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Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Germany (November 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
7 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
HV Capital
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$75M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
RTP Global
VC Fund
6 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
pd ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.6M–$20M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
4 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.7M–$100M
Headline
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1M–$78M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $2M–$177M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $3.7M–$160M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $162k–$12M
Sven Fund
Angel
3 Germany, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Content, Software, E-Commerce $2.9M–$20M
Stefan Friese
Angel
2 Germany Angel Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $405k–$17M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$40M
Point Nine
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $800k–$62M
b2venture
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.3M–$52M
SaaSgarage
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $150k–$3M
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.6M–$125M
Groupe M6
VC Fund
2 France, Germany Series A, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing $4.2M–$5.5M
Andreas Dulger
Angel
2 Germany Angel Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $221k–$66M
Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Insurance, Apps, Mobile $106k–$2.3M
Project Flying Elephant
VC Fund
2 Germany, France, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Social Media, News, Software
Antler
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $680k–$31M
Felix Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, SaaS $2.5M–$110M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $72k–$35M
Georg Kofler
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Angel, Seed Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Consumer Goods $86k–$268k
Itai Tsiddon
Angel
1 United States, Israel, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, SaaS, FinTech $6.7M–$75M
Sebastian Picardo
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Fashion, Content, Software $2.1M–$10M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $588k–$14M
Werner Zahnt
Angel
1 Austria, Germany, Slovenia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Mobile, Analytics $274k–$6M
Dennis Weidner
Angel
1 Germany Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown News, FinTech, Finance $1.2M–$1.2M
Integra
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Publishing
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
Jon Keidan
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, E-Commerce, Internet $1M–$85M
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Trafo Investment
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Big Data, Software, Analytics $2.6M–$4.2M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Gaming $1.3M–$18M
Felix Haas
Angel
1 Germany, France, Belgium Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
Jens Hilgers
Angel
1 United States, Germany, Israel Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, eSports
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 · 7 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 Müller founded 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Publishing startups

HV Capital operates as a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across Europe at all stages, from early seed funding to growth investments. The firm partners with founders to support company development over the long term, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network. HV Capital invests across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports companies throughout multiple funding rounds

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 518
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$35M; Series B $7.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 6 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, and top-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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 684
  • Round size: Seed $798k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 20 in the past 12 months

Global early-stage VC backing founders and operators at Pre-seed, Seed and Series A. Fast decisions, long-term support, 150+ companies from Datadog to 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: 287
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $7.4M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Flam — Flam is an AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform.
  • Ahead Health — Ahead Health is redefining preventive healthcare by making personalized health insights clear, actionable, and accessible anytime, anywhere
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$3.7M; Series A $1.6M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 4 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, China, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2171
  • Round size: Series A $5.7M–$53M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $468M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Uhana — Modernize your RAN to be open and programmable, built with a rich ecosystem of partners. Learn about VMware RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).
  • erytech — ERYtech Pharma, set up in Lyon (France) in 2004, specializes in the encapsulation of therapeutic molecules and enzymes in red blood cells. It has achieved a major breakthrough in the fields of cancer and enzyme therapy by significantly increasing the therapeutic index of the encapsulated molecule or enzyme.
  • Sportsrocket — Sportsrocket is a New York-based company working to give sports fans access to live games and events, highlights, and shows. The company works with leading leagues, publishers, and rights-holders, including Major League Soccer, the PGA Tour, Scout Media, and AS Roma, to create and power customized OTT platforms. Incubated by Bedrocket Media Ventures, Sportsrocket's innovative approach is based on a proprietary sports media operating system, that offers an integrated solution for the production, distribution, management, and monetization of sports media across all platforms.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 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: 602
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Series A $4M–$30M; Series B $7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
  • Serval — Serval is the AI-native ESM that automates employee requests, onboarding/offboarding, just-in-time access, and more.
  • Clarity Care AI — Clarity Care AI develops healthcare artificial intelligence software that supports care delivery and operations. The platform assists clinicians and care teams with documentation, task management, and communication around patient needs. Features include note drafting, summarization of patient information, and notifications that flag items requiring follow-up. Integrations connect to existing tools to streamline handoffs and keep records consistent across teams. Analytics highlight trends in patient status and operational workload to inform daily decisions. Implementation services, training resources, and ongoing product support help healthcare organizations adopt and use the software.
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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 126
  • Round size: Series B $7.5M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenity — Zenity is the first and only governance and security platform for low-code/no-code applications. It creates a win-win environment where IT and information security can give business and pro developers the independence they want to move the business forward while retaining full visibility and control.
  • AppsFlyer — Unify measurement, deep linking, data collaboration, and AI across mobile, web, CTV, console and beyond. Make smarter decisions, optimize every channel, and prove impact with the platform built for modern marketing.
  • 6 Robotics OÜ — We exist to strengthen defence, protect nations, and deter conflict in an era defined by unmanned warfare.
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 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, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 482
  • Round size: Series A $3.7M–$30M; Series B $9.5M–$100M; Series C $15M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
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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, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $1.1M–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab Thunder — LabThunder provides a cloud-based laboratory management software platform designed to digitize operational workflows. The system centers on centralizing equipment management, automated maintenance scheduling, digital logbooks, and AI-supported knowledge management to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
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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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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund · Westerstede, Niedersachsen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $2.9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
  • AX Semantics — AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases.
  • AX Semantics — AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases.
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Stefan Friese
Angel · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Stefan Friese

