Holtzbrinck Digital
VC Fund
München, Germany
Holtzbrinck Digital is a VC fund in München focused on Education and Software. Their investment focus is on digital businesses in the fields of Science, Education and Content which is grounded in deep market understanding and strong domain expertise. With offices in Munich, London and Boston they follow a global approach and back convincing business models with their experience, network and background aiming for the nextlevel of growth.Partnering with the founders and management teams of their companies is key for them. They regularly work closely together and support with strategic and operational advice. The joint goal is to ensure operational success and to create economic value. As an investor they are rigorous regarding their investment fields, but flexible on the transaction size and the shareholding in the company. They invest in startups which have already achieved proof-of-concept, support later stage companies with growth capital and acquire profitable businesses with the potential to be leaders in their domestic or international market. Selected investments into dedicated and outperforming funds complement their investment strategy.
- Total investments:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Holtzbrinck Digital invests in
Stages Holtzbrinck Digital invests in
Countries Holtzbrinck Digital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series A
- $4.4M–$8.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 9 (30%)
- Software 6 (20%)
- EdTech 4 (13%)
- Internet 4 (13%)
- E-Learning 4 (13%)
Stage
- Funding Round 10 (33%)
- Seed 5 (17%)
- Series A 5 (17%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Private Equity 1 (3%)
Country
- Germany 13 (43%)
- United Kingdom 4 (13%)
- United States 3 (10%)
- Switzerland 1 (3%)
- The Netherlands 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ellen Schrade
M&A Analyst
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M&A Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jannik von Wallis
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Marc-Orell Dedorath
Investment Manger
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Investment Manger | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Likeminded operates a digital platform for mental health, providing a range of courses focused on mental well-being. All of Likeminded's psychological experts possess academic backgrounds in psychology and receive specialized training from Likeminded. These experts are specifically skilled in facilitating group sessions and offering digitalsupport to users. They undergo ongoing supervision and coaching for continuous professional development. | $6.5M / Seed / Jul 31, 2023 | ||
| Building tools to grow Open Science | Series A / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Metaphacts is an innovative software company that provides the product, expertise, and services to build customer-oriented knowledge graph applications in areas such as life sciences and pharma, engineering and manufacturing, finance and insurance, and cultural heritage. | Series B / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| AMBOSS is a digital medical knowledge platform that provides clinical content, study resources, and tools for medical professionals and students to enhance learning and improve decision-making in healthcare. The platform features an extensive library of medical articles, interactive quizzes, and a question bank designed to prepare users for examsand clinical practice. Additionally, AMBOSS offers a clinical decision support tool that assists healthcare providers in accessing relevant information at the point of care, facilitating better patient management and treatment options. | $33.8M / Series B / Jul 10, 2019 | ||
| web care LBJ GmbH is a service portal for care and housing for the elderly. The company advices and supports for individual inquiry about their telephone counselling services. It also has a network of partners across the region that offers its users with holistic services and domestic and institutional care.Caregivers for the elderly iscategorized as nursing and long term. The company offers a wide range of services such as food on wheels, everyday companion, and households and clearing. Accessible bathroom facilities are provided to the elders. They are treated with bath lift, hip bath, and tub to shower services. Stair lifts are also provided under the categories of home lift, hoist, and platform lift. A wide range of services and products, including carephone, mobile emergency, emergency mobile application, senior phones, and hearing aids are distributed.web care LBJ GmbH is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2011 by Lars Kilchert and Benedikt Zacher. | $4.4M / Oct 10, 2018 | ||
| Lecturio provides the highest quality medical education content delivered in the most advanced teaching platform for medicine. Built in collaboration with instructors from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown University and more, Lecturio combines excellent didactics with high-tech delivery. Leading universities around the world trust us to helpthem deliver their unique approaches to teaching medicine and the platform adapts to their curricula and teaching methods. | $1.9M / Series B / Apr 01, 2017 | ||
