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Top 35 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Germany (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Germany Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Müller Medien
VC Fund
6 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$6.6M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$80M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $7.7M–$177M
RTP Global
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$80M
pd ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Series A, Seed Internet, Online Portals, SaaS $2.6M–$18M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.4M–$103M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $549k–$33M
Headline
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$78M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$36M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$60M
Torch Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $500k–$30M
Trafo Investment
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Big Data, Software, Analytics $2.5M–$4.2M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $549k–$14M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Advertising $1.3M–$30M
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Publishing
Felix Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care $1.8M–$106M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
1 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, Health Care $5M–$110M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $110k–$16M
Groupe M6
VC Fund
1 France, Germany Series A, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing $4.2M–$5.5M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $770k–$40M
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $203k–$4.9M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, SaaS $138k–$7.7M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Gaming, Software, E-Commerce $1.3M–$15M
Antler
VC Fund
1 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $108k–$28M
Xploration Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Education, E-Commerce $505k–$16M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $55k–$8.6M
Pitbull Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1.3M–$5M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $1.1M–$33M
LBBW VC
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $850k–$62M
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $1M–$10M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$100M
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.5M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Publishing startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
  • Isar Aerospace — Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets in an automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. The company was founded in 2018 in Europe.
  • Fifth Dimension AI — Boost your productivity with our AI Assistant for property professionals. Supercharge your real estate teams across investment, asset management, research, and marketing.
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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

DTCP is an investment management firm focused on growth equity and digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, the firm has raised more than $1 billion in funds from corporate and institutional investors and invested in over 60 companies. DTCP Growth invests in enterprise application and infrastructure software companies. DTCP Infra invests in mobileaccess, fiber, and data center infrastructure. DTCP is headquartered in Hamburg with offices in Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Round size: Series B $7.7M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $350M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
  • Epsagon — Microservices-native APM platform, gain an intuitive view of container and serverless environments, from the overall architecture to individual transactions. Start a 14-day free trial.
  • Firstup — Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informingand engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services.Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $6M–$26M; Series B $8.2M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Dasha.AI — Build voice AI agents in hours. #1 latency on voicebenchmark.ai. 437M+ calls processed. REST API to start, SDK when you need more.
  • TIER Mobility — We believe in a future where cities are pollution-free and designed for people, not cars.
  • Appsdaily Solutions — AppsDaily Solutions develops mobile applications for Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Java phones. AppsDaily Solutions was formerly known as Onward Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mumbai, India.
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
  • asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1581
  • Round size: Series A $5.4M–$60M; Series B $10M–$77M; Series C $14M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • IonQ — Working to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems
  • Spyglass Ophthalmics — A vision towards a higher quality of life!
  • Xenon Pharmaceuticals — A leading neuroscience company forging new paths for those living with neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 549
  • Round size: Seed $980k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.1M; Series A $4M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • ForTunes — ForTunes puts comprehensive data analytics at the fingertips of millions of music creators. Serving the new generation of artists, producers & their representatives.
  • 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.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 468
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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.
  • First AML — Get AML/CTF compliant and solve your toughest AML challenges with First AML. It's the only AML & KYC software solution you need.
  • Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$3.4M; Series A $30k–$5.9M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — SOLAR MATERIALS developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
  • Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.
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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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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: United States, Germany, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$11M; Series B $4.1M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
  • ZenMate — At ZenMate VPN we strive towards providing users around the world with a free and anonymous Internet experience.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund · Westerstede, Niedersachsen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
  • AX Semantics — AX Semantics is a AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company with roots grounded in content and storytelling. Our sophisticated, yet easy to use SaaS-based software makes automated content generation accessible to customers of all sizes, and is used widely within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.Available in 110 languages, AX Semantics works with more than 500 customers, including globally recognized brands like Porsche, Nestlé and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was named one of the world's top five providers of natural language generation platforms by Gartner, and a top emerging company in the NLG market by ForresterAX Semantics is changing the way content is created, published and viewed. Our software allows thousands of users to successfully automate text within two days, and gives people the space to develop and nurture their creative originality.Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 191
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • 9fin — The leading AI-powered debt market intelligence platform. Real-time news, data, and analytics across LevFin, private credit, and distressed debt.
  • Luya Foods — Sustainable food, Plant-based, Circular food, Meat alternative, Alternative to meat, Okara, Food waste, and Fermentation
  • Carvolution — Carvolution is the next-generation mobility services provider reshaping car ownership through its fully digital subscription service.Carvolution makes choosing a new car exciting. As it removes the hassle out of ownership and the inflexibility out of leasing, it enables consumers to choose their dream car as a convenient monthly subscriptionservice instead of a long-term commitment. Their digitally-powered one-stop-shop streamlines everything from insurance to maintenance: saving customers time and money while enabling efficiencies for all connected parties.
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Torch Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Torch Capital is a brand-focused investment firm built to shepherd the next generation of truly great mission driven consumer companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 136
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $500k–$2.3M; Series A $8.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • F2 AI — The AI platform for private markets investors. Go from data room to decision 75% faster.
  • Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
  • Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
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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 $2.5M–$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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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$2.7M; Series A $3.3M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Roam.ai — Build accurate and battery efficient location experiences with our SDK, APIs, and dashboard for geofencing, food delivery, trip tracking, and more. Get started.
  • BOTS — Our BOTS app has been developed so that you too can trade automatically. You don't have to be an expert to make a profit. Download the App now!
  • Survicate — Collect NPS, CSAT, CES data & send custom surveys with one tool. Distribute customer surveys via email, links, websites, web apps, mobile apps, and more!
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 201
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.3M; Series A $3M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $63M in 2006

