# Venista Ventures

> Venista Ventures is a VC fund in Cologne backing Software and Mobile. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/venistaventures/about/
- Website: http://www.venista-ventures.com

Venista Ventures is a Cologne, Germany-based pre-seed investor backing tech-driven enterprise and consumer startups. As part of our investment strategy, we invest in outstanding teams based in Western Europe & the Nordics.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Venista Ventures. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Venista Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/venista-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 18% |
| Mobile | 5 | 15% |
| FinTech | 4 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 12% |
| Travel | 3 | 9% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 29% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 18 | 53% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 12% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Teichert | Co-Founder & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-teichert |
| Frank Maschmeier | COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-maschmeier |
| Malte von Euen | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malte-von-euen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tilta | Tilta offers the white-labeled infrastructure to build credit-backed payment flows for B2B transactions on marketplaces and platforms. Platforms are enabled to provide a financial service, drive GMV, and add a revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial service. |  | Seed | Jun 14, 2024 |  |
| Fundably | Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan \| Access £1k-£2m |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| ContractHero | ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 06, 2023 |  |
| Tilta | Tilta offers the white-labeled infrastructure to build credit-backed payment flows for B2B transactions on marketplaces and platforms. Platforms are enabled to provide a financial service, drive GMV, and add a revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial service. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 |  |
| Connect Earth | Founded in 2021, Connect Earth is a London-based environmental data company that democratises easy access to sustainability data. With its carbon tracking API technology, Connect Earth is on a mission to empower people to make sustainable choices and bridge the gap between intent, knowledge and action. Connect Earth supports financial institutionsin offering their customers transparent insight into the climate impact of their daily spending and drives sustainable finance. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| ANYMOVE | AnyMove is the car rental Super App, focused on the mission to bring down car ownership and move the full transition to e-mobility forward, by giving every driver around the world access to electric vehicles - convenient, flexible and affordable.ANYMOVE developed a car rental app platform designed to bring down car ownership and move the fulltransition to e-mobility forward that gives every driver around the world access to electric vehicles with convenience, flexibility, and affordability. The company's platform gives users access to a large number of different cars from private individuals, the car is covered by an insurance partner during the rental period and keys are handed over between the car owner and the tenant digitally via the application, enabling car owners to easily and securely rent a car to other private individuals. |  | Series A | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Tropee | Tropee is the no-code platform to create, launch, and manage NFT utilities. | $5.2M | Seed | Nov 22, 2022 |  |
| Tyles | Tyles is a software startup that helps users harness information more efficiently and effectively. The startup allows high-performing professionals to build up critical knowledge at the highest speed possible. It currently functions as a modular note-taking tool, making it extremely simple to save information from any app, such as browsers, PDFfiles, or presentations, and keep yourself organized without friction. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Tyles | Tyles is a software startup that helps users harness information more efficiently and effectively. The startup allows high-performing professionals to build up critical knowledge at the highest speed possible. It currently functions as a modular note-taking tool, making it extremely simple to save information from any app, such as browsers, PDFfiles, or presentations, and keep yourself organized without friction. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Superjoi | Superjoi helps brands utilize a creative workforce to boost their products, services, and brand awareness via new-gen influencer marketing and D2C sales through short-form content in a one-click payment fashion. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 20, 2022 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Venista Ventures invest in?

Venista Ventures invests primarily in Software, Mobile and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Venista Ventures's check size?

Venista Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5.5M at Seed and $1.2M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Venista Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Venista Ventures?

Public channels for Venista Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Venista Ventures?

The team at Venista Ventures includes Christian Teichert (Co-Founder & CEO), Frank Maschmeier (COO) and Malte von Euen (Investment Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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