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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Müller Medien
VC Fund
6 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$5.5M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $7.7M–$110M
RTP Global
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$82M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $406k–$38M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.3M–$100M
Sven Fund
Angel
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology $250k–$1.1M
Headline
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1M–$88M
pd ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Series A, Seed Internet, Online Portals, SaaS $2.6M–$18M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$36M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $221k–$66M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$59M
Xploration Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Delivery, Software $505k–$16M
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Publishing
Groupe M6
VC Fund
1 France, Germany Seed Apps, Internet, Education
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$100M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, E-Commerce, Apps $1.3M–$15M
Patrice Deckert
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Content $1.1M–$3.6M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
1 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$100M
Integra
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
1 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $99k–$22M
Matthew Rutler
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, Music, Internet $3.6M–$4M
Torch Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care $2.5M–$30M
Jonathan Keidan
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software $1M–$85M
Werner Zahnt
Angel
1 Austria, Germany, Slovenia Seed, Series A Software, Mobile, Analytics $274k–$6M
Harald Nieder
Angel
1 Germany, Switzerland, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Analytics $1.1M–$59M
Kevin Gould
Angel
1 Germany Seed News, Travel, Publishing
Georg Kofler
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Angel, Seed Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet $82k–$424k
George Strompolos
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Finance
Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Insurance, Apps, Software $106k–$2.3M
Felix Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care $1.8M–$106M
Klaas Kersting
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Angel Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
Sebastian Picardo
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A Fashion, Content, Lifestyle $2.1M–$4M
Felix Haas
Angel
1 Germany, France, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
Jens Hilgers
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Israel Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Bigpoint
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A E-Commerce, Apps, News
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Internet
Erik Huberman
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed News, SaaS, Travel
Mathias Kutzner
Angel
1 Germany Seed News, Internet, Software
Klaus Hommels
Angel
1 Germany, Sweden, Switzerland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, News
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet
David Alpert
Angel
1 United States Series A Gaming, Publishing, Video Games
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $549k–$14M
Dennis Weidner
Angel
1 Germany Pre-Seed News, FinTech, Finance $1.1M–$1.1M
Pitbull Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1.3M–$5M
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$4M; Series A $2.5M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Publishing startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 427
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
  • Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Series B $7.7M–$60M; Series C $10M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $350M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenity — Zenity empowers enterprises to enable AI Agents securely. Our platform ensures adaptive security and governance from buildtime to runtime.
  • Cohere — Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data into actionable insights.
  • Ox Security — Accelerate the transition to software that secures itself. OX Security pinpoints risk to the exact line of code, eliminating security debt from AI generation to cloud runtime.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 241
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $6M–$26M; Series B $8.2M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Daylight — Daylight allows teams to instantly create digital experiences that collect, exchange and move data across your teams. No code required.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a subscription management app that helps you track, manage and split all your subscriptions, in one app. Discover new subscriptions and win cashbacks for renewing. Get The App for Free, Now!
  • Insight Health — Our AI clinician agents are designed to reduce clinician burnout and enhance patient care. Discover how our advanced AI healthcare solutions improve clinician workflow efficiency and deliver a better patient experience.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 518
  • Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $406k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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!
  • MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
  • Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Seed $151k–$3.4M; Series A $30k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
  • Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1524
  • Round size: Series A $5.3M–$60M; Series B $10M–$80M; Series C $13M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • AviadoBio — AviadoBio mission is to transform the lives of people living with neurodegenerative disorders by developing and delivering transformative gene therapies for diseases including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The Company’s technology is based on pioneering research from King’s College London and the UK DementiaResearch Institute.
  • Sagimet Biosciences — Sagimet Biosciences better reflects our expertise in fatty acid metabolism and current focus on developing ground-breaking therapeutics to treat the liver disease NASH.
  • Tarveda Therapeutics — Developing Pentarins to make a difference in the treatment of patients with solid tumor malignancies
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
  • 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.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 444
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$88M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
  • Keeper — Keeper Tax helps independent contractors, freelancers, and business owners uncover tax deductions and file taxes.
  • Mistral AI — Take control of the future with a complete AI solution from platform to interface, with open, customizable models that can be deployed anywhere.
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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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Rocket Internet
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$11M; Series B $4.1M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • ZenMate — At ZenMate VPN we strive towards providing users around the world with a free and anonymous Internet experience.
  • Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund · Westerstede, Niedersachsen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • 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 is a AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company with roots grounded in content and storytelling. Our sophisticated, yet easy to use SaaS-based software makes automated content generation accessible to customers of all sizes, and is used widely within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.Available in 110 languages, AX Semantics works with more than 500 customers, including globally recognized brands like Porsche, Nestlé and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was named one of the world's top five providers of natural language generation platforms by Gartner, and a top emerging company in the NLG market by ForresterAX Semantics is changing the way content is created, published and viewed. Our software allows thousands of users to successfully automate text within two days, and gives people the space to develop and nurture their creative originality.Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners.
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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!
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Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 174
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$29M; Series B $15M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • N26 — N26 is the Mobile Bank. Free bank account and Mastercard that you can manage directly from your phone. Open your bank account online in minutes.
  • LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
  • Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
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Xploration Capital
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

ploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwide.We go at great length to study markets, gain consumer and competitive insights and market intelligence. This enables us to identify hidden opportunities and be a knowledgeable, and valuable partner to early stage companiesWeare hands on, where founders need us the most and we support our best portfolio companies in subsequent rounds, making us a meaningful partner and a long term partnerXploration Capital is founded by a group of dreamers, idealists and in some way misfits. With more than 50 years of combined experience in investing, consutling and fudraising for entrepreneurs and companies from early stages to IPO, we decided to embark on an Xploratory journey into the future.We deeply care about how life is going to look like for next generations, as Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future, is to create it”, so we decided to make our lives mission in helping those who want to change the world - succeed.We have invested, exited and advised on more than US$5 billion worth of transactions, helping some of the most iconic companies launch, sacale and exit

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% 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.
  • Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
  • Open Mineral AG — Technology-enabled global metal commodity trade & market intelligence platform.
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Wadi Ventures
VC Fund · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Groupe M6
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Education
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atolls — Atolls is the world’s largest shopping engagement platform, empowering millions of people to take smarter spending decisions. The company operates a network of digital shopping destinations, including coupon sites, cashback platforms, and shopping communities, that are trusted by hundreds of millions of shoppers each year.The company is active inmore than 20 countries and counts over 1000 employees in its offices around the world.
  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
  • Global Savings Group — The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores andbrands. GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 687
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8M; Series A $6M–$43M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Epirus — Epirus is a high-growth technology company that develops cutting-edge directed energy systems and power management solutions to transform multiple industries.
  • Operant — Own OperantAi.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
  • Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

We are early-stage technology investors across North America and Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $2.8M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

