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Top 40 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Germany (August 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 Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$6.6M
HV Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$75M
RTP Global
VC Fund
4 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $7.7M–$177M
pd ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany Series A, Seed Internet, Online Portals, SaaS $2.6M–$18M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $30k–$5.9M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
3 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $713k–$33M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $5.8M–$110M
Headline
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$87M
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$125M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $5M–$150M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
SaaSgarage
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $150k–$4M
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$36M
Antler
VC Fund
2 Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, SaaS $138k–$7.7M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $770k–$40M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $110k–$16M
Heilemann Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, SaaS, Finance $274k–$2.5M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $1M–$100M
Groupe M6
VC Fund
1 France, Germany Series A, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing $4.2M–$5.5M
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $203k–$4.9M
Bigpoint
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A E-Commerce, Apps, News
Integra
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Mobile
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Gaming $1.3M–$15M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $549k–$14M
Xploration Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Education, E-Commerce $498k–$25M
Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, South Africa Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $55k–$15M
Pitbull Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Sweden, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $125k–$31M
LBBW VC
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $850k–$62M
Village Global
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $355k–$23M
GE Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software $5.5M–$34M
Torch Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Health Care, Software $2.5M–$85M
1745 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$30M
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Publishing
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, SaaS $1M–$11M
Trafo Investment
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Big Data, Software, Analytics $2.6M–$4.2M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $909k–$39M
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 6 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$6.6M; Series A $2.6M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Publishing startups

HV Capital is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe. With nine fund generations in 23 years and €2.8 bn in managed assets, HV Capital is one of the continent's most active investors. The investment team has many years of experience in identifying European startups with great potential for success. In addition tointernational success stories like Zalando, Delivery Hero, Sumup, and Depop, innovation leaders such as Enpal, Flixbus, Sennder, and Isar Aerospace are also part of the portfolio. HV Capital has invested in around 225 internet and technology companies, supporting startups with ticket sizes ranging from €0.5 to €60m. It is one of Europe's few venture capital firms that can finance startups through all growth phases. HV Capital has a team of more than 40 investment and operations professionals who provide a variety of perspectives and expertise across the venture capital landscape.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 467
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$35M; Series B $7.7M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Fleek — Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.
  • Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • OUTZIDR — Trendy GenZ western wear. Vacation, Party & Casual Wear. FREE Shipping on All Orders. COD Available. Easy 7-Days & Returns. Code OUT400 for FLAT 400 OFF.
  • Dasha.AI — Dasha AI empowers developers to create ultra-realistic voice and text AI agents for telephony, WebRTC, and text channels with sub-second latency.
  • Appsdaily Solutions — AppsDaily Solutions develops mobile applications for Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and Java phones. AppsDaily Solutions was formerly known as Onward Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Mumbai, India.
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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 118
  • Round size: Series B $7.7M–$67M; Series C $10M–$177M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $350M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenity — Zenity empowers enterprises to enable AI Agents securely. Our platform ensures adaptive security and governance from buildtime to runtime.
  • Epsagon — Microservices-native APM platform, gain an intuitive view of container and serverless environments, from the overall architecture to individual transactions. Start a 14-day free trial.
  • Firstup — Dynamic Signal is an employee communication and engagement platform connecting companies with their valued asset and their employees. The company is driving reach, productivity, and advocacy provides a better and faster way for employees and their audiences to receive enterprise signals. It increases productivity and empowers advocacy by informingand engaging employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. Dynamic Signal ensures communications are received by employees and their audiences alike. It offers influencer recruiting, collaboration support, member rewards, advisory support, and account management services.Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises, including 85 of the Fortune 500, trust Dynamic Signal to deliver their enterprise signal in 21 countries around the globe. Founded in 2010, the company’s world class customers include IBM, Edelman, Ingram Micro, Salesforce, Autodesk, Domo, SurveyMonkey, and Humana. Dynamic Signal is based in San Francisco, California.
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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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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
  • Litherm Technologies — Fully electric calcination as a pathway to zero-emission lime and cement production.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 603
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1679
  • Round size: Series A $5.8M–$60M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.8B in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • NeuroPace — The NeuroPace RNS System is the only FDA-approved epilepsy device that delivers personalized treatment by responding to abnormal brain activity and provides EEG data that can help improve patient care.
  • Packeteer — Packeteer is a global leader in WAN Application Delivery and WAN Optimization. The company offers an integrated family of appliances and software products. Packeteer is a provider of network software products that enhance mission-critical application performance over enterprise WANs and the Internet. These application-adaptive bandwidth managementsolutions give businesses and service providers per-application control of bandwidth at congested WAN access links.
  • Alteon Websystems — Alteon Websystems is a computer network hardware company that provides internet infrastructure solutions enabling e-businesses to meet their increasing demands.  The company’s portfolio of web data center products includes switches, server adapters, and software that are optimized to meet the specific challenges of managing web application trafficand provide high performance network infrastructure solutions.Alteo Websystems was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 501
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $4.4M–$30M; Series B $7.7M–$87M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Cameo — Cameo is a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people.Cameo's mission is to create the most personalized and authentic fan experiences in the world. We're a marketplace where users can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people. We currently partner with thousands of talentacross all verticals. Cameo’s offices are in 1871 and we are proud to be part of Chicago’s thriving technology and startup community.
  • Getta — We partnered with danisauto.com, to give you the best car buying experience.
  • Fonoa — Manage your sales tax, VAT, and GST obligations seamlessly through our API, globally. For internet businesses around the world, we make taxes simple, automated, borderless, and accessible via our API.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
  • Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
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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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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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SaaSgarage
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SMAHO — Manufacturer agnostic, cloud-based connected device control platform for iOS, Android, Alexa and Google Assistant
  • repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
  • consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Groq — Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem.
  • Everphone — Everphone provides solutions for the configuration, distribution, and management of mobile devices in organizations. The company focuses on device procurement, logistics, mobile device management, and hardware advisory services that allow organizations to choose mobile phones and tablets on a rental basis. The company also provides smartphones,tablets, accessories, and laptops.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2215
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$645k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $72M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
  • Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.
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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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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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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 investing in startups, supporting founders with funding, strategy, and long-term business growth.

