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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Germany in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

Investor	Payments Germany investments
Verena Pausder	4
Michael Hock	3
Diana zur Löwen	3
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	3
Jochen Engert	2
Sekip Can Gokalp	2
Luca Ascani	2
Feliks Eyser	2
Dominik Richter	2
Marc McCabe	2
Martin Enderle	2
Jens Lapinski	2
Jonathan Weiner	2
Victor Jacobsson	2
Guillaume "G" Cabane	2
Mario Götze	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Raffael Johnen	2
Cristóbal Conde	2
Bruce Wallace	2
Christian Reber	2
Markus Ament	2
Ralph Muller	2
Heiko Hubertz	2
Thomassin Emmanuel	2
Andre Schwammlein	2
Daniel Khachab	1
Navid Hadzaad	1
Christophe Maire	1
Niklas Jansen	1
Henrik Gebbing	1
Christian Stiebner	1
André M. Bajorat	1
Omid Ashtari	1
Harold Giménez	1
Sam Bankman-Fried	1
Heinz Raufer	1
Thomas Witt	1
Florian Leibert	1
Maximilian Tayenthal	1
David Rosskamp	1
Dr. Rainer Zimmermann	1
Michael Herbst	1
Paul Becker	1
Rubin Ritter	1
Jeremy Hindle	1
Axel Wieandt	1
D. Sculley	1
Robin Matzke	1
Nicholas Shekerdemian	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, 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!

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 — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
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.

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.

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.

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, 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 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 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

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.

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.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.
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.
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.

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 — 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

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.

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.

Navid Hadzaad is a founder of Zapp.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
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.

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

Zurp — Zurp is a fintech platform built for superfans. Instead of a traditional reward program, Zurp offers exclusive experiences with cardholders' favorite influencers.
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.

Henrik Gebbing is Co-Founder of Finoa, a FinTech focusing on Banking Services for Blockchain-based Digital Assets. Prior, Henrik worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions and high-tech companies across the globe. He started his career with a dual degree in the high-tech branch of Siemens AG. Henrik earned aB.A. in Int. Management & Finance (Germany), a M.Sc. in Marketing from Golden Gate University (USA) and an MBA from IE Business School (Spain).

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.

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.

Andre Bajorat is the Head of Strategy Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. He attended the University of Cologne from 1994 to 1997.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OWWN — wajve offers all financial services like banking, advice, and education in one app.
deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.
Compa — Payment platform for construction projects

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.

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.

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

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Causal — Causal replaces your spreadsheets with a better way to build models, connect to data (accounting, CRM), and share dashboards with your team. Sign up for free.
Compound — Build and optimize your wealth.

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!

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.

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.

David Rosskamp is the founder and managing partner of Magnetic. Magnetic is a global technology investor backing transformative companies and technologies across venture phases. The firm funds companies and technologies from the earliest to their growth stages and works closely with entrepreneurs, from co-designing companies to growth financing.His investments include a larger group of successful global technology companies from a wide area of fields.Before Magnetic, he was a technology investor at Earlybird and built up Saatchi Art, the world's largest art platform, gallery and community. David holds an M.A. with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Master of Law and Business from WHU School of Management and legal degrees (Staatsexamen, LL.B.) with distinction from Bucerius Law School and the University of Texas School of Law.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Grover — Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015.
Kadmos — The payment solution to disburse salaries to your workforce abroad anywhere, anytime. Kadmos is changing the way international workers receive their paychecks. We are bringing FinTech, low margins, and transparent FX to industries riddled with opaque mark-ups, kickbacks, and physical cash transactions.
Clarisights — Clarisights streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.

Dr. Rainer Zimmermann

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cashlink — Emittieren und vertreiben Sie tokenisierte Kryptowertpapiere regulatorisch konform nach dem elektronischen Wertpapiergesetz (eWpG).

Michael Herbst

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Restaurants
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

@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.

Axel Wieandt is the senior advisor at Jefferies.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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