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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany (August 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 Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$6.6M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$75M
RTP Global
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $7.7M–$177M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $713k–$33M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.8M–$110M
Headline
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$87M
Sven Fund
Angel
3 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
pd ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Series A, Seed Internet, Online Portals, SaaS $2.6M–$18M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$125M
SaaSgarage
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $150k–$4M
Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Insurance, Apps, Software $106k–$2.3M
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, InsurTech $221k–$66M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $5M–$150M
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$36M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
Sebastian Picardo
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A Fashion, Content, Lifestyle $2.1M–$4M
Integra
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Christian Vollmann
Angel
1 Germany, Ireland, Indonesia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology $1.1M–$16M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$100M
Jon Keidan
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software $1M–$85M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $549k–$14M
Trafo Investment
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Big Data, Software, Analytics $2.6M–$4.2M
Village Global
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $355k–$23M
GE Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software $5.5M–$34M
Harald Nieder
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Apps $1.1M–$470M
Torch Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Health Care, Software $2.5M–$85M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $55k–$15M
Georg Kofler
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Angel, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods $86k–$268k
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Publishing
Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
1 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $89k–$24M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, SaaS $138k–$7.7M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Gaming $1.3M–$15M
Patrice Deckert
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Content $1.1M–$3.3M
LBBW VC
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $850k–$62M
Groupe M6
VC Fund
1 France, Germany Series A, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing $4.2M–$5.5M
Klaas Kersting
Angel
1 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Angel Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
Bigpoint
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A E-Commerce, Apps, News
Erik Huberman
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed News, SaaS, Travel
Kevin Gould
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Series A News, Beauty, Travel $1.5M–$4M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $770k–$40M
Richard Wolpert
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A Mobile, Gaming, iOS $900k–$32M
Felix Haas
Angel
1 Germany, France, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Jens Hilgers
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Israel Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, eSports
Klaus Hommels
Angel
1 Germany, Sweden, Switzerland Series A, Seed E-Commerce, Software, News
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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: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 467
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$35M; Series B $7.7M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M 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.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
  • 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
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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: 263
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
  • Dasha.AI — Dasha AI empowers developers to create ultra-realistic voice and text AI agents for telephony, WebRTC, and text channels with sub-second latency.
  • Appsdaily Solutions — AppsDaily Solutions develops mobile applications for Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Java phones. AppsDaily Solutions was formerly known as Onward Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mumbai, India.
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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: 118
  • Round size: Series B $7.7M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% 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.
  • Epsagon — Microservices-native APM platform, gain an intuitive view of container and serverless environments, from the overall architecture to individual transactions. Start a 14-day free trial.
  • Firstup — Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informingand engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services.Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 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: 120
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$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 primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
  • Litherm Technologies — Fully electric calcination as a pathway to zero-emission lime and cement production.
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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: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% 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!
  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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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: 1679
  • Round size: Series A $5.8M–$60M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • NeuroPace — The NeuroPace RNS System is the only FDA-approved epilepsy device that delivers personalized treatment by responding to abnormal brain activity and provides EEG data that can help improve patient care.
  • Packeteer — Packeteer is a global leader in WAN Application Delivery and WAN Optimization. The company offers an integrated family of appliances and software products. Packeteer is a provider of network software products that enhance mission-critical application performance over enterprise WANs and the Internet. These application-adaptive bandwidth managementsolutions give businesses and service providers per-application control of bandwidth at congested WAN access links.
  • Alteon Websystems — Alteon Websystems is a computer network hardware company that provides internet infrastructure solutions enabling e-businesses to meet their increasing demands.  The company’s portfolio of web data center products includes switches, server adapters, and software that are optimized to meet the specific challenges of managing web application trafficand provide high performance network infrastructure solutions.Alteo Websystems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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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: 501
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cameo — Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talentacross all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
  • Getta — We partnered with danisauto.com, to give you the best car buying experience.
  • Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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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, 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.
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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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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 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: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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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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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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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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: 197
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • telli — The platform for AI phone calls. https://t.co/yOOUfNYMFe - used by 100+ enterprises - backed by @ycombinator & @cherryventures
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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SaaSgarage
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

