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Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Retail startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Retail companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Retail Germany investments
HV Capital	8
Global Founders Capital	8
Saarbruecker 21	7
SquareOne	6
redalpine	5
Heliad Equity Partners	4
468 Capital	4
Partech	4
Presight Capital	4
Project A Ventures	4
Venture Stars	3
42CAP	3
GENIUS Venture Capital	3
La Famiglia	3
Dumont Venture	3
Grazia Equity	3
PUSH VC	2
BitStone Capital	2
Ralf Dummel	2
Berlin Ventures	2
Tiburon	2
Wille Finance	2
MSM	2
DN Capital	2
Berlin Technologie Holding	2
Index Ventures	2
Marcus Borner	2
CapitalT	2
Mangrove Capital Partners	2
Capnamic Ventures	2
Movens Capital	2
Cherry Ventures	2
Senovo	2
Scale Capital	2
FJ Labs	2
NRW.BANK	2
Simile Venture Partners	2
Oskar Hartmann	2
Point Nine	2
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital	2
Bayern Kapital	2
EXIST	2
Redstone.VC	2
Metro	2
MA Ventures	2
Rocket Internet	2
ECONA AG	2
SevenVentures	2
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	2
Wecken & Cie.	2

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We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

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.
Seqstant — Seqstant offers the LiveGene platform for real-time pathogen analysis, allowing for sensitive, specific, and user-friendly real-time genetic diagnostics.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Heliad's mission is to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. We find, fund, and support market-leading companies across various verticals and regions to power their next phase of growth. As a listed company and through our strong team and strategic partners, we support companies pre, at, and post IPO and act as a gateway to public equitycapital markets. Our evergreen structure allows us to act independently of usual fund lifecycles. It provides our shareholders with unique access to pre-IPO market returns without any restrictions or limitations regarding investment size and term commitment.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, India, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Burnhard — Burnhard is a fast-growing direct-to-consumer brand that is reinventing BBQ because of its massive fan following - created by grillers, for grillers.
WorkMotion — WorkMotion offers Global HR Solutions to help companies navigate the New Ways of Working. Solutions fully compliant.
lemon.markets — lemon.markets provide a REST API to support creating and executing orders at the stock market and retrieving market data.

468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DinMo — Discover the all-in-one data platform which makes it easy to collect, enrich, segment, and activate your customer data in all your business platform. Get started now for free; no credit card required.
OneLot — Grow your dealership with car loans and digital tools in the Philippines
Morningcrunch — Morning Crunch provides daily email briefings on business-related economic and financial topics. The company provides succinct, bullet-point reports that condense the most significant market and investment information for young professionals to read in under five minutes.

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.

Presight is a global venture capital firm investing at the intersection of Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we manage over $600M in assets across two early-stage funds. We were founded in 2019 in partnership with Apeiron Investment Group, the multi-billion dollar private investment firm of Christian Angermayer, a serial entrepreneur in technology, fintech, blockchain/crypto, and life sciences.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
Transmutex SA — Producing clean energy from nuclear waste is the challenge Transmutex is taking on. Based on experimentaly validated science from CERN in Geneva.
Parker — Banking, Credit, & Financial Analytics for the Best Ecommerce Brands.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M 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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

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

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Pet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
simplyblock — High-performance storage software designed for databases with low latency, high scalability and high IOPS. NVMe-optimized. Alternative SAN or EBS. Scalable Block Storage software. Simplyblock | Simply Block | Simplyblock Block Storage
Go Autonomous — Unlock advantages of Autonomous Commerce and experience heightened efficiency, reduced costs, and seamlessly interaction for both buyers