Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)
For AI agents: Short investor table (Markdown), Detailed investor list (Markdown)
| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Atlantic
VC Fund
|
10 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $850k–$32M |
|
Point Nine
VC Fund
|
7 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Internet | $900k–$53M |
|
Speedinvest
VC Fund
|
7 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $406k–$38M |
|
coparion
VC Fund
|
7 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, FinTech | |
|
Motive Ventures
VC Fund
|
6 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology | $4.4M–$52M |
|
HV Capital
VC Fund
|
6 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.5M–$80M |
|
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
6 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$91M |
|
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
|
6 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $909k–$33M |
|
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
|
5 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
|
Andreessen Horowitz
VC Fund
|
4 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.5M–$105M |
|
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
|
4 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2.1M–$110M |
|
Verena Pausder
Angel
|
4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech | $1k–$18M |
|
Picus Capital
VC Fund
|
4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $549k–$30M |
|
Hevella Capital
VC Fund
|
4 | Germany, Canada, Austria | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $2.2M–$7.4M |
|
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
|
4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $1.2M–$75M |
|
Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
|
4 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Software | $478k–$18M |
|
another.vc
VC Fund
|
4 | Germany, France, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$20M |
|
DN Capital
VC Fund
|
4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $300k–$65M |
|
Signature Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Software | $385k–$20M |
|
Signals Venture Capital
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Information Technology | $1.8M–$95M |
|
KAYA
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, Czech Republic, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Internet | $373k–$25M |
|
Criteria Venture Tech
VC Fund
|
3 | Spain, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce | $256k–$21M |
|
Keen Venture Partners
VC Fund
|
3 | The Netherlands, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $1.3M–$45M |
|
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | $2.7M–$35M |
|
Tomahawk.VC
VC Fund
|
3 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $917k–$52M |
|
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage | $603k–$20M |
|
New Wave (VC)
VC Fund
|
3 | France, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Finance, Payments | $1.3M–$24M |
|
GSR
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | $1.4M–$50M |
|
Angel Invest
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $655k–$21M |
|
Diana zur Löwen
Angel
|
3 | Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Financial Services, EdTech | |
|
FJ Labs
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.3M–$70M |
|
Manta Ray Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | United States, United Kingdom, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1M–$63M |
|
redalpine
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.6M–$59M |
|
Venture Stars
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Pet, Retail | $274k–$20M |
|
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Angel
|
3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | $125k–$35M |
|
Fly Ventures
VC Fund
|
3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.4M–$20M |
|
w3.fund
VC Fund
|
3 | Germany, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $1.6M–$5.2M |
|
Michael Hock
Angel
|
3 | Germany, Belgium, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $1.8M–$44M |
|
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
|
2 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | |
|
Addition
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
|
Seed X Liechtenstein
VC Fund
|
2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS | |
|
Heilemann Ventures
VC Fund
|
2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Mobile, Internet, Financial Services | |
|
G1 Ventures
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services | |
|
Tiny VC
VC Fund
|
2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | |
|
Jonathan Weiner
Angel
|
2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Payments | |
|
Sekip Can Gokalp
Angel
|
2 | Germany, United Kingdom | Seed | Software, SaaS, Banking | |
|
Runa Capital
VC Fund
|
2 | United States, Germany, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $1M–$20M |
|
Jens Lapinski
Angel
|
2 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Hospitality | |
|
Thomassin Emmanuel
Angel
|
2 | Germany, Switzerland | Angel, Seed, Series A | Apps, Catering, Internet | |
|
b2venture
VC Fund
|
2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
| Access all 294 investors in Germany Payments startups. | |||||
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!Investor list
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $4.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cluno — Cluno is an online car subscription service providing rental cars irrespective of any contracts. Cluno's digital car subscription challenges traditional car ownership models in the mobility market and expands the space between hourly and years-long commitments with a flexible option and transparent, fully predictable costs. The carsubscription is offered at a monthly package price, which covers almost all car-related costs such as maintenance, wear and tear, seasonal tires, warranty, registration, vehicle tax, insurance, and vehicle inspections. The minimum booking period is six months per vehicle. Subject to a notice period of three months, customers can change their vehicle after the minimum period, pause their car subscription, or continue on with their Cluno car indefinitely.