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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: 281
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $770k–$4M; Series A $6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Remezcla — Founded in 2006, Remezcla is a Latin Culture company founded in the US. Remezcla operates as a digital publisher, creative agency, and entertainment company. Our deep cultural expertise and operational structure allow us to provide valuable insights and tactics for companies looking to effectively communicate and engage with US Latinomillennials.As a digital publisher Remezcla is considered the leading authority on emerging Latin culture and music. As a creative agency Remezcla leverages its deep expertise on culture, audience, and storytelling to offer major brands a unique perspective on how to approach US Hispanic millennial consumers. Remezcla specializes on strategy, creative and execution of projects ranging from strategic rebranding, digital content creation, branded experientials platforms and tune-in campaigns. Remezcla’s creative agency has recently worked with brands such as ESPN, HBO, Netflix, Heineken, Tecate and Dos Equis Our work has received national recognition from the Webbys, Clios, ANA, and The One Show to name a few.
  • Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
  • 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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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: 191
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $110k–$2.6M; 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

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Astronomer — Astronomer’s mission is to help organizations realize the potential of Apache Airflow. Building on the foundation of Astronomer Cloud, the market-leading Airflow as a Service offering, Astronomer is developing new standards of scale, performance, and reliability and leading the way to enterprise-grade Airflow.
  • Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.
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Heilemann Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

