# 10x Founders

> 10x Founders is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 93 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 93
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10x-founders/
- Website: https://www.10xfounders.com/

10x Founders is a network-driven investor backed by over 200 entrepreneurs and angels. The founding partners (Andreas Etten, Andrej Henkler, Claudius Jablonka, Felix Haas, Jan Becker, Jan Reichelt and Robert Wuttke) have made more than 300 investments and continue this early-stage investing now within 10x Founders. At the beginning of 2021, theycame together with the vision to build the best early-stage investor for Europe’s most ambitious next startup founders. The goal is to back the next generation of founders to build global tech leaders out of Europe. The “Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur” investment platform is the backbone of 10x Founders and helps to connect the best founders with the best and most suitable co-investors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.5M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$12M |
| Series A | $6.7M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 11% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 8% |
| SaaS | 6 | 6% |

110 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 40 | 43% |
| Series A | 16 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 14 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 17 | 18% |
| United States | 15 | 16% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 4% |
| India | 2 | 2% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Etten | Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-etten |
| Felix Haas | Founding Partner | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-haas |
| Jan Becker | Founding Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-becker-2 |
| Jan Reichelt | General Partner; General Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-reichelt |
| Robert Wuttke | Founding Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-wuttke |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qorelo | Qorelo is a tech company that provides agentic AI software designed to accelerate ERP transformations. Qorelo's software automates and structures deliverables across the SAP Activate methodology. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 14, 2026 |  |
| Logicc | Logicc provides business solutions for various industries. It specializes in software development, automation, and data-driven technologies. | $2.9M | Seed | Apr 20, 2026 |  |
| Songscription | Songscription provides AI service that transcribes audio into musical notation for multiple instruments. | $5M | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| mimic | mimic provides a flexible and intuitive answer to labor shortages worldwide, by building and deploying robots that fit seamlessly into human workplaces. Their scalable foundation AI model enables truly dexterous robotic manipulation by learning directly from human data. | $16M | Seed | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Kertos | Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic compliance platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuverin modern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters. | $16.6M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| ReOrbit | Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, ReOrbit is a fast-growing European space technology company that manufactures sovereign satellites and connected systems for national security. Our technologies provide independent control of critical space assets and enable secure communications for both military and civilian use. Throughlong-term partnerships and knowledge transfer, we ensure our customers achieve and maintain strategic autonomy.With offices across multiple countries, we bring together a diverse team of experts who bring extensive industry experience and technical excellence to our operations. As we continue to expand, we are opening new locations worldwide and are always on the lookout for talented, ambitious individuals to join our journey. | $53M | Series A | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| FERNRIDE | FERNRIDE develops human-assisted autonomous technology for logistics and industrial transportation. The company's ground autonomy platform combines AI-powered vehicle autonomy, remote human oversight, modular hardware, operations control stations, and fleet management software to automate trucking operations across container terminals,manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, defence logistics, and open-road transport. | $21M | Series A | Sep 04, 2025 |  |
| Filics | Filics provides an automated double runner system for intralogistics, specializing in pallet transportation. Its Filics Unit fits under various load carriers, offers omnidirectional movement, and aims to increase productivity while addressing labor shortages. The company's software enables intuitive operation and customization for differentapplications in logistics and industry. |  |  | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Filics | Filics provides an automated double runner system for intralogistics, specializing in pallet transportation. Its Filics Unit fits under various load carriers, offers omnidirectional movement, and aims to increase productivity while addressing labor shortages. The company's software enables intuitive operation and customization for differentapplications in logistics and industry. | $15.8M | Series A | Jul 07, 2025 |  |
| Lyceum | Lyceum is a European technology company focused on simplifying and optimizing AI model training and deployment by removing infrastructure complexities. The platform is designed to make accessing computing power—specifically GPUs and CPUs for AI workloads—as straightforward as possible, targeting developers, data scientists, and organizations thatrequire scalable, efficient compute resources for artificial intelligence tasks | $12M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |

10 of 93 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does 10x Founders invest in?

10x Founders invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 93 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 10x Founders's check size?

10x Founders typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed, $1.1M–$12M at Pre-Seed and $6.7M–$60M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 10x Founders participates in.

### How do I contact 10x Founders?

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### Who are the partners at 10x Founders?

The team at 10x Founders includes Andreas Etten (Founding Partner), Felix Haas (Founding Partner) and Jan Becker (Founding Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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