# DocCheck Guano AG

> DocCheck Guano AG is a VC fund in Cologne backing Health Care and Medical. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/doccheck-guano-ag/
- Website: http://www.guano.ag/en/

DocCheck Guano AG is a VC fund in Cologne focused on Health Care and Medical. Birds of a feather flock together? Not our style! We promote healthcare startups who believe in their vision and want to be a success at it. DocCheck Guano is a hatchery for precocial birds aiming to land in the market. We provide the ideal fertiliser for startups: capital, know-how, market access and network. Oh, and our focus is on seed funding.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 75% |
| Medical | 2 | 25% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 25% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 25% |
| Sports | 1 | 13% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 75% |
| Spain | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Antwerpes | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-antwerpes |
| Helmut Rieger | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helmut-rieger |
| Tanja Mumme | Head of Corporate Communications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tanja-mumme |
| Thilo Kölzer | Member of the Supervisory Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thilo-k%C3%B6lzer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| medflex | medflex offers secure medical communication via messaging, video calls, and video consultation services. |  | Corporate Round | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Amparo | We empower amputees so they can live life to the full. Amparo is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of prosthetic components. It developed the Confidence Socket, which is the interface between the patient's residual limb and the prosthetic leg itself. 1) The fitting process is as fast as 1h time; 2) The material can be remolded 10times, saving huge costs of health providers; and 3) All tools fit into a sports bag. making it possible to service amputee anywhere in the world. |  | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2017 |  |
| Mammoth Hunters | Mammoth Hunters is a 360° wellness solution offering accessible functional training, natural nutrition and lifestyle advice packaged as a mobile/web based SaaS. The founders come from a scientific background and use discoveries in human physiology and evolution to create personalized fitness journeys. The program is designed toeliminate all barriers that prevent people from leading a healthy lifestyle - lack of time, knowledge and motivation. The company employs 12+ people in Barcelona Spain and has key partnerships with fitness experts, healthcare companies, and sports technology companies. | $165K |  | Apr 25, 2017 |  |
| curassist GmbH | curassist is the competence center for self-determined and self-organized care. We support both sides: the patients with their relatives and the caregivers. We accompany nursing professionals in their freelance work and relieve them of administrative burden, so that they can concentrate exclusively on nursing. For relatives and patients, thiscreates a list of qualified individual caregivers who support individually or personally in their care or who completely take care of them. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2016 |  |
| heartbeat medical | Heartbeat enables providers to learn from the most important data point in healthcare: quality of life. We are experts in the field of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and passionate about generating high-quality Real World Evidence. | $878K |  | Jan 14, 2016 |  |
| PatientZero Games | PatientZero Games provides Modern 3D applications depict content more vividly and tangibly than traditional media, and we can develop it cost-effectively for you thanks to powerful engines such as Unity or the Unreal Engine. You have a free choice in the design of the app / application (eg VR / AR / XR) and also the target platformcan be determined by you. We are happy to implement your project idea for PC, browser, smartphone or tablet. |  | Seed | Dec 22, 2015 |  |
| Fysio24 | Fysio24 is an app with injury recovery and prevention programs from the best hardloop experts in the Netherlands. |  | Seed | Sep 30, 2015 |  |
| BetterDoc | BetterDoc is Germany's market leader for medical expert referrals. BetterDoc is generating, processing and analyzing all types of quality data of a health care system. These data are used to identify the best medical expert for the patient's individual health problem. BetterDoc is also measuring for each patient case the outcome quality("full quality loop"). |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2014 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does DocCheck Guano AG invest in?

DocCheck Guano AG invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 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 DocCheck Guano AG?

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### Who are the partners at DocCheck Guano AG?

The team at DocCheck Guano AG includes Frank Antwerpes (CEO), Helmut Rieger (Managing Director) and Tanja Mumme (Head of Corporate Communications). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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