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Top 30 Photography Startup Investors in Germany (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Photography startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Photography startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Joachim Bernecker
Angel
3 Germany Seed Software, SaaS, Internet
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $214k–$6.4M
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner
Angel
3 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed Software, SaaS, Video $1.5M–$2.4M
Wellington Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $3.1M–$60M
Christian Vollmann
Angel
2 Germany, Ireland, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.1M–$16M
Florian Heinemann
Angel
2 Germany, Brazil, Portugal Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $106k–$50M
BTQ Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Content, Software
Marc Brucherseifer
Angel
1 Germany Seed Photography
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $219k–$71M
Eastlake
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Peter Read
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series E, Angel Software, Apps, Mobile $550k–$120M
JCMB Beteiligungs
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, Internet $552k–$5.5M
Passion Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $573k–$85M
redalpine
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$125M
Christophe Maire
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Poland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $197k–$8.1M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $932k–$15M
Felix Petersen
Angel
1 Germany, United States Seed Video, Mobile, Hardware $531k–$675k
OpenOcean
VC Fund
1 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.3M–$30M
Andreas Burike
Angel
1 Germany, Austria, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Human Resources $106k–$9.3M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Louis Pfitzner
Angel
1 Germany, France, Greece Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Software, Marketplace $1.2M–$20M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, SaaS $138k–$7.7M
Klaas Kersting
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce $768k–$4.1M
Alexander Ljung
Angel
1 Germany, Sweden, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $552k–$5.7M
Dario Suter
Angel
1 Germany, Liechtenstein Seed, Angel, Series A TV, Internet, Software $481k–$4.2M
Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, China Seed, Angel, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Mobile $28k–$1.9M
Rolf Schromgens
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Education $849k–$3.4M
Hitchhiker Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed SaaS, Content, Software
Udo Schloemer
Angel
1 Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Education, Mobile Apps $1.1M–$9M
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Joachim Bernecker
Angel · 3 investments in Germany Photography startups

Joachim Bernecker

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.
  • MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
  • GotPhoto — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Photography startups

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $542k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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Friedrich Georg Hoepfner
Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Photography startups

Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Heat it — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
  • GotPhoto — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
  • HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
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Wellington Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Photography startups

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 201
  • Round size: Series A $3.1M–$36M; Series B $8.3M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $222M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • nyra health — nyra health is an artificial intelligence and evidence-based neurological research tablet app that offers a revolutionary form of therapy. nyra health was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • 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.
  • Beren Therapeutics — Founded to serve patients through transformative medicines
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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Photography startups

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.7M; Series A $7M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
  • Arctis AI — AI-powered bid leveling, bid comparison, and risk analysis for construction procurement. Automated bid tabulation, deviation detection, and award memos for general contractors, owners, and procurement teams.
  • Holy Technologies — Contract manufacturing with patented IFP technology: 12-weeks to prototype, scalable production up to 200k parts/year, and 100% recyclable materials.
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Florian Heinemann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Photography startups

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Brazil, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$4.2M; Series A $1.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sakurimo — We bring deep learning visual perception AI (artificial intelligence) to smart phones and other edge devices. We help retailers to create a data-driven and personalized shopping experience.
  • Deep Tech Momentum — Join 3,000+ corporate leaders, investors, and deep tech founders at DTM26 in Berlin, on May 20-21. Forge the partnerships that will shape European competitiveness, resilience and technological sovereignty for the next decades.
  • CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
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BTQ Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Germany Photography startups

