# Dominik Tobschall

> Dominik Tobschall is a seed investor at backtrace capital backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [backtrace capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backtrace-capital)
- Location: Münster, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiktobschall/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/DominikTo
- Website: https://x.com/DominikTo
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dominik.tobschall

Dominik Tobschall is a seed investor at backtrace capital in Münster focused on Software and Information Technology. Dominik is a software developer and lawyer with many years of experience in software development, product management and business development. He has been active in the IT industry since 1998.Before joining Speedinvest, he was a member of the investment team at Target Partners, a leading early-stage tech VC. From 2015 to 2016 he worked on digitalprojects and took care of technology investments & acquisitions with a member of the executive board at C.H.BECK, one of the major legal publishers in the DACH region. In 2010 he co-founded fruux GmbH, the German software company behind the sabre/dav open source technology, powering sync functionality in popular products, such as atmail, Box, Nextcloud, Posteo, ownCloud and many others. Before that, he worked in various software development and product management roles.Dominik studied law with a focus on taxation at the University of Münster and was admitted to the bar in 2012.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 42% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |
| Apps | 1 | 8% |
| SaaS | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 2 | 17% |
| Germany | 2 | 17% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Qovery | Qovery operates as a container as a service platform that enables anyone to develop and deploy an application. It accelerates and scales the application development cycle with zero infrastructure management investment. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $13M | Series A | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Kerys Software | Kerys Software is a Data Security Product Manufacturing firm developing secured virtualization tool for cases. | $7.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Platform Engineering Labs | Making Platform Engineering accessible for every engineer. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 02, 2024 |  |
| Ona | Gitpod is an open-source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code developer environments. Designed for applications running in the cloud, Gitpod frees engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up local dev environments, saving dozens of hours and enabling a new level of collaboration to create applicationsmuch more quickly than ever before.Natively integrated with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, Gitpod automatically and continuously prebuilds dev environments for all your branches. As a result team members can instantly start coding with fresh dev environments for each new task - no matter if you are building a new feature, want to fix a bug, or work on a code review. | $25M | Series A | Nov 03, 2022 |  |
| Seqera | Seqera Labs is a Barcelona-based business creating solutions for high-performance computing workloads across cloud and clusters. It was founded by the creators of the popular open-source workflow software Nextflow (http://www.nextflow.io). | $21.4M | Series A | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Unstoppable Finance | Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally. | $12.9M | Series A | Aug 10, 2022 |  |
| Unstoppable Finance | Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally. | $4.8M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Unstoppable Finance | Unstoppable Finance is building a next-gen crypto wallet to bring DeFi to retail investors globally. | $5.2M | Seed | Oct 20, 2021 |  |
| Qovery | Qovery operates as a container as a service platform that enables anyone to develop and deploy an application. It accelerates and scales the application development cycle with zero infrastructure management investment. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Paris, France. | $4M | Seed | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Ona | Gitpod is an open-source developer platform automating the provisioning of ready-to-code developer environments. Designed for applications running in the cloud, Gitpod frees engineering teams from the friction of manually setting-up local dev environments, saving dozens of hours and enabling a new level of collaboration to create applicationsmuch more quickly than ever before.Natively integrated with GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, Gitpod automatically and continuously prebuilds dev environments for all your branches. As a result team members can instantly start coding with fresh dev environments for each new task - no matter if you are building a new feature, want to fix a bug, or work on a code review. | $13M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crane Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crane-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [BACKED VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backed-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fabric Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabric-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RockawayX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rockaway-blockchain) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cadenza Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cadenza-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About backtrace capital

VC Fund

A pre-seed/seed fund for the technology building blocks that our world runs on.

2 contacts available at backtrace capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dominik Tobschall | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominik-tobschall |
| Michael Münnix | Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mnnix |

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## FAQ

### What does Dominik Tobschall invest in?

Dominik Tobschall invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dominik Tobschall last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dominik Tobschall closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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