Rouven Dresselhaus
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ NAP
Berlin, Germany
Rouven Dresselhaus is a Series A investor at NAP in Berlin focused on Software and E-Commerce. Rouven Dresselhaus is Founding Partner at Cavalry Ventures, a leading European Venture Fund that he co-led until 2024. His most notable investments at Cavalry include Spread.ai, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also served on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía Salud. Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of the advisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement. Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Rouven Dresselhaus invests in
Stages Rouven Dresselhaus invests in
Countries Rouven Dresselhaus invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $221k–$6M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$19M
- Series B
- $17M–$66M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 9 (23%)
- E-Commerce 7 (18%)
- InsurTech 5 (13%)
- FinTech 4 (10%)
- Internet 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (31%)
- Seed 11 (28%)
- Series B 4 (10%)
- Angel 2 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
Country
- Germany 22 (56%)
- United States 6 (15%)
- Mexico 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering. | $6.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 19, 2024 | ||
| Inkitt is the world's first reader-powered book publisher. They have developed an algorithm that predicts bestsellers by analyzing reading behaviour.At Inkitt, they believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. That’s why they’re building the fairest and most objective publishing house in the world by finding hiddentalents and turning them into globally successful authors.They're a team of 30 hard-working, extremely talented, and highly dedicated entrepreneurs and have raised $5m to level up and get closer to their goal: to help debut authors dominate the NY Times Best Seller list. | $37M / Series C / Feb 26, 2024 | ||
| Clarisights was founded to empower performance marketing and growth teams by creating a platform that gives them insights and superhero powers they have always wanted. Rather than wrestling with outdated spreadsheets and BI platforms that can't keep pace with their growing volume of marketing channels and data, marketers can use Clarisights toindependently explore and analyze all their data in a single and intuitive interface. Marketing teams around the world use Clarisights for every aspect of their performance marketing workflow - from integrating with data channels, creating and optimizing dashboards, and collaborating with teammates - all in real time.Clarisights is a data ingestion and analytics platform that enables marketers to make sense of and gain unique insights from data coming in from all the sources. Our platform is a seamless in-browser experience - the users just add the sources (analytics, ads data) they want to track, our backend then ingests the data from those sources, performs the necessary transformations and stores it in our own database. All of this, without the user needing to configure any data pipelines. Users can begin answering questions on their marketing data by building interactive visualizations, minutes after signing up. With Clarisights, marketers can build visualizations to answer questions like “What are my largest sources of traffic and what are the major cost sinkholes?” and then also quickly drill down into granular details like “What kind of ad copy has the least customer acquisition cost” or “Which ad creatives are driving the maximum RoI?” | $14M / Series A / Oct 04, 2021 | ||
| Lhotse helps you optimize the costs you're not looking at. Lhotse takes the hassle out of indirect spend - being intuitive to use and simple to integrate with existing systems. Lhotse was established in 2020 by Jan Berssenbruegge, Henning Hatjem and Can Akin in Berlin, Germany. | $5.3M / Sep 13, 2021 | ||
| Afilio provides families with a centralized location to create and consolidate personal estate management, legal, financial, and retirement planning. The company was founded by Till Oltmanns, Philip Harms, and Richard Musiol, with its headquarters in Berlin. | $13M / Series A / Aug 11, 2021 | ||
| VoiceLine helps professionals by bringing voice collaboration to high performing teams. | Pre-Seed / Jul 26, 2021 | ||
| Forto is a leading disruptor in the European freight forwarding industry. We are revolutionizing the industry through cutting-edge technology, AI-driven automation, and integrated system solutions. Our strategy is focused on delivering an exceptional, seamless customer experience built on operational excellence. By executing a value-based salesapproach, we elevate the impact of technology-powered processes and people, driving sustainable growth and innovation. | $240.4M / Series C / Jun 21, 2021 | ||
| EqualTo lets developers enhance SaaS products with spreadsheet functionality.The spreadsheet is the most popular programming environment for business. Spreadsheets are used in almost every company to run calculations, define logic and solve problems. But they were not designed to integrate with modern software development processes. In fact, as adeveloper, spreadsheets can be a real pain to work with.We've experienced the challenges of using spreadsheets in software firsthand. In our previous startups we frequently tried to integrate spreadsheet capabilities in SaaS, but found it to be incredibly difficult. The lack of modern, high-performing spreadsheet tech with a great developer experience, ultimately led to us creating our own spreadsheet tooling: EqualTo Sheets.By offering spreadsheet tech that developers love, our mission is to enable closer collaboration between engineering teams and spreadsheet users, which ultimately will lead to better software. | $4.3M / Seed / Jun 10, 2021 | ||
| BRYTER a no-code software platform that automates and helps its users to develop and build digital applications. It helps consulting firms, banks, corporates, and public administration across the globe to digitize and scale their services. BRYTER operates offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, and London. The software supports professionals atBakerMcKenzie, HoganLovells, Taylor Wessing, Simmons&Simmons, ING, Telefónica, and other companies around the globe.It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $66M / Series B / Apr 07, 2021 | ||
| Sofía is a health and technology company that offers health and medical insurance services. It provides a platform with health plans for major, minor and preventive medical expenses. Included in the plan are video consultations and one ambulance service per year. The company is offering a warm interaction as every touch point with the brand becomesa customized experience.Sofia was founded in 2018 and is based in Mexico. | $19M / Series A / Nov 18, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About NAP
NAP is a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed venture capital investor, investing in European technology companies. NAP backs founders who turn non-obvious ideas into realities. The team includes former operators and builders with extensive experience in scaling companies. NAP supports its portfolio companies through capital, guidance, and connections.NAP’s key portfolio highlights include Aleph Alpha, Ampeco, Flip, PlanRadar, Spread, and Usercentrics.
NAP Contacts
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Björn Rieckhoff
Partner
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Claude Ritter
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Dominik Matyka
Entrepreneurial Partner and Founder
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Fabian Krautwurst
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Marcel Hollerbach
Entrepreneurial Partner
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FAQ
What does Rouven Dresselhaus invest in?
Rouven Dresselhaus invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and InsurTech startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rouven Dresselhaus invest in?
Rouven Dresselhaus typically joins rounds of $221k–$6M at Seed, $3.3M–$19M at Series A and $17M–$66M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rouven Dresselhaus's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rouven Dresselhaus took part in.
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When did Rouven Dresselhaus last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rouven Dresselhaus closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 39 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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