# IONIQ

> IONIQ is a VC fund in Berlin backing FinTech, Banking and Finance. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ioniq-group
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/IONIQGroup
- Website: https://www.ioniq.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IONIQGroup

IONIQ is a VC fund in Berlin focused on FinTech and Banking. The IONIQ Group is an internationally active platform-builder with the mission of shaping Europe’s digital future. In pursuing this goal, IONIQ has proceeded industry by industry: in 2011, IONIQ started with the data and advertising market, building internationally successful companies like Zeotap in the process. From 2014 on, IONIQ developedEurope’s leading fintech platform, finleap. Since 2017, IONIQ is driving the digitalization of healthcare with its digital health platform Heartbeat Labs. To date, IONIQ Group has built more than 20 companies with over 1,200 employees in more than 10 locations globally. IONIQ Group was founded in 2011 as HitFox GmbH by a team including Jan Beckers, Hendrik Krawinkel and Tim Koschella.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 36% |
| Banking | 2 | 18% |
| Finance | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Insurance | 2 | 18% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 55% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 18% |
| Series C | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 7 | 64% |
| India | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Jagle | VP Operation | 0 | — |
| Hendrik Krawinkel | Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |
| Jan Beckers | Founder & Executive Chairman | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-beckers |
| Johannes Keienburg | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | — |
| Tim Koschella | Founding Partner | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CureSkin | CureSkin is a mobile application for derma-care. It is uses computer vision to recommend treatment to patients who don’t have access to trained professionals. | $5M | Series A | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Zeotap | Zeotap is the AI-powered Customer Data Platform that helps enterprises unlock the true value of their customer data - faster, smarter, and with enterprise-grade precision. With plug-and-play connectors and a flexible, modular design, Zeotap integrates effortlessly into existing ecosystems, delivering 3x faster time-to-value than traditional CDPs.Trusted by leading global brands, Zeotap combines the industry’s most advanced ID Extension and identity resolution with AI-powered orchestration - enabling unmatched match rates, smarter segmentation, and real-time activation. Designed for business teams and loved by IT, Zeotap makes it easy to unify, activate, and scale customer data - while staying fully compliant with global privacy regulations.Smarter data. Stronger outcomes. Built for business. | $42M | Series C | Jul 15, 2020 |  |
| PAIR Finance | PAIR Finance is the leading AI-based Fintech for debt collection and receivables management in Germany. With its innovative technology, advanced behavioral analytics and data science, the company enables business customers to recover lost revenue from unpaid claims – digital, with greater efficiency and customer focus. More than 300 companies froma wide range of industry sectors are already successfully working with the debt collection platform for the digital age, including Zalando, Klarna, Home24 and Sixt. The fast-growing company, founded in Berlin in 2016, has about 100 experienced employees and is managed by founder and CEO Stephan Stricker. For more information, visit: www.pairfinance.com. | $4.9M | Series A | Nov 01, 2017 |  |
| CureSkin | CureSkin is a mobile application for derma-care. It is uses computer vision to recommend treatment to patients who don’t have access to trained professionals. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2017 |  |
| finleap | The journey continues with Motive Ventures. From 2014 to 2021, finleap has built or invested in 15 ventures and developed more than 5 corporate JVs and service ventures collectively worth €3.0Bn+ at a point in time. The finleap portfolio is now managed by Motive Ventures. | $42.8M | Series A | Jul 17, 2017 |  |
| Clark | Clark is an insurance platform providing transparent, cheap and comprehensive insurance coverage. By combining technology and insurance expertise, Clark offers users simple, fair and customer-centric insurance advice. The Berlin-based company was founded in June 2015 by Dr. Christopher Oster and Steffen Glomb. Clark is supported by FinTechincubator FinLeap and the insurance think tank ITA - "Institute for Transparency". | $14.5M | Series A | Sep 29, 2016 |  |
| finleap | The journey continues with Motive Ventures. From 2014 to 2021, finleap has built or invested in 15 ventures and developed more than 5 corporate JVs and service ventures collectively worth €3.0Bn+ at a point in time. The finleap portfolio is now managed by Motive Ventures. | $23M |  | Jun 13, 2016 |  |
| Zeotap | Zeotap is the AI-powered Customer Data Platform that helps enterprises unlock the true value of their customer data - faster, smarter, and with enterprise-grade precision. With plug-and-play connectors and a flexible, modular design, Zeotap integrates effortlessly into existing ecosystems, delivering 3x faster time-to-value than traditional CDPs.Trusted by leading global brands, Zeotap combines the industry’s most advanced ID Extension and identity resolution with AI-powered orchestration - enabling unmatched match rates, smarter segmentation, and real-time activation. Designed for business teams and loved by IT, Zeotap makes it easy to unify, activate, and scale customer data - while staying fully compliant with global privacy regulations.Smarter data. Stronger outcomes. Built for business. | $6.4M | Series A | Aug 04, 2015 |  |
| Ad2games | ad2games is an innovative, technology-driven performance marketing specialist for games. As the largest game-focused ad-tech company in Europe, it is also one of the leading game distribution companies worldwide. Leveraging advanced behavioral targeting technologies and data mining, ad2games provides quality users for more than 150 game publisherssuch as Bigpoint, Gameforge, EA, Kabam, Goodgame Studios and Nexon.ad2games is present in over 75 countries and provides more than 1,500,000 players for game publishers every month. The company is part of HitFox Group and headquartered in Berlin with additional offices in San Francisco and São Paulo. ad2games employs 75 performance marketing and gaming experts from over 25 countries. | $9M | Series A | Dec 02, 2014 |  |
| appiris | appiris is a mobile marketing platform focusing on non Gaming verticals.Founded in Jan 2014 by Hitfox Group, Stefan Benndorf and Hugo Gersanois, appiris is a platform for acquiring high-value users for mobile applications on a pure performance basis. The campaigns of customers are optimized based on LTV and ROI metrics. Key benefits forappiris's clients comprise the high-quality and scale through the sophisticated optimization and delivery approach. appiris works for a broadly diversified client base from industry segments such as E-Commerce, Classifieds, Travel and other transaction-based business models. For its media partners, apploop delivers high eCPMs through high conversion rates and high-quality offers | $1.1M |  | Apr 03, 2014 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [coparion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coparion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [finleap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finleap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Taver Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gagarin-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Heartbeat Labs — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [NIBC Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nibc-bank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does IONIQ invest in?

IONIQ invests primarily in FinTech, Banking and Finance startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact IONIQ?

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### Who are the partners at IONIQ?

The team at IONIQ includes Andreas Jagle (VP Operation), Hendrik Krawinkel (Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer) and Jan Beckers (Founder & Executive Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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