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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Germany

Last updated: Aug 2024 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

Investor	Payments Germany investments
Verena Pausder	4
Michael Hock	3
Diana zur Löwen	3
Luca Ascani	2
Feliks Eyser	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Thomassin Emmanuel	2
Sekip Can Gokalp	2
Dominik Richter	2
Guillaume "G" Cabane	2
Jens Lapinski	2
Raffael Johnen	2
Jonathan Weiner	2
Markus Ament	2
Andre Schwammlein	2
Victor Jacobsson	2
Christian Reber	2
Bruce Wallace	2
Cristóbal Conde	2
Marc McCabe	2
Jochen Engert	2
Stefan Kalteis	1
Leif Lupp	1
Marc Steiner	1
Thomas Witt	1
Chengyuan Zhai	1
Marc Eckes	1
Benedikt Franke	1
Christian Stiebner	1
Nicholas Shekerdemian	1
Peter Grosskopf	1
Jason Pate	1
Mario Götze	1
Dr. Rainer Zimmermann	1
Florian Heinemann	1
Marco Valta	1
Karl-Heinz Flother	1
Florian Leibert	1
Sam Bankman-Fried	1
Maximilian Tayenthal	1
Christian Vollmann	1
Johannes Ditterich	1
Gloria Baeuerlein	1
Thijn Lamers	1
Rubin Ritter	1
Luke de Oliveira	1
Paul Becker	1
Jonas Tebbe	1
Jeremy Hindle	1
Tom Stafford	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 oversees all finance, tax, legal and regulatory topics as well as all people & organization activities at finleap. He is also responsible for the investment management.Michael has many years of experience in the corporate M&A and venture capital investment business. Previously, he held the roles of Managing Director and SeniorInvestment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and Digital Science for almost six years, where he was most recently responsible for global strategic investments in the Digital Science & Education segments. During this time he took over numerous board and advisory board positions at leading digital companies and was also interim CEO at myphotobook. At the beginning of his career, he gained experience in various positions at Siemens in corporate finance and investment in Munich and Boston, before assuming responsibility for the CFO division at VC boutique smac partners.Michael holds an Executive MBA from the Technical University of Munich as well as a Diploma in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Energy
Seed, Series B, Series A
Germany, South Korea, The Netherlands

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.
NX Technologies — NX Technologies develops technologies for the energy 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!

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.

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.

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

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.

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
Seed, Angel, 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 — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!

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.

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.

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.

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, Information Technology, 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 of APIs
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

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
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
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.

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 200,000 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

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.

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

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.

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

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.
hakuna — Integrate the right protection for all kinds of products directly into your online shop. Make your customers happy and benefit from additional revenue at the same time!

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

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
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.

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.

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.

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect package ski holiday in just few clicks.

Stefan Kalteis

Investment focus

Software, Travel, Tourism
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

Leif Lupp

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Fraud Detection
Seed
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.

Marc Steiner is Senior Vice President of Plug and Play China at Plug and Play. He attended the University of California, Davis - School of Law.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Grocery
Seed
Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ferto — Ferto - Supermarket, Grocery, Pharmacy, Alcohol, Whatever you can think of delivery app at anytime anywhere in Athens, Greece - Delivery courier partners
MK Payment Solutions — MK Payment is a Berlin based e-payment and technology company. It operates an electronic voucher network, connecting consumers, merchants and businesses across Europe and Middle East North Africa (MENA). MK Payment’s branded and white label products offer merchants and businesses cutting-edge e-payment solutions to address a broad range ofcustomers, including banked and unbanked consumers as well as teenagers. Our mission is to simplify the online payment experience to help merchants of any kind, game publishers and web services to increase their conversions in the safest way possible. Fast, secure and easy for consumer and businesses alike. Products: - MangirKart | www.mangirkart.com/en - MK Payment Voucher - CashCodeCard & more Drop us an email: contact@mkpayment.com if you want to learn more about our products and services.

