# Hello World

> Hello World is a VC fund in Luxembourg backing Software and Information Technology. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helloworldvc/
- Website: http://www.helloworldvc.com/

Hello World is a Detroit-based Venture Capital firm. We invest in people, not companies. We look for entrepreneurs that never take ‘no’ for an answer, entrepreneurs that have a “Rocky” type mentality, and are willing to do whatever it takes to be successful. The founders of Hello World have started successful companies in the past, and know thegritty, hungry, scrappy characteristics it takes to build something that will impact the world.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Sales | 1 | 13% |
| Credit | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| encentive | We provide an energy demand management platform that connects energy providers with energy demanding appliances. We solve the problem of wasting valuable renewable energy by rewarding appliance owners for shifting their electricity demand to times when renewable energy is abundant. We put renewable energy to work. Efficient, scalable and fullyautomated! | $7.4M | Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| ENAPI | ENAPI is building the transaction broker and clearing house for the electric vehicle (EV) charging industry. We effectively connect Charge Point Operators and eMobility Service Providers to enable a better charging experience for EV Drivers. | $7.8M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Root Global | Root Global is a data-driven software company committed to redefining how F&B companies manage and reduce their environmental footprint. | $8.9M | Seed | Aug 19, 2024 |  |
| ENAPI | ENAPI is building the transaction broker and clearing house for the electric vehicle (EV) charging industry. We effectively connect Charge Point Operators and eMobility Service Providers to enable a better charging experience for EV Drivers. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| Catalog | Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Weflow | Revenue teams use Weflow's Revenue Execution Workspace to boost productivity, pipeline visibility, forecast accuracy, and Salesforce data hygiene. | $3.2M | Seed | Jul 07, 2023 |  |
| Claimer | Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom. | $4.2M | Seed | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Cerbos | Cerbos is a software company that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage. Cerbos provides plug-and-play collaborative authorization of permissions. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 30, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Project A Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/project-a-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gradient](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gradient-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Motier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motier-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [8-Bit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8-bit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Hello World invest in?

Hello World invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Hello World last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Hello World closed in Sep 2025. 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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