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Top 35 Local Startup Investors in Germany in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Local startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Local Startup Investors in Germany in January 2026

Investor	Local Germany investments
Mehrdad Piroozram	2
EnBW New Ventures	2
RubyLight	2
HV Capital	2
Felix Haas	2
Tim Schumacher	2
IBB Ventures	2
Digital Pioneers	1
2 Welten Investment	1
Stefan Glänzer	1
Seed GmbH	1
Floodgate	1
Atlantic	1
TS Ventures	1
Speedinvest	1
Stephan Schubert	1
Kima Ventures	1
Point Nine	1
Global Founders Capital	1
Berlin Venture Partners	1
Dennis von Ferenczy	1
Adam D’Angelo	1
Kite Ventures	1
Christopher Isak	1
E.ON	1
Dr. Max Iann Invest	1
Heise Medien	1
Constanze Buchheim	1
Müller Medien	1
Bigpoint	1
redalpine	1
RATTG Verwaltungs	1
BLN Capital	1
Michael Ströck	1
Michael Brehm	1

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Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

Investment focus

Insurance, Apps, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cola — As the world’s first Messaging OS, Cola introduces interactive “Cola Bubbles” directly into the messaging stream, designed to make texting more convenient and give users access to the full functionality of their smartphone without ever leaving the conversation. Cola also serves as a platform for developers to create their own Cola Bubbles, bringingnew interactive experiences into text conversations and extending the functionality of existing products into Cola. You can do with one Cola Bubble what would usually take 10 or even 100 texts. Cola combines the ease and immediacy of texting, with the precision and interactivity of an app.Cola is led by a team of Silicon Valley veterans who have worked on some of the world’s most recognized tech products, such as the iMac, iPhone, Photoshop, and Nest, joining to advance texting beyond simple text, links, and pictures.
Poshtel —
Golf Post AG —

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.

Investment focus

Software, Power Grid, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Austria, France

Portfolio highlights

vialytics — vialytics is a system solution for the road maintenance management of municipalities. Their integrated road monitoring system enables municipal administrations collecting data of their roads and monitoring the results. Predictive Features enrich the user experience by data matching background processes.
Hololight — Leading XR streaming technology platform, support for all XR Devices and an immersive AR and VR experience.
Validaitor — Validaitor is the one-stop-shop that brings together AI red-teaming, governance, risk management and compliance management in a single environment.

RubyLight is experienced tech entrepreneurs that founded a new technology investment fund in 2010.Their passion is to help fast growing internet and mobile startups to scale and expand globally. Social media, content sharing, communications, and crowd sourcing are their favorite areas of investment.RubyLight offers startups its professionaltech team, proprietary technology, and financial funding to help young companies scale up and expand globally much faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
Peerby — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
Todaytickets — Todaytickets enables consumers to book last-minute deals for events with just three fingertips. At the same time, Todaytickets helps the live entertainment industry to monetize their unsold ticket inventory (up to 40% of the available tickets) last-minute.Todaytickets offers a curated daily selection of event deals close to you – rangingfrom AAA concerts of artists such as Rihanna, Elton John, Deep Purple or Lil Wayne to theatres, operas, shows and sport events. The company guarantees a discount between 20 to 50% compared to the official pre-sale ticket price and/or exclusive goodies such as complementary seating category upgrades or free drinks. You can book your tickets at the very last minute (up to 60 minutes before the event) with your iPhone or webbased. Show your e-ticket at the venue, join the party and experience more today!Todaytickets is funded bei EPIC Companies, the company builder of the TV station conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the leading media corporations in Europe with a reach of more than 41 million TV households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore several well-known business angels invested in the „Experience more today“ concept, among others Roman Kirsch (former founder & CEO FAB.com Europe), Christian Tiessen (former Chief Sales Officer FAB.com Europe) and Felix Haas (former founder & CEO amiando).The management team consists of Christian Miele (former Director Global Venture Development – Rocket Internet, Investment Analyst – Bertelsmann India Investments, Member of the Board – German Startup Association), Gleb Tritus (Serial Enterpreneur; founder of the online marketing agency Affaires Media and local search engine Townster) and Michael Jaeger (former Head of Sales / Operations of the last minute hotel booking app JustBook).

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

JUMiNGO — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

IBB Ventures is for all those who make a difference and create a sustainable future. We invest public funds as venture capital and, together with Berlin startups, help to promote our capital as a business location.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
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.
dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.

Complexity down - Impact up. Made in Hamburg.

