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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Germany (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Germany Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
HV Capital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$125M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $214k–$5.9M
redalpine
VC Fund
6 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$125M
Heliad AG
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, India Series B, Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care $1.3M–$110M
SquareOne
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $329k–$17M
Venture Stars
VC Fund
4 Germany Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Pet, Retail $274k–$23M
468 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$42M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$75M
Partech
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$56M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $2.2M–$470M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.2M–$95M
Expedite Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Czech Republic, Poland Pre-Seed, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Graphic Design $660k–$4.8M
42CAP
VC Fund
3 Germany, France, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$19M
Grazia Equity
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology $1.1M–$59M
LEA Partners
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A, Private Equity Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.8M–$31M
Interface Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $341k–$44M
BitStone Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Real Estate, Construction $560k–$14M
Dumont Venture
VC Fund
3 Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, Retail $11M–$16M
GENIUS Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Logistics, Health Care $508k–$7.1M
Dimiter Tschawow
Angel
2 Germany, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Retail, Internet $4.2M–$50M
Franz Koch
Angel
2 Germany Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Retail, Travel
Christoph Schug
Angel
2 Germany Seed, Series B Retail, Medical, Hospital $274k–$286k
Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $713k–$14M
Movens Capital
VC Fund
2 Poland, Czech Republic, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $344k–$17M
Point Nine
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$62M
ECONA AG
VC Fund
2 Germany, Malaysia, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$6.2M
CapitalT
VC Fund
2 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $585k–$11M
Oskar Hartmann
Angel
2 Germany, India, Russian Federation Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive $125k–$52M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $1.9M–$117M
Senovo
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$66M
MPGI
VC Fund
2 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Wille Finance
VC Fund
2 France, Germany, Switzerland Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $396k–$36M
COI Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Manufacturing $12M–$22M
DN Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $786k–$82M
EXIST
VC Fund
2 Germany, France, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $850k–$31M
Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Germany, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Automotive, Hotel $240k–$13M
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
2 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $460k–$17M
PUSH VC
VC Fund
2 Austria, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Health Care $650k–$31M
Capnamic
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$30M
Berlin Technologie Holding
VC Fund
2 Germany, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A SaaS, Big Data, Internet $1.3M–$14M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $219k–$71M
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, Luxembourg, France Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.5M–$50M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.5M–$102M
Marcus Borner
Angel
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech $2.8M–$5.5M
MSM
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B $244k–$52M
Seventure Partners
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Germany Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $3.3M–$63M
Ippen Media
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Retail, Consumer, Internet $7.8M–$47M
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1090
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
  • Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
  • Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 502
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$37M; Series B $7.7M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
  • Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 8 investments in Germany Retail startups

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$70M; Series B $11M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.
  • Peptilogics — Peptilogics is a biotechnology platform company that develops best-in-class novel peptide drugs for unmet medical needs using its proprietary computational discovery platform.
  • Alloy Therapeutics — Alloy Therapeutics empowers scientists with access to pre-competitive biologics drug discovery technologies and services across 6 modalities
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Retail startups

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $542k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 6 investments in Germany Retail startups, 19 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 198
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $16M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
  • telli — A world where every interaction is worth having. https://t.co/Qa65ENaxKL
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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Heliad AG
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

