# Jochen Klueppel

> Jochen Klueppel is a Series A investor at Grazia Equity backing Health Care and Retail. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Grazia Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grazia-equity)
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jochen-klueppel-0b4b73

Jochen Klueppel is a Series A investor at Grazia Equity focused on Health Care and Retail. Since 2002, Jochen Klueppel has been active with the German-based venture capital firm Grazia Equity in discovering and developing the market leaders of the future. For more than 15 years, Grazia Equity has been a reliable partner of entrepreneurs in Germany as well as worldwide. Invested with his own capital and driven by sound knowledge, empathyand passion, Jochen has supported many success stories first and foremost in the fields software, media and Internet. Riding the wave of the digital revolution, Jochen supports companies with high potential like Moviepilot, Mister Spex, Statista, Lingoda, Reelio and Yeay. Prior to his engagement at Grazia Equity, Jochen founded an Internet startup himself. As managing partner of 100world.media, he experienced the highs and lows of starting an own business and is full of valuable advice for the entrepreneurs he is working with today. In 2001, the company got aquired by a strategic investor. Before that, Jochen worked at McKinsey as a strategy consultant where he gained insights into a wide variety of industries and companies. Jochen studied Business Administration in Germany, France and the US until his graduation from HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 1998.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 2 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 13% |
| Eyewear | 1 | 13% |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |
| Internet | 1 | 13% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Seed | 1 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XO Life | XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| XO Life | XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications. | $7.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 22, 2024 |  |
| GYANT | GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and relevant in-network resources. GYANT helps health systems implement digital patient journeys to effectively capture new patients, efficiently serve existing ones, and drive process automation across the enterprise. | $13.6M | Series A | Jul 15, 2020 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. | $69M |  | Aug 20, 2019 |  |
| GYANT | GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and relevant in-network resources. GYANT helps health systems implement digital patient journeys to effectively capture new patients, efficiently serve existing ones, and drive process automation across the enterprise. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 14, 2019 |  |
| GYANT | GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and relevant in-network resources. GYANT helps health systems implement digital patient journeys to effectively capture new patients, efficiently serve existing ones, and drive process automation across the enterprise. | $6.2M | Seed | Jun 06, 2018 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. | $7.4M | Series B | Sep 11, 2010 |  |
| Mister Spex | Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. |  | Series A | Jan 01, 2008 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alpana Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpana-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sandwater](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sandwater) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [VI Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vi-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ACME Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acme-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aescuvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aescuvest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Grazia Equity

VC Fund · Stuttgart, Germany

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

5 contacts available at Grazia Equity.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alec Rauschenbusch | Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alec-rauschenbusch |
| Benedikt Battke | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benedikt-battke |
| Jochen Klueppel | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jochen-kiuppel |
| Andrea Schweiger | Back Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-schweiger |
| Katrin Upfold | Back Office | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katrin-upfold |

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## FAQ

### What does Jochen Klueppel invest in?

Jochen Klueppel invests primarily in Health Care, Retail and Eyewear startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jochen Klueppel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jochen Klueppel closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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