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.
  • Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
  • Real American Freestyle — Real American Freestyle is a sports and entertainment company that broadcasts freestyle wrestling live.
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Patrice Deckert
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.6M
  • 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.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, China, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1117
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $10M–$71M; Series C $12M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • UiPath — Reinvent your workplace with the leading robotic process automation platform and learn how UiPath can help your company become a fully automated enterprise.
  • Mirage — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
  • Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
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Integra
VC Fund · Hutthurm, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 82
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$4M; Angel $99k–$603k; Series A $1.6M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MyGutachter — Insuretech / Legaltech / Online Service
  • Articly — ARTICLY gives discerning media consumers access to high-quality content in the form of spoken-aloud audio publications. This is accomplished by selecting articles from leading German-language publishers, incorporating professional soundtracks, and making them available centrally by subscription. This helps you to stay up to date while also learningthe backstory of the top stories, despite your restricted time.
  • Interior Circle — The interior circle benefit living in one every day and wanting to improve it. Others may appreciate a water supply, but we are pleased with the new vase. What if we could make only one small change while still experiencing wonderful new things This is exactly what we want to accomplish with our company! alongside youWe specifically give up ourcommission for this purpose. We utilize this money to provide housing—their own homes or other important social structures—to those living in nations with inadequate social infrastructure. Our program will not be able to alter the course of history. However, we also want to create our own business.
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Matthew Rutler
Angel · Beverly Hills, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Matthew Rutler is the Investor, Executive Vice President, Talent & Business Development at MasterClass, Inc. He attended Roger Williams University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Music, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $3.6M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% 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.
  • Zigazoo — Zigazoo is the leader in children's short-form video. On Zigazoo, kids make creative video responses to fun challenges and share them with friends.They are American parents and teachers who get their inspiration from children and believe in the power of kid creations. Hailed as "a smarter screen-time activity" by TechCrunch andlauded by children’s media advocacy organizations for its safety, Zigazoo enables kids to share video responses to challenges built by leading museums, zoos, educators, and media stars.
  • Hivemapper — Explore the Hivemapper Network's global coverage.
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Torch Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $13M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crediverso — Crediverso is a financial marketplace where people can find credit cards, credit checks, and international money transfers. The platform of the company provides access to financial information and financial products such as credit information, credit cards, loans, money transfer feature, credit scores, and more, thereby enabling the US Latinoaudience by bridging the cultural gap.
  • Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
  • Sollis Health — Meet your new emergency contact. Let Sollis Health be your 24/7 medical concierge - your first call for any medical need anytime, anywhere. Apply online!
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Jonathan Keidan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Jonathan is the Founder of Torch Capital. A long time entrepreneur and investor, he has spent his career at the intersection of the media, technology and entertainment industries. He is the Co-Founder of digital media company InsideHook and has spent a decade as an active early stage investor and advisor to a number of New York and LA's topstart-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $1.5M–$30M; Series B $15M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cityrow Go — Experience CityRow on a connected rower or on your own mobile device. Get a high-intensity, low-impact total body workout with thousands of on-demand classes on and off the rower.
  • Afropunk — Afropunk is an organization that celebrates Black culture and diversity through music, art, and community.
  • Jane Technologies — Jane Technologies is a cannabis retail tech company that provides its consumers with a confident, safe and simple shopping experience. Users can browse local products in real-time, compare by price, proximity or popularity and place orders at local stores for free. Jane partners with dispensaries on a win-win basis; stores only pay for completedorders at a fraction of the price of other industry software.
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Werner Zahnt
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Werner Zahnt has more than 15 years experience in the internet and mobile content, application and messaging sectors.Most recently, he was responsible for the world-wide mobile content business within VeriSign Inc, leading a team of 70+ people. He managed the integration and consolidation efforts of the 3united, mQube and VeriSign DCMS mobilecontent distribution products. For this effort he moved from Vienna, Austria to VeriSign headquarters in Mountain View, CA.Werner has deep product management and engineering experience paired with thorough financial expertise. He gained broad functional and process experience working in many different operational and executive roles.During his studies in business administration and informatics at the University of Business Administration and Economics in Vienna, Werner co-founded and was COO of SYSIS which merged with 2 other Austrian companies to become 3united. During his time at SYSIS he was also CEO of SYSIS d.o.o., a Croatian software engineering subsidiary in Zagreb.In 1999, Werner founded FUNDAQ, a subsidiary of SYSIS that pioneered the field of online social trading markets. FUNDAQ was sold after one year to Blue-C AG.Within SYSIS and 3united, Werner built a global mobile content distribution platform (CPS) from the ground up, and developed global partnerships with Ericsson and Napster. These initiatives led to one of the world’s most comprehensive global roll outs of mobile content services, with more than 25 deployments in 3 continents.Werner has joined The Merger where he focuses on Finance, Engineering and Product Management. Within Speedinvest Werner focuses on startup due diligence, financial and product management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Austria, Germany, Slovenia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$2.8M; Series A $583k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
  • Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
  • Payworks — Payworks is the provider of a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Payworks technology, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV, contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point ofSale. With headquarters in Germany and offices in the UK, the US and Poland, Payworks provides its technology to leading acquirers and payment providers globally. Payworks was acquired by Visa in July 2019.
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Harald Nieder
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Harald Nieder is the General Partner at Redalpine. Attended University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $16M–$27M; Series B $17M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% 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.
  • Lakera — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
  • Morressier — A platform geared towards the scientific community. From managing abstracts to presenting research content in a virtual conference or in-person meeting.
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Kevin Gould
Angel · Miami Beach, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Travel, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • 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.
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Georg Kofler
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Angel $82k–$424k
  • 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.
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George Strompolos
Angel · Culver City, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

George Strompolos - CEO, Founder @ Fullscreen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • 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.
  • Mora Financial — Invest in Pre-IPO deals
  • Plotdrive — Choose your Path. Brave the Scar. Seek your Fortune.
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$2.3M; Angel $106k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cola — Best IPL betting apps for Indian players. Real money cricket betting, secure payments, live streaming.
  • Poshtel
  • Golf Post AG
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Felix Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$22M; Series A $5M–$34M; Series B $11M–$106M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
  • Adverity — Adverity is the fully-integrated data platform for businesses to easily automate the connectivity, transformation, and governance of data at scale.
  • Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
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Klaas Kersting
Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sebastian Picardo
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing, customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy, underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
  • UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
  • Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
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Felix Haas
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, France, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
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Jens Hilgers
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Jens Hilgers a serial entrepreneur with His primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build his first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 he had consider myself a veteran in the eSports industry. Building companies and making ideas become reality is what he really loves.Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of his daily work. He is a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. He has team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.For 22 years now he has been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 he is also actively investing in and supporting selected startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, eSports
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
  • femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
  • Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
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Bigpoint
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • 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.
  • Spikerz — Manage social media security threats in one platform. Real-time protection detects and alerts on threats, letting you focus on growth.
  • Hark — Video feedback that tells a story. Deliver best-in-class customer experience. Agents receive "the perfect ticket" every time. Customers feel heard.
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Erik Huberman
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO @ Hawke Media

