# Project A Ventures

> Project A Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 215 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 215
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Last fund: Jun 2025
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/project-a-ventures/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ProjectAcom
- Website: http://www.project-a.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectaberlin/

Project A Ventures is a VC fund in Berlin focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$9.7M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$28M |
| Series B | $11M–$75M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 25 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 19 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 7% |
| E-Commerce | 14 | 7% |
| Internet | 10 | 5% |

185 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 66 | 31% |
| Series A | 50 | 23% |
| Series B | 27 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 14 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 66 | 31% |
| United Kingdom | 17 | 8% |
| United States | 10 | 5% |
| Denmark | 5 | 2% |
| France | 3 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anton Waitz | General Partner and Managing Director | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anton-waitz |
| Ben Fischer | General Partner and Managing Director | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-fischer-8fa7 |
| Enrico Mellis | Principal | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enrico-mellis |
| Florian Heinemann | Founding Partner | 37 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-florian-heinemann |
| Jack Wang | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-wang-e91a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Project Q | Project Q is an ultra-fast, super accurate qualification tool to capture customer needs. | $17.1M | Series A | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Nexcade | Nexcade provides comprehensive end-to-end AI automation solutions for global freight forwarding, covering air, ocean, and road logistics. | $6M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| STARK | STARK is a developer of integrated defense and security systems intended for tactical and strategic protection in military and law enforcement missions. | $570.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 23, 2026 |  |
| Linexa | Linexa develops cloud-based SaaS for decoding complex shop floor automation—parsing PLC, HMI, SCADA, and MES systems into a unified, searchable model. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 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 |  |
| Andercore | Andercore is a supply chain platform for construction and building materials | $40M | Series B | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Hades Mining | Hades Mining is a modern mining firm that puts technology first. | $17.9M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Spryker | Spryker is a provider of a commerce technology platform for global enterprises. The company enables companies to build transactional business models in B2B, B2C, and Enterprise Marketplaces. It is the most modern platform-as-a-service solution with a headless architecture that is cloud-enabled, enterprise-ready, and loved by developers and businessusers worldwide. Its solutions have empowered 150+ companies to manage transactions in more than 200 countries worldwide. Spryker is used by brands such as Toyota, Siemens, Hilti, and Ricoh. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| resourcly | USD 2.5 trillion of manufacturing inventory is tied up in capital worldwide. Resourcly changes that. Resourcly empowers industrial manufacturers to improve working capital and save cost with their shared inventors OS to strategically share, repurpose and prevent idle inventory by leveraging product data and AI. | $3.1M | Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Architect AI | Architect AI is a pioneering the world’s first agentic website and Its platform turns any site into a self-learning AI agent that observes visitor behavior. | $4.8M | Seed | Sep 09, 2025 |  |

10 of 215 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Project A Ventures invest in?

Project A Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 215 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Project A Ventures's check size?

Project A Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$9.7M at Seed, $3.3M–$28M at Series A and $11M–$75M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Project A Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Project A Ventures?

Public channels for Project A Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) 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 Project A Ventures?

The team at Project A Ventures includes Anton Waitz (General Partner and Managing Director), Ben Fischer (General Partner and Managing Director) and Enrico Mellis (Principal), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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