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Top 50 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Germany (October 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
7 Germany, Poland, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $900k–$6.6M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
6 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$33M
HV Capital
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
RTP Global
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2M–$80M
pd ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Internet, Software $1.6M–$20M
DTCP
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Israel Series C, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$177M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $162k–$12M
New Enterprise Associates
VC Fund
3 United States, China, India Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $6M–$102M
Headline
VC Fund
3 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$78M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A Content, Software, E-Commerce $2.9M–$20M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Antler
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
b2venture
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.2M–$52M
Neuhaus Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Spain, Israel Series A, Series B Software, Internet, Information Technology $3.5M–$16M
Project Flying Elephant
VC Fund
2 Germany, France, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Social Media, News, Software
redalpine
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.6M–$125M
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 Germany, United States, Canada Series B, Series A Software, Mobile, Information Technology $2.2M–$40M
Groupe M6
VC Fund
2 France, Germany Series A, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing $4.2M–$5.5M
Frontline Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Ireland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $405k–$17M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $5M–$160M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Gaingels
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $69k–$35M
Tiburon
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $207k–$4.9M
CASSIUS
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Software, Gaming $1.3M–$18M
Felix Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, France Series A, Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, SaaS $2.2M–$110M
Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund
1 United States, China, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $5M–$110M
Trafo Investment
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A Big Data, Software, Analytics $2.6M–$4.2M
Integra
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, SaaS, Mobile
IBB Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, SaaS $1M–$11M
ZMT Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency $100k–$50M
Bigpoint
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A E-Commerce, Apps, News
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
Village Global
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $250k–$22M
Wadi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Israel, Germany Seed, Angel Travel, Internet, Consulting $27k–$150k
Heilemann Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Video $274k–$2.5M
Armentum Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Germany Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device $10M–$175M
NWZ Digital
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Familie Graef Holding GmbH
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, News, Sports
Xploration Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Delivery $498k–$25M
LBBW VC
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $850k–$62M
GE Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Health Care, Software, Enterprise Software $6M–$70M
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, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising $1M–$30M
MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $120k–$30M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, Software $100k–$7.9M
Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, United States Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $588k–$14M
General Global Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, Singapore Series A, Series C, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $8M–$300M
Hessen Kapital
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $595k–$240M
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Müller Medien
VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Poland, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
  • edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
  • Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 6 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 674
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 6 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 States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 508
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.6M–$37M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
  • 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 · 5 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 24 in the past 12 months

