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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) VC Funds & Investors in Germany (November 2026)

The most active venture capital funds 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
22 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $680k–$31M
HV Capital
VC Fund
18 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$75M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
14 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1M–$11M
redalpine
VC Fund
13 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
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
Speedinvest
VC Fund
10 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
10 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $209k–$36M
Atlantic
VC Fund
10 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
DvH Ventures
VC Fund
8 Germany, Austria, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Software, Financial Services $469k–$30M
Müller Medien
VC Fund
8 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
APX
VC Fund
8 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology
DN Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1M–$82M
Antler
VC Fund
8 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
468 Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$42M
RTP Global
VC Fund
8 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
SquareOne
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
SquareOne Venture Capital
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1M–$30M
Wellington Partners
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.3M–$100M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $66k–$15M
Capnamic
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$40M
Point Nine
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$62M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $1.1M–$132M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$44M
Headline
VC Fund
6 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1M–$78M
Ventech
VC Fund
5 France, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1.3M–$66M
Future Energy Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Energy, Information Technology $1.3M–$34M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $608k–$15M
KfW
VC Fund
5 Germany, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $115k–$17M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, Software
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Health Care
Rudolf Fuchs Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed Music, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Media Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Mobile, Social Media $110k–$69M
EnBW New Ventures
VC Fund
5 Germany, Norway, Austria Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.5M–$28M
Monkfish Equity
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace $370k–$15M
b2venture
VC Fund
5 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.3M–$52M
Tiburon
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $3.7M–$160M
Peak
VC Fund
4 The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
NFQ Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism $1.3M–$12M
Deutsche Handelsbank
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $826k–$7M
Enjoyventure Management
VC Fund
4 Germany, Portugal, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Education $182k–$7.9M
WestTech Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $902k–$11M
Emerge VC
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Education, EdTech, Software $41k–$22M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
4 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$33M
IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States Seed, Grant Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $80k–$3M
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 22 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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 851
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $911k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 18 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: 518
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$35M; Series B $7.5M–$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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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 14 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.3M–$8.4M
  • 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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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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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 11 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 6 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 $1.1M–$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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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: 684
  • Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$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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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: 139
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $209k–$2.1M; Series A $2.2M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 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: 283
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.3M; 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

  • Cygrid — Cygrid turns identity data into quantified risk scores and automated enforcement, delivering predictable risk reduction and measurable ROI. Our solution uses AI agents to continuously assess identity risk and reduce exposure across cloud and SaaS environments. Cygrid covers human, non-human, and AI agent identities, providing unified visibility across the entire identity landscape. We help CISOs, CTOs, CROs, and technical teams uncover hidden attack paths, reduce the identity attack surface, and make the identity space measurable, actionable, and controllable for Enterprises. Cygrid platform makes Identity risk management simple. Our team will be happy to talk to you and see how our solution will help you to manage cyber risks for identities efficient and secured. Cygrid builds a high ownership culture focused on trust, accountability, and results. We work in a flexible hybrid model, encourage direct communication, and expect initiative from every team member. We value integrity, continuous learning, and strong collaboration across product, engineering, and security. Identity Security made easy!
  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
  • 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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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: 109
  • Round size: Seed $469k–$5.9M; Series A $3.9M–$19M; Series B $4.7M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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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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 Müller founded 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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APX
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
  • Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
  • DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 8 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: 468
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $9M–$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 agents that run your external workforce end-to-end, autonomously and far beyond your MSP and VMS.
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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: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; 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

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 12 in the past 12 months

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, and renewable 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: 231
  • 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

  • NOVUS GmbH — Discover the NOVUS One: a lightweight electric motorcycle combining progressive design, carbon-fibre engineering, urban range, and distinctive performance.
  • Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
  • FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Global early-stage VC backing founders and operators at Pre-seed, Seed and Series A. Fast decisions, long-term support, 150+ companies from Datadog to 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: 287
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $7.4M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 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: 408
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5.3M–$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.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
  • FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.
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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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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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.4M; Series A $3.2M–$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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Wellington Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 7 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 lead financing 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, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 235
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$36M; Series B $8.3M–$65M; Series C $5.5M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $233M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • nyra health — nyra health is an artificial intelligence and evidence-based neurological research tablet app that offers a revolutionary form of therapy. nyra health was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
  • Beren Therapeutics — Founded to serve patients through transformative medicines
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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: 103
  • Round size: Seed $66k–$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.
  • Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
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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: 183
  • 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 uses AI-powered spectroscopy to end chick culling: non-invasive, early, and cost-effective in-ovo sexing for hatcheries worldwide.
  • 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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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: 124
  • 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 — The Helium Network provides carrier-grade Wi-Fi offload infrastructure, turnkey Passpoint integration, real-time quality metrics, and network enablement.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M 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.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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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, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 272
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$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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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 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: 302
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 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: 602
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7M–$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.
  • Serval — Serval is the AI-native ESM that automates employee requests, onboarding/offboarding, just-in-time access, and more.
  • Clarity Care AI — Clarity Care AI develops healthcare artificial intelligence software that supports care delivery and operations. The platform assists clinicians and care teams with documentation, task management, and communication around patient needs. Features include note drafting, summarization of patient information, and notifications that flag items requiring follow-up. Integrations connect to existing tools to streamline handoffs and keep records consistent across teams. Analytics highlight trends in patient status and operational workload to inform daily decisions. Implementation services, training resources, and ongoing product support help healthcare organizations adopt and use the software.
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Ventech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 13 in the past 12 months

