YoungBrains
VC Fund
Hamburg, Germany
YoungBrains is an angel investor that helps founders and their teams launch new ventures, develop products, and raise external capital. YoungBrains is a Germany-based company that was founded in 2009 by Nils Henning and Mila Sukhareva.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 83%
Last updated:
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Industries YoungBrains invests in
Stages YoungBrains invests in
Countries YoungBrains invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $307k–$5.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Legal 1 (17%)
- Social 1 (17%)
- Fitness 1 (17%)
- Computer 1 (17%)
- Database 1 (17%)
Country
- Germany 5 (83%)
- Portugal 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mila Suharev
Co-CEO and Founding Partner
|
Co-CEO and Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Nils Henning
Co-Founder and CEO
|
Co-Founder and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASAFARI brings transparency to chaotic property markets by building a clean and complete real estate database. The company's proprietary technology allows agents to collect, clean, match duplicates, and evaluate every property coming to the market and to source the best investment opportunities in real-time. | $5.5M / Seed / Sep 10, 2019 | ||
| Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area. | Seed / Jun 01, 2015 | ||
Fitolution
|
Fitolution is a developer of health applications for the fitness and lifestyle segment. | Seed / Jun 01, 2015 | |
| WHOW Games GmbH is a social gambling space. | Seed / Jun 01, 2015 | ||
| IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany. | Seed / Jun 01, 2015 | ||
| EDITION F is the digital home for business women, offering inspirational business and lifestyle content, job options, fashion and products as well as a strong network to build the career they want. | $307.2K / Seed / Jan 01, 2015 |
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FAQ
What does YoungBrains invest in?
YoungBrains invests primarily in Legal, Social and Fitness startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does YoungBrains invest in?
YoungBrains typically joins rounds of $307k–$5.5M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not YoungBrains's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds YoungBrains took part in.
How do I contact YoungBrains?
Public channels for YoungBrains include 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 YoungBrains?
The team at YoungBrains includes Mila Suharev (Co-CEO and Founding Partner) and Nils Henning (Co-Founder and CEO). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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