and develop according to the principle "Privacy by Design". Our service has already been named as a "Leader" by independent top analysts such as ISG. But also various certificates and seals such as ISO27001 and EuroPriSe rattest DRACOON’s highest security standards. With our service we integrate ourselves deeply into the company processes and thus deliver a maximum protected cocoon for your data - and every connected application. These companies already trust DRACOON: KfW, Rossmann, Helios Kliniken, Rödl & Partner, ElringKlinger, EbnerStolz, DATEV, Nürnberger Versicherung, Thyssen Steel, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison, Bechtle and many more.
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coparion
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $4.2M–$13M; Series A $15M–$74M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
  • Synthara — Synthara is a Swiss semiconductor startup revolutionizing the compute performance of embedded chips by orders of magnitude. We are working on a new breed of energy-efficient computational AI chips that are hand-crafted for smart sensor applications such as hearing aids, wearables, biomedical monitoring, and AR/VR. Our flagship product,ComputeRAM, is a drop-in replacement for conventional SRAM that performs complex calculations directly in memory. This drastically reduces CPU workload, boosting system performance and delivering exceptional efficiency, especially for AI workloads. With ComputeRAM, we help chipmakers and device manufacturers lower costs, shorten time to market, and unlock new opportunities for innovation.
  • Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
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FTTF
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 12 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 142
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $216M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • yasp — yasp mission is to transform complex AI capabilities into practical, effective tools that empower businesses in the evolving digital landscape.
  • 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.
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MIG Capital
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 12 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, France, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$40M; 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

  • NcodiN — The High Performance Computing (HPC) and ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI) era requires unprecedented computing capabilities. With this in view, industry is heading towards zettascale supercomputers, based on >100k processing units. Chiplets-based disaggregated processors and memory-centric computing architectures are taking over and require an ever more intensive communication between dies. Thus, today interconnect bottleneck is the main
  • GlassPoint Solar — GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.
  • Zadient Technologies — Zadient produces semiconductor manufacturing materials that are critical for the entire silicon carbide (SiC) value chain
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Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups

The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Target Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$3M; Grant $80k–$165k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
  • Atrya — Atrya develops regulatory-compliant blockchain payments for international companies.
  • DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 436
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$34M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
  • Acurast — Acurast Decentralized Serverless Cloud, leveraging the multipliers of mobile phones for compute.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 262
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
  • Sphinx — AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs.
  • Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
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b2venture
VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 10 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Series A $4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $135M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • Ververica — Ververica is the company founded by the original creators of Apache Flink, enabling companies to run in real-time with Ververica Platform.
  • Seven Senders — Excellent international delivery is a competitive advantage. Connect with Seven Senders and benefit. Find out more now!
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • SkillYoga — Get a personal yoga training plan based on your goals and experience. Functional, down-to-earth yoga training: anytime, anywhere. Become a better athlete today!
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 341
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Solarize — Solarize provides SaaS for energy production, distribution and billing for commercial microgrids.
  • D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
  • Lightbase — Plan, align, and ship complex projects faster. Lightbase maps your architecture across services and hands agents the full context to make safe, coordinated changes.
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bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
VC Fund · Erfurt, Thuringen, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups

bm|t supports innovative and growth-oriented companies in Thuringia with equity investments and venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $461k–$7M; Series A $1.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Altavo — Altavo operates as a medical device startup. Altavo harness the power of machine learning and state-of-the-art sensor technology to improve the lives of people who have lost their voice.
  • 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.
  • Influnate — Influnate is a tool that allows you to send and receive money via social media. Influnate enables users in social networks to “send and receive money easily, securely and quickly”. This can be done with a comment, a link, or via the Influnate web application. “Redirects to paid websites are a thing of the past,” said the startup.
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Brandenburg Kapital
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$6.1M; Series A $2.7M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Seqstant — Seqstant offers the LiveGene platform for real-time pathogen analysis, allowing for sensitive, specific, and user-friendly real-time genetic diagnostics.
  • k2-mobility — Operators of heavy vehicle fleets are facing one of the most significant transformational challenges by switching to electric vehicles. The additional time for battery charging, the limited vehicle range as well as diligent planning of energy consumption need to be dynamically integrated and accounted for in their daily operations. K2Mobility's software PANION has a real-time connection to the transport and tour plans, to the vehicles, the chargers and the grid and is planning and optimizing charging for operational excellence, energy cost and Total Cost of Ownership.
  • Captain T Cell — Captain T Cell is a start-up project that develops T cell-based immunotherapies for cancer patients. The company identifies novel high-efficiency TCRs for the development of T cell immunotherapies. It focuses on CMC- and preclinical development for their lead candidates.
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BlueYard Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Hardware startups

