NFQ Capital
VC Fund
Munich, Germany
NFQ Capital is a VC fund in Munich focused on E-Commerce and Travel. They see ourselves as the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs” and they take a very hands-on approach to investing. They strongly believe that the key to successful investing lies not just in finding the next outstanding internet brand – but in helping to create it. They focus on later-stage growth phases but do also seed and incubation stages.Additionally to our investment, they are supporting the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 400+ development specialists delivering company-building services including strategy, engineering, operational scaling, recruiting, business development, product delivery, and product marketing. NFQ invests globally and across industries into companies which scale through a technology.NFQ has offices in Europe and San Francisco.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries NFQ Capital invests in
Stages NFQ Capital invests in
Countries NFQ Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $1.3M–$6M
- Series A
- $2.4M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 5 (31%)
- Travel 4 (25%)
- Tourism 3 (19%)
- Leisure 2 (13%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (38%)
- Series A 5 (31%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (31%)
- Germany 4 (25%)
- Austria 1 (6%)
- Malaysia 1 (6%)
- The Netherlands 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Harald Braunstein
Founding Partner and CEO
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Founding Partner and CEO | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Johannes Lenhard
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Wolfgang Heigl
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Raus
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Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind. | $3.1M / Seed / Nov 22, 2022 | |
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Raus
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Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind. | Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | |
Productpine
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Productpine is the first shopping platform that makes doing good a no-brainer: consumers buy the products they love for the best price while creating a better world. Productpine has developed technology that saves direct-to-consumer brands up to 75% of their marketing costs. These savings are invested in hand-picked sustainability projects to fullycompensate for CO2 emissions, matching the best consumer prices in the process. Best price, better world. | $2.8M / Seed / Dec 28, 2021 | |
The Naked Market
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The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands. | $6M / Seed / Oct 28, 2020 | |
GoStudent
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GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global. | $9.4M / Series A / Jun 23, 2020 | |
Kyte
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Kyte is a technology and operations company that offers on-demand cars delivered to customers for as long as they need them — for a day, a few days or a few weeks or months. Kyte is operating in 10+ cities in the US and growing at rapid pace. Francesco Wiedemann, Ludwig Schoenack, and Nikolaus Volk formed the company in San Francisco, Californiain 2019. | Pre-Seed / Sep 06, 2019 | |
Accept.inc
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Accept.inc, the first iLender, is a technology-enabled lender that empowers buyers who qualify for a mortgage to submit all-cash offers on homes at no additional cost. Accept.inc’s mission is to place a cash offer on every home, leveling the playing field for buyers. Accept.inc sets itself apart with a frictionless customer experience and aninnovative platform available to any agent and mortgage-qualifying buyer, with zero added costs or fees. The company ensures that buyers, sellers, and their agents benefit from the transaction, all in the service of accelerating access to homeownership. Founded in 2016 by Y Combinator alumni Adam Pollack, Nick Friedman, and Ian Perrex, Accept.inc is headquartered in Denver, CO, where it started transacting under its current model in mid-2019. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 23, 2019 | |
Tourlane
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Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy. | $8.5M / Series A / Mar 23, 2018 | |
Pop Meals
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Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowestdelivery costs in the industry.Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | $2.6M / Seed / Jan 04, 2018 | |
Joblift
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Joblift is a meta-search platform providing job seekers with the most intuitive and frictionless experience during the recruiting process. They apply latest machine learning techniques and big-data based algorithms in order to offer their users matching job vacancies that truly matter to them. | $10.6M / Series A / Dec 13, 2017 | |
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FAQ
What does NFQ Capital invest in?
NFQ Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Travel and Tourism startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is NFQ Capital's check size?
NFQ Capital typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$6M at Seed and $2.4M–$11M 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 NFQ Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at NFQ Capital?
The team at NFQ Capital includes Harald Braunstein (Founding Partner and CEO), Johannes Lenhard (Investment Manager) and Wolfgang Heigl (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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