BTQ Ventures is a (pre-)seed, early stage investment fund that invests in great founders with bold, innovative and maybe crazy ideas.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beazy — Beazy is an all-in-one platform for content production. We help companies find the creatives, equipment and locations they need for their photo/video productions and give them collaborative tools to manage everything in one place.
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Marc Brucherseifer
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Marc Brucherseifer served as Director of Workflow Marketing, Financial Communication, Business Clients & Sales and Member of Executive Board at Drillisch AG. Brucherseifer served as Spokesman of Executive Board of Drillisch Ag. He has been Chairman of Supervisory Board of Drillisch AG since May 27, 2011. He has been a Member of SupervisoryBoard at Drillisch AG since October 2007. He served as a Member of Supervisory Board at Drillisch telecom Gmbh, Maintal and nanjing biocomposite ltd. He is a Graduate in Business Administration.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Photography
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Flimmer — Flimmer has created a platform that allows viewers to watch the latest trailer from Cinema, DVD & Blu-Ray and Video On Demand and reward them for their attention with movie tickets, or DVD/Video on Demand Coupons. At the end of the trailer, viewers will be asked a question about the content.- If the answer is correct, they will getcredited with up to 10 cents.
  • Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$36M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • ENTRYZERO — ENTRYZERO is a cybersecurity startup that develops an AI-powered software platform specializing in Threat Exposure Management,the company helps organizations continuously monitor their digital attack surface from a hacker’s perspective to identify and mitigatevulnerabilities automatically.
  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
  • 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.
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Eastlake
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • menschmaschine publishing — Tadaa is a mobile app and creative toolkit for photography enthusiasts, enabling users to add stunning filters, retouch images.
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Peter Read
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Peter Read is based out of London and is the Cortex Partner of Vitruvian Partners. Peter previously worked at TOCCA as an angel investor. Peter Read attended the University of Oxford. Peter Read has been certified as a speaker at The E-Act Burnham Park Academy, Slough.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series E, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$1.7M; Series E $100M–$120M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HowDo — HowDo is sound & picture chapters to capture epic stories of everyday knowledge.
  • Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
  • Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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JCMB Beteiligungs
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

JCMB Beteiligungs GmbH is a private early stage investment company. JCMB invests either as a lead investor or as a co-investor with other investors and usually holds a minority stake in its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wonderz — Wonderz GmbH was founded in February 2017 with the mission to democratize digital content distribution. Won­derz enables cre­ators to dis­trib­ute con­tent direct­ly to con­sumers. Its white-label software platform, WunderBox runs on Android, Amazon Fire, iOS and tvOS and is monetized with an innovative performance-based SAAS model. Wonderz isled by an interdisciplinary team of proven entrepreneurs and is trusted by industry leaders such as Warner Bros. Discovery and Carlsen Publishing (a part of Bonnier Media), and is backed by top-tier VCs and family offices.
  • sofatutor — The online learning platform sofatutor.com illustrates and visualizes all school material in 1,060 videos. Interactive practical exercises for each video, worksheets to print out, and the daily live help with experts guarantee an all-round service.
  • Campaign — High-quality modern furniture built to last a lifetime. Our sectionals, sofa, loveseat & chair are designed with clean lines, a steel frame & durable fabric.
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Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Eric Wahlforss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dance. He co-Founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Eric Wahlforss has been working with the web since 1995 and served as the Interaction Designer for Gate5 (acquired by Nokia in 2007). Under the artist name Forss, he has released electronic music on Berlin basedlabel Sonar Kollektiv and toured across the world. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has studied three years at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $552k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
  • Buddywise — Gain control of your safety risks and empower your EHS teams to be truly data-driven. Use existing cameras to gather data, eliminate risks and react in real-time.
  • Nomos — Nomos is a full-stack power company built from first principles. Headless, decentralized, and AI-first, serving category leaders to power the world.
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Passion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.3M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — Customers don't search. They ask.
  • Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
  • Opensignal — Opensignal is the leading global provider of independent insights into network experience and market performance.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • telli — The platform for AI phone calls. https://t.co/yOOUfNYMFe - used by 100+ enterprises - backed by @ycombinator & @cherryventures
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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Christophe Maire
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$8.1M; Angel $197k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $800k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
  • Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
  • RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 158
  • Round size: Seed $932k–$6M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
  • Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
  • HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.
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Felix Petersen
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Felix Petersen is CEO and Co-Founder of He´s also an activeinvestor and advisor to companies like Born and raised in Berlin, Petersen has been busy with remote data transmissions since the late eighties and has been building things on the Internet since 1996.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Mobile, Hardware
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$675k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Loopcam — How can Armenia take advantage of the artificial intelligence craze with startups and companies with its .am ccTLD? "AI I AM "
  • Narrative — Clip 2 is the world's most wearable camera.
  • RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
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OpenOcean
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe with offices in London & Helsinki.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$11M; Series A $2.3M–$22M; Series B $7.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Outlyer — Outlyer is a self-service infrastructure monitoring platform made for DevOps and microservices. We monitor your full stack—from servers and cloud providers to databases, containers and custom metrics. We give you dashboards, analytics and alerts that are easy to set up and customize for both developer and operations teams.Outlyer is monitoring,done differently.
  • Sitegeist — Sitegeist Robotics develops autonomous, modular construction robots to automate dangerous tasks like hydrodemolition, sandblasting, and drilling, boosting productivity and addressing labor shortages.Sitegeist Robotics primarily serves the construction industry, focusing on infrastructure renovation and building site operations.
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Andreas Burike
Angel · Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $106k–$1.4M; Series A $6.9M–$9.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
  • l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
  • Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • TrillerTV — FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States.
  • Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
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Louis Pfitzner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Co-CEO at CleanHub, Entrepreneur (Salonmeister, Treatwell, CAYA, Lieferheld/Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about building companies (marketplaces & SaaS), especially in the SMB space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, France, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $4M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$3.6M; Series A $15M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juo — Dev-first toolkit for non-digital product subscriptions
  • Omnisent — Passive acoustic AI for tactical drone detection and localization. Reliable, jam-resistant situational awareness for defense and homeland security.
  • Unosecur — Unosecur is a cloud security platform that helps organizations detect, quantify, remediate and centrally manage identity and access risks across multi-clouds at all times.
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $138k–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
  • enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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Klaas Kersting
Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $768k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GYANT — Create more capacity to care. Fabric is the care enablement system powering healthcare to move faster, work smarter, and deliver better care.
  • Minit Games — Minit Games provides bite-sized, instantly playable HTML5 games in a tailored, algorithmically driven feed.
  • Dead Astronauts — Reshaping open worlds
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Alexander Ljung
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Alexander Ljung is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Dance. He co-founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Alexander Ljung serves at interactive installations. He has a background as a post-production sound designer and motion film music producer. He holds an M.Sc. degree within MediaTechnology from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and also studied Marketing & Business Development at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $552k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $2M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lottie — Lottie's mission is to change the way young kids experience technology and to bring peace of mind to parents, by building a magical experience that the whole family can love.
  • Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
  • Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.
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Dario Suter
Angel · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Dario Suter

