# Mirko Novakovic

> Mirko Novakovic is a seed investor at Dash0 (Cologne) backing Software and Information Technology. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dash0](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dash0)
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 4%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirkonovakovic/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mirko_novakovic
- Website: https://x.com/mirko_novakovic

Mirko Novakovic is a seed investor at Dash0 in Cologne focused on Software and Information Technology. CEO at Dash0 Angel Investor at New Forge

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$2.6M |
| Series A | $6M–$42M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 50% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 23% |
| SaaS | 4 | 15% |
| CMS | 3 | 12% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 46% |
| Series A | 6 | 23% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 15% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 13 | 50% |
| United States | 6 | 23% |
| Denmark | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SuperPlane | SuperPlane is an AI-first platform engineering and DevOps control plane that helps teams automate, orchestrate, and manage complex operational workflows across development, deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, and incident-response tools | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Mercanis | Mercanis offers you one place to interact, communicate and jointly manage the buying process with your colleagues. | $19.9M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| AQUATY | AQUATY is a fully digital platform that makes venture capital and private market investments more accessible and liquid to a wider audience. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Steadybit | Your business deserves the best possible preventive action, no matter how complex your system-landscape is. steadybit adds that little extra certainty to your development and testing-workflow. Easy to install. Choose between SaaS or on-prem. | $6M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Mercanis | Mercanis offers you one place to interact, communicate and jointly manage the buying process with your colleagues. | $10.1M | Seed | Aug 17, 2023 |  |
| Edgeless Systems | Edgeless Systems builds the secure platform to store, analyze, and share data, using confidential computing. | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Apheris | apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights. | $8.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Ninetailed | Ninetailed primarily offers personalization for headless CMS and modern jamstack frameworks. | $5M | Seed | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| QuantPi | QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2022 |  |
| Lightdash | Lightdash is the future of BI - an AI-first, open-source analytics platform that gives modern data teams the fastest path to true self-serve analytics. We integrate seamlessly with dbt and your existing stack, combining an open semantic layer, AI-powered analytics, and the best developer experience in BI.Lightdash is trusted by fast-growing,data-driven companies worldwide to cut reporting bottlenecks, reduce BI costs, and ship analytics users actually adopt. | $6M | Seed | Oct 06, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [codecentric Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/codecentric-assets) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Angular Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angular-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [First Momentum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-momentum-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bow Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bow-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Dash0

VC Fund · New York, United States

Dash0 primary focus will be on correlating and contextualizing issues to look beyond the limitations of telemetry silos. The company firmly believes that more data doesn't always lead to more insights and often results in significant costs. It was founded in 2023 and is located in New York, New York.

5 contacts available at Dash0.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mirko Novakovic | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mirko-novakovic |
| Oliver Manojlovic | CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-manojlovic |
| Benjamin Blackmore | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-blackmore-b97e |
| Marcel Birkner | Principal Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcel-birkner |
| Marcel Sim | Head of Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcel-sim |

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## FAQ

### What does Mirko Novakovic invest in?

Mirko Novakovic invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mirko Novakovic's check size?

Mirko Novakovic typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$10M at Seed, $500k–$2.6M at Pre-Seed and $6M–$42M 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 Mirko Novakovic participates in.

### When did Mirko Novakovic last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mirko Novakovic closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 26 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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