# Top 35 Local Startup Investors in Germany in June 2026

## Mehrdad Piroozram
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Insurance, Apps, Software

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

## RubyLight
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce

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.

## Tim Schumacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Internet

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.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## EnBW New Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid

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. 

## IBB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

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

## Felix Haas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Local, Mobile, Sports

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.

## Global Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

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

## Berlin Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Advertising, Apps, Mobile

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.).

## Adam D’Angelo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## Kite Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS

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.

## Heise Medien
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CRM, Local, Recruiting

Heise Media stands for quality and independent journalism.

## Bigpoint
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, News

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

## Stephan Schubert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

## Müller Medien
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Dennis von Ferenczy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Local, Marketplace, Translation Service

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.

## RATTG Verwaltungs
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Local, Retail, E-Commerce

RATTG Verwaltungs

## BLN Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Schönefeld, Brandenburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video Games, Gaming, Internet

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

## Hansi Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Cooking

Hansi Hansmann

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Finance, Education

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.

## Stefan Glänzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media

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.

## redalpine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## Freigeist Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps

Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.

## 2 Welten Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Local, Retail, E-Commerce

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.

## Digital Pioneers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Local, Banking

Complexity down - Impact up. Made in Hamburg.

## Seed GmbH
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Software

Investment company

## Floodgate
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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

## Atlantic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

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.

## Christopher Isak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Local, Computer

Christopher Isak - Founder @ TechAcute

## E.ON
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Energy

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


## Dr. Max Iann Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Local, Retail

Dr. Max Iann Invest

## Constanze Buchheim
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, Software, Advertising

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.

## TS Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

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.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

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