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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

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

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

Investor	Payments Germany investments
Verena Pausder	4
Michael Hock	3
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	3
Diana zur Löwen	3
Mario Götze	2
Sekip Can Gokalp	2
Luca Ascani	2
Dominik Richter	2
Marc McCabe	2
Martin Enderle	2
Jens Lapinski	2
Jonathan Weiner	2
Victor Jacobsson	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Guillaume "G" Cabane	2
Raffael Johnen	2
Bruce Wallace	2
Cristóbal Conde	2
Markus Ament	2
Heiko Hubertz	2
Thomassin Emmanuel	2
Andre Schwammlein	2
Ralph Muller	2
Jochen Engert	2
Christian Reber	2
Feliks Eyser	2
D. Sculley	1
Robin Matzke	1
Nicholas Shekerdemian	1
Reid Hoffman	1
Daniel Khachab	1
Christophe Maire	1
Harold Giménez	1
Heinz Raufer	1
Florian Leibert	1
Maximilian Tayenthal	1
Rubin Ritter	1
Ben Stephenson	1
Andreas Bodczek	1
Florian Heinemann	1
Karl-Heinz Flother	1
Mandeep Singh	1
Jason Pate	1
Thijn Lamers	1
Chris Murphy	1
Gloria Baeuerlein	1
Ilkka Paananen	1
Carsten Maschmeyer	1
Niklas Jansen	1
Peter Grosskopf	1

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Verena Pausder

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KARRI — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Michael Hock is Partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Motive Ventures, based out of the Berlin office. Michael’s responsibility includes new venture investments, tracking of performance across portfolio companies, as well as value creation and exit strategies for the active portfolio.Prior to joining Motive, Michael co-foundedembedded/capital, a Berlin based early-stage financial technology investment firm, which was acquired by Motive Partners in February 2023, to form the early-stage arm of the Motive Partners platform.Since 2017, Michael was Managing Director at finleap and incharge of steering portfolio growth and professionalizing group operations. Michael led the exits of finleap portfolio companies including the majority acquisition of PAIR Finance by PollenStreet Capital and the sale of Penta to the European market leader Qonto.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Belgium, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
Warren — Enabling wealth, Boosting welfare

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.

Diana zur Löwen

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Banking
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.

Dominik Richter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion forEntreprenuership, building great companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Cloud Data Services, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

Martin Enderle is a Co-founder & Board member at allmyhomes. Martin previously worked at CEWE Stiftung and Co. KGaA as a Member of the Board of Trustees. He attended Leibniz Universität Hannover and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Payments
Seed, Angel, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Caroobi — Caroobi is an integrated marketplace for automotive aftersales. The company's mission is to provide the best end-to-end repair experience with a 100% transparent and easy booking process. They seek to revolutionize the automotive aftersales industry – across Europe and throughout the world.Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered inBerlin, Berlin, Germany.
PriceHubble — Leading the development of innovative real estate valuation, insights and analytics solutions that address the entire real estate value chain.
allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

Jens is the CEO of Angel Invest Ventures. He is one of Europe's most active angel investors, making 10 - 20 investments per year. Jens lives in Berlin.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Proofs — The go-to-market for software. AI Agents building proof-of-concept apps and integrations on top your stack
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments

Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

Victor Jacobsson is an Independent Advisor to startups and Investors.As an entrepreneur victor co-founded Victor has a masters degree from the

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tavus — Programmatically create thousands of videos of yourself, without saying a word. AI generated videos for sales, product, marketing, recruiting, and more
Friday Finance — Access your bank accounts, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Set up Airbank for free in less than 10 minutes.
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Nigeria, Germany, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

Bruce Wallace is the Strategic Advisor at Brex.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Friday Finance — Access your bank accounts, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Set up Airbank for free in less than 10 minutes.
Friday Finance — Access all of your bank accounts in one place, monitor your cash flow in real-time, and forecast finances with ease. Sign up for free in less than 10 minutes.

Cristobal is an active investor in early-stage companies, and a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech incubator for software companies. His current investments include True Office, where he serves as executive chairman, Calastone, where he serves as chairman, Centripetal Networks, where he is a board member, and Digital Reasoning,where he is a board member.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lab 1 — Lab 1 gathers hacked and exposed data from the dark web, messaging services, and secret groups to give the best perspective of risk throughout the supply chain.
Venari Security — Venari is an encrypted traffic analysis (ETA) platform that detects threats hidden within encrypted traffic and helps deliver cryptographic and regulatory compliance for enterprise organisations without the need for decryption. Acting as an automated early warning system for security teams, Venari's ETA platform detects threats hidden withinencrypted traffic reducing the overall response time.Headquartered in London with a Development Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Tunis, Venari fundamentally changes the way encrypted traffic is analysed using a combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and behavioural analytics. To date, Venari has been recognised by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) cyber accelerator programme and Barclays TechStars accelerator program. The organisation has won various industry awards in 2019 and 2020.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Anything World — Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice.

