# LEA Partners

> LEA Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 50 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
- Total investments: 50
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 44%
- Fund size: $221M
- Last fund: May 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/l-ea-private-equity-gmbh/
- Website: http://www.leapartners.de

LEA Partners is a VC fund in Karlsruhe focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.8M–$6.4M |
| Series A | $5.6M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 15 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 24% |
| SaaS | 7 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 7 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 12% |

73 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 38% |
| Series A | 9 | 18% |
| Private Equity | 4 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Series B | 3 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 26 | 52% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Austria | 1 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Roth | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-roth |
| Nils Seele | Partner | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nils-seele |
| Sebastian Müller | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-muller-4 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Black Forest Labs | Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility. | $300M | Series B | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Gixel | Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing. | $5.9M | Seed | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Q.ANT | Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology. | $72M | Series A | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Fiber Elements | Fiber Elements is a manufacturing company that specializes in providing basalt reinforcement for construction industry. | $3M | Seed | Jul 17, 2025 |  |
| Flip | Flip is the employee app empowering all employees from firstline to desktop. It does so by combining top-down and bottom-up communication tools such as newsfeed and chat with intuitive integrations in the existing corporate HR and IT landscape. Flip empowers employers by enabling them to reach all employees at the same time with just two clicks.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany. | $28M | Series A | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Moonwatt | Moonwatt solves problems of the energy transition through innovative energy products hardware and software. | $8.4M | Seed | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| bliro | Bliro \| Compliant Conversation Intelligence, Anywhere You Work Bliro captures and processes conversations on the go—whether online or in person—so customer-facing teams can focus on what truly matters. No bots, no manual input, just seamless AI-driven insights. Reduce manual busywork. Focus on the conversation. | $2.9M | Seed | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| gyde | Gyde offers digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching for managers. Gyde builds a fully digital talent development solution that enables employees to learn through app-based microlearning and peer coaching sessions. They connect employees with peers from other companies to foster a steep learning curve through social learning. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 17, 2024 |  |
| Gendo | Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools." | $5.4M | Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| paretos | Paretos is the leading AI-based decision intelligence platform to make effective, data-driven decisions across entire organizations, enabling business users to evaluate complex data, predict future scenarios and take optimal actions via a no-code UI and integrations with no prior data science knowledge needed.First success stories of implementingthe 100% SaaS solution in E-Commerce, Logistics & Consulting (e.g. Accenture, SNOCKS, or one of the biggest parcel services in Europe) demonstrate the groundbreaking impact paretos delivers as a horizontal platform with a use-case focused approach covering: Recommendation Engines, Dynamic Pricing and Discounting, Ad Spend Optimization, Demand and Churn Prediction as well as Warehouse Optimization. | $9.2M | Series A | Oct 28, 2024 |  |

10 of 50 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does LEA Partners invest in?

LEA Partners invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is LEA Partners's check size?

LEA Partners typically joins rounds of $2.8M–$6.4M at Seed and $5.6M–$31M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LEA Partners participates in.

### How do I contact LEA Partners?

Public channels for LEA Partners include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at LEA Partners?

The team at LEA Partners includes Christian Roth (Managing Partner), Nils Seele (Partner) and Sebastian Müller (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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