# Waldemar Jantz

> Waldemar Jantz is a Series A investor at Target Partners backing Software and Semiconductor. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Target Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/target-partners)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waldemar.jantz

Waldemar Jantz is a Series A investor at Target Partners in Munich focused on Software and Semiconductor. Waldemar Jantz, Partner, has over 30 years of experience in venture capital and management in Germany and the U.S. and has brought numerous companies public or helped them to have a successful exit. He co-founded Target Partners with his partners Berthold von Freyberg and Kurt Müller in 1999.Between 1984 and 1999 Waldemar worked with TVMCapital, first heading the TVM office in Boston, then serving as managing partner in Munich.Over the course of his career, Waldemar has invested in more than 30 technology companies, eight of which went public on NASDAQ, “Neuer Markt” or the Zurich Stock Exchange.Waldemar is a supervisory board member at Locanis AG as well as board member at Finanzchef24 GmbH, GPredictive GmbH, Dedrone GmbH, Adsquare GmbH and Sicoya GmbH. He is also responsible for Target Partners’ investment in Abusix, Inc. and Quobyte, Inc. He was also responsible for Target Partners' investment in NaWoTec GmbH which was sold to Carl Zeiss AG in 2005 and in Cube Optics AG which was sold in 2014 to Huber+Suhner AG.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 12% |
| Semiconductor | 2 | 8% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 8% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 2 | 8% |
| B2B | 1 | 4% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 23% |
| Series B | 6 | 23% |
| Series C | 4 | 15% |
| Series D | 4 | 15% |
| Seed | 3 | 12% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 9 | 35% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dedrone | Dedrone is an automated drone security platform; an extension of physical and cyber security into the airspace that protects a vulnerability gap exploited by the advances in consumer and commercial drone technology. Its aerial intrusion detection platform provides early warning of malicious drone activities and is used to protect data centers,prisons, airports, and other critical facilities from corporate espionage, smuggling, terrorism, and hacking. | $30M | Series C | Jul 13, 2022 |  |
| Dedrone | Dedrone is an automated drone security platform; an extension of physical and cyber security into the airspace that protects a vulnerability gap exploited by the advances in consumer and commercial drone technology. Its aerial intrusion detection platform provides early warning of malicious drone activities and is used to protect data centers,prisons, airports, and other critical facilities from corporate espionage, smuggling, terrorism, and hacking. | $30.5M | Series C | Dec 17, 2021 |  |
| Finanzchef24 | Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award. | $4.4M | Series D | Jul 05, 2016 |  |
| Sicoya | Sicoya, founded in January 2015, is a spin-off from TU Berlin based on continuous R&D in Silicon Photonics since 2007. Their team consists of five founders and an experienced fast growing team.They entered the market for data center interconnects in 2017 with a 100G transceiver chip with integrated electronics and optics on a single chip.Sicoya received first purchase orders for qualification units and prepares customer samples to major datacenter players. Their vision: High-speed Silicon Photonics interconnects in next generation data centers to enable entirely new internet services | $3.8M | Series A | Nov 09, 2015 |  |
| Dedrone | Dedrone is an automated drone security platform; an extension of physical and cyber security into the airspace that protects a vulnerability gap exploited by the advances in consumer and commercial drone technology. Its aerial intrusion detection platform provides early warning of malicious drone activities and is used to protect data centers,prisons, airports, and other critical facilities from corporate espionage, smuggling, terrorism, and hacking. | $2.9M | Seed | Apr 28, 2015 |  |
| Finanzchef24 | Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award. | $4.4M | Series C | Feb 23, 2015 |  |
| Gpredictive | Our software enables marketers to easily create A.I. for the numerous touchpoint in their customer journeys themselves. Just pick your next predictive model from the ModelStore and apply it to your touchpoints. Typical use cases are retention, churn, cross- and upsell, as well as lead scoring. You can be ready to go in day one! | $4.9M | Seed | Feb 05, 2015 |  |
| Quobyte | Quobyte is software that turns commodity servers into a unified, high performance, scalable software storage system. It runs on any x86 server and utilizes commodity HDDs, SSDs, and NVMes of your choice. Data silos are eliminated through unified, multi-interface access with common authentication and ACLs.Designed on the same principles that allowGoogle to run vast amounts of storage continuously, Quobyte scales to thousands of clients, servers, volumes, and tenants. Storage nodes can be added live, eliminating reconfiguration downtime, and client systems can immediately make use of the added resources. Quobyte was founded in 2013 by former Google employees Felix Hupfeld and Björn Kolbeck. Both had already gathered more than seven years of experience in distributed and storage systems research at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), developing the parallel file system XtreemFS. After the additional experience in large-scale operations at Google, the two decided to rewrite XtreemFS and add enterprise storage features to the codebase. The result is Quobyte’s Data Center File System – fast and reliable software storage. |  | Series A | Sep 16, 2014 |  |
| Finanzchef24 | Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award. | $4.4M | Series B | Jun 03, 2014 |  |
| Abusix | Abusix is a company of Internet security, network abuse handling, antispam and fraud specialists. Their mission is to help ISPs & Internet companies solving the rapidly growing problem of outgoing spam and all kind of other network abuse or security issues in a solid, accurate and reliable way. They are providing network abuse handling &reporting, customized spamfeeds, consulting and cloud-based software/services against network abuse for ISPs, ESPs, technology providers, businesses and many more. Get in touch! | $1.3M | Seed | Nov 01, 2013 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taser-international) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Aqton SE](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aqton-se) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Earlybird Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/earlybird-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TempoCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tempocap) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Target Partners

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Germany.The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalinvestors in Europe and the USA. They founded or led companies their selves, developed or sold technology products their selves. They have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. They understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight.Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. They open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. They support you in business development, in international expansion, in closing OEM or distribution contracts, and in acquisition decisions. In addition, several dozen European and US entrepreneurs and top managers, as well as a number of US venture capitalists, have personally invested in their funds and thus have a particularly strong interest in your company's success.

5 contacts available at Target Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Berthold von Freyberg | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/berthold-von-freyberg |
| Kurt Muller | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kurt-mller |
| Waldemar Jantz | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/waldemar-jantz |
| Wolfram Drescher | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wolfram-drescher |
| Dominik Tobschall | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dominik-tobschall |

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## FAQ

### What does Waldemar Jantz invest in?

Waldemar Jantz invests primarily in Software, Semiconductor and Cyber Security startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Waldemar Jantz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Waldemar Jantz closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 26 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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