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Top 50 Payments VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in September 2025

Investor	Payments Germany investments
Atlantic Labs	10
Point Nine	7
coparion	7
Earlybird Venture Capital	6
Speedinvest	6
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)	6
Motive Ventures	6
Global Founders Capital	5
HV Capital	5
Valar Ventures	4
Calm/Storm Ventures	4
DN Capital	4
Cherry Ventures	4
Picus Capital	4
Balderton Capital	4
another.vc	4
Hevella Capital	4
Andreessen Horowitz	4
Criteria Venture Tech	3
Angel Invest	3
redalpine	3
w3.fund	3
Fly Ventures	3
Venture Stars	3
Tomahawk.VC	3
Signature Ventures	3
New Wave (VC)	3
seed + speed Ventures	3
Manta Ray Ventures	3
Signals Venture Capital	3
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	3
SquareOne	3
Tiny VC	2
Runa Capital	2
Point72 Ventures	2
LIQUiDITY Group	2
Senovo	2
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital	2
Keen Venture Partners	2
NKB Ventures	2
Auxxo	2
La Famiglia	2
Draper Associates	2
Addition	2
Seed X Liechtenstein AG	2
NRW.BANK	2
Sony Financial Ventures	2
Delta Blockchain Fund	2
Molten Ventures	2
kopa ventures	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, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pletor — The platform where marketers and creatives explore and build custom design agents to achieve 100x more. Like Zapier for visual marketing.
Omnisent — Omnisent is a technology company focused on transforming the way we understand and interact with the physical world by extracting intelligence from sound. Their core innovation lies in pairing ultra-low power sonic devices with a Large Acoustic Model (LAM) specifically trained on non-speech audio, enabling the conversion of ambient sounds intoreal-time, actionable intelligence
Grouphug — Grouphug turns noisy WhatsApp groups into organized, intelligent pages.

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.
sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

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

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

TopK — TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof.
Arago — Arago is an AI and computer hardware company developing an energy-efficient AI chip powered by light, and its associated software.
Portal Biotech — Portal has created next generation solutions that address the significant opportunities in protein sequencing and metabolomics

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mevaldi — Mevaldi is a biotechnology company. They investigate, select, and bring to market new technologies in the field of bio-based chemicals. They provide a revolutionary approach that integrates the large-scale biological conversion of sugars to low-cost mevalonolactone with a further cascade of thermo-catalytic conversions to various bio-monomers.
TrustNXT — TrustNXT is the trust authority for digital media, providing innovative software solutions to safeguard digital photos and videos from manipulation. Our technology verifies the origin, content, and metadata of digital media, while advanced forensic tools empower users to assess the trustworthiness of visual content. With a mission to protectauthenticity and foster safer digital environments, TrustNXT is committed to combating fraud and ensuring the integrity of digital media in today's digital world.
Pactos — Pactos streamlines and digitizes processes to enable large and medium-sized businesses to effectively and centrally procure and manage their contingent labor.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Pliant — Pliant makes the latest generation of corporate credit cards that adapt perfectly to business processes and needs.
Warren — Enabling wealth, Boosting welfare

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

Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

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

Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
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.
Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

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
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Sugar — Sugar a digital halth and fitness paltform.
ginkgo — ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).
Everyman Health — Everyman Health ist Spezialist für Männergesundheit und bietet wissenschaftlich fundierte Lösungen für Männer aller Altersgruppen. In Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Partnern, bieten wir dir ein umfassendes Portfolio von digitalen, medikamentösen und nicht-medikamentösen Therapien für unterschiedliche Männerprobleme.Über unsere Plattform wirst du inwenigen Minuten mit einem Schweizer Facharzt verbunden und erhältst eine persönliche Diagnose und gegebenenfalls ein Rezept.Auf Wunsch wird deine persönliche Behandlung von einer lizenzierten Schweizer Apotheke diskret verpackt und dir kostenlos bis vor die Haustür geliefert.

