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Top 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Germany in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Recruiting Startup Investors in Germany in January 2025

Investor	Recruiting Germany investments
Atlantic Labs	9
HV Capital	7
Cherry Ventures	7
IBB Ventures	5
Global Founders Capital	5
Acton Capital	4
APX	4
Picus Capital	3
42CAP	3
LITTLEROCK	3
Basinghall Partners	3
Capnamic Ventures	3
General Catalyst	3
Jens Schumann	3
Volker Rofalski	3
Northzone	3
Bonsai Partners	2
redalpine	2
Collective Ventures	2
Sofia Angels Ventures	2
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen	2
Carsten Thoma	2
Mediahuis	2
EOS VC Fund	2
Mathis Buchi	2
Maximilian Viessmann	2
Mario Götze	2
Heartcore Capital	2
Moonfire Ventures	2
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	2
Frank Freund	2
Philipp Pausder	2
Carsten Erdt	2
Seed X Liechtenstein	2
Creathor Ventures	2
10x Founders	2
Foundamental	2
Index Ventures	2
Rocket Internet	2
Neuhaus Partners	1
Discovery Ventures	1
Redstone.VC	1
UVC Partners	1
Vimajo Family Office	1
Armira	1
Rainer Strack	1
BLN Capital	1
Marvin Homburg	1
Headline	1
Porsche Ventures	1

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Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
Tourlane — Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Courtyard — Turn your trading cards, sneakers, watches, and more into tradable Connected Collectibles and earn a percentage of all future sales.
OASYS NOW — The new Standard for Securely Storing and Exchanging Genomic Data. Unlock global data silos and monetize your data pool through OASYS NOW secure enclaves.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.

Since 1999, Acton Capital invests in tech-enabled business models to create value for the long run. We support world-class teams on their way to market leadership.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Klaus — Klaus is a conversation review tool that improves customer service quality by making internal feedback easy and systematic. It also integrates with your help desk, good for improving the quality of answers and on-boarding new agents. They also connect to your favorite help desk solution and saves time on fumbling around with spreadsheets and comingup with the review system.Klaus is based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Henchman — Effortlessly find the clauses you’re looking for by applying our AI to your existing contracts.
ECO Group — Eco is a supplier of consumer products. They create structures for increased growth and profitability within the group companies.

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Omni HR — Omni HR helps companies automate the end-to-end employee journey including onboarding, time off, employee management, and more. Easy to use and customizable!
Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...

We are peers amongst entrepreneurs helping the brave to build game-changing companies, just like we have done ourselves.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
cognee inc — cognee helps you create a GraphRAG and supports Vector Stores, Graph stores, and various LLM providers
simplyblock — High-performance storage software designed for databases with low latency, high scalability and high IOPS. NVMe-optimized. Alternative SAN or EBS. Scalable Block Storage software. Simplyblock | Simply Block | Simplyblock Block Storage

They look to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs who are working on ideas that have the potential to distrupt their respective landscape from every angle within the next years. LITTLEROCK is an active investor, leading or co-leading investment rounds. They make early stage initial investments in start-ups typically post launch, with an impressiveevidence for the proof-of- concept of the underlying business model/scalability They are looking for founding teams and/ or start-ups that tackle big markets, bring something new to the table and execute scalable business models. Beyond that, they seek visionary, disciplined and inspiring founders who, like us, love challenging the status quo.

Investment focus

Fitness, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, India, Vietnam

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.
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.
Green City Solutions — Green City Solutions addresses the global problem of air pollution by combining a special, vertically installed moss culture with Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology.The product, called the “CityTree”, combines specific plants that eat particulate matter (PM) and refreshes air by cooling and humidification. The construction contains sensorscollecting environmental and climatic data, to regulate and control the unit and ensure that the plants vitally perform. The data we collect can be also used to dense the grid of environmental data.

Basinghall believes in (really) smart capital: connecting tech pioneers with established industry partners through deep data insights and startup expertise.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Vawlt — Simplify your company's transition to the cloud, improve security standards, and optimize storage resource usage.

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
Dexory — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

Investing in powerful, positive change that endures

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Current — Current is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, online banking, and financial services. The company's mission is to enable members to change their lives by creating better financial outcomes. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Hippocratic AI — The First Safety Focused LLM for Healthcare

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 — Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimizationsuggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI.
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.

