# Star Ventures

> Star Ventures is a VC fund in München backing Software and Telecommunications. See 68 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: München, Germany
- Total investments: 68
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/star-ventures/
- Website: http://www.star-ventures.com

Star Ventures is a VC fund in München focused on Software and Telecommunications. Founded in 1992 as one of the first Venture Funds in Israel with $1B under management STAR has successfully built over 180 category leading technology companies. STAR has orchestrated over 75 successful IPOs and M&As to date. These include companies such as Acopia, Alvarion, BigBand, Broadbus, Ciena, Creo, Identify, Orckit, Precise, SheerNetworks and Topio.STAR has a reputation for working with a broad range of companies and is recognized as a venture capital firm capable of uncovering and creating value across a broad sector of emerging, early stage, and mid-stage companies.STAR has a global reach with offices in Germany, Israel, and USA. Offering companies the invaluable ability to move deftly when opportunities for growth become evident, STAR has established itself as a highly respected presence in the venture capital marketplace, producing success in telecom, enterprise software, media, wireless and life science sectors.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 19% |
| Telecommunications | 13 | 19% |
| Internet | 9 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 7 | 10% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 18 | 26% |
| Series C | 15 | 22% |
| Series B | 14 | 21% |
| Series D | 9 | 13% |
| Series A | 3 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 47% |
| Israel | 6 | 9% |
| South Korea | 2 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Austria | 1 | 1% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Meir Barel | Managing Partner & Founder | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-meir-barel |
| Amit Barel | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amit-barel |
| Andreas Hofbauer | CFO Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-hofbauer |
| Dominik Wensauer | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominik-wensauer |
| Jeanne Bayless | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeanne-bayless |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Savle | Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners. |  | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| Insurobo | Insurobo is an internet insurance sales company that provides AI chatbot, cloud, and blockchain services. |  | Seed | Jun 21, 2022 |  |
| VisionSense | Visionsense develops novel visualization solutions that bring natural stereoscopic sight to minimally invasive surgery (MIS). With advanced sensor technology and proprietary software, the Visionsense system delivers depth perception, 3D-HD resolution images and maneuvering flexibility through the smallest access diameters. Existing MinimallyInvasive Surgery (MIS) vision solutions provide 2D (monocular) images that lack depth perception. This restricts the surgeon’s perspective limiting the ability to perform advanced MIS procedures. With stereovision capabilities, surgeons gain enhanced tissue understanding, improved hand eye coordination and the confidence to use advanced (articulating) surgical tools. | $8M |  | Apr 01, 2018 |  |
| Vidyo | We’re video-enabling the world. Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant as a leader and a visionary, Vidyo is used by organizations like Google, CERN, Etsy, Philips, Alibaba, Kaiser, DISA and others. We are tackling a huge challenge: to ensure that the world can take advantage of the endless benefits of video chat by making it better than anyother form of communication, whether you are in the office - or far out in the field under challenging bandwidth and wifi conditions.Vidyo makes it easy to embed the most beautiful, resilient and immersive multiparty video chat into any application, on any connected device. In healthcare, banking, IoT, customer engagement, enterprise collaboration, government, field services and more, video chat is revolutionizing - while simplifying - how we communicate. We envision a future in which hospitals, banks, universities, police stations, data centers, manufacturing facilities and all places in between see elegant video chat as the sustainable and intuitive way for humans to better connect with one another - making us more productive while saving tons of time and resources. From Silicon Valley to New York, Europe, Asia-Pacific and beyond, Vidyo is one of the most diverse teams in tech, with hundreds of gifted employees living and sharing their experiences all over the world. We are beyond excited about what we’re building, and believe our mission is just getting started. | $11.5M | Series C | Jan 19, 2011 |  |
| AeroScout | AeroScout provides Wi-Fi-based RFID tags, exciters, and location receivers. The company offers two main integrated products: Engine, a software component, enabling location-based applications in a wireless LAN environment, and MobileView, an application for enterprise visibility solutions. The company also provides professional services, whichinclude site planning and pre-installation. | $16M | Series E | Nov 04, 2010 |  |
| Sipera Systems | Sipera Systems is the worldwide market leader in solutions for the rapid and simple adoption of Unified Communications (UC). Thousands of users around the globe rely on Sipera to secure VoIP, IP video, collaboration, messaging and dozens of other high-performance applications. Sipera's groundbreaking "Borderless UC" enables securecommunications to any device in any location.Backed by the extensive vulnerability research of the Sipera VIPER Lab, Sipera's solutions for VoIP security and UC security enable enterprises to deploy remote teleworkers, distributed call centers, business continuity, pandemic planning, secure SIP trunks, toll fraud prevention, media logging and archiving, and many other communications innovations. |  | Series D | May 18, 2010 |  |
| Siano Mobile Silicon | Siano Mobile Silicon develops silicon receivers for the Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) market. Highly integrated, and tailored specifically for mobile communications and consumer electronic devices, the company's multi-band, multi-standard solutions support CMMB, DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T, T-DMB, DAB and DAB+. |  | Series D | Jan 11, 2010 |  |
| cVidya | cVidya is a leading supplier of Big Data Analytics solutions for communications and digital service ‎providers. cVidya provides operators with a complete solution, encompassing a Big Data technology ‎platform and analytical applications designed to optimize profits and support operational and strategic ‎decisions.‎ cVidya’s Business Protectionoffering, which includes Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management ‎solutions, enables operators to quickly identify risks and prevent revenue loss. cVidya’s Business ‎Growth offering, which encompasses Marketing Analytics and Data Monetization solutions, enables ‎operators to optimize their base management activities and leverage new opportunities to monetize ‎data through 3rd parties.‎ | $10M | Series D | Jan 01, 2010 |  |
| Cedar Point Communications | Cedar Point Communications provides integrated voice over Internet protocol and multimedia switching technologies for the service provider and enterprise telecommunication industries. Its products include SAFARI C3, a media switching system, which delivers Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) capabilities that support the anticipatedmigration to IMS architecture for converged networks; and SAFARI eMG, a media gateway that delivers flexibility. The company also provides training, customer, and solution services. Cedar Point Communications serves information technology departments and network operators, cable operators and telecommunications carriers, and enterprise customers and educational institutions. Cedar Point Communications, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Derry, New Hampshire with an additional office in Meersburg, Germany. | $2M | Debt Financing | Dec 01, 2009 |  |
| Cadent | Cadent is a provider of 3-D digital solutions for the orthodontic and dental industries. The company is backed by a syndicate of leading venture capital investors including Fortissimo Capital, Apax Partners, Panorama Capital (J.P. Morgan Partners), STAR Ventures and SV Life Sciences. | $19.3M |  | Aug 14, 2009 |  |

10 of 68 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Star Ventures invest in?

Star Ventures invests primarily in Software, Telecommunications and Internet startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 68 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Star Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Star Ventures?

The team at Star Ventures includes Meir Barel (Managing Partner & Founder), Amit Barel (Associate) and Andreas Hofbauer (CFO Partner), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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