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $185M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Chemify — Digitising Chemistry and Chemical Discovery
  • 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.
  • Visolis — Visolis, a bioengineering company, develops carbon-negative and sustainable chemicals. Its systems approach integrates innovations in synthetic biology, chemical catalysis, and process scale-up to enable new bio-based manufacturing platforms. Visolis' bio-based process helps in achieving true carbon negative chemical synthesis. It beganoperation in 2012, with its headquarters in Berkeley in California.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 181
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
  • Albatross AI — Inspire Customers Boost Conversions Capture Missed Revenues
  • Hypervision Surgical — Making surgeries more precise, safer and faster. Guiding the future of surgery using AI-powered hyperspectral imaging.
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First Momentum Ventures
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hyperdrives — Discover Hyperdrives, a deep-tech engineering company providing electric drive systems designed to set a new benchmark for performance-to-cost.
  • 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.
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Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Energy, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M; Series A $4M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $293M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 824
  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
  • Clever Care Health Plan Inc. — Clever Care delivers culturally sensitive Medicare options in Southern California that honor and represent the cultural values of the communities we serve. Health and wellness, centered around you.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 381
  • Round size: Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$85M; Series C $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $615M in 2024

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.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund · Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 119
  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Verve Ventures
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 7 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.3M–$17M; Series B $4.2M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $66M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sleepiz — Sleepiz is a Zürich based startup with the aim to enable the medical community to take healthcare into the home environment. Sleepiz provides an easy and comfortable to use solution with a device that is simply placed on the bedside table. The device operates in a non-contact fashion and measures movements originating from heart contractions andbreathing patterns as well as body motions with medical grade accuracy.By making use of wireless millimeter wave technology, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence Sleepiz will in the future not only able to diagnose sleep disorders, but also to perform long-term monitoring. Thereby, the progression of chronic diseases can be monitored to allow faster intervention and better treatment.
  • Biograil — Biograil, founded in 2019 and led by CEO Karsten Lindhardt, is using injection molding to manufacture a device contained in a standard size capsule able to deliver active substances into the gastrointestinal wall. The Biograil device avoids mechanical moving components and makes use of the body’s own peristaltic forces to facilitate the delivery ofthe biologic efficiently into the gastrointestinal wall.
  • iMusician — iMusician offers music distribution, promotion, mastering, and monetization for independent musicians & labels. Get on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, TikTok & many more.
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L-Bank
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Taiwan, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $212k–$1.2M; Series A $6M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vinolin — Vinolin is an IT Internet firm revolutionizes wine selection with seamless online shop integration.
  • 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.
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Fluxunit - Osram Ventures
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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APEX Ventures
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

APEX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in start-ups grounded in unique and protectable technology. They provide support and resources and aims to develop their start-ups in their respective field. Their initial focus areas include digital media, business intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and the future of work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8M; Pre-Seed $511k–$3M; Series A $5.2M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Quibim — Quibim builds AI tools that turn MRI, CT and PET data into actionable predictions for hospitals and biopharma. Trusted in 230+ centers worldwide.
  • 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
  • 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.
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Angel Invest
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
  • symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.
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IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt
VC Fund · Magdeburg-rothensee, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt is a venture capital firm makes investments in territories such as Germany and Denmark.

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Robin Capital
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups, 10 in the past 12 months

Robin Capital focuses on software and technology solutions that address meaningful problems but am vertical agnostic.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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LBBW VC
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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AM Ventures
VC Fund · Starnberg, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We back trailblazing entrepreneurs who transform the world with industrial 3D printing.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: 3D Printing, Manufacturing, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $412k–$3.3M; Series A $2.3M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Additive Drives — A new generation of electric motors: simpler, better and more sustainable!
  • Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
  • Headmade Materials — Headmade Materials is a provider of the 3D-printing process Cold Metal Fusion (´Metal SLS`) for the serial production of metal parts.
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Crane Venture Partners
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$8M; Series A $8M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Qovery — Qovery is a DevOps automation tool that lets developers deploy and scale applications on their cloud by simplifying and automating infrastructure so tech teams can focus on what matters most: building great products.
  • Mycelial — Mycelial is a computer company that develops computer software to unlock values in the most constrained environments. It delivers software from the ocean floor to interstellar space, enabling users with a solution in the most sensitive environments where instantaneous decision-making meets life and death.Mycelial was established in 2021 and isbased in New York.
  • ConfigHub Inc. — ConfigHub will unify and centralize software infrastructure configuration in a way that existing tools do not.
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Matterwave Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We empower early-stage hardware and software companies to reshape industrial value chains and become global leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.2M; Series A $2.7M–$16M
  • 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.
  • LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
  • fruitcore robotics — fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics.
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Born2Grow
VC Fund · Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Senovo
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lative — Lative is an advanced sales planning and decision intelligence platform that helps you meet company objectives in the most profitable and efficient way.
  • Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
  • Synfioo GmbH — Synfioo offers an innovative software platform for transportation monitoring in real-time. Relevant setbacks on the initial transport plan like: congestions, security controls, strikes, bad weather conditions, among others, are directly reported upon occurrence. Transportation planners can leverage their ETA Service data in their familiar workingenvironment to react immediately and secure a smooth supply chain
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TEV Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Christian Dahlen
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Hardware startups

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

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Investment focus

  • 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

Portfolio highlights

  • Equipme — Equipme seamlessly connects businesses with service providers to make it easier for customers to obtain services in a frictionless manner.
  • 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.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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SquareOne
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Hardware startups

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
  • Flinn Comply — 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.
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Hardware Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 1.4k deals from 1.6k investors.

1.6k
investors
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1.4k
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in Germany Hardware startups
$4.7M
median round
in Germany Hardware startups
36%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage
81/19
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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