SeedCapital Dortmund
VC Fund
Dortmund, Germany
SeedCapital Dortmund is a VC fund in Dortmund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Consulting. SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG is the right partner. They participate in innovative, technology-oriented companies in the start-up or early stage companies. And yet retain independence. Because when they are holding "only" partner on time. Together they participate in the appreciation and therefore the success of company.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries SeedCapital Dortmund invests in
Artificial IntelligenceConsultingManufacturingEnterprise SoftwareInformation Technology
Stages SeedCapital Dortmund invests in
SeedSeries APre-SeedFunding RoundVenture - Series Unknown
Countries SeedCapital Dortmund invests in
GermanyUnited States
Round sizes
Seed $994k–$2.3MSeries A $1.2M–$3.3M
Round size
- Seed
- $994k–$2.3M
- Series A
- $1.2M–$3.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (25%)
- Consulting 2 (17%)
- Manufacturing 2 (17%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (17%)
- Information Technology 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (50%)
- Series A 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Country
- Germany 8 (67%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smycles GmbH is a German software company based in Bochum, specializing in AI-powered tools for assembling and optimizing interdisciplinary teams. Their platform uses natural language processing and creativity-focused AI to match team members based on skills, chemistry, and project needs, emphasizing data privacy with on-premise or German-hostedcloud options. The company develops a technology platform to support team formation for innovation, startups, and research, including workshops and software for rapid team productivity. It targets creative processes, with features like agentic AI for "right people, right timing." | $2.3M / Seed / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| vGreens is an AgTech Startup developing an AI-driven software to enhance the production process across crops, growing systems, and regions. We enable producers to steer quality, quantity, and timing with precision. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2022 | ||
| pickshare is a modern logistics concept based on an open platform. They provide services that include last-mile logistics, urban logistics, parcel delivery, sustainable logistics, and city logistics. | Seed / Jul 28, 2022 | ||
| Volterion was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT.Right from the start, they put their energy into the development of the stack – the energy converter of a redox flow battery and thus the basis for an efficient system.After extensive development work, they now produce their stacks using a unique manufacturingprocess that they are constantly improving.On this basis, they also develop innovative energy systems such as the powerRFB. A scalable battery in a compact housing that meets the highest industrial demands and is used in many different applications.Sascha Berthold, Thomas Gebauer and Thorsten Seipp are the founders of the company and have been involved in the development of Volterion technology. Together with Kees van de Kerk they form the management today.Volterion has received many awards for its technology and business model, including the ACHEMA Energy Founders Award, the TU Startup Award, the KUER Growing Business Award and the Best Pitches Award. | $1.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 18, 2018 | ||
| Volterion was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT.Right from the start, they put their energy into the development of the stack – the energy converter of a redox flow battery and thus the basis for an efficient system.After extensive development work, they now produce their stacks using a unique manufacturingprocess that they are constantly improving.On this basis, they also develop innovative energy systems such as the powerRFB. A scalable battery in a compact housing that meets the highest industrial demands and is used in many different applications.Sascha Berthold, Thomas Gebauer and Thorsten Seipp are the founders of the company and have been involved in the development of Volterion technology. Together with Kees van de Kerk they form the management today.Volterion has received many awards for its technology and business model, including the ACHEMA Energy Founders Award, the TU Startup Award, the KUER Growing Business Award and the Best Pitches Award. | $1.2M / Series A / Jul 19, 2017 | ||
| Shop uses Artificial Intelligence to empower online shopping experience for customers. It is a universal shopping cart browser extension that keeps all the items of its users across the web in one spot. Stores can be registered online and without any hassle. It helps its users browse through a wide range of online stores and checkout from one spot.The company gives ability to connect to all its users existing retailer accounts. It also secures data with encryption methods and two-step verifications. Shop is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jay Habib. | $1.7M / Seed / Sep 15, 2015 | ||
| Comnovo is a spin-off company from the Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund University. Comnovo is offering innovative hardware solutions and services in the field of wireless systems for sensor data collection, distance measurements and localization to improve the personal safety of your employees. The radio specialists enable companiesof stone and earth, construction, chemical and metal industry to exploit untapped potential to increase safety and permanently integrate the new devices into business and production processes. | Seed / Nov 21, 2014 | ||
| Coramaze Technologies is a venture backed MedTech start-up in clinical stages, headquartered in Israel. We are developing an adaptive Tricuspid valve repair device for the widest possible patient population. The Tripair implant is anchored a-traumatically in the right atrium, enabling a quick and simple procedure, accessible to every cath-lab. | $1.4M / Seed / Feb 16, 2014 | ||
| With more than 3.6 million freelancers, so-called Clickworkers, in Europe, America and Asia, clickworker is one of the leading providers of paid crowdsourcing. clickworker offers scalable solutions in the areas of training data for AI, text creation, categorization and tagging, surveys, web research, mobile crowdsourcing and product datamaintenance in 18 languages and in more than 30 target markets.clickworker is a full-service provider and offers both standardized and individual solutions for the implementation of its customers' data-oriented projects. These projects are automatically broken down into micro jobs and processed by qualified Clickworkers from the crowd. The results are then reassembled and transmitted to the customer in a quality-assured manner.clickworker also offers a self-service solution via the online marketplace for smaller and standardized tasks in the areas of text creation, surveys and sentiment analysis. These practice-proven procedures offer reliable and high-quality results with high throughput, outstanding scalability and with significant cost savings. | $1.4M / Jul 22, 2013 | ||
| With more than 3.6 million freelancers, so-called Clickworkers, in Europe, America and Asia, clickworker is one of the leading providers of paid crowdsourcing. clickworker offers scalable solutions in the areas of training data for AI, text creation, categorization and tagging, surveys, web research, mobile crowdsourcing and product datamaintenance in 18 languages and in more than 30 target markets.clickworker is a full-service provider and offers both standardized and individual solutions for the implementation of its customers' data-oriented projects. These projects are automatically broken down into micro jobs and processed by qualified Clickworkers from the crowd. The results are then reassembled and transmitted to the customer in a quality-assured manner.clickworker also offers a self-service solution via the online marketplace for smaller and standardized tasks in the areas of text creation, surveys and sentiment analysis. These practice-proven procedures offer reliable and high-quality results with high throughput, outstanding scalability and with significant cost savings. | $713K / Dec 11, 2012 | ||
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FAQ
What does SeedCapital Dortmund invest in?
SeedCapital Dortmund invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Consulting and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is SeedCapital Dortmund's check size?
SeedCapital Dortmund typically joins rounds of $994k–$2.3M at Seed and $1.2M–$3.3M 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 SeedCapital Dortmund participates in.
When did SeedCapital Dortmund last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for SeedCapital Dortmund closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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