# Florian Leibert

> Florian Leibert is a seed investor at D2iq backing Software and Information Technology. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [D2iq](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/D2iQ)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/florianleibert
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/flo
- Website: https://x.com/flo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/floleibert

Florian Leibert is a seed investor at D2iq in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Florian Leibert is the General Partner at 468 Capital. Since 2013, he has served as CEO of Mesosphere, Inc., an Internet start-up based on the open-source software Apache Mesos, which his best friend from high school wrote. His daily responsibilities include creating high-level software structures and managing the firm's finances, recruiting,business operations, and product support. Among his other achievements at Mesosphere, he created Marathon, a scheduler that operates on top of the Mesos software. Florian Leibert also acquired nearly $50 million in funding for the firm from prominent investors like venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. Concurrent with his role at Mesosphere, Flo Leibert serves as an investor with Taptalk and Driftt.Prior to founding Mesosphere, Flo Leibert held software engineering positions at prominent internet sites, including Airbnb, Twitter, Ning, and Adknowledge. At age 16, he co-founded online marketplace Knaup Multimedia in Germany.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.7M–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $700k–$2.2M |
| Series A | $8.5M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 44% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 20% |
| Internet | 6 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 5 | 10% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 26 | 52% |
| Series A | 14 | 28% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 8% |
| Angel | 2 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 56% |
| Germany | 11 | 22% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Needle | Needle operates as an AI-driven platform for search and agent creation. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| Turntable Labs | Turntable Labs: Hang out online with music | $8.2M | Seed | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Yupp | Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M | Seed | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Codesphere | Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming. | $30.9M | Series A | May 17, 2024 |  |
| NOVUS GmbH | NOVUS revolutionises the world of motorbikes and creates the first urban premium electric motorbike.The automotive industry is since 2018 in the process of an unstoppable transformation towards electric vehicles. The motorbike industry, on the other hand, is now at the tipping point of this transformation. Urban premium mobility must ensuresustainability and satisfy the need for individualisation. With NOVUS, we are driving the necessary change in the motorbike industry and urban mobility.We use our high-tech and design expertise to develop a unique concept that combines the advantages of bicycles and motorbikes. We unite the lightness and agility of an eBike with the performance and sovereignty of a motorbike. Based on an electric engine and futuristic design, we create the architecture of tomorrow's two-wheeler.NOVUS will be the new premium supplier for urban electric mobility. We focus on direct distribution and subscription models, completing our D2C portfolio with vehicle individualisation and customer-oriented after-sales service. Our central intelligence – the NOVUS-OMNI system and the My NOVUS app – integrates seamlessly into the digital lives of our customers. We thus create the foundation for digital business models and enable sharing & fleet solutions for B2B customers as well.NOVUS is the promise of driving the future today.BE AHEAD |  |  | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Continue | Continue is an open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM | $2.1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Continue | Continue is an open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains—the easiest way to code with any LLM | $5.1M | Seed | Nov 14, 2023 |  |
| Sixty AI | Sixty artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to revolutionize productivity and relieve busy clients from digital clutter. AI-powered Personal Relationship Management software optimizes concentration and flow by eliminating time-consuming and boring digital operations, allowing you to focus on what is most important. | $3.5M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Sixty AI | Sixty is the next generation social graph. Its AI-powered personal assistant expands the power of your network and handles the tedious but essential daily grind that can overwhelm your inbox, meetings, networking and sense of well-being. Sixty helps you spend less time at the keyboard and more time connecting with humans. | $3M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Earthly Technologies | Earthly is a build automation system for the post-container era.It builds upon technologies like Docker and BuildKit to deliver builds that are self-sufficient, reproducible, portable and parallel. You can use Earthly to create Docker images, output artifacts or to run tests. Earthly is meant not to replace build systems, but rather to act as theglue layer between them.​Run Earthly on your laptop, in your current CI, or across a cluster via Earthly Cloud Build. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LEA Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lea-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [New Forge](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-forge) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scale-asia-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [42CAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/42cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About D2iq

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by runningthem on Apache Mesos.

5 contacts available at D2iq.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nan Wang | Product Designer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nan-wang-2739 |
| Tobi Knaup | Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobi-knaup |
| Benjamin Hindman | Co-Founder & Chief Architect | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-hindman |
| Florian Leibert | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florian-leibert |
| Joe Taborek | CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-taborek |

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## FAQ

### What does Florian Leibert invest in?

Florian Leibert invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Florian Leibert's check size?

Florian Leibert typically joins rounds of $2.7M–$15M at Seed, $700k–$2.2M at Pre-Seed and $8.5M–$17M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Florian Leibert participates in.

### When did Florian Leibert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Florian Leibert closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 50 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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