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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Germany (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Atlantic
VC Fund
16 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
Motive Ventures
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $4.2M–$52M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
7 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $713k–$33M
coparion
VC Fund
7 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, FinTech
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
7 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.3M–$75M
Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund
7 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Financial Services $1.5M–$110M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Antler
VC Fund
6 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$117M
Alstin Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $4.2M–$20M
HV Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$75M
Point Nine
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$62M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
6 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $909k–$39M
GSR
VC Fund
5 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Signature Ventures
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Software, FinTech $385k–$23M
Venture Stars
VC Fund
5 Germany Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Pet, Retail $274k–$23M
Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
5 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Wellness, Software $538k–$18M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $500k–$32M
468 Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.1M–$42M
Picus Capital
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $549k–$33M
New Form Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $1.3M–$32M
The Spartan Group
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.5M–$32M
Luca Ascani
Angel
4 France, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services $589k–$37M
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $1.3M–$43M
Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund
4 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$41M
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
4 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software $125k–$35M
w3.fund
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $1.5M–$7.5M
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $625k–$20M
Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
4 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.7M–$112M
New Wave (VC)
VC Fund
4 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $1.5M–$414M
First Momentum Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $980k–$17M
another.vc
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, France Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.2M–$20M
Verena Pausder
Angel
4 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Food and Beverage, E-Learning, B2B $1.1M–$19M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
4 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $5M–$150M
DN Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $786k–$108M
C3 Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Germany, South Korea, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $2.4M–$15M
Manta Ray Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Health Care $1M–$109M
Martin Enderle
Angel
3 Germany, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Big Data, Internet, Payments $1.5M–$5M
KAYA
VC Fund
3 United States, Czech Republic, Poland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $132k–$25M
Michael Hock
Angel
3 Germany, Belgium, South Korea Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $1.9M–$43M
Angel Invest
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $530k–$21M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
3 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$65M
Blockchain Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$33M
Hypersphere Ventures
VC Fund
3 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$30M
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Italy Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing $2.7M–$27M
Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $809k–$170M
Tomahawk.VC
VC Fund
3 Switzerland, Germany, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A FinTech, Cryptocurrency, SaaS $965k–$46M
Diana zur Löwen
Angel
3 Germany, Switzerland Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing Software, FinTech, Financial Services $450k–$5M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Information Technology $1M–$60M
Criteria Venture Tech
VC Fund
3 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce $256k–$21M
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 16 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 233
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • Stenon — Stenon is a laboratory independent real-time soil analyst that offers solutions for agriculture.
  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
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Motive Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Payments startups

embedded/capital - builders turned investors fuelling Europe's next generation of fintechs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $4.2M–$24M; Series A $8.7M–$20M; Series B $15M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $106M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
  • bunch — Bunch is a financial technology company that provides software and operational infrastructure for private market fund management. Its platform supports the full fund lifecycle, including investor onboarding, fund administration, accounting, compliance, reporting, and transaction management for venture capital, private equity, and other alternativeinvestment structures. The company combines proprietary software with integrated operational services to help asset managers and investors manage funds and special purpose vehicles through a centralized system. Bunch also offers tools designed to improve data management and automate workflows across fund operations and regulatory processes. The platform is used by asset managers and investors across multiple European jurisdictions to manage investment structures and administrative activities.
  • Pluto Financial Technologies — Pluto unlocks liquidity for investors in alternative assets. Access a non-recourse credit line without selling your portfolio.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 7 investments in Germany Payments startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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coparion
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
  • Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
  • Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in Germany Payments startups

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $18M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
  • Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
  • Panacea Financial — Whether you're transitioning to residency, refinancing your student loans, or funding a new practice - Panacea Financial can help.
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Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 7 investments in Germany Payments startups

Keen Venture Partners is a radically human venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and Series B stages

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.8M; Series A $6.4M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • EclecticIQ — EclecticIQ Threat Intelligence Center is a Cyber Threat Intelligence tool that helps with threat hunting, threat analysis, incident response, and more.
  • allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.
  • ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 364
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$34M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • TrillerTV — FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States.
  • Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 287
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7.2M–$44M; Series B $14M–$117M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
  • Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
  • Black Forest Labs — Official Account: https://t.co/iF047jr0Yg @bfl_ai
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Alstin Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

