# GENIUS Venture Capital

> GENIUS Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Logistics. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Schwerin, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genius-venture-capital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/genius_vc_gmbh
- Website: http://genius-vc.de

GENIUS Venture Capital is a VC fund in Schwerin focused on Software and Logistics. GENIUS Venture Capital is established on the initiative of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is a subsidiary of Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum e.V. Schwerin/Wismar. They fund innovation-driven technology companies in their startup or early growth stage. To date, GENIUS together with several private investors spent a totalof around 70 million euros on financing 25 companies.They are currently managing two venture capital funds on behalf of the Ministry of Economics, Employment and Health of the State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $509k–$7.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 33% |
| Logistics | 2 | 17% |
| Health Care | 2 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 17% |
| Internet of Things | 2 | 17% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 50% |
| Spain | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Uwe Bräuer | Managing Director and Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uwe-br%C3%A4uer |
| Christian Krause | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-krause-f95a |
| Ivonne Jarschke-Kron | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivonne-jarschke-kron |
| Martin Schwarz | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-schwarz-b368 |
| Rüdiger Fink | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/r%C3%BCdiger-fink |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Innocent Meat | Innocent Meat enables food processors to break the reliance on animal agriculture by providing an automated, end-to-end clean meat production system. | $3.2M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Innocent Meat | Innocent Meat enables food processors to break the reliance on animal agriculture by providing an automated, end-to-end clean meat production system. | $729.3K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| SonoBeacon | SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform. | $1.7M | Seed | Dec 17, 2020 |  |
| Evertracker | Evertracker provides the first Neutral and Smart Control Tower for Global Supply Chains that enables manufacturers and producers to get end-to-end visibility and predictability of their global supply chains. The platform provides the transparency on an item level, which enables our users to not only know where their shipments are but what partswill be delayed or have issues. Thus they can plan their production more reliably. | $580K | Seed | Jan 25, 2020 |  |
| SonoBeacon | SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform. | $584K | Seed | Nov 04, 2019 |  |
| SonoBeacon | SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 15, 2018 |  |
| WOOM | WOOM is AI for Reproductive Health. Our vision is women’s health, empowering users to make the right decisions about their reproductive health.17 to 25% of couples experience a challenge with fertility. Both female founders faced it and why they left Google and eBay to launch WOOM. WOOM is an easy, unique and personal experience. Besides thepersonal recommendations, WOOM calculates daily chances of pregnancy, cycles calendar; and users receive support through an engaged community and a fertility services platform. Our first product is trying to conceive and we are moving into other women's health stage. | $509K | Seed | Mar 09, 2017 |  |
| E-PATROL north | E-PATROL north is the specialists for digital asset management and individual software development. The company offers planning, consulting, implementation, ongoing support, digital media management, and project participation services; NVE NORTHBIT Visual Estate, a solution for management and marketing of real estate on the basis of maps;ServiceMe, a Web-based ticketing system for companies; and Java eSales system, a customizable and java-based solution to integrate into various Websites and ERP or ERP systems. |  |  | Oct 26, 2016 |  |
| PipesBox | PipesBox is develops and distributes software and hardware for smart homes. It offers naon marketplace; naon bow; and naon IoT app designer. It also offers cloud service, front end, embedded, radio technologies, smart home, rest and micro service architecture, and machine learning and pattern recognition. |  |  | Oct 15, 2015 |  |
| Microstim | Microstim GmbH develops a tissue and function maintaining implantable myostimulator designed to assist the heart. Particular strengths of Microstim GmbH are the microcontroller acquisition and processing of data, control of cardiac and muscle stimulator impulses, and wireless “in-body”-communication.At the national business plan contest“Science4Life” in 2008, Microstim GmbH was one of ten winners in the concept phase category. | $531K |  | Sep 17, 2013 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Fides Finanz-Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fides-finanz-invest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Big Idea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-idea-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MBMV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mbmv) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does GENIUS Venture Capital invest in?

GENIUS Venture Capital invests primarily in Software, Logistics and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GENIUS Venture Capital's check size?

GENIUS Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $509k–$7.1M 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 GENIUS Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact GENIUS Venture Capital?

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### Who are the partners at GENIUS Venture Capital?

The team at GENIUS Venture Capital includes Uwe Bräuer (Managing Director and Founder), Christian Krause (Investment Manager) and Ivonne Jarschke-Kron (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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