On-the-ground expert investors in early-stage digital. Ready to meet you, wherever you are.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M; Series A $3.9M–$14M; Series B $5.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $207M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
  • Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
  • YGO.AI — Richer, more accurate content for every hotel you sell, created automatically and ready for AI assistants.
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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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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 $608k–$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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KfW
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 7 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, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$2.6M; Series A $2.2M–$7.5M; Series B $3.8M–$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.
  • Österreichische Glasfaser-Infrastrukturgesellschaft — Österreichische Glasfaser-Infrastrukturgesellschaft plans, builds, finances and operates fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. The company focuses on passive fiber infrastructure and acts as a neutral active network operator for internet service providers. It offers open access networks on which more than 20 internet providers sell retail tariffs. öGIG connects single-family homes, multi-dwelling buildings, enterprises and public institutions and supplies wholesale fiber access rather than its own internet products. The company supports municipalities, developers and property managers with planning, rollout and in-building installation of fiber connections.
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 is Europe’s fastest growing digital, OTC energy trading platform. Our platform digitalises the end-to-end professional energy trading process. Using enmacc allows participants to gain speed, efficiency and security when trading in energy markets. More than 340 companies, with over 1.600 active traders, are already taking advantage of enmaccand are utilising our continuously growing network of energy suppliers, industrial companies, energy trading houses and municipal utilities for trading in power & gas. All of our clients can benefit from increased market access, additional liquidity and other business development opportunities. enmacc customers can use three different trading screens: entender (sales trading) & entender pro (professional trading) – the world-leading Request-For-Quote (RFQ) technology for energy markets; enmarket – the OTC price screen and marketplace for one-click trading; and engreen – the state-of-the-art trading screen for Guarantees of Origin (GoOs). Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. We do everything we can to make the daily work of energy traders and portfolio managers easier by enabling them to focus on the things that really matter.
  • 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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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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Rudolf Fuchs Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH
VC Fund · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

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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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Media Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Media Ventures is an private venture capital company headquartered in Cologne, Germany. In their search for teams and ideas, they provide help at all stages, from start-up to growth, all the way until a company reaches maturity. they concentrate on Europe, with an emphasis on Germany, and have a broad market focus that is not industry-dependent. The package of services they offer is unique.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Series A $110k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $468k–$69M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • E2Ma GmbH — E2Ma GmbH is a leading company in the area of lead generation for direct marketing and market research in Germany. Active on the German market since 2005, the company expanded its business activities in 2014 to Austria and Switzerland. E2Ma GmbH works with more than 500 partners in generating data, and its own Internet consumer campaigns havealready generated more than 20 million opt-in leads for its customers.
  • Media Baby — MediaBaby is a mass media publishing company.
  • DiaMonTech AG — DiaMonTech is developing a medical device for non-invasive measurement of blood sugar values. The patented process uses laser technology to determine and control blood glucose values of diabetes patients without any pain and without drawing blood.
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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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $370k–$3M; Series A $4.1M–$15M
  • 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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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 States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 285
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$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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Tiburon
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
  • Eprazel — Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning. Their team consists of seasoned professionals all working together to build best-in-class products that serve the $13 trillion US commercial real estate market.
  • FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 482
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$30M; Series B $9.5M–$100M; Series C $15M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
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Peak
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups, 6 in the past 12 months

European early-stage venture capital fund backed 100% by founders. Helping Pre-Seed and Seed SaaS, Marketplaces & Platforms with their Go-To-Market.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Meela — Meela AB matches individuals with psychologists or psychotherapists for online and in-person therapy.
  • OpusFlow — OpusFlow is an all-in-one ERP system for the installation industry.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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NFQ Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $2.4M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
  • Productpine — Discover, experience, and buy emerging brands and products from all over the world, at Productpine. Shop online through a personalized journey and be inspired!
  • The Naked Market — The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.
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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: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Debt Financing $826k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% 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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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, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $182k–$1.9M; Series A $1.3M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% 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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WestTech Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $902k–$2M; Series A $3M–$6.8M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
  • Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
  • ClimateChoice — ClimateChoice provides the AI-powered Climate Intelligence Platform designed for procurement- and climate teams to accelerate Scope 3 decarbonization. Companies use it to automate time-consuming and costly supplier engagement processes and collect audit-ready data at scale. Trusted by leaders like T-Systems, Lenovo, o2 Telefónica, and EnBW.Inorder to accelerate knowledge sharing, we support businesses to exchange best practices across a number of touchpoints, including an annual conference, a blended-learning program, regular webinars and an online magazine.
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Emerge VC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Emerge is a $75M pre-seed fund for human capital development: consumer learning, careers and AI diffusion at work. First cheques of $500k to $2.5M, UK and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $42k–$3.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $73M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
  • 5U AI — 5U AI gives freight teams an AI workforce that's connected across multiple communication channels to understand, reason and act on data.
  • Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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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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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 357
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4.4M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
  • Lightbase — Plan, align, and ship complex projects faster. Lightbase maps your architecture across services and hands agents the full context to make safe, coordinated changes.
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IFB Innovationsstarter
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Media (entertainment) startups

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $365k–$3M; Grant $80k–$165k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
  • Atrya — Atrya develops regulatory-compliant blockchain payments for international companies.
  • DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.
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Media (Entertainment) VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 890 deals from 754 investors.

754
investors
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
890
deals
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
$1.5M
median round
in Germany Media (entertainment) startups
44%
lead investors
lead at least one round
37%
Seed
most common funding stage

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