SquareOne
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
SquareOne is a Berlin-based venture capital firm. Established in 2010 and funded only with management money, SquareOne has built its way up to become a leading tech investor in Berlin.SquareOne invests in European early-stage B2B Software companies, acting both as lead or co-lead investor. Their focus is on sectors where they can add the mostvalue to your business: Enterprise Software, Software as a Service, Industry 4.0, Deep-tech (Robotics, Security, IoT, AI/ML, NLP, DevTools..)Paua provides a broad range of services and the team is truly committed in being the best partner for entrepreneurs, aiming to be the bridge between new businesses and the corporate world.
- Total investments:
- 76
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $70M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries SquareOne invests in
Stages SquareOne invests in
Countries SquareOne invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 8 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $329k–$5.3M
- Series A
- $2.9M–$17M
- Series B
- $5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 18 (24%)
- SaaS 9 (12%)
- E-Commerce 7 (9%)
- Internet 5 (7%)
- Information Technology 5 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 28 (37%)
- Series A 19 (25%)
- Series B 6 (8%)
- Funding Round 6 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (5%)
Country
- Germany 29 (38%)
- United States 7 (9%)
- Poland 2 (3%)
- Sweden 2 (3%)
- United Kingdom 2 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Charlotte Baumhauer
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Christian Buchenau
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Partner
|
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Partner | Total investments: 29 | Find email | |
Christophe Defforey
Co-Founding Partner
|
Co-Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Federico Wengi
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Felix Plapperer
Venture Capital Investor
|
Venture Capital Investor | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our vision is to make high-quality health products accessible for everyone. We will achieve this by enabling creators of health products to build and operate high-quality products with 10x efficiency. We are putting our initial focus on automating compliance and regulatory tasks for medical device manufacturers. Our product offering includesAI-enabled automation of major parts of the data collection, aggregation, evaluation, and reporting for post-market surveillance activities. | $1.9M / Pre-Seed / Dec 20, 2022 | ||
| Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately. | $7.4M / Seed / Jul 13, 2022 | ||
| Otterspace is an NFT company that aims to use earned NFTs rather than purchased NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Its non-transferable badge protocol assists DAOs in developing more effective incentive systems, automating permissions, and enabling non-financialized governance. | $3M / Seed / Jun 13, 2022 | ||
| Otterspace is an NFT company that aims to use earned NFTs rather than purchased NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Its non-transferable badge protocol assists DAOs in developing more effective incentive systems, automating permissions, and enabling non-financialized governance. | $3.7M / Pre-Seed / Jun 13, 2022 | ||
| Noscendo operates as a diagnostics company dedicated to the identification and assessment of bloodstream-associated pathogens and other infections. | May 16, 2022 | ||
| With a modern user-friendly design, Keelvar’s sourcing optimization and autonomous sourcing offers easy adoption and enhanced productivity, while supporting large scale deployments for the world's largest enterprises. The products are powered by unique artificial intelligence, designed by our category experts to deliver significant savings andoperational improvements for leading global enterprises. Not limited by size, scale, or complexity – Keelvar powers some of the most demanding global, sourcing teams including Siemens, Microsoft, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and Novartis. | $24M / Series B / May 16, 2022 | ||
| The new standard in B2B transactions: Procuros helps innovative businesses grow — by turning tedious manual B2B transactions into transparent and automated flows. | $9M / Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Circular Carbon Chemistry is a chemical production company. They offer services that include e-fuels, quantum chemistry, circular economy, CO2 recycling, catalysis, green methanol, C1 chemistry, and carbon chemistry. | $5.5M / Apr 04, 2022 | ||
| Wandelbots is a robotic software company based in Dresden, Germany. With its no-code solution Wandelbots Teaching and the unified Wandelbots Developer Platform, the company enables the programming free and uniform operation of robots. Through Wandelbots Teaching, working with different types of robots from a large scale of brands becomeseffortless, and everyone can teach robots after a brief training. In this way, Wandelbots provides that robot programming is no longer the preserve of experts and carries out the automation process up to 20 times faster and ten times more cost effectively. This advanced technology has been implemented in robots from Universal Robots and Yaskawa and in the manufacturing operations of, among others, VW, Bayer, and Fraunhofer. The fast-growing company continues building new partnerships with OT system integrators in Germany, Europe, and the USA.Among others, the German Start-up Award and the Sachsen Gründerpreis have been awarded to Wandelbots, which has grown from a start-up to an internationally recognized company with over 170 employees in a brief time. Since its foundation in 2017, the company has raised a total of $123 million in funding from investors such as Insight Partners, Microsoft, and Next47 for further investments in products and platforms. Moreover, the company keeps expanding into new markets. | $84M / Series C / Jan 25, 2022 | ||
| Deed’s SaaS platform makes it easy for employees to donate to their favorite charities and volunteer with good causes. HR and social impact teams at companies like Airbnb and Stripe use Deed to increase employee engagement and retention. It was founded by Deevee Kashi, Steven Liu, and Aske Ertmann, and has offices in Brooklyn, Berlin, Tel Aviv, andSan Francisco. | $10M / Series A / Dec 09, 2021 | ||
| See all 76 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does SquareOne invest in?
SquareOne invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 76 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is SquareOne's check size?
SquareOne typically joins rounds of $329k–$5.3M at Seed, $2.9M–$17M at Series A and $5M–$30M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SquareOne participates in.
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Who are the partners at SquareOne?
The team at SquareOne includes Charlotte Baumhauer (Investment Associate), Christian Buchenau (Co-Founder, Managing Director & Partner) and Christophe Defforey (Co-Founding Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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