# Dominik Richter

> Dominik Richter is a seed investor at HelloFresh (Berlin) backing FinTech and E-Commerce. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [HelloFresh](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hellofresh-canada)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominik-s-richter-905b7939/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dominik_richter

Dominik Richter is a seed investor at HelloFresh in Berlin focused on FinTech and E-Commerce. Dominik Richter is the CEO and Founder at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion for Entreprenuership, buildinggreat companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 30% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |
| B2B | 1 | 10% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 50% |
| United States | 3 | 30% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Honeycomb | Honeycomb provides full-stack observability for modern engineering teams to understand, debug, and improve production systems. Honeycomb's customers rely on the product for fast incident response, system optimization, and delivering pain-free releases across the software engineering cycle that translates to happy devs and happy customers.Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, it helps every engineer to the instrument and queries the behavior of their system.The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $50M | Series D | Apr 06, 2023 |  |
| Bloom Health Partners | Bloom Health is a trusted occupational health and safety service provider, offering a network of top healthcare professionals and integrated laboratories for Fortune 500 companies | $8M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Bloom | Bloom is an Ai-powered wellness app that provides therapy exercises to help cope with stress, anxiety, and depression.It combines interactive video classes with cognitive behavioral therapy exercises to provide an affordable and accessible way to deal with mental health issues.Leon Mueller and Daniel Lohse established the software company in2019 in New York, New York. | $8M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Payrails | Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more. | $6.4M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| topi | topi offers a B2B subscription platform that allows retailers and manufacturers to rent out their equipment to other businesses. topi is creating the tech infrastructure that will allow any retailer or manufacturer to offer Hardware-as-a-Service to business customers. topi ensures that not only access and refinancing but also insurance and hardwaremanagement can be conveniently managed with a few clicks.The Berlin-based Fintech company was founded in 2021 by Charlotte Pallua and Estelle Merle and has raised close to USD 50m to date. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| Payrails | Payrails helps businesses transform payments and other connected financial workflows from an operational bottleneck into a competitive edge. From Payment Orchestration to Unified Analytics, Tokenization, Automated Reconciliation, Chargeback Management, and more, Payrails helps category-defining merchants to get more from their financialinfrastructure. With a modular, provider-agnostic approach that allows teams to integrate our products at any scale and combination, our track record has made Payrails a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized names including Puma, Vinted, Flix, Careem, InDrive, and many more. |  | Angel | Dec 13, 2021 |  |
| Yepoda | Yepoda products are free from silicones, parabens, formaldehyde, artificial colorants, PEGs, mineral oils, microplastics, and sulfates. It is an online seller of skincare products. For inquiries, an online inquiry form and an email address are available on their website. | $1.7M | Seed | Dec 01, 2021 |  |
| fina | fina is the simplest wallet interface for beginners to start exploring crypto and DeFi. |  | Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| fina | fina is the simplest wallet interface for beginners to start exploring crypto and DeFi. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 19, 2021 |  |
| Lumaly | Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AngelPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelpad) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [The Delta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About HelloFresh

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

HelloFresh prepares personalized meal boxes made with pre-measured ingredients that offer a balanced diet and minimum waste.

2 contacts available at HelloFresh.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dominik Richter | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominik-richter |
| Thomas Griesel | Founder & CEO International | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-griesel |

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## FAQ

### What does Dominik Richter invest in?

Dominik Richter invests primarily in FinTech, E-Commerce and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dominik Richter's check size?

Dominik Richter typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dominik Richter participates in.

### When did Dominik Richter last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dominik Richter closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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