Portfolio highlights

  • Mojiva — Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology.Mojiva, Inc. provides productsand solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.
  • Sensity AI — Sensity AI thanks to an all-in-one approach can guarantee the best deepfake detection software capabilities currently available in the marketplace
  • Fractional AI — Fractional AI builds bespoke gen AI software to transform businesses.
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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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Felix Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$22M; Series A $5M–$34M; Series B $11M–$106M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zyg — ZyG is an Operating System for eCom scale, turning great products into successful brands. ZyG's platform is designed to help product inventors and DTC brands validate, scale, and finance their growth, powered by data-driven AI agents
  • Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
  • Adverity — Adverity is the fully-integrated data platform for businesses to easily automate the connectivity, transformation, and governance of data at scale.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1155
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$48M; Series B $10M–$74M; Series C $12M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
  • Peloton — Access high-energy indoor cycling workouts instantly. Discover the Peloton bike: the only exercise bike streaming indoor cycling classes to your home live and on-demand.
  • Miaozhen Systems — Beijing second hand information company (秒针信息) is a provider and evaluator of digital advertising solutions through cloud computing, cloud storage, and artificial intelligence technology. It is also the first digital advertising effect evaluation enterprise specializing in target audiences in China.Founded in 2006, Beijing second handinformation company solves the problem of contact effect of online advertisement by arrival rate, effective frequency, internet gross rating points, audience features, and provides an inter-media effect evaluation and optimization tool.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 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, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$3M; Series A $3.3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Primis — Manage post purchase customer experience communications, connect with over 400 couriers & achieve sustainability goals - all with one platform. Start today...
  • Qstream — Built to boost learner proficiency and performance at scale through engagement, reinforcement and analytics.
  • Logentries — Explore Incident Command - Rapid7's next-gen security information and event management (SIEM) solution for a cloud-first era. Start your free trial today!
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Groupe M6
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

M6 Group has become over the years a powerful multimedia group, offering a wide range of programs, products and services available on a wide variety of media: television, Internet, mobile phone ... Second commercial channel market, the supply of M6 is complemented by W9 and 6b. The family of pay channels (Paris Première, Teva, serieclub, M6Music,M6 Boutique & Co, Girondins TV) enriches the Groupe offers programs with a wide presence on all distribution platforms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $4.2M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
  • Money Walkie — Money walkie is an NFC wallet payment solution for kids.
  • Mium Lab — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious. The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace.MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful LosAngeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$9.1M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4.3M; Series A $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Skurt — Get an affordable pre-owned vehicle from right where you are and for as long as you choose.
  • Zevvy — Flux makes it easy and affordable for drivers to go electric.
  • Lend Street Financial — LendStreet mission is simple help people get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and get a fresh start. They have partnerships within the financial sector which allow them to negotiate discounts on debts, which means they can pass on the discount to our customers and they in turn can get out of debt sooner, rebuild their credit and get on withtheir lives.
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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: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $203k–$4.9M; Series A $2.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

