Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Müller Medien
VC Fund
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7 | Germany, Poland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $900k–$6.6M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$33M |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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6 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.5M–$80M |
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RTP Global
VC Fund
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5 | United States, India, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$80M |
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DTCP
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, Israel | Series C, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $2M–$177M |
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pd ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $1.6M–$20M |
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Sven Fund
Angel
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3 | Germany, Italy, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Publishing, Events, Digital Media | $250k–$3M |
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
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3 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Content, Software, E-Commerce | $2.9M–$20M |
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
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3 | United States, China, India | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $6M–$102M |
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Austria | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing | $162k–$12M |
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Headline
VC Fund
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3 | United States, Germany, Brazil | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.1M–$78M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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redalpine
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology | $1.6M–$125M |
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SaaSgarage
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $150k–$4M |
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Rocket Internet
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech | |
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b2venture
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $1.2M–$52M |
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Project Flying Elephant
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, France, United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Angel | Social Media, News, Software | |
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Canada | Series B, Series A | Software, Mobile, Information Technology | $2.2M–$40M |
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, Mexico | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, InsurTech | $221k–$66M |
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Spain, Israel | Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $3.5M–$16M |
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Series A | Insurance, Apps, Mobile | $106k–$2.3M |
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Groupe M6
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany | Series A, Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing | $4.2M–$5.5M |
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Stefan Friese
Angel
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2 | Germany | Angel | Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms | |
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Andreas Dulger
Angel
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2 | Germany | Angel | Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms | |
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $405k–$17M |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $5M–$160M |
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Christian Vollmann
Angel
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1 | Germany, Ireland, Indonesia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $1M–$16M |
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CASSIUS
VC Fund
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1 | United States, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Gaming | $1.3M–$18M |
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, South Africa | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $55k–$15M |
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GE Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, Canada | Series B, Series A, Series C | Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software | $6M–$70M |
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Integra
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Village Global
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services | $250k–$22M |
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Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Israel, Germany | Seed, Angel | Travel, Internet, Publishing | |
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Klaas Kersting
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Finland | Seed, Angel | Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce | |
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Bigpoint
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Series A | E-Commerce, Apps, News | |
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Erik Huberman
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | News, SaaS, Travel | |
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Kevin Gould
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | News, Beauty, Travel | $1.5M–$4M |
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Erik Bovee
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Human Resources, Apps | $663k–$16M |
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $770k–$40M |
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Felix Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, SaaS | $2.2M–$110M |
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $790k–$31M |
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Gaingels
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $69k–$35M |
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Harald Nieder
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Apps | $1.1M–$470M |
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Torch Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Financial Services, Health Care, Software | $2.5M–$85M |
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $89k–$24M |
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Georg Kofler
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria | Angel, Seed | Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods | $86k–$268k |
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Internet, Fashion, Software | $100k–$7.9M |
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Patrice Deckert
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Content | $1.1M–$3.3M |
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LBBW VC
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Software, Health Care | $850k–$62M |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $1M–$11M |
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Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Poland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
- edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
- Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 674
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 508
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.6M–$37M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
- Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
- Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 281
- Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Flam — Frontier AI research and product for interactive content. Video was the last big shift in content. Interactivity is the next one, and we're defining it.
- Ahead Health — Ahead Health is redefining preventive healthcare by making personalized health insights clear, actionable, and accessible anytime, anywhere
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series C, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 126
- Round size: Series B $7.5M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Zenity — Zenity is the first and only governance and security platform for low-code/no-code applications. It creates a win-win environment where IT and information security can give business and pro developers the independence they want to move the business forward while retaining full visibility and control.
- AppsFlyer — Unify measurement, deep linking, data collaboration, and AI across mobile, web, CTV, console and beyond. Make smarter decisions, optimize every channel, and prove impact with the platform built for modern marketing.
- 6 Robotics OÜ — We exist to strengthen defence, protect nations, and deter conflict in an era defined by unmanned warfare.
pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- nebenan.de — 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.
- asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
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- Industry: Publishing, Events, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UNFIA — The marketplace of craft wine
- Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.
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- Industry: Content, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $2.9M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nebenan.de — 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.
- AX Semantics — AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases.