As a team of successful entrepreneurs and investment bankers we provide seed and early stage funding for European entrepreneurs in the digital industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, SaaS, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
  • CrossEngage — CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy.
  • FinTecSystems — FinTecSystems (FTS) was founded in Munich in 2014 and is one of the leading banking API and smart data providers in Germany. Alongside the Open Banking platform that the company uses to provide Account Information and Payment Initiation Services, FinTecSystems has primarily focussed on the analysis of financial data through an analytics platform.Banks, FinTechs and payment service providers use FinTecSystems’ solutions to make real-time loan decisions, minimize credit risks and initiate online transfers. In March 2019, TÜV-certified FinTecSystems received BaFin authorization as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With 40 staff across five locations, FTS partners include N26, Santander, DKB and Deutsche Handelsbank.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1258
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.5M; Series A $5.5M–$37M; Series B $16M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
  • Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
  • Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.
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Groupe M6
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
  • Money Walkie — Money walkie is an NFC wallet payment solution for kids.
  • Mium Lab — Mium Lab creates vitamin-enriched food supplements in the form of naturally fruity gummies, combining pleasure and health. It employs scientifically developed plant-based and vitamin-based formulas for its products. Mium Lab's mission is to improve everyone's life by providing simple and enjoyable to use well-being and health products.
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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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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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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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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$4M; Series A $6.5M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
  • Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
  • Paage — Share your links. Sell your products. Showcase your best work. All in one stunning place, for free.
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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Roam.ai — Build accurate and battery efficient location experiences with our SDK, APIs, and dashboard for geofencing, food delivery, trip tracking, and more. Get started.
  • Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
  • Celebratix — Celebratix is a blockchain-based ticketing firm. It provides a secure and simple ticketing system based on blockchain technology, so consumers do not need to deal with bitcoin.
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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: 28
  • Round size: Seed $498k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $939k–$3M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • 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.
  • Educate Online — Educate Online is an all-in-one platform that connects international students to UK, US and Canadian schools that teach online. Worldwide schooling platform for children from 4 to 18 years old, which is helping children study in the UK, Canadian and British schools remotely and at the same time receive diplomas equivalent to full-time diplomas andthen enter the world's top universities. The cost of obtaining such a high school diploma in Educate Online is $ 5-10K, which is 20-30 times lower than the cost of full-time education in a US / UK / Canadian school. Our mission is to provide quality school education to children in any part of the world and make it accessible to every child, regardless of social status and location. Educate Online has a partner network of more than 90 universities worldwide, where students can enroll with a guarantee.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
VC Fund · Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$4.2M; Series A $1.1M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
  • Likeminded — Likeminded operates a digital platform for mental health, providing a range of courses focused on mental well-being. All of Likeminded's psychological experts possess academic backgrounds in psychology and receive specialized training from Likeminded. These experts are specifically skilled in facilitating group sessions and offering digitalsupport to users. They undergo ongoing supervision and coaching for continuous professional development.
  • VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance
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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, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$680k; Series A $26M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% 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.
  • LINK — Shoppinpal is a leading provider of connectors and integrations between cloud systems. Deep expertise in POS, ERP, Accounting, Ecommerce, Marketing, Stock replenishment, HR and Payroll systems. Shoppinpal builds seamless, scalable and low-cost integrations for global customers.
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LBBW VC
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$13M; Series A $2.7M–$17M; Series B $1.7M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • Mesh — Business entity identity verification radically simple, trusted, and portable, ensuring seamless interactions in the B2B Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Real Estate Technology, Construction | Mesh.
  • Cast Insights — Cast Insights is an AI-powered platform that turns global spoken content—TV, radio, podcasts, livestreams—into structured, searchable real-time intelligence for investors, policy teams, strategists, and newsrooms.
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GE Ventures
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

GE Ventures combines capital, technical, and commercial services. They invest in the healthcare and life sciences, energy and mobility, manufacturing and supply chain, enterprise productivity applications, digital infrastructure, and frontier technologies sectors.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Aras — Aras Innovator provides an application platform for modern product lifecycle management. Stay ahead of the competition and succeed with Aras.
  • FogHorn — FogHorn is a developer of “edge intelligence” software for industrial and commercial IoT application solutions. FogHorn’s software platform brings the power of advanced analytics and machine learning to the on-premises edge environment enabling a new class of applications for advanced monitoring and diagnostics, machine performance optimization,proactive maintenance and operational intelligence use cases. FogHorn’s technology is ideally suited for OEMs, systems integrators and end customers in manufacturing, power and water, oil and gas, renewable energy, mining, transportation, healthcare, retail, as well as smart grid, smart city, smart building and connected vehicle applications.
  • The Plate — Monetize your culinary talent. Publish your content and recipes, host workshops and build your community on The Plate.
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Torch Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • F2 AI — The AI platform for private markets investors. Go from data room to decision 75% faster.
  • Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.
  • Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
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1745 Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6M; Series A $3.2M–$20M; Series B $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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 — AI transformation. Powered by engineering excellence.
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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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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: 243
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
  • Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.
  • dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
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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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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: 610
  • Round size: Seed $909k–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$39M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

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.
  • Coinlend — Coinlend - The Lending-Bot for Bitfinex & Liquid Genearate interest from your Bitcoin and Altcoin investments!
  • CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.
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Publishing VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 75 deals from 85 investors.

85
investors
in Germany Publishing startups
75
deals
in Germany Publishing startups
$7.5M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
38%
lead investors
lead at least one round
24%
Seed
most common funding stage

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