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Top 15 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 15 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Photography VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in January 2026

Investor	Photography Germany investments
Saarbruecker 21	3
Wellington Partners	2
BTQ Ventures	2
JCMB Beteiligungs	1
redalpine	1
Ballpark Ventures	1
OpenOcean	1
Berlin Ventures	1
Atlantic	1
NRW.BANK	1
Eastlake	1
Hitchhiker Ventures	1
Tiburon	1
Earlybird Venture Capital	1
Passion Capital	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

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.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hilo — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
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.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

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.

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.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Audio
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wonderz — Wonderz help to democratize digital content distribution directly to their customers with the help of WunderBox
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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.

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.

Investment focus

Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
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.
Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bitrise — Continuous integration and delivery built for mobile: Automate iOS and Android builds, testing and deployment from your first install to the one millionth.
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.
Embeddable — Embedded analytics, done right. Embeddable is a toolkit for crafting remarkable customer-facing analytics experiences into your app, in just 10% of the time.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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.

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

Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
Omnisent — Passive acoustic AI for tactical drone detection and localization. Reliable, jam-resistant situational awareness for defense and homeland security.
Mirelo AI — Mirelo AI offers AI-driven tools that generate custom sound effects and music to match video content through upload or API integration. It enables users to produce synced audio from silent footage and refine or edit audio tracks with an intuitive online editor. The platform also provides APIs and model fine-tuning options that let other productsembed its video-to-sound capabilities directly into their workflows. Mirelo’s technology is based on proprietary AI models designed to interpret visual media and automatically generate corresponding audio elements. The company sources and processes input files to output audio that aligns with visual action and creative intent.

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

OSPHIM — OSPHIM is an AI-based technology combines data visualization, precise anomaly detection, and intelligent process setup for injection molding processes
paXos — paXos serve three key industries and bring a lot of expertise and know-how from a large number of projects with them. Synergies can be found not only in engineering but also in cross-industry topics such as consulting, project management, training, and personnel management. They provide services like Consulting, Engineering, Project Management,Training, and many more.
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.

The Eastlake investment company supports you with entrepreneurial know-how, commercial competence, long-time start-up and exit experience and equity.Eastlake offers besides seed-financing pro-active consulting in terms of corporate management as well as providing a network of auditors, tax advisors, lawyers, PR/Marketing specialists andaccess to potential clients.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

menschmaschine publishing — Tadaa is a mobile app and creative toolkit for photography enthusiasts, enabling users to add stunning filters, retouch images.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Software
Seed
Germany

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.

Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.

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

SLNG — SLNG is radically global infrastructure for speech AI.
Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators applying their experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. They are Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero.They have been personally involved in the largest European technology exits of the past decade,including the biggest exits of the year for 4 of the past 10 years by market value (Ricardo.de acquired by QXL, Skype purchased by Ebay, Last.fm acquired by CBS, and QXL/Tradus acquired by Naspers) and want to be involved in many more.They believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders.They are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe. As an example of this, White Bear Yard is their own hub for activities, ambitions and energy and where have fun in the process.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
LangWatch — LLMops, AI evaluations, B2B, AI optimisations, Prompt management, Collaboration
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

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