Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany
Investor | Publishing Germany investments |
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Müller Medien | 6 |
HV Capital | 4 |
DTCP | 4 |
bmp Ventures | 3 |
Sven Fund | 3 |
pd ventures | 3 |
Speedinvest | 3 |
RTP Global | 3 |
Rouven Dresselhaus | 2 |
Neuhaus Partners | 2 |
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments | 2 |
Rocket Internet | 2 |
Nordwest-Zeitung | 2 |
New Enterprise Associates | 2 |
redalpine | 2 |
Headline | 2 |
Georg Kofler | 1 |
Antler | 1 |
Felix Haas | 1 |
Christian Vollmann | 1 |
Berlin Ventures | 1 |
Klaus Hommels | 1 |
Mathias Kutzner | 1 |
Groupe M6 | 1 |
LBBW VC | 1 |
Xploration Capital | 1 |
Airbridge Equity Partners | 1 |
Klaas Kersting | 1 |
Erik Bovee | 1 |
Frontline Ventures | 1 |
IBB Ventures | 1 |
Sebastian Picardo | 1 |
Patrice Deckert | 1 |
Harald Nieder | 1 |
Kleiner Perkins | 1 |
Integra | 1 |
Wadi Ventures | 1 |
Bigpoint | 1 |
Mehrdad Piroozram | 1 |
Trafo Investment | 1 |
Gaingels | 1 |
Hasso Plattner Ventures | 1 |
Werner Zahnt | 1 |
CASSIUS | 1 |
Carsten Maschmeyer | 1 |
Torch Capital | 1 |
Jens Hilgers | 1 |
Felix Capital | 1 |
Jonathan Keidan | 1 |
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds | 1 |
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
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Caya — We believe in a future of work transformed by technology. Where the pain of admin is automated, freeing people to focus on creativity, big decisions and doing business. From anywhere, at any time. Our mission is to transform business admin into an automagic experience. Today we enable the paperless office by offering a cloud solution to manage alldocument workflows in one place. Tomorrow CAYA empowers SMBs to run a fully automated backoffice.
- Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
- bookingkit — bookingkit is the European market leader in booking and marketing solutions for activity providers operating within the leisure industry. The company helps activity providers digitize their business operations with just a couple clicks. The software allows a high degree of automation in managing a wide range of different indoor and outdoor leisureand tourism-related activities, cultural events, rental services and more, all of which can be integrated as bookable experiences directly onto the provider’s website. bookingkit is then able to support customers in a unique way with their marketing, in processing their activities, as well as in managing their business and especially in sales. All in all, bookingkit gives access to over 360 million potential customers across all sales channels.At the same time, through its function as a channel manager and technology platform, bookingkit also offers online travel agencies and marketplaces the opportunity to access a large digitized inventory of experiences and activities, and therefore to book them automatically, with availabilities updated in real-time.With a combination of numerous administration, management, communication, and marketing functions combined on one single platform, bookingkit significantly sets oneself apart from the competition and enables providers of tours and activities a complete transition to the digital world.bookingkit, with its headquarter in Berlin, was founded in 2014 by Christoph Kruse and Lukas C.C. Hempel. The smart booking and marketing solution is available in 11 different languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Delli — We're a company just starting out on our mission to make good food accessible and enjoyed by all.
- Again — SecondCircle makes carbon negative chemicals for a cleaner future. We are the first carbon negative chemical manufacturer that can scale to meet global demand. The best thing about it: we use carbon dioxide as a feedstock.
- Bioniq — Bioniq offers a data-driven approach to disease prevention and health promotion. To do this, the company has created a digital platform that aggregates and analyzes data from blood tests, genetic tests and microbiota tests using AI over time.
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
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series C, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- vHive — vHive is the only software solution that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives to create digital twins of their assets.
- anecdotes — anecdotes is the first enterprise-grade compliance management platform. Compatible with SOC 2, PCI, ISO, ITGC, HIPAA & more. Get started for free!
- Cohere — Cohere provides industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and RAG capabilities tailored to meet the needs of enterprise use cases that solve real-world problems.
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
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Neotiv — Enabling cognitive health
- RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
- XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.
Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp
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Investment focus
- Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
- Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.
pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany
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.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
- Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
- forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.
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
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Comun — The Neo Bank for Latino families
- Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Spain, Israel
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 — Boost traffic, engagement, and conversions with actionable SEO, content, and technical insights.
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
- Software, Mobile, Information Technology
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
- Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
- Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
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
- E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom
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.
Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Content
- Seed, Series A
- Germany
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.
Foundational partners to ambitious founders at every stage of company-building.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, India, China
Portfolio highlights
- Agree.com — Agree.com is the best solution for creating and managing contracts, streamlining negotiations, enhancing compliance, optimizing workflows, and converting more customers — all within one intuitive platform. View edits, track signatures, and get alerted on all upcoming key milestones. Include free, one-click e-signatures with identity verification onevery agreement. Increase deal velocity and drive revenue impact with integrated payments.