Northzone is a multi-stage venture capital fund that seeks to invest in the healthcare, semiconductors, software, hardware, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and gaming industries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Nivoda — Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

Bonsai Partners is a Venture Capital investment company based in Madrid, Spain. We invest in both primary and secondary opportunities in Tech startups from Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Livitum — Interior design service and furniture marketplace
TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.
PassEntry — The global digital pass issuance company that bridges the gap between your physical wallet and your digital wallet. We do this via our open API platform allowing developers to integrate our technology for their own use cases.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
OrthoPulse — OrthoPulse is a medical device manufacturer that produces dental care equipment, treatment control apps, and photo biomodulation solutions.

Moving financial inclusion forward.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Software
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
Germany, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nira — NIRA is an RBI approved instant loan app that provides low interest instant loans. NIRA Finance is the best app for salaried people where you can avail a loan up to 1 lakh on EMI using a secure 100% online process. Low Interest Loans up to 1 lakh for salaried.
nuvo — Transform the way you import data with nuvo, to create fast, non-technical way to handle spreadsheet data.
Flowers-Software GmbH — Flowers Software is an organization management for digitizing, simplifying and automating recurring workflows.Flowers -Software can be used independent of company size, industry, region, and existing company structure due to its highly flexible no-code process editor.

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Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Italy, Austria

Portfolio highlights

inHEART — inHEART is a spin-off from IHU Liryc and Inria, two top-tier research centers respectively in cardiac electrophysiology and digital science and technology, that develops software solutions for medical image analysis and cardiac modeling in heart rhythm disorders. inHEART vision is to make the bridge between radiology and cardiology to become aworldwide leader in image-guided diagnosis, therapy planning and navigation software solutions for heart rhythm disorders.
Ethermind — Struggling to scale your productivity? Ethermind AI copilot answers customer queries, saving trainers & customers 50% of their time.
denxpert EHS&S software — denxpert EHS&S software specializes in providing cloud-based legal compliance software tailored for environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) professionals. The software is designed to streamline the processes required for ensuring compliance with environmental and occupational safety regulations, thereby reducing theadministrative burden on EHS&S professionals. It offers features such as data collection, reporting, and management of compliance tasks, aimed at minimizing health and safety legislation risks. denxpert EHS&S software also includes specialized solutions like the CRANE software for managing crane-related compliance issues efficiently. With a focus on simplifying EHS&S management, denxpert EHS&S software supports companies in maintaining compliance with relevant laws and regulations through its intuitive platform.

BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH operates as an investment arm of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
Persival — Persival | Perception Sensor Simulation and Model Validation

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 an AI-native personalization, experimentation, and A/B testing tool for dynamic websites, headless CMSs, composable content, and MACH.

Mediahuisis a venture capital arm of the independent publishing and media company is on a mission to support founders who are changing the way we learn and work. As a lead investor, MHV participates in European EdTech & HRTech companies, from Series A and beyond.

Investment focus

Education, Human Resources, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!
Impactpool — Job vacancies in the European Union, United Nations and International Organizations.

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Grant, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
SparkChange — SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, enabling investors to achieve both financial returns and positive environmental impact. The company was established by experts in environmental products and capital markets technologies to set a new standard in carbon investing. For more information, visit:https://sparkchange.io/
Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).

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.

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
Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Denmark, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
Barter — Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

At Moonfire, we team up with the most innovative early-stage founders to invest where our sectors of focus intersect with global technological disruption.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Cyber Security
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Filigran — Embrace a proactive approach with end-to-end cyber threat management, from anticipation to response.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pagent — Pagent develops AI systems.
Refoxy Pharma — Developer of therapeutic medicines intended to treat age-related diseases and improve healthy longevity.
Lindis Blood Care — Lindis Blood Care´s mission is to optimise the outcome of cancer surgeries by developing a Medical Device to remove cancer cells from blood during cancer surgeries to enable Autologous Blood Transfusion.

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.

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.

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.
Tracktics —
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Seed X is a European-focused venture capital firm with strong roots in Liechtenstein. We help driven startups scale by providing a strong network of experienced entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UnitPlus — Mehr Zinsen. Mehr Rendite. Mehr Freiheit.
ReceiptHero — Say goodbye to paper receipts. Cut operational costs, reduce waste and deliver a better in-store experience for customers.
Jove Insurance — Jove provides business and protection insurance to contractors, freelancers and SMEs, powered by tech and driven by social good.

We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.