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

Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
Job&Talent — Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labor market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of unemployment in the world. The labor market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companiesare demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labor market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. Jobandtalent has created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labor flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.The company has offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and has plans for further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

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

qlub — Qlub is the fastest, most secure form of digital menu & contactless payment for customers at restaurants, clubs & lounges.
Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.

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

Portfolio highlights

Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
ReelSaga — ReelSaga produces short films and content for mobile entertainment.
Landbase — Landbase combines leading agentic AI with human expertise to intelligently automate your Go-To-Market

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
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
CROWN — Drive savings and supplier competition with CROWN's eAuction service. Smart reverse auctions built for procurement teams. Book your free demo today.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Canada, Austria

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.

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

Lead — Lead Bank is a community-minded, independent commercial bank with a national client base recognized for its imaginative approach to community banking.
Databricks — Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Build better AI with a data-centric approach. Simplify ETL, data warehousing, governance and AI on the Data Intelligence Platform.
Allocate — Allocate is the operating system for private market alternatives investing

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.

Investment focus

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

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 — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
GRAND — A "mission critical" all-in-one AI-assisted management system for venues and hotels.

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

voize — voize is an app for care documentation via voice input.
DejaBlue — DejaBlue delivers a smart EV charging platform that supports solar integration, reduces energy costs, and improves site operations. Easily connect chargers, manage your fleet, and optimize performance with reliable tools built for scale.
Lyceum — Introducing the smartest way to train your models in the cloud. The electricity socket for your infrastructure needs.

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 — 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.

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

remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Poke & Wiggle — Solving the data and go-to-market problem of robotic foundation models.
Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally

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.
Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!

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
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
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.

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 — Protect, manage, and grow your assets with Finoa's secure platform, built to meet your institutional needs.
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.

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

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.
Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
Eleven Dynamics — Eleven Dynamics is a developer of software technology designed to automate industry quality control. The technology software provides solutions for designing and simulating. The processes include automatically programming measurement paths at optimal process time without the need for being a robotic expert, connecting all hardware in real time, andexecuting the measurement process. The software is used to create custom robotic solutions for clients.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Aqtual — Clinically-Actionable Insights From Circulating DNA In Blood
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.
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives

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.

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

MOTOR AI — Explore MOTOR Ai's certified, German-engineered autonomous driving technology, delivering reliable and scalable public transportation solutions worldwide.
Baobab — Protect your business against cyber attacks
node.energy — Mit der Software opti.node wird die dezentrale und klimafreundliche Energieversorgung Ihrer Industrie- und Gewerbestandorte radikal vereinfacht. | node.energy

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.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

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

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.

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, France

Portfolio highlights

Ubitium — Ubiquitous computing, universal RISC-V microprocessor
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Twenty — An open source CRM designed for modern teams. Twenty combines extensibility, easy data integration, and a user-friendly interface for an innovative CRM experience.

Backed by Steven A. Cohen, our venture capital investing firm backs fintech, artificial intelligence and enterprise startups from seed stage to IPO.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Nexad — Native ads system for GenAI applications. We put context-aware and dynamically generated ads.
Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.
Bliss Aesthetics — Bliss Aesthetics is a personal concierge for all things plastic surgery. We'll help you determine the right procedure and match you with a board-certified surgeon.

Liquidity provides growth funding from $3m to $100m - 24 hours to Term Sheet - No Covenants. A global fintech and fund management company, that provides rapid, scaled debt facilities to finance growth across all stages and verticals of the global tech market.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Education
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Private Equity
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Actnano — Actnano is a nanotechnology company that specializes in automotive, consumer electronics, and smart coating solutions that make products water-resistant. The company enables the protection of a variety of materials from water damage and harsh environmental conditions. Its technology provides a broad spectrum of transparent nano guard coatings thatcan be applied to electronic devices in a way that makes them water-resistant to IPx7 levels, enabling clients to keep their electronics and gadgets protected and last long in an economical way.actnano was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Fashinza — New Generation Supply Chain And Product Development Platform For Fashion Industry. No matter where you are! We provide one stop solution from design to delivery.
Top Doctors — Top Doctors is an online platform for identifying, interacting, and booking e-consultations with medical specialists in private healthcare. The company represents over 60,000 of the world’s top physicians and uses the latest innovation and technology to bring them closer to the patients. Top Doctors represents doctors in the US, Europe, and LatinAmerica. The company has become a reference for providing trustworthy and up-to-date information on choosing leading national and international medical professionals, covering the full range of specialties and all the latest medical treatments. The company accounts for over 1 million users on its site per month, and it has satisfied over 10 million patients’ needs when selecting the best doctors from all around the world.