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: 281
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$13M; Series A $6M–$25M; Series B $11M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1B in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Flam — Frontier AI research and product for interactive content. Video was the last big shift in content. Interactivity is the next one, and we're defining it.
  • Ahead Health — Ahead Health is redefining preventive healthcare by making personalized health insights clear, actionable, and accessible anytime, anywhere
  • Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$3.7M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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DTCP
VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenity — Zenity is the first and only governance and security platform for low-code/no-code applications. It creates a win-win environment where IT and information security can give business and pro developers the independence they want to move the business forward while retaining full visibility and control.
  • AppsFlyer — Unify measurement, deep linking, data collaboration, and AI across mobile, web, CTV, console and beyond. Make smarter decisions, optimize every channel, and prove impact with the platform built for modern marketing.
  • 6 Robotics OÜ — We exist to strengthen defence, protect nations, and deter conflict in an era defined by unmanned warfare.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $912k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2087
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$55M; Series B $10M–$85M; Series C $15M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $468M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Zyngenia —
  • ARRIS — High-volume producer of advanced carbon parts for drones, aerospace, cycling, and consumer applications. (Made in U.S.A. or Taiwan)
  • Lithium Technologies — Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Brands like Microsoft, HP, Sephora, Virgin and Barclaycard and customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100million monthly visits over all Lithium communities and 750 million online profiles scored by Klout, Lithium has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Lithium customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.
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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: 581
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $7.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
  • Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
  • Heidi Health — Heidi Health is a healthtech company that develops an AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks.
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund · Westerstede, Niedersachsen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2382
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
  • RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
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b2venture
VC Fund · Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 6 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 278
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Series A $3.4M–$23M; Series B $6.9M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $179M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
  • Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
  • Flyboard — Human-level AI voice agents at a fraction of the cost. Transform your customer engagement with intelligent automation.
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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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Project Flying Elephant
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Krak — Make more skateboarding happen in the world.
  • SHNUPS — SHNUPS can collect content for a hashtag across multiple platforms.
  • Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$33M; Series B $16M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • telli — A world where every interaction is worth having. https://t.co/Qa65ENaxKL
  • Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
  • 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.
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SaaSgarage
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4M; Pre-Seed $150k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SMAHO — Manufacturer agnostic, cloud-based connected device control platform for iOS, Android, Alexa and Google Assistant
  • repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
  • consalio — Ltdtoto menjadi salah satu bentuk situs yang menunjukan makna dari situs slot gacor online sesungguhnya. Situs Ltdtoto menghadirkan provider slot88 & Slot777 dan menawarkan trik yang pasti mendapatkan jackpot di tahun 2026.
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Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments
VC Fund · Bonn-lengsdorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Series A $2.2M–$38M; Series B $4.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • Groq — Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem.
  • FREE NOW — FREE NOW (formerly mytaxi) is a leading mobility provider. FREE NOW currently operates in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Derby and Leicester. With two requests every second, FREE NOW directly connects passengers and drivers with just two taps of the app.FREE NOW is part of the mobility joint venture betweenBMW and Daimler, formed in February 2019. In July 2016, mytaxi announced the merger with Hailo, the leading taxi app in the UK and Ireland - an important step towards becoming Europe's largest e-hailing app.
  • Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.
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Groupe M6
VC Fund · Neuilly-sur-seine, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
  • Money Walkie — Money walkie is an NFC wallet payment solution for kids.
  • Mium Lab — Mium Lab creates vitamin-enriched food supplements in the form of naturally fruity gummies, combining pleasure and health. It employs scientifically developed plant-based and vitamin-based formulas for its products. Mium Lab's mission is to improve everyone's life by providing simple and enjoyable to use well-being and health products.
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Frontline Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.6M; Series A $3.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
  • HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 465
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
  • Spott — Spott is an AI-native ATS & CRM for Staffing and Recruiting firms.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 401
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Avrea is the CI/CD platform built for the age of AI, helping teams ship software faster, more often, and with higher quality.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
  • TRAKKER — TRAKKER turns real-world visitor behavior into live analytics, lead intelligence, and personalized event journeys. For organizers, exhibitors, and visitors.
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Gaingels
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 75 in the past 12 months

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital 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, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1348
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$35M; Venture - Series Unknown $69k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $140k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • MoneyStack — Financial stress can be an obstacle to mental health recovery. MoneyStack partners with healthcare teams to integrate financial counseling into treatment plans to improve mental health outcomes and support long-term recovery for individuals and families impacted by someone's behavioral health condition.
  • Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.
  • Charter Space — Charter is developing a collaborative platform for satellite mission logistics and program management available via web app and API that provides satellite operators with intuitive information architecture to streamline missions and reduce wasted engineering hours so they can get to the launchpad faster.Charter's platform usesdesign-focused UI/UX and automation to reduce friction through intuitive dashboarding, improved information sharing, and optimized compute and data resource efficiency. For satellite companies, ATLAS streamlines processes, automates manual tasks, and provides engineers with communications and information infrastructure to seamlessly interface both across teams and organisations. reduces wasted engineering hours and lead times, and minimizes upfront technical debt, CapEx, and long-run OpEx.In other words, Charter is building a logistics solution that will be to satellite logistics what the graphical user interface was to command-line interfaces.
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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 $207k–$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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CASSIUS
VC Fund · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
  • Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
  • Paage — Paage offers a link-in-bio platform that enables creators and businesses to sell digital and physical products.
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Felix Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$22M; Series A $5M–$52M; Series B $11M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $600M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Medly AI — Medly AI is a multilingual tutor that uses AI, theory of mind, and reinforcement learning technology to supercharge students' abilities. With Medly AI, students can engage in conversational learning, practice past exam questions, and get immediate marking and feedback. Medly AI also works with teachers to enhance the classroom, so thatstudents can have more personalized, inclusive learning experiences, and teachers can focus on what they do best - teaching.It was founded in 2023 in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
  • Polysense — Increase yield, reduce waste, and optimize food production with Polysense's AI-powered inline quality control. Real-time data for potatoes, bakery & more.
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Kleiner Perkins
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 71 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1362
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$50M; Series B $10M–$75M; Series C $12M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Armadin Security — Armadin Security is an AI-powered cybersecurity company that specializes in real-time threat hunting.
  • Harvey — Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider.
  • Profound — 1. https://t.co/uNIJRlRUFJ 2. https://t.co/tNizCMQYpy 3. https://t.co/ljElw4BSK7
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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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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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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, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 266
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.3M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.7M–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M 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.
  • Amara — Voice-first senior companion delivered via tablet and dock with a family app, serving Germany's AgeTech market.
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ZMT Capital
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Technology driven investment firm focused on Fintech, Mobile, Hardware, AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $100k–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Root Protocol — ISME is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
  • Theta Network — Theta Network is a decentralized peer-to-peer network built on top of existing streaming applications and networks, allowing users to share the cost of content delivery through mobile devices and network nodes. Theta allows users to stream live content like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and Twitter with low latency. theta wallet support, theta walletcontact number
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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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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: 101
  • 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: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.7M 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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Village Global
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 16 in the past 12 months

