# COI Partners

> COI Partners is a VC fund backing Food and Beverage and Restaurants. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/co-investor-partners/mycompany/?viewAsMember=true
- Website: https://www.co-investor.com

COI Partners is a private equity investor focused on mid-sized growth companies in German-speaking countries – with offices in Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. It has conducted direct investments for the last 21 years, supporting mid-sized companies in growth phases.COI Partners seeks to invest in companies ranking #1-3 in each market withdouble-digit underlying company's growth, proven business models with at least EUR 10m in revenues and positive unit economics and energetic, visonary teams with proven managerial skills. Focused industries include Health-/Medtech/ Diagnostics, E-Commerce/ Retail Tech, SaaS/ Digital Services/ IT-Security, Advanced Materials/ Specialty Chemistry and Automation/ Robotics. The firms sweet spot are equity tickets between EUR 15-25 (including follow-on investments). COI Partners benefits from its highly professional investment team as well as its stable network of entrepreneurs that provide investment capital as shareholders of the group and co-investors for direct investments. COI Partners builds on a wealth of experience from more than 50 equity investments and has 11 active investments under management currently in various sectors. Among the successful investments are Mister Spex (partial exit through IPO), Fixatti (sold to listed chemical company Arkema), Euroimmun (sold to the US laboratory specialists PerkinElmer) and Casualfood (exit to Orior AG).

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 17% |
| Restaurants | 4 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 14% |
| Transportation | 4 | 14% |
| Software | 3 | 10% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 19 | 66% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 3% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 19 | 66% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 10% |
| United States | 2 | 7% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicolai von Engelhardt | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolai-von-engelhardt |
| Andre Moritz | Senior Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andre-moritz-6113 |
| Anna Arai | CFO / COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anna-arai |
| Christopher Wehmeier | Investment Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-wehmeier |
| Farsin Yadegardjam | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-farsin-yadegardjam |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grover | Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015. | $110M | Series C | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Grover | Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015. | $110M | Series C | Apr 06, 2022 |  |
| Freaks 4U | Freaks 4U is a 360° marketing and communications agency focused on gaming and esports, offering services such as brand and marketing consulting, social media and community management, editorial services, event management, logistics, creative services, media productions, and other community solutions. | $17.6M | Series A | Aug 12, 2021 |  |
| Keller Sports | Keller Sports is operates as an online merchant for sports equipment in Europe. The company provides tennis clothes, shoes, rackets, bags, strings, and balls; running clothes, shoes, and accessories; and fitness and training products, including clothes, shoes, trainers, and equipment for men, women, and kids. It also sells nutrition products, suchas gels, drinks, and energy bars; and running belts and backpacks, bags, water bottles, accessories, dumbbells and free weights, Yoga mats, and heart rate monitors/GPS. | $11M |  | Sep 07, 2020 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. |  | Private Equity | Mar 01, 2020 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. | $16.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 2020 |  |
| TSE Systems | TSE Systems is a globally renowned manufacturer of high quality instruments for behavioral, metabolic and inhalation research. Their focus is on providing the total customer solution, with modular designs of integrated hardware and software platforms for neuroscience, phenotyping, drug screening and toxicology. It is their corporate goal to becomethe number one manufacturer of highly sophisticated products in each market they serve.The TSE Systems companies are strategically headquartered in Chesterfield, MO / USA, in Bad Homburg / Germany and in Beijing / China. These locations serve as centers of excellence for research and our global 24/7 service. |  | Private Equity | Aug 29, 2019 |  |
| TTTech | The TTTech Group consists of globally oriented high-tech companies, founded and headquartered in Vienna, Austria. TTTech, TTControl, and TTTech Auto operate under the umbrella of the TTTech Group. The companies offer products and services based on highly innovative software technology combined with a deep understanding of digital transformation inkey verticals. TTTech Group companies are part of a global ecosystem of customers and partners from different domains, research institutions and organizations. TTTech Group builds on 20 years’ technology leadership with extensive experience in collaborating with market leaders. With its real-time networking platforms and safety controls, TTTech Group’s solutions improve the safety and reliability of electronic systems in the industrial and transportation sectors and help to make the Internet of Things and automated driving a reality. TTTech Group transfers proven aerospace network technology to mass markets like automotive and manufacturing. TTTech is the innovator of Deterministic Ethernet and a driving force behind the IEEE TSN standard and SAE Time-Triggered Ethernet standard.Visit www.tttech.com for more information. | $21.9M |  | Mar 07, 2019 |  |
| Keller Sports | Keller Sports is operates as an online merchant for sports equipment in Europe. The company provides tennis clothes, shoes, rackets, bags, strings, and balls; running clothes, shoes, and accessories; and fitness and training products, including clothes, shoes, trainers, and equipment for men, women, and kids. It also sells nutrition products, suchas gels, drinks, and energy bars; and running belts and backpacks, bags, water bottles, accessories, dumbbells and free weights, Yoga mats, and heart rate monitors/GPS. |  |  | Feb 01, 2017 |  |
| Kohler Transfer | Kohler-Transfer top 3 cross-regional service providers of transportation for the disabled in Germany. In three federal states, Kohler employs well over 2,100 employees and maintains a fleet of around 1,500 vehicles.Kohler's vision is to increase the mobility of people who are ill or disabled and to establish this transport service as thelargest cross-regional specialist. People with reduced physical and mental capabilities are being enabled to participate in daily life through door-to-door transportation to schools and workshops.Kohler enters into long-term contracts with establishments that focus on the promotion and integration of disabled people. Essentially, this comprises sheltered workshops, day support facilities and schools for disabled people, the contractual partners mainly being public bodies (state welfare, administrative districts and towns) and charitable associations or clubs (German Caritas Association, Diakonie (social and welfare arm of the Protestant Church in Germany), Workers’ Welfare Association). The in-house route planning software tailored to the business processes contributes to optimizing cost and capacity utilization as well as increasing efficiency. The in-house software and database are used to handle the operational and logistical business areas as well as customer billing, personnel planning and payroll accounting. The efficiency of the service provider in relation to transportation for the disabled constitutes an essential success factor in public tenders.A further success factor is the company’s own vehicle fleet, which complies with current DIN and ECA standards and whose age structure is no more than 6 to 8 years. Using vehicles that comply with current standards and requirements is a basic prerequisite in the context of public tenders. Apart from the appropriately equipped transport vehicles, the employees on permanent contracts with, and trained by, Kohler are the main success factor. Day-to-day activities give rise to close bonds between the employees and the people in need of transport which not only enrich the professional approach to disabled people, but, in particular, facilitate the necessary interpersonal interactions. |  | Private Equity | Jan 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does COI Partners invest in?

COI Partners invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Restaurants and Manufacturing startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact COI Partners?

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### Who are the partners at COI Partners?

The team at COI Partners includes Nicolai von Engelhardt (Partner), Andre Moritz (Senior Investment Associate) and Anna Arai (CFO / COO), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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