# Jessica Holzbach

> Jessica Holzbach is a pre-seed investor at Pile (Berlin) backing Banking and FinTech. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pile](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pile)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaholzbach/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Jessica_Hbach
- Website: https://x.com/Jessica_Hbach

Jessica Holzbach is a pre-seed investor at Pile in Berlin focused on Banking and FinTech. Jessica Holzbach co-founded Penta and served as its Chief Customer Officer on the Management Team for over 4.5 years since its inception to scale with over 30.000 customers, +150 employees, and more than a 45million in venture funding collected. She started her career by studying General Management before completing her Master in Finance. Inbetween her studies, Jessica worked as a digital strategy consultant for banks and insurance companies. She founded her first company in 2016, before switching back to banking with Penta in 2017. As CCO and MD, she was responsible for Penta's growth and was honored by Forbes on the “30 under 30” list, Capital on “Top 40 under 40” and won the German Startup Award of 2021. Currently, she is taking on several advisory roles in the Venture Capital scene and acts as an active Angel Investor in the Fintech industry.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1.7M–$6.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Banking | 2 | 50% |
| FinTech | 2 | 50% |
| InsurTech | 2 | 50% |
| Insurance | 2 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xaver | Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering. | $6.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2024 |  |
| NUMOS | NUMOS is an insurance tech platform. |  | Angel | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Index Health | Index Health is a telemedicine company that modernizes medicine by making treatment more personalized, data-driven, and proactive in order to help prevent and treat disease more effectively.Its primary focus is on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hormones, and auto-immune conditions, and its members consult with their physicians and nutritioniston a regular basis. During the months-long course of treatment, the company collects over 1,000 data points per single lab test, and each session with a physician lasts an hour. | $6M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |
| Augustus | Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Inovo.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inovo-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cavalry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flixfounders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flixfounders) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Delta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/force-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pile

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

1 contacts available at Pile.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jessica Holzbach | CEO & Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jessica-holzbach |

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## FAQ

### What does Jessica Holzbach invest in?

Jessica Holzbach invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and InsurTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jessica Holzbach's check size?

Jessica Holzbach typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$6.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jessica Holzbach participates in.

### When did Jessica Holzbach last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jessica Holzbach closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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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