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Top 40 Recruiting Angel Investors in Germany

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 40 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Recruiting Angel Investors in Germany

Investor	Recruiting Germany investments
Jens Schumann	3
Volker Rofalski	3
Carsten Erdt	2
Frank Freund	2
Bastian Nominacher	1
Sebastian Schuon	1
Philipp Pausder	1
Dagmar Wöhrl	1
Maximilian Bittner	1
Mario Götze	1
Tim Stracke	1
Björn Kolbmüller	1
Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer	1
Barrick B Rothschild	1
Hanno Renner	1
Sebastian Pollok	1
Carsten Thoma	1
Christian Vollmann	1
Michael Brehm	1
Mathis Buchi	1
Benjamin Minack	1
Roman Kirsch	1
Niklas Plath	1
Paul Schwarzenholz	1
Joachim Bernecker	1
Saeed Amidi	1
Carsten Maschmeyer	1
Benjamin Guenther	1
Martin Sinner	1
Christian Rebernik	1
Matthias Möller	1
Dennis Kirpensteijn	1
Vassil Terziev	1
Max-Josef Meier	1
Louis Pfitzner	1
Rolf Schromgens	1
Maximilian Viessmann	1
Rainer Strack	1
Gunnar Berning	1
Neal O'Mara	1

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Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.

Investment focus

Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Adtriba — Data-driven marketing analytics, unbiased, cross-channel and easy to use multi-touch attribution, unified marketing measurement and marketing mix modelling
aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.

Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Carsten Erdt - Founder and Managing Director @ Erdt Group

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
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Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO Responsible for EMEA & APAC, global operations, finance, HR and the overall direction for Celonis.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, France, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
DataGuard — Are you looking to turn your privacy posture into a competitive advantage? Stay fully compliant with latest data privacy regulations. Talk to an expert now
Vertice — The SaaS purchasing platform that gives finance leaders cost control, efficiency and flexibility.

Sebastian Schuon is the Founder and CEO of Alasco.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Software
Angel, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Flexcavo — Enabling intelligent construction sites.
Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted
Forget Finance — Forget Finance is the first digital financial advisor that empowers everyone to plan their financial future holistically from their smartphone.

Philipp Pausder is the Co-Founder and MD of Thermondo. Prior to Thermondo, Philipp founded Clean Venture, a boutique M&A advisory firm for distributed energy deals. Clean Venture advised on deals across 4 continents with a total value greater than $1 billion. Before starting his own firm, Philipp worked for Applied Value, a Stockholm-basedstrategy and investment firm. Philipp was recognized as “Global Champion of Sustainable Innovation 2007” by Thunderbird University, USA for his development of business models for emerging markets. Philipp started his career as a global marketing manager at adidas AG launching innovation concepts to a global market place. He holds an MBA in Finance with highest distinction from IE Business School, Madrid and an MA in Business and Mass Communication from FU Berlin.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Recruiting
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PowerUs — PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.

Dagmar Wöhrl

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Snack Food
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
Vegablum KG — Vegablum KG's goal with our vegan products is to make the world a little bit better and, above all, delicious. It cares about the environment and all living things. As a result, all of our goods adhere to the highest organic standards and are completely vegan and ecological.
Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace
Series A, Seed, Series C
Singapore, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lummo — BukuKas merupakan aplikasi keuangan usaha GRATIS yang telah digunakan oleh lebih dari 5 juta UMKM yang tersebar di 750 kota di Indonesia.
Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Unaric — Our mission is to help Salesforce customers maximise their investment on the Salesforce platform through an integrated suite of applications. Explore our application suites across Revenue Operations, Service Operations and System Administration.
Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.

Tim Stracke, Venture Partner, is an entrepreneur and business angel who focuses in particular on eCommerce.Tim Stracke Joined Target Partners as a Venture Partner in 2011.In 2001 Tim founded mentasys GmbH, which became Germany’s leading online price comparison service provider and which he subsequently sold to a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AGin 2006. Today, the former mentasys is now an essential part of one of the world’s largest shopping portals, based in Silicon Valley, California.Prior to founding mentasys, Tim briefly served as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Buenos Aires. In 1999, he founded his first VC-financed company - a marketplace for gifts - at the age of 25.Since Tim’s exit from mentasys in 2008, he has taken stakes in 9 Internet companies in Europe and China, where he takes an active role as either a founding partner or active investor.Most recently he and another partner acquired Chrono24 GmbH, the world’s largest marketplace for luxury watches, as part of a management buyout. Stracke has served as CEO at Chrono24 since 2010.Tim holds a master degree in business engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.Tim also advises entrepreneurs on strategy, finance and marketing/sales and is active on a variety of supervisory and executive boards.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Employment
Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
ExpressSteuer — ExpressSteuer is building AI-powered software that simplifies and automates the process of filing a german tax return which is considered to be the most complex and complicated in the world.