Frankfurt-based venture capital firm, Heliad supports visionary startups and growth companies across Europe through strategic investment and long-term partnership.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care
  • Stage:Series B, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$29M; Series A $2.3M–$43M; Series B $7M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Binect (formerly MAX21 AG) — Binect is a platform-based software and fulfillment solution for the security and easy digitization of medium-sized companies. It actively supports its customers in digitizing their document processes. The standardized software solutions (digital outgoing mail, incoming mail, etc.) will in the future mainly be offered as SaaS services on a commonplatform, supplemented by complementary services for the outsourcing of document management (e.g. printing, franking, delivery, or scanning of business documents).
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • Hundeland.de — Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.
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SquareOne
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.3M; Series A $2.9M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace is an NFT company that aims to use earned NFTs rather than purchased NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Its non-transferable badge protocol assists DAOs in developing more effective incentive systems, automating permissions, and enabling non-financialized governance.
  • Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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Venture Stars
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Pet, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$7.3M; Series A $5.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Synera — Accelerate product development and unlock potential with powerful workflows that connect your data, tools and teams.
  • Hundeland.de — Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 229
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $9M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Relixir — Relixir is AI Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) assistant that maps, monitors and improves AI search rankings.
  • Pally — Pally is an AI Agent for your network.
  • ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 222
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.9M; Series A $3.3M–$27M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • STARK — EUROPEAN DEFENCE SOVEREIGNTY
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 654
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
  • Jungo Software — Experience the future of driving with in-cabin sensing technology. Learn how this accident prevention system saves lives
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$12M; Series A $5.5M–$32M; Series B $5.4M–$470M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $276M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • kausable — kausable focuses on putting science at the core of AI by developing causal "world models". Unlike conventional models relying on pattern memorization from massive datasets, kausable trains foundation models on abstract cause-and-effect structures. This allows the AI to reason through unfamiliar, dynamic systems across multiple domains(such as robotics, healthcare, and finance) without requiring expensive retraining cycles.
  • Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
  • Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $8.4M–$95M; Series B $22M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $95M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
  • Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
  • NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
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Expedite Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

We are a Business Angel group of CTOs and CPOs. We support tech founders hands-on with our know-how and capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Graphic Design
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $660k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Agree.com — The fastest path from contract-to-cash that connects contracts, invoices, payments, and billing; all-in-one.
  • YGO.AI — YGO enables travel companies to grow faster and run leaner by turning existing platforms into fully AI-powered booking ecosystems.
  • ZukunftMoor — ZukunftMoor is a service company that establishes profitable paludiculture to accelerate the rewetting of drained bogs. They promote the re-wetting of drained peatlands at scale by demonstrating the economic viability of agriculture on wet peatlands ("Paludiculture").
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42CAP
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, France, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.3M; Series A $2.5M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • ALP Bio — Alp Bio’s platform integrates tonsil organoid technology with advanced protein AI to identify and mitigate immunogenic risks in therapeutic antibodies, ensuring safer patient outcomes.
  • Flowlity — Flowlity revolutionizes planners' experience by streamlining tasks within planning tools and automating 95% of planning activities.
  • ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Grazia Equity
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, theypredominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 85
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $1.1M–$53M; Series B $4M–$59M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
  • XO Life — XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications.
  • Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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LEA Partners
VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$6.4M; Series A $6.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $233M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
  • Fiber Elements — Fiber Elements offers technology for the fully automated production of basalt fiber reinforcement structures.
  • Black Forest Labs — Official Account: https://t.co/iF047jr0Yg @bfl_ai
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Interface Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

We build and invest in iconic technology companies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $341k–$6.4M; Series A $9.2M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pandektes — Legal Research, redefined.
  • Hades Mining — Hades is a modern deep tech mining company shaping a sustainable, responsible, and independent future.
  • Superscale AI — Meet your specialized AI agent for scaling social marketing.
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BitStone Capital
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

BitStone Capital is an internationally operating company builder and investor who selectively invests in innovative digital Real Estate and Construction business models, and also accelerates their growth with own resources. BitStone supports young companies with its outstanding network, excellent industry know-how and broad expertise in newtechnologies - from product development through market entry to successful rollout.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Real Estate, Construction
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$9.6M; Series A $1.2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiml — Optiml develops software that supports real estate decarbonization and energy transition planning. The company provides a digital platform that models building portfolios, evaluates renovation pathways, and assesses financial and carbon impacts of retrofit strategies. Its tools integrate technical, economic, and regulatory data to help assetmanagers prioritize investments and align with climate targets. Optiml also enables scenario analysis, tracking of emissions performance, and reporting capabilities that support sustainability decision-making. The company serves property owners, investors, and financial institutions seeking structured analysis for decarbonization planning and capital allocation.
  • aedifion — Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
  • node.energy — Mit der Software opti.node wird die dezentrale und klimafreundliche Energieversorgung Ihrer Industrie- und Gewerbestandorte radikal vereinfacht. | node.energy
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Dumont Venture
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

