# Jan Wilmking

> Jan Wilmking is a seed investor backing SaaS, Retail and Software. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Feb 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jan-wilmking/4/63a/a99

Jan Wilmking is a seed investor focused on SaaS and Retail. I believe in business can be a force of good. That’s why I invest in solutions for our world‘s most pressing issues. Passionate about human centred software, food tech, circularity, and mental positivity. I was part Zalando's leadership team pre-IPO until 2019, several years in McKinsey in consumer industries, and am active as angel investorand mentor for early stage teams at TechStars and beyond.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Retail | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |
| Training | 1 | 14% |
| Wellness | 1 | 14% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 43% |
| Singapore | 2 | 29% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Clare&me | Clare&me is an automated AI-driven audio bot to counter mental illnesses such as anxiety and mild depression. It provides users a platform to talk about their worries through phone calls, WhatsApp, or SMS, offering 24/7 access to scientifically-backed self-help techniques. Clare, the AI assistant, guides users through reflective exercisesand grounding techniques, ensuring a judgment-free, anonymous environment. The service is accessible for a subscription fee and is available for communication anytime, making mental health support more approachable and personalized. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| Clare&me | Clare&me is an automated AI-driven audio bot to counter mental illnesses such as anxiety and mild depression. It provides users a platform to talk about their worries through phone calls, WhatsApp, or SMS, offering 24/7 access to scientifically-backed self-help techniques. Clare, the AI assistant, guides users through reflective exercisesand grounding techniques, ensuring a judgment-free, anonymous environment. The service is accessible for a subscription fee and is available for communication anytime, making mental health support more approachable and personalized. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 11, 2022 |  |
| Urbyo | Urbyo is a make possible for more people to buy real estate. And to do so quickly, transparently, and conveniently. | $5M | Seed | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Reebelo | Reebelo operates as an online marketplace specializing in refurbished and pre-owned electronics. The company offers a selection of certified devices, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops, aiming to provide alternatives to new products through a sustainable approach. Reebelo manages quality assurance processes to ensure device functionalityand condition. The platform facilitates buying and selling while providing warranties and customer support related to its products. The company serves both individual consumers and businesses seeking refurbished technology solutions. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Next Gen Foods | Next Gen Foods is a food-tech startup that offers plant-based meat products. They use plants to create a delicious and satisfying meat experience that will make forget animal meat even exists. | $10M | Seed | Feb 25, 2021 |  |
| Sharpist | Sharpist is a digital coaching for leadership development. Their platform provides services that include video coaching, personalized exercises, micro-tasks, and evaluation along with expert chat that enables companies and organizations to scale executive coaching to their workforce. | $5M | Seed | Feb 18, 2020 |  |
| Clarisights | Clarisights was founded to empower performance marketing and growth teams by creating a platform that gives them insights and superhero powers they have always wanted. Rather than wrestling with outdated spreadsheets and BI platforms that can't keep pace with their growing volume of marketing channels and data, marketers can use Clarisights toindependently explore and analyze all their data in a single and intuitive interface. Marketing teams around the world use Clarisights for every aspect of their performance marketing workflow - from integrating with data channels, creating and optimizing dashboards, and collaborating with teammates - all in real time.Clarisights is a data ingestion and analytics platform that enables marketers to make sense of and gain unique insights from data coming in from all the sources. Our platform is a seamless in-browser experience - the users just add the sources (analytics, ads data) they want to track, our backend then ingests the data from those sources, performs the necessary transformations and stores it in our own database. All of this, without the user needing to configure any data pipelines. Users can begin answering questions on their marketing data by building interactive visualizations, minutes after signing up. With Clarisights, marketers can build visualizations to answer questions like “What are my largest sources of traffic and what are the major cost sinkholes?” and then also quickly drill down into granular details like “What kind of ad copy has the least customer acquisition cost” or “Which ad creatives are driving the maximum RoI?” | $2.3M | Seed | Dec 01, 2018 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [June Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/june-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [YZR Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yzr-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [4SEED Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4seed-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Jan Wilmking invest in?

Jan Wilmking invests primarily in SaaS, Retail and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jan Wilmking's check size?

Jan Wilmking typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$10M 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 Jan Wilmking participates in.

### When did Jan Wilmking last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jan Wilmking closed in Feb 2022. Shizune tracks 7 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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