Josef Brunner
Angel Investor @ Munich Venture Partners
Munich, Germany
Josef Brunner is a seed investor at Munich Venture Partners in Munich focused on Software and Internet of Things. Josef Brunner has a successful track record of starting and growing companies, beginning at age 16 when he founded one of the first unified threat management systems. After selling the company to Azlan (now Techdata), Brunner remained to lead the business as head of security. In 2004, Brunner founded Bastille Networks, a company focused onproactive security prevention and monitoring, then sold its main assets to Integralis (now part of NTT Telecom) in 2007. His last startup, JouleX, was acquired by Cisco for 107m in cash in June 2013. Through his venture company, AFT Ventures, Brunner is actively investing in young startups.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Josef Brunner invests in
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Countries Josef Brunner invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (50%)
- Internet of Things 2 (33%)
- Industrial Manufacturing 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Analytics 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
Country
- Germany 2 (33%)
- United States 2 (33%)
Investments
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| SPARETECH’s Vertical AI software enables maintenance and procurement teams in manufacturing to reliably reduce spend and optimize inventory by sourcing spare parts inside or outside their production network and stop buying parts they already have. | $6.2M / Seed / Oct 04, 2021 | ||
| corrux builds software that enables enterprises to maximize the efficiency of industrial equipment. The company’s analytics layer lets construction companies and OEMs understand their heavy machinery - ranging from excavators to track laying machines. | $3.1M / Seed / Feb 11, 2019 | ||
| relayr is a rapidly-growing IoT company providing enterprise middleware and IoT solutions for the digital transformation of industries. As a thought leader in enterprise IoT, relayr enables interoperability through industrial-grade platforms.Their software enables comprehensive data analytics and management, empowering businesses to create newsolutions and revenue streams with data collected from any device, through any connectivity, throughout any IT ecosystem. | Series B / Nov 21, 2017 | ||
| relayr is a rapidly-growing IoT company providing enterprise middleware and IoT solutions for the digital transformation of industries. As a thought leader in enterprise IoT, relayr enables interoperability through industrial-grade platforms.Their software enables comprehensive data analytics and management, empowering businesses to create newsolutions and revenue streams with data collected from any device, through any connectivity, throughout any IT ecosystem. | $23M / Series B / Nov 01, 2016 | ||
| relayr is a rapidly-growing IoT company providing enterprise middleware and IoT solutions for the digital transformation of industries. As a thought leader in enterprise IoT, relayr enables interoperability through industrial-grade platforms.Their software enables comprehensive data analytics and management, empowering businesses to create newsolutions and revenue streams with data collected from any device, through any connectivity, throughout any IT ecosystem. | $11M / Series A / Nov 05, 2015 | ||
| Neokami is a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence software company. Leveraging next generation machine learning algorithms, Neokami's core platform has been optimized to solve a focused set of today’s pressing data security problems. The product enables companies to discover, classify and help secure sensitive data in the cloud, on premise,or across their physical assets. | $1.1M / Seed / Jul 08, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About Munich Venture Partners
Munich Venture Partners (MVP) is the high-tech venture capital specialist based in Munich, and one of Germany's largest. As an independent venture fund, MVP concentrates on investments for leading-edge start-up companies with Transformative Technologies, which will fundamentally transform established value chains. The investment focus is inEurope and on a select basis, beyond. Relevant sectors include: IoT, Mobility, Energy, Advanced Materials, AI, and Robotics.MVP was founded in 2005 and is part funded by the European Union and its Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP).
Munich Venture Partners Contacts
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Martin Kröner
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Böhm Beatrice
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Julian Klaiber
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Michael Sailer
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Rolf Nagel
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What does Josef Brunner invest in?
Josef Brunner invests primarily in Software, Internet of Things and Industrial Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Josef Brunner closed in Oct 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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