# Marcus Borner

> Marcus Borner is a seed investor at OptioPay (Berlin) backing E-Commerce and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OptioPay](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/optiopay)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusb1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcus.boerner

Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 38% |
| SaaS | 2 | 25% |
| FinTech | 2 | 25% |
| Finance | 2 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Angel | 1 | 13% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reverse.supply | Reverse.supply developed a white-label recommerce-as-a-service platform, helping brands allow their customers to return used, but still good items and sell them again through their webshop - all without having to set up the processes and operations behind it. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| unea | unea is a B2B relationship management tool for centrally managing partners, collaborations, bookings, and payments. Their software also enables to control of requests for partnerships, ensuring that can cooperate with a possible partner. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Grovy | Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. | $3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2021 |  |
| Grovy | Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. | $3M | Convertible Note | Sep 24, 2021 |  |
| Reverse.supply | Reverse.supply developed a white-label recommerce-as-a-service platform, helping brands allow their customers to return used, but still good items and sell them again through their webshop - all without having to set up the processes and operations behind it. |  | Angel | May 07, 2021 |  |
| FinCompare - Smarter Business Finance | FinCompare was founded by Stephan Heller and is a fintech startup that helps businesses to find, compare, and close the financing solutions. Via the online platform, companies can access a wide range of financing options. They can independently compare offers from well-known banks, fintechs, and alternative financial services providers in Germanyand close the financing. The company also offers a convenient one-stop destination for all financing questions relating to the company.FinCompare financing solutions including corporate loan, factoring, company leasing/hire purchase, warehouse financing, fine trading/purchase financing, and mezzanine capital. It simplifies the financing process with its digital application process and can thus provide your company financing. The company allows SMEs to receive and compare various offers for loans.FinCompare was founded in October 2016 by Stephan Heller and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. |  | Seed | Jun 06, 2017 |  |
| Finiata | Finiata provides flexible financing to small companies and freelancers through a line of financing and factoring. They believe strongly in the scientific method, listening to customers, solving real problems, and doing the unscalable to find the scalable. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2016 |  |
| Valendo | Valendo is a pawnshop that provides their residential and commercial customers with asset-based mortgage loans.Valendo provides Sachwert loans, Depot loans, and Sales loans. It accepts watches, jewelry, precious metals, art, handbags, and more as tangible assets. It also enables its customers to inquire online and offers transportation servicesfor their requests of money.Valendo was founded by Andreas von Buttlar and Lars Bresan in 2015. And it is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. |  | Seed | Oct 06, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lighthouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lighthouse-ventures-6458) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DFF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dutchfoundersfund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About OptioPay

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

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 contacts available at OptioPay.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artashes Torosyan | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artashes-torosyan-8eaa |
| Erik Meinders | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erik-meinders |
| Joerg Floeck | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jorg-flock |
| Joerg Floeck | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j%C3%B6rg-fl%C3%B6ck |
| Kay Raschke | VP Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kay-raschke |

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## FAQ

### What does Marcus Borner invest in?

Marcus Borner invests primarily in E-Commerce, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Marcus Borner's check size?

Marcus Borner typically joins rounds of $3M–$5.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Marcus Borner participates in.

### When did Marcus Borner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marcus Borner closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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