# Thomas Hessler

> Thomas Hessler is a seed investor at UFOstart (Berlin) backing Internet and Blockchain. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [UFOstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ufostart-ag)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashessler
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/thomashessler
- Website: http://www.thomashessler.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thomashessler

Thomas Hessler is a seed investor at UFOstart in Berlin focused on Internet and Blockchain. Thomas is serial entrepreneur and angel investor focussing on blockchain businesses. Together with his two partners Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald, Thomas has founded zanox, Globumbus, UFOstart and is invested in about 200 startups.With UFOstart they believe in decentralized startups and help Entrepreneurship to meet the Blockchain. Prior toGlobumbus, a foundation to support Entrepreneurship, Thomas co-founded zanox, grew it to a global market leader for performance-based online marketing with 400 employees and USD 300 million turnover. In 2007, the company was acquired by a German newspaper publisher Axel Springer and Swiss PubliGroupe.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 60% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 40% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 40% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| AgTech | 1 | 20% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 40% |
| United States | 2 | 40% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unit | Unit Network DAO is a sovereign layer 1 blockchain built using the Substrate framework by the Web3 Foundation, Polkadot and Parity Technologies. It provides the technological and economic infrastructure for mainstream adoption of the token economy. A near-future in which millions of tokens fuel borderless communities to empower the globe. | $18M |  | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Tradery Labs | An AI platform for asset managers to build, optimize & deploy trading strategies at scale. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| UFOstart | We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing. | $1M |  | Sep 01, 2013 |  |
| Itembase | Itembase is an e-commerce API integration platform. It is a marketplace that connects e-commerce shops with solution providers. It allows solution providers to offer services on multiple shop systems by solely integrating with itembase. Today, already more than 120,000 e-commerce shops get access to the best solutions tailored to the needs.Itembase was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Seed | Sep 21, 2012 |  |
| Agrilution | Agrilution's vertical farming system helps consumers to grow fresh, healthy food in their home and improve personal nutrition. |  | Seed |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Blockchain Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchain-founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Outlier Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/outlier-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About UFOstart

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing.

4 contacts available at UFOstart.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Heiko Rauch | Co-Founder & Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/heiko-rauch |
| Thomas Hessler | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-hessler |
| Jens Hewald | Co-Founder & Supervisory Board | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-hewald |
| Lars Schulze | Co-Founder & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lars-schulze |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Hessler invest in?

Thomas Hessler invests primarily in Internet, Blockchain and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round 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 Thomas Hessler last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Hessler closed in Feb 2025. 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?

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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