# Julian Bürklein

> Julian Bürklein is a seed investor at Neosfer (Frankfurt) backing SaaS and Software. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Neosfer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neosfer)
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-b%C3%BCrklein-947621130/

Julian Bürklein is a seed investor at Neosfer in Frankfurt focused on SaaS and Software. Julian Bürklein is Investment Analyst of main incubator. He is responsible for the incoming deal flow and research. Furthermore he supports the Investment Managers in various projects: from drafting proposals to investment controlling of the portfolio companies.Besides his Master of Science degree in economics with the focus on finance,controlling and accounting, he brings along experiences with listed affiliated companies in the area venture capital and private equity.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 5 | 38% |
| Software | 5 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 23% |
| B2B | 1 | 8% |
| CRM | 1 | 8% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caya | Caya builds software to manage, automate and collaborate on your document workflows. It’s a smarter way for SMBs to work with documents. By automating document workflows and letting you collaborate on everything else, Caya empowers you to get on top of paperwork - freeing you to invest your time and energy where it matters most. So if your teamcould use a little organising magic (and who doesn’t?) - get Caya. | $6.5M |  | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| e-bot7 | e-bot7 integrates Artificial Intelligence to increase the efficiency of Customer Service. Through its pre-trained machine learning algorithms, the system can automate answers and processes and suggest the best answers to agents. This reduces average handling times, increases sales, and saves up to 80% of costs. | $6M | Series A | Aug 19, 2019 |  |
| e-bot7 | e-bot7 integrates Artificial Intelligence to increase the efficiency of Customer Service. Through its pre-trained machine learning algorithms, the system can automate answers and processes and suggest the best answers to agents. This reduces average handling times, increases sales, and saves up to 80% of costs. | $6M | Series A | Aug 19, 2019 |  |
| Lana Labs | LANA enables industries to continuously monitor and improve the efficiency of their value chains. Change for the better!Lana Labs is a leading provider of cloud based process mining software. Since 2016, the company has been supporting organizations worldwide with automated analyses of business and production processes. LANA Process Miningincludes a specially developed machine learning algorithm that determines data-based and automated savings and optimization potentials in business processes. This makes LANA Process Mining unique. The goal of Lana Labs is to make companies smarter, more efficient and faster through automated process analysis. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2018 |  |
| Lana Labs | LANA enables industries to continuously monitor and improve the efficiency of their value chains. Change for the better!Lana Labs is a leading provider of cloud based process mining software. Since 2016, the company has been supporting organizations worldwide with automated analyses of business and production processes. LANA Process Miningincludes a specially developed machine learning algorithm that determines data-based and automated savings and optimization potentials in business processes. This makes LANA Process Mining unique. The goal of Lana Labs is to make companies smarter, more efficient and faster through automated process analysis. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2018 |  |
| e-bot7 | e-bot7 integrates Artificial Intelligence to increase the efficiency of Customer Service. Through its pre-trained machine learning algorithms, the system can automate answers and processes and suggest the best answers to agents. This reduces average handling times, increases sales, and saves up to 80% of costs. | $594K | Seed | Aug 10, 2017 |  |
| e-bot7 | e-bot7 integrates Artificial Intelligence to increase the efficiency of Customer Service. Through its pre-trained machine learning algorithms, the system can automate answers and processes and suggest the best answers to agents. This reduces average handling times, increases sales, and saves up to 80% of costs. | $594K | Seed | Aug 10, 2017 |  |
| Bilendo | Bilendo is the modern credit management platform, where companies can centrally map, control and automate all credit risk minimization processes. With overall decreasing profit margins, companies experience difficulties in reducing costs with existing legacy systems and outdated processes. Credit risks cause especially unpredictable and high costs.We recognize the importance of flexible and efficient debtor processes for business success. Therefore, as a centralized SaaS platform, Bilendo enables tasks in the invoice-to-cash process to be handled down to an individualized basis. With this innovation, companies can securely lower costs, reduce their overall credit risks and focus on business growth.Bilendo GmbH was founded in 2015 by Markus Haggenmiller, Jakob Beyer and Florian Kappert in Munich. Together with their international team, their mission is to make credit management easily accessible for all companies using one single platform. |  | Seed | May 02, 2017 |  |
| Bilendo | Bilendo is the modern credit management platform, where companies can centrally map, control and automate all credit risk minimization processes. With overall decreasing profit margins, companies experience difficulties in reducing costs with existing legacy systems and outdated processes. Credit risks cause especially unpredictable and high costs.We recognize the importance of flexible and efficient debtor processes for business success. Therefore, as a centralized SaaS platform, Bilendo enables tasks in the invoice-to-cash process to be handled down to an individualized basis. With this innovation, companies can securely lower costs, reduce their overall credit risks and focus on business growth.Bilendo GmbH was founded in 2015 by Markus Haggenmiller, Jakob Beyer and Florian Kappert in Munich. Together with their international team, their mission is to make credit management easily accessible for all companies using one single platform. |  | Seed | May 02, 2017 |  |
| Userlane | Userlane automates user onboarding and employee training with interactive guides to help companies boost trial conversion, reduce support cost & increase user engagement. Userlane provides a technology to create step-by-step guides within minutes, without any coding or having to change the underlying software. This allows organizations toimplement and adapt interactive guides in every part of their existing software without implementation effort. |  | Seed | Nov 15, 2016 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Neosfer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/main-incubator-2) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Neosfer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neosfer) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [42CAP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/42cap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Commerzbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commerzbank) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Neosfer

VC Fund · Frankfurt, Germany

neosfer is the early-stage investor and innovation unit of Commerzbank Group. It investigates future technologies that are relevant to business and society, promotes and develops sustainable, digital solutions, and brings them profitably to the bank and its customers. All of this is done through the three areas of invest, build, connect. It createsaccess to innovation through strategic venture capital (invest), in-house development of technologies and business models (build), and building ecosystems around the sustainable and digital future of society (connect). With a portfolio of more than 30 digital and sustainable startups, neosfer has always kept its eyes on the future and is continuously developing. Some successful prototypes have already emerged from this and are being used in the Commerzbank Group. These include Lissi, which develops EUDI wallet connectors as part of the eIDAS 2.0 regulation and was the first independent start-up to be founded by neosfer. Through its own events, such as the monthly tech startup event series "Between the Towers" and the Impact Festival, the company strengthens its network in the innovation, venture and sustainability sectors. neosfer GmbH, or neosfer for short, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Commerzbank AG based in Frankfurt am Main.

5 contacts available at Neosfer.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julian Bürklein | Senior Investment Manager & Prokurist | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-b%C3%BCrklein |
| Matthias Lais | Founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthias-lais |
| Christina Koch | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-koch-7007 |
| Kai Werner | Founder, Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kai-werner |
| Karim Menn | Senior Manager Strategy, Growth & Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karim-menn-2151 |

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## FAQ

### What does Julian Bürklein invest in?

Julian Bürklein invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Julian Bürklein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julian Bürklein closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 13 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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