GRENKE
VC Fund
Baden-baden, Germany
GRENKE is a VC fund in Baden-baden focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Established in 1978, GRENKE has become a versatile partner for small and mid-sized businesses. They’ve grown alongside their customers and their needs. Today, they have three well-established business areas, and locations in 32 countries. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a reseller, an institution or a private customer, they know that yourchallenges are as unique as you are. So they make sure their solutions are unique, too.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries GRENKE invests in
Stages GRENKE invests in
Countries GRENKE invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 2 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Finance 1 (25%)
- eSports 1 (25%)
- Payments 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series D 1 (25%)
- Debt Financing 1 (25%)
- Corporate Round 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Country
- Germany 3 (75%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Bucker
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pole Position is one of the region's leading motorsports consultancy firms. The CEO moved to the United Arab Emirates in 1981 and have been involved in regional motorsports as a competitor winning titles in karting, rallying and circuit racing since he was 11 years old. His business portfolio includes several automotive startups. He has been acircuit director and has the honour to be on the local ASN's committee for motorsports development and building grassroots motorsports. He brings a wealth of background and experience to motorsports destination development, circuit operational and commercial management, creating bespoke events in addition to sourcing funding for large scale automotive or motorsports projects.Pole Position also establishes itself as a leading automotive events agency with many top car brands as their clients. Providing operational management for events (on and off-road), along with race circuit experiences and car launches with a team of professional driving talent. It offers bespoke corporate track day`s around the Middle East with its circuit partners including luxury VIP trips to some of the world most amazing racing circuits and driving tours.Through covid19 lockdown, Pole Position has invested in Esports racing and created Virtual Motorsports Ltd, partnering with RaceRoom GmbH to become the region's leading online and onsite Esports solutions provider. The professionalism and expertise in production and operations management on delivering turnkey Esports has resulted in thousands of competitors around the region with the ability to reach millions worldwide. | $232K / Debt Financing / Jun 01, 2023 | ||
| The miete24 offer is aimed at both business and private consumers. With our portal, It has completely digitalized the renting process, allowing users to sign a leasing agreement in a matter of seconds. Customer service is as easy and quick as online shopping. Because of our high level of digitization, we may mix and bill IT products andconsumption-based tariffs under a single rental rate. | Corporate Round / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award. | $4.4M / Series D / Jul 05, 2016 | ||
| Barzahlen is a bank-independent cash infrastructure that allows cash withdrawals and deposits at checkout via barcode. The company offers digital payment options with cash and revolutionizes traditional banking. They offer their customers the possibility of cash deposits and expanding their withdrawal network. | $5.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 05, 2016 |
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FAQ
What does GRENKE invest in?
GRENKE invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Series D and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at GRENKE?
The team at GRENKE includes Michael Bucker (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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