# Thomas Preuss

> Thomas Preuss is a Series C investor at DTCP backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DTCP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dtcp)
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tpreuss
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/TPreuss
- Website: https://x.com/TPreuss

Thomas Preuss is a Series C investor at DTCP in Hamburg focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Thomas Preuss is the Managing Partner, Head of Growth Equity EMEA at DTCP. He attended University of Hamburg.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Aerospace | 2 | 14% |
| Generative AI | 2 | 14% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 5 | 36% |
| Series B | 4 | 29% |
| Series D | 2 | 14% |
| Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series F | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 29% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Norway | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 6 Robotics OÜ | Six Robotics develops defence-focused swarm autonomy software for unmanned systems. The company focuses on software architectures that enable collaborative autonomy across unmanned aerial and ground platforms. Its systems allow multiple pre-programmed drones and vehicles to understand their environment, coordinate with each other, and executemissions as a cohesive team. The software is designed so that a single operator can plan, supervise, and direct large numbers of autonomous assets. Six Robotics works with defence manufacturers, integrators, and armed forces to integrate its autonomy stack into existing command-and-control and platform ecosystems. Its Valkyrie Swarm Platform is used to support missions such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance through coordinated robotic teams. | $13.7M | Seed | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Quantum Systems | Quantum Systems provides AI-powered aerial intelligence solutions for defense and emergency services. The company designs and develops advanced aerial systems equipped with artificial intelligence to gather, analyze, and interpret data for strategic decision-making. These solutions are particularly valuable for surveillance, monitoring, andreal-time information processing, enabling clients to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and effectiveness in critical operations. | $181.5M | Series C | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Cognigy | Cognigy provides conversational AI automation for contact centers. Its low-code platform, Cognigy.AI, enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications using intelligent voice- and chatbots.With precise, reliable intent recognition, highly flexible dialogs, and seamless integration into backend systems, Cognigy.AI createssuperior user experiences and helps companies reduce support costs and improve scalability. Cognigy.AI is available in SaaS and on-premise environments and supports conversations in any language and on any channel including web, phone, SMS, and mobile apps. | $100M | Series C | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Quantum Systems | Quantum Systems provides AI-powered aerial intelligence solutions for defense and emergency services. The company designs and develops advanced aerial systems equipped with artificial intelligence to gather, analyze, and interpret data for strategic decision-making. These solutions are particularly valuable for surveillance, monitoring, andreal-time information processing, enabling clients to enhance operational efficiency, safety, and effectiveness in critical operations. | $67.4M | Series B | Oct 24, 2023 |  |
| Cognigy | Cognigy provides conversational AI automation for contact centers. Its low-code platform, Cognigy.AI, enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications using intelligent voice- and chatbots.With precise, reliable intent recognition, highly flexible dialogs, and seamless integration into backend systems, Cognigy.AI createssuperior user experiences and helps companies reduce support costs and improve scalability. Cognigy.AI is available in SaaS and on-premise environments and supports conversations in any language and on any channel including web, phone, SMS, and mobile apps. | $15M | Series B | Feb 17, 2022 |  |
| Aircall | Aircall provides a cloud-based voice platform that integrates with productivity and helpdesk tools that workplaces are already using to make phone support easy to manage. | $120M | Series D | Jun 23, 2021 |  |
| Neo4j | Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledgegraphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture,e and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com. | $325M | Series F | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Neo4j | Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledgegraphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage with native vector search capability, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture,e and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s dynamic open-source community brings together over 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com. | $174M | Secondary Market | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| LeanIX | LeanIX offers a SaaS for enterprise architecture (EA) that enables organizations to take faster, data-driven decisions in their IT. | $80M | Series D | Jul 08, 2020 |  |
| Aircall | Aircall provides a cloud-based voice platform that integrates with productivity and helpdesk tools that workplaces are already using to make phone support easy to manage. | $65M | Series C | May 27, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Capnamic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capnamic-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Eurazeo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eurazeo-com) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hexa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/efounders) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DTCP

VC Fund · Hamburg, Germany

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

5 contacts available at DTCP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joshua Müller | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joshua-m%C3%BCller |
| Lance Matthews | Partner, Growth Equity | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-matthews |
| Thomas Preuss | Managing Partner, Growth Equity | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-preuss |
| Vicente Vento | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vicente-vento |
| Christopher Heberlein | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-heberlein |

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## FAQ

### What does Thomas Preuss invest in?

Thomas Preuss invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 14 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 Preuss last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Thomas Preuss closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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