Alstin Capital is an independent early-stage venture capital fund based in Munich. Its investment activities focus on fast-growing (B2B) technology companies in the DACH region and Europe, primarily in the Seed and Series A phase.Founded in 2012, Alstin Capital invests between EUR 2-8 million per round, whereby up to EUR 15 million can beinvested over various rounds. Alstin Capital primarily invests in founders and supports them with capital and expert know-how in the areas of sales, marketing, PR and performance marketing as well as industry-specific contacts so that they can scale more quickly. Alstin's co-investors include banks, insurance companies and family offices.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $4.7M–$20M; Series A $4.2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nect — Nect delivers the self-service future of identity verification as a service – easy to use and with military grade security. We use patent pending self-developed deep technology to fulfil the market needs of regulated companies, serving a 20B$ market.
  • Stocard — Add all your loyalty cards, collect rewards, get personalized offers and pay with your phone!
  • Usercentrics — Usercentrics offers advanced solutions for data privacy and regulatory compliance. Meet privacy requirements, manage user consent, and secure monetization.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 467
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$35M; Series B $7.7M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
  • Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 265
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 610
  • Round size: Seed $909k–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
  • Coinlend — Coinlend - The Lending-Bot for Bitfinex & Liquid Genearate interest from your Bitcoin and Altcoin investments!
  • CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.
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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
  • TrueNorth — The first Agentic Brokerage - build your own professional trading desk
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Signature Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups

Signature Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital fund investing in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology and Web3 technology. The fund backs exceptional founders that build the backbone of the next-generation internet: open, secure, and privacy-centered. Founded in 2019, Signature is based in Germany and invests in Pre-Seed to Series Astartups globally with a focus on Europe. The company is headed by Juliane Hahn, Founding Partner, and Dr. Georg Stricker, Tech Partner. Both combine an extensive track record of VC investments with deep Blockchain expertise. Signature's diverse team follows a first principle approach and collaborates closely with an extensive ecosystem of key Blockchain industry players, VCs, corporates, and academia. With their deep expertise in tech, company building and legal matters, Signature is empowering the pioneers that are driving the paradigm shift and shape the decentralized future.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $385k–$1M; Series A $10M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UnblockPay
  • Credit Coop — Earn through curated credit vaults backed by vetted borrowers, transparent on-chain repayments and programmable collateral. Lend to real businesses with Credit Coop.
  • Gataca — Gataca is a cybersecurity company that provides decentralized digital identity technology, also known as self-sovereign identity (SSI).
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Venture Stars
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups

Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$7.3M; Series A $5.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Synera — Accelerate product development and unlock potential with powerful workflows that connect your data, tools and teams.
  • Hundeland.de — Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $538k–$2.6M; Series A $7.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Apylon — Intelligent Revenue Management&trade; for European Healthcare
  • PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
  • SquareMind — SquareMind redefines skin exams with Swan, the world's first full-body dermoscopy robot. Automated, seamless, and powered by AI technology.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 971
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9.2M; Pre-Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 225
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.8M; Series A $9M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Relixir — Relixir is AI Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) assistant that maps, monitors and improves AI search rankings.
  • Pally — Pally is an AI Agent for your network.
  • ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Picus Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 415
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$12M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Lightbase — An always up-to-date view of your entire IT ecosystem for faster decisions and confident transformation at scale
  • Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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New Form Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

