42CAP
VC Fund
Munich, Germany
42CAP is a seed stage investment firm based in Munich, Germany. They initially invest € 0.5 to 1.5m in seed-stage tech- and data-driven companies across Europe with global ambition.With eCircle they previously built one of Europe’s largest SaaS companies and sold the profitable business to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.
- Total investments:
- 102
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
- Fund size:
- $43M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries 42CAP invests in
Stages 42CAP invests in
Countries 42CAP invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.2M–$6M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.3M–$2.3M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 29 (28%)
- Artificial Intelligence 21 (21%)
- SaaS 18 (18%)
- Machine Learning 15 (15%)
- Information Technology 13 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (42%)
- Series A 21 (21%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (12%)
- Series B 9 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
Country
- Germany 20 (20%)
- France 6 (6%)
- Sweden 5 (5%)
- United States 5 (5%)
- Spain 4 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alex Meyer
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Julian von Fischer
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Konstantin Urban
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Thomas Wilke
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses. | $4.6M / Seed / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Alp Bio’s platform integrates tonsil organoid technology with advanced protein AI to identify and mitigate immunogenic risks in therapeutic antibodies, ensuring safer patient outcomes. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Apr 30, 2026 | ||
| Quillon develops artificial intelligence software designed for technical accounting and financial reporting workflows. The platform enables users to research accounting standards, analyze regulatory filings, and interpret contractual documents with outputs linked to source references for traceability. It provides tools for drafting structuredaccounting memos, performing peer benchmarking across filings, and executing compliance checklists within a unified workspace. The system integrates data from frameworks such as US GAAP and IFRS, along with public filing databases, to support decision-making in areas like revenue recognition and financial disclosures. Quillon also includes collaboration and document editing features that allow teams to review, revise, and finalize reporting materials within the platform. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 24, 2026 | ||
| Galtea offers software that enables developers and companies to rigorously test AI agents prior to deployment. The platform automatically generates scenarios tailored to specific use cases, while applying customized metrics to pinpoint errors and evaluate performance. This helps teams thoroughly assess how their AI systems operate across diverseconditions. | $3.2M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Qdrant develops vector databases and search technology designed to support artificial intelligence applications that require similarity search, recommendation, and semantic retrieval capabilities. The company’s core offering is a vector-oriented database that stores high-dimensional numeric representations of data, enabling efficient search andretrieval operations based on similarity rather than exact matches. This allows applications such as semantic search, content recommendation, and clustering to operate on large data sets of text, images, and other unstructured content. The database supports real‑time indexing and querying of vectors generated by machine learning models, enabling developers to integrate AI‑driven search and recommendation features into applications. Its APIs allow software systems to submit vectors representing user queries or content items and receive the most similar vectors based on nearest-neighbor search algorithms. This capability is commonly used to surface semantically relevant search results or related content recommendations in applications involving natural language processing, image similarity, and personalization systems. | $50M / Series B / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| Today, space organizations need to build and manage increasingly complex ground software infrastructures: to design, integrate and operate their assets. To do so, they can rely on off-the-shelf systems (COTS) but lose control over their tools, or build everything from scratch which is slow and consumes lots of resources.Leanspace brings a new wayto build space software. We provide all the generic functions, easily consumable as-a-service, via APIs. The platform enables organizations to build all their systems in-house, but only developing the functionalities they need. This drastically reduces time & costs, keeps them in control, and boosts competitiveness.Leanspace-powered systems are integrated, collaborative and digital. Don’t reinvent the wheel, transform your business! | $11.6M / Series A / Nov 17, 2025 | ||
| Desktop Commander provides AI-powered desktop automation technologies that allow artificial intelligence direct access to local desktop environments. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Katana is a cloud-based software helping thousands of businesses manage their inventory, production, accounting, and reporting in real time, centralized to one platform — giving businesses everything they need to get their products to customers as soon as possible. | $16.4M / Series B / Oct 02, 2025 | ||
| Novee AI focused on automating the underwriting process for commercial and specialty insurance. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 28, 2025 | ||
| askEarth is a geospatial intelligence platform that provides users with real-time and accurate geospatial information to predict the future of planet Earth. It is a spin-off from the University of Zurich (UZH), ETH, and EPFL. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does 42CAP invest in?
42CAP invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 102 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is 42CAP's check size?
42CAP typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$6M at Seed, $1.3M–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $2.5M–$19M 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 42CAP participates in.
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Who are the partners at 42CAP?
The team at 42CAP includes Alex Meyer (General Partner), Julian von Fischer (Partner) and Konstantin Urban (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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