With over two decades of experience as a tech entrepreneur and angel investor, I have a passion for building and scaling software companies.In 2020, I co-founded Expedite Ventures (https://www.expedite.ventures/), a group of CTOs and CPOs dedicated to mentoring and investing in deep tech founders with a passion for underrepresentedgroups in tech. We offer (pre-)seed capital and hands-on guidance, leveraging decades of collective experience in creating and growing sustainable technology businesses.Got into computers at 8; discovered the internet in 1990; founded my first software company right after high school as a CTO, developing complex B2B SaaS products.Beyond Expedite Ventures, I provide tech due diligence and advisory services to private equity and VC firms, aiding in evaluating and modernizing software assets into SaaS solutions.Outside of work, I enjoy flying, sailing, music, photography, and cooking.For those seeking to pitch at Expedite Ventures, I encourage you to read our playbook first at https://www.expedite.ventures/playbook.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswitt/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thomas_witt

Investment focus

CMS, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

w3.fund — A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.
JustRelate — JustRelate helps medium-sized as well as large companies and public institutions building Digital Experience Platforms (DXP).
Scrivito — Scrivito is a decoupled/headless enterprise web CMS designed to be the flexible basis for all your websites and apps. It delivers content to all kinds of channels and devices.

Chengyuan Zhai

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Restaurants
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

Marc Eckes

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Fraud Detection
Seed
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.

Benedikt Franke is the co-founder of Helpling.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Acto — Acto is a SaaS software provider that caters to B2B sales leaders. The company leverages artificial intelligence to automate data analytics, providing valuable insights to sales teams about potential risks and opportunities in account management. Acto's platform is designed to enhance the performance of sales teams and drive business growth.It links all data in one place and proactively informs teams about sales opportunities and risks in their customers. This eliminates the need for lengthy searches in Excel reports and allows for a more streamlined and efficient sales process.
trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

Christian Stiebner is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

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.

Peter is Co-Founder and CTO at Unstoppable Finance GmbH a Berlin based company with the mission to empower people around the world to access, interact with and unlock financial opportunities of the decentralized economy. Before he was CTO and MD at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, the first regulated digital asset exchange in Germany. Before hewas CTO and co-founder at solarisBank.Peter has a technology and entrepreneurial background. In 2008 he founded a software engineering consultancy out of university, grew it profitably to 27 employees. In 2014 he came to Berlin to join the company builder Hitfoxgroup and Finleap that focuses on fintech as CTO. Blockchain and decentralization fascinates him from the moment he got in touch at the end of 2016. Since then he has shaped the vision to bring decentralized finance to reality.I have a MSc in Information Systems from the University of Münster and I'm a former lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Münster and Data Science Summer School at University Saarland, and I'm a current lecturer at CAS Lucerne for Blockchain topics.I'm a frequent speaker at events and conferences. Here is a selection: EXEC.FINTECH 2017 / 2018, On Product Meetup, Codemotion 2016, GoTo Conference London 2016, Euroforum, Bitkom, Data Natives, Goto Conference Berlin 2018, Münchner Kreis, Frankfurt School, Crypto Assets Conference and various other Blockchain conferences and meetups.

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.

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

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.

Dr. Rainer Zimmermann

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.

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.

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.

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.

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

Sam is the Founder of Bankman-Fried. He is also the CEO of the said firm.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Semafor — Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.

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, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

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.
Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.

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

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

OXOLO — Omaslot merupakan agen situs slot online gacor setiap hari yang telah terverifikasi sebagai salah satu agen situs slot online terpercaya dan telah menjadi agen judi online terbaik yang menawarkan berbagai pilihan permainan terlengkap hanya dalam satu akun.
marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Founder and CEO

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Fraud Detection
Seed
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.

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

B2B, Apps, SaaS
Pre-Seed, 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.
Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.

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

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.

Luke de Oliveira

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.

Paul Becker - Co-Founder and CEO @ re:cap

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.

Co-Founder and CPO at re:cap, Co-Founder LIQID and &do. Part-time nerd, fintech, design and ux aficionado.

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.

@Forbes 30 under 30 2018, @YCombinator S17, Unannounced Project (hiring!), Co-Founder @headstart_io, Neuropsychologist, OE, Games (UemeU),

Investment focus

Credit, Events, Bitcoin
Seed
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
Verse — Buy and sell NFTs from top contemporary artists, curated by leading art world experts.

Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Fuse Energy — Fuse Energy is building the future of electricity with cheaper tariffs, better service, and greener goals. Switch to Fuse Energy today
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

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