Heilemann Ventures
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
Heilemann Ventures is a Berlin-based seed stage venture capital firm, founded in 2011 by Fabian and Ferry Heilemann following their trade-sale of DailyDeal to Google. Ever since, the firm made 20 investments in digital start-ups. Today the Heilemann Ventures team consists of 6 members, most of them experienced digital entrepreneurs themselves.Given the operational diversity of the team member’s backgrounds, Heilemann Ventures contributes to its portfolio-companies competencies in fields such as company building, strategy, sales, marketing/BI, finance, VC-fundraising and m&a/exits.Heilemann Ventures investment focus is geographically centered around the DACH-region but also case-by-case across Europe and the US-East-Coast. The ticket-size sweet spot is in the low to middle six-digit-EUR-range in seed-stage-rounds. Regarding industries and technologies the focus is on SaaS, Marketplaces, FinTech, AdTech, Consumer Health, Logistics and IoT.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Heilemann Ventures invests in
Stages Heilemann Ventures invests in
Countries Heilemann Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $274k–$2.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 4 (18%)
- SaaS 2 (9%)
- Finance 2 (9%)
- Internet 2 (9%)
- Shopping 2 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (73%)
- Series A 3 (14%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- Germany 15 (68%)
- United States 3 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patrice Deckert
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Alexander Ruppert
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Lydia Benkö
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Manuel Hinz
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
FinTecSystems
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FinTecSystems (FTS) was founded in Munich in 2014 and is one of the leading banking API and smart data providers in Germany. Alongside the Open Banking platform that the company uses to provide Account Information and Payment Initiation Services, FinTecSystems has primarily focussed on the analysis of financial data through an analytics platform.Banks, FinTechs and payment service providers use FinTecSystems’ solutions to make real-time loan decisions, minimize credit risks and initiate online transfers. In March 2019, TÜV-certified FinTecSystems received BaFin authorization as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With 40 staff across five locations, FTS partners include N26, Santander, DKB and Deutsche Handelsbank. | Series A / Aug 08, 2016 | |
CrossEngage
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CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy. | Seed / Jan 14, 2016 | |
Movinga
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Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services. | $25M / Series B / Jan 04, 2016 | |
Inkitt
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Inkitt is the world's first reader-powered book publisher. They have developed an algorithm that predicts bestsellers by analyzing reading behaviour.At Inkitt, they believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. That’s why they’re building the fairest and most objective publishing house in the world by finding hiddentalents and turning them into globally successful authors.They're a team of 30 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and have raised $5m to level up and get closer to their goal: to help debut authors dominate the NY Times Best Seller list. | $1.1M / Seed / Nov 15, 2015 | |
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FinTecSystems
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FinTecSystems (FTS) was founded in Munich in 2014 and is one of the leading banking API and smart data providers in Germany. Alongside the Open Banking platform that the company uses to provide Account Information and Payment Initiation Services, FinTecSystems has primarily focussed on the analysis of financial data through an analytics platform.Banks, FinTechs and payment service providers use FinTecSystems’ solutions to make real-time loan decisions, minimize credit risks and initiate online transfers. In March 2019, TÜV-certified FinTecSystems received BaFin authorization as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With 40 staff across five locations, FTS partners include N26, Santander, DKB and Deutsche Handelsbank. | Seed / Nov 04, 2015 | |
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Movinga
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Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services. | $7M / Series A / Sep 30, 2015 | |
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Movinga
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Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services. | Seed / Aug 26, 2015 | |
Cashboard
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CASHBOARD is Europe’s first and only curated marketplace for retail investment covering all asset classes and one of the fastest growing online wealth management FinTechs in Germany.While others just sell one product CASHBOARD offers an individually tailored portfolio with access to the complete market range of traditional (Daily Deposits,Stocks, Funds, ETF) AND the rapidly growing segment of alternative investment products (P2P Lending, SME Lending, Real Estate Crowdfunding, Precious Metals, Sustainable Investing etc.).Leading European FinTechs and notable banks already partner with CASHBOARD currently offering more than 6,500 investment products on the open technology platform. Retail clients benefit from the one-stop-shop solution which enables them to manage all their assets in a single account. For them the platform is completely free of charge except for a success-related performance fee.CASHBOARD is recognized as one of the 9 top wealth tech companies in Europe (2017) and one of the market-leading companies in Germany (Aixigo/Springer 2016). The team has received several notable awards including Europe’s highest endowed startup prize – the SevenVentures Pitch Day from NOAH London worth €4m TV media and is backed by top-tier international VC’s including 500 Startups, Earlybird, Digital Space Ventures, Redalpine, ProSiebenSat.1 and more. | $2M / Seed / Aug 19, 2015 | |
McMakler
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McMakler is the leading hybrid real estate agent in Germany. The company combines state-of-the-art marketing technology and central processes at its headquarters in Berlin with a local team of almost 400 permanent real estate agents across Germany in all major regions. With a supported brand awareness of 33%, McMakler is today the best-known realestate agent in Germany and is characterised by its far above-average service quality. | Seed / Aug 01, 2015 | |
Secucloud
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Secucloud is active worldwide as a provider of high-availability cyber-security solutions, offering a cloud-based security-as-a-service platform particularly for for telecommunications providers and ISPs. The Elastic Cloud Security System (ECS2) allows a wide range of markets and target groups (mobile communications & landline consumers, smallbusinesses & home offices, SMEs) to enjoy the benefits of enterprise-level security solutions. This innovative platform does not require any special hardware or proprietary appliances, scales automatically, and is capable of supporting more than 100 million users and their connected devices. | Mar 30, 2015 | |
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FAQ
What does Heilemann Ventures invest in?
Heilemann Ventures invests primarily in Mobile, SaaS and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Heilemann Ventures's check size?
Heilemann Ventures typically joins rounds of $274k–$2.5M 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 Heilemann Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Heilemann Ventures?
The team at Heilemann Ventures includes Patrice Deckert (Venture Partner), Alexander Ruppert (Investment Manager) and Lydia Benkö (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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