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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Germany in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in Germany in December 2024

Investor	Payments Germany investments
Atlantic Labs	10
Point Nine	7
coparion	7
Speedinvest	6
Earlybird Venture Capital	6
Motive Ventures	6
HV Capital	5
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	5
Global Founders Capital	5
Verena Pausder	4
Valar Ventures	4
Balderton Capital	4
another.vc	4
Cherry Ventures	4
Fly Ventures	3
SquareOne	3
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	3
Picus Capital	3
Tomahawk.VC	3
redalpine	3
Diana zur Löwen	3
Andreessen Horowitz	3
seed + speed Ventures	3
Michael Hock	3
Signature Ventures	3
Signals Venture Capital	3
Venture Stars	3
Criteria Venture Tech	3
w3.fund	3
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	3
Calm/Storm Ventures	3
DN Capital	3
New Wave (VC)	3
Angel Invest	3
TX Ventures	2
Runa Capital	2
GSR	2
Seed X Liechtenstein	2
Jochen Engert	2
Christian Reber	2
Delta Blockchain Fund	2
Senovo	2
FJ Labs	2
Bruce Wallace	2
Molten Ventures	2
C3 Venture Capital	2
Cristóbal Conde	2
Übermorgen Ventures	2
Thomassin Emmanuel	2
Ventech	2

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Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

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

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mona AI — MONA AI is an automation software designed for the human resources services sector, aimed at streamlining HR processes and improving efficiency through artificial intelligence-driven solutions
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parto — Parto services include business accounts, accounts with fiduciary custody, and payment cards for staff members and those receiving care. Using our proprietary software, which allows for automated billing of business expenses and digital custody fund administration.
Vega — The distribution and client service operating system for alternative asset managers
Synthera AI — Synthetic Data for Financial Markets using Generative AI

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
Tourlane — Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IonKraft — IonKraft can provide better performance at a lower cost while maintaining recyclability, they also promote material reduction and reuse and are commercializing the technology with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Sedivention — Sedivention is a medical technology startup that enables a one-time, interventional, and minimally invasive therapy for obesity. The company is developing a cryo catheter that ablates the gastric branches of the vagus nerve within minutes. As a one-time, minimally invasive procedure, the procedure can be performed in an outpatient setting, similarto a gastroscopy.
SRTD Biotech — SRTD Biotech is an RNA-based biotechnology company that focuses on oncology, infectious, and genetic disorders.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
Ember — Find everything you need to run your business in one app, with qualified accountants on hand whenever you need.
Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delli — We're a company just starting out on our mission to make good food accessible and enjoyed by all.
Convergence — Convergence focuses on developing AI assistants to learn, adapt, and retain information to manage tasks effectively. Convergence provides Proxy, a personal AI agent to assist individuals with their unique administrative tasks in beta. The funding will be utilized to create innovative models that enhance Proxy assistants, surpassing the capabilitiesof the current generation of AI, emphasizing facilitating continuous learning and skill development through memory.
Convergence Labs — Convergence Labs builds a future of abundance for all of humanity.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OASYS NOW — The new Standard for Securely Storing and Exchanging Genomic Data. Unlock global data silos and monetize your data pool through OASYS NOW secure enclaves.
Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Fly is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems. We invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
Orbital Materials — Orbital Materials leverages AI to design and deploy advanced materials & climate technologies for the long-term habitability of our planet.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Dryad Networks — Overview of Dryad, providing ultra-early fire detection as well as forest growth and health monitoring.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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).
terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deta — Elevate your internet.
Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
Margarita Finance — Margarita Finance is revolutionizing DeFi by introducing customisable Yield Boosters to the Solana Blockchain.

redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
OrthoPulse — OrthoPulse is a medical device manufacturer that produces dental care equipment, treatment control apps, and photo biomodulation solutions.

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!

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

xAI — XAI is an AI company that develops a platform to accelerate human scientific discovery. The company primarily focuses on developing advanced AI systems that are truthful, competent, and maximally beneficial for all of humanity. Its mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
HappyRobot — Happyrobot is the AI that extracts quantitative data from geospatial imagery with English queries
Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
mogenius — mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, andrepetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.
Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.

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.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
Gataca — Gataca is an MIT-born cybersecurity company that provides Decentralized Digital Identity technology to enable 1-click digital onboarding experiences, KYC compliance and data protection. The company helps users take back control over private information and seamlessly authenticate in digital services. For companies, GATACA offers single-sign-onauthentication tools to cut the time, manpower and cost currently needed to comply with KYC, while drastically improving the user onboarding experience. The company, that combines the extreme security of government-issued electronic certificates with the simplicity and global reach of a single-sign-on button, aims to build a user-centric digital identity layer for the Internet.
Notabene — Crypto Compliance for VASPs & Regulators made simple! Notabene is a platform designed to bridge crypto markets with traditional financial systems. Book a demo today.

At signals Venture Capital we back visionary founders and top technology teams across Europe.