Björn Kolbmüller is co-founder and managing director of zenloop, a SaaS platform for feedback mgmt. using the Net Promoter System (NPS) method. After studying business administration at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Björn Kolbmüller began his professional career at Mister Spex. In 2008 he joined Procter & Gamble's brandmanagement team. Afterwards he co-founded the online perfumery Flaconi together with Paul Schwarzenholz, where he was responsible for marketing, product and tech until the sale to Pro7Sat1. In addition to zenloop, Björn Kolbmüller is an active business angel and passes on his experience to young start-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

straede — straede primarily focuses on cycling clothing.
Kittl — Kittl is the most intuitive and easy-to-use design platform which helps you to create stunning designs that impress everyone. Easily learn new design techniques and improve yourself to become a better creator.
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!

Philipp was an unsuccessful gym goer and decided to found eGym in 2010 with the vision to make the gym work for everyone. Prior, he studied Business and Technology Management at Columbia University in New York, LMU Munich and Aarhus University. eGym combines latest machine technology, powered by German engineering, with the advantages of connectedmobile applications to deliver intuitive and effective workouts with more fun and data-driven member support. In addition eGym also supports Corporate Fitness offering easier access to gyms for employees in order to stay fitter, be more productive and less absent. In only a few years of strong growth, eGym developed to one of the major players in the European fitness market, implementing its technology at leading fitness chains and franchises. Overall, eGym raised over 90 Mio. USD in venture capital from large investors and is now entering the US market.

Investment focus

SaaS, Sales, Software
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Demodesk — Demodesk is the sales meeting platform that coaches reps live and automates non-selling tasks.Try for free and see why top revenue teams use Demodesk to boost productivity and increase close rates
Personio — Personio is an all-in-one HR software solution for companies from 10-2,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted

Alexander Rinke Co-CEO and Co-founder Celonis Alexander Rinke is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Celonis, the leader in the leader in turning process insights into action for business transformation. Under his leadership Celonis has been named by Gartner as the “clear market leader” in the process mining category, as well as becoming one of thefastest growing enterprise software companies and one of only 242 “unicorns” in the world valued at $1B. Alexander was listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 list of top achievers under the age of 30 in 2015 and was recently appointed to the Forbes Technology Council. He is a frequent speaker on topics of how to accelerate and operational change that achieves productivity and an exceptional customer experience. Alexander studied Mathematics at Technical University of Munich and École Polytechnique in Paris.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, SaaS, Robotics
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rasa — Build contextual AI assistants and chatbots in text and voice with our open source machine learning framework. Scale it with our enterprise grade platform.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.

After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Transform your customer service with our customized, enterprise-ready contact center AI platform across all channels.
Amie — Meet the all-in-one calendar. Schedule time for todos, events, and contacts with joy. Try it for free!
DataGuard — Are you looking to turn your privacy posture into a competitive advantage? Stay fully compliant with latest data privacy regulations. Talk to an expert now

Sebastian Pollok is Founding Partner of Visionaries Club, an early stage VC fund backed by leading European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior, Sebastian co-founded and ran AMORELIE, which he successfully grew to > USD 60m revenue, >20% EBITDA and a team of 100 employees. AMORELIE was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in2018 at a valuation > USD 100m. Prior to AMORELIE, Sebastian worked as a VC for e.ventures in San Francisco and studied at WHU, St. Gallen, HKUST and Kellogg School of Management. Sebastian is a business angel in startups such as Ree Technology, Choco, Sunshine Smile and Lillydoo and a limited partner in funds such as Cherry Ventures, Project A and La Famiglia. He also sits on the board of Cherry Ventures and Founders Pledge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
Aeditive — Construction, Concrete 3D Printing, Automation, Robotics, Digital Concrete
Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge

Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Quaisr — Quaisr develops simulations for the full digital-twin lifecycle.
Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
Ninetailed — Ninetailed is a composable API-first personalization, experimentation, and testing tool for dynamic websites, headless CMSs, composable content, and MACH.