DuMont Venture Holding GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of M. DuMont Schauberg - a leading media corporation based in Germany. DuMont Venture is actively seeking high-growth potential companies in the Digital Media and IT segments, and financially and strategically supports the development, market launch, andinternationalization of its partners.DuMont Venture invested in successful companies like plista, rebuy, Picanova, lieferando, Learnship, navabi, ZooRoyal, movingimage, northworks, farbflut or Fairrank.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series C $11M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • navabi — navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labelsvia worldwide express delivery.The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
  • ZooRoyal — ZooRoyal is an online platform that offers accessories and supplies for pet dogs, cats, reptiles, horses, fish, and more. Its operations are based in Würselen, Germany.
  • rankingCoach — rankingCoach offers a complete digital marketing app for small businesses and a variety of resellable digital marketing solutions including SEO, local marketing, brand watch, Google Ads, and social media marketing. rankingCoach app creates a tailored digital marketing strategy based on the individual requirements of each business. This marketingplan is supported by easy to follow step-by-step video tutorials and specialized tools for each key digital marketing approach, including AI-generated Google Ads; keyword finding and tracking tools for SEO, as well as newsfeeds for review and brand monitoring.These award-winning products from rankingCoach are available in 32 countries and 14 languages, directly as well as from numerous well-known hosting companies, TELCOs, online publishers, website builders, CMSs, and businesses in the MarTech sector.
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GENIUS Venture Capital
VC Fund · Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

GENIUS Venture Capital is established on the initiative of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is a subsidiary of Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum e.V. Schwerin/Wismar. They fund innovation-driven technology companies in their startup or early growth stage. To date, GENIUS together with several private investors spent a totalof around 70 million euros on financing 25 companies.They are currently managing two venture capital funds on behalf of the Ministry of Economics, Employment and Health of the State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $508k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SonoBeacon — SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform.
  • Evertracker — Evertracker provides the first Neutral and Smart Control Tower for Global Supply Chains that enables manufacturers and producers to get end-to-end visibility and predictability of their global supply chains. The platform provides the transparency on an item level, which enables our users to not only know where their shipments are but what partswill be delayed or have issues. Thus they can plan their production more reliably.
  • Innocent Meat — Innocent Meat turns food producer in cell-based meat producers by developing an automated end-to-end clean meat production system.
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Dimiter Tschawow
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Dimiter Tschawow

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $4.2M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UpScalio — We will partner with you to invest, grow and scale your e-commerce business to new heights. For and by Indian entrepreneurs and innovators.
  • eaze — We're helping people sleep better by offering a long-term, cheaper and healthier (digital) alternative to sleep supplements like Melatonin and sleeping pills. Our approach is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and in our app, users are in close contact with their own, personal sleep coach, who will help them establish routines andbuild long-term, healthy sleep habits.
  • Una Brands — Ready to sell your e-commerce business? We'll make the process fair, fast, and fuss-free. Continue to profit as we grow your brand.
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Franz Koch
Angel · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Franz Koch

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lesara — Curated marketplace for ultra premium domain names. 70+ rare .COM, .AI, and brandable domains. Escrow-protected. Crypto accepted.
  • Horizn Studios — Discover premium travel luggage & accessories engineered in Germany - designed for the modern explorer who values quality and innovation.
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Christoph Schug
Angel · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Christoph Schug

