# Cusp Capital

> Cusp Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 30 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Essen, Germany
- Total investments: 30
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 70%
- Fund size: $341M
- Last fund: Apr 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/76814334
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CuspCapital
- Website: https://www.cuspcapital.com

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 asZalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Scalable Capital, data Artisans, Personio, and SoSafe.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$10M |
| Series A | $6.8M–$12M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.2M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 47% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 20% |
| SaaS | 3 | 10% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 10% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 53% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 5 | 17% |
| Series A | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 13 | 43% |
| Spain | 4 | 13% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Winter | General Partner - Investor | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-winter |
| Dr. Carolin Althoff | Executive | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-carolin-althoff |
| Jan Sessenhausen | General Partner - Investor | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-sessenhausen |
| Johannes Behringer | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johannes-behringer |
| Matthias Müller | General Partner - Investor | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthias-mller |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laborai | Laborai is a fiscal and financial advisory platform. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Delta Labs | Delta Labs operates as an AI-based platform for forecasting consumer behaviour. | $5.1M | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| CertHub | 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 | 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 | 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 | Leadity is a software for small and medium-sized businesses for key role to sustainable economy. |  | Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| SIDES | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Akeno | Akeno's aim is to become the industry leader in production scheduling and planning, which will revolutionize process manufacturing by enabling plants to operate more sustainably and efficiently through intelligent planning. | $5M | Seed | May 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 30 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Cusp Capital invest in?

Cusp Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cusp Capital's check size?

Cusp Capital typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$10M at Seed, $6.8M–$12M at Series A and $3.2M–$22M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cusp Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Cusp Capital?

Public channels for Cusp Capital 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 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 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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