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 213
  • Round size: Seed $705k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Snorkel AI — Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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Rocket Internet
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
  • Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
  • The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$38M; Series B $4.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Groq — Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem.
  • FREE NOW — FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app.FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture betweenBMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.
  • Helium — The Helium Network provides carrier-grade Wi-Fi offload infrastructure, turnkey Passpoint integration, real-time quality metrics, and network enablement.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 324
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Series A $3M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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b2venture
VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

b2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 285
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.8M; Series A $3.4M–$23M; Series B $6.9M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $179M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Komma5° — 1KOMMA5° is a global decarbonisation energy company focusing on intelligent energy solutions and promoting a CO2-neutral lifestyle. They are a ClimateTech startup focused on CO2-neutral energy, heating, and mobility. The company functions at approximately 80 sites across 7 global markets, providing a comprehensive range of smart, integrated energysolutions including photovoltaics, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations.
  • Flyboard — Human-level AI voice agents at a fraction of the cost. Transform your customer engagement with intelligent automation.
  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
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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: 24
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.3M; Series A $2.7M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SMAHO — Manufacturer agnostic, cloud-based connected device control platform for iOS, Android, Alexa and Google Assistant
  • repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
  • consalio — Ltdtoto menjadi salah satu bentuk situs yang menunjukan makna dari situs slot gacor online sesungguhnya. Situs Ltdtoto menghadirkan provider slot88 & Slot777 dan menawarkan trik yang pasti mendapatkan jackpot di tahun 2026.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 18 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: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 207
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $2.8M–$33M; Series B $16M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • calliora — Calliora develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate hospital clinical documentation and coding systems to identify billing errors before invoices are sent to health insurers
  • Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
  • Enact Intelligence — Enact Intelligence builds underlying technology for general-purpose robots, reimagining the entire robotic stack from the ground up to solve the ultimate bottleneck in robotics: dexterity. Rather than relying primarily on vision models, Enact builds proprietary actuators that measure force directly inside the joints. This creates a human-like "nervous system" and muscle feedback loop, allowing robots to efficiently learn and robustly execute highly precise, contact-rich physical tasks across industrial, retail, and manufacturing environments.
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Groupe M6
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 2 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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Andreas Dulger
Angel · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Andreas Dulger