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Medical, Hospital
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$286k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bomedus — Bomedus is a medical device company that aims to make people with pain more mobile again. The Germany-based company was founded in 2011.
  • MöbelFirst — MöbelFirst was founded 3 years ago and is something special: Each piece of furniture comes from a specialist retailer and more than 100 stores are taking part in Germany! TimelyFirst plans to reach the € 10 million mark. The partners of MöbelFirst include the brands Musterring, Stressless and Rolf Benz.
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Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Wecken & Cie. is an early-stage venture capital investor, focused on European fast-growing, disruptive technology companies, with expertise in FinTech and PropTech. Wecken & Cie. invests across other sectors and stages opportunistically.Having invested in more than 40 companies since 2007 and thereof successfully exited e.g. Delivery Heroand EcoIntense, Wecken & Cie. typically participates together with other institutional investors in Series A investment rounds with €500k to €3m initially, with the ability to provide additionally capital over the life of the investment. Wecken & Cie. is backed by Klaus Wecken, co-founder of multiple startups in the technology and real-estate sector, most prominently KHK Software which he sold to SAGE Group in 1997.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$4.4M; Series A $3.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ordio — Ordio vereinfacht Schichtplanung, Zeiterfassung, Urlaubsplanung und Aufgabenverwaltung in einer Plattform die Teams entlastet und Prozesse beschleunigt.
  • happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
  • allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.
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Movens Capital
VC Fund · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Poland, Czech Republic, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $344k–$2.2M; Series A $354k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $70M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
  • Volteum — Electric vehicle (EV) fleets made easy. Volteum helps companies transition to EVs, optimize charging, and manage electric car fleet operations efficiently.
  • Grid.online — Grid.online is building transportation infrastructure as a service that will unlock the huge free transportation capacity of cities and allow it to be shared efficiently.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 284
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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ECONA AG
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

ECONA partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build fast growing companies. We aim to be a reliable long-term partner at eye level, providing capital and a network of entrepreneurial experience. Since we founded ECONA in 1999, this approach has achieved very good results for the companies in our portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Malaysia, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$1.3M; Series A $2M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iPrice Group — Shop now with the largest selection of top brands and products in the region - all in a single website! Discover new products, compare smartphone prices and products. Get the latest coupon and voucher codes for Lazada, Zalora, Qoo10, Grab Car, and more!
  • Remind.me — Remind.me is the new reminder service for periods of notice! With remind.me you will never miss an opportunity to optimize your contracts. You will be reminded of us in time and optionally get even the best deals that are on the market, offered as alternatives. In addition, you can order us to provide you with the cheapest electricity and / orgas tariff from now on. remind.me went live in October 2017 and is run by the remind me GmbH in Berlin. Founder & CEO are Daniel Engelbarts & Christian Lang. You already founded Sparwelt.de in 2008 and expanded it into Germany's largest bargain and voucher portal. The media group RTL Germany bought the company in September 2014.With the new portal remind.me they now want to give you the opportunity to increase the savings potential of at least € 1,700 per year and from now on only to have favorable and good contracts. For you as a consumer / user, the portal is completely free. They finance through agency commissions, which they receive from dealers / partners, when you make a corresponding conclusion. As already at Sparwelt.de they always act true to the motto: Always the cheapest / best offer for the user. The commission level has no influence on the selection.
  • XbyX – Women in Balance — XbyX® is a digital platform changing the world of midlife female health with solutions that help women to go through menopause with more serenity and less symptoms. Specifically developed for women over 40, XbyX® offers plant-based products combining natural ingredients like adaptogens, amino acids and more, that have been proven to reduce typicalsymptoms of perimenopause, menopause and hormone imbalance. The mission of XbyX® is to educate and thus, liberate midlife women from the still existing stigma of menopause and promote healthy aging. The XbyX® products are supported by features like an online self-assessment, a 7-week audio course & comprehensive educational content enabling women to understand their bodies and the role of nutrition in menopause as well a private community. The Berlin based company, founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Peggy Reichelt and digital marketing expert Monique Leonhardt, targets the German speaking market.
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CapitalT
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $585k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
  • Overstory — Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
  • New Dawn Bio — New Dawn Bio is a biotechnology research firm that specializes in wood production.
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, India, Russian Federation

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$52M; Pre-Seed $125k–$200k; Series A $7.4M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
  • Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
  • MoonAI Inc — MoonAI enables businesses to deploy no-code AI agents—referred to as “AI salespersons”—within one day, with no installation cost. These agents automate lead qualification, escalate warm leads to managers, schedule meetings, and integrate with CRMs, messaging platforms.The solution operates 24/7, supports multiple languages (includingRussian, English, and informal Kazakh), and processes customer interactions in just seconds. It has helped companies double the volume of processed inquiries, reduce response times from minutes to seconds, and even autonomously close a portion of leads—all while reducing sales team workload and improving customer satisfaction.
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 290
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Series A $7.3M–$44M; Series B $14M–$117M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $500M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Moss — Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimize their finances. Thanks to a dynamic and up to 10x higher limit, our corporate credit card can handle even the highest spend. With virtual and physical credit cards, the entire team can spend easily and securely. Individual spending limits and real-timedata per card, merchant or team keep costs under control. The Moss app makes it easy to digitize receipts, including cost center and VAT assignment. At the end of the month, all data and documents can be exported to any accounting software.
  • Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
  • Black Forest Labs — Official Account: https://t.co/iF047jr0Yg @bfl_ai
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Senovo
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Senovo is an early-stage VC funding global B2B SaaS category-leaders from Europe in Seed or Series A fundraising rounds. The fund invests into enterprise software startups in the areas of process optimization, industry 4.0 and data-enabled solution. The investor supports tech entrepreneurs in scaling marketing, sales, organisation, finance and KPIs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.4M; Series A $2.8M–$13M; Series B $5M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Lative — Lative is an advanced sales planning and decision intelligence platform that helps you meet company objectives in the most profitable and efficient way.
  • Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
  • FlowFuse — Build industrial applications in minutes with AI, then deploy and govern production from cloud to edge.
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MPGI
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

MPGI is a private holding that invests in disruptive technology companies globally. Its portfolio companies have collectively raised over US$ 2.5 billion in capital, employ over 8,000 people and have operations in 30 countries across six continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $8M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bamba — Bamba is an android application allowing micro-merchants across Africa to run their entire business utilizing their phones. It focuses on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, get paid, payout as well as takeout cash advances against their future cash flow.
  • Lilo — Lilo is the first invest-and-experience platform offering the most sought-after properties around the world.
  • Bamba — Today, organizations spend a lot of money on physical data gathering exercises using old-fashioned paper-based methods. These methods result in expensive, severely delayed and incomplete data . With Bamba, a client can launch a data collection exercise anywhere in the world simply from the comfort of their web browser and the client can ensureindividuals respond with complete answers by paying those individuals for that data with mobile airtime in 122 different countries thus far.
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Wille Finance
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

An international, Swiss-based family office, focusing on private equity (venture & buy-out), real estate and listed assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $396k–$5.2M; Series A $5.9M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
  • Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
  • Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a global, clinical-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking treatments to rejuvenate vision in the aging eye.
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COI Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

COI Partners is a private equity investor focused on mid-sized growth companies in German-speaking countries – with offices in Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. It has conducted direct investments for the last 21 years, supporting mid-sized companies in growth phases.COI Partners seeks to invest in companies ranking #1-3 in each market withdouble-digit underlying company's growth, proven business models with at least EUR 10m in revenues and positive unit economics and energetic, visonary teams with proven managerial skills. Focused industries include Health-/Medtech/ Diagnostics, E-Commerce/ Retail Tech, SaaS/ Digital Services/ IT-Security, Advanced Materials/ Specialty Chemistry and Automation/ Robotics. The firms sweet spot are equity tickets between EUR 15-25 (including follow-on investments). COI Partners benefits from its highly professional investment team as well as its stable network of entrepreneurs that provide investment capital as shareholders of the group and co-investors for direct investments. COI Partners builds on a wealth of experience from more than 50 equity investments and has 11 active investments under management currently in various sectors. Among the successful investments are Mister Spex (partial exit through IPO), Fixatti (sold to listed chemical company Arkema), Euroimmun (sold to the US laboratory specialists PerkinElmer) and Casualfood (exit to Orior AG).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $12M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Grover — Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015.
  • Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a 360° marketing and communications agency focused on gaming and esports, offering services such as brand and marketing consulting, social media and community management, editorial services, event management, logistics, creative services, media productions, and other community solutions.
  • Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment ➤⭐ over 150 premium brands for your sport ➤10% KELLER Premium-discount*✨ ➤Free shipping from 150 €✅
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 424
  • Round size: Seed $786k–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
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EXIST
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