- MBX Biosciences — Homepage - MBX Biosciences
- Brenig Therapeutics — Brenig Therapeutics develops therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
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
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
- Memo Therapeutics — Memo Therapeutics AG (MEMO) is an innovator in the field of antibody discovery and immune repertoire analysis.Its MemoMAB™ platform creates a recombinant in vitro copy of an individual’s B cell / antibody repertoire, which is then banked as a library. The resulting unique, large and relevant antibody libraries represent the individual’simmune repertoire and are expected to contain an unprecedented number of relevant and rare antibodies. This leads to entirely new possibilities in immune repertoire analysis and antibody discovery.MemoMAB™ is deployed in proprietary antibody lead discovery programs and is made available in collaborations.
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
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zive — All your company's knowledge, universally accessible to all employees.
- Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
- Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
- Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
- Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
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
- Travel, Leisure, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a blend of a master’s degree and venture capital firm investing €75K to €150K, connecting you with unicorn founders, and offering over 20 unique entrepreneurship courses.
- 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.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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 is Europe’s fastest growing digital, OTC energy trading platform. Our platform digitalises the end-to-end professional energy trading process. Using enmacc allows participants to gain speed, efficiency and security when trading in energy markets. More than 340 companies, with over 1.600 active traders, are already taking advantage of enmaccand are utilising our continuously growing network of energy suppliers, industrial companies, energy trading houses and municipal utilities for trading in power & gas. All of our clients can benefit from increased market access, additional liquidity and other business development opportunities. enmacc customers can use three different trading screens: entender (sales trading) & entender pro (professional trading) – the world-leading Request-For-Quote (RFQ) technology for energy markets; enmarket – the OTC price screen and marketplace for one-click trading; and engreen – the state-of-the-art trading screen for Guarantees of Origin (GoOs). Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. We do everything we can to make the daily work of energy traders and portfolio managers easier by enabling them to focus on the things that really matter.
- OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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
- E-Commerce, Software, News
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
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.
Founder of DOJO Madness.
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Investment focus
- News, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RiseML — RiseML creates software to help machine learning teams scale their deep learning infrastructure. RiseML was founded in September 2016 by Henning Peters and Elmar Haussmann. They are building a unified interface for AI supercomputers.
- Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.
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
- Apps, Internet, Education
- Seed, Funding Round
- France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
- Global Savings Group — The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores andbrands. GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions.
We help brilliant teams with a strong moat to establish visionary market leaders.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.
- Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.
ploration backs ambitious founders building next-generation platforms, digital ecosystems and SaaS companies worldwide.We go at great length to study markets, gain consumer and competitive insights and market intelligence. This enables us to identify hidden opportunities and be a knowledgeable, and valuable partner to early stage companiesWeare hands on, where founders need us the most and we support our best portfolio companies in subsequent rounds, making us a meaningful partner and a long term partnerXploration Capital is founded by a group of dreamers, idealists and in some way misfits.
With more than 50 years of combined experience in investing, consutling and fudraising for entrepreneurs and companies from early stages to IPO, we decided to embark on an Xploratory journey into the future.We deeply care about how life is going to look like for next generations, as Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict your future, is to create it”, so we decided to make our lives mission in helping those who want to change the world - succeed.We have invested, exited and advised on more than US$5 billion worth of transactions, helping some of the most iconic companies launch, sacale and exit
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- E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Immigram — An immigration platform for IT specialists and entrepreneurs. We help professionals in the IT sector to move to the UK via getting the Tech Nation Endorsement and applying for a Global Talent Visa
- Mirai Flights — Mirai Flights is a UK-based service for instant booking charter flights with price transparency and focus on the UK, Europe, Middle East, and the CIS states. Mirai Flights connects clients to private jets, offering a suitable time and place of departure with an option to choose the class of the aircraft, price, number of passengers, comfort leveland a payment of up to €300.000 in one click. Founded in 2021, Mirai Flights aims to change the flyers' purchasing habits and save time. Its founders’ expertise is manifested by successful businesses in private aviation.
- Kurios — Kurios is a cohort-based online course for professionals in Latin America. The company has $60k in monthly revenue and is growing 25% per month for the last 4 months. Kurios instructors are coming from tech companies like Google, Amazon, Stripe, Uber, and more; we are starting with courses like product management, growth, and data analytics.
Airbridge Equity Partners is an investment firm providing flexible investment solutions to technology-driven companies in Europe.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- The Netherlands, Germany, Italy
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- delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
- Campercontact — Campercontact is an online platform provides connecting services with travelers and motorhome site.
- ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.
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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- Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany, United States, Finland
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- 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.
Erik Bovee is the investor and VP of business developemnt at MindsDB.He attended University of Oxford.
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- Human Resources, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Germany
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- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Sunlight — Sunlight helps companies grow a highly engaging learning culture by facilitating their team’s access to any book, event or course in the world.
