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Top 35 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 35 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Publishing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Publishing Germany investments
Müller Medien	6
HV Capital	4
DTCP	4
pd ventures	3
bmp Ventures	3
RTP Global	3
Speedinvest	3
New Enterprise Associates	2
Rocket Internet	2
Headline	2
redalpine	2
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments	2
Neuhaus Partners	2
Nordwest-Zeitung	2
LBBW VC	1
Airbridge Equity Partners	1
Pitbull Ventures	1
MaC Venture Capital	1
BDMI	1
Tiburon	1
Groupe M6	1
Torch Capital	1
Wadi Ventures	1
Frontline Ventures	1
Berlin Ventures	1
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
IBB Ventures	1
Kleiner Perkins	1
Xploration Capital	1
CASSIUS	1
Trafo Investment	1
Felix Capital	1
Integra	1
Hasso Plattner Ventures	1
Antler	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Poland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Caya — We believe in a future of work transformed by technology. Where the pain of admin is automated, freeing people to focus on creativity, big decisions and doing business. From anywhere, at any time. Our mission is to transform business admin into an automagic experience. Today we enable the paperless office by offering a cloud solution to manage alldocument workflows in one place. Tomorrow CAYA empowers SMBs to run a fully automated backoffice.
Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
bookingkit — bookingkit is the European market leader in booking and marketing solutions for activity providers operating within the leisure industry. The company helps activity providers digitize their business operations with just a couple clicks. The software allows a high degree of automation in managing a wide range of different indoor and outdoor leisureand tourism-related activities, cultural events, rental services and more, all of which can be integrated as bookable experiences directly onto the provider’s website. bookingkit is then able to support customers in a unique way with their marketing, in processing their activities, as well as in managing their business and especially in sales. All in all, bookingkit gives access to over 360 million potential customers across all sales channels.At the same time, through its function as a channel manager and technology platform, bookingkit also offers online travel agencies and marketplaces the opportunity to access a large digitized inventory of experiences and activities, and therefore to book them automatically, with availabilities updated in real-time.With a combination of numerous administration, management, communication, and marketing functions combined on one single platform, bookingkit significantly sets oneself apart from the competition and enables providers of tours and activities a complete transition to the digital world.bookingkit, with its headquarter in Berlin, was founded in 2014 by Christoph Kruse and Lukas C.C. Hempel. The smart booking and marketing solution is available in 11 different languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
Marvel Fusion — Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant.
Beyond Presence — Human cloning company

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series C, Funding Round, Series B
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

anecdotes — anecdotes is the first enterprise-grade compliance management platform. Compatible with SOC 2, PCI, ISO, ITGC, HIPAA & more. Get started for free!
Cohere — Cohere provides industry-leading large language models (LLMs) and RAG capabilities tailored to meet the needs of enterprise use cases that solve real-world problems.
Dexory — Discover the only warehouse intelligence platform that helps logistics providers to maximise visibility of daily inventory operations using autonomous robots.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Budy — Budy is your AI Powered Sidekick for SaaS Professional Services
Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
Two Point O Capital — Two Point O Capital enable access to prudent financing for clean energy interventions.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Sana — Sana is an AI company building the next generation of knowledge tools. Designed and engineered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Outrider — Autonomous yard operations have set a new standard. Yard automation transforms yard operations into an efficient, safe, and sustainable solution.
Pathos — Pathos is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on re-engineering drug development with the power of advanced AI technologies.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Motion — Motion is a visual analysis hub that helps marketers and creative teams identify what works to make high-performing creatives that convert.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

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.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Albatross AI — Albatross: leading the revolution in user engagement. Our AI technology delivers unparalleled user experiences, maximizes conversions, and unlocks revenue growth. Say goodbye to manual A/B testing and poor recommendations.
Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Spain, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
Searchmetrics — Boost traffic, engagement, and conversions with actionable SEO, content, and technical insights.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Content
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oska Health — Oska Health delivers digital-enabled care solutions for chronic kidney disease patients, a top clinical need for healthcare payers. By leveraging evidence-based medical best practices and behavioral science, Oska Health aims to empower individuals with kidney disease to mitigate their risk of cardiovascular complications and kidney failure whilesimultaneously lowering costs of care. The company partners with healthcare payers to provide a comprehensive solution that includes a personal coach, a state-of-the-art health app, and intelligent treatment plan algorithms, all designed to help individuals establish new routines and achieve optimal health outcomes.
specter automation — Construction is the second least digitized sector in the world with 96% of all data being unused. Although detailed planning data is created upfront, a lack of suitable digital tools prevents its transfer to the construction site. SPECTER’s web-based construction management software uniquely incorporates the core components of constructionplanning, reducing the organizational burden on construction management and helping to meet project timelines and budgets.
Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.

