# Niklas Jansen

> Niklas Jansen is a seed investor at Blinkist backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Blinkist](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blinkist)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niklasjansen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/niklas_jansen
- Website: https://x.com/jansenniklas

Niklas Jansen is a seed investor at Blinkist in Berlin focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Niklas is the Co-founder of Blinkist, a bite-sized-learning service that condenses knowledge from great nonfiction into powerful little packs. At Blinkist he drives product strategy and ensures that their culture is flourishing. He’s passionate about learning, company culture, and breakfast.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$10M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 41% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 29% |
| SaaS | 3 | 18% |
| Health Care | 3 | 18% |
| FinTech | 2 | 12% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 24% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 7 | 41% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 18% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lemni | Set up custom Ai agents in minutes | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Feb 26, 2025 |  |
| FLOAT | Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products. | $1.7M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Ethos | Ethos is an AI-driven platform that matches individuals with opportunities. It uses AI to scan hundreds of millions of profiles and match clients with the most relevant experts for insight-driven calls. The platform streamlines the entire process from booking to communication and compensation, making it equitable for clients and experts. Whilecurrently focused on expert calls, Ethos is expanding to match advisors with startups, speakers with events, and talent with employers. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| VisionAI | Recommendy's mission is to transform online shopping into a personalized and interactive real-time experience.With our AI automation and user experience plugin solution, we analyze all products, customer shopping behavior and click paths, based on visual and semantic artificial intelligence, to automate the entire creation of cross-sellingitems and provide a customized and interactive shopping experience.In this way, we save merchants money as well as man-hours and offer them the ability to customize their entire web store to each visitor in real time in an automated way, by reflecting each customer's individual interests and generating valuable data about their own target audience. The result: Online stores standing out from their competitors and offering a unique and motivating shopping experience. | $5.3M | Seed | Oct 20, 2023 |  |
| Browse AI | Browse AI provides online RPA software that extracts and monitors web data in the cloud. Their services include downloading data from any website, monitoring websites for changes, turning any website into an API, price monitoring, extracting real estate data, and more. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 01, 2023 |  |
| Goya Health | Goya Health provides a platform for efficient healthcare invoice management. |  | Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| The Exploration Company | The Exploration Company develops, manufactures, and operates modular and reusable spaceships called Nyx, designed for space stations near Earth and the Moon. Nyx can be refueled in orbit and utilizes green propellants. The company also provides an open-source operating system for these spaceships. | $44.1M | Series A | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Zurp | Zurp is a fintech platform built for superfans. Instead of a traditional reward program, Zurp offers exclusive experiences with cardholders' favorite influencers. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 24, 2023 |  |
| Build.One | AKIOMA Software develops solutions for the distribution of complex products that require explanation in order to simplify and accelerate processes. Focal points are the creation of extensive and high-quality offers, product management and the programming-free development of web-based product configurators. All AKIOMA products are available inthe cloud, as hybrid cloud or private cloud as well as on premise. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 02, 2022 |  |
| Bloom Health Partners | Bloom Health is a trusted occupational health and safety service provider, offering a network of top healthcare professionals and integrated laboratories for Fortune 500 companies | $8M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AngelPad](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelpad) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Elysian Park Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elysian-park-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holtzbrinck-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LEA Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lea-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Blinkist

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Where do the world’s smartest people get their ideas? From great books. Blinkist distills the key insights of 2,500+ bestselling nonfiction books into powerful 15-minute reads or listens for your mobile device.In 2017, Blinkist's app has been nominated by Apple as one of the best in the App Store. Blinkist has received the World SummitAward, granted by the United Nations, in the Learning & Education category, as well as a Google Material Design Award for Brand Expressiveness.At Blinkist, we got rid of classical management hierarchies and, instead, distributed authority among all colleagues. Blinkist fosters a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.Blinkist offers a fantastic workplace in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln including all the benefits you’d expect – from a personalized perk system to free private language lessons. Add a competitive salary, a personal development budget of 1,500€ per year, flexible working hours, and a meaningful product on the rise, and you have a first impression of why Blinkist is a great place to work.

5 contacts available at Blinkist.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Evan Waters | VP Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/evan-waters |
| Holger Seim | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holger-seim |
| Niklas Jansen | Co-Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niklas-jansen |
| Tobias Balling | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobias-balling |
| Gessica Bicego | Senior Director of Growth, Performance Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gessica-bicego |

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## FAQ

### What does Niklas Jansen invest in?

Niklas Jansen invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Niklas Jansen's check size?

Niklas Jansen typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$10M at Seed and $1.1M–$5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Niklas Jansen participates in.

### When did Niklas Jansen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Niklas Jansen closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 17 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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