- Stateless — Stateless is reinventing connectivity. With software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) from Stateless colocation providers can dynamically deliver routing, security and automation services to network interconnection points through software. In doing so, providers can control and connect every endpoint, including portfolio data centers, tenant sites andhyperscale clouds. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spinoff of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.
Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
- DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
- JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses
IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Quantistry — Revolutionize your R&D with QuantistryLab. Explore 100 million structures and run your own simulations from Quantum to AI. Get started today!
- Northbound — We are building the dynamic decision engine that translates real-time data into operational excellence & stakeholder transparency. All at the intersection of warehouse and transport logistics.
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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- Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
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
Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures
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- Software, SaaS, Content
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
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- 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 — Turn your browser into a second brain. Be 20x faster at finding the docs and people that make your work better
Harald Nieder is the General Partner at Redalpine. Attended University of Oxford.
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- Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Lakera AI — Lakera Guard empowers organizations to build GenAI applications without worrying about prompt injections, data loss, harmful content, and other LLM risks. Powered by the world's most advanced AI threat intelligence.
- Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
Kleiner Perkins is an American venture capital firm headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, China, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Browserbase — Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.
- CesiumAstro — CesiumAstro builds high-throughput, software-defined phased array communication payloads for airborne and in-orbit platforms.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
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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- Apps, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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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- Travel, Internet, Publishing
- Seed, Angel
- Israel, Germany
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 — Easy, affordable options for you to obtain the domain you want. Safe and secure shopping.
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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- E-Commerce, Apps, News
- Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
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.
Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc
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Investment focus
- Insurance, Apps, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cola — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
- Poshtel —
- Golf Post AG —
Investing in media technology
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Series A
- Germany
Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of diversity, inclusive of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- AfterHour — Join the best stock trading community with over $200M+ in verified positions from retail traders. Get trade signals, due diligence, and real-time alpha.
- TestParty — TestParty is the most effective solution for organizations to achieve digital accessibility compliance in the WCAG for the ADA, EAA, Section 508, and more.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
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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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, South Africa
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 developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
Werner Zahnt has more than 15 years experience in the internet and mobile content, application and messaging sectors.Most recently, he was responsible for the world-wide mobile content business within VeriSign Inc, leading a team of 70+ people. He managed the integration and consolidation efforts of the 3united, mQube and VeriSign DCMS mobilecontent distribution products. For this effort he moved from Vienna, Austria to VeriSign headquarters in Mountain View, CA.Werner has deep product management and engineering experience paired with thorough financial expertise. He gained broad functional and process experience working in many different operational and executive roles.During his studies in business administration and informatics at the University of Business Administration and Economics in Vienna, Werner co-founded and was COO of SYSIS which merged with 2 other Austrian companies to become 3united. During his time at SYSIS he was also CEO of SYSIS d.o.o., a Croatian software engineering subsidiary in Zagreb.In 1999, Werner founded FUNDAQ, a subsidiary of SYSIS that pioneered the field of online social trading markets. FUNDAQ was sold after one year to Blue-C AG.Within SYSIS and 3united, Werner built a global mobile content distribution platform (CPS) from the ground up, and developed global partnerships with Ericsson and Napster. These initiatives led to one of the world’s most comprehensive global roll outs of mobile content services, with more than 25 deployments in 3 continents.Werner has joined The Merger where he focuses on Finance, Engineering and Product Management. Within Speedinvest Werner focuses on startup due diligence, financial and product management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Austria, Germany, Slovenia
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
- indoo.rs — ArcGIS Indoors is an indoor mapping, wayfinding & space management software, enabling organizations to build an indoor GIS. Learn how ArcGIS Indoors works.
Early stage VC focused on the consumer internet and brands that will shape tomorrow's culture.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, France, Canada
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- Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
- Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a platform for creators to express content in new and attractive ways.
- Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.
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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- Software, Apps, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, Austria, Sweden
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- theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
- AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
- JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
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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- Financial Services, FinTech, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
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- Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
- Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
- Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
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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- Gaming, Video Games, eSports
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, Israel
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- 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.
A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
- Wordsmith AI — Best in class legal ai for legal teams. Wordsmith is used by some of the best companies in the world. Powerful products include legal ai chatbot, legal ai document generation and a whole tool kit of ai for legal documents.
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
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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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- Cityrow Go — Cityrow Go is a rowing-based fitness app for smartphones or tablets. It offers rowing classes programmed to deliver an effective, efficient, and motivating workout to the at-home user. It was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.
- Lobos 1707 — Developed over the course of five centuries, Lobos 1707 Tequila is the continuing legacy of jimadors, crafters, and contributors from around the world. Founded by Diego Osorio, a descendent of the original family line, Lobos Tequila welcomes you into the pack and invites you to craft your legacy.
- 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.
The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.
Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- TRAIT — TRAIT Running Coach app for your iphone or ipad tablet.
- DemoSquare — DemoSquare is a pioneer in the realm of public-affairs management connect businesses with government affairs by putting regulatory monitoring on autopilot.
- ABH Optics ApS — ABH Optics provides the world's thinnest and lightest eyeglass lenses.
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