# Marco Beckmann

> Marco Beckmann is a seed investor at Northern Data Group backing Food Delivery. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Northern Data Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northern-data)
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-beckmann
- Website: http://www.blackmars.com

Marco Beckmann is a seed investor at Northern Data Group in Frankfurt focused on Food Delivery and Food and Beverage. Marco is an early-stage venture capitalist with a focus on identifying and nurturing disruptive technology startups. With over two decades of experience in the venture capital landscape, Marco has established himself as a strategic thinker and a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs. Throughout his career, Marco has demonstrated a keen eye for promisinginvestment opportunities across various sectors, including nanotechnology, life sciences, blockchain, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. His ability to identify emerging trends and disruptive technologies has led to successful investments in numerous early-stage companies. Marco's track record speaks for itself, with more than 30 of his investments achieving notable exits through acquisitions or successful IPOs, representing $50 billion of aggregate value creation. Some of those early investments include Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ARWR), NanoGram (sold to Teijin), Arryx, Inc. (sold to Haemonetics).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food Delivery | 2 | 100% |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Circus | Circus provides convenient, sustainable and affordable solution in food delivery. | $12.1M | Seed | Nov 24, 2022 |  |
| Circus Group | At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany. | $11.4M | Seed | Nov 24, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2bX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2bx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [WestTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/west-techventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Northern Data Group

VC Fund · Frankfurt, Germany

At Northern Data Group, we believe unlimited High Performance Computing (HPC) will unlock unprecedented opportunities for research and development, business, and ultimately human progress. We power innovation through market-leading HPC infrastructure, operating across our three business divisions: Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers and Peak Mining.Our global organization is rapidly becoming a world leader for GPU-based solutions by designing and operating ultra-efficient green HPC infrastructure.We uniquely combine intelligent and sustainable data centers, cutting-edge hardware and self-developed software for various HPC applications including Generative AI, Machine Learning and Bitcoin Mining. We operate from large-scale custom data centers and proprietary containerized data centers for ultimate site selection flexibility.We offer a unique combination of intelligent, sustainable data centers, cutting-edge hardware and self-developed software for various HPC applications such as bitcoin mining, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, IoT and graphics rendering. The Northern Data Group currently operates custom large-scale data centers and proprietary mobile high-performance data centers for unparalleled site selection flexibility and employs a workforce of some 200 people in seven countries.

5 contacts available at Northern Data Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marco Beckmann | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marco-beckmann |
| Aroosh Thillainathan | Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aroosh-thillainathan |
| Corey Needles | Managing Director, Ardent Data Centers | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corey-needles-cc72 |
| Elliot Jordan | Group Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elliot-jordan |
| Karl Havard | Managing Director, Taiga Cloud | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karl-havard-43a6 |

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## FAQ

### What does Marco Beckmann invest in?

Marco Beckmann invests primarily in Food Delivery and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Marco Beckmann last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marco Beckmann closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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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