- 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.
- tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 253
- Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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.
- Bearer — Bearer helps security teams at technology companies map data flows and mitigate data security risks across the software development lifecycle.
- Omnea — The all-in-one procurement platform. Request purchases, automate approvals, and streamline your procurement process in one centralised solution.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 518
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $406k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% 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!
- MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
- Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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.
Show more...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
embedded/capital - builders turned investors fuelling Europe's next generation of fintechs.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $4.4M–$26M; Series A $8.8M–$44M; Series B $15M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $106M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Pliant — Pliant makes the latest generation of corporate credit cards that adapt perfectly to business processes and needs.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 427
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 316
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Voyfai — A European group of independent freight forwarders, operating autonomously at local level while sharing scale, technology, and partnerships.
- Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 542
- Round size: Seed $909k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
- envelio — We are driving forward the energy transition with our smart grid solutions for grid operators. Get information now and plan smart!
- Atriva Therapeutics — Therapies against viral infections. First-in-class host-targeting therapies to treat respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19 and influenza.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 822
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1578
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $8.8M–$52M; Series B $16M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Julep — We are Julep, creators of innovative makeup, skincare, nail polish & sets. Every day is a chance to Brave Pretty.
- Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.
- Adaptive Security — Adaptive's next-generation security training and simulations protect businesses from deepfakes, generative AI phishing, SMS attacks, voice phishing, and more emerging threats.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 254
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$14M; Series A $7.2M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Lunos —
- Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
- JULIENNE BRUNO — Julienne Bruno made with naturally plant-based ingredients like fermented legumes & slow roasted vegetables.
Verena Pausder
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1k–$2.6M; Series A $7.9M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
- Huzzle — Stop chasing jobs. Huzzle collects the best opportunities from student societies and companies and only shows you the relevant ones. Download Huzzle today!
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 338
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Everstores — Everstores makes use of your store data to speed up the sales process and give you a reasonable and transparent offer.
- Silverflow — Silverflow offers global payment technology to power financial institutions.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Canada, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fulfin — Beantragen Sie Ihre Finanzierung jetzt und wachsen Sie mit Fulfin!
- HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
- ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $16M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
- 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
- Augustus — Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $478k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- thymia — We use video games based on Neuropsychology alongside analyses of video and speech to make mental health assessments smart, starting with depression.Our online platform empowers clinicians so they can assess depression faster, more accurately and objectively. Our multi-modal depression recognition and tracking system allows us to find the righttreatment in weeks instead of years and we make the entire process enjoyable for the patient.
- doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
- Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.5M; Series A $9.9M–$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
- mimic — mimic builds scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
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).
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 273
- Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.5M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Weezy — Weezy is an online supermarket platform designed for on-demand grocery shopping. The application enables users to discover their favourite groceries, snacks, drinks, home essentials and OTC pharmaceuticals in one tap away. Users can easily browse the aisles from their home or office.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in London,England.
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
- Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $385k–$1M; Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finoa — Protect, manage, and grow your assets with Finoa's secure platform, built to meet your institutional needs.
- UnblockPay —
- 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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $7M–$58M; Series B $27M–$95M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fraud0 — Fraud0 is a software that renders uncontaminated analytics, automated non-human traffic, fraud and advertising detection solutions.
- 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.