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: 514
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $125M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • Legato Audio — Legato Hearing develops stylish glasses with built-in hearing technology, offering a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.
  • 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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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, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$150k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SeatID — We help you acquire the perfect domain for your site. Affordable payment options. Quick and responsive customer support available.
  • 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.
  • Croosing — The proprietary SUPERLINK technology (patents pending) for autonomous browsing has an impact on all aspects of the digital sphere: From tutorials, auto-guidance and self-service, to e-commerce, content sharing, ed-tech, digital gov., accessibility and more, creating better experience for the users and leading to better results for businesses.Croosing is based in Beer Sheva, Israel, and is a proud alumni of the IBM Alpha Zone program.
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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, Software, Video
  • 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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Armentum Partners
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Enhance your financial strategy with tailored debt capital solutions designed for success at every stage of your growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $21M–$175M; Debt Financing $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Groups Recover Together — Groups offers Suboxone treatment, weekly group sessions, and whole-person support for opioid addiction, in person or online. Start your recovery today.
  • Lucira Health — Lucira Health is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of transformative and innovative infectious disease test kits. Lucira has developed a testing platform that produces centralized-laboratory-accurate molecular testing in a single-use and consumer-friendly test kit that is powered by two AA batteries andfits in the palm of a hand. Lucira designed its test kits to provide accurate, reliable and on-the-spot molecular test results anywhere and at any time. The LUCIRA COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit is designed to provide a clinically relevant COVID-19 result within 30 minutes from sample collection.
  • KOHO Financial — Open an everyday spending account online with instant cash back & premium rewards. Join over 1.5M Canadians using KOHO's prepaid Mastercard to spend, save, build and borrow. Sign up in minutes!
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NWZ Digital
VC Fund · Oldenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

NWZ Digital is a private equity and venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
  • team neusta — As an owner-managed company team neusta provides consulting, development and realization of complex software-, mobile and eCommerce solutions in its core business. In 2019, team neusta employs 1100 people residing in Bremen, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Lachen (CH) and Toulouse. Moreover, the corporate group engages 500instructed freelancers holding broad expert knowledge. team neusta’s core activities include consulting, development and realization of complex software, mobile and eCommerce solutions. Furthermore, team neusta offers services in the areas of conception, human resources, design, usability and communication. In 2018, the group achieved a turnover of 170 million euros. The company has been working with TYPO3 for ten years and has achieved excellent results for different companies from various sectors. For more than 80 developers and 15 consultants, working with TYPO3 presents the essential daily business. TYPO3 customers are offered a broad range of services including: • Consulting • Conception • Individual software development • Configuration & Service • Trainings • Hosting
  • AX Semantics — AX Semantics develops AI-based content automation software for enterprises that work with data-rich, high-volume content. The company offers axite, an AI-native content automation platform that turns structured product data into product descriptions, category pages, and other commerce copy. The platform combines generative AI, natural languagegeneration, and logic-based quality assurance in a feedback loop that refines content based on performance data. It supports multilingual content, governance workflows, and publishing for online and offline retail use cases.
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Familie Graef Holding GmbH
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, News, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Golf Post — Golf Post is the digital home for golfers
  • STARTPLATZ — STARTPLATZ, which was founded in 2012 in the heart of Cologne, is not only an incubator but also a very attractive meeting point for the startup community. It was founded by the directors of "Familie Gräf Holding GmbH“ , Dr. Lorenz Gräf and Matthias Gräf. A second STARTPLATZ recently opened in Düsseldorf in the summer of 2015.
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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, E-Commerce, Delivery
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $498k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $870k–$3M; Series A $1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% 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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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: Biotechnology, Software, 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

