# eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS

> eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 123 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Münster, Germany
- Total investments: 123
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last fund: Aug 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecapital-entrepreneurial-partners
- Website: http://www.ecapital.vc

eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS is a VC fund in Münster focused on Information Technology and Software. Founded in 1999, eCAPITAL is an entrepreneur-led venture capital investor focusing on early- and growth-stage deep-tech companies with a positive impact on society. eCAPITAL is based in Germany and invests with its own funds with a total volume of over € 340 million in the areas of Sustainability, Enterprise Software, Cybersecurity, IoT and NewMaterials. In addition to financial resources, eCAPITAL offers its portfolio companies strategic support and access to an international network of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and founders and was lead investor in various deep-tech companies such as sonnen, Novaled or Jedox, which were sold very successfully to international corporates or investors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.7M–$14M |
| Series B | $3.1M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 19 | 15% |
| Software | 16 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 13 | 11% |
| Cyber Security | 11 | 9% |
| SaaS | 7 | 6% |

123 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 32 | 26% |
| Funding Round | 21 | 17% |
| Series B | 17 | 14% |
| Seed | 13 | 11% |
| Series C | 9 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 61 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Belgium | 1 | 1% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bernd Arkenau | Managing Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernd-arkenau |
| Dirk Seewald | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dirk-seewald |
| Katharina Frie | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katharina-frie |
| Lucas Merle | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-merle |
| Michael Mayer | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-mayer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dawnguard | Dawnguard develops an AI-native cybersecurity platform that helps organizations design, deploy, and manage secure cloud architectures throughout the cloud lifecycle. The platform enables engineering and security teams to create cloud infrastructure designs, validate them against security and compliance requirements, generate Infrastructure as Code(IaC), and continuously monitor deployed environments for security risks and configuration drift. It supports major cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, while providing visualization of cloud resources, relationships, and architecture changes. Dawnguard also uses AI to identify security issues, misconfigurations, and optimization opportunities, allowing teams to address potential risks before and after deployment. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2026 |  |
| QuoIntelligence | Founded in February 2020, QuoIntelligence is a spinoff of QuoScient’s Intelligence Team QuoINT, with an established presence in the EU and US markets. We are a cyber intelligence startup committed to informing decision makers of current and prospected cyber and geopolitical threats by providing Finished Intelligence, tailor-made for yourorganization. We use the term Finished Intelligence because we are not another data or information feed provider.Our multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team provide full contextual analyses to produce Intelligence and better enable decision makers with prioritization and mitigation. By prioritizing customer requirements, we ensure our products are customer-centric, close real security gaps, support risk management, facilitate early detection, answer regulators, and more.Headquartered in the geographic center of the European Union, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, we are successfully integrated and servicing several verticals across the region. Also Incorporated in the US, we are supporting international and regional organizations, with remote analysts located on both coasts. Likewise, this geographical footprint enables us to follow the sun global workflow.Since our early days at QuoScient and now at QuoIntelligence, we are trusted by our clients to consistently deliver cybersecurity solutions, tailored to their environment. | $8.6M | Series A | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| VisioLab | VisioLab combines human-centric artificial intelligence with the responsibility of making data-driven decisions in order to establish a more sustainable agricultural economy. VisioLab was founded by Tim Niekamp and Justin Shenk. | $11M | Series A | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Cleafy | We help banks and financial institutions scale up their fight against online fraud.Cleafy is the first solution to introduce full detection and response in online fraud prevention.A revolutionary technology that combines all the most advanced fraud detection capabilities, with automated responses that stop attacks at scale. All in one centralplatform.Recognized as a selected vendor for Online Fraud Detection in Gartner Market Guide, we today protect over 60M users of top-tier retail and corporate banks. | $13.9M | Series B | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Flexoo | Flexoo provides printed electronics and sensor manufacturing, including flexible sensors, antennas, heaters, and embedded circuit solutions. | $13M | Series A | Feb 25, 2026 |  |
| Zepo | Zepo provides businesses with integrated solutions driven by AI to address the most significant cybersecurity gap in human risk. | $15M | Seed | Jan 12, 2026 |  |
| Ferroelectric Memory Company | FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond. | $89.6M | Series C | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| MOTOR AI | Motor AI is a developer of AI systems based on cognitive neuroscience for autonomous driving. The company offers explainable and certifiable decision-making for complex traffic situations. The company implements a full sensor suite—including LiDAR, radar, cameras, audio, GPS, and ultrasound—and fuses data to navigate real-world environments withoutrelying on large-scale training datasets. Its proprietary active‑inference AI architecture enables structured, deductive decisions that satisfy EU and German safety regulations. | $19.9M | Seed | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Baobab | Baobab is a cyber insurance company protecting organizations against cyber threats using technology, knowledge, and insurance. | $13.7M | Series A | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| node.energy | node.energy builds SaaS solutions for the regulatory and commercial management of decentralized energy supply systems for commercial and industrial real estate. Our software massively reduces administrative workload, helps to save energy costs and ensure that our customers are always up to date and compliant to the current regulation. | $17M | Series B | Apr 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 123 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Munich Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/munich-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
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- [TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/technologiegrnderfonds-sachsen) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS invest in?

eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 123 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS's check size?

eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$14M at Series A and $3.1M–$27M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS participates in.

### How do I contact eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS?

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### Who are the partners at eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS?

The team at eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS includes Bernd Arkenau (Managing Partner), Dirk Seewald (Partner) and Katharina Frie (Investment Manager), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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