# Heiko Rauch

> Heiko Rauch is a seed investor at UFOstart (Berlin) backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [UFOstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ufostart-ag)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/heikorauch
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/HeikoRauch
- Website: https://x.com/HeikoRauch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heiko.rauch

Heiko Rauch is a seed investor at UFOstart in Berlin focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Co-Founder of UFOstart

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $318k–$5.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 50% |
| Internet | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Art | 1 | 13% |
| Content | 1 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 3 | 38% |
| Germany | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VisionAI | Recommendy's mission is to transform online shopping into a personalized and interactive real-time experience.With our AI automation and user experience plugin solution, we analyze all products, customer shopping behavior and click paths, based on visual and semantic artificial intelligence, to automate the entire creation of cross-sellingitems and provide a customized and interactive shopping experience.In this way, we save merchants money as well as man-hours and offer them the ability to customize their entire web store to each visitor in real time in an automated way, by reflecting each customer's individual interests and generating valuable data about their own target audience. The result: Online stores standing out from their competitors and offering a unique and motivating shopping experience. | $5.3M | Seed | Oct 20, 2023 |  |
| CodeOp | CodeOp is providing the resources needed to encourage, support and equip women and individuals in the TGNC community with the skills to become leading developers and data engineers. We’re building an educational space and program that fosters diversity and inclusion and how we do this is important. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| ModelManagement.com | ModelManagement.com is the leading platform for models, influencers, photographers, casting directors, agencies, production companies and brands with more than one million models and the biggest variety of profiles from around the world. With ModelManagement.com, models and new faces can easily access the industry, apply to castings from whereverand whenever they want through our website or app, and get to work as a model. | $768K | Seed | Jun 30, 2019 |  |
| Gamestry | Gamestry offers eSports online classes created for students of all skill levels.Their instructors are the best in the world. | $318K | Seed | Apr 24, 2019 |  |
| JUNIQE | JUNIQE is the lifestyle brand for curated and affordable wall art, home accessories, stationery, and gifts. Their team of eCommerce professionals works to help customers make their houses their homes by bringing art into their everyday lives: Art. Everywhere.Seeking to engage and excite, JUNIQE's team searches the globe for emerging andestablished artists before handpicking artworks and printing these on selected merchandise. Its wide product portfolio includes premium posters, framed prints, shower curtains, cushions, personal planners and notebooks, to name a few. Guided by the vision of bringing art into every home, JUNIQE empowers and inspires its customers through exciting and affordable art. | $2M | Seed | Jul 16, 2014 |  |
| JUNIQE | JUNIQE is the lifestyle brand for curated and affordable wall art, home accessories, stationery, and gifts. Their team of eCommerce professionals works to help customers make their houses their homes by bringing art into their everyday lives: Art. Everywhere.Seeking to engage and excite, JUNIQE's team searches the globe for emerging andestablished artists before handpicking artworks and printing these on selected merchandise. Its wide product portfolio includes premium posters, framed prints, shower curtains, cushions, personal planners and notebooks, to name a few. Guided by the vision of bringing art into every home, JUNIQE empowers and inspires its customers through exciting and affordable art. | $357K | Angel | Feb 10, 2014 |  |
| UFOstart | We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing. | $1M |  | Sep 01, 2013 |  |
| Itembase | Itembase is an e-commerce API integration platform. It is a marketplace that connects e-commerce shops with solution providers. It allows solution providers to offer services on multiple shop systems by solely integrating with itembase. Today, already more than 120,000 e-commerce shops get access to the best solutions tailored to the needs.Itembase was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Sep 21, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Banco Sabadell](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/banco-sabadell) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ship2B](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-come-ship2b) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Conny & Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conny-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [redalpine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redalpine-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sabadell Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabadell-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About UFOstart

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing.

4 contacts available at UFOstart.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heiko Rauch | Co-Founder & Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heiko-rauch |
| Thomas Hessler | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-hessler |
| Jens Hewald | Co-Founder & Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-hewald |
| Lars Schulze | Co-Founder & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lars-schulze |

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## FAQ

### What does Heiko Rauch invest in?

Heiko Rauch invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Heiko Rauch's check size?

Heiko Rauch typically joins rounds of $318k–$5.3M 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 Heiko Rauch participates in.

### When did Heiko Rauch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Heiko Rauch closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 8 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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