Cutting-edge venture capital firm supporting the early-stage entrepreneurs building global businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
Beyond Presence — Beyond Presence creates hyper-realistic digital twins and AI-driven Conversational Avatars that save you time and money. Elevate customer experiences with Beyond Presence: offer 24/7 multilingual customer support, guide your customers in their online journeys, and provide sales training or coaching. The possibilities are endless!

Foundamental is the first partner to exceptional founders re-creating the real world globally

Investment focus

Construction, Software, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
Aeria — Aeria is Asia's first seamless platform for commercial real estate to elevate tenant experience, optimise property operations and enhance lease and portfolio management.
Speckle — Teams around the world use Speckle for effective project delivery

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cartesia — Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices. Its objective is to develop the next generation of AI: pervasive, interactive intelligence that operates everywhere.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
Sublime Security — Sublime lets you write, run, and share rules to block phishing attacks, hunt for threats, and more.

Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Micro VC supporting outstanding technology entrepreneurs across the globe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Due — Due is a blockchain payment service provider that is developing a platform to connect domestic payment channels utilizing open and interoperable blockchain protocols.
Naro — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

The Redstone team is an international and diverse group of serial entrepreneurs, investors, investment professionals, tech analysts and data scientists.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, France

Portfolio highlights

DREM — Simplifying distributed energy saving solutions
ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.

Vimajo Family Office is an investment vehicle.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Career Planning
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!

Armira is an entrepreneurial industrial holding company, which participates in medium-sized companies in German-speaking countries. Our focus is on established, profitable companies with a turnover of up to 500 million euros.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources
Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

osapiens — Osapiens provides an ESG platform and Software-as-a-Service solutions for companies. Osapiens has created and manages the osapiens HUB, an advanced ESG platform designed to help companies make a meaningful impact. This platform, which leverages AI and cloud technology, forms the foundation for Osapiens' innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)solutions. These solutions assist businesses across various sectors to quickly, automatically, and securely meet ESG requirements. The osapiens HUB facilitates compliance and transparency throughout the value chain. With this platform, companies can address all their ESG challenges by identifying risks, fulfilling reporting obligations such as CSRD, EUDR, and CSDDD, and making their operational processes more sustainable over the long term.
Workwise — Campusjager finds the right job for students and graduates.
Yoummday GmbH — yoummday‘s concept is based on the sharing economy‘s principles. Among an innovative software solution, the marketplace is matching clients and freelancing call center agents whom we call talents. Through the concept, the platform provides a solution to work as a freelancing talent globally. Moreover, the provided technology enables the possibilityfor the talents to work from home.Additionally, a customer‘s project can be implemented efficiently, individually, and flexibly. Next to a talent pool with above 20,000 registered talents, yoummday offers managed services for corporate clients, as well as a self-managing possibility. Both services are allowing the client to monitor the project in real-time based on personally defined KPI‘s. By giving talents up to 80% of the revenue, the motivation is increasing, because the freelancing talent is earning twice as much as a call center agent in their country they live in. The client only has to pay a yoummday provision as well as the talent remuneration which is leading to cost savings up to 40%. Furthermore, yoummday is responsible for training and quality checks which are regularly analyzed and individually modified.Founded in 2016 by Klaus Harisch, Pablo Harisch, and Lion Harisch, yoummday is constantly looking for motivated, self-empowering, curious, critical thinking and problem-solving employees who want to innovate the call center business. The Tech startup is constantly fast-growing and the vision is to create a brand that is an outstanding example as a leading shared economy company that is offering the main assets which are the talents an ecologically friendly way to work from home. Next to a fixed salary, employees are offered various tangible and intangible benefits that are individualized based on the needs of the employee. yoummday is a group-orientated company which is focusing on the employee as the core asset. The headquarter is based in the heart of Munich and a second branch is located in Sofia.

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.

We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.

Investment focus

Video Games, Software, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

Marvin Homburg is a Co-Founder and CEO at Evermood. Marvin previously worked at Founders Foundation gGmbH as a Grantee of the Accelerator Program. He attended Copenhagen Business School and the University of Münster.

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, Career Planning
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Brite Payments — The next generation of payment solutions. We create smarter, faster, more financially sustainable ways to pay and be paid.
NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
iink Payments — The Best Way to Get Paid After a Property Claim

Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

Investment focus

Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Retorio — Retorio takes talent management to the next level with a video AI that reveals personality. Transform the way you hire and train top talent.
Atomic Industries — Building the future of manufacturing, end-to-end automation of tool and die making
Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.

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