German Startups Group
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital. Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a diversified portfolio of investments in young companies and become the second most active venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights, Germany Venture Capital Overview). According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of extremely promising German startups of various maturity stages and includes some of the most successful and best-known German startups.
- Total investments:
- 55
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries German Startups Group invests in
Stages German Startups Group invests in
Countries German Startups Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $559k–$2.4M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$8M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $597k–$7.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 18 (33%)
- Internet 16 (29%)
- Financial Services 8 (15%)
- FinTech 7 (13%)
- Marketplace 6 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 14 (25%)
- Series A 12 (22%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 11 (20%)
- Secondary Market 6 (11%)
- Series B 3 (5%)
Country
- Germany 38 (69%)
- United States 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tobias Bürger
Investment Management
|
Investment Management | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chrono24 operates as a marketplace for luxury watches. Chrono24 has been reshaping the global watch market since 2003. More than 3,000 professional dealers and 30,000 private sellers list over 500,000 watches on the platform. Chrono24 attracts more than 20 million watch enthusiasts every month from over 120 countries. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 02, 2018 | ||
| For building service contractors and their customers who are faced with the challenge of designing their processes as efficiently as possible using modern technologies Service Partner ONE offers the 'ONE' app suite which digitally embeds the entire value chain of building services and facility management with its app suite.Unliketraditional software providers 'ONE' combines in its user-oriented apps a combination of intuitive usability, various common IT-solutions, extraordinary comfort, mobile availability, and low prices. | Series B / Feb 21, 2018 | ||
| Stryking Entertainment specializes in sports fan engagement and monetization by combining the real and virtual world to create genuine interaction opportunities for fans, stars and brands. Founded 2012 in Berlin, Stryking Entertainment develops and operates the innovative platform Football-Stars, a thrilling and diversified gaming experience on weband mobile to soccer fans in Europe.Through Stryking’s new fantasy football (soccer) platform, users compete against each other in numerous challenges while proving their expertise and instincts to everybody else. With its outstanding meta-game the Daily Fantasy platform entertains user in the long run. No matter if users loose or win a challenge, they will earn experience and level up in the leveling system. Additionally, they can also unlock cool achievements which they can gather and which provide cool features like new user titles, additional profile pictures or in-game currency.The unique free-to-play monetization and retention model makes Football-Stars a rising star in the Daily Fantasy Sports universe. By fulfilling different activities like winning the daily free challenge, inviting friends or unlocking achievements players can receive the in-game currency “Coins”. With this currency they can participate in paid challenges where they can not only win more Coins but also receive the second in-game currency “Stars”. This valuable currency can be exchanged for real-life fan merchandise and other attractive gadgets through the in-game shop. The free-to-play setup gives Football-Stars a great USP which allows a worldwide roll-out without legal restrictions. | $597.3K / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 15, 2017 | ||
| Finiata provides flexible financing to small companies and freelancers through a line of financing and factoring. They believe strongly in the scientific method, listening to customers, solving real problems, and doing the unscalable to find the scalable. | Pre-Seed / Jan 17, 2017 | ||
| TVSmiles is a quiz app that rewards users with so-called smiles for interacting with various TV and digital advertising formats. Their mission is to get the most out of advertisements and turn viewers into customers again. The app combines ads, games, and an extensive mobile loyalty program in a unique way. Instead of simply showing ungainly adsthat aren’t adapted to mobile.TVSmiles was launched in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 16, 2016 | ||
| Finiata provides flexible financing to small companies and freelancers through a line of financing and factoring. They believe strongly in the scientific method, listening to customers, solving real problems, and doing the unscalable to find the scalable. | Pre-Seed / Oct 17, 2016 | ||
| Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 30, 2016 | ||
| Dr. Z is an association of independent dentists with currently twenty dental practices and dental centers nationwide. Our philosophy: to realize a high-quality dentistry award justice. Our dentists offer all the standard benefits completely free of charge - even without any bonus schemes. Our concept also includes the supply of dentures withoutpayment: 100% dentures - 0% co-payment . Private services are much cheaper than market rates with us. At Dr. Z this is implemented all without compromising quality. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 24, 2016 | ||
| Meine-Spielzeugkiste ist ein Berliner Startup, das hochwertige Spielzeuge von Ravensburger, Playmobil, HABA, Brio, Lego Duplo und anderen Marken für Kinder verleiht. In eine Spielzeugkiste passen zwei, vier oder sechs Spielzeuge. Die Familien können dabei aus unserem ständig wachsenden Sortiment ihre Lieblings-Spielzeuge auswählen und jeder Zeitgegen neue tauschen! Der Hin- und Rückversand der Kisten ist kostenlos und mit dem Pick-up-Service ganz bequem. Einfach die alte Kiste dem Postboten mitgeben wenn er die neue bringt! So einfach war Spielzeug-Miete noch nie! | Series A / Jun 03, 2016 | ||
| Thinksurance is a leading consultation technology platform for business insurance in Germany and France. It connects insurers, distributors from several sales channels and business customers on its platform. Business insurance distributors such as the majority of (online-)brokers and broker pools, agencies, banks, and others use the offering asSaaS to search, compare and conclude the right insurance coverage for their clients. Thinksurance leverages its proprietary technology to make the process as easy as possible, e.g. with several APIs to distributors CRMs and insurer systems.All relevant insurers already partner with the platform leading to an unrivaled market coverage in the commercial insurance space for small and medium-sized enterprises. Also, insurers are offered adjacent services such as Data Analytics, Portfolio Transfer, After Sales Processes or White-Label-Solutions for their internal use.Thinksurance also includes an own Online-Broker "Gewerbeversicherung24" which operates on www.gewerbeversicherung.de to get direct feedback from businesses to improve their service for partnering distributors and insurers. | $559.3K / Seed / Jun 01, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does German Startups Group invest in?
German Startups Group invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does German Startups Group invest in?
German Startups Group typically joins rounds of $559k–$2.4M at Seed, $2.5M–$8M at Series A and $597k–$7.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not German Startups Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds German Startups Group took part in.
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Who are the partners at German Startups Group?
The team at German Startups Group includes Tobias Bürger (Investment Management). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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