# Metro

> Metro is a VC fund in Düsseldorf backing Retail and Analytics. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 14%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metro-group-ag-
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/goal_metrogroup
- Website: http://www.metrogroup.de
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Metro-Group-294902047234426/

Metro is a VC fund in Düsseldorf focused on Retail and Analytics. METRO GROUP is a Germany-based holding company and international retailing company. It operates numerous outlets in various countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Company operates a portfolio of sales brands, which offers a range of services for private and commercial customers. The portfolio comprises Metro Cash & Carry brand, which isactive in the self-service wholesale industry, Real hypermarkets brand, which operates the Real stores across Europe offering both food and non-food products; Media Markt brand, which is active on the European market in the consumer electronics retailing industry; Saturn brand, which operates consumer electronics stores and Galeria Kaufhof brand, under which the Company operates department stores in Germany and Belgium. The Company is also engaged in the real estate operations (Metro Properties), logistics (Metro Logistics), Information Technology (Metro Systems) and advertising services.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Metro. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Metro. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/metro-group?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 2 | 29% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Hospitality | 2 | 29% |
| Restaurants | 2 | 29% |
| Big Data | 1 | 14% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 43% |
| Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series C | 1 | 14% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 43% |
| Portugal | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Valentina Nolli | Quality Assurance Specialist Own Brand | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valentina-nolli |
| Flora Jost | Manager Digital Projects HoReCa.digital GmbH | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flora-jost |
| Léa Gatinois | Manager Digital Projects HoReCa.digital GmbH | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lea-gatinois |
| Sylvia Dudek | Program Director | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sylvia-dudek |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sensei | Sensei offers a scalable, seamless store-wide solution that empowers the stores of the future to be check-out and cash free.Through an integrated system of cameras and AI algorithms, Sensei enables a new era of Phygital stores able to capture in-store product data and shoppers’ activities, to offer a wealth of analytics and smooth, frictionlessshopping experience. | $16M | Series A | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| orderbird | Orderbird is focused on building an intuitive and customer-centric solution helping hospitality merchants by introducing Germany’s first iPad-based POS. It is a provider of Integrated Software solutions for independent restaurateurs and SMBs. It is offering its customers professional, easy-to-use POS systems and add-on products optimizing theirbusiness operations and providing a flexible alternative to costly, time-consuming, and paperwork-intensive legacy systems. | $21.9M | Series C | May 11, 2016 |  |
| Retail Media Group | Retail Media Group GmbH (RMG) is a cross-industry marketing platform for retail data. RMG monetizes retail and customer insights from leading retailers such as Media Markt, Saturn, real, Thalia and Metro. Based on these data, RMG enables advertisers to address their respective target audiences individually and without scatter losses. With a digitalreach from more than 60 million IDs, it is a leading partner in the European trade sector. RMG is the Center of Competence when it comes to the effective handling of customer insights in retail marketing compliant with data protection regulations. Furthermore, the company strives to advance the digital transformation of the trade industry. |  | Series A | May 01, 2016 |  |
| Retail Media Group | Retail Media Group GmbH (RMG) is a cross-industry marketing platform for retail data. RMG monetizes retail and customer insights from leading retailers such as Media Markt, Saturn, real, Thalia and Metro. Based on these data, RMG enables advertisers to address their respective target audiences individually and without scatter losses. With a digitalreach from more than 60 million IDs, it is a leading partner in the European trade sector. RMG is the Center of Competence when it comes to the effective handling of customer insights in retail marketing compliant with data protection regulations. Furthermore, the company strives to advance the digital transformation of the trade industry. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |
| Gastrozentrale | Gastrozentrale.de is a B2B online shop for kitchen technology and restaurant/catering equipment. From small food stands to canteen kitchens, customers can easily order napkins, industrial refrigerators or patio heaters online. | $120K | Seed | Oct 13, 2015 |  |
| Culinary Agents | Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Focused on its mission to help talent succeed in their careers within the hospitality industry, the platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting andemployer branding solutions to help businesses hire the best talent.Culinary Agents is committed to a hospitality-driven approach, thoughtful innovation, building meaningful relationships and maintaining integrity. Its growing community spans the U.S., including all levels of talent as well as restaurants, hotels, resorts, catering, foodservice, schools and organizations of all sizes. | $3M | Series A | Apr 27, 2015 |  |
| Emma's grandson | Emma's grandson provides fine food from all over the world. discover with us a wide range of different delicacies from the international kitchen. |  | Corporate Round | Dec 12, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [LeadX Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leadx-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BlueCrow Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bluecrow-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CECONOMY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ceconomy-26e4) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Concardis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/concardis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Metro invest in?

Metro invests primarily in Retail, Analytics and Hospitality startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Metro's check size?

Metro typically joins rounds of $3M–$16M 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 Metro participates in.

### How do I contact Metro?

Public channels for Metro include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Metro?

The team at Metro includes Valentina Nolli (Quality Assurance Specialist Own Brand), Flora Jost (Manager Digital Projects HoReCa.digital GmbH) and Léa Gatinois (Manager Digital Projects HoReCa.digital GmbH). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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