Cusp Capital
VC Fund
Essen, Germany
Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in fast-growing technology companies on the cusp of redefining their markets. The Cusp Capital team members are long-time contributors to the technology ecosystem. Over the last fifteen years, they have invested more than €600m in companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Scalable Capital, data Artisans, Personio, and SoSafe.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 71%
- Fund size:
- $361M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Cusp Capital invests in
Stages Cusp Capital invests in
Countries Cusp Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 7 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$10M
- Series A
- $6.8M–$12M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.2M–$22M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 14 (45%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (23%)
- Information Technology 6 (19%)
- Machine Learning 4 (13%)
- SaaS 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 17 (55%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (16%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Series B 1 (3%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- Germany 14 (45%)
- Spain 4 (13%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Austria 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Winter
General Partner - Investor
|
General Partner - Investor | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Dr. Carolin Althoff
Executive
|
Executive | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Jan Sessenhausen
General Partner - Investor
|
General Partner - Investor | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Johannes Behringer
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Matthias Müller
General Partner - Investor
|
General Partner - Investor | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ahron.ai is an AI-powered HR technology company that provides an agentic HR platform to connect HR systems, automate workflows. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Laborai is a fiscal and financial advisory platform. | $4.3M / Seed / Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Delta Labs operates as an AI-based platform for forecasting consumer behaviour. | $5.1M / Seed / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| The smartest and most user-friendly solution for MedTech compliance. CertHub re-invented MDR / IVDR compliance for enabling faster innovation without painful paper-work. | $7.3M / Seed / Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| 2501.ai enables you to deploy powerful AI agents with just two lines of code across any infrastructure—whether cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid—allowing seamless integration, rapid scalability, and unmatched operational flexibility for a wide range of enterprise and developer use cases. | $9.4M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Tacmind is an AI platform that helps companies understand how AI models perceive, describe, and recommend their brand. It analyzes how large language models and other AI technologies speak about a brand, detecting tone, emotion, and narrative. Tacmind provides insights that allow companies to see their brand's presence and reputation inAI-driven environments, benchmark against competitors, and optimize their brand assets and messages specifically for how AI systems view them. This helps companies influence and improve the narrative AI models generate about their brand to better control brand perception and increase visibility in AI-assisted searches and recommendations. Tacmind’s tools give companies a strategic advantage in the evolving landscape where AI plays a significant role in shaping consumer decisions and brand discovery. | $2.8M / Seed / Nov 20, 2025 | ||
| Leadity is a software for small and medium-sized businesses for key role to sustainable economy. | Seed / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| SIDES (formerly SimplyDelivery) is a Berlin-based startup that provides cloud software for restaurant chains, ghost kitchens or individual businesses. | $11.4M / Series A / Jul 30, 2025 | ||
| One Ware operates in the industrial automation and artificial intelligence (AI) sector, focusing on making advanced AI technologies accessible and universally applicable across industries | $2.9M / Seed / Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain. | $21.7M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 02, 2025 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cusp Capital invest in?
Cusp Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 31 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 Cusp Capital invest in?
Cusp Capital typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$10M at Seed, $6.8M–$12M at Series A and $3.2M–$22M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cusp Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cusp Capital took part in.
How do I contact Cusp Capital?
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Who are the partners at Cusp Capital?
The team at Cusp Capital includes Christian Winter (General Partner - Investor), Dr. Carolin Althoff (Executive) and Jan Sessenhausen (General Partner - Investor), among 7 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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