Next Big Thing
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
Next Big Thing is a VC fund in Berlin focused on SaaS and Security. Founded in 2016, Next Big Thing AG (NBT) is a venture studio for the Machine Economy located in Berlin, Germany. With its diverse portfolio of deep-tech ventures, Next Big Thing provides long-term support for aspiring founders to build transformational, tech-enabled businesses that deliver real-world impact and position Europe as a global leader.NBT’s team of thinkers and doers are dedicated to reimagining the future in ways that empower a more prosperous, sustainable, and democratized world.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Next Big Thing invests in
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Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (50%)
- Security 1 (25%)
- Software 1 (25%)
- Elder Care 1 (25%)
- Health Care 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (25%)
Country
- Germany 2 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Falco Schuett
Director of Marketing & Partnerships
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Director of Marketing & Partnerships | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Harald Zapp
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Jasmin Skenderi
CTO - Member of the Executive Board
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CTO - Member of the Executive Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Michael Bommer
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Frank Brehm
Venture Developer
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Venture Developer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| With a smart, adaptive and automated form of data processing and preparation, alea opens the way for future-proof, digitally supported everyday care. As an initial component of the AssistMe care platform, alea enables a contemporary, efficient care data culture for future intersectoral, networked processes and digitally supported teamwork. In theend, the aim is to effectively support care in times of a shortage of skilled workers through more self-determined content transparency - with complete personal autonomy and freedom of action and less redundancy & stress.Elderly Care will struggle in the next 10 years due to an increasing ageing population, fewer caregivers, more workload, stress, and manual documentation. All of that is a problem for the well-being of those in need of care. Furthermore, the incontinence management means large time and material expenses for caregivers. With the joint system, both companies can equip over 80 % of care recipients in care homes. An initial scientific study proved that the system could save 23 % of adult diapers and time while changing them. Together with significantly fewer leakages, the caregiver can reinvest the time gained in even higher quality care work. This ultimately has the potential to benefit care recipients in terms of quality of sleep and life. Digital functions for optimized care processesWith a very new smart sensor strip, we made leading quality adult diaper brands compatible with the digital possibilities of intelligent care technology of alea. The system reveals where care needs exist, but are not immediately visible, e.g. the urine status in the adult diaper which previously was not known until manually checked. The system transforms this initially hidden care and health data and converts it into digital, structured, immediately understandable real-time information for elderly care and its relevant stakeholders. All functionalities are based on the device alea sensor clip on smart Diaper products, which can be attached and changed in seconds. With just one quick click, caregivers turn the smart diaper into a ready-to-use digital care assistance system. With an optimal sensor position in the centre of the adult diaper and without direct skin contact. The alea hardware can generate highly valid information and make it available to care staff in real time through the mobile and web apps. The care-relevant information of alea includes the amount of urine, movements in the care bed for effective pressure ulcer prevention, fall detection and zone management. How caregivers, care homes & care recipients benefitOver 80 % of care home residents suffer from incontinence. This is a major challenge for everyone involved. The smart system solves issues for all care related audiences: Care recipients benefit from less time in full incontinence pads, but also benefit from fewer manual visual checks during bedtimes. In addition, there is a higher level of safety and prevention. By reducing time-consuming routine and visual checks on an as-needed basis. Caregivers can invest the time gained in other important or relevant care tasks. In this way, they can increase their self-determination in their work and thus their job satisfaction. Thanks to the significant savings in materials and costs, care home operators gain more planning security and can focus their business value creation even better on direct care for people in need of care. In this way, care homes can position themselves as more attractive employers for care staff because they have state-of-the-art digital equipment.With the Care. For the Care. The solution was developed and tested together with the care practice. With the IoT and future-proof platform approach, caregivers will benefit from additional functions in an established and accepted product setting. The system can be connected to various care documentation systems via open interfaces. The aim of the solution is not only to reduce the workload for all those involved in care. Care homes can also optimize teamwork and automate routine processes to support caregivers in the interests of people-centric care in the face of an increasing shortage of skilled staff. With the market entry, care homes can obtain information and order from us or one of our partners. While they order smart Diapers from our partners in the unit price context they are used to, alea Digital System comes as a software-as-a-service model. Without any additional initial costs, they can use all functions via personally provided hardware and software for each care recipient – for the most cost-efficient and needs-orientated use. | $7.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| METR is a software company that develops digital solutions for energy management and building operations. Its platform enables real estate organizations to collect and analyze electricity, gas, heating, and water consumption data, optimize heating systems, and manage energy performance through smart metering and automated monitoring. The companyalso provides tools for ESG reporting, remote building management, and manufacturer-independent integration to help property owners, asset managers, housing companies, and energy service providers improve operational efficiency and reduce energy consumption. | $12M / Series B / Jul 27, 2026 | ||
| METR is a software company that develops digital solutions for energy management and building operations. Its platform enables real estate organizations to collect and analyze electricity, gas, heating, and water consumption data, optimize heating systems, and manage energy performance through smart metering and automated monitoring. The companyalso provides tools for ESG reporting, remote building management, and manufacturer-independent integration to help property owners, asset managers, housing companies, and energy service providers improve operational efficiency and reduce energy consumption. | $6.5M / Series A / Apr 03, 2023 | ||
| Enclave is a modern Zero Trust Network Access replacement for corporate VPNs that makes it simple to access private resources; connecting staff, developers, privileged users, applications, cloud workloads, containers and IoT devices without VPN servers, opening firewalls, adding edge devices, or changing infrastructure.Enclave creates privatemesh overlay networks between participating systems subject to strict policy controls, where knowledge of participating systems is provided on a need-to-know basis. By default everything in the mesh is dark to the public Internet, hidden behind closed firewalls with no knowledge of other systems and no ability to communicate with other members. Once policy is applied, members of the mesh connect directly to one using automatic mutual authentication and NAT traversal, allowing firewalls to remain closed to reduce the surface area available for attack and make infrastructure harder to discover, target and attack. | $1M / Seed / Jan 28, 2022 |
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FAQ
What does Next Big Thing invest in?
Next Big Thing invests primarily in SaaS, Security and Software startups, most often at 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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Who are the partners at Next Big Thing?
The team at Next Big Thing includes Falco Schuett (Director of Marketing & Partnerships), Harald Zapp (Founder & CEO) and Jasmin Skenderi (CTO - Member of the Executive Board), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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