Oliver Merkel
Co-Founder @ Flink
Berlin, Germany
Oliver Merkel is a seed investor at Flink in Berlin focused on Retail and Fashion. Oliver Merkel is the Co-Founder of Flink Food.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Oliver Merkel invests in
Stages Oliver Merkel invests in
Countries Oliver Merkel invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $6M–$9.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 2 (33%)
- Fashion 2 (33%)
- Banking 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
- Delivery 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Angel 1 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (17%)
Country
- Germany 2 (33%)
- South Africa 1 (17%)
- United States 1 (17%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Faro
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Faro provides inexpensive apparel through re-commerce, collaborating with fashion companies to reduce textile waste and dumping at the manufacturing and consumption levels. | $6M / Seed / Jan 15, 2025 | |
Enter
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baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. | Seed / Mar 24, 2023 | |
Karla
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karla gives you the absolute superpower over the delivery of your online orders, It develop the delivery options for your online orders that you have never dared to dream of! | $3.8M / Pre-Seed / Feb 24, 2022 | |
Heat
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Heat offers surplus luxury fashion items in a curated collection delivered and introduces an unprecedented immersive luxury shopping experience, incorporating elements of surprise and suspense alongside the reassurance of a value-added product, enabling customers to find exclusive during the new season. | $5M / Angel / Jan 17, 2022 | |
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NutriUnited
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$9.8M / Seed | ||
Augustus
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Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems. | Seed |
Co-Investors
About Flink
Flink is a developer of an online platform used to offer and deliver multi-category grocery products. Its application offers a wide selection of convenience items like fresh herbs, fruits, bread, essentials, and home supplies among others that enable people to get necessaries delivered to the door within ten minutes while saving transit costs.Thecompany was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Flink Contacts
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Christoph Cordes
Co-Founder
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Oliver Merkel
Co-Founder
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Christopher Steinau
Investor
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Dirk Daumann
Chief Technology Officer
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Julian Dames
Co-Founder & MD
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FAQ
What does Oliver Merkel invest in?
Oliver Merkel invests primarily in Retail, Fashion and Banking startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Oliver Merkel's check size?
Oliver Merkel typically joins rounds of $6M–$9.8M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Oliver Merkel participates in.
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When did Oliver Merkel last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Oliver Merkel closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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