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Banking
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.

2 Welten Investment GmbH is a venture capital arm of Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH specializing in seed/start-up and growth equity investments. The firm seeks investments in technology, information services, communication, marketing or media sectors, with particular interest in digital business models for the transformationprocess of the regional newspaper publishers located in Germany.

Investment focus

Local, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
Arthos — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.

Investment company

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
LoanLink24 Mortgage — LoanLink24 is Germany's online mortgage broker that transforms the traditional process of getting home loans and helps expats get the best rate in buying property in Germany.

Your first true believers. Floodgate Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments in technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

Plug — Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs.
Replenysh — Replenysh is a set of tools for communities and companies to build circularity in days, not years.
Bluejay AI — Bluejay rigorously tests and monitors conversational AI agents across voice, chat, and IVR. Run full simulations, load-test high traffic, detect regressions, and use deep observability to ensure accurate, compliant, and reliable AI performance.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
Omnisent — Passive acoustic AI for tactical drone detection and localization. Reliable, jam-resistant situational awareness for defense and homeland security.
Mirelo AI — Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent.

TS Ventures We team up with outstanding entrepreneurs and support them as angel investors wholeheartedly. In 2001, Tim co-founded Sedo.com, the world's largest domain market place. Since selling the company, Tim is active as an entrepreneur and/or investor in various startups. In 2020, Tim has been awarded as best investor in Germany by the German Startup Association. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Eyeo (makers of AdBlock Plus) and co-founder of SaaS.Group, a Software as a Service portfolio company.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.

Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
kaufDA — kaufDA is a German site for local search and local promotion search. The company enables users to look for the best local sales online, search brochures of local retailers and find stores near them.
Freshnails — Freshnails provides a concept for beauty lounges and offers its customers professional beauty treatments in an exclusive ambience.

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mokn — Phish-back your credentials from attackers using contextualized deceptive technology.
IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
Motley — Manual reporting costs business teams 2.4 billion hours a year. Get your time back with Motley, your AI reporting assistant.

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

As business angels investing in young, innovative companies and support and encourage for years its successful development.Their portfolio companies benefit from their extensive network of contacts and their know-how in the construction, development and sale of companies.Operationally, they support the founders in particular in the field ofonline marketing (search engine marketing, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, conversion optimization, etc.).

Investment focus

Advertising, Apps, Mobile Advertising
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Scarosso — Scarosso breaks the traditional models of distribution and defines a new category of luxury. The uncompromising, high quality, Italian handcrafted shoes and accessories from Scarosso are offered at unrivalled low prices - ready to wear, bespoke and customized designs.
Vimecon — Vimecon develops and produces laser catheters for the treatment of heart diseases with a focus on atrial fibrillation. It also manufactures products for the medical technology and biotechnology; and offers microscopically small catheters, as well as micro materials handling techniques for exact measurement and dosage. Moreover, Vimecon advisesvarious customers from the scholar and industrial research and development. Kai U. Markus founded it in 2005, with its headquarters in Herzogenrath in Germany.
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.

Dennis von Ferenczy is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of IDnow. Dennis previously worked at XING Events GmbH as a Co-Founder. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Investment focus

Local, Marketplace, Translation Service
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

lingoking GmbH — We provide a wide range of certified translation services. All certified translations are done by our court-sworn translators.

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Town — Town is building the future of applied AI agents. We make it simple for everyone to build and leverage intelligent agents in their daily lives.
Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.
Lovable — Lovable is an AI app and website builder that turns ideas into production-ready software without coding. Launch faster with AI.

Kite Ventures is a global investment company that specializes in marketplace and transactional network investments for startups and early stage companies. It focuses on high technology and internet investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies in Europe and New York.Kite Ventures is a Russia-based company that was founded in 2008 by EdwardShenderovich.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dataminr — Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
Auctionata — Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvencyproceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.
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.

Christopher Isak - Founder @ TechAcute

Investment focus

SaaS, Collaboration, Cloud Infrastructure
Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Protonet — Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform that integrates your communications, files, and project management tasks in a single place.
smartQED — smartQED is a visual workspace for efficient collaborative investigations and root cause analysis. It has integrated learning and recommendations for higher productivity. Schedule a demo to see how smartQED can help you: email demo@smartqed.com.
Rodos BioTarget — Rodos BioTarget (RBT) is a biopharmaceutical company developing a targeted drug delivery platform. RBT’s patented TargoSphere® technology enables carrying a broad range of active agents selectively into the center of the immune response - i.e., directly into antigen-presenting cells.RBT currently applies its TargoSphere® technology successfullyin various models of infectious diseases caused by viruses like HCV/ Hepatitis C and HIV/ AIDS and by bacteria like in Tuberculosis, Legionellosis, and MRSA. Yet, any disorder that goes along with either overshooting or insufficient immunity caused by antigen-presenting cells - like chronic inflammations, cancers, allergies, and autoimmune diseases - may be addressed by RBT’s TargoSphere® technology.

