Top 50 Startup Investors in Germany in May 2026

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• 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.
• Senodis — The digital transformation of industry is not developed on paper; it requires pioneering work to implement specific solutions and applications off the beaten track. With our experience and our network at the interface between materials research, optical sensors, and digital data analysis, we and our partners provide the missing building blocks forthe connection and digitization of your production.
• CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

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• 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.
• Goodly Innovations — Goodly Innovations is the leading regulated industry-focused global Pharma 4.0 provider for extended reality shop floor guidance. From cleanrooms to secondary packaging areas, labs and more, Goodly can help improve Pharma and BioPharma clients efficiency, OEE, quality, training and more

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• AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
• TastyUrban — TastyUrban is in the process of developing a new generation of restaurant usage and strategy.
• Lumoview Building Analytics — Lumoview digitizes buildings in 2 seconds per room with a device that can be used by everyone. The data is then analyzed highly automated in the cloud. The connected online platform empowers building owners to take action and improve their buildings and reduce CO2 emissions.

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• tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
• Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
• 150 Minuten — Das Startup 150Minuten aus Berlin möchte Menschen aller Alters- und Fitnessklassen für mehr Sport und Bewegung begeistern. Wir bieten ein modernes, interaktives Online-Kursangebot, an dem jede*r (direkt und live) von Zuhause aus teilnehmen kann.

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• Factris — We finance your open invoices so that you have the cash flow you need to grow your business. Your invoices, our financing! No more stress!
• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• Toqio — Toqio is a development and orchestration platform where you can build, configure, and launch corporate embedded finance solutions for merchant networks.

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• Spike Technologies — Spike is an API for all fitness and health data from wearables & loT devices designed for digital health app developer.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
• Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.

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• GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
• Sphinx — AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs.
• Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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• CYNiO — We produce specialized and scarcely available isocyanates for the specialty chemicals and R&D sector and the industry.
• Zepta — Zepta emphasizes "digital solutions and sustainability in pest control." Zepta develops a digital approach for protecting humans from pests.
• b.sure — b.sure help brands, agencies and event organizers to make their offline events as measurable as their online marketing.

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• 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.
• 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.
• SenseUp Biotechnology — SenseUp is a biotech company that develops microbial production-strains. It offers de-novo construction or optimization of existing strains, using state of the art genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, accompanied by our unique biosensor-technology. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia.

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• SLNG — SLNG is radically global infrastructure for speech AI.
• TastyUrban — TastyUrban is in the process of developing a new generation of restaurant usage and strategy.
• Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.

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• Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
• Quix — A fully managed stream processing platform that helps teams transform data into products.
• Spryker — Spryker is an Enterprise B2B, B2C, and Marketplace solution recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce

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• Kiin Bio — Drug discovery is a system problem, where every inefficiency amplifies the next. We have the solution.
• PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
• Nautica Technologies — Nautica Technologies is developing intelligent robotic technologies for autonomous ship hull cleaning and inspection. we operate at the convergence of robots, autonomy, and data to solve important difficulties in the marine industry.

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• planqc — Planqc quantum processors use atoms in artificial crystals of light - the fastest way to scale to useful quantum advantage.
• Synera — Accelerate product development and unlock potential with powerful workflows that connect your data, tools and teams.
• fruitcore robotics — fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics.

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• Cercli — Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
• Velotax — Velotax is the easiest way to keep customers' income tax information in an organized and centralized way.
• Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.

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• CYNiO — We produce specialized and scarcely available isocyanates for the specialty chemicals and R&D sector and the industry.
• NorcSi GmbH — Entwicklung von neuartigen Batterietechnologien
• byte robotics — Byte Robotics developed a springboard innovative software technology for robot program generation.

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• OSPHIM — OSPHIM is an AI-based technology combines data visualization, precise anomaly detection, and intelligent process setup for injection molding processes
• paXos — paXos serve three key industries and bring a lot of expertise and know-how from a large number of projects with them. Synergies can be found not only in engineering but also in cross-industry topics such as consulting, project management, training, and personnel management. They provide services like Consulting, Engineering, Project Management,Training, and many more.
• Co-reactive — Co-reactive is a ClimateTech startup that provides decarbonization of the construction industry at scale. Co-reactive works with suppliers of CO₂ and raw materials, manufacturers of cement and concrete, and certification bodies throughout the value chain to scale from pilot plants to large industrial units in the range of 100–300 kilotons. Feedback

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• Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
• a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
• Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

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• Customcells Group — With our combined strengths, we are uniquely positioned to deliver customer-centric premium battery technology at scale.
• Athens Research — Open-Source Roam Research. A private, extensible, and community-driven knowledge graph.
• Sixty AI — Stop wasting time on tasks AI can easily handle and get back to what really matters. Sixty highlights what needs your attention and magically manages the rest.

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• 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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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• 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.

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• voize — voize is an app for care documentation via voice input.
• DejaBlue — DejaBlue delivers a smart EV charging platform that supports solar integration, reduces energy costs, and improves site operations. Easily connect chargers, manage your fleet, and optimize performance with reliable tools built for scale.
• Level Zero Health — Utilizing cutting-edge DNA-Based sensors to provide real-time monitoring of hormone levels in the interstitial fluid, a minimally invasive method unlocking access to hormonal data.

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• 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.

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• cargo.one — The cargo.one booking platform gives you access to real-time prices and available capacities of multiple airlines. Directly book online within seconds, 24/7.
• Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
• 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.

