Peter Richarz
Managing Partner @ DvH Ventures
Cologne, Germany
Peter Richarz is a seed investor at DvH Ventures in Cologne focused on SaaS and Insurance. Founding partner at DvH Ventures building successful investment clusters including but not limited to the fields of digital health, education or financial services with focus on B2B SaaS, deep tech and AI. Managing four independent early-stage investment funds we initially invest €500k-€2m backing our founders in future rounds.Co-founder andmember of the supervisory board of Design Bestseller, one of the most successful e-commerce platforms for designer furniture in Europe. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Media Ventures, the venture capital company of Dirk Ströer and Udo Müller, founders and shareholders of the now listed Ströer SE.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Peter Richarz invests in
Stages Peter Richarz invests in
Countries Peter Richarz invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (29%)
- Insurance 2 (29%)
- Information Technology 2 (29%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (29%)
- Music 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
- Funding Round 1 (14%)
Investments
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| Enote is an innovative digital sheet music app, described by The Guardian as “a gamechanger for musicians". The company has developed a world-leading AI-technology, that allows to digitize paper sheet music into fully digital musical scores. This brings long awaited innovation to over 200 million musicians around the world, making sheet musicmore affordable, convenient and interactive than ever. | $11M / Mar 02, 2023 | ||
| LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $20.8M / Series B / Aug 05, 2022 | ||
| LiveEO is a leading provider of insights-as-a-service, revolutionizing large-scale infrastructure monitoring worldwide with AI and satellite data. Services span from railway, power line, and pipeline monitoring, to supply chain risk management, delivering actionable insights on ground movement, vegetation management, and deforestation.LiveEO's innovative approach is redefining industry practices, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding infrastructure safety and sustainability, setting new standards in asset management. | $1.7M / Seed / Jun 13, 2019 | ||
| Masterplan.com is a developer of a SaaS platform for corporate education. Its platform offers practical lessons on varied content, short learning sessions, and e-learning videos with a hands-on knowledge review that helps users integrate digital learning simply and effectively into their work routines. | $7M / Series A / Sep 17, 2018 | ||
| ndgit provides software technology for a new type of software projects with APIs.Their API banking platform combines the benefits of API platforms with the subject of banking and insurance. They accelerate digital and mobile projects, flexible the IT-architecture of banks, and enable more efficient solutions with APIs. They work with the bestfintech and established software providers to develop new and innovative services for the entire financial process of digital clients and their advisors. The best-of-breed APIs are embedded in the Next Banking API marketplace and can get simply deployed in the software projects of established and new financial service providers. Their complementary API-platform is the middleware for customizing and individual definition of APIs and the rapid development of new solutions. | $1M / Seed / Mar 31, 2017 | ||
| Moneymeets is a developer of customer-centered consulting software for banks and insurance companies. | $3.9M / Series A / Aug 17, 2015 | ||
| Moneymeets is a developer of customer-centered consulting software for banks and insurance companies. | $384K / Seed / Aug 15, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About DvH Ventures
Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures) is one of Europe's leading early stage investors. As an entrepreneurial venture capitalist, DvH Ventures invests in emerging technology companies and builds successful investment clusters including Digital Health, Education, Industrial and Climate Tech with a focus on B2B SaaS, Deep Tech and AImodels.In addition to financial investments, DvH Ventures supports its portfolio companies with management expertise, in-depth industry knowledge and an international investor network. An exclusive media-for-equity program gives portfolio companies access to extensive media reach through leading publishing brands such as Handelsblatt, DIE ZEIT, Tagesspiegel and Apotheken Umschau.Founded in 2014, partners Duc Quyen Tran, Peter Richarz and Fabian von Trotha manage several venture capital funds from their Cologne office.
DvH Ventures Contacts
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Gabriel Grabner
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Peter Richarz
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Caner Uslu
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Cihat Cengiz
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Fabian Trotha
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What does Peter Richarz invest in?
Peter Richarz invests primarily in SaaS, Insurance and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Peter Richarz closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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