- AX Semantics — AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, China, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2087
- Round size: Series A $6M–$55M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$102M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $468M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
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- ARRIS — High-volume producer of advanced carbon parts for drones, aerospace, cycling, and consumer applications. (Made in U.S.A. or Taiwan)
- Lithium Technologies — Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Brands like Microsoft, HP, Sephora, Virgin and Barclaycard and customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100million monthly visits over all Lithium communities and 750 million online profiles scored by Klout, Lithium has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Lithium customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.
bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $912k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Lab Thunder — LabThunder provides a cloud-based laboratory management software platform designed to digitize operational workflows. The system centers on centralizing equipment management, automated maintenance scheduling, digital logbooks, and AI-supported knowledge management to ensure audit-ready compliance.
- Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
- Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 581
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $7.4M–$78M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
- Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
- Heidi Health — Heidi Health is a healthtech company that develops an AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2382
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
- RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 203
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$33M; Series B $16M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- telli — A world where every interaction is worth having. https://t.co/Qa65ENaxKL
- Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
SaaSgarage, the pre-Seed Angel Fund for SaaS startups where first external money complements passionate value add advising and mentoring.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SMAHO — Manufacturer agnostic, cloud-based connected device control platform for iOS, Android, Alexa and Google Assistant
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
- consalio — Ltdtoto menjadi salah satu bentuk situs yang menunjukan makna dari situs slot gacor online sesungguhnya. Situs Ltdtoto menghadirkan provider slot88 & Slot777 dan menawarkan trik yang pasti mendapatkan jackpot di tahun 2026.
Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
- Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
- The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 278
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Series A $3.4M–$23M; Series B $6.9M–$52M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $179M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
- Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
- Flyboard — Human-level AI voice agents at a fraction of the cost. Transform your customer engagement with intelligent automation.
WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.
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- Industry: Social Media, News, Software
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Geography: Germany, France, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Krak — Make more skateboarding happen in the world.
- SHNUPS — SHNUPS can collect content for a hashtag across multiple platforms.
- Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com
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- Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 123
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$38M; Series B $4.1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- Groq — Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem.
- FREE NOW — FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app.FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture betweenBMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.
- Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, InsurTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Spain, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Series B $3.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2007
Portfolio highlights
- Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
- Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
- Searchmetrics — Where enterprises go to win in AI search
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Browse database — It's Free!Mehrdad Piroozram is the Founder and Partner of InsurTech and the Co-Founder of Soonami.io. He previously worked at Pironet as a Founder and CEO.
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- Industry: Insurance, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $212k–$2.3M; Angel $106k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cola — Productive, extensible messaging for groups and teams
- Poshtel — Poshtel is a new global chain of pop-up luxury hostels, designed to provide suites for the people, affordable for more of us and sustainable for all of us.
- Golf Post — Golf Post is the digital home for golfers
M6 Group has become over the years a powerful multimedia group, offering a wide range of programs, products and services available on a wide variety of media: television, Internet, mobile phone ... Second commercial channel market, the supply of M6 is complemented by W9 and 6b. The family of pay channels (Paris Première, Teva, serieclub, M6Music,M6 Boutique & Co, Girondins TV) enriches the Groupe offers programs with a wide presence on all distribution platforms.
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $4.2M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
- Money Walkie — Money walkie is an NFC wallet payment solution for kids.
- Mium Lab — Mium Lab creates vitamin-enriched food supplements in the form of naturally fruity gummies, combining pleasure and health. It employs scientifically developed plant-based and vitamin-based formulas for its products. Mium Lab's mission is to improve everyone's life by providing simple and enjoyable to use well-being and health products.
Stefan Friese
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- Industry: Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
Andreas Dulger
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- Industry: Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 210
- Round size: Seed $796k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
- Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
- HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 465
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
- Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
- Spott — Spott is an AI-native ATS & CRM for Staffing and Recruiting firms.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.7M; Series A $6.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
- Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling bids and checking contracts.
- Holy Technologies — Contract manufacturing with patented IFP technology: 12-weeks to prototype, scalable production up to 200k parts/year, and 100% recyclable materials.
We are early-stage technology investors across North America and Europe.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
- Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
- Paage — Paage offers a link-in-bio platform that enables creators and businesses to sell digital and physical products.
Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $55k–$4.2M; Series A $1.1M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013
Portfolio highlights
- Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
- Likeminded — Likeminded operates a digital platform for mental health, providing a range of courses focused on mental well-being. All of Likeminded's psychological experts possess academic backgrounds in psychology and receive specialized training from Likeminded. These experts are specifically skilled in facilitating group sessions and offering digitalsupport to users. They undergo ongoing supervision and coaching for continuous professional development.
- VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance
GE Ventures combines capital, technical, and commercial services. They invest in the healthcare and life sciences, energy and mobility, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise productivity applications, digital infrastructure, and frontier technologies sectors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Israel, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Series A $6M–$32M; Series B $6M–$31M; Series C $14M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FogHorn — FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization,proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications.
- The Plate — Monetize your culinary talent. Publish your content and recipes, host workshops and build your community on The Plate.
- Catalant — Access on-demand consulting services for strategic business planning, data & business analytics, digital transformation, M&A, market research, and more.
Access 48,091 investors
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Browse database — It's Free!INTEGRA is your advice and support partner from the conception of an original idea through the successful foundation of a market.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- appful — Convert your WordPress Website into iOS/Android Apps in 5 Minutes with our innovative Plugin. Test our WordPress to App Builder for free!
- Assemblio — Assembly planning in minutes, instead of weeks
Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 514
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
- Legato Audio — Legato Hearing develops stylish glasses with built-in hearing technology, offering a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.
- Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
Wadi Ventures, founded in August 2012 by Jonathan Pacifici and Reuven Ulmansky , is the new and improved accelerator model for early stage disruptive internet and new media startups in Israel.Wadi Ventures is on the lookout for Israel’s top talent and plans to accept tens of new startups by the end of 2015. Israel’s startup community isbursting at the seams with unique ideas but they’ve seen awesome ideas fall flat when the business side of the company did not receive proper attention.
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- Industry: Travel, Internet, Publishing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SeatID — SeatID is a SaaS suite of Social Media Solutions developed to grow your business. Through the implementation of Social Login, Social Proof, Social Seating and Booking and Social WiFi, you can bring the power of social media influence to the exact place where buying decisions are being made, substantially improving consumer confidence, conversionsand sales.
- ADINCON — Adincon increase revenues for online content publishers by managing in-content advertisements using a unique technology that optimize ads location, price and traffic. Most of the advertisements in the web suffers from banner blindness, since most of the attention of the users is focused on the content. In order to get better results, Adincontechnology analyzes every page and insert traditional ads in the most effective locations inside the content. By working with multiple ad-exchanges, Adincon make sure all inventory get sold in the most optimal price. Adincon also identify in real-time which pages performing better than others and can direct traffic to them from low conversion pages in order to maximize monetization. Adincon solution helps any content owner from professional publishers, like online news sites, to small blogs to monetize their content in the most effective way.
Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
- Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
- Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
At Bigpoint, we are dedicated to expand the boundaries of free-to-play gaming so that everybody is able to play great games.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, News
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
- Luxodo — Luxodo GmbH operates luxury shopping platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
- Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.
Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO @ Hawke Media
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- Industry: News, SaaS, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- HeatMap, Inc — Discover heatmap, the only on-site analytics platform that ties revenue to every pixel on your website. Optimize for buyer behavior and increase your ecommerce sales with revenue-backed, AI-powered heatmaps, scrollmaps, screen recordings, and more.
- Superfiliate — Word of mouth, meet 2023
Kevin Gould is the Co-founder of Insert Name Here, GLAMNETIC, and Kombo Ventures. Kevin was a Member at William Morris Endeavor. He attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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- Industry: News, Beauty, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Step — Build credit, bank smarter, and grow your money with Step. No hidden fees, no minimums. Join 7M+ users taking control of their finances. Start free today.
- The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Erik Sebastian Bovee is based out of Vienna, Wien and is the Vice President of Business Development of MindsDB. Erik previously worked at Speedinvest as a founding partner. Erik Sebastian Bovee attended the University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $663k–$3.9M; Series A $11M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Metis Labs — Metis Labs - Measure, monitor and improve your industrial processes
- Stateless — Stateless is reinventing connectivity. With software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) from Stateless colocation providers can dynamically deliver routing, security and automation services to network interconnection points through software. In doing so, providers can control and connect every endpoint, including portfolio data centers, tenant sites andhyperscale clouds. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spinoff of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.
MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 257
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4.3M; Series A $6M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
- Zevvy — Flux makes it easy and affordable for drivers to go electric.
- Lend Street Financial — LendStreet mission is simple help people get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and get a fresh start. They have partnerships within the financial sector which allow them to negotiate discounts on debts, which means they can pass on the discount to our customers and they in turn can get out of debt sooner, rebuild their credit and get on withtheir lives.
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$22M; Series A $5M–$52M; Series B $11M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Medly AI — Medly AI is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, theory of mind, and reinforcement learning technology to supercharge students' abilities. With Medly AI, students can engage in conversational learning, practice past exam questions, and get immediate marking and feedback. Medly AI also works with teachers to enhance the classroom, so thatstudents can have more personalized, inclusive learning experiences, and teachers can focus on what they do best - teaching.It was founded in 2023 in London, England, United Kingdom.
- Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
- Polysense — Increase yield, reduce waste, and optimize food production with Polysense's AI-powered inline quality control. Real-time data for potatoes, bakery & more.
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Browse database — It's Free!High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 771
- Round size: Seed $790k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $841k–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
- BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
- CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1348
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $69k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- MoneyStack — Financial stress can be an obstacle to mental health recovery. MoneyStack partners with healthcare teams to integrate financial counseling into treatment plans to improve mental health outcomes and support long-term recovery for individuals and families impacted by someone's behavioral health condition.
- Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.
- Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
Harald Nieder is the General Partner at Redalpine. Attended University of Oxford.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$22M; Series A $16M–$25M; Series B $16M–$470M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
- Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
Torch Capital is a brand-focused investment firm built to shepherd the next generation of truly great mission driven consumer companies.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $8.5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$85M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.8M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- F2 AI — The AI platform for private markets investors. Go from data room to decision 75% faster.
- Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
- Baselayer — The AI Platform for B2B Risk. Fastest growing fintech in 2025
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 84
- Round size: Seed $116k–$4.2M; Angel $89k–$548k; Series A $1.6M–$24M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ivyclip — Ivyclip makes flexible, pain-free hair claws from medical-grade materials.
- Finperks — finperks is a prepaid infrastructure API for banks, neobanks, HR platforms, etc. in Europe. Access 1000+ brands across 30+ countries. Simplify contracts, settlements, and integrations to scale your prepaid, cashback, and employee benefits solutions.
- admark.ai — admark.ai combines cutting-edge AI language models with social media data
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Angel $86k–$268k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
- KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
- Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles. They are built of plastic, specifically LDPE, HDPE, PP, and PET. They want to assist with reducing consumption by buying better items, buying less, recycling, and using materials and techniques that enable recycling and reuse to create things that last longer and can be reused.
Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.
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- Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $100k–$7.9M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
- enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Tidy — At Tidy, we are building the operating system for the cloud age. This means automatically pulling together all our apps, files, and messages into one place and linking them to bring them to life. Welcome the age of automated knowledge management. And forget about manually maintaining Confluence, Notion or Wikis. Tidy combats the chaos of workbeing scattered across the web by combining knowledge-based AI, a new way to search, and a minimalist UI.
We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $850k–$13M; Series A $2.7M–$17M; Series B $1.7M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metergrid — Metergrid is an energy technology company that provides software and services to plan and execute tenant electricity projects using locally generated solar power for multi-party properties. It offers tools that support economic analysis, technical setup, billing, and digital management of decentralized energy systems for property owners and energyservice providers. The company’s platform integrates project planning, metering technology, and administrative software to help stakeholders manage energy flows and customer contracts. Metergrid also works with partner networks to coordinate installation and operational support for photovoltaic systems. Its offerings aim to simplify the deployment and ongoing administration of tenant electricity models for real estate stakeholders.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
- Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 266
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
- Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.
- Amara — Voice-first senior companion delivered via tablet and dock with a family app, serving Germany's AgeTech market.
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