# Peter Richarz

> Peter Richarz is a seed investor at Crossventures backing Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Crossventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crossventures)
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterricharz/?originalSubdomain=de
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/r1charz
- Website: https://dvhventures.de/

Peter Richarz is a seed investor at Crossventures in Cologne focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 43% |
| SaaS | 2 | 29% |
| Internet | 2 | 29% |
| Software | 2 | 29% |
| Insurance | 2 | 29% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 86% |
| Series A | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 86% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Enote | 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 | 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 | 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. | $1.6M | Seed | Jun 13, 2019 |  |
| Masterplan.com | 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. |  | Series A | Sep 17, 2018 |  |
| ndgit | 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 | Moneymeets is a developer of customer-centered consulting software for banks and insurance companies. | $3.8M | Series A | Aug 17, 2015 |  |
| moneymeets | Moneymeets is a developer of customer-centered consulting software for banks and insurance companies. | $384K | Seed | Aug 15, 2014 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Crossventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crossventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [European Commission](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-commission) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-innovation-council) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hannover Digital Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannover-digital-investments-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Helen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helen-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Investitionsbank Berlin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investitionsbank-berlin) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Crossventures

VC Fund · Köln, Germany

Crossventures develops and participates in digital business models.

3 contacts available at Crossventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Richarz | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-richards-5 |
| Peter Richarz | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-richarz |
| Sven C Sixt | Managing Partner and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sven-c-sixt |

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## FAQ

### What does Peter Richarz invest in?

Peter Richarz invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Internet 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.

### When did Peter Richarz last invest?

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.

### 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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