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Investment focus

  • 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
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Mathias Kutzner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Founder of DOJO Madness.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • RiseML — RiseML creates software to help machine learning teams scale their deep learning infrastructure. RiseML was founded in September 2016 by Henning Peters and Elmar Haussmann. They are building a unified interface for AI supercomputers.
  • 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.
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Klaus Hommels
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Klaus Hommels is Founder of Lakestar. Lakestar invests in European as well as U.S. companies that show fast international growth. Klaus has been involved in the early days of investments such as Skype, Xing, King, Facebook, Spotify and Airbnb. More recent investments include online men's grooming business Harry's, GoEuro, Opendoor andFiveAI. Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.Klaus started his career at Bertelsmann, before joining AOL Germany in 1995 as a Board Member. He was also a venture partner of Benchmark Capital Europe. He earned his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ranked as one of the top Europe-based venture capital investors in the global Midas List 2013, 2014 and 2015 and just became third best European investor in the first European list of the same ranking. Lakestar is the leading European VC with a true global presence with offices in Zurich, Berlin and London as well as satellites in New York and Hong Kong. Klaus has a strong voice in the European Tech Ecosystems which he supports passionately with various initiatives, eg. the 'Internet Foundation'.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, News
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Sweden, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enfore — EnFour is a business platform paired with a collection of versatile, easy to use apps that run on smartphones, tablets and personal computers. It was founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries. Enfour's solution creates a level playing field by giving small businesses instant access to the tools, capabilities insights normally only available to largercompanies. Their goal is to provide the majority of small businesses around the world with similar efficiencies and scale effects to those that large enterprises possess. They founded enfore to re-imagine how these businesses utilize technology and to enable them to stay competitive in a connected world. By combining innovative hardware, powerful and easy to use software as well as comprehensive services, enfore delivers an amazing solution to connect all business aspects.
  • Citra Style — Citra Style designs and produces fashion for Muslim Women that follows contemporary runway and mainstream trends. Products are available both online and offline across the globe, with strong footprint in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, and Germany. The quality of merchandise is considered best in the segment.Citra Style’s fashion experts combinefashion items to looks which are made available online in a distinguished “Shop-By-Look” feature to inspire online shoppers.The team consists of Western born/raised Muslims with extensive fashion and ecommerce experience. Citra Style has a solid investor base that will help grow the company into a Multi 100 million USD business.
  • Factory Berlin — Factory Berlin is the strongest innovation network in Europe: a curated community of 3500+ creators from the world of startups, tech, and corporates.
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Tiburon
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
  • FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
  • FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.
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David Alpert
Angel · Culver City, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

