# Tengelmann Social Ventures

> Tengelmann Social Ventures is a VC fund in Mülheim backing Education, SaaS and Video. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mülheim, Germany
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.tev-social.de/

Tengelmann Social Ventures is a VC fund in Mülheim focused on Education and SaaS. Tengelmann Social Ventures GmbH was founded as a sister company of Tengelmann Ventures GmbH and is a subsidiary of the Tengelmann Group. Tengelmann Social Ventures strives to finance social businesses and to support social entrepreneurs with advice. Good social business ideas are often not pursued in the early stages, due to lack of capital and notenough consultation. Tengelmann Social Ventures aims to close this gap through early commitment.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Education | 2 | 40% |
| SaaS | 1 | 20% |
| Video | 1 | 20% |
| EdTech | 1 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 20% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CareerFoundry | CareerFoundry mentors clients on how to become a designer, web developers, data analysts, and digital marketers. CareerFoundry was founded in 2013 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $5.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Hashtag You | Hashtag You is a brand builder in the field of direct-to-consumer e-commerce. |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Masterplan.com | Masterplan.com is a developer of a SaaS platform for corporate education. Its platform offers practical lessons on varied content, short learning sessions, and e-learning videos with a hands-on knowledge review that helps users integrate digital learning simply and effectively into their work routines. | $15.5M | Debt Financing | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| dotHIV | dotHIV brings the domain ending .hiv to the Internet - as the digital Red Ribbon. For the first time in the history of the Internet a Top-Level Domain is designed solely for a social cause: the end of AIDS! Get to know more about our Mission, the Goal and the contribution of dotHIV in the fight against AIDS. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2014 |  |
| Kiddify | KIDDIFY is a peer-to-peer video platform where children and youth aged 8 through 18 can share their skills and talents with each other around the world by creating their own video tutorials (how-to-videos).Each video is then translated into different languages and categorised into the country of origin and by skill. KIDDIFY users can learn newskills, languages, feel empowered and ultimately learn about each other.Our mandate is to offer children around the world the opportunity to share their skills and talents; to feed their innate curiosity, and support their desire to learn about their peers around the globe. In doing so, we strive to enable them to become empathetic, culturally aware, digitally-able and empowered citizens. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2013 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DvH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dvh-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders First Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-first-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fynveur](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fynveur) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Henkel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henkel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IBB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ibb) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NRW.BANK](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nrw-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Tengelmann Social Ventures invest in?

Tengelmann Social Ventures invests primarily in Education, SaaS and Video startups, most often at Seed and Debt Financing stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tengelmann Social Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tengelmann Social Ventures closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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