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Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Machine Learning Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

Investor	Machine Learning Germany investments
Michael Brehm	5
Christian Dahlen	5
Lothar Stein	4
Kai Hansen	3
Jens Schumann	3
Kim Nis Neuhauss	3
Michael Baum	3
Jens Schumann	3
Nicolas Peters	3
Jeremy Yap	3
Felix Haas	3
Gary Bradski	2
‪Daniel Kondermann‬	2
Patrick Pichette	2
Felix Jahn	2
Heiko Hubertz	2
Jens Hilgers	2
Carsten Maschmeyer	2
Edward Grefenstette	2
Oliver Buecken	2
Charlie Songhurst	2
Benjamin Schroeter	2
Mario Götze	2
Michael Black	2
Julius Göllner	2
Matthias Hilpert	2
Mirko Novakovic	2
Torsten Reil	2
Walter Kortschak	2
Michael Wax	2
Eugen L. Gross	2
Erik Muttersbach	2
Philipp Moehring	1
Brigitte Mohn	1
Young Sohn	1
Lars Nordwall	1
Patric Fassbender	1
Mehdi Ghissassi	1
Nico Rosberg	1
Thorsten M. Schiefer	1
Maximilian Viessmann	1
Scott Belsky	1
Maximilan Claussen	1
Tobias Ortmaier	1
Arno Zinke	1
Christoph Jentzsch	1
Christian Vollmann	1
Francesco Tudisco	1
Jens Borman	1
Hanno Renner	1

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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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Rencore — Simplify Microsoft 365 governance for Teams, SharePoint, Azure, Power Platform and much more. Try the award-winning software from Rencore today.
comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.

Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power

Investment focus

Information Technology, Energy, Railroad
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Germany

Portfolio highlights

KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
SINN Power — SINN Power develops innovative wave energy technology to supply people worldwide with clean and reliable energy from ocean waves.

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.

Investment focus

Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Adtriba — Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimizationsuggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI.
aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.

Kim Nis Neuhauss is a CEO and Founder at alfatier. Kim previously worked at Bright Skies - a Rackspace Technology Company as a General Manager and Founder.

Investment focus

Video, Finance, Shipping
Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
Germany

Portfolio highlights

aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
sq[u]arely UG — Management Consulting
Neuhauss Capital UG — Neuhauss Capital primarily acts as a venture capitalist / investor in the early stages of a startup. Neuhauss Capital is involved with technical skills, particularly in the development of SaaS, software, and IT service companies.

Michael Baum is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur who has built billion dollar companies. Michael is the founder and CEO of FOUNDER.org, an early investor in young innovators solving world problems. FOUNDER.org provides audacious innovators an unrivaled experience through it’s company building science, deep mentoring and earlyfunding. Having created over 3,500 jobs, 150 millionaires and more than $6B in shareholder value, Michael is driving the next generation of inspired game-changers.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, Austria, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
Tryp.com — Find the best travel deals with artificial intelligence. Our algorithm connects flights, trains, and buses for perfect trips with matching hotels.
aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.

Nicolas is co-CTO and brings several years of industrial experience in software engineering to the company. Before joining Signavio he worked for SAP India and Sensomi. Nicolas holds an MSc in IT Systems Engineering.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

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

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

Gary Bradski is the Board Member at Occipital Inc.Gary is the creator (and active director) of OpenCV. He recently founded Industrial Perception, and has been involved in several other computer vision related companies in the past, including VideoSurf and Willow Garage. Gary has his finger on the pulse of everything computer vision related,which makes him an enormous technical asset.

Investment focus

Beauty, Animation, 3D Technology
Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Meshcapade — Foundation models that enable digital humans to see, understand, and move.
LUUM — LUUM Lash is revolutionizing the beauty industry with the world's first robotic lash extensions. The power of machine learning, AI and robotics combine to help lash artists improve efficiency, precision and overall results.

Daniel Kondermann is the CEO and Founder at Quality Match.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, B2B, Music
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.
Meshcapade — Foundation models that enable digital humans to see, understand, and move.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights.

Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Admi — Admi is a government technology company that helps towns and municipalities develop and operate photovoltaic systems on public lands.
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
welevel — Building games with attitude

Jens Hilgers a serial entrepreneur with His primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build his first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 he had consider myself a veteran in the eSports industry. Building companies and making ideas become reality is what he really loves.Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of his daily work. He is a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. He has team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.For 22 years now he has been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 he is also actively investing in and supporting selected startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.
theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
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.

Edward Grefenstette currently serves Facebook as a research scientist. Edward s also works at UCL as an honorary associate professor. Prior to this, Edward spent more than four years with DeepMind as a staff research scientist.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.

Oliver Buecken

Investment focus

Railroad, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats

Benjamin Schroeter is co-founder and Managing Director of FACELIFT, mainly responsible for all business development. Previously, Benjamin Schroeter worked for more than five years for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Strategy Consultant with a focus on supporting companies in the media and technology sector and their development of newbusiness models. He studied Architecture and Business Administration, spent several years living and working in the United States and China, and is a former fellow of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation.

