# Giesecke+Devrient Ventures

> Giesecke+Devrient Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 20 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Germany
- Total investments: 20
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/giesecke-devrient-ventures/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://www.gi-de.com/en/us/ventures/

Giesecke+Devrient Ventures is a VC fund in München focused on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Giesecke+Devrient Ventures invests typically in early-stage and selectively later-stage companies in EU27. In 2022 G+D Ventures closed a €50m co-investment vehicle with Giesecke+Devrient and the European Investment Bank. The purpose of the cooperation is to invest in EU-based TrustTech startups. TrustTech expands the traditional definition ofcybersecurity to include technologies that promote trust across all layers of the digital ecosystem.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 8 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 25% |
| FinTech | 4 | 20% |
| Software | 4 | 20% |
| Cyber Security | 4 | 20% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 40% |
| Series A | 6 | 30% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 30% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 15% |
| France | 2 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 10% |
| Estonia | 1 | 5% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Barthelmes | Investment Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-barthelmes |
| Assaf Shamia | Investment Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/assaf-shamia |
| Michael Hochholzer | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-hochholzer |
| Alberto Pérez Arranz | Investment Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-p%C3%A9rez-arranz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CENSE AG | Regtech company that solves the compliance challenges with crypto for banks | $7.6M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Blockbrain | Blockbrain is a technology company that provides a generative AI platform and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI-powered applications and workflows. The company’s platform includes modular components for natural language processing, vector search, prompt management, and customizable AI model orchestrationthat support integration into software products and internal systems. Its offerings enable technical teams to create contextual knowledge layers, automated reasoning chains, and AI-assisted interfaces that leverage both proprietary and third-party models.Blockbrain also supplies SDKs, APIs, and development frameworks that help streamline application development, model tuning, and content generation across use cases such as intelligent search, summarization, and automated responses. The company works with partners and customers to tailor solutions that align with existing tech stacks and operational goals, supporting collaboration across engineering and product teams. Its platform emphasizes flexibility in model choice, data connectivity, and deployment options to accommodate diverse AI application requirements. | $20.8M | Series A | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Saporo | Saporo’s mission is to help organizations increase their cyber resistance no matter their size or industry. Thanks to a unique approach and cutting-edge technologies, we aim at making defenders win the race against attackers and put order in chaos.Privileged account access represents the keys to the kingdom for threat actors, enabling them tomove around a network almost unabated. With it, attackers can explore and extract as much sensitive data as they like. These same privileged accounts then allow the threat actor to encrypt that same stolen data and hold the organization at ransom. Identifying all potential attack paths in large and dynamic environments is impossible using manual methods. Finding, quantifying and prioritizing where to start and what to do requires automation.Defenders can never hope to get ahead of attackers if attackers have a better understanding of the battlefield - the organizations own network. By leveraging the same techniques used by threat actors to visualize the most critical paths to critical resources, defenders can start to see their environment as attackers do. Once visibility is achieved, it becomes much easier to anticipate attack paths and implement the appropriate countermeasures and controls. | $8.1M | Series A | Nov 27, 2025 |  |
| Roseman Labs | Roseman Labs facilitates decentralized data analytics on encrypted data. Redefine data collaboration and work together without having to reveal your sensitive data. The technology builds on the foundations of a cryptographic technique called Multi-Party Computation. | $5.8M | Series A | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Tremau | Tremau is a technology start-up based in Paris Station-F. Our mission is to build a digital world that is safe and beneficial for all. The company develops human-centered software solutions that enable the global digital ecosystem to achieve this mission, while creating business value and supporting online platforms to remain compliant with digitalregulations. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 31, 2025 |  |
| Blockbrain | Blockbrain is a technology company that provides a generative AI platform and tools designed to help developers and enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI-powered applications and workflows. The company’s platform includes modular components for natural language processing, vector search, prompt management, and customizable AI model orchestrationthat support integration into software products and internal systems. Its offerings enable technical teams to create contextual knowledge layers, automated reasoning chains, and AI-assisted interfaces that leverage both proprietary and third-party models.Blockbrain also supplies SDKs, APIs, and development frameworks that help streamline application development, model tuning, and content generation across use cases such as intelligent search, summarization, and automated responses. The company works with partners and customers to tailor solutions that align with existing tech stacks and operational goals, supporting collaboration across engineering and product teams. Its platform emphasizes flexibility in model choice, data connectivity, and deployment options to accommodate diverse AI application requirements. | $2.8M | Seed | Sep 17, 2024 |  |
| Patchstack | WebARX is a complete website security and monitoring platform including web application firewall, uptime monitoring, domain reputation checks, and security scans on a single dashboard.WebARX analyses around 3000 hacking incidents per day, which comes from our private threat intelligence. Compared to similar service providers on the market, WebARXhas put web application firewall, uptime monitoring, domain reputation checks and security scans on a single dashboard, available even to small website owners. | $5M | Series A | Sep 16, 2024 |  |
| Salv | Salv develops an AML platform that uses smart technology to reduce non-compliance and financial crime. Salv allows financial institutions to collaborate on investigations by opening a direct line of communication, allowing them to exchange and enrich data on potential threats. Salv covers screening, monitoring, and risk assessment to detectcriminal behavior, streamline internal processes, and leave clear audit trails for regulators. | $4.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Nano Corp | Nano Corp offers IT infrastructure managers the control of increasingly complex networks. The company's features include targeted and contextualized alerts, real-time analysis of all network flows, automatic mapping of networks by flows, visibility on all tunnels and virtual networks, network health status, detection of plateaus andbottlenecks, advanced network cybersecurity features, integration with fleet management tools as well as cyber siem or soar tools. | $4.4M | Seed | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Tenzir | Tenzir empowers defenders by developing an open security analytics platform that automates detection and investigation of attacks. Based in Hamburg, Germany, Tenzir is an open-core company committed to data-centric decision support for security operations. Tenzir’s customers include large enterprises and managed security service providers. | $545.8K | Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |

10 of 20 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecapital-entrepreneurial-partners-ag) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Passion Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/passion-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Giesecke+Devrient Ventures invest in?

Giesecke+Devrient Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 20 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Giesecke+Devrient Ventures?

The team at Giesecke+Devrient Ventures includes Andreas Barthelmes (Investment Associate), Assaf Shamia (Investment Partner) and Michael Hochholzer (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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