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

Originally from Switzerland. Lived 7 years in Hong Kong and Korea. Co-Founder at Smallpdf - the online PDF software. Grew Smallpdf from 0 to 9 million users without marketing dollars. Loves solving big problems with technology that no one is looking at. Now focusing on changing how people do their tax declaration with Taxfix.de - the first mobiletax software.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Mechanical Engineering
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PowerUs — PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Benjamin Minack

Investment focus

Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jomigo — We enable companies and freelance recruiters to successfully fill positions in our collaboration marketplace.
SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Bending Spoons — Bending Spoons is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, we've already achieved notable results, with tens of millions of downloads of our apps, and millions of users active every month. Our goal? Becoming the #1 app developer and publisher in the world. And ourambitions don't end there!We invest immensely in our team, and we couldn't be more proud of each other. We are a group of extremely young, talented, and ambitious software engineers, data scientists, and graphic designers, with among our ranks entrepreneurs that raised money from prestigious VCs, ex-CERN, ex-Google, and ex-McKinsey. We work from our amazing headquarters in Milan, but also support remote work.We're always on the lookout for people that want to be part of our über-challenging journey to build one of the greatest tech companies in the world. If that sounds exciting to you, don't hesitate to apply at http://bendingspoons.com/careers.html.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Niklas Plath

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Rausgegangen — Rausgegangen is a privately held company that is generating the tips to go out in Cologne, every day.

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

Joachim Bernecker

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.
MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.

Saeed Amidi is the Founder and CEO of Plug and Play. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bitwage — Payroll, invoicing & benefits for digital assets. Bitwage offers services for companies and direct to workers. Workers can sign up and get direct deposit accounts to get paid from any company or client. Workers locally receive unique digital asset benefits. Workers internationally get paid faster & cheaper than traditional wires.
Jobspotting — Jobspotting is a recommendations engine that suggests relevant jobs to users based on their skills and experience. The engine is powered by Skills Graph and Semantic Analysis technology. The company was founded in 2013 in Berlin, Germany by ex-Googlers Hessam Lavi, Jan Backes and Manuel Holtz. Robin Haak joined the founding team in 2014 aftermeeting them through the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator Programme, of which he was a co-founder. Jobspotting successfully acquired seed funding.
KaChing! — KaChing! is a revolutionary mobile marketing platform that integrates seamlessly with almost any Point of Sale system to enable fast and secure redemption of mobile coupons. For CPG brands and grocery retailers, we are solving the age-old problems of coupon fraud and manual processing, and using rich datasets to enable targeting of the right couponto the right consumer at the right time. Best of all, KaChing! is free for retailers and requires no new hardware or modifications to POS software. Currently in private beta at select retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, KaChing! is launching in 2014 with several west coast supermarket chains.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Benjamin Guenther is the Founder of Alasco.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Employment
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Flexcavo — Enabling intelligent construction sites.
Personio — Personio is an all-in-one HR software solution for companies from 10-2,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted

Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
Hero Software — Hero Software offers cloud software solutions.
persomatch GmbH — persomatch offers the first B2B AdTech SaaS solution for job advertising at the largest job marketplace Google via Google Ads, Google for Jobs and Google SEO

Christian is Co-Founder & CEO of Tomorrow’s Education. He was Founder and CEO of Vivy, a personal health record and assistant, helped to build N26 Bank as MD, was CTO at Parship, created award winning apps like ShareTheMeal for the UN World Food Programme and helped Awin to become a global affiliate network. Christian is Venture Partner atFounderslane, Advisor to the GreenTech Alliance, Member of the board of advisors to Sprk Global and Tomorrow Bank. He supports startup’s as a mentor and angel investor. Christian was born in Austria and studied business and information science.

Investment focus

Software, Freelance, UX Design
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

UnitPlus — Mehr Zinsen. Mehr Rendite. Mehr Freiheit.
Ahead App — Learn to control your emotions and influence others in fun, short sessions - so you and those around you become happier and better together.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

Matthias is entrepreneur and angel investor based in Munich. His current venture is gogol medien, a pioneer in cloud-based publishing. Hi served as angel investor for personio. NavVis, Simscale and Metoda among others. He founded his first company in the area of online and printed media during his schooldays. Matthias was part of the managementteam to develop CDTM, a study program of the Elite Network of Bavaria and developed mobile services in cooperation with Vodafone, Siemens, SevenOne Intermedia and BMW. He studied Business Administration at LMU Munich and Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. He wrote his diploma thesis in collaboration with Harvard Business School, and got his Ph.D. at the Munich School of Management.