Investment focus

SaaS, Database, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

CrossEngage — CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy.
Dealcode GmbH — Make your sales team data-driven and leverage the value of AI guided selling to increase win-rates and revenue.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
welevel — Building games with attitude

Michael Black received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia (1985), his M.S. from Stanford (1989), and his Ph.D. from Yale University (1992). He has held positions at the University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, and Brown University. He is an Honorarprofessor at the University of Tuebingen and one of the founding directors at the Max PlanckInstitute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he leads the Perceiving Systems department. He was a Distinguished Amazon Scholar (VP, 2017-2021). His work has won several awards including the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award (1991), Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize (1999 and 2005), the 2010 Koenderink Prize, the 2013 Helmholtz Prize, and the 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he co-founded Body Labs Inc., which was acquired by Amazon in 2017.

Investment focus

Computer Vision, 3D Technology, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Angel
Israel, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Body Labs — Body Labs is a horizontal solution provider of human-aware AI that understands the way we move and how we’re shaped to make our world more personal. The company is comprised of the best in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and body modeling. It aims to deliver human-aware AI as the next digital platform to empower the capture and use of 3Dbody motion and shape for numerous industries.It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Meshcapade — Foundation models that enable digital humans to see, understand, and move.
Datagen Technologies — Datagen offers synthetic image datasets, accessible via platform or api. Design and generate human centric datasets with granular control.

Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kurabu — KURABU verbindet nahtlos eine umfangreiche Verwaltungssoftware mit einer modernen Vereinsapp. Starte jetzt kostenlos & unverbindlich!
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
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.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

CEO at Dash0 Angel Investor at New Forge

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

AQUATY — The AQUATY platform equips investors and innovators with the essential tools for hassle-free investment transactions and operations in private capital markets.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
Edgeless Systems — Industry-leading solutions for confidential computing. Our products are open source and work across clouds. They are intuitive to use for DevOps and Engineering Teams.

Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.

Walter Kortschak is the Managing Partner at Firestreak Ventures. He attended Caltech, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
Langbase — Langbase helps developers ship composable AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).Langbase is the composable AI infrastructure and developer experience to build, collaborate, and deploy any AI agents (AI features). Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone, any developer not just AI/ML experts. We are the only composable AIinfrastructure. That's all we do.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
NOVUS GmbH — NOVUS revolutionises the world of motorbikes and creates the first urban premium electric motorbike.The automotive industry is since 2018 in the process of an unstoppable transformation towards electric vehicles. The motorbike industry, on the other hand, is now at the tipping point of this transformation. Urban premium mobility must ensuresustainability and satisfy the need for individualisation. With NOVUS, we are driving the necessary change in the motorbike industry and urban mobility.We use our high-tech and design expertise to develop a unique concept that combines the advantages of bicycles and motorbikes. We unite the lightness and agility of an eBike with the performance and sovereignty of a motorbike. Based on an electric engine and futuristic design, we create the architecture of tomorrow's two-wheeler.NOVUS will be the new premium supplier for urban electric mobility. We focus on direct distribution and subscription models, completing our D2C portfolio with vehicle individualisation and customer-oriented after-sales service. Our central intelligence – the NOVUS-OMNI system and the My NOVUS app – integrates seamlessly into the digital lives of our customers. We thus create the foundation for digital business models and enable sharing & fleet solutions for B2B customers as well.NOVUS is the promise of driving the future today.BE AHEAD
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

Eugen L. Gross

Investment focus

Video, Analytics, Machine Learning
Private Equity
Germany

Portfolio highlights

aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.

Erik Muttersbach is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Managing Director of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.
Orbem — Orbem is shedding light on the world's toughest challenges by unleashing AI-powered imaging for everything and everyone. This means developing fast, accurate, and accessible imaging solutions that provide access to otherwise unattainable sources of knowledge.Orbem is developing deep tech solutions to sustainably feed the world, improve humanhealth, and maximize human potential.Based on years of scientific research at the interface of AI and imaging technology, Orbem was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich.

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Dr. Mohn has been CEO of the German Stroke Foundation in Guetersloh since 2000. She has been heading the health program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung since 2001 and has been a board member of this foundation since 2005. Dr. Mohn is a member of the supervisory board of the Bertelsmann AG and of the Rhoen-Kinikum AG, a member of the BertelsmannVerwaltungsgesellschaft mbh, and a member of the advisory board of MediClin AG.Dr. Mohn worked as a consultant with McKinsey and with Pixelpark, she was with the American publishing company Bantam Doubleday Dell and worked as an editor for the Muenster Chamber of Commerce and for the Institute of World Economics. Dr. Mohn earned a Ph. d. in Politics, Art History and German, a Master of Philosophy and she attained an MBA.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Fitness
Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
SPRK.global — SPRK.global is an AI-enabled distribution platform for connecting food oversupply with demand partners by considering NGOs.
Rainfall — Rainfall is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that uses Edge-AI and Web3 technology to unlock the economic value from your data.

Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Revolear — Revolutionize your dealmaking with Revolear, the end-to-end platform for structuring, proposing, negotiating, and approving deals. Designed for Humans. Powered by AI.
Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.
Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.

Lars Nordwall is currently working at Creandum, Hopsworks, and Neo4j.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.

Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Lilio — Lilio aids parents in caring for the well-being of their children and provides input on the baby's well-being at any time of day or night.
Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.

Nico Rosberg is a Former F1 World Champion.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.

Thorsten M. Schiefer serves as Managing Partner and CEO SlateNetwork Group.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Waste Management, Food and Beverage
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

SPRK.global — SPRK.global is an AI-enabled distribution platform for connecting food oversupply with demand partners by considering NGOs.

Max Viessmann is Co-CEO and Member of the Board of the ‘Viessmann Group’ as well as CEO of VC/O.As the Co-CEO he continues to drive the Group’s digital evolution.Through VC/O the Group is making people’s life easier particularly in private and commercial housing aka the prop tech space. Through the Munich-based venture capital fund‘Vito Ventures’ and Berlin-based company builder ‘WATTx’ the team is providing a node for highly passionate entrepreneurs in the deep tech space.Prior to joining the family business, Max has been an early-stage investor and a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in the Munich and Shanghai offices.He has spent a lot of time living abroad particularly in the US, China and Japan.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Battery
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OCELL — Building the Operating System of Sustainable Forestry
Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.

Scott Belsky is currently a Partner at A24, where he leads technology and innovation projects. He previously served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products at Adobe. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eudia — Eudia offers an augmented intelligence platform designed to enhance the efficiency of legal teams. The platform integrates artificial intelligence tools that streamline legal processes, enabling teams to transition from traditional bottlenecks to more productive business drivers. Eudia provides features such as document analysis, contract review,and workflow automation, which assist legal professionals in managing their workload effectively. By leveraging AI technology, Eudia supports legal teams in making informed decisions and improving overall operational efficiency.
Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.

Maximilan Claussen - Founder and Partner @ System.One

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, Developer Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twain — You now have world-class selling skills at your fingertips. Use Twain for free to see what your sales pitch is missing.
Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
Tinkergarten — Tinkergarten's outdoor educational program helps families raise healthy, confident, and capable kids. Our classes for kids and DIY activities nurture important skills through play.

Tobias Ortmaier is a cofounder at voraus robotik GmbH.

Investment focus

SaaS, Construction, Computer Vision
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

oculai — Oculai is a solution for camera-based data collection on construction sites. Intelligent computer vision algorithms extract data on resource utilization, construction performance and construction progress from image data. This automates time-consuming documentation and reveals productivity deficits in individual processes at an early stage. Thedata is prepared for the user via an interactive dashboard, or imported into an existing BIM model. The reduced documentation and communication effort and productivity analysis of individual processes result in significant savings potential for construction companies.

Arno Zinke - Senior Vice President Software Engineering @ Hexagon

Investment focus

SaaS, Construction, Computer Vision
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cognyx — Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI.
oculai — Oculai is a solution for camera-based data collection on construction sites. Intelligent computer vision algorithms extract data on resource utilization, construction performance and construction progress from image data. This automates time-consuming documentation and reveals productivity deficits in individual processes at an early stage. Thedata is prepared for the user via an interactive dashboard, or imported into an existing BIM model. The reduced documentation and communication effort and productivity analysis of individual processes result in significant savings potential for construction companies.

Christoph’s background is in Theoretical Physics and developing optimized software solutions for high performance computing on specialized hardware. Christoph has been part of the Ethereum project since 2014 as Lead Tester, securing and shaping the core protocol while working on the backend of the C++ client. At the end of 2015, he co-foundedSlock.it, working on the decentralized sharing economy through the connection of Blockchain and IoT. On of the projects, Share&Charge was recently granted the German mobility award.

Investment focus

SaaS, Construction, Computer Vision
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

oculai — Oculai is a solution for camera-based data collection on construction sites. Intelligent computer vision algorithms extract data on resource utilization, construction performance and construction progress from image data. This automates time-consuming documentation and reveals productivity deficits in individual processes at an early stage. Thedata is prepared for the user via an interactive dashboard, or imported into an existing BIM model. The reduced documentation and communication effort and productivity analysis of individual processes result in significant savings potential for construction companies.

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Rulemapping Group — Rulemapping Group is a rule-based AI platform that enables a level of end-to-end automation for rule-based processes. Automated decision-making solutions for digital legislation, administrative operations, legal procedures, and regulatory compliance.

Francesco Tudisco

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

QuantPi — QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing.

Jens Bormann is the Founder and CEO of

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.

After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.

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