Top 15 Photography VC Funds & Investors in Germany (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $214k–$3.8M |
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BTQ Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Content, Software | |
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Wellington Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $3.1M–$55M |
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Fashion, SaaS | $138k–$7.7M |
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Atlantic
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Financial Services | $850k–$32M |
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Eastlake
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed | Apps, Mobile, Mobile Apps | |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$91M |
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Passion Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $573k–$40M |
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $932k–$15M |
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JCMB Beteiligungs
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Audio | |
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Ballpark Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, China | Seed, Angel, Series A | Advertising, Mobile, Advertising Platforms | $28k–$1.9M |
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redalpine
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.6M–$59M |
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | $110k–$71M |
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Hitchhiker Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed | SaaS, Content, Software | |
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Tiburon
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | |
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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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 76
- Round size: Seed $214k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% 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.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 192
- Round size: Series A $3.1M–$33M; Series B $6.7M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $222M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- nyra health — myReha is an artificial intelligence and evidence-based neurological research tablet app that offers a revolutionary form of therapy. myReha was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- UroMems — The device is developing an active implantable medical device based on the cutting edge technologyl in the field of embedded systems and micro-technologies for the development of its products.
- Heliatek — As the technology leader in organic photovoltaics, Heliatek develops, produces and distributes industrial-grade organic PV solar solutions for virtually any building surface (horizontal, vertical, curved, rigid, and flexible). Heliatek stands for energy solutions designed for various traditional and never been possible before applications based onits unique features – it is ultra-light, flexible and truly green. HeliaSol® is a ready-to-use solution, ideal for retrofitting on existing building structures. HeliaFilm® is tailor-made solar film for companies in the building and construction material industry, to integrate into their façade or roof system products. Heliatek currently employs about 160 people at the Dresden and Ulm locations in Germany.The Free State of Saxony, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European Union funded research and development, as well as the installation of the production technology.
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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- 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.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.8M; Series A $4.6M–$32M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cluno — Cluno is an online car subscription service providing rental cars irrespective of any contracts. Cluno's digital car subscription challenges traditional car ownership models in the mobility market and expands the space between hourly and years-long commitments with a flexible option and transparent, fully predictable costs. The carsubscription is offered at a monthly package price, which covers almost all car-related costs such as maintenance, wear and tear, seasonal tires, warranty, registration, vehicle tax, insurance, and vehicle inspections. The minimum booking period is six months per vehicle. Subject to a notice period of three months, customers can change their vehicle after the minimum period, pause their car subscription, or continue on with their Cluno car indefinitely.
- bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
- tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
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.
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 316
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5M–$91M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Voyfai — A European group of independent freight forwarders, operating autonomously at local level while sharing scale, technology, and partnerships.
- Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 168
- Round size: Seed $573k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Secondmind — Helping automotive engineers design better cars, faster.
- Sequence — Dynamic billing and collections to scale your B2B Company from seed to IPO
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 137
- Round size: Seed $932k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
- Primogene —
- b.sure — b.sure help brands, agencies and event organizers to make their offline events as measurable as their online marketing.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Consumer Goods, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Advertising, Mobile, Advertising Platforms
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $71k–$1.9M; Angel $28k–$393k; Series A $656k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
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.
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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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 174
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$29M; Series B $15M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- N26 — N26 is the Mobile Bank. Free bank account and Mastercard that you can manage directly from your phone. Open your bank account online in minutes.
- LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $110k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- odacova — Odacova is a SaaS company that provides individualized nutrition for corporate cafeterias and employee eating, utilizing web, Android, and iOS platforms.
- eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
- Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
Hitchhiker Ventures is a early stage,sector-opportunistic, serial entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
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- 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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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