SaaSgarage, the pre-Seed Angel Fund for SaaS startups where first external money complements passionate value add advising and mentoring.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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 — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 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 — 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
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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, InsurTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 405
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.6M–$100M; Series C $15M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

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.
  • Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
  • Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
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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: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • 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

  • 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.
  • Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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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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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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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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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.7M; Series A $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 — AI-powered bid leveling, bid comparison, and risk analysis for construction procurement. Automated bid tabulation, deviation detection, and award memos for general contractors, owners, and procurement teams.
  • Holy Technologies — Contract manufacturing with patented IFP technology: 12-weeks to prototype, scalable production up to 200k parts/year, and 100% recyclable materials.
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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: 1258
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Jon 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: Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $15M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Afropunk — Afropunk is an organization that celebrates Black culture and diversity through music, art, and community.
  • Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.
  • 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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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Amsterdam-based VC firm backing exceptional European founders building category-defining B2B software companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.7M; Series A $2.4M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roam.ai — Build accurate and battery efficient location experiences with our SDK, APIs, and dashboard for geofencing, food delivery, trip tracking, and more. Get started.
  • Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
  • Celebratix — Celebratix is a blockchain-based ticketing firm. It provides a secure and simple ticketing system based on blockchain technology, so consumers do not need to deal with bitcoin.
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Trafo Investment
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Investing in media technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Software, Analytics
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$4.2M
  • 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.
  • delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Early stage venture capital backed by some of the world's best entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 418
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Pre-Seed $355k–$3.8M; Series A $7.7M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
  • 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.
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GE Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$21M; Series B $5.5M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aras — Aras Innovator provides an application platform for modern product lifecycle management. Stay ahead of the competition and succeed with Aras.
  • 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.
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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, 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.
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Torch Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 146
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$14M; Series A $8.5M–$25M; Series B $12M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
  • Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • 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
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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: 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.
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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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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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $106k–$4.2M; Angel $89k–$548k; Series A $1.6M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
  • 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
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $138k–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% 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.
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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% 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.
  • Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
  • Paage — Share your links. Sell your products. Showcase your best work. All in one stunning place, for free.
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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–$3.3M
  • 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.
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LBBW VC
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, 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

  • CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
  • 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.
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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: 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.
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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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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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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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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, 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.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Richard Wolpert
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Richard Wolpert Founder and Executive Chairman at HelloTech, a pioneer in the fields of technology, consumer digital media and entertainment for more than 25 years, Richard Wolpert has extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. He is also a Venture Partner at Acrew Capital and an Executive Chairman of Scener.Throughouthis career he has been responsible for many “firsts” including: Conceiving of and teaching CS 193C, the first Macintosh programming class at Stanford University; overseeing and managing the process for the creation of TouchBase, the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh; initiating Disney’s Daily Blast, the first kids Internet subscription service; developing and publishing BitBopTuner, the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio; helping the launch of MusicNet, the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet; and debuting Starz! On Demand, the first legitimate online movie subscription service. Wolpert successfully negotiated groundbreaking deals with several major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.As an investor, Wolpert is the co-founder and managing director of Amplify.LA; manages personal investment fund Chance Technologies; functions as an advisor to Accel Partners; served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies; and worked as the managing director of the Mail Room Fund. He has invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, Scour.net, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, Playdek and Universal.Wolpert graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science. He is a founding board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s summer camps for children and sits on the Cedars Sinai Hospital board of governors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Gaming, iOS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7.7M; Series A $900k–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
  • Telgorithm — Telgorithm is a messaging platform that allows businesses (particularly SaaS providers) to build messaging services into their applications while ensuring compliance and message deliverability. We are also a hosted messaging provider, meaning that businesses who have numbers that share both voice & messaging services have the ability to(quickly & seamlessly) migrate the messaging services on those numbers to Telgorithm while retaining the voice services (on those very same numbers) with their current legacy provider (this lowers the cost to switchover).
  • Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.
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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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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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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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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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Publishing Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 81 deals from 117 investors.

117
investors
in Germany Publishing startups
81
deals
in Germany Publishing startups
$7M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
29%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Seed
most common funding stage
73/27
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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