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Emmanuel Thomassin joined Delivery Hero in January 2014 as Chief Financial Officer. Emmanuel is responsible for the financial activities of Delivery Hero, as well as the management of several internal departments.Before joining, he was the CFO at the Berlin-based incubator and Delivery Hero investor, Team Europe. Until late 2012 Emmanuel spent6 years as the CFO and executive board member of MetaDesign, the international corporate branding agency based in Berlin. In this role he was responsible for the HR, Legal, IT and Finance departments and managed the relationship to customers like FIFA, AstraZeneca or Voith.Emmanuel holds masters degrees from the French University and from the German Fachhochschule in Economics.

Investment focus

Apps, Catering, Internet
Angel, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
MILES — MILES is an independent carsharing and modern mobility. They believe in the energy and the pulse of cities and how they inspire them. MILES is your wingman on your trip through urbanity, guiding you to its hidden treasures and cool spots, which make your city so worth living. Their passion for the new and unexplored drives them in their vision tomake urban life better. Driving with no time pressure, no limits and no specific car brand.

Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Ralph Muller is the Ex-Deutsche Bank Board Member and Oxygen investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Financial Services
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.

D. Sculley

Investment focus

Software, Open Source, Fraud Detection
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.

Robin Matzke is the Academic Advisor at Deutscher Bundestag. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Februar — Fiat-to-Crypto on-ramp solution for every Web3 project. Easy to integrate with a seamless experience for your users.

Nicholas Shekerdemian is the co-founder and executive chairman at Headstart.

Investment focus

Software, Music, Bitcoin
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Soar — Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Verse — Buy and sell NFTs from top contemporary artists, curated by leading art world experts.
SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.

Reid Hoffman is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder of Manas AI. Reid previously worked at Coda as a Board Member. Reid Hoffman attended the University of Perugia. Reid Hoffman has been awarded Marshall Medal.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Workhelix — Workhelix is a developer of workforce management platform to assist with business management.
Manas AI — Manas AI uses proprietary AI, generative computational chemistry, and best-in-class biology to reduce the time and expense of traditional medicinal development while also revolutionizing cancer and rare illness treatments.
Reflection.Ai — Reflection.Ai is a start-up that develops artificial intelligence solutions, with a focus on computer vision.

Daniel Khachab is a Co-Founder & CEO at Choco. He attended Maastricht University.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
Embea — Embea takes Embedded Insurance to Life & Health. Our easy-to-understand plans protect families against the most severe life risks of critical illnesses, accidents, and death. Companies of every size embed our simple and transparent insurance products into their apps and services. Embea removes complexity, paperwork, and pushy sales from theworld of life insurance. Our vision is a world where fair and affordable insurance is accessible to everyone.
allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
RetentionGrid — The RetentionGrid.com website is now part of EcommerceIntelligence.com - read the full details here and learn how our mission and values are aligned to help Shopify store owners.

Harold Gimenez, SVP of Engineering at Hashicorp.

Investment focus

Software, Compliance, Open Source
Seed
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

ZenML — ZenML is an extensible, open-source MLOps framework to create production-ready machine learning pipelines. Built for data scientists, it has a simple, flexible syntax, is cloud- and tool-agnostic, and has interfaces/abstractions that are catered towards ML workflows. At its core, ZenML pipelines execute ML-specific workflows from sourcing data to splitting, preprocessing, training, all the way to the evaluation of results and even serving. There are many built-in batteries to support common ML development tasks. ZenML is not here to replace the great tools that solve these individual problems. Rather, it offers an extensible framework and a standard abstraction to write and build your workflows.
Abbey Labs — Abbey is a platform for security teams to automate and secure access to sensitive data. With Abbey, you can improve your security and compliance programs by automatically controlling and right-sizing permissions so the risks around unauthorized access is limited in the event of a breach.

Heinz Raufer

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
ShopVibes — We're building a connected world of e-commerce where everyone can easily present their products on any channel. Join now to get ahead of your competition!