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Content Creators, Blogging Platforms
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Rouven Dresselhaus is Founding Partner at Cavalry Ventures, a leading European Venture Fund that he co-led until 2024. His most notable investments at Cavalry include Spread.ai, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also served on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía Salud. Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of the advisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement. Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
  • Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
  • Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Mehrdad Piroozram is the Founder and Partner of InsurTech and the Co-Founder of Soonami.io. He previously worked at Pironet as a Founder and CEO.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$2.3M; Angel $106k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cola — Productive, extensible messaging for groups and teams
  • Poshtel — Poshtel is a new global chain of pop-up luxury hostels, designed to provide suites for the people, affordable for more of us and sustainable for all of us.
  • Golf Post — Golf Post is the community-based digital home for golfers. Founded in 2012, Golf Post is now the leading digital golf platform in Germany with more than 500,000 unique users per month. Editorial coverage of the latest news merges with a thriving social network to create the one-stop resource for all things golf-related.
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Project Flying Elephant
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, News, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Krak — Make more skateboarding happen in the world.
  • SHNUPS — SHNUPS can collect content for a hashtag across multiple platforms.
  • Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!
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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: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2394
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$611k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
  • ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Plouton AI —
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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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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in various sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 851
  • Round size: Seed $680k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$31M; Venture - Series Unknown $911k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
  • Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
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Felix Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 165
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$22M; Series A $5M–$52M; Series B $11M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Medly AI — Medly AI is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, theory of mind, and reinforcement learning technology to supercharge students' abilities. With Medly AI, students can engage in conversational learning, practice past exam questions, and get immediate marking and feedback. Medly AI also works with teachers to enhance the classroom, so thatstudents can have more personalized, inclusive learning experiences, and teachers can focus on what they do best - teaching.It was founded in 2023 in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 71 in the past 12 months

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 to date.  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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1354
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $72k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Allara — Allara is your all-in-one virtual care team for hormonal, metabolic & gynecological conditions such as PCOS and Endometriosis.
  • North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
  • Uvi — Uvi provides infrastructure that serves as a context and reasoning layer for enterprise AI agents. The platform resolves internal corporate vocabulary, tracks dependencies, and reconstructs the decision-making intent scattered across disparate systems like Jira, GitHub, and Slack. By unifying data fragments into an integrated knowledge network, it enables AI tools to process query objectives accurately while enforcing existing user access permissions at the retrieval stage.
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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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Itai Tsiddon
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Itai Tsiddon is based out of New York, New York and is the Co-Founder & Board Member of Lightricks. Itai Tsiddon previously worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell as a Foreign Associate. Itai Tsiddon attended the New York University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $6.7M–$25M; Series B $13M–$13M; Series C $50M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dig — dig is a social listening platform using AI to analyze social video. Track brand mentions and sentiment analysis with our real-time media monitoring tool.
  • Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
  • Thynk.Cloud — Thynk is designed by hoteliers for hoteliers to simplify and automate sales, operations, and data management. Every process is easier, faster, and fully integrated.
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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 Felix Capital, 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$4M; Series A $6.9M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $4M–$8.5M
  • 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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $588k–$2.7M; Series A $2.4M–$14M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.2M–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $67M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Artwod — ArtWod is an online art school and mobile drawing app designed to help artists of all levels learn to draw through structured, daily practice.
  • 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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Werner Zahnt
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Werner Zahnt is based out of Vienna, Wien and is the Founder & Partner of Speedinvest. Werner previously worked at Fresnex as a Partner. Werner Zahnt attended the WU Vienna.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$2.9M; Series A $727k–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $391k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
  • Necture — NECTURE empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced dataanalytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future. NECTURE is building a world where electric fleets are not only possible, but thrive.
  • 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.
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Dennis Weidner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Dennis Weidner is the CEO and founder of ePilot Mobility.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $3M–$30M; Series B $15M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Afropunk — Afropunk LLC is a fest and newsletter which provides entertainment solutions in music, art, and politics.
  • 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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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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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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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
  • Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
  • Paage — Paage offers a link-in-bio platform that enables creators and businesses to sell digital and physical products.
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Felix Haas
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
  • femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
  • Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
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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 103 deals from 142 investors.

142
investors
in Germany Publishing startups
103
deals
in Germany Publishing startups
$4M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
28%
Seed
most common funding stage
71/29
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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