# Picus Capital

> Picus Capital is a VC fund in Munich backing Financial Services and Software. See 418 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 418
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 19%
- Fund size: $140M
- Last fund: Feb 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/picus-capital/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/picuscap
- Website: http://www.picuscap.com

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow. We want to become the closest partner of our portfolio companies by working together on key strategic decisionsand operative challenges.As a privately financed venture capital investor with long-term and flexible capital we are looking for exceptional founders who are committed to building category leaders throughout the next 5-10+ years. We invest in early-stage technology ventures with a focus on financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech and e-commerce. Picus makes initial investments in pre-seed, seed and series A ventures thereby starting to work together with entrepreneurs in various stages of their companies ranging from ideation phase to initial traction. We follow a very long-term investment approach investing significant amounts throughout the lifecycle of the companies. We have invested in over 50 companies to date.At Picus we work in a culture combining the discipline of a financial investor with the creativity and pragmatism of an entrepreneur. We follow a comprehensive and well-structured investment approach in order to identify the most attractive and ambitious investment opportunities in our target industries and geographies. Within our core investment team every member has a distinctive industry competence and a functional or geographic focus. We are working closely together with our portfolio companies to develop large and successful market leaders. This comprises in particular leveraging our marketing & sales expertise and our global market perspective to provide strategic advice, providing HR management to grant access to top talent, connecting our portfolio companies with our broad B2B & investor network as well as supporting the fundraising process.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.9M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $549k–$4.5M |
| Series A | $4M–$33M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 36 | 9% |
| Software | 34 | 8% |
| FinTech | 28 | 7% |
| Information Technology | 23 | 6% |
| Real Estate | 21 | 5% |

168 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 120 | 29% |
| Series A | 73 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 46 | 11% |
| Series B | 36 | 9% |
| Series C | 10 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 40 | 10% |
| United States | 39 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 3% |
| Mexico | 12 | 3% |
| India | 9 | 2% |

24 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Florian Reichert | Partner & Managing Director | 90 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florian-reichert |
| Oliver Heinrich | Partner | 40 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oliver-heinrich |
| Abhijay Thacker | Investment Advisor | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhijay-thacker |
| Alexander Kremer | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-kremer |
| Alexander Samwer | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-samwer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Axle Energy | Axle's software dynamically gives flexibility to the electricity grid and adjusts energy usage to when it is cheapest and greenest. | $24M | Series A | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Fuchs & Eule | VALYRIA is an expert in buying and selling apartment buildings. | $11.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| compri | compri uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make your procurement experience easier, faster, and smarter. | $3.6M | Seed | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| FINN | At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated. | $113.4M | Series D | Jun 24, 2026 |  |
| Tsuga | Tsuga is a platform that enables enterprise-grade observability, such as log management, application performance monitoring, infrastructure analytics, and sensitive data scanning, while paying close attention to compliance and cost controls. | $35M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Telepatia | Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals. | $33M | Series A | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Blitzy | Blitzy is a Generative AI software platform that aims to automate custom software development. Blitzy's flagship model, BlitzCode, and multi-agent operating system, Blitzy OS, automatically create production-ready code repositories for software development teams. | $200M | Series A | May 05, 2026 |  |
| XO Market | XO Market is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to create, trade, and share prediction-based markets on future events using blockchain technology. The platform operates as a non-custodial interface, allowing participants to interact directly with smart contracts while retaining control of their own crypto assets. XO Marketfacilitates “conviction markets,” where users can establish and trade outcomes on various topics, with prices reflecting collective market sentiment. It uses an automated market maker model to provide liquidity and incorporates a hybrid system combining artificial intelligence and human input to resolve market outcomes. The platform supports permissionless market creation, enabling users to define events, set parameters, and participate in trading without centralized oversight. | $6M | Seed | May 01, 2026 |  |
| Casavo | Casavo is a PropTech startup operating in the real estate sector that developed an innovative and unique business model: a technological platform (Instant Buyer) that submits direct offers to buy homes, and, after renovation, finds the final buyers. | $14.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 14, 2026 |  |
| Silverflow | Silverflow is a payment processing technology company that provides direct card-network access to payment service providers. Its cloud-based processing platform provides an upgrade for payment providers to accelerate technological innovation. With Silverflow, PSPs can now directly access card networks, instantly add new functionality, havereal-time insight into transaction fees, and get smart data directly from the networks – all to better serve their merchants.Silverflow was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. | $40M | Series B | Mar 04, 2026 |  |

10 of 418 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 55 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 30 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
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- [Clocktower Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clocktower-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 18 deals together
- [Kaszek](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaszek-ventures) — VC Fund, 13 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Picus Capital invest in?

Picus Capital invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 418 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Picus Capital's check size?

Picus Capital typically joins rounds of $1.9M–$12M at Seed, $549k–$4.5M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$33M 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 Picus Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Picus Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Picus Capital?

The team at Picus Capital includes Florian Reichert (Partner & Managing Director), Oliver Heinrich (Partner) and Abhijay Thacker (Investment Advisor), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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