David Alpert is president of Skybound Entertainment, the multiplatform entertainment company founded alongside longtime collaborator and creator of The Walking Dead Robert Kirkman. As president David oversees operations and development of cross-platform properties at Skybound including the company’s partnership with Samsung to develop virtualreality content for Milk VR.David Alpert is also a prolific television and film producer. Some of David’s credits include in television: “The Walking Dead” and its companion series, “Fear The Walking Dead,” the Robert Kirkman–created “Outcast”, and features including “AIR,” starring Norman Reedus and Djimon Hounsou, the Jessie Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart film “American Ultra,” and the George Lopez film “Spare Parts.”David is an honors graduate of Harvard University and New York University Law School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Publishing, Video Games
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • 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.
  • Telltale Games — Telltale is the first and only digital publisher to release interactive episodic content on a monthly schedule. Their award-winning internal development studio is responsible for creating landmark episodic content, including Tales of Monkey Island, the Sam & Max series, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and Wallace &Gromit's Grand Adventure. Telltale currently develops and publishes episodic series on PC, Wiiâ„¢, and Xbox 360â„¢, with plans to expand to additional platforms and channels this year.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 932
  • Round size: Seed $362k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • not8 — not8 is a SaaS platform that helps digital agencies and IT companies save those hours and increase employee productivity by up to 15% by moving all the conversations "inside the product".
  • Qeeper — On-demand property maintenance across London, Edinburgh and Brighton
  • Cloud Cycle — Globally we produce over 10 billion tons of concrete each year, its the second most consumed material on the planet behind wate and is responsible for upto 10% of global CO2 emissions. Around 5% of all concrete produced goes to waste, this waste in the UK alone costs around £400 million.Cloud Cycle has developed an on-truck device and sensorarray which feeds our cloud platform to ensure concrete meets specification & prevents waste. Even when surplus does still occur, our marketplace for the local on-sale of surplus concrete will find a buyer. We aim to save industry billions whilst reducing global CO2 by 1%.We are using advanced technology & the circular economy to transform the concrete industry.
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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Amsterdam-based venture capital firm investing in exceptional European tech founders building category-defining B2B software companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apideck — Apideck gives Vertical SaaS and B2B Fintech companies one unified API to launch accounting integrations in weeks. The fastest way for developers to build integrations.
  • Survicate — Collect NPS, CSAT, CES data & send custom surveys with one tool. Distribute customer surveys via email, links, websites, web apps, mobile apps, and more!
  • We Are Eves — We Are Eves is the first beauty platform with honest product reviews from real people. For comparison purposes, we are the TripAdvisor/ or Vivino of the beauty industry. We Are Eves is an independent community with >100,000 members and nearly 4 million active users in NL, BE, DE,FR,UK.We believe it is time for a new perspective onbeauty. Every day people are bombarded by marketing campaigns with fake images and empty beauty promises. It is time for less filters and more honesty.Our business model is B2B. We secured strong partnerships with leading beauty companies like L’Oreal, Coty, LVMH, Shiseido group, Unilever, etc.Nominated for “Coolest Dutch Brand”, Challenger50 2022 - MT/Sprout, Best Start-up 2021 by Dutch Media Network, the Best Platform Start-up of the Netherlands
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Dennis Weidner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Blockchain, Kryptowährungen, Entrepreneur, Mobilität, E-Commerce, Online-Marketing

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • savedroid — savedroid is the first AI saving & spending algorithm in Europe conveniently optimizing users’ lifestyle. Their free mobile app enables users to save up for their wishes without even thinking about saving. They create significant economic value for mass market users through automated savings AND situational relevant spend optimization. Theirself-learning AI algorithm analyzes users’ checking accounts, identifies saving potential and automatically transfers these savings to their users’ savings account managed by their partner bank Wirecard. Moreover, their self-learning AI algorithm automatically identifies saving potential for services such as utilities, cell, banking, insurances etc. and offers convenient and fast in-app contract switching via their B2B partnerships with Check24, Drillisch, Freenet, 1822direkt etc.savedroid earns recurring high margin affiliate revenues from B2B partners trough AI based lead generation in the categories of contract optimization, affiliate shopping, and consumer lending. Their AI analyzes a significant depth of financial and behavioral data enabling savedroid to anticipate users’ purchase decisions and proactively recommending situational relevant saving opportunities which help their users to reach their wishes even faster. Their data intelligence makes them the perfect match maker for an amplitude of situational relevant and recurring high margin B2B affiliate sales opportunities.
  • CryptoTicker — Cryptoticker.io is a crypto-, news- and community-portal about blockchain, crypto currency, ICOs & insights from the scene.
  • ePilot Mobility — ePilot Mobility bringt die erste Blockchain basierte E-Carsharing Flotte auf Deutschlands Straßen.Die Blockchain ermöglicht eine Teilhabe der Kunden an den Elektrofahrzeugen. Das Einsetzen dieser Technologie bedeutet, dass Nutzer:innen die E-Autoflotte gemeinsam dezentral besitzen können.Die MissionUm die Klimaziele zu erreichen, müssenanhand neuer Mobilitätskonzepte die CO2-Emissionen pro Person reduziert werden. E-Carsharing für Privatleute, Firmen, Städte und Kommunen durch ePilot Mobility ist ein Teil der Gesamtlösung.
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Pitbull Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Pitbull Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Los Angeles that backs US vertical SAAS startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

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.
  • OptimHire — OptimHire is an online recruiting and hiring platform for job seekers & recruiters.
  • Shoppinpal — No more manual data reconciliation. Seamless integrations, app onboarding & data migrations that allow your business to thrive.
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Publishing Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 65 deals from 86 investors.

86
investors
in Germany Publishing startups
65
deals
in Germany Publishing startups
$7M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
30%
lead investors
lead at least one round
26%
Seed
most common funding stage
66/34
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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