  • Metergrid — Metergrid is an energy technology company that provides software and services to plan and execute tenant electricity projects using locally generated solar power for multi-party properties. It offers tools that support economic analysis, technical setup, billing, and digital management of decentralized energy systems for property owners and energyservice providers. The company’s platform integrates project planning, metering technology, and administrative software to help stakeholders manage energy flows and customer contracts. Metergrid also works with partner networks to coordinate installation and operational support for photovoltaic systems. Its offerings aim to simplify the deployment and ongoing administration of tenant electricity models for real estate stakeholders.
  • 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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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, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 164
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$32M; Series B $6M–$31M; Series C $14M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Catalant — Access on-demand consulting services for strategic business planning, data & business analytics, digital transformation, M&A, market research, and more.
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Torch Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 15 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: 156
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$11M; Series A $8.5M–$30M; Series B $12M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.8M in 2026

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.
  • Baselayer — The AI Platform for B2B Risk. Fastest growing fintech in 2025
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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, Artificial Intelligence, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 219
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$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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MaC Venture Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 328
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $120k–$4M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $150M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FriskAI — FriskAI is the runtime intelligence platform for AI agents. It gives enterprises a clear understanding of what their AI agents are doing in production, so they can deploy AI with confidence.
  • 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.
  • Bluecore Energy — Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports.
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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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% 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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Airbridge Equity Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Artwod — ArtWod is an online art school and mobile drawing app designed to help artists of all levels learn to draw through structured, daily practice.
  • Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
  • Celebratix — Celebratix is a blockchain-based ticketing firm. It provides a secure and simple ticketing system based on blockchain technology, so consumers do not need to deal with bitcoin.
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General Global Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Concentrated growth technology investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Series A $8M–$91M; Series C $56M–$300M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Carbyne — Carbyne's cloud-native NG911 platform for 911 dispatch centers. APEX delivers AI-powered call handling, live video, and real-time data for PSAPs. Axon 911 Core.
  • Threecolts — The most comprehensive software for Amazon, Walmart, and eBay. Tens of thousands of customers are using Threecolts to grow faster, lower costs, and become more agile.
  • Kitchen United — Kitchen United offers a turnkey solution that eliminates barriers to growth and enables restaurant brands to profitably expand. It is introducing a new commercial kitchen for rent opportunity for food service providers to realize their fullest business potential. For restaurants, this means providing a top-tier food production facility combinedwith insights and ideas on how to profitably expand into the food delivery business. Entrepreneurial caterers, pop-ups, mobile food vendors, and start-ups provide shared commercial kitchen space, business intelligence, and resources to succeed with minimal risk and capital outlay.
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Hessen Kapital
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Publishing startups

Public investment management company - institutional investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $595k–$8.3M; Series A $1M–$240M; Venture - Series Unknown $931k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • READO — READO is a social reading app. It is the central place where people organize their books, discover new titles, and connect with others through reading. The app encourages users to read more and turns books into a social experience through features like mood-based ratings and page-based discussions.Our vision is to build the number one communityfor readers worldwide and to develop community-driven business models on top of it. We believe that building a product centered around real emotional connections, network effects, and user-generated content is one of the most sustainable, valuable, and defensible opportunities in today's digital landscape.
  • Focused Energy — Focused is the leading Laser Fusion company pursuing the most promising path to clean, limitless fusion power... unlocking civilization's next great chapter of growth.
  • Frankfurt International Bank — FIB stands for sound structuring, clear decision-making and long-term responsibility. FIB support export transactions from early involvement through to reliable execution – pragmatic, transparent and efficient.
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Publishing VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 91 deals from 100 investors.

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in Germany Publishing startups
$7.4M
median round
in Germany Publishing startups
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lead at least one round
27%
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