EXIST is a support programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). This programme aims at improving the entrepreneurial environment at universities and research institutes. It also aims at increasing the number and success of technology and knowledge based business start-ups. The BMWi supports university graduates,scientists as well as students to this end in preparing their technology and knowledge based start-ups. EXIST also promotes a lively and lasting entrepreneurial culture at public and private universities.The EXIST programme comprises three schemes: EXIST Culture of Entrepreneurship supports universities in formulating and implementing a comprehensive and sustained university-wide strategy for increasing entrepreneurial culture and spirit.EXIST Business Start-up Grant supports students, graduates and scientists in preparing innovative technology and knowledge based start-up projects.EXIST Transfer of Research funds both the resource development necessary to prove the technical feasibility of start-up ideas based on research and the preparation necessary to launch a business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • DocVox — meeting recording, meeting video recording, meeting notes, meeting protocol, conference video recording, meeting transcript, video transcript, task management for meetings, time management for meetings, live video recording, conference recording, meeting audio translator
  • eversyn — eversyn has produced nucleotide sugars using a novel synthesis method that makes them more affordable and large-scale available than ever before. Building on that, we are engineering biocatalysts to produce human milk oligosaccharides and tailor the glycosylation of therapeutic proteins.
  • inContAlert — inContAlert is a deep tech start-up disrupting the field of incontinence. The technology of inContAlert helps people with bladder dysfunction to monitor the filling level of their urinary bladder.inContAlert, therefore, developed an mHealth device, which collects and analyzes data with the help of deep learning algorithms. The information is thendisplayed on an app and sends an alert to incontinence patients when a predefined filling level is reached. inContAlert thereby minimizes the risk of an uncontrolled loss of urine or the harmful distension of the bladder. With the help of inContAlert, incontinence patients can go back to normal and live a carefree life.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 713
  • Round size: Seed $850k–$6.9M; Series A $3.1M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Coredinate — COREDINATE is a fully integrated, professional and innovative solution for security companies, maintenance companies and care providers that helps optimize your processes, help you maintain your quality, and help you satisfy your customers. Whether it's control system, tour planning, task management or event capture: COREDINATE security ,maintenance or maintenance automates all your daily tasks and optimizes monitoring
  • BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
  • OMEICOS Therapeutics — OMEICOS Therapeutics is developing a novel, first-in-class, small molecule utilizing a new Mode of Action. OMEICOS' novel therapeutic strategy is based upon the discovery of natural metabolites of omega-3 fatty acids that mediate a strong anti-arrhythmic effect. In contrast to all other anti-arrhythmic drugs, OMEICOS' substances activatean endogenous cardio-protective signaling pathway that not only stabilizes the heart rhythm but shall provide curative effects to the diseased organ by preventing its electrical and structural remodeling.
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Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia.For more information, visit:www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Automotive, Hotel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1M; Series A $240k–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Futwork — With Futwork, learn for free and get a telecaller job. Find Work from Home jobs in India. Flexi hours & work suitable for freshers and women. Earn from home now!
  • Spinny — Spinny is a tech-powered new-age used car buying platform enabling trustworthy and hassle-free transactions in used cars. It also brings absolute trust and simplicity to the Indian used car market. They follow a full-stack business model to offer value, transparency, and simplicity to their customers. Spinny's goal is to help our customersbuy a car that matches their aspirations. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
  • Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups, 23 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Finland, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 177
  • Round size: Seed $460k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.7M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $29M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Nomerra — Private market operations, made AI-native
  • LimX Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
  • Zhuji Dynamics — Zhuji Dynamics is a general-purpose footed robot company that focuses on the R&D and manufacturing of sports intelligence and footed robots
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PUSH VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

