LeadX Capital Partners
VC Fund
München, Germany
LeadX Capital Partners is a VC fund in München focused on Software and E-Commerce. LeadX invests in market-leading European B2B companies providing innovative digital solutions to consumer-facing companies. We leverage our specialist expertise and industry networks in the consumer and technology sectors to add value above and beyond pure capital to the entrepreneurs that we back. These resources enable our partners to scalefaster and more efficiently.We partner with innovative entrepreneurs digitising the consumer industries. We target European mature businesses generating over €10 m in revenues and are growing at over 30% CAGR. Our vertical focus on consumer industries and strong industry knowledge and networks allow us to support companies effectively and position ourselves as preferred partner to work with.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries LeadX Capital Partners invests in
Stages LeadX Capital Partners invests in
Countries LeadX Capital Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $120k–$687k
- Pre-Seed
- $120k–$678k
- Series B
- $5.3M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (21%)
- E-Commerce 9 (19%)
- SaaS 8 (17%)
- Hospitality 8 (17%)
- Restaurants 8 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (45%)
- Pre-Seed 11 (23%)
- Series B 7 (15%)
- Series C 4 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Country
- Germany 13 (28%)
- France 7 (15%)
- United Kingdom 7 (15%)
- Portugal 4 (9%)
- Denmark 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Frederic Le Brun
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
Hansjorg Sage
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
James Hook
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Patrick Flesner
Director
|
Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sabine Flechet
Director, Innovation Fund
|
Director, Innovation Fund | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motatos is an online retail store that offers a wide variety of food, beverages, and household products to customers. | $37.8M / Series D / Sep 01, 2022 | ||
| Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food! | $27M / Series C / Nov 01, 2021 | ||
| Sensei offers a scalable, seamless store-wide solution that empowers the stores of the future to be check-out and cash free.Through an integrated system of cameras and AI algorithms, Sensei enables a new era of Phygital stores able to capture in-store product data and shoppers’ activities, to offer a wealth of analytics and smooth, frictionlessshopping experience. | $6.5M / Seed / Apr 27, 2021 | ||
| • Bizay has empowered more than 1 Million SMB’s to grow their businesses during the last 5 years.• Bizay is a tech-based B2B Marketplace for made-to-order products. Running a fabless business model (no capex), it leverages on the idle capacity of production partners to meet the needs of the SMB’s.• Started on printing, packaging, textile andprofessional products and now applying the same model in furniture, food and 3D printing (amongst others).• 360imprimir / 360onlineprint - rebranded to Bizay - Your bussiness your way - to reflect the unlimited product categories. • Bizay is the customer facing brand (the SMB’s do not meet the production partners) and its tech platform manages the production by: o Using data and algorithms to aggregate different orders and to decide in which suppliers to produce them, driving huge efficiency and speed gains. o Enabling full tracking of the orders in the different production partners and automating pre-production processes.• Bizay differentiates themselves from other players by offering: o Online configuration of the products (options to customize and personalize). o Competitive pricing for small and medium orders (similar price per unit as for large orders), 48 hours of delivery time (instead of several weeks) and guaranteed quality (customer-facing brand ensuring high quality levels). o Integrated value chain in a single offer (on-demand design services provided by external providers).• Originally selling in Portugal, Spain, Brazil and México, the company raised B round of 18m€ one year ago (communicated in April) in order to launch new countries.• 17 new countries were launched in 2019 simultaneously (including DE, FR, UK and USA).• In 2019, 8 months of trading in the new countries confirm: o Competitiveness pricing of their offer in all the market. o Market deepness and sound acquisition metrics. | $38.6M / Series C / Dec 03, 2020 | ||
| Bizay enables the world’s largest catalogue of customizable products. Its technology platform operates across Europe, South and North America, and digitalizes the booming and huge industry of product customization by empowering brands, people and societies to self-express. It enables local manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers to offercustomization on any product in the world and reduces the cost of production by half through batching and supply-chain optimization technologies. Our platform/technology is aimed at three customer targets:(i) B2B2C provides a platform for businesses to design and sell customized products from Bizay’s existing product catalogue, with the four main customer segments: Resellers, Content Creators (Independent artists, influencers or event or managers that want to sell customized merchandise with their