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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
18 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $723k–$31M
HV Capital
VC Fund
16 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$75M
redalpine
VC Fund
13 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
13 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, SaaS $468k–$11M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
11 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $162k–$12M
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds
VC Fund
11 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $209k–$36M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
Christian Vollmann
Angel
10 Germany, Ireland, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1M–$16M
Atlantic
VC Fund
9 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
APX
VC Fund
8 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $55k–$15M
Müller Medien
VC Fund
8 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
DvH Ventures
VC Fund
8 Germany, Austria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, Financial Services $1M–$30M
468 Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$42M
Antler
VC Fund
8 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
SquareOne
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
RTP Global
VC Fund
7 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
SquareOne Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$30M
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
7 Germany, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, InsurTech $221k–$66M
Wellington Partners
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $55k–$15M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, SaaS $1.2M–$132M
DN Capital
VC Fund
6 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1M–$82M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$40M
Capnamic
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
Rudolf Fuchs Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed Music, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $796k–$15M
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Health Care
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$44M
KfW
VC Fund
5 Germany, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $2.2M–$17M
Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Information Technology $1.3M–$34M
EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Norway, Austria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$28M
b2venture
VC Fund
5 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.2M–$52M
Rolf Schromgens
Angel
5 Germany, Spain, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Education $450k–$3.4M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, Software $100k–$7.9M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Monkfish Equity
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace $370k–$88M
Headline
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$78M
Lukasz Gadowski
Angel
4 Germany, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed, Angel Internet, E-Commerce, Software $1M–$63M
pd ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.6M–$20M
Oliver Roskopf
Angel
4 Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed FinTech, Banking, Software $790k–$1.6M
Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund
4 Germany, Portugal, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $159k–$7.7M
Point Nine
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet
Deutsche Handelsbank
VC Fund
4 Germany Debt Financing SaaS, Internet, Software $1M–$10M
Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
4 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $89k–$24M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $7.7M–$177M
Brandenburg Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany Seed, Series A B2B, Apps, SaaS $461k–$7M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
4 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
Atlantic Labs
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 18 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in various sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 782
  • Round size: Seed $723k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $841k–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Pylba — Pylba is the developer of 'Simply News', the highest rated news app globally. Pylba also provides all features of Simply in a white label model to content owners (e.g. publishers). Pylba, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in San Mateo, California.
  • Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 16 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

HV Capital operates as a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across Europe at all stages, from early seed funding to growth investments. The firm partners with founders to support company development over the long term, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network. HV Capital invests across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports companies throughout multiple funding rounds

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 512
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$37M; Series B $7.4M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 13 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 10 in the past 12 months

redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
  • ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
  • Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 268
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $468k–$2.6M; Series A $2.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • xHeron — xHeron uses artificial intelligence to automate guest service for short-term rental businesses.
  • Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
  • Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 7 in the past 12 months

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $912k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab Thunder — LabThunder provides a cloud-based laboratory management software platform designed to digitize operational workflows. The system centers on centralizing equipment management, automated maintenance scheduling, digital logbooks, and AI-supported knowledge management to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
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HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 45 in the past 12 months

