HW Capital
VC Fund
München, Germany
HW Capital is an investment firm with a focus on the financial services industry. Their core activity is to start new financial services businesses by bringing together talent, capital and experience. HW Capital is backed by Robert Haselsteiner and Marcus Wolsdorf, co-founders of Interhyp, Germany’s largest independent mortgage distributor.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries HW Capital invests in
Stages HW Capital invests in
Countries HW Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$5.3M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$5.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 6 (32%)
- Financial Services 5 (26%)
- Software 3 (16%)
- SaaS 2 (11%)
- Credit 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (47%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Series B 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- Germany 11 (58%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Marcus Wolsdorf
Co-Founder & Co-Owner
|
Co-Founder & Co-Owner | Total investments: 9 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| As Deutsche Firmenkredit Partner (DFKP), the company funds small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, combining the power of digitization with extensive human guidance. The company's financing consultants have access to financing solutions from over 100 banks and specialised lenders and can negotiate market-leading terms forbusiness customers from all industries. DFKP provides nationwide advice and is also available to you directly in our offices in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, Essen, and Nuremberg. | $5.3M / Seed / Apr 27, 2022 | ||
| BANOVO is a bathroom renovation company. They offer wall design, bathroom floors, lighting, and materials. Their services include bathroom floor plans, l-shaped bathrooms, mini baths, guest toilet design, and visually enlarging a small bathroom. | Series A / Apr 01, 2021 | ||
| Vytal is a provider of software-enabled reusable packaging solutions to eliminate single-use packaging waste in the food and beverage industry. It offers a reusable container system and container management software to facilitate sustainable takeaway and delivery services, serving restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, canteens, and event organizers. | $2.4M / Seed / Feb 10, 2021 | ||
| Designed with European tax standards in mind, the mobile and web app support your individualized expense invoicing process in real time, helping to create a seamless and straightforward experience for road warriors, accountants and managers alike. | Seed / Apr 03, 2019 | ||
| BANOVO is a bathroom renovation company. They offer wall design, bathroom floors, lighting, and materials. Their services include bathroom floor plans, l-shaped bathrooms, mini baths, guest toilet design, and visually enlarging a small bathroom. | $1.5M / Series A / Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| Capmo is the leading B2B SaaS startup revolutionizing one of the largest yet most antiquated industries in the world, construction and real estate. We have been awarded multiple times as one of the most innovative construction tech companies and have tripled our team in 3 years to nearly 70 employees from more than 15 countries. By the end of 2022,we will define the digital future of the construction industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland so that homes, schools and hospitals, among others, can be built on time, on budget and CO2-efficiently in the future. The Munich-based software startup was founded in 2018. Several hundred customers and tens of thousands of users in Europe already rely on Capmo's digital solution and implement well over 10,000 construction projects with the software. | $2M / Seed / Dec 12, 2018 | ||
| Finimize is the world's largest and most engaged finance community. | Seed / Jul 01, 2017 | ||
| Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs. | $5.8M / Series A / Feb 20, 2017 | ||
| Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point ofSale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019. | $4.5M / Series A / Sep 06, 2016 | ||
| Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award. | $4.4M / Series D / Jul 05, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does HW Capital invest in?
HW Capital invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does HW Capital invest in?
HW Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$5.3M at Seed and $1.5M–$5.8M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not HW Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds HW Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at HW Capital?
The team at HW Capital includes Marcus Wolsdorf (Co-Founder & Co-Owner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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