Airbridge Equity Partners is an investment firm providing flexible investment solutions to technology-driven companies in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Italy

Portfolio highlights

delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.
Campercontact — Campercontact is an online platform provides connecting services with travelers and motorhome site.
ZeroTier — ZeroTier is the best global networking solution and overlay for IoT infrastructure, SD-WAN, VPN, and remote access.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Sweden, Germany

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.
Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
Shoppinpal — No more manual data reconciliation. Seamless integrations, app onboarding & data migrations that allow your business to thrive.

MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Fin — Last mile delivery using e-cargo bikes in London. Faster, greener and cheaper deliveries. Zero emissions, zero congestion and warehousing.
Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product
Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

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.
Letterhead — Leverage the power of automated email monetization and newsletter engagement with Letterhead. Create newsletters that do all the work for you, engage your readers, and increase revenue. Get started today!
tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Spain

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.
Eprazel — Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning. Their team consists of seasoned professionals all working together to build best-in-class products that serve the $13 trillion US commercial real estate market.
FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Education
Seed, Funding Round
France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
Global Savings Group — The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores andbrands. GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions.

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

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Aerflo — Aerflo a transportable method of carbonating sparkling water.
Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Solace — Connect with expert patient advocates who can help you navigate the healthcare system and solve any medical problem, no matter what you need.

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.

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, Publishing
Seed, Angel
Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

SeatID — SeatID is a SaaS suite of Social Media Solutions developed to grow your business. Through the implementation of Social Login, Social Proof, Social Seating and Booking and Social WiFi, you can bring the power of social media influence to the exact place where buying decisions are being made, substantially improving consumer confidence, conversionsand sales.
ADINCON — Easy, affordable options for you to obtain the domain you want. Safe and secure shopping.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Melio — Pay and get paid for invoices quickly, simply, and without any of the usual costs. Increase cash-flow and reduce hassles with Melio Payments.
Speckle — Teams around the world use Speckle for effective project delivery
Deligo Vision Technologies — Simple and effective automation of checkout in contract catering.

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Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
enmacc — enmacc, 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.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Cloudsquid — is an an artificial intelligence based revenue orchestration company intended for companies with usage-based pricing models.

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, China, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nooks — Working with your team should be enjoyable & energizing. Nooks is the virtual office for your team to skip the fatiguing meetings and bring back impromptu collaboration & casual conversations.
Browserbase — Browserbase is a comprehensive platform for developers to host, administer, and monitor headless browsers in the cloud.
Infinitus Systems — Infinitus Systems offers Voice Robotic Process Automation (VoiceRPA) software for businesses in the healthcare industry.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Delivery, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Immigram — An immigration platform for IT specialists and entrepreneurs. We help professionals in the IT sector to move to the UK via getting the Tech Nation Endorsement and applying for a Global Talent Visa
Mirai Flights — 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

Early stage VC focused on the consumer internet and brands that will shape tomorrow's culture.

Investment focus

Gaming, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a platform for creators to express content in new and attractive ways.
Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

Investing in media technology

Investment focus

Big Data, Software, Analytics
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Steady — Giving independent media makers everything they need to build and manage a thriving membership community.
delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

re:cap — re:cap enables companies in the subscription economy to trade future revenues for on-demand, non-dilutive capital. Fast, transparent and easy.
TechWolf — TechWolf uses AI to bring you an automated, continuous and objective view on the workforce skills you have, the skills you need and the gap in between.
Wordsmith AI — Wordsmith offers the best AI tools for legal teams, including AI-powered contract review, document generation, and legal chatbots. Trusted by top companies, Wordsmith helps lawyers streamline workflows, speed up legal processes, and increase productivity.

INTEGRA is your advice and support partner from the conception of an original idea through the successful foundation of a market.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.

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Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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