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• koppla — koppla is a cloud-based planning and communication tool for LEAN construction sites for both general contractors and subcontractors.
• 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

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• MoleQlar — MoleQlar is a data and research-driven longevity company. It provides valuable information and offers consumers lab-tested nutritional supplements. The company focuses on functional medicine with optimized nutrition. Their product range includes Uthever NMN, Resveratrol, Betaine, Carnosine, and more. These products are aimed at lowering biologicalage and promoting health and longevity. MoleQlar also offers health tracking services. The company is certified in Germany and delivers its products EU-wide, including Switzerland.
• Qualifyze — Qualifyze (former ChemSquare) was founded out of the Technical University of Darmstadt in September 2017. Today, we are based in Frankfurt am Main, the heart of Germany’s pharmaceutical cluster, where the leading life science companies are based. Our team consists of 16 people with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise in business,engineering, and technology as well as several strategic partners from the pharma, food and cosmetics industry.
• Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor

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• mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
• 3D Spark — Profitability and Sustainability Aligned using 3D Spark's Platform - Empowering Manufacturing with Insights and Efficiency!
• 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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• LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
• Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
• HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.

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• CommerceClarity — CommerceClarity offers AI-powered catalogue optimization solutions that turn catalogue operations into a competitive advantage.
• Connectome Health — Connectome is a cognitive intelligence platform that measures and understands how the brain changes over time using transparent, science-backed data people and organisations can trust.
• Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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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.

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• Molab — Molab is a biotechnology research company that uses AI to create molecules faster.
• 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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• MOTOR AI — Explore MOTOR Ai's certified, German-engineered autonomous driving technology, delivering reliable and scalable public transportation solutions worldwide.
• Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
• node.energy — Mit der Software opti.node wird die dezentrale und klimafreundliche Energieversorgung Ihrer Industrie- und Gewerbestandorte radikal vereinfacht. | node.energy

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• DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
• Parkstory — Parkstory offers fully automated parking solutions that are supported by artificial intelligence.
• 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.

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• Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
• Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
• symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

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• Synthium — Synthium offers Cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS) for consumer robotics, using gamified web-based simulations to crowdsource human cognitive data for training robot AI models. Users engage in robotics tasks like spatial navigation via webcam and microphone inputs, generating diverse datasets for model training across robot types such as humanoids anddrones. Data captures human intuition in dynamic environments, enabling scalable AI development without physical robots.
• Alchemyst AI — Alchemyst AI is an innovative generative AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology to deliver unique solutions tailored to various industries. Alchemyst aims to empower businesses to harness the potential of generative AI for enhanced creativity, efficiency, and decision-making.We arebuilding force multipliers within teams across various verticals - starting with Maya, our first Alchemyst for Sales Development. We would soon be horizontally scaling to other roles as well, integrating into wherever you work.Since inception, we have taken a bottom-up approach to building our platform as opposed to a top-down approach usually seen in SaaS products - keeping the client experience first.
• Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!

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• 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.
• Skycore Semiconductors — Skycore Semiconductors delivers power conversion microchips, enhancing efficiency and performance for AI, data centers, and battery energy storage systems.
• 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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• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
• beSirius — beSirius transforms ESG chaos into clarity - connecting your data to spot trends, reveal revenue signals, and answer any stakeholder in minutes. Smarter decisions, faster deals, zero admin drain.

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• 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.
• warmwind — warmwind operates as an AI operating system for visual process automation.
• PERCEPTEC — PERCEPTEC is an application-oriented think tank with the aim of accelerating the process of modernization and digitalization of the optometric and ophthalmological sector.

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• 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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• Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
• Prewave — Prewave and stems from five years of advanced machine learning research.
• OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.

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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.
• EntryLevel — Learn in an affordable, peer-driven environment over 6 weeks with mentors from top companies across the world such as Atlassian, Wise and more.
• VSPARTICLE — VSPARTICLE develops nanoparticle generators for various applications such as sensors, batteries, catalysis, solar cells, healthcare, additive manufacturing, nano safety, and more. It also enables research and industry to generate new materials at the push of a button.They specialize in nanoparticle production and integration. The technologyspeeds up the developments of customers by producing the desired nanoparticles on location and integrate them directly in the final product. VSPARTICLE was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands.

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• Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
• Remitly — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
• GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

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• 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

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• 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 — 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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• Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
• Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
• ClimateChoice — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

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• aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
• Circonomit — Building the world's environmental data infrastructure - We are the sustainability counterpart to what Excel, Sheets and Datev are to financial planning and accounting. Our mission is to create the first decision intelligence platform to bridge sustainability and finance by building the global standard for the collection and aggregation ofcorporate environmental data.
• Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...

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• Nostos Genomics — Our genetic variant interpretation platform enables genetic testing labs to give more people with genetic diseases a clear and fast diagnosis.
• Waypoint AI — Waypoint AI triages, deflects, routes, and does postmortems. before they become into crises.
• Customs4trade (C4T) — Customs4trade simplifies Global Customs Management and Trade Compliance with a user-friendly software solution, CAS, which offers end-to-end automation.

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• Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
• JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
• Bildungs urlauber — The goal of Bildungsurlauber.de is to make complicated topics simple. First and foremost, we assist you in locating the appropriate seminar for you by using simple filter options - regardless of whatever federal state you work in.

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• 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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• Vivino — Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
• Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.