branding, designs or artwork), e-Commerce entrepreneurs (Small entrepreneurs that aim to expand their catalogue and upgrade their business by adding customized products to their online stores), as well as big household brands & enterprises (well-established business in need of a partner that is capable of handling large volume of customized products orders or to expand their existing offer)(ii) B2B, which is focused on SMBs, provides an extensive product catalogue for customized products to be used in several industries (ex: uniforms for restaurants and bags for retail shops) (iii) Customization-as-a-Service (CaaS), where clients (typically major brands) capitalize on Bizay’s technology, expertise, customization options, techniques and offline suppliers to customize their own products | $38.9M / Series C / Dec 03, 2020 | ||
| OptioPay operates a fully serviced open banking solution without IT integration for businesses from various industries. End-customers receive value-added products and services in return for their bank account data to save time and money through exclusive cashbacks, higher-value vouchers, contract optimisation, offers for sustainable consumption andCO2 compensation, as well as discounts and other personalised recommendations. In addition to well-known partners such as AboutYou, Adidas, Amazon, Douglas, Ikea, Lieferando, Otto, Rewe, Reebok and Zalando, OptioPay’s top 100 corporate clients include DZ Bank, Comdirect Bank, Sparkasse, Commerzbank, HDI, AXA, Gothaer, Fonds Finanz, Blau Direkt, Deutsche Post, BS Energy and Basler Kantonalbank. OptioPay was founded in 2014 in Berlin by CEO Marcus Börner and COO Oliver Oster. It employs more than 65 people from 24 countries and currently operates in the DACH-region and The Netherlands. | $5.3M / Sep 18, 2020 | ||
| OptioPay operates a fully serviced open banking solution without IT integration for businesses from various industries. End-customers receive value-added products and services in return for their bank account data to save time and money through exclusive cashbacks, higher-value vouchers, contract optimisation, offers for sustainable consumption andCO2 compensation, as well as discounts and other personalised recommendations. In addition to well-known partners such as AboutYou, Adidas, Amazon, Douglas, Ikea, Lieferando, Otto, Rewe, Reebok and Zalando, OptioPay’s top 100 corporate clients include DZ Bank, Comdirect Bank, Sparkasse, Commerzbank, HDI, AXA, Gothaer, Fonds Finanz, Blau Direkt, Deutsche Post, BS Energy and Basler Kantonalbank. OptioPay was founded in 2014 in Berlin by CEO Marcus Börner and COO Oliver Oster. It employs more than 65 people from 24 countries and currently operates in the DACH-region and The Netherlands. | $5.3M / Series B / Sep 18, 2020 | ||
| Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food! | $18.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 08, 2019 | ||
| Arpalus is an Israeli startup that leverages AI and computer vision to analyze store shelves and uses augmented reality (AR) to display insights about the products. The startup’s smartphone app allows staff to scan physical shelves and analyze the shelf space. It detects out-of-stock products and identifies if planogram compliance is being met withthe current product placement. The app also categorizes multiple products using AR and further offers details on individual products and their SKU levels. This enables retailers to optimize shelf space utilization, leading to more effective product placements and inventory management, thereby improving the customer experience and sales. | $550K / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2019 | ||
| Gofer simplifies the hiring process for qualified applicants in the construction and hospitality industry. It is a community-driven, Saas-enabled temporary staff marketplace. They start with high-end hotels in major cities with a highly transferable model (geography and sector).Businesses need flexible and reliable temporary staff, with nodifference, on know-how and behavior, from their permanent staff. They want to decrease training and hiring costs by retaining their temporary staff. While workers want to work in the best environment possible, as much as they want, be paid fast, and get recognition.They select and curate temporary staff, then digitally take care of all the paperwork and the payment. Their communities and back-office ensure that the best match is done and that a pool of workers is built for a business: training and briefing save precious on-site training time. | $677.8K / Pre-Seed / Apr 17, 2019 | ||
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FAQ
What does LeadX Capital Partners invest in?
LeadX Capital Partners invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does LeadX Capital Partners invest in?
LeadX Capital Partners typically joins rounds of $120k–$687k at Seed, $120k–$678k at Pre-Seed and $5.3M–$20M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not LeadX Capital Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds LeadX Capital Partners took part in.
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Who are the partners at LeadX Capital Partners?
The team at LeadX Capital Partners includes Frederic Le Brun (Partner), Hansjorg Sage (Managing Partner) and James Hook (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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