# pd ventures

> pd ventures is a VC fund in Augsburg backing Internet and Online Portals. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Augsburg, Germany
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pd-ventures/
- Website: http://pdventures.de/

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $2.6M–$18M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 27% |
| Online Portals | 3 | 27% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 36% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 27% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Kempf | Member of the Management Board, Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-kempf |
| Fabio Fiorda | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabio-fiorda |
| Ivan Miskovic | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-miskovic |
| Renate Dempfle | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/renate-dempfle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ryte | Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. | $10.3M | Series A | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| asgoodasnew | asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B. |  |  | Dec 10, 2020 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Tausendkind | Tausendkind is the Children's Clothing Online Store for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, good friends - simply for those who wish to bestow a baby or small child is not only with children's and baby fashion. They have also a variety of other ways to discover beautiful gifts and necessities for your children. Likewise, you always getusing Their unique service that offers you advice and assistance, not only to issues relating to children's fashion the right answer. You will find thousands of child lovingly chosen children's and baby clothing that gives maximum comfort and your offspring will accompany you faithfully through the first months of life. The range also includes in addition to the children's fashion, fashion toy for young and old, well-known brands such as Brio and Haba, to smaller brands like Janod and Lilliputiens. The everyday life of families with young children living apart from children's clothing and toys but especially of practical accessories, not only parents in many situations in daily life to help with the little ones. Useful changing pads, hot water bottles and scrims, and practical items for soothing babies, such as mobile or music boxes, all this and much more can be found at their Baby Accessory again. If you are looking for products on special occasions is safe in their baby gifts find category - for baptism, birth, Christmas and Co. there with us something suitable, whether baby fashion, toys and accessories, you will always find a suitable gift. | $16.5M |  | Mar 20, 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 |  |
| Lingoda | Lingoda offers online live language classes in English, German, Spanish, French with qualified, native-speaking teachers. Their mission is to empower even the busiest people to master a language and unlock their potential – anytime, anywhere. | $2.6M | Series A | Feb 01, 2015 |  |
| PressMatrix | PressMatrix is a technology start-up out of Berlin (Germany) with a simple mission: Helping publishers to deliver their magazines on tablets and mobile devices. | $2.7M | Series A | Jun 11, 2013 |  |
| asgoodasnew | asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B. |  | Series B | Aug 20, 2012 |  |
| pflege.de | web care LBJ GmbH is a service portal for care and housing for the elderly. The company advices and supports for individual inquiry about their telephone counselling services. It also has a network of partners across the region that offers its users with holistic services and domestic and institutional care.Caregivers for the elderly iscategorized as nursing and long term. The company offers a wide range of services such as food on wheels, everyday companion, and households and clearing. Accessible bathroom facilities are provided to the elders. They are treated with bath lift, hip bath, and tub to shower services. Stair lifts are also provided under the categories of home lift, hoist, and platform lift. A wide range of services and products, including carephone, mobile emergency, emergency mobile application, senior phones, and hearing aids are distributed.web care LBJ GmbH is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2011 by Lars Kilchert and Benedikt Zacher. |  |  | Dec 19, 2011 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nordwest-Zeitung](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nordwest-zeitung) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BC Brandenburg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bc-brandenburg-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Müller Medien](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/m-ller-medien) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brandenburg Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bfb-brandenburg-kapital-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does pd ventures invest in?

pd ventures invests primarily in Internet, Online Portals and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is pd ventures's check size?

pd ventures typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$18M 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 pd ventures participates in.

### How do I contact pd ventures?

Public channels for pd ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at pd ventures?

The team at pd ventures includes Daniel Kempf (Member of the Management Board, Managing Director), Fabio Fiorda (Investment Manager) and Ivan Miskovic (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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