The new E.ON is an international energy company focused on smart grids and customer solutions to drive the energy transition in Europe.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Software, Energy
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Naked Energy — Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.The versatile, modular design of Virtu® places crystalline photovoltaic cells in an evacuated solar thermal collector. For any given area more of the sun’s energy is converted into heat and electricity (80% of the 1000W/m2 available) thanksto the patented heat transfer mechanism.Thermal and electrical outputs are optimized irrespective of geographic or climatic conditions. With the isothermally cooled PV cells protected from the environment, Virtu® is especially suited to harsh high-insolation markets.Naked Energy is in the final stages of preparing for commercial launch to address global applications for domestic, commercial and industrial customers. Virtu® is both disruptive and scalable.
Power to Hydrogen — Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is simplifying hydrogen. Our technology enables a brighter energy future by solving the technical and economic challenges that come with producing hydrogen. Our AEM-based, electrolysis technology produces high pressure, high efficiency hydrogen from renewable energy with lower cost materials thancompeting electrolyzers. This technology can reduce the total cost of hydrogen to enable clean transportation, store energy efficiently, and decarbonize industrial processes. In addition to low-cost, high-pressure hydrogen production, the technology can produce high-pressure oxygen and be used reversibly to produce electricity. Both services can create additional revenue streams to make the total cost of hydrogen $1/kg.
Tree Energy Solutions — Green energy, naturally - TES is building the fastest, most efficient and affordable way to decarbonize the global energy market.

Dr. Max Iann Invest

Investment focus

SaaS, Local, Retail
Funding Round, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hrmony — Hrmony introduces a highly innovative, digital and disruptive Platform to a traditional and antiquated yet global operating industry. The traditional tax-subsidized meal voucher market. Hrmony aims to replace the existing insufficient and technologically outdated solutions with a revolutionary and digital business model. With its Omni-Channelapproach, Hrmony enables employees to redeem vouchers for any food related item at any venue, giving them 100% acceptance across whole Europe. Hrmony is also the first to achieve a 100% tax and law compliant solution to ensure meal vouchers are only used in their originally intended way as a subsidization for food.
Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

Heise Media stands for quality and independent journalism.

Investment focus

CRM, Local, Recruiting
Seed, Funding Round
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Resmio — Resmio brings the whole restaurant customer journey online, with one easy-to-use software. Resmio provides a free online reservation tool to directly acquire guests via their own website and empowers restaurants on everything that comes next in the customer journey - from acquiring new guests, managing dining experience and reputation todata-driven guest retention.
WeAreDevelopers — Our vision is to become the world’s leading community for developers. Our mission is to provide developers with the things they need and love. We inspire, entertain, motivate and educate developers. We give developers a voice and we connect them with each other. We give developers visibility and attention. We provide them with opportunities andhelp them grow.

Constanze Buchheim is a pioneering entrepreneur in Germany's digital economy and is regarded as a thought leader on the subject of "future leadership“ with a focus on building intrapreneurial cultures. For 15 years, she has been building and transforming digital teams in the new & old economy. In 2009, after having experienced thehypergrowth of spreadshirt and understanding that there is no market solution for companies in scale up situations, she founded the executive search consultancy i-potentials as an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs. As an advisory board member, angel investor and sparring partner, she prepares serial entrepreneurs and boards for the strategic challenges of future-proof leadership, recruiting and organizational and cultural architecture. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and "Manager Magazin" named her one of the 50 most influential women in German business. In 2020, she was selected by Focus magazine as one of the 100 Women of the Year.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Advertising
Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
Morphais VC —

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.

At Bigpoint, we are dedicated to expand the boundaries of free-to-play gaming so that everybody is able to play great games.

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E-Commerce, Apps, News
Series A, Funding Round
Germany

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Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
Luxodo — Luxodo GmbH operates luxury shopping platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.

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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Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.

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Investment focus

Local, Retail, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round
Germany

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Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.

Investment focus

Video Games, Software, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Sweden

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Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Education
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Italy, Austria

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Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.

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