METRO Xcel
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
METRO Xcel is a highly selective sales driven program for technology-first startups across the entire value chain of Hospitality and Retail. We invest in companies who are market champions in pioneering new grounds with their unique digital solutions.Focused on Hospitality Tech, METRO Xcel for Hospitality is for startup solutions that are aimingto digitize the Hospitality industry at each and every touch point. Startups joining the program for Hospitality have restaurants or hotels as customers. The applications for our 2019 are now open.With a spotlight on Retail Tech, METRO Xcel is looking for startups devising solutions across the entire retail value chain and have exciting and scalable solutions for innovation in the sector. .
- Total investments:
- 63
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 5%
Last updated:
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Industries METRO Xcel invests in
Stages METRO Xcel invests in
Countries METRO Xcel invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Andreas Wuerfel
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 13 (21%)
- Hospitality 13 (21%)
- Restaurants 12 (19%)
- SaaS 10 (16%)
- E-Commerce 10 (16%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 33 (52%)
- Seed 26 (41%)
- Series A 1 (2%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- Germany 15 (24%)
- United Kingdom 10 (16%)
- United States 8 (13%)
- France 7 (11%)
- Israel 5 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Andreas Wuerfel
Global Director Strategic Innovation
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Global Director Strategic Innovation | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Léa Gatinois
Social Media manager
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Social Media manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Gofer
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Gofer simplifies the hiring process for qualified applicants in the construction and hospitality industry. It is a community-driven, Saas-enabled temporary staff marketplace. They start with high-end hotels in major cities with a highly transferable model (geography and sector).Businesses need flexible and reliable temporary staff, with nodifference, on know-how and behavior, from their permanent staff. They want to decrease training and hiring costs by retaining their temporary staff. While workers want to work in the best environment possible, as much as they want, be paid fast, and get recognition.They select and curate temporary staff, then digitally take care of all the paperwork and the payment. Their communities and back-office ensure that the best match is done and that a pool of workers is built for a business: training and briefing save precious on-site training time. | Pre-Seed / Apr 17, 2019 | |
Barratio
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Barratio is the management solution that meets all the needs of restaurants. | Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2018 | |
Sentiment Search
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Sentiment Search specialises in review insights for restaurants, coffee shops and cloud kitchens. We provide marketing teams, operations teams and guest experience teams with a range of sophisticated customer sentiment insights derived from review and social platforms. These industry-specialised metrics can be used to benchmark every aspect of abusiness against competitors, pinpoint weaknesses and ultimately improve online ratings. | Pre-Seed / Nov 12, 2018 | |
EasyWay
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Our product enables guests to communicate with their hotel in their native language using their favorite messaging apps (WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, etc.).Using AI, we empower hotel receptionists to keep up with guest expectations, bridge cultural gaps, and deliver an instant, seamless guest experience.EasyWay was foundedin 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Nov 05, 2018 | |
HeyMojo, Inc
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We at Heymojo expertise in building Hybrid chatbots. Hybrid Bots are a combination of both Rule-based & AI Based bots. We bring the best of both worlds on a single platform. It is important to understand bots were never built to replace humans but only to improve the efficiency of our work. Heymojo Bots can be used to answer routine questionsor FAQs, automate customer support, drive user engagement, generate more leads, and most importantly qualify leads using our unique lead scoring algorithm. | Pre-Seed / Nov 05, 2018 | |
Fresco
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FRESCO is revolutionizing the cooking oil market in order to allow anybody to make any dish tastier and healthier, transforming a commodity, like olive oil, into a premium and emotional product. For this reason they developed the first solution to make the best condiment ever, the fresh olive oil. Fresco experience is easy and exciting: all youneed is EVA, the first mini-oil mill, and his frozen olives Pulps. Thanks to their multi-skilled team and outstanding partners, they concluded the prototyping phase and they raised €1,0M. In May 2018 they have entered the B2B market with a pre-order campaign and they have already sold 50 subscription plans. | Pre-Seed / Nov 05, 2018 | |
Trakbar
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Trakbar provides smart business intelligence solutions for hospitality SME. Big data insights, analytics and predictions enables SME’s in hospitality to optimize their business and help with decision-making. | Seed / Nov 05, 2018 | |
Sellar
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Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers. It offers an end-to-end experience for customers, which allows them to stay connected right through from order to delivery. | $120K / Pre-Seed / Nov 03, 2018 | |
Hotelhero
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They help independent hotels and small chains to discover, compare and select the right digital tools and systems.They carefully curate their listed partners to ensure their quality. They provide hoteliers with all relevant information needed during the selection process. In addition, They offer independent hotels and small chains personalassistance to make sure that the typically tedious selection process becomes smooth and seamless.The vision of this platform is to increase and facilitate the adoption of technology in the industry and to push innovation helping hoteliers to reduce costs, increase revenues and meet the ever changing guest expectation. | $124K / Pre-Seed / Oct 08, 2018 | |
RetailQuant
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RetailQuant is a retail analytics company that makes it easy for physical retailers to collect, analyse and interpret customer information at scale. | Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | |
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What does METRO Xcel invest in?
METRO Xcel invests primarily in Software, Hospitality and Restaurants startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at METRO Xcel includes Andreas Wuerfel (Global Director Strategic Innovation) and Léa Gatinois (Social Media manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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