# Max Tayenthal

> Max Tayenthal is a Series A investor in Berlin backing FinTech, Software and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-tayenthal/?originalSubdomain=de

Max Tayenthal is a Series A investor in Berlin focused on FinTech and Software. Maximilian Tayenthal is Founder & Co-CEO at N26.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $20M–$35M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 67% |
| Software | 3 | 50% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 83% |
| Argentina | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| finmid | finmid is the embedded lending infrastructure powering platform growth. finmid enables platforms to launch tailored financing products for their business customers at scale across 30 European markets via single integration. Across industries and business models, finmid drives revenue, improves retention, and fuels core business growth. finmid istrusted by Europe’s most ambitious platforms, including Wolt, Delivery Hero, Bolt, Just Eat Takeaway, Guesty, and FREENOW. Learn more at finmid.com. | $24.4M | Series A | Apr 15, 2024 |  |
| Gigs | Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries. | $20M | Series A | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| topi | topi offers a B2B subscription platform that allows retailers and manufacturers to rent out their equipment to other businesses. topi is creating the tech infrastructure that will allow any retailer or manufacturer to offer Hardware-as-a-Service to business customers. topi ensures that not only access and refinancing but also insurance and hardwaremanagement can be conveniently managed with a few clicks.The Berlin-based Fintech company was founded in 2021 by Charlotte Pallua and Estelle Merle and has raised close to USD 50m to date. | $4.5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 14, 2021 |  |
| beatvest | beatvest is a platform that offers both educational and financial tools, making it simple to understand investing and finance. By using their platform to learn about investments and financial tools from the ground up, users may become experts at making financial investments. |  | Seed | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Pomelo | Pomelo provides a cloud-native financial technology platform that enables businesses to issue, process, and manage payment cards and related services through modular APIs and infrastructure. Its technology supports the issuance and processing of credit, debit, and prepaid cards, including options for businesses without their own issuing licensethrough BIN sponsorship and integration with Mastercard and Visa networks. The company’s platform also includes tools for transaction authorization, chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, tokenization for digital wallets, and logistical support for card production and distribution. Pomelo’s offerings aim to streamline card program development by consolidating technical, regulatory, and operational components into a unified system that can be tailored to diverse use cases across fintech, banking, and embedded finance sectors. It supports virtual and physical card workflows and provides dashboards and management interfaces to monitor and control card portfolios and transactions. The company collaborates with clients to integrate its APIs into existing systems and scale card products across multiple markets. Pomelo’s infrastructure emphasizes flexibility, data visibility, and compliance with international payment standards. | $35M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Osterus | Osterus treats every aspect of a resume as a data point, whether it is the education, languages, email address, hobbies, work experience, spelling and structure - we analyse and correlate the data. This does not only position us within the H.R. space but offers us to provide data in two completely separate areas, all representing lucrative markets. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [APX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apxberlin) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alter Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alter-global) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blossom Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blossom-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Max Tayenthal invest in?

Max Tayenthal invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Max Tayenthal's check size?

Max Tayenthal typically joins rounds of $20M–$35M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Max Tayenthal participates in.

### When did Max Tayenthal last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Max Tayenthal closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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