# Alexander Rinke

> Alexander Rinke is a seed investor at Celonis backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Celonis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celonis)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-rinke-10733061/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/alexanderrinke

Alexander Rinke is a seed investor at Celonis in Munich focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Alexander Rinke is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Celonis. Alexander Rinke attended Technical University of Munich.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$6.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 57% |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Robotics | 1 | 14% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 57% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Afori | Afori provides intelligent task management and workflow automation by using specialised AI agents. | $4.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| revel8 | revel8 (formerly Company Shield) helps organizations stop GenAI-powered social engineering attacks with real-time, personalized simulations across email, SMS, chat, voice, and video. The AI-driven platform mirrors real attack tactics, adapts to each user’s risk profile, and reinforces awareness through gamified, habit-forming training. | $6.6M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Voyfai | Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Voyfai | Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2023 |  |
| Wandelbots | Wandelbots is a robotic software company based in Dresden, Germany. With its no-code solution Wandelbots Teaching and the unified Wandelbots Developer Platform, the company enables the programming free and uniform operation of robots. Through Wandelbots Teaching, working with different types of robots from a large scale of brands becomeseffortless, and everyone can teach robots after a brief training. In this way, Wandelbots provides that robot programming is no longer the preserve of experts and carries out the automation process up to 20 times faster and ten times more cost effectively. This advanced technology has been implemented in robots from Universal Robots and Yaskawa and in the manufacturing operations of, among others, VW, Bayer, and Fraunhofer. The fast-growing company continues building new partnerships with OT system integrators in Germany, Europe, and the USA.Among others, the German Start-up Award and the Sachsen Gründerpreis have been awarded to Wandelbots, which has grown from a start-up to an internationally recognized company with over 170 employees in a brief time. Since its foundation in 2017, the company has raised a total of $123 million in funding from investors such as Insight Partners, Microsoft, and Next47 for further investments in products and platforms. Moreover, the company keeps expanding into new markets. | $30M | Series B | Jun 16, 2020 |  |
| Rasa | Rasa is an enterprise platform for building and operating AI agents across chat and voice channels. Organizations use Rasa to orchestrate complex, multi-step conversations, integrate AI agents with core business systems, and run them reliably in production environments.Rasa supports long-running interactions that span channels and systems. Theplatform enables consistent agent behavior as conversations evolve, including escalation, recovery, and coordination across workflows. This allows enterprises to deploy AI agents that align with operational requirements rather than isolated use cases.Designed for large-scale deployments, Rasa supports secure operation across cloud and on-prem environments and integrates with existing data, APIs, and tooling. Enterprises adopt Rasa when they need control, scalability, and governance for AI agents supporting critical customer and employee interactions. Rasa was founded in 2016 and is privately held. The company is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures, PayPal Ventures, and StepStone Group. | $13M | Series A | Apr 11, 2019 |  |
| Talentry | Talentry offers an enterprise-ready SaaS recruiting solution based on employee referrals. | $2.1M | Seed | Oct 05, 2016 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Blisce](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blisce) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Basis Set Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/basis-set-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BOOOM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/booom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Celonis

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manageevery facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions, and automation.

5 contacts available at Celonis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Deighton | Special Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-deighton |
| Alexander Rinke | Co-Founder and Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-rinke |
| Andreas Plieninger | Associate Principal Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-plieninger |
| Bastian Nominacher | Co-CEO / Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bastian-nominacher |
| Benoit Fouilland | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benoit-fouilland |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexander Rinke invest in?

Alexander Rinke invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alexander Rinke's check size?

Alexander Rinke typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$6.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alexander Rinke participates in.

### When did Alexander Rinke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexander Rinke closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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