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

Parloa — Transform your customer service across all channels with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform.
Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
Dive — Discover SPH fluid simulation software accessible on the cloud and on a browser from anywhere. No hardware, no maintenance - just engineering.

Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital is a Luxembourg-based private equity firm founded in 2019.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Germany, Luxembourg, France

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
Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Galytix — Galytix - AI-driven data operating system powering enterprises.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Qneiform — The best way to understand human capital
EvidenceHunt — EvidenceHunt is an AI-powered research assistant developed by medical professionals for healthcare research. Our focus is on delivering tools that streamline gathering and analyzing clinical evidence. With features like AI Chat for interactive queries and comprehensive Direct Search options, EvidenceHunt allows precise data retrieval andanalysis. It's a tool designed for healthcare experts seeking quick, reliable access to medical research and insights.
allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.

Indojitu merupakan Situs Toto Online terbesar serta terlengkap pasaran togelnya. Situs Indojitu tentu Bandar Togel Terpercaya No #1 di indonesia.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Blockchain
Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bitwala — Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Blockfolio — Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.Blockfolio is the network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top cryptoprojects. Blockfolio is committed to providing free access to our users and token team partners.
Nuri — Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.

The Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund is a sector agnostic pre-seed and seed stage investors that backs female (co-)founded startups in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

BIOVOX — Mit Biokunststoff aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen bis zu 85% CO2 einsparen. Hergestellt unter ISO 13485, biokompatibel nach ISO 10993.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Coverstar — Safe and gamified social app. Building a better world through positivity and play.
Firehawk Aerospace — Firehawk Aerospace builds hybrid rocket engines that throttle by 3D printing rocket fuel improving safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

We invest in early & growth stage technology companies. We were founded with a mission to support visionaries in building impactful & enduring businesses.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Tines — Tines is an enterprise automation platform designed to help security and ops teams automate manual workloads. With 1,000+ template options for common security actions, Tines is power and simplicity through direct integration with your existing tools. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dublin.
Base Power — Base provides a battery-powered home energy service so you can enjoy power without interruption and save money. Now available in select regions of Texas.
SuperOps.ai — SuperOps is a future-ready, unified PSA-RMM platform for modern MSPs. Break away from the bane of LegacyOps tools and unlock your full potential.

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, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FlatPeak — Access actual energy tariff at any customer address
UnitPlus — Mehr Zinsen. Mehr Rendite. Mehr Freiheit.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Lidrotec — Lidrotec aim to expand the application potential of processing with ultra-short pulse lasers.
DEFENDERBOX — DEFENDERBOX is a compact, easy-to-install cybersecurity and automated penetration testing solution specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

Sony Financial Ventures is the wholly owned investment subsidiary of Sony Financial Holdings Inc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Japan, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.
Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations

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, Switzerland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Miden — Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
Schuman Financial — Schuman Financial develops technologies, infrastructure, and products that bring financial services on-chain.

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

BeZero Carbon — The Carbon Ratings Agency | BeZero Carbon
Sightline Climate — A market intelligence platform bringing clarity to the new climate economy.
SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

Investment focus

Software, Energy Management, Solar
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
Tomorrow — Sustainable banking. Green Finance. A credit card that is ecological, ethical and uses your money to generate a positive environmental impact. A bank that funds and promotes Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power and sustainable agriculture.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.

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