# Peter Richarz

> Peter Richarz is a seed investor at DvH Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DvH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dvh-ventures)
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterricharz/en
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/r1charz
- Website: https://dvhventures.de/

Peter Richarz is a seed investor at DvH Ventures in Cologne focused on Artificial Intelligence and SaaS. Founding partner at DvH Ventures, building successful investment clusters including Digital Health, Education, Industrial and Climate Tech with a focus on B2B SaaS, Deep Tech and AI models. We manage four independent early-stage investment funds, initially investing €500k - €2m and supporting our founders in future rounds.As co-founder and boardmember of Design Bestseller, one of Europe's most successful interior design e-commerce platforms, I'm probably their biggest fan and would love to invite you to join our Family & Friends program. Just drop me a line and get up to 20% off everything.Previously, I was Managing Director of Media Ventures, the venture capital company of Dirk Ströer and Udo Müller, the founders and shareholders of Ströer SE, which is now listed on the German stock exchange.I am more than happy to support the wonderful initiative '2hearts' as an ambassador to build a diverse community of people from immigrant backgrounds in the European tech industry.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 30% |
| SaaS | 2 | 20% |
| Internet | 2 | 20% |
| Health Care | 2 | 20% |
| Personal Health | 2 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 40% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $26.8M | Series B | Jun 25, 2024 |  |
| OneTwenty | OneTwenty is an early-stage health tech start-up that develops multiple Machine Learning based solutions for people with diabetes as well as Medtech companies for sensor optimization, biomarker prediction, glucoregulatory models, and iAGC (interoperable automated glycemic controller). Our solution demonstrates unprecedented precision in bloodglucose prediction 120 minutes in advance. OneTwenty revolutionizes the life of people with Type 1 diabetes. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $10.6M | Seed | Mar 02, 2023 |  |
| 35up | We help online merchants create additional cross-selling revenues, without any inventory risks or working capital investments. Powered by an intelligent recommendation engine and with millions of physical and digital products in our vendor network, our headless API seamlessly embeds the most relevant cross-selling products into the checkout. Someof Europe’s leading merchants work with 35up, generating additional contribution margin by enabling their customers to access new products and services that are highly relevant to them. | $5M | Series A | Sep 29, 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. | $19.4M | Series A | Aug 05, 2022 |  |
| juli | Dedicated to your health. We're a digital healthcare startup on a worldwide mission to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions. We're really good at analyzing data and want to use this superpower to change healthcare for the better. There’s great potential within all the health data we're all already collecting aboutourselves. We at juli strive to bring it all together!juli was founded in 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by a group of people that wanted to use their knowledge about big data for a better cause. Some of the founders suffer from a chronic condition themselves and have been on the lookout for many years to find out what triggers episodes and what helps to get better. Learn more | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $15.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| 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. | $6.2M | Series A | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| 35up | We help online merchants create additional cross-selling revenues, without any inventory risks or working capital investments. Powered by an intelligent recommendation engine and with millions of physical and digital products in our vendor network, our headless API seamlessly embeds the most relevant cross-selling products into the checkout. Someof Europe’s leading merchants work with 35up, generating additional contribution margin by enabling their customers to access new products and services that are highly relevant to them. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Sep 04, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Helen Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helen-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Matterwave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matterwave-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Motu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motu-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [coparion](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coparion) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hannover Digital Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hannover-digital-investments-gmbh) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DvH Ventures

VC Fund · Köln, Germany

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.

5 contacts available at DvH Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Grabner | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-grabner |
| Peter Richarz | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-richarz |
| Caner Uslu | Investment Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caner-uslu |
| Cihat Cengiz | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cihat-cengiz |
| Fabian Trotha | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabian-von-trotha |

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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 10 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 Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 10 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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