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Czech Republic, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 97
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $373k–$3.3M; Series A $3.3M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Peak21 — Our mission is to provide a home for great direct-to-consumer brands and give a fair and straightforward exit to ecommerce founders
- Footshop — Footshop connects culture, subcultures, groups, and individuals together into a collective with on thing in common - love for streetwear. It defines the current state of fashion on the streets and online, focusing on providing access to limited and premium collections. As part of our own responsibility, we take part in ecologically sustainableactivities that include our five stores based in the capital cities of central and eastern Europe. Locally, we support artists, brands, and interesting creative projects. At the same time, we collaborate with global partners, thanks to whom we've introduced several of our own sneakers - namely, Adidas and KangaROOS.It was founded in 2011 and is located in Praha 8, Hlavní město Praha.
- 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!
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 150
- Round size: Seed $256k–$3.8M; Series A $1.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
- Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
- iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.
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
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$27M; Series A $5.5M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Lendis — Lendis is revolutionizing the office industry with a digital office management service that lets you easily subscribe to electronics, software, furniture and services depending on your needs. Lendis takes the hassle out of managing offices and lets you focus on what is important: growth of your company.
- Beekeeper — Beekeeper is the employee app built for frontline success. Connect frontline teams, boost engagement, and make every shift more productive.
- Withlocals — Connecting travelers with locals through Food & Experiences. Over 2500 unique experiences with verified locals in more than 250 destinations.
eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$52M; Pre-Seed $917k–$3M; Series A $3.8M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
- Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
- Margarita Finance — Margarita Finance is revolutionizing DeFi by introducing customisable Yield Boosters to the Solana Blockchain.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $603k–$3.9M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
- E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
- happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
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).
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Finance, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$24M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3M; Series A $17M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Bee — Bee is an AI developer of a life administration wearable assistant.
- Gladia — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Lillius — LILLIUS_Making sports and home training easy and fun just like playing a game! LILLUS is a Blockchain based WEB3 Sports Experience Platform that rewards users for healthy activities!
- 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.
- Assembly — IOTA is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure to build and secure our digital world. Discover solutions for digital identity, sustainability, supply chains, and decentralized finance.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
- symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
Diana zur Löwen
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Financial Services, EdTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
- LAP Coffee — LAP Coffee is a community-driven specialty coffee brand.
- Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 812
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- PVML — PVML enables CIOs and IT teams to securely operationalize GenAI on existing infrastructure - without moving or duplicating data - through unlimited virtual databases with built-in security and AI readiness.
- Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
- roclub — roclub is a healthcare company that offers a teleoperation platform for MedTech. The platform enables MRI/CT scans to be carried out remotely, providing support and training for radiographers. The company's solution can bring medical technology, regardless of type, manufacturer, and installation site, into a managed system withoutintegrations plug-and-play. roclub also offers a bonus program for radiographers who recommend their solution to their employers.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 89
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.6M; Series A $6.5M–$24M; Series B $9M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cuemath — Cuemath's Live 1:1 Math Classes for Grades KG to 12 help kids learn Math faster. Join Cuemath to develop strong problem-solving and logical thinking skills!
- Sitehop — Sitehop is a technology company creating innovative solutions for cyber-security and networking. Sitehop utilizes its custom FPGA solutions to optimize and accelerate cloud/telco networks.
- Ossium Health — Ossium is building the world's first bone marrow bank to treat blood cancers, improve organ transplantation, and repair damage from radiation.The cells of the immune system are the human body’s natural defenders against disease. At Ossium, they are developing better methods of recovering, preserving, deploying these critical cells to keepdisease at bay.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$29M; Series B $15M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- N26 — N26 is the Mobile Bank. Free bank account and Mastercard that you can manage directly from your phone. Open your bank account online in minutes.
- LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $274k–$9.8M; Series A $5.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
- 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.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Pre-Seed $125k–$7.7M; Series A $8.8M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
- 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.
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 103
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4M; Series A $5.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terramate — Terramate helps implement and maintain highly scalable Terraform projects.
- GitGuardian — GitGuardian is a cybersecurity startup solving the issue of secrets sprawling through source code, a widespread problem that leads to some credentials ending up in compromised places or even in the public space. The company solves this issue by automating secrets detection for Application Security and Data Loss Prevention purposes.