Investment focus

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

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.
Kodex AI — Kodex AI offers an AI-powered solution for financial professionals with its purpose-built LLM that is fine-tuned to the specific requirements of the financial industry.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Pet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Enline — Technology for Power Systems, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATORS, INDUSTRY AND MINING, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INSURANCE AND CONSULTANCY, UTILITIES & POWER GENERATION, ENLINE MONITORING SYSTEM, ENLINE DYNAMIC LINE RATING, ENLINE FAULT LOCATION, ENLINE POWER OPTIMIZATION .
Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Learn.xyz — Empower your team with learning they'll actually enjoy: Learn.xyz automatically turns your knowledge base into bite-sized learning modules that your employees will love
Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.
Linq — The safest way to send intimate content
Univa Health — Univa's objective is to provide evidence-based clinical tools that address the detrimental impact of eating disorder diseases on both the individual and their families.

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).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it

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).

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

cognee inc — cognee helps you create a GraphRAG and supports Vector Stores, Graph stores, and various LLM providers
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Synthera AI — Synthetic Data for Financial Markets using Generative AI

We help smart startups to establish and enhance their products and services. We also assist our holdings with their strategic planning activities and offer them shared services and networking platforms. Our collaboration with these entrepreneurs is focused on the pursuit of long-term goals.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sinpex — One-stop-shop for digitized compliance, such as KYC, Client Onboarding, and other compliance processes. Benefit from faster client onboarding, less regulatory risk, and increased customer satisfaction. Powered by cutting edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) for banks, insurance, and crypto companies.
SaaScada — SaaScada is a fintech startup that provides a cloud-native platform for digital banking solutions. The company's configurable, cloud-native platform of open APIs enables existing financial institutions and new entrants to launch low-cost digital banking services in as little as 12 weeks. It provides a future-proof solution for product launchesand innovation by allowing clients to quickly create bespoke products and user experiences that can be launched seamlessly. SaaScada simplifies and accelerates the process of developing new services by redesigning how core banking services are delivered, allowing for launch in months rather than years in a cost-effective, compliant, and secure manner.
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Welinq — WeLinQ is a quantum computing solution interconnecting processors.
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Dashbot — Actionable Voice & Chatbot Analytics. Optimize Response Effectiveness; Understand User Behaviors; Increase User Satisfaction, Engagement, and Monetization.

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.

Seed X is a European-focused venture capital firm with strong roots in Liechtenstein. We help driven startups scale by providing a strong network of experienced entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Numarics — Numarics® is Switzerland’s first 100% digital accounting ecosystem, with a consistent mobile-first approach. Accounting, payroll, tax returns, invoicing, document management are now streamlined via the Numarics Ecosystem in the app or on the web, and make business management for entrepreneurs simple, accessible and transparent.Numarics wasdeveloped in 2020 by experts in the fields of accounting, digitalization, artificial intelligence and auditing with the vision of seamlessly integrating accounting into the lifestyle of today's entrepreneurs.
Keyzy — Keyzy is a zero deposit, rent to buy solution helping young professionals, key workers and other first-time buyers to become future homeowners.
Next Gate Tech — Next Gate Tech is a Luxembourg based, data-driven FundTech that provides innovative Software-as-a-Service solutions for the asset management industry. Our mission is to enhance the Fund industry technology, thanks to machine learning, data analytics, and smart automation. We capitalize on the rapid emergence of cloud-based computing frameworks tooffer fast, accurate, and robust solutions to our clients. We provide intelligent, adaptive, and dynamic automation solutions through a web platform to help industry players manage middle and back-office processes.

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.

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.

Delta Blockchain Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund lighting the path of blockchain innovation by supporting developers and visionaries building the world of decentralization.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Cayman Islands

Portfolio highlights

Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
NORTHSTAKE — Providing institutional investors with access to future economies through secure and trustworthy investment pathways for digital assets
Karma3 Labs — Building trust and reputation for the open web

Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Monda — Monda is the easy-to-use, all-in-one data monetization platform. Build a safe, fast-growing, and sustainable data business with Monda. Trusted by data-as-a-service (DaaS) companies across the globe.
CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
Dive — Discover SPH fluid simulation software accessible on the cloud and on a browser from anywhere. No hardware, no maintenance - just engineering.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Gameto — Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company in female reproductive longevity
OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
Rhea — Transforming fertility experiences for many. Recognizing the fragmented nature of the fertility market, we're here to unite and connect.

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.

Molten Ventures is a venture capital company. They invest in software, telecoms, electronics, the internet, MedTech, and cleantech services. They support visionary entrepreneurs who will invent the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
Anima — Anima's online patient triage speeds up the clinical workflow 10x and allows providers to deliver the right care for patients within 24 hours.Millions of patients with serious problems are missed and die every year because there isn’t adequate information flow between medical appointments. Patients submit their problems and requests onAnimainstead of waiting for an appointment, and Anima sends an actionable report to their provider with trends, risks and recommendations.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A
Germany, South Korea, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Gatenox — Gatenox brings 4x more clients by streamlining the Corporate KYC process while enhancing the user experience
Cashlink — Emittieren und vertreiben Sie tokenisierte Kryptowertpapiere regulatorisch konform nach dem elektronischen Wertpapiergesetz (eWpG).
Stableton Financial — Award-winning growth equity fintech investment platform, revolutionizing access to pre-IPO deals and portfolios with focus on secondaries.

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.

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.
Companion.energy — Software to manage industrial energy flexibility in the age of renewables.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
MILES — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.

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