Sebastian Pollok
Founding Partner @ Visionaries Club
Berlin, Germany
Sebastian Pollok is a seed investor at Visionaries Club in Berlin focused on Software and E-Commerce. Sebastian Pollok is Founding Partner of Visionaries Club, an early stage VC fund backed by leading European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior, Sebastian co-founded and ran AMORELIE, which he successfully grew to > USD 60m revenue, >20% EBITDA and a team of 100 employees. AMORELIE was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in2018 at a valuation > USD 100m. Prior to AMORELIE, Sebastian worked as a VC for e.ventures in San Francisco and studied at WHU, St. Gallen, HKUST and Kellogg School of Management. Sebastian is a business angel in startups such as Ree Technology, Choco, Sunshine Smile and Lillydoo and a limited partner in funds such as Cherry Ventures, Project A and La Famiglia. He also sits on the board of Cherry Ventures and Founders Pledge.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Sebastian Pollok invests in
Stages Sebastian Pollok invests in
Countries Sebastian Pollok invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $3.7M–$11M
- Series A
- $6.9M–$60M
- Series B
- $65M–$111M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (17%)
- E-Commerce 4 (17%)
- Health Care 3 (13%)
- Human Resources 3 (13%)
- Financial Services 3 (13%)
Country
- Germany 11 (48%)
- United States 3 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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SirenOpt
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SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.5M / Oct 14, 2025 | |
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SirenOpt
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SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.6M / Seed / Jul 23, 2024 | |
CYCLE
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GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile. | $11.5M / Series A / Jul 19, 2023 | |
hakuna
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Hakuna provides a variety of embedded insurance solutions to e-commerce companies. They work with merchants of all sizes and industries to provide product protection as a service, both online and offline. They make it simple to begin selling product protection. | $3.9M / Seed / Sep 21, 2022 | |
getmomo
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getmomo is a vertical payment platform for real estate. Guaranteeing on-time rent for landlords & offering tenants a zero-deposit solution | $3.7M / Seed / Jun 27, 2022 | |
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CYCLE
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GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile. | $10.5M / Seed / May 11, 2022 | |
Choco
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Choco develops an ingredient ordering application designed to connect restaurants and suppliers. Their application offers an interface reminiscent of popular consumer apps, with a messenger-like chat interface for communication between suppliers and restaurants and a post-mates-like ordering list that makes ordering easy, enabling restaurants toget their food delivery application for getting ingredients from suppliers. | $111M / Series B / Apr 11, 2022 | |
Leapsome
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Leapsome is the platform for Performance Management & Employee Engagement. CEOs and HR / People Operations teams in forward-thinking companies such as Spotify, Trivago, and Babbel choose Leapsome to enhance their people management processes. With Leapsome, you empower and develop employees across your organisation.Leapsome combines toolsfor Goals & OKRs Management, Performance Reviews and 360s, Employee Engagement Surveys, Instant Feedback & Praise, and 1-on-1 Meetings into one easy to use and customizable platform. | $60M / Series A / Mar 24, 2022 | |
Taxdoo
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Taxdoo provides software solutions for automated sales tax compliance and financial accounting in e-commerce. The platform collects and evaluates transaction data from marketplaces and other systems to automatically submit sales tax reports. Taxdoo also offers accounting features with DATEV compatibility and services specifically for tax advisorsmanaging e-commerce mandates. | $64.6M / Series B / Dec 16, 2021 | |
Quantive
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Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) is the world’s leading Strategy Execution Platform based on the OKR management methodology. By embedding strategic context, priorities, and progress into the day-to-day, Quantive creates organizations that excel at execution. With over 2,000 global customers across enterprises, not-for-profits, startups, and governments,Quantive helps today's businesses accelerate growth and transformational change by creating better visibility and organizational alignment. | $120M / Series C / Dec 16, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Visionaries Club
Visionaries Club is a leading European early stage VC backed by Europe's most successful digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. We strongly believe that leveraging our entrepreneurial investors' authentic knowledge and access is the best support we can provide to entrepreneurs in their Seed and Early Growth stage to help themtake their companies to the next level.Visionaries Club is divided into two funds:A € 150m seed stage fund leveraging its unicorn and digital founder LP base for very early and exclusive access to the most promising entrepreneurs across Europe.A €200m Early Growth fund leveraging especially the fund's industrial family business LP network is intended to support the most promising European B2B companies in their early growth stage from Series B onwards with global reach and scale.The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and has offices in Berlin and London
Visionaries Club Contacts
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Judith Dada
General Partner
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Laura Bongartz
Team Lead Operations & Communications
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Lisa Sorg
Director of Platform
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Marton Sarkadi Nagy
Partner
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Sahar Meghani
Partner
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FAQ
What does Sebastian Pollok invest in?
Sebastian Pollok invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Sebastian Pollok's check size?
Sebastian Pollok typically joins rounds of $3.7M–$11M at Seed, $6.9M–$60M at Series A and $65M–$111M 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 Sebastian Pollok participates in.
When did Sebastian Pollok last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Sebastian Pollok closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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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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