# Martin Weiss

> Martin Weiss is a pre-seed investor at Burda Principal Investments backing Social Network. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Burda Principal Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burda-principal-investments)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-weiss-38994/

Martin Weiss is a pre-seed investor at Burda Principal Investments in Munich focused on Social Network and News. Martin Weiss is the Chief Executive Officer at Hubert Burda Media. Martin Weiss attended Harvard University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Network | 2 | 50% |
| News | 1 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |
| Social | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series E | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Morningcrunch | Morning Crunch provides daily email briefings on business-related economic and financial topics. The company provides succinct, bullet-point reports that condense the most significant market and investment information for young professionals to read in under five minutes. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2024 | https://www.morningcrunch.de |
| nebenan.de | Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area. | $17.6M | Series A | Mar 22, 2018 | https://nebenan.de/ |
| Notonthehighstreet | Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind thepeople that make them.Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are.Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation.With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures. | $27.5M | Series E | Aug 28, 2016 | http://www.notonthehighstreet.com |
| nebenan.de | Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area. | $6M |  | Jul 27, 2016 | https://nebenan.de/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deutsche Telemedien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deutsche-telemedien) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Eight Roads Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-roads-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Industry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/industry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lakestar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lakestar) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nordwest-Zeitung](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordwest-zeitung) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Burda Principal Investments

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Burda Principal Investments a division of Hubert Burda Media, provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies. Hubert Burda Media is media and technology conglomerates with a strong investment track record in internet-centric businesses since 1998.They have been partners for visionary entrepreneurs,leveraging Burda’s capital, brands and sector expertise, particularly in the areas of business expansion, internationalization and localization.They are invested in a portfolio of highly successful consumer internet companies in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. In the past, Hubert Burda Media has invested in internet platforms such as Etsy, zooplus, HolidayCheck, or Xing AG.BPI is run by a dedicated team of investment professionals based in Munich, Berlin, London and Singapore.

5 contacts available at Burda Principal Investments.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amelia Townsend | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amelia-townsend |
| Christian Teichmann | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-teichmann |
| Edwin Mak | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edwin-mak |
| Friedrich von Wulffen | Investment Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/friedrich-von-wulffen |
| Natalie Schmitke | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/natalie-schmitke |

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## FAQ

### What does Martin Weiss invest in?

Martin Weiss invests primarily in Social Network, News and Retail startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Martin Weiss last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Martin Weiss closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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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