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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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $138k–$7.7M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
  • enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1818
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $108k–$750k; Series A $4.6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
  • Visoid — Render your 3D models with ease! Quick and easy rendering software for architects, powered by AI. Try Visoid for free!
  • One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.
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Xploration Capital
VC Fund · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M; Series A $1M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
  • Careerist — Careerist is the connecting bridge between people without tech or coding background and the U.S. tech industry. We quickly train and apply our students for simple well-paid jobs like software testing, while helping them grow into more advanced roles.
  • Mirai Flights — Business aviation in the Mirai Flights' mobile app. Private charter flight at a fixed price: search and compare aircraft jets of different classes, book and pay online
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$4M; Series A $1.1M–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
  • VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance
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Pitbull Ventures
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
  • OptimHire — OptimHire is an online recruiting and hiring platform for job seekers & recruiters.
  • Shoppinpal — No more manual data reconciliation. Seamless integrations, app onboarding & data migrations that allow your business to thrive.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 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 varioussectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 583
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
  • FINE Legal — fine. holt Dir Dein Geld einfach, digital und ohne Risiko.
  • NAVAN Technologies — NAVAN Technologies, Inc., (NAVAN) is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which establishes a direct, physical connection into cells to overcome a huge challenge faced by researchers globally: delivering material into hard-to-transfect-cells in an efficient yetgentle and non-perturbative manne
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LBBW VC
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$13M; Series A $2.7M–$17M; Series B $1.7M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
  • Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
  • Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 226
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • dentolo — dentolo operates a dental insurance and ecosystem centered around customer needs.With its insurance solution, the company covers 100% in dental, instantly, with best value-for-money, market-leading customer satisfaction and an unmatched modern retail experience within its ecosystem. It addresses consumer demand with dental professionals in 25+regions, reaching 40m+ people nationwide. The company owns proprietary and scalable acquisition channels with the #1 dental guide in DACH and a deeply integrated ecosystem. It relentlessly focuses on customer experience and products that solve real-world pains to make dental care more transparent, affordable, and human.
  • Famedly — Der Messenger der Gesundheitsbranche, der auch medizinische Arbeitsprozesse abbildet.
  • dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1006
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$40M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • BQP — BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd. (BQP) is a state-of-the-art SaaS-based enterprise software venture leveraging the power of Quantum computing to speed up virtual simulations of Multiphysics and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) nature. BosonQ Psi is at the forefront of this quantum revolution. Our vision is to become the premier multiphysics simulation softwareusing quantum computing. Our world-class software suite will include computational science fields of fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, thermal, chemical, and aeroacoustics. With such an innovative product, we will revolutionize the computational world by enabling high-fidelity simulations that are impossible to solve with current computing technology. Further, this product will aid aerospace, automotive, energy, manufacturing, biotechnology, civil engineering, and astrophysics industries in saving millions of dollars by reducing long turnaround times of simulations used in the design process and give higher accuracy to make significant design changes for giving rise to the next generation of an electric car, eVTOL, skyscraper, or even Mars Rover.The possibility to harness the power of quantum computers is endless, and we at BQP thrive on pushing the boundaries of quantum computing technologies to serve our clients. We have made it our mission to bring these possibilities into the hands of every person - from a researcher to a scientist, from a professor to a student. Our name, BosonQ Psi, pays tribute to the great Indian physicist Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose, after whose name the elementary particle in quantum mechanics, Boson, was named and further incorporates the fundamental quantity that describes the state of the quantum particle - Psi, thus symbolizing the company's fundamental goal to contribute in India's goal to be the leader in the Quantum realm and also become a global leader in Quantum paradigm shift in coming years.
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Publishing VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 62 deals from 61 investors.

61
investors
in Germany Publishing startups
62
deals
in Germany Publishing startups
$7.2M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
41%
lead investors
lead at least one round
27%
Seed
most common funding stage

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