# Top 50 Platforms Startup Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology 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. ## 468 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy. ## Florian Leibert - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Florian Leibert is the General Partner at 468 Capital. Since 2013, he has served as CEO of Mesosphere, Inc., an Internet start-up based on the open-source software Apache Mesos, which his best friend from high school wrote. His daily responsibilities include creating high-level software structures and managing the firm's finances, recruiting,business operations, and product support. Among his other achievements at Mesosphere, he created Marathon, a scheduler that operates on top of the Mesos software. Florian Leibert also acquired nearly $50 million in funding for the firm from prominent investors like venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. Concurrent with his role at Mesosphere, Flo Leibert serves as an investor with Taptalk and Driftt.Prior to founding Mesosphere, Flo Leibert held software engineering positions at prominent internet sites, including Airbnb, Twitter, Ning, and Adknowledge. At age 16, he co-founded online marketplace Knaup Multimedia in Germany. ## HV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies. ## Firstminute Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community. ## Novator - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Online Games Novator is an alternative investment firm founded and led by the international investor and entrepreneur Thor Bjorgolfsson.Novator's investment portfolio is focused around following sectors: Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. In addition, Novator operates a Private Equity Fund and a Credit Opportunities Fund.Novator focuses on developing strong management teams in each of its portfolio companies.  While granting them the autonomy to create value, Novator maintains a supervisory role, principally through representation on the Boards of its investee companies. Novator differentiates itself from many other private equity companies in concentrating on complex situations, either by virtue of their structure or their cross-border nature. To create value, Novator undertakes the restructuring or "de-risking" of investment opportunities through re-financing, combining acquired assets with existing businesses, through sale to strategic or financial buyers, or through flotation. Novator's investment portfolio is focused around four main sectors:Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Renewable Energy. ## Käfer Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Parsdorf, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps Käfer Capital is a venture capital firm. ## Chris Hitchen - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT. ## Discovery Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology We are a team of investors who have walked the talk. We see ourselves as supporters of ambitious companies worldwide. Having scaled businesses from ideation to pre-IPO, we reinvest what we have learned in the past decade. ## Possible Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs. ## Philip Magoulas - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, iOS, Apps Philip Magoulas is the CFO & Co-Founder at Bestsmile. Additionally, Philip Magoulas has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Shore. ## BayBG Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: München, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value. ## Freigeist Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders. ## Relay Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Mobile, Apps We view founders as partners. We bring capital, networks, and experience, and our founders bring expertise, teams, and dreams. ## Connect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London. ## seed + speed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Food and Beverage 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. ## Bradley Horowitz - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. ## Makers Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Online Games Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry. ## Libermans Co - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Operating Systems We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha. ## First Momentum Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Pre-Seed B2B Tech VC - Engineers at heart, investors by choice ## New Forge - Type: VC Fund - Location: Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence New Forge is a Business Angel helping B2B tech startups grow ## LEA Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership. ## Trucks Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Transportation, Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles Trucks Venture Capital funds the entrepreneurs building the future of transportation. ## Roca X - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care RocaX > Is building a solid and much needed bridge for startups between the support offered by business angels and the upper stage VCs. Learn more! ## Jesse Clayburgh - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, iOS, Blockchain Jesse Clayburgh ## Peter van Hardenberg - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Operating Systems Peter van Hardenberg is the Lab Director / CEO at Ink & Switch. He previously worked at Auth0 as a Board Member. Peter Van Hardenberg attended the University of Victoria. ## Frank Thelen - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Transportation, SaaS Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. ## Declan Kelly - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine. ## Gary Lin - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, iOS, Mobile Gary Lin is the Founder and Managing Director of Purple Orange Ventures and EVIG Group. He was the founder and CEO of mobile ad tech company Glispa Global Group before that.He is a recipient of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award which recognizes Glispa as one of the ‘Fastest Growing, Technically Innovative and EntrepreneurialCompanies’ in the world. Selected as one of Europe’s hottest startups by Wired Magazine (UK), Glispa now has over 250 employees from 45 nationalities and maintains its headquarters in Berlin with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Athens, and São Paolo.Gary has more than 20 years of experience leading high-performance digital and mobile marketing companies internationally representing some of the globe’s most innovative brands. Previously, Lin founded Glispa, LLC (in New York) and achieved an 800% three-year growth rate, placing the company in the Inc. 500 as the #1 fastest growing Advertising and Marketing company in the US in 2008. Additionally, Gary served as the General Manager in Brazil and set up teams in Hong Kong for Beyond Interactive, one of the first global digital agencies, now part of MediaCom (WPP).Gary graduated from the University of Michigan Business School with an emphasis in Marketing and International Business. ## System.One - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software System.One is a pre-seed venture capital fund based in Berlin. Our purpose is to invest in exceptional founders who combine early technical ideas with a bold mission and major technical impact. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe. ## Acequia Capital (AceCap) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Seattle, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses. ## Northzone - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital firm operating across Europe and the US. Since 1996, it has backed more than 250 companies, including Spotify, Klarna, Spring Health, and Black Forest Labs. ## FAST — by GETTYLAB - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Backing engineers building awe, wonder, speed. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Evoco - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: iOS, Apps, SaaS Evoco is an innovative Private Equity firm dedicated to creating lasting value for investors and businesses. ## Dario Suter - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, CRM, iOS Dario Suter ## Runa Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software startups around the world... ## Chris Murphy - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Chris Murphy is a Venture Partner at MS&AD Ventures. He previously cofounded SaaStock and was an early Web Summit employee. ## Born2Grow - Type: VC Fund - Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Medical, Health Care Born2Grow is a german venture fund focusing on early stage investments. They invest up to 500k€ in innovative business models. They are based in Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Born2Grow focus on investments lies within the MedTech, BioTech, FinTech area as well as some other online industries ## Jag Singh - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh ## Venista Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Venista Ventures backs aspiring founders in pre-seed and seed rounds with a strict geographical focus on Germany. ## Hübner Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Grünwald, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Operating Systems Investment ## Christophe Maire - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services 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. ## Michael Oschmann - Type: Angel - Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: CRM, iOS, Apps Michael Oschmann - CEO @ Müller Medien ## Soleria Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, iOS A modern, lean website for Soleria Capital, a privately-owned crossover investment boutique dedicated to investing in the most exciting tech companies globally. ## Cascara Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology 96 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE ## eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS - Type: VC Fund - Location: Münster, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies. ## Mosaic Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Finance We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures in Europe. ## Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Backing great companies when they're tiny