# Gabriel Matuschka

> Gabriel Matuschka is a seed investor at Fly Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 53%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielmatuschka
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/gmatuschka
- Website: https://x.com/gmatuschka
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gmatuschka

Gabriel Matuschka is a seed investor at Fly Ventures in Berlin focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Gabriel is a founding partner at Fly Ventures and is based in Berlin. Previously he worked with Partech Ventures from 2012 to 2015. Prior to working with Partech, he was co-founder and CEO of TripHunter, which was acquired by brands4friends in 2010. Before TripHunter, Gabriel worked as a consultant in IBM’s European media and telecommunicationspractice.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 27% |
| Health Care | 2 | 13% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 13% |
| DevOps | 1 | 7% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 33% |
| France | 2 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| xmemory | xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| GitGuardian | GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems. | $50M | Series C | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Cakewalk | Cakewalk is the easiest Identity & Access Management. Cakewalk exists to enable fast-moving companies to regain control over the software they use. Made for IT & Security teams. And the actual users of software: your employees. | $7.5M | Seed | Apr 23, 2025 |  |
| Elea | Elea is an AI-powered operating system that transforms pathology into a future-proof force for precision, speed, and innovation. | $9M | Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Lakera | Lakera is a real-time GenAI security company. The company is dedicated to ensuring the safe and responsible development and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. To accelerate the secure adoption of AI, the company developed Gandalf, an educational tool that has taught over one million users about AI security. Lakera leverages AI tocontinually evolve its defenses, enabling customers to stay ahead of emerging threats. | $10M | Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Cakewalk | Cakewalk is the easiest Identity & Access Management. Cakewalk exists to enable fast-moving companies to regain control over the software they use. Made for IT & Security teams. And the actual users of software: your employees. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Surfboard | Surfboard provides scheduling and building workforce management through customer service software. | $4.9M | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| TradeLink | TradeLink is a creator of a platform for digital delivery and transportation information intended to link customers, vendors, and logistics service providers. By providing features like an efficient time and ramp booking system, automatic planning and communication, court processes, and digital delivery notes on their platform, clients may savetime, and money, and improve communication with associated parties. It creates an efficient system of delivery coordination around business sites that is advantageous to all delivery partners. |  | Series A | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| GitGuardian | GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems. | $44M | Series B | Dec 07, 2021 |  |
| TradeLink | TradeLink is a creator of a platform for digital delivery and transportation information intended to link customers, vendors, and logistics service providers. By providing features like an efficient time and ramp booking system, automatic planning and communication, court processes, and digital delivery notes on their platform, clients may savetime, and money, and improve communication with associated parties. It creates an efficient system of delivery coordination around business sites that is advantageous to all delivery partners. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [33East](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/33east) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AAL VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aal-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Fly Ventures

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Fly Ventures is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems.

4 contacts available at Fly Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Matuschka | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-matuschka |
| Fredrik Bergenlid | Partner and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fredrik-bergenlid |
| Matt Wichrowski | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-wichrowski |
| Steven Tran | Operating Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-tran |

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## FAQ

### What does Gabriel Matuschka invest in?

Gabriel Matuschka invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Gabriel Matuschka last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gabriel Matuschka closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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