We are an early-stage Venture Capital Firm investing in outstanding teams with convincing products and high growth potential.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Austria, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 45
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Gustav — Modern staffing teams use Gustav's VMS to source talent from trusted sub-vendors. Fast, secure, and compliant!
  • Voltrac — Building electric autonomous vehicles for farming & frontline logistics
  • enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups, 7 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.9M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $210M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
  • Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
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Berlin Technologie Holding
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Berlin Technologie Holding (BTH) focuses on investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses and is based in Berlin, Germany. The company was founded by German entrepreneurs and investors who invest in companies with significant growth potential.BTH predominately invest in companies with significant growth and value creationpotential but also seek majority interests in companies in succession, corporate spin-off situations, management buy-outs and pursue roll-up/buy and build strategies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Big Data, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.9M; Series A $11M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Signatrix — AI-based Visual Intelligence Platform for brick-and-mortar retail stores. Truly understand your store with instant notifications, forensic analysis, and actionable analytics - automatically and in real-time.
  • CyberDirekt — CyberDirekt enables SMEs to easily and fully protect against digital risks. They have made it their mission to help protect you from digital attacks and to protect you in the event of a claim.
  • Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Series A $2.4M–$36M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • amber — info@amberoad.aiambeRoad is developing an intelligent enterprise search engine to help employees to find all relevant documents easily and quickly by integrating all company internal data sources into one search engine. Our solution allows access to all company-wide files from anywhere. Even if you don't exactly know what you are lookingfor, our cutting-edge AI will know because of a range of features implemented in our software.No need to tag documents manually, all in milliseconds - only one search request away.
  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
  • ag-tech.systems — ag-tech.systems GmbH designs and manufactures tractor-mounted agricultural machinery that utilizes high-voltage electricity and a specialized conductive fluid to eliminate weeds and dry crops without synthetic chemicals. Their core value proposition centers on delivering a scalable, weather-independent alternative to chemical herbicides, enablingresidue-free harvesting and helping growers align with modern pesticide reduction regulations. The company monetizes its technology via outright machine sales, direct equipment rentals, and commercial leasing structures aimed at both private farmers and third-party service operators.
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Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital is a Luxembourg-based private equity firm founded in 2019.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Luxembourg, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$40M; Series A $2.1M–$26M; Series B $9.1M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • 9fin — The leading AI-powered debt market intelligence platform. Real-time news, data, and analytics across LevFin, private credit, and distressed debt.
  • Galytix — Galytix's is a domain-specialised AI platform for FIs delivering precise, traceable outcomes for credit risk and claims processes. Built for banks and insurers.
  • PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1505
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
  • OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
  • StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
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Marcus Borner
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • unea — Everything you need to level up your retail media and trade marketing business - from consulting, workshops to leading software -
  • Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Reverse.supply — reverse.supply helps brands & retailers become more sustainable by enabling them to own the resale of their products
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MSM
VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

MSM is a 45M€ early-stage impact VC fund. We invest in brave founders solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $244k–$3M; Series A $4.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
  • Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
  • Win-Win — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today: - Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition - Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity - Sports & Wellbeing - Blue Economy

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
  • Kainova Therapeutics — Domain Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on GPCR in immuno-oncology. Discover more than you think on our innovative cancer treatments tackling GPCR mediated-immunosuppression
  • Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.
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Ippen Media
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Ippen Media is a multi-layered media company with a clear vision: growth for journalism with a promising future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Consumer, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $7.8M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • air up — air up is a provider of a drinking bottle system that provides scent-flavored water. The innovation uses retronasal olfaction—where the brain perceives scent through the mouth as taste—to allow the user to enjoy flavored water without added sugars or artificial ingredients.
  • Lykon — Empower people to live a healthy life. This is not only the vision of our founder Tobias Teuber, but of the entire team. We are a digital health company that was founded in 2018 and will change the healthcare system for the longterm. Our vision is to empower people to take their health into their own hands. We currently offer a wide range of DNAand blood tests. A few drops of blood or saliva are enough for us to provide customers with tailored nutrition and action recommendations to help them achieve their health goals. With our product, we are active in innovative and exciting fields, such as personalized nutrition and personalized medicineHow does it work?You order these tests online, perform them easily at home and send them back to us by post. After our certified partner laboratories have successfully analyzed the blood and DNA samples, you will receive the test results in your private Lykon profile presented in a clear and easy-to-understand way, and at the same time, you will receive recommendations on how to improve your blood values if necessary.Lykon does not replace medical advice, however, we enable you to control your health - without long waiting hours at the doctor's office.
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Retail Investor funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 322 deals from 431 investors.

431
investors
in Germany Retail startups
322
deals
in Germany Retail startups
$5.3M
median round
in Germany Retail startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage
78/22
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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