# Nordwest-Zeitung

> Nordwest-Zeitung is a VC fund in Westerstede backing SaaS, Social and Content. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Westerstede, Germany
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2018
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nwzonline?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- Website: https://www.nwzonline.de/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nwzonline

Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Social | 1 | 33% |
| Content | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Publishing | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| nebenan.de | Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area. | $17.6M | Series A | Mar 22, 2018 |  |
| AX Semantics | AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases. |  | Seed | Jan 14, 2018 |  |
| AX Semantics | AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases. |  | Seed | Sep 01, 2017 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [pd ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pdv-inter-media-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Müller Medien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-ller-medien) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Burda Principal Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burda-principal-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Deutsche Telemedien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deutsche-telemedien) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lakestar](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lakestar) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Nordwest-Zeitung invest in?

Nordwest-Zeitung invests primarily in SaaS, Social and Content startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Nordwest-Zeitung last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nordwest-Zeitung closed in Mar 2018. Shizune tracks 3 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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