Investment focus

SaaS, Internet, Software
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Personio — Personio is an all-in-one HR software solution for companies from 10-2,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
metoda — metoda is a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for real-time market analysis in online trading. It aims to deliver the most relevant, accurate, and real-time data such as prices, ratings, availabilities, and keywords to succeed in today’s e-commerce and Amazon world. Combined with our unique industry expertise, this data enables us toscientifically measure a product’s or a brand’s market share, its visibility, and to identify its market potential. Both, the data and insights, empower our smart AI and our experts to achieve unrivalled performance with Sponsored Ads on Amazon and DSP campaigns across the web.

I have been active in the German start-up scene over 10 years and have co-founded several companies during that time. After the successful exit of one of these companies to a Fortune 500, I started to support startups as an active angel investor. Today I am the Managing Director of Faraday Venture Partners Germany, an investor network for privateindividuals.In recent years, I have also been heavily involved in supporting young entrepreneurs as a mentor for Techstars or the Google Launchpad, among others, to help them grow or to help companies such as BMW, Whirlpool or the DZ Bank to better understand and interact with startups.Apart from that, I co founded the German Association of Student Entrepreneurship Associations (Gründermagnet), which now boasts more than 4.000 members.For more info on what I do or any other requests just drop me a few lines and/or follow me on Twitter @kirpensteijn

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

JobUFO — JobUFO is a SaaS solution which allows applicants to give a real first impression of themselves. It simplifies application process and optimizes communication between applicant and employer. Utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, JobUFO enables its users to make personalized video applications on more than 70,000 jobs from well-known employerssuch as Deutsche Bahn, Lufthansa, Evonik or EDEKA, and has already targeted more than 25,000 applicants and companies. It sconcept relieves job seekers and offers companies unique opportunities to connect with talent.

Vassil is responsible for overseeing Telerik’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services. As a co-founder of Telerik, Vassil was instrumental in growing the sales, support and business development units of the company and establishing the fanatical dedication to customerservice. Vassil’s vision and dedication has helped Telerik keep its slogan to “Deliver more than expected” and enjoy a solid track record of growing revenues and profitability in the ever changing developer tools marketplace.Vassil earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has served in various roles in companies from real estate, investment and high-tech industries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
Reloyalty — Get rewarded automatically for staying loyal to local businesses in London
UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly

Max-Josef Meier is the CEO and co-founder of FINN.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Computer
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flexcavo — Enabling intelligent construction sites.
Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted
Kosy — Kosy makes spending time with your remote team fun & productive

Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS) especially when it's in the SMB space.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Greece, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

inne — Inne is a Berlin-based biotech startup that builds a hormone-based mini lab for women with a mission to make natural contraception convenient and accurate. They aim to help women tune into their bodies and make informed decisions about their fertility and overall female health.Inne uses biochemistry and an app to track hormones and understandwhat it means and how they affect a woman's everyday fertility.
Bunch AI — Try Bunch: the AI coach that makes it easy for ambitious leaders to learn and grow.
Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.

Max Viessmann is Co-CEO and Member of the Board of the ‘Viessmann Group’ as well as CEO of VC/O.As the Co-CEO he continues to drive the Group’s digital evolution.Through VC/O the Group is making people’s life easier particularly in private and commercial housing aka the prop tech space. Through the Munich-based venture capital fund‘Vito Ventures’ and Berlin-based company builder ‘WATTx’ the team is providing a node for highly passionate entrepreneurs in the deep tech space.Prior to joining the family business, Max has been an early-stage investor and a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in the Munich and Shanghai offices.He has spent a lot of time living abroad particularly in the US, China and Japan.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Information Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OCELL — Building the Operating System of Sustainable Forestry
PowerUs — PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.

Rainer Strack

Investment focus

Recruiting, Staffing Agency
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jomigo — We enable companies and freelance recruiters to successfully fill positions in our collaboration marketplace.

Gunnar Berning - CEO @ fromAtoB

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Consulting
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

twago.com — twago is the leading platform for online work in Europe. On twago, individuals or companies of all sizes find the experts they need for projects, and freelancers and agencies find work and grow their businesses.twago stands for “Teamwork Across Global Offices” and is at the forefront of the modern workplace, encouraging individuals and companiesto go online to find experts and collaborate on projects. There are over 500,000 experts using the platform to find projects, and twago has generated over €400,000,000 in project volume since their inception.twago was founded in 2009 in Berlin – Europe’s new digital mecca – which is the perfect place to grow an international team for a service that operates across the globe. twago CEO and Founder Thomas Jajeh leads a team of over thirty talented individuals from seven different countries.
Circus — Circus provides convenient, sustainable and affordable solution in food delivery.
Circus Group — At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany.