# Hans Schmitz

> Hans Schmitz is a seed investor at Mangrove Capital Partners backing Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mangrove Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mangrove-capital-partners)
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-j%C3%BCrgen-schmitz-b03245b/

Hans Schmitz is a seed investor at Mangrove Capital Partners focused on Software and Information Technology. Hans Jurgen Schmitz is based out of Luxembourg and is the Managing Partner of Mangrove Capital Partners. Hans previously worked at Luxembourg Private Equity Association as a Founding Chairman. Hans Jurgen Schmitz attended the University of St.Gallen.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Banking | 1 | 17% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Denmark | 1 | 17% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Skippet | Skippet empowers everyone to create custom digital solutions to their problems without needing to code. Write out your problem in plain English, and Skippet uses its knowledge of a user’s existing systems and integrations, along with state-of-the-art language models to create or modify an application or workflow. This is made possible by Skippet’sproprietary architecture which translates natural language into fit-for-purpose solutions. | $2.4M | Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| receeve GmbH | receeve is a fully customisable all-in-one platform for collections & recovery. We simplify the growing complexity of data and systems and empower in-house teams to easily automate processes, engage customers and apply 360° insights to maximise recovery and minimise risk across every stage of credit management - from pre-delinquency toportfolio assignment or sale. One platform. A perfect balance of ease-of-use and power, receeve’s cloud-native, no-code platform is fast to deploy, simple to manage and easy to customise and expand. Bring together intelligence, strategy and operations in one place. Hear from our CTO Michael Backes https://youtu.be/MK-Tmm9KMxo | $13.5M | Seed | May 04, 2021 |  |
| Edgify | Edgify is a developer of a predictive personalization technology used to analyze a user's photos on their phone. Its technology captures consumers' changing needs, offering predictive accuracy that can be integrated with brands' customer relationship management systems and recommendation platforms that enable clients to get markettargeting capabilities and to capture the ever-changing needs of their consumers.Edgify also develops a distributed yet collaborative framework that enables users to train complete deep-learning and machine-learning models directly on their own edge devices, without the need to transfer any of the data to the cloud. The company's framework gives any edge unit the ability to run Deep Learning and AI training locally, without the need to extract the data to a server or having to pay the network costs of Model building.Edgify was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England, UK. | $6.5M | Seed | Oct 12, 2020 |  |
| receeve GmbH | receeve is a fully customisable all-in-one platform for collections & recovery. We simplify the growing complexity of data and systems and empower in-house teams to easily automate processes, engage customers and apply 360° insights to maximise recovery and minimise risk across every stage of credit management - from pre-delinquency toportfolio assignment or sale. One platform. A perfect balance of ease-of-use and power, receeve’s cloud-native, no-code platform is fast to deploy, simple to manage and easy to customise and expand. Bring together intelligence, strategy and operations in one place. Hear from our CTO Michael Backes https://youtu.be/MK-Tmm9KMxo | $4.4M | Seed | Feb 04, 2020 |  |
| Nestpick | Nestpick is the largest platform globally for On-Demand Housing. Nestpick aggregates more than 3M+ accommodation options from 200+ web platforms in 3000+ cities of the world and helps everyone including Expatriates, International Students & Nomads or nowadays everyone that works remotely when they're searching for their first home in theirnew city/country. Nestpick focuses on 1 month and above stays and works with trusted partners such as Airbnb, Spotahome, Uniplaces, Sonder, Homelike, Student.com, Roomi and many others. Built by a group of internationals, helping internationals. | $11M | Series A | Nov 02, 2015 |  |
| ChurchDesk | ChurchDesk is the all in one solution to help your church develop and connect with people. | $2M |  | Aug 20, 2015 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neo-innovation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [KAYA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaya-8ed9) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kinled Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kinled) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mangrove Capital Partners

VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on early-stage, mid venture, startups, expansion stage, growth capital investments, buyouts, and emerging growth. Its mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to itsportfolio companies.Mangrove seeks to invest in internet and software businesses with a focus on online services, marketplaces, application service providers, multimedia services, communications, wireless, infrastructure, media, network, and services. The firm is also focused on peer-to-peer computing, gaming, e-commerce, security, mobile, mobile value-added services, network management, urban mobility, SaaS-based businesses, and the automotive industry. It primarily invests in greater Europe, including Russia, Benelux, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain, and Israel. It may also invest in United States, Canada, and India.Mangrove Capital Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

5 contacts available at Mangrove Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hans Schmitz | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hans-j%C3%BCrgen-schmitz |
| Mark Tluszcz | Co-Founder,CEO and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-tluszcz |
| Nikolas Krawinkel | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikolas-krawinkel |
| Roy Saar | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roy-saar |
| Toby Walsh | Communications Consultant | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/toby-walsh |

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## FAQ

### What does Hans Schmitz invest in?

Hans Schmitz invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Hans Schmitz's check size?

Hans Schmitz typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$14M 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 Hans Schmitz participates in.

### When did Hans Schmitz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hans Schmitz closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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