Florian Leibert is the General Partner at 468 Capital. Since 2013, he has served as CEO of Mesosphere, Inc., an Internet start-up based on the open-source software Apache Mesos, which his best friend from high school wrote. His daily responsibilities include creating high-level software structures and managing the firm's finances, recruiting,business operations, and product support. Among his other achievements at Mesosphere, he created Marathon, a scheduler that operates on top of the Mesos software. Florian Leibert also acquired nearly $50 million in funding for the firm from prominent investors like venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. Concurrent with his role at Mesosphere, Flo Leibert serves as an investor with Taptalk and Driftt.Prior to founding Mesosphere, Flo Leibert held software engineering positions at prominent internet sites, including Airbnb, Twitter, Ning, and Adknowledge. At age 16, he co-founded online marketplace Knaup Multimedia in Germany.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Okteto — Empower developers to innovate and deliver cloud-native applications faster than ever.
Yuno — Improve your general knowledge by listening to short audio stories and taking fun quizzes
Continue — Continue is an open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vitt — Vitt is building a platform that simplifies both fundraising for SaaS founders and creates a new asset class for investors to invest in. A SaaS company that has contracted revenue can apply for financing it upfront — rather than waiting for cash to come in monthly, through Vitt's web application they get the cash upfront.Vitt analyses theirfinancial data and gives them a financing decision in a matter of minutes — not months. No more searching for intros to venture capitalists in your network. It shouldn't be about who you know but what you've built.
Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Rubin is Co-CEO of Zalando and has been a Member of the Management Board at Zalando SE since he joined the company in 2010. He is responsible for strategy and communications. From 2007 to 2009, Rubin worked at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the WHU – Otto-Beisheim Graduate School of Management in 2007 with a degree in BusinessAdministration. In 2006, he was awarded an MBA from the University of Texas (USA).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Oaks — Oaks rewards consumers for saving up for the things they really want
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.

Ben Stephenson is a Managing Director & Head of Specialist Client Solutions at Lloyds Banking Group.

Investment focus

SaaS, Bitcoin, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Satago — Based in London, England, Satago offers a cashflow solution that gets businesses paid faster, identifies risk, and advances payment on overdue invoices. It connects into companies' accounting software after which it automates the process of chasing customers for payment, helping them create automatic invoices, reminders and payment requests,as well as integrated credit reporting so users can see what payments are at risk. Satago also has credit data on companies to help educate users about who are good customers, and who should maybe be avoided.
Verse — Buy and sell NFTs from top contemporary artists, curated by leading art world experts.

Andreas Bodczek is passionate tech entrepreneur, seasoned board room executive, global mindset. Backing fellow entrepreneurs as active early-stage tech investor, and Point Nine Capital board partner. Co-founded, scaled and sold Fyber. Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, MD of Telefónica UK, member of Bertelsmann’s junior managementprogram.Excited about bold ideas in mobility, digital health, blockchain beyond crypto currencies.Interested in private equity operating partner assignments, management buy-in/buy-out scenarios, buy-and-build strategies, tech distress/transformation opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
CODE University of Applied Sciences — Become a Software Engineer, Interaction Designer or Product Manager. Get a degree that prepares you for reality and allows you to work in interdisciplinary teams on projects you care about.

Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo

Investment focus

FinTech, CRM, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Clark — Clark is an insurance platform providing transparent, cheap and comprehensive insurance coverage. By combining technology and insurance expertise, Clark offers users simple, fair and customer-centric insurance advice. The Berlin-based company was founded in June 2015 by Dr. Christopher Oster and Steffen Glomb. Clark is supported by FinTechincubator FinLeap and the insurance think tank ITA - "Institute for Transparency".
Shore — Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system.Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.
Carl — Carl allows small and medium-sized companies and their advisors to find an acquirer or investor. Through a managed marketplace-approach, it enables a confidential channel to approach new investors and transact efficiently, easily and expand the reach in M&A processes. On the other hand, it allows investors to substantially increase relevantdeal flow and access opportunities, they otherwise would have missed. Furthermore, dedicated software allows for an efficient administration and processing of M&A deals. Carl caters to firms with revenues between $1M to $100M and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
Bluebook — self-driving accounting

Jason Pate is the Head of Corporate Strategy and Development at Plaid

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Credit
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
Ocrolus — Our fintech document automation software helps customers make faster, more accurate lending decisions and transform documents into digital data and analytics.
Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge

Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
Oaks — Oaks rewards consumers for saving up for the things they really want

Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously worked at SaaStock and attended Dublin City University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Equipme — Gear up your teams to do their best work with Equipme. Simplify asset and cost management, and partner with best-in-class service providers for seamless service delivery.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Twirl — Twirl is a platform for data teams that want to ship value rather than tooling. It enables the deployment of data pipelines from the start and manages all infrastructure and scaling. Twirl is a code-first company that combines analytics, machine learning, and everything in between.

Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex financial queries end-to-end, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SLAY — SLAY is a social gaming company.
Noice — Join the team build an awesome combo of social x playful x platform.
Arcane — AI-powered workflow automation for Modern Marketers.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Niklas is the Co-founder of Blinkist, a bite-sized-learning service that condenses knowledge from great nonfiction into powerful little packs. At Blinkist he drives product strategy and ensures that their culture is flourishing. He’s passionate about learning, company culture, and breakfast.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.

Peter Grosskopf is the Co-Founder and CTO at Ultimate. Peter Grosskopf attended the University of Münster.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Februar — Fiat-to-Crypto on-ramp solution for every Web3 project. Easy to integrate with a seamless experience for your users.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.

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