| IFI CLAIMS produces U.S.-based patent databases for patent researchers.The company offers chemical, utility, design and plant, and business method patents. It also provides indexing and database creation, database management, patent portfolio, patent intelligence and technology report, IPC and U.S. patent concordance, assignee thesaurus,patent books and journals, and custom search services.IFI CLAIMS provides global patent information through CLAIMS Direct web services. It helps developers, analysts, and information professionals create scalable applications and analytics solutions that include patent data.The company produced its first in-depth U.S. chemical patent index, Uniterm Index in 1955, averaging 20 to 25 keyword terms per U.S. patent. Uniterm Index was initially offered in a printed, dual dictionary format. In 1967, it began delivering Uniterm Index in an electronic form complete with proprietary search software for use within corporate information departments.During the late 1970’s, IFI CLAIMS’ U.S. patent databases entered the world of interactive online searching when they became the first patent databases offered by Lockheed’s Dialog Information Services. It continued to expand the depth and breadth of their U.S. patent content to include all patented technologies, patent citations, legal status changes, reassignments, and published applications.IFI CLAIMS was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Madison, Connecticut. | Jan 24, 2017 | ||
| Peerwith is a peer-2-peer marketplace connecting academics with experts in researcher services. We foster collaboration giving researchers the opportunity to improve the quality of their academic work while building lasting relationships with peers from their academic discipline. | Jan 17, 2017 | ||
| Strateos automates chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed-loop robotic labs that accelerate drug discovery programs. Through a combination of best-in-class robotics and control systems, advanced software for imaging and analytics, and remote cloud laboratories, they enable pharmaceutical partners to more rapidly and efficientlydiscover new drug candidates.Born of a merger between Transcriptic and 3Scan, Strateos combines the strengths of those companies to amplify their impact and accelerate drug discovery. Transcriptic developed the first robotic cloud laboratory platform for on-demand life science research, which is currently in use at several top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. 3Scan combined automation, machine learning and computer vision to extract spatial data from tissue samples and create detailed 3D representations as well as quantitative analysis of complex anatomical structures. Now these two portfolios will be combined to offer a suite of technologies for accelerating drug discovery and early development.By expressing life science methods as data, infrastructure virtualization will become possible. "Science-as-a-Service" will power the next generation of discovery, driven by huge efficiencies of both time and money.Transcriptic was founded in 2012 to create a better way to get lab work done. Tired of spending endless hours at the bench pretending to be slow, error-prone robots, they set out to build a modern solution to the day-to-day process of wet lab biology.Drawing on deep computer science and electrical engineering backgrounds in addition to life science, Strateos was born: a meticulously optimized, technology-enabled remote lab. Using state-of-the-art automation and control technology, and an emphasis on user experience and usability, they are working on building a stark contrast to the long, complicated sales process, high prices, and slow turnarounds of traditional CROs.They are working hard to build a great company that can be a true partner for your lab for a long time, progressively enabling ever greater levels of productivity and efficiency. They are scientists building for scientists. | $13.4M / Nov 17, 2016 | ||
| iversity makes higher education more accessible, personalised and affordable. The company offers online courses on an academic level. It enables a global community of learners to choose from a multitude of courses from a range of disciplines such as engineering to philosophy, and from design to biology. Users can access all courses on theplatform for free. Participants have to pay, however, in order to receive a certificate and a grade upon successful completion of a courses. Some of the courses on the platform confer ECTS credits that count within the traditional, offline university system.Headquartered in the German region of Berlin-Brandenburg, the company primarily cooperates with universities and professors from Europe. Instructors can use the platform iversity.org to create innovative didactical formats that include multimedia learning materials and direct feedback to the students. iversity enables learners to study anywhere – at universities from around the globe, no matter where they are. | Aug 09, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Holtzbrinck Digital invest in?
Holtzbrinck Digital invests primarily in Education, Software and EdTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 30 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Holtzbrinck Digital's check size?
Holtzbrinck Digital typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$8.5M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Holtzbrinck Digital participates in.
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The team at Holtzbrinck Digital includes Ellen Schrade (M&A Analyst), Jannik von Wallis (Investment Manager) and Marc-Orell Dedorath (Investment Manger). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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