# CMS

> CMS is a VC fund in Berlin backing Blockchain and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cmsdeutschland/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CMS_Law_Tax
- Website: https://cms.law/

CMS is a commercial law firm that provides clients with advice in a wide range of law and tax matters. They have long experience of working with corporate legal departments and in-house lawyers. In addition to the required specialist legal knowledge in all areas of commercial law, their lawyers understand the business needs and market-specificrequirements of every industry and sector.CMS advises SMEs and major corporations on all aspects of national and international commercial law. Their strong teams comprise experienced specialists across a wide range of legal areas, making them a partner you can rely on. They are one of the few commercial law firms to possess expertise in all fields relevant to business enterprises, the public sector, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for CMS. Shizune tracks 8 team members at CMS. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/cms-2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.7M–$14M |
| Series B | $91M–$91M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 3 | 43% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Legal Tech | 2 | 29% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 29% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Singapore | 2 | 29% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Germany | 1 | 14% |
| Philippines | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charlotte Schildt | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlotte-schildt |
| Gerd Leutner | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerd-leutner |
| Jörg Zätzsch | Lawyer \| Notary \| Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j%C3%B6rg-z%C3%A4tzsch |
| Louis Glass | Head of TMT M&A, UK / Managing Partner, Tel Aviv | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-glass |
| Michael Kamps | Attorney, Partner of Technology, Media & Communications Department | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-kamps |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noxtua | Noxtua is Europe’s sovereign Legal AI. | $91.4M | Series B | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Noxtua | Noxtua is Europe’s sovereign Legal AI. | $91.4M | Series B | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| BlockchainSpace | BlockchainSpace builds tools to empower play-to-earn communities, and also runs several educational academies that identify economic opportunities in play-to-earn games and shares learnings for new guilds to enter the space. | $3.8M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| SynFutures | SynFutures is a next generation synthetic assets derivatives exchange focused on creating an open and trustless derivatives market by enabling trading on anything with a price feed. By cultivating a free market and maximizing the variety of tradable assets, SynFutures is lowering the barrier to entry in the derivatives market, creating a moreequitable digital assets exchange market. | $14M | Series A | Jun 16, 2021 |  |
| NAOS Finance | NAOS Finance is an operator of a decentralized finance platform that aims to give a decentralized alternative to traditional finance. Its platform facilitates both Defi lenders and SME borrowers to interact in a permission-less manner on the blockchain and enables the origination and funding of loans without traditional intermediaries, enablinglenders to get stable and recurring income streams while also connecting the on-chain world with bigger off-chain opportunities. | $5.1M | Series A | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Kylin Network | Kylin Network is a decentralized data feeding protocol that builds data infrastructure for DeFi and Web3.0. It offers any applications and blockchains (such as parachains and parathreads) instantaneous but reliable and valid on/off-chain market data and social data sources by leveraging the power of Polkadot/Substrate Framework on opennetworks. The company also aims to build a cross-chain platform powering the data economy on Polkadot. | $2.7M | Series A | Feb 23, 2021 |  |
| Lupl | Lupl offers a platform that collects information on people, conversations, documents, and relevant data for legal matters in one place. | $14M | Corporate Round | Jan 20, 2021 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dentons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dentons) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Northern Data Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northern-data) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Parachain Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parachain-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does CMS invest in?

CMS invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Legal Tech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is CMS's check size?

CMS typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$14M at Series A and $91M–$91M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds CMS participates in.

### How do I contact CMS?

Public channels for CMS 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 CMS?

The team at CMS includes Charlotte Schildt (Partner), Gerd Leutner (Partner) and Jörg Zätzsch (Lawyer | Notary | Partner), among 8 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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