Investing at the intersection of fintech and blockchain since 2019. The digital finance shift is creating billions in economic value via reduced inefficiencies and the creation of new markets. Our firm is solely focused on this evolution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$5M; Series A $11M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Circuit — Make digital assets recoverable
  • InfiniFi — backup infiniFi account. Main infiniFi account - @infiniFi
  • Polymarket — Bet on your beliefs
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The Spartan Group
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $5.1M–$32M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Saturn — Onchain Structured Digital Credit | Disciples of @Saylor | Incubated by @YZiLabs | Backed by @AD_VenturesX @SoraVentures @TheSpartanGroup
  • THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$14M; Pre-Seed $589k–$37M; Series A $4.3M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.
  • THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
  • Adjacent Markets — Event indexing and @AdjacentNews
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Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 606
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $6.7M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
  • Stablecorp — Stablecorp is igniting a "step-function" improvement in financial services with our suite of products.
  • Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.
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Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$17M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.4M; Series A $9M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Palm — Palm specializes in AI-powered treasury software designed to optimize financial operations for businesses. The platform offers solutions for generating accurate cash forecasts quickly and managing company funds efficiently. Palm's technology streamlines automated workflows for forecasting and cash movement, ensuring enterprise-grade securityand controls. The company focuses on addressing treasury challenges with innovative solutions, supported by a team with expertise in treasury and fintech. Palm's services are aimed at improving financial decision-making and operational efficiency for its clients.
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
  • Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
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w3.fund
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bluerails — Payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. Get found, acted on, and paid by AI agents. Agent-ready checkout, global settlement, and compliance built in.
  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
  • Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
  • SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
  • Promptwatch — PromptWatch is a platform designed for SEO professionals and digital marketers who want to stay ahead in the age of AI-driven search. As Generative AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity increasingly influence how users discover information, PromptWatch helps businesses ensure their brand is visible and relevant within these AI-generatedanswers. Our tool enables users to monitor mentions of their brand across leading AI engines, uncover where and how their business is referenced, and identify optimization opportunities to improve visibility. By tapping into Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), PromptWatch empowers marketers to adapt their strategies beyond traditional search engines—ensuring their content gets surfaced in the conversations and answers that matter most. PromptWatch is your essential toolkit for thriving in the next wave of search.
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Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1910
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$20M; Series A $9M–$55M; Series B $17M–$112M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Mux — Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
  • Slack — Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams. It allows users to exchange messages, share files, and integrate with various business tools and services. Slack is commonly used across various industries, from tech startups to large enterprises.
  • Bigscreen — Founded by Darshan Shankar in 2014, Bigscreen is a venture-backed startup creating an immersive virtual reality platform that aims to revolutionize the way people work, play, hangout, and collaborate.Use cases of Bigscreen include both entertainment and productivity. Users love using Bigscreen as a "VR movie theater" to watch movies andTV shows. It's also used to play videogames, browse the web, and hangout with friends. It's can also be used for productivity as a tool for remote teams to collaborate together in virtual offices.Since the beta launch in March 2016, Bigscreen has become one of the most popular and highest rated VR apps on the Oculus Store and has an incredible 93% positive rating on Steam. Power users spend 20-30 hours per week in Bigscreen, making it one of the most widely used "killer apps" in the industry.Bigscreen is now the most popular non-gaming VR application in the world.Bigscreen is a fully distributed remote company with employees based around the world in the US & UK.
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New Wave (VC)
VC Fund · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

New Wave is a seed only fund, whose purpose is to back the next generation of successful European founders. New Wave was co-founded by two early-stage investors Pia d'Iribarne (ex-Accel, Stride) and Jean de La Rochebrochard (Kima), and is backed by a group of iconic founders (Free, Zenly, Voodoo, Sorare) and GPs from the best later-stage funds(Coatue, Benchmark, DST, Insight Partners).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$24M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$3M; Series A $15M–$414M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Lago — Lago is the easiest way to segment and sync customer data to your business tools. You can sync customer data in a minute to Sales, Customer Success, Mailing, Revenue or Advertising Platforms.
  • Bee — The wearable AI that understands you.
  • Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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First Momentum Ventures
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups, 13 in the past 12 months

Pre-Seed B2B Tech VC - Engineers at heart, investors by choice

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $3.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $980k–$4.7M; Series A $10M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • encosa — encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns.
  • SuperPlane — Start with an issue-to-PR software factory, then adapt its review, delivery, and engineering standards to the way your team works.
  • Quantum Diamonds — Bringing diamond-based quantum technology around the globe, empowering the next quantum leap.
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another.vc
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.6M; Series A $9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ark Climate — Ark Climate is a climate-tech company that develops software to support municipal climate protection planning and execution.
  • Cleavr — Cleavr is the first AI partner that automatically takes your money. which is linked to your ERP, takes care of everything on its own
  • Immitra Bio — Developing scalable in-vivo genomic medicine for blood disorders
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Verena Pausder
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

Verena Pausder

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Series A $7.6M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Karri — Karri Messenger is a data and GPS enabled screen-free device enabling communication between you and your kids, and them and their friends.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
  • Sitegeist — Sitegeist Robotics develops autonomous, modular construction robots to automate dangerous tasks like hydrodemolition, sandblasting, and drilling, boosting productivity and addressing labor shortages.Sitegeist Robotics primarily serves the construction industry, focusing on infrastructure renovation and building site operations.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 405
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.6M–$100M; Series C $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
  • Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 342
  • Round size: Seed $786k–$12M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $9M–$108M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • Contrast — Contrast is a video engagement platform that provides users with the tools to create, edit, distribute, and analyze videos. Their features include themes, hubspot integration, source tracking and UTM management, an on-demand experience, customizable emails, and reminders.
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C3 Venture Capital
VC Fund · Frankfort, Maine, United States · 4 investments in Germany Payments startups

