# Max Niederhofer

> Max Niederhofer is a Series A investor at Heartcore Capital (Berlin) backing Software and Travel. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Heartcore Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heartcore-capital)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maxniederhofer
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/MaxNiederhofer
- Website: https://x.com/MaxNiederhofer
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maxniederhofer

Max Niederhofer is a Series A investor at Heartcore Capital in Berlin focused on Software and Travel. Max Niederhofer is the Partner at Heartcore Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 16% |
| Travel | 4 | 13% |
| Tourism | 3 | 9% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 9% |

50 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 12 | 38% |
| Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Series B | 5 | 16% |
| Series C | 3 | 9% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 16% |
| United States | 4 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 9% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fora | Fora is a team of entrepreneurs and technologists building travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts at the center. Its mission is to empower 100,000 travel entrepreneurs, and Fora is doing it by curating the most incredible experiences for travelers. | $60M | Series D | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Davis AI | Davis AI provides AI-driven real estate development services focused on early-stage feasibility studies and architectural design. The company combines proprietary generative models, including its Gaudi-1 architectural generation model, with in-house architects to deliver site analysis, regulatory diagnostics, volumetrics, financial modeling, andinvestment analysis. Davis AI also produces architectural outputs such as floor plans, unit mix optimization, and space planning. Its workflow ingests client data rooms and enriches them with regulatory, market, and site data, turning these into constraints that guide every result. Outputs are refined and validated by human experts before delivery and are intended for real estate developers, investors, and other project stakeholders. | $5.5M | Pre-Seed | May 06, 2026 |  |
| Fora | Fora is a team of entrepreneurs and technologists building travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts at the center. Its mission is to empower 100,000 travel entrepreneurs, and Fora is doing it by curating the most incredible experiences for travelers. | $40M | Series C | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Byway Travel | Byway Travel provides slow travel trips that take the scenic route to local stays, off-the-beaten-path experiences. | $6.4M | Series A | Jul 09, 2024 |  |
| Quell | Quell delivers a virtual fitness world that offers a unique experience of intense workout while gaming to achieve fitness goals. The startup uses resistance bands to help players get fit while fighting their way through a virtual fitness world. It coins itself as a “Peloton meets gaming”, and charges a monthly fee to keep content fresh. | $9.6M | Series A | Feb 20, 2023 |  |
| Fora | Fora is a team of entrepreneurs and technologists building travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts at the center. Its mission is to empower 100,000 travel entrepreneurs, and Fora is doing it by curating the most incredible experiences for travelers. | $20M | Series B | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Fora | Fora is a team of entrepreneurs and technologists building travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts at the center. Its mission is to empower 100,000 travel entrepreneurs, and Fora is doing it by curating the most incredible experiences for travelers. | $13.5M | Series A | Aug 11, 2022 |  |
| HeyJobs | HeyJobs is a Talent Platform that helps employers find the right talents at a friction of the traditional cost per hire. It helps talents find jobs that enable them to live a fulfilling life. Through a combination of machine learning, automation and software, we have created >50'000 hires already. | $47M | Series B | Mar 24, 2022 |  |
| Front of the Pack | Pet wellness, reimagined. | $10M | Series A | Jul 14, 2021 |  |
| Perk (formerly TravelPerk) | TravelPerk is a next-generation business travel booking and management platform for companies of any size. It is an all-in-one platform for booking business travel. TravelPerk is backed by investors such as Spark Capital, investors in Slack, Trello, and Twitter. The company is co-founded and funded by a team of entrepreneurial executives with deepmarket expertise, including leadership-level experience, as one of the successful players in the online travel industry. One of the co-founders recently started and sold a travel technology company to one of the players in the market.TravelPerk was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia. | $160M | Series D | Apr 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Spark Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spark-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Creathor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creathor-venture-management) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Felix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felix-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Forerunner](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forerunner-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Target Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Amplo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplo) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Heartcore Capital

VC Fund · Copenhagen, Denmark

Heartcore Capital is an early stage venture capital fund founded in 2007 in Denmark, with offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Paris. They are a multi-product fund with 5 early-stage funds, 2 growth-opportunity funds and 1 web3 fund under management - with a cumulative committed capital of approximately €770M. They are European by originbut global in outlook, with a team spans nine nationalities and speaks ten languages. So far they have invested in over 100 exceptional founding teams from 13 countries. Heartcore has backed some of Europe’s biggest category-defining companies, such as Tink, Neo4j, Boozt, Seriously and TravelPerk.

5 contacts available at Heartcore Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Jepsen | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-lindegrd-jepsen |
| Jimmy Nielsen | Partner & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jimmy-fussing-nielsen |
| Levin Bunz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/levin-bunz |
| Max Niederhofer | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-niederhofer |
| Soren Tange | Finance Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sren-tange |

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## FAQ

### What does Max Niederhofer invest in?

Max Niederhofer invests primarily in Software, Travel and Tourism startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Max Niederhofer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Max Niederhofer closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 32 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?

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