Carlo Kölzer
Angel Investor
Berlin, Germany
Carlo Kölzer is a seed investor in Berlin focused on Banking and FinTech. Carlo Koelzer is a founding partner and member of 360T’s Group Executive Board and Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee member. Furthermore he is Global Head of FX of Deutsche Börse Group. Carlo started his investment banking career as a financial analyst for Hess & Co., New York, in the field of mergers & acquisitions and blocktrading. Later, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt and New York. Carlo has extensive in-depth process knowledge of Capital Markets notably Global Markets, Global Equities, Trading, Sales, Risk Control and Financial Accounting. Prior to founding 360T, Carlo headed a task force within the Internal Audit Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Carlo Kölzer invests in
Stages Carlo Kölzer invests in
Countries Carlo Kölzer invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $2.9M–$3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 3 (50%)
- FinTech 3 (50%)
- Financial Services 3 (50%)
- Small and Medium Businesses 3 (50%)
- SaaS 2 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Future Demand develops a SaaS platform for the entertainment, event and sports industry to maximize their sales and marketing. | Seed / Oct 27, 2021 | ||
| OptioPay operates a fully serviced open banking solution without IT integration for businesses from various industries. End-customers receive value-added products and services in return for their bank account data to save time and money through exclusive cashbacks, higher-value vouchers, contract optimisation, offers for sustainable consumption andCO2 compensation, as well as discounts and other personalised recommendations. In addition to well-known partners such as AboutYou, Adidas, Amazon, Douglas, Ikea, Lieferando, Otto, Rewe, Reebok and Zalando, OptioPay’s top 100 corporate clients include DZ Bank, Comdirect Bank, Sparkasse, Commerzbank, HDI, AXA, Gothaer, Fonds Finanz, Blau Direkt, Deutsche Post, BS Energy and Basler Kantonalbank. OptioPay was founded in 2014 in Berlin by CEO Marcus Börner and COO Oliver Oster. It employs more than 65 people from 24 countries and currently operates in the DACH-region and The Netherlands. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 18, 2019 | ||
| FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $2.8M / Seed / Jun 06, 2017 | ||
| Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services. | $18.1M / Series C / Dec 08, 2016 | ||
| figo aggregates financial sources from over 3,100 banks and financial institutions to enable innovative services. As Europe’s first “Banking Service Provider” figo is PSD2 ready! figo’s sophisticated platform ‘Banking as a Service’ connects modern services with more than 55 million online banking accounts in Germany and Austria. The company istargeting the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) in total. Furthermore figo has set up a new connectivity standard to financial data and reduces complexity of banking implementation to a minimum figo makes banking usable wherever it adds value and creates new touch points between consumers and their partners startups and banks! figo realized the opportunities arising from PSD2 accompanied by changing customer expectations. figo does not only provide an established banking API, but also an entire banking service platform supporting a vast number of innovative banking solutions (incl. access to bank account). | $3M / Series A / Nov 03, 2015 | ||
| Orderbird is focused on building an intuitive and customer-centric solution helping hospitality merchants by introducing Germany’s first iPad-based POS. It is a provider of Integrated Software solutions for independent restaurateurs and SMBs. It is offering its customers professional, easy-to-use POS systems and add-on products optimizing theirbusiness operations and providing a flexible alternative to costly, time-consuming, and paperwork-intensive legacy systems. | $2.9M / Series A / May 02, 2012 |
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FAQ
What does Carlo Kölzer invest in?
Carlo Kölzer invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Carlo Kölzer invest in?
Carlo Kölzer typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$3M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Carlo Kölzer's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Carlo Kölzer took part in.
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When did Carlo Kölzer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Carlo Kölzer closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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