C3 Management is an asset management company focused on managing venture funds which invest in technology companies worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, South Korea, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$7.6M; Series A $7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Upland — Play. Earn. Connect & Rebuild The World
  • Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
  • Partex — Genuine OEM spare parts. Search by VIN or model. Fast, trusted delivery.
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Manta Ray Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$25M; Series B $9M–$109M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tequipy — Buy, configure, and deploy devices in 180+ countries at local retail price. No contracts, no mark-ups, no recurring fees. ISO 27001 certified.
  • Alien — Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems.
  • Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives
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Martin Enderle
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

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).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Internet, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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KAYA
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Czech Republic, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $132k–$3.3M; Series A $3.3M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • My Kindred — Enhance your well-being at our renowned women's health clinic. Experience top-notch care at our online clinic in the Philippines. Visit us today!
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Michael Hock
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Belgium, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $5.7M–$24M; Pre-Seed $1.9M–$6.2M; Series A $8.5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Nelly — Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens asthe biggest problem in the workplace.The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.
  • bezahl.de — bezahl.de automates, digitizes, and streamlines the entire receivables process, from invoicing and dunning to financial accounting booking. Bezahl is a financial technology startup.
  • LawX — LawX automatisiert die zeitraubenden Aufgaben vom Fallstart bis zur Abrechnung. So arbeitet Ihr Team schneller, sauberer, skalierbarer. Ohne Extraaufwand.
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Angel Invest
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 160
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $530k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • Qorelo — Qorelo is a tech company that provides agentic AI software designed to accelerate ERP transformations. Qorelo's software automates and structures deliverables across the SAP Activate methodology.
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1119
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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Blockchain Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 196
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$14M; Series A $5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $580M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
  • Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
  • Fabric Cryptography — Building towards a trustless future with custom chips for advanced cryptography.
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Hypersphere Ventures
VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 133
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$17M; Series A $2.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
  • Fly Media — AI-native IPs at infinite scale. If Disney were created today, it would look more like Fly Media.
  • Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund · Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups, 7 in the past 12 months

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
  • Dawnguard — AI-native platform for fast cloud design and implementation.
  • QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Backing great companies when they're tiny

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 185
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $809k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$170M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AUDIOGEN — Generate your sounds with AI. Create an infinite world of sounds - sound effects, samples, and music, instantly. Get Started Free.
  • Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
  • Build — The AI-native operating partner for the built world. Build pairs agentic AI with CRE domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate development from concept to completion.
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Tomahawk.VC
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Tomahawk.VC (www.tomahawk.vc) is an entrepreneur-led early-stage venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur Cédric Waldburger. We invest in global-first companies in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds. We give honest and quick feedback and value empathy, execution and clarity. We think that data beats experience beats opinion.Global-first companies are ventures that think and act global from the very start. They hire the best talent from anywhere in the world and build company culture incorporating remote employees from day 1. Investments range from USD 100k-1M per transaction and up to USD 2M per company. Global focus, based in Switzerland. Get in touch via www.Tomahawk.VC.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$46M; Pre-Seed $965k–$3M; Series A $3.8M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
  • Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
  • Margarita Finance — Margarita Finance is revolutionizing DeFi by introducing customisable Yield Boosters to the Solana Blockchain.
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Diana zur Löwen
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Diana zur Löwen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LAP Coffee — LAP Coffee is a community-driven specialty coffee brand.
  • Bounti — Knowledge management and development for deskless employees
  • Penzilla — At Penzilla, we believe it's time to make corporate pension provision the way it really should be - simple. That's why we offer a solution that helps everyone get the maximum benefit from corporate pension options. Most importantly, we enable every employer to achieve true corporate social responsibility with 100% compliance and everyemployee to receive a fair pension. This is how corporate pension provision works with Penzilla: Let's "Simply Provision" together.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 435
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.3M; Series A $2.3M–$25M; Series B $5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
  • Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
  • CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.
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Criteria Venture Tech
VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 3 investments in Germany Payments startups

Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Seed to Series B) managing more than €300M of AUM.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $256k–$3.8M; Series A $1.9M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • 8Layers — 8Layers is an artificial intelligence platform that offers cloud identity threat detection to organizations
  • Barbara — Barbara is the Cybersecure Industrial Edge Platform that enables companies to connect, deploy and scale gateways and edge applications in a few clicks
  • iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.
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Payments Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 170 deals from 351 investors.

351
investors
in Germany Payments startups
170
deals
in Germany Payments startups
$5.5M
median round
in Germany Payments startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
67/33
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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