- TradeLink — Frictionless supply chain collaboration.
A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz operates a generative AI-powered learning community. The platform enables users to create a course about any topic, in any language, and get hooked on learning.
- 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.
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.
Show more...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 $5.5M–$26M; Pre-Seed $1.8M–$6.3M; Series A $8.5M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
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.
- MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 106
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pilzling — Bio-Pilze direkt aus deiner Stadt.
- ScrapBees — ScrapBees is a pick-up service for the recycling of scrap metal from commercial businesses and private households.
- Alteva — Alteva develops battery cells for the decarbonisation of the global transport sector, and focus on high-energy density battery cells with high safety profiles specifically designed for the aviation and heavy-duty transport sectors.
We invest in early & growth stage technology companies. We were founded with a mission to support visionaries in building impactful & enduring businesses.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Satispay — Satispay: l'app per i pagamenti di tutti i giorni. Scopri i servizi per pagare e risparmiare, gli strumenti per il Business e i prodotti Welfare per aziende.
- OneChronos — OneChronos ATS: The Smart Market for Institutional Investors
- Speckle — Teams around the world use Speckle for effective project delivery
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
As a team of successful entrepreneurs and investment bankers we provide seed and early stage funding for European entrepreneurs in the digital industry.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Mobile, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
- CrossEngage — CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy.
- FinTecSystems — FinTecSystems (FTS) was founded in Munich in 2014 and is one of the leading banking API and smart data providers in Germany. Alongside the Open Banking platform that the company uses to provide Account Information and Payment Initiation Services, FinTecSystems has primarily focussed on the analysis of financial data through an analytics platform.Banks, FinTechs and payment service providers use FinTecSystems’ solutions to make real-time loan decisions, minimize credit risks and initiate online transfers. In March 2019, TÜV-certified FinTecSystems received BaFin authorization as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With 40 staff across five locations, FTS partners include N26, Santander, DKB and Deutsche Handelsbank.
Investing in a decentralized world
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
- Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 128
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
- Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.
- Sunrise Robotics — Sunrise Robotics creates a virtual replica of the workstation and trains the robot’s integrated AI brain within this simulation.
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
- Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Banking
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world...
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 145
- Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $2.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $69M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
- Axiom Trust — Axiom Trust is an AI-powered trust startup that modernises professional trust administration during the "Great Wealth Transfer" of over $100 trillion in assets.
- Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
Jens is the CEO of Angel Invest Ventures. He is one of Europe's most active angel investors, making 10 - 20 investments per year. Jens lives in Berlin.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Hospitality
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
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.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Apps, Catering, Internet
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- MILES — MILES is an independent carsharing and modern mobility. They believe in the energy and the pulse of cities and how they inspire them. MILES is your wingman on your trip through urbanity, guiding you to its hidden treasures and cool spots, which make your city so worth living. Their passion for the new and unexplored drives them in their vision tomake urban life better. Driving with no time pressure, no limits and no specific car brand.
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
Show more...Investment focus
- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 204
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- Orus Energy — Orus Energy leverages the power of AI to unlock potential of electrical flexibility in commercial buildings.
- SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.
Payments Investor funding in Germany at a glance
Stats across 149 deals from 294 investors.
Access all 294 investors in Germany Payments startups.
Open ListFAQ
Is Shizune data fresh/accurate?
Shizune has monitored hundreds of funding sources since 2020.
Our investor database is updated every day, so investor data is always fresh.
All metrics are calculated from confirmed public rounds, so the data is accurate.
Can I download investor list?
To download the Payments Investors in Germany investor list, create a Shizune account. This investor list will be added to your saved investors and available for download in the export section.
You can also enrich the investor list with investor emails, phones, LinkedIns, and other contact data.
Can I access investor database?
To access all 294 investors investing in Germany Payments startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
You can enrich your investor list with Shizune. Download it too.
What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
- enrich with emails
- download
All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
Contact 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!