# Alexander Buchberger

> Alexander Buchberger is a Series A investor at Senovo (Munich) backing Software and SaaS. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Senovo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/senovo)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abuchberger/

Alexander Buchberger is a Series A investor at Senovo in Munich focused on Software and SaaS. Alex is Managing Director and Partner at Senovo. Prior to joining Senovo in 2011 as an investment manager, he worked in various start-ups and a venture capital company in Munich and Berlin. During his doctoral thesis on "New Venture Risk" at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, he advised young companies as KfW founder coach.Before that, he studied at the Technical University of Munich and UTS in Sydney technology management with a focus on entrepreneurial finance. In his spare time he loves to fly small planes and exercises diverse sports.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 41% |
| SaaS | 6 | 35% |
| Business Intelligence | 3 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 12% |
| CRM | 1 | 6% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 41% |
| Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series B | 3 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 18% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 9 | 53% |
| Sweden | 1 | 6% |
| Ireland | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lative | Lative provides a real-time growth efficiency platform for sales organizations by analyzing sales performance with precision and purpose. It provides an investment decision platform to manage growth efficiency, headcount effectiveness, and capacity planning. | $7.5M |  | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Synfioo GmbH | Synfioo offers an innovative software platform for transportation monitoring in real-time. Relevant setbacks on the initial transport plan like: congestions, security controls, strikes, bad weather conditions, among others, are directly reported upon occurrence. Transportation planners can leverage their ETA Service data in their familiar workingenvironment to react immediately and secure a smooth supply chain | $2.7M | Series A | Jun 03, 2019 |  |
| Veact | VEACT GmbH develops and sells a software-based platform for the digitization of marketing processes in the automotive industry.With “self-learning” technology and broad automobile expertise, VEACT supports its customers in making their marketing and sales processes more efficient through data. VEACT uses all available data sources – invoices,service histories, satisfaction surveys and campaign data – and compresses it into one customer profile. The goal is to qualitatively process this information to create individual customer profiles and recommended courses of action (predictive customer intelligence). Car dealerships and automakers profit from lower process costs, improved customer loyalty and the resulting revenue increases. |  | Series B | Sep 06, 2018 |  |
| shyftplan | shyftplan is a SaaS solution for employee management and communication. While the core product is scheduling, shyftplan brings everything together by offering solutions for absence management, time tracking, working time accounts, HR management, and payroll. HR managers are able to set up and manage shift plans and to appoint individual employeesto certain shifts according to their specific competencies. shyftplan moves beyond pure workforce management functionalities by providing employee intelligence and connecting non-desk workers to their direct work environments (e.g. human-machine communication) and to their organization. | $3.3M | Seed | Sep 22, 2017 |  |
| Riskmethods | The riskmethods mission is to provide full transparency about risk exposures in 1-n-tier supply chains. The cloud-based, real SaaS-solution supports geo-based modeling of complex supply chains, automated risk monitoring incl. alerting, data/risk visualization in interactive geo-heat-maps and powerful realtime analytics. They enable companiesto early-identify risks, set-up risk mitigation programs and to share structured risk intelligence across the whole customer network to generate even more risk transparency | $14.8M | Series B | Apr 26, 2017 |  |
| Styla.com | Styla is a SaaS company that uses design automation to design content and enables anyone to shop from it. They work with some of the world's leading companies in the electronics, fashion, sports, and interior design segments. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2017 |  |
| Riskmethods | The riskmethods mission is to provide full transparency about risk exposures in 1-n-tier supply chains. The cloud-based, real SaaS-solution supports geo-based modeling of complex supply chains, automated risk monitoring incl. alerting, data/risk visualization in interactive geo-heat-maps and powerful realtime analytics. They enable companiesto early-identify risks, set-up risk mitigation programs and to share structured risk intelligence across the whole customer network to generate even more risk transparency | $6M | Series A | Feb 02, 2016 |  |
| Veact | VEACT GmbH develops and sells a software-based platform for the digitization of marketing processes in the automotive industry.With “self-learning” technology and broad automobile expertise, VEACT supports its customers in making their marketing and sales processes more efficient through data. VEACT uses all available data sources – invoices,service histories, satisfaction surveys and campaign data – and compresses it into one customer profile. The goal is to qualitatively process this information to create individual customer profiles and recommended courses of action (predictive customer intelligence). Car dealerships and automakers profit from lower process costs, improved customer loyalty and the resulting revenue increases. | $3M | Series A | Oct 26, 2015 |  |
| Shore | Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system.Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015. | $5M | Series B | Jun 01, 2015 |  |
| Riskmethods | The riskmethods mission is to provide full transparency about risk exposures in 1-n-tier supply chains. The cloud-based, real SaaS-solution supports geo-based modeling of complex supply chains, automated risk monitoring incl. alerting, data/risk visualization in interactive geo-heat-maps and powerful realtime analytics. They enable companiesto early-identify risks, set-up risk mitigation programs and to share structured risk intelligence across the whole customer network to generate even more risk transparency |  |  | Nov 26, 2014 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [UVC Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uvc-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KfW](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kfw) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SquareOne](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paua-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Act Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/act-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Senovo

VC Fund · München, Germany

Senovo is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Munich and Berlin that partners with exceptional founders building global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe.As European first-mover, the fund invests since 2013 into a new generation of B2B software startups which enable the digitalization of medium and large enterprises. Their focus isprimarily on supporting teams working in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solutions.Senovo joins the journey after a company has first revenues in a late Seed or Series A round. Their team of SaaS specialists seek meaningful eye-level relationships and regularly publish their learnings and thought leadership at www.medium.com/senovovc.

5 contacts available at Senovo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Buchberger | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-buchberger |
| Frederick Mallinckrodt | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frederick-von-mallinckrodt |
| Lucas Behem | Venture Capital \| Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-behem |
| Markus Grundmann | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/markus-grundmann |
| Mike Siebert | Venture Partner (please send any enquiry to info@senovo.vc) | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-siebert |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexander Buchberger invest in?

Alexander Buchberger invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Business Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alexander Buchberger last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexander Buchberger closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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