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 426
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
  • become.1 — become.1 is an employee benefits platform that eliminates the complexity of tax regulations for employees.
  • Symphera — An all-in-one surgical system that makes minimally-invasive procedures more efficient.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $209k–$2.1M; Series A $2.4M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • syte — syte simplifies real estate decisions with AI-based software. Founded in 2021 and based in Münster, Germany, the company analyzes land and buildings in real time and makes complex real estate analyses easily accessible. The syte platform offers digital twins by intelligently linking various types of data, including cadastral and LiDAR data, aerialand satellite images, and market data. The database enables informed statements to be made about development opportunities, renovation potential, energy requirements, economic efficiency, and subsidy options.Project developers, real estate agents, and banks use syte for valuations, planning, and consulting. This includes evaluating locations, reviewing investment decisions, analyzing portfolios with regard to renovation needs, and identifying subsidies. Instead of time-consuming individual research or external expert opinions, the platform enables a reliable initial assessment.The team of over 30 people led by founders Matthias Zühlke and David Nellessen serves over 200 customers – from local real estate agencies to banks with thousands of properties. syte has received multiple awards for its innovative software, including the German AI Award 2023 and the PropTech of the Year Award 2025.
  • Nunos — NUNOS develops biological treatment technology that processes cattle slurry and digestion residues on farms into a thin, low-odor liquid fertilizer with plant-available nutrients. The company offers fully automated, stand-alone treatment systems that integrate into existing farm infrastructure and continuously process daily manure volumes. Its process stabilizes nutrients in chemically stable forms to support precise, demand-based fertilization and long-term storage with reduced nutrient losses. The resulting fertilizer can be used in open-field agriculture, greenhouses, ornamental plant cultivation, and soilless growing systems. NUNOS originates from space research as a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center and adapts closed-loop nutrient recycling concepts to agricultural applications. The company also applies its technology to recycle nitrogenous wastewater in closed habitats such as lunar or martian stations.
  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 10 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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, and top-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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 678
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.7M; Series A $6.7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
  • Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling bids and checking contracts.
  • Holy Technologies — Contract manufacturing with patented IFP technology: 12-weeks to prototype, scalable production up to 200k parts/year, and 100% recyclable materials.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 275
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $4.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
  • Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
  • Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems,Its platform enables precise, adaptable connections between chips, fibers, and light sources beyond traditional packaging constraints.This company focuses on scalable photonic integration to accelerate the development of high-performance optical systems.
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APX
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 211
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $67M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
  • Bloom — Bloom is the everything app to make onchain finance social. Copy trades and bets, build performance-based reputation, earn from your influence, and manage everything through a smart wallet.
  • Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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DvH Ventures
VC Fund · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.9M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Series B $4.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Dermanostic — Dermanostic is an e-health app where patients receive a medical diagnosis and therapy recommendation for skin diseases.
  • Dr. Vivien Karl — Dr. Vivien Karl is an intimate care company. Dr. Vivien Karl provides science based products for effective and safe intimate care. Their products include cream for moisturizing and caring for the intimate area.
  • microsynetics GmbH — Developing hardware and software to help elderly people gaining more freedom and quality of life. Our first product is an emergency wristband which works together with an app, also connecting relatives via smartphone and phone integrated in the emergency wristband. The automated AI-based fall detection guarantees help even when the user - afteraccident - isn't capable anymore of activating the emergency call via integrated button.
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $9M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Relixir — Relixir is AI Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) assistant that maps, monitors and improves AI search rankings.
  • Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
  • ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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SquareOne
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Heropay.eu — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
  • Flinn Comply — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 22 in the past 12 months

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Flam — Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform.
  • Ahead Health — Ahead Health is redefining preventive healthcare by making personalized health insights clear, actionable, and accessible anytime, anywhere
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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SquareOne Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series A $4.3M–$20M; Series B $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $84M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • 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.
  • Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Rouven Dresselhaus is Founding Partner at Cavalry Ventures, a leading European Venture Fund that he co-led until 2024. His most notable investments at Cavalry include Spread.ai, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also served on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía Salud. Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of the advisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement. Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
  • Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
  • Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
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Wellington Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 176
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
  • UroMems — The device is developing an active implantable medical device based on the cutting edge technologyl in the field of embedded systems and micro-technologies for the development of its products.
  • Onward — Working to restore movement, independence, and health in people with spinal cord injury.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our information technology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute. After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since. To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa. Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa. As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$4.2M; Series A $1.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded operates a digital platform for mental health, providing a range of courses focused on mental well-being. All of Likeminded's psychological experts possess academic backgrounds in psychology and receive specialized training from Likeminded. These experts are specifically skilled in facilitating group sessions and offering digitalsupport to users. They undergo ongoing supervision and coaching for continuous professional development.
  • VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share. The requesting company has to be located in Bavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies. Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $3.9M–$32M; Series B $3.9M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • Arcos — Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company that builds and operates modern infrastructure protection and alarm management systems.
  • HyImpulse Technologies — HyImpulse develops dedicated sub-orbital and orbital launch services using hybrid propulsion-based launch vehicles. Their SR75 is a single stage sounding rocket using a hybrid rocket engine to deliver institutional and commercial experiments into a micro gravity environment during a suborbital flight.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 452
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners. About 2x faster on hardware alone, up to 10x with cache hits. Deep observability on every job.
  • finmid — Scale bigger by building your business on finmid's lending infrastructure. Our APIs enable tech companies to offer credit cards, transaction-based lending, and working capital to their business customers.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$38M; Series B $4.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Groq — Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem.
  • FREE NOW — FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app.FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture betweenBMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.6M–$23M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $210M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
  • Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
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Rudolf Fuchs Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH
VC Fund · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Family Office

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enote — Enote is an innovative digital sheet music app, described by The Guardian as “a gamechanger for musicians". The company has developed a world-leading AI-technology, that allows to digitize paper sheet music into fully digital musical scores. This brings long awaited innovation to over 200 million musicians around the world, making sheet musicmore affordable, convenient and interactive than ever.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the current fund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
  • Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
  • HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
  • mogenius — mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, andrepetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.
  • Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 28 in the past 12 months

