# Harald Braunstein

> Harald Braunstein is a Series A investor at NFQ Capital backing Logistics. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [NFQ Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfq-capital)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harald-braunstein-9130047/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/HBraunstein
- Website: https://x.com/HBraunstein

Harald Braunstein is a Series A investor at NFQ Capital in Munich focused on Logistics and Artificial Intelligence. Harald runs investments at NFQ.com – one of Europe´s leading venture focussed software & product companies, which he joined in 2013 and transferred it to an investment stage and geography agnostic investment entity.Meanwhile NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and South East Asia with a current team of over 250specialists delivering company-building services including strategy, engineering, operational scaling, recruiting, business development, product delivery, and product marketing.Prior to NFQ, Harald gained experience as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Passion Capital in London and by building up/leading HR, Analytics and Business Development at a portfolio company of Rocket Internet in Berlin. Harald started his career in investment banking, working at various institutions in New York, London and Frankfurt where he was responsible for the initial launch & development of today’s regulatory credit risk pricing at Merrill Lynch in EMEA. He studied Business and Quantitative Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance and at the University of Colorado. Harald splits his time between Munich & San Francisco.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Logistics | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Mobile | 1 | 11% |
| Travel | 1 | 11% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 22% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ShipBob | ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictiveinsights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by | $200M | Series E | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| ShipBob | ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictiveinsights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by | $68M | Series D | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| Tourlane | Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy. | $8.5M | Series A | Mar 23, 2018 |  |
| Pop Meals | Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowestdelivery costs in the industry.Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | $2.6M | Seed | Jan 04, 2018 |  |
| Joblift | Joblift is a meta-search platform providing job seekers with the most intuitive and frictionless experience during the recruiting process. They apply latest machine learning techniques and big-data based algorithms in order to offer their users matching job vacancies that truly matter to them. | $10.6M | Series A | Dec 13, 2017 |  |
| Pop Meals | Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowestdelivery costs in the industry.Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | $1.3M | Seed | Feb 20, 2017 |  |
| Tourlane | Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy. | $1.5M | Seed | Feb 08, 2017 |  |
| ShipBob | ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictiveinsights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by | $4M | Series A | May 18, 2016 |  |
| ShipBob | ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictiveinsights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by | $4M | Series A | May 18, 2016 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hyde Park Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [50 South Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/50-south-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apax Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apax-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Asia Venture Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asia-venture-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About NFQ Capital

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

They see ourselves as the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs” and they take a very hands-on approach to investing. They strongly believe that the key to successful investing lies not just in finding the next outstanding internet brand – but in helping to create it. They focus on later-stage growth phases but do also seed and incubation stages.Additionally to our investment, they are supporting the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 400+ development specialists delivering company-building services including strategy, engineering, operational scaling, recruiting, business development, product delivery, and product marketing. NFQ invests globally and across industries into companies which scale through a technology.NFQ has offices in Europe and San Francisco.

3 contacts available at NFQ Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Harald Braunstein | Founding Partner and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harald-braunstein |
| Johannes Lenhard | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johannes-lenhard |
| Wolfgang Heigl | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wolfgang-heigl |

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## FAQ

### What does Harald Braunstein invest in?

Harald Braunstein invests primarily in Logistics, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Harald Braunstein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Harald Braunstein closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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