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Investment focus

  • Industry: TV, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Liechtenstein

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Angel $481k–$494k; Series A $2.8M–$4.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flimmer — FLIMMER is a Berlin-based production company for film, television and creative storytelling. Discover our productions, work and team.
  • Neufund — We create blockchain-based solutions and services, which include fundraising and investing platform, Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) Manager, Light wallet, post-investment instruments, and others.
  • ROY Kombucha — ROY is a Berlin-based Kombucha brewery that handcrafts high-quality, organic Kombucha in cans. It is a naturally refreshing and energizing drink made with highest-quality teas.
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Advertising, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $71k–$1.9M; Angel $28k–$393k; Series A $656k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lingvist — Lingvist is an innovative language learning platform that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning algorithms to make the learning process faster and more efficient.Lingvist is a subscription service for language learning, accessible via three platforms (web, iOS, and Android) worldwide.Lingvist waslaunched in 2013 and is operated from Tallinn, Estonia.
  • Sendbird — Sendbird is the omnichannel AI agent platform enterprises choose to elevate customer experience, by initiating autonomous support & sales conversations, keeping humans in the loop for complex inquiries, and re-engaging customers with proactive business messages. Combining omnichannel AI and a battle-tested, award-winning communication APIs,Sendbird enables businesses to build AI agents and meaningful customer connections at scale. Trusted by 4,000+ leading apps—including DoorDash, Match Group, Noom, and Yahoo Sports—Sendbird powers over 7 billion conversations every month, offering exceptional reliability, security, and compliance that meet enterprise-level demands.Headquartered in California, Sendbird is backed by ICONIQ, SoftBank, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, and other reputable investors.
  • Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
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Rolf Schromgens
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $849k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
  • Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
  • CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.
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Hitchhiker Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Hitchhiker Ventures is a early stage,sector-opportunistic, serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Content, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Beazy — Beazy is an all-in-one platform for content production. We help companies find the creatives, equipment and locations they need for their photo/video productions and give them collaborative tools to manage everything in one place.
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Udo Schloemer
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Photography startups

Udo Schloemer is the Managing Director at Viva Forever. Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largeststartup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines his one of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
  • Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
  • Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
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Photography Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 32 deals from 48 investors.

48
investors
in Germany Photography startups
32
deals
in Germany Photography startups
$819k
median round
in Germany Photography startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
47%
Seed
most common funding stage
60/40
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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