Cherry Ventures is Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of founders and operators with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Spotify, Zalando, and Uber. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from go-to-market strategy, scaling the business, and team formation across all crucial stages in their journey. We look for founders with a vision to create revolutionary technologies - whether it’s AI, healthcare, robotics, consumer, or others - that impact society and change the world for the better. Cherry has invested in the pre-seed and seed stages of over 130 companies across Europe, including Flix, Auto1, Flaschenpost, Amboss, Manual, Numa, Moss, The Exploration Company, Qualifyze, Swap, Dash0, Proxima Fusion and Tacto. Cherry has offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. www.cherry.vc

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 300
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $500M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Spiich Labs — AI for revenue teams that win on relationships. Spiich preps your meetings, updates your CRM and drafts follow-ups. Reps save 9+ hours every week.
  • Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

KfW is a development and promotional bank that offers financing, investment, and advisory services aimed at social, environmental, and economic development. It provides loans and grants for small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, and municipalities, supports energy efficiency and climate protection initiatives, and offers funding for housing and education. KfW works domestically in Germany through subsidiaries like KfW IPEX-Bank and DEG, and abroad via development bank operations, supporting infrastructure, renewable energy, vocational training, and public institutions. It mobilises capital from international financial markets and government mandates to carry out its activities. It ensures that supplier engagements adhere to sustainability and compliance standards in its procurement.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$7.5M; Series B $3.3M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AtlasEdge — AtlasEdge Data Centres is one of the fastest growing data centre providers in Europe. Find out more about us!
  • Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
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Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $3.4M–$18M; Series B $10M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $273M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Pstryk — Pstryk is a mobile app that tracks expenditures in real time to help you make budget-conscious decisions about energy consumption.
  • GridCARE — GridCARE is the essential one-stop power solution for AI data centers, delivering energy security and resilience at unprecedented speed.
  • Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
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EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Norway, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$12M; Series B $5.9M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $118M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Spoor — Spoor's software uses advanced computer vision and AI to detect, track, and classify birds at wind farms
  • enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
  • Elephant — Elephant in an AI-powered platform for frontline and blue-collar workers. It specializes in training and communication tools for decentralized, frontline workforces in sectors like manufacturing and logistics. Its core AI Coursebuilder converts technical documentation into gamified, mobile-friendly microlearning modules.
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b2venture
VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

b2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 281
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Series A $3.4M–$23M; Series B $6.9M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $179M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Komma5° — 1KOMMA5° is a global decarbonisation energy company focusing on intelligent energy solutions and promoting a CO2-neutral lifestyle. They are a ClimateTech startup focused on CO2-neutral energy, heating, and mobility. The company functions at approximately 80 sites across 7 global markets, providing a comprehensive range of smart, integrated energysolutions including photovoltaics, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations.
  • Flyboard — Human-level AI voice agents at a fraction of the cost. Transform your customer engagement with intelligent automation.
  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
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Rolf Schromgens
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
  • Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
  • CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
  • enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
  • Seqstant — Seqstant offers the LiveGene platform for real-time pathogen analysis, allowing for sensitive, specific, and user-friendly real-time genetic diagnostics.
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Monkfish Equity
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. TRVG was started in 2004 and went IPO with over 1 b$ in revenue on NASDAQ in 2016. It was then labelled one of the first real Unicorns in Germany. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses. So far, the Monkfish team has invested in over 50 start-ups in Europe, Asia, the US and South Africa.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $370k–$3.3M; Series A $4.1M–$15M; Series B $13M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dogo — Dogo app - dog trainer in your pocket. Strengthen your friendship with training
  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • ArtNight GmbH — ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 585
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $7.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
  • Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
  • Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Lukasz Gadowski
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$20M; Series A $4.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • 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.
  • TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$3.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
  • asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
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Oliver Roskopf
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Banking, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
  • Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
  • Rausgegangen — Rausgegangen is a privately held company that is generating the tips to go out in Cologne, every day.
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Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $159k–$1.9M; Series A $1.1M–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nuuEnergy — nuuEnergy is a tech-enabled solution aiming to revolutionize the heat pump installation industry. By leveraging technology and industry expertise, we streamline the purchasing and installation process. Our unique approach, refinanced through innovative strategies, promotes a self-reliant and carbon-neutral lifestyle for all our customers.
  • ValueDesk — Valuedesk is a service company that specializes in structured savings and efficiency management. Their adaptable solution for cost optimization benefits companies in a wide range of industries, including mechanical engineering and the automotive, culinary, furniture, and pharmaceutical industries. Using systematics and technology enables businessesto work more cost-effectively in the long run.
  • Kynda — Keen 4 Greens offers a wide range of vegan products. Founded in 2019, Keen 4 Greens is based in Hamburg, Germany.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
  • FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
  • Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.
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Deutsche Handelsbank
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Deutsche Handelsbank was established by experienced fin-tech experts as the bank for digital startup and growth companies. They are deeply rooted in the technology startup ecosystem and dedicated to connecting and partnering with innovative technology companies, venture capital investors and domain experts. We accompany startup and digital growthcompanies along their way with growth financing, working capital, banking-as-a-service, and factoring solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vitafy — Vitafy GmbH is a pure online player in fitness and sports nutrition, Vitafy addresses the growing healthy living movement.
  • talentsconnect — talentsconnect is the HR Tech company behind the JobShop: a SaaS career-site developed to optimise conversion rates in recruiting. With the JobShop recruiters are able to solve their recruiting bottlenecks and can regain independency from job boards.
  • Factor Eleven — Wir sind Factor Eleven. Ein Product & Tech-Startup mit der Mission die Planung, Kreation, Buchung und Abwicklung von Werbekampagnen einfacher und KPI-basierter zu machen.Durch die Entwicklung von SMARTER TECHNOLOGIE, wird diese Mission von Quartal zu Quartal mehr und mehr Realität. Mit Hilfe unserer technologischen „Core-Produkte“automatisieren wir Arbeitsschritte und ToDos, die heute in Unternehmen viel (unnötige) Zeit rauben und alles andere als effizient fördernd sind. Uns ist wichtig, dass sich Mitarbeiter unserer Kunden und Partner weniger um diese „Standard-Aufgaben“ oder „Trouble-Shooting“ kümmern müssen – sondern mehr Zeit für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge ihres Business haben: Deren Kunden, die Weiterentwicklung der Produkte/Dienstleistungen, Controlling & Learnings, etc.Dabei herausgekommen sind z.B. Media-Produkte, die dediziert entlang der Customer Journey entwickelt wurden und je nach Funnel-Stufe buchbar sind: Abgerechnet nach der KPI, die zur jeweiligen Funnel-Stufe passt/gehört. Ermöglicht wird dies durch unsere eigens entwickelten Algorithmen, die notwendiger Bestandteil sind, um den ambitionierten Ansprüchen von Marketeers und Mediaplanern gerecht zu werden. Darüber hinaus bieten unsere Produkte weitreichende Garantien hinsichtlich Transparenz, Brand Safety und Viewability um auch in Zukunft die Grenzen des Möglichen immer wieder neu zu challengen.
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$4.2M; Angel $89k–$548k; Series A $1.6M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

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.
  • Finperks — finperks is a prepaid infrastructure API for banks, neobanks, HR platforms, etc. in Europe. Access 1000+ brands across 30+ countries. Simplify contracts, settlements, and integrations to scale your prepaid, cashback, and employee benefits solutions.
  • admark.ai — admark.ai combines cutting-edge AI language models with social media data
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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Series B $7.7M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $350M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenity — Zenity empowers enterprises to enable AI Agents securely. Our platform ensures adaptive security and governance from buildtime to runtime.
  • Epsagon — Microservices-native APM platform, gain an intuitive view of container and serverless environments, from the overall architecture to individual transactions. Start a 14-day free trial.
  • Firstup — Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informingand engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services.Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.
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Brandenburg Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Brandenburg Ventures is the early-stage oriented venture capital company founded by Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, best known as the co-inventor of MP3. They actively help innovative IPR-centric companies with early-stage funding and our top-end global network within the digital media ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $461k–$2.3M; Series A $6.7M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.
  • Brandenburg Labs — Experience lifelike spatial sound through headphone-based immersive audio technology. Brandenburg Labs develops cutting-edge binaural and spatial audio solutions.
  • Magnitude Internet — Thanks to its innovative, revolutionary and disruptive approach, paul Digital Assistant will be the leading platform for group transport while also solving the last-mile problem.
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Series B $3.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2007

Portfolio highlights

  • Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
  • Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
  • Searchmetrics — Where enterprises go to win in AI search
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Atlantic Labs
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 168
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
  • SynthFlow AI — Build AI Agents at Scale. No Coding Required.
  • SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
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Media (Entertainment) Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 917 deals from 1.1k investors.

1.1k
investors
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
917
deals
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
$1.3M
median round
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
31%
lead investors
lead at least one round
36%
Seed
most common funding stage
67/33
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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