# NAP

> NAP is a VC fund in Berlin backing Software and Information Technology. See 95 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 95
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last fund: Dec 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cavalry-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/cavalryvc
- Website: http://www.cavalry.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cavalryvc

NAP is a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed venture capital investor, investing in European technology companies. NAP backs founders who turn non-obvious ideas into realities. The team includes former operators and builders with extensive experience in scaling companies. NAP supports its portfolio companies through capital, guidance, and connections.NAP’s key portfolio highlights include Aleph Alpha, Ampeco, Flip, PlanRadar, Spread, and Usercentrics.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$6.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$6.2M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 21 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 13% |
| SaaS | 7 | 7% |
| Apps | 5 | 5% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 5% |

99 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 39 | 41% |
| Series A | 18 | 19% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 12% |
| Series B | 8 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 29 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Ireland | 3 | 3% |
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Björn Loose | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-loose |
| Claude Ritter | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claude-ritter |
| Dominik Matyka | Entrepreneurial Partner and Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominik-matyka |
| Fabian Krautwurst | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabian-krautwurst |
| Marcel Hollerbach | Entrepreneurial Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcel-hollerbach |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| beSirius | We support small businesses on their decarbonization journey with expertise and financing. Reach Net Zero. For real. | $3.4M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| UniteLabs | UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2025 |  |
| AMPECO | AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award. | $26M | Series B | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| VoiceLine | VoiceLine helps professionals by bringing voice collaboration to high performing teams. | $2.6M | Seed | Aug 13, 2024 |  |
| Nory | Nory is the all-knowing restaurant management system that learns the behind the scenes of your business. Helping you forecast sales, plan labour & optimise your inventory. | $15.9M | Series A | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Companion.energy | Software to manage industrial energy flexibility in the age of renewables. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | May 17, 2024 |  |
| Almetra | AI-based process analytics platform to increase productivity and quality in manual processes. Processes are captured using computer vision and automatically analysed with a highly flexible AI to identify improvement potential.1. Real-time capture with cameras Cameras are installed at individual assembly stations capturing live video streams ofassembly or packaging tasks.2. AI tracks material & work steps Video streams are continuously analyzed to detect workpiece movements, cycle times, and work step sequencing.3. Aggregation for data analysis Process data is aggregated per article and production to provide insights on process performance. Video snippets allow for a comprehensive root-cause analysis.4. Data-driven improvements Your factory managers and process engineers define, implement and measure process improvements to increase productivity and quality in your assembly line. | $4.8M | Seed | Apr 26, 2024 |  |
| Xaver | Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering. | $6.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Aleph Alpha | Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges. | $500M | Series B | Nov 06, 2023 |  |
| Charm | Charm develops an open-source coding platform, with tools to improve the visual appearance and store data, to read command markdowns while coding. It currently sells three products, including Glow, an open-source terminal-based markdown reader that allows developers to view documentation such as readme files directly from the command line. It alsorenders markdown to make the text easier to read and allows users to create a private, encrypted documentation library.Toby Padilla and Christian Rocha founded Charm in 2019. | $6M | Seed | Nov 02, 2023 |  |

10 of 95 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nap-vc) — VC Fund, 51 deals together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
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- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does NAP invest in?

NAP invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 95 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NAP's check size?

NAP typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$6.3M at Seed, $1M–$6.2M at Pre-Seed and $4.2M–$30M 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 NAP participates in.

### How do I contact NAP?

Public channels for NAP include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at NAP?

The team at NAP includes Björn Loose (Partner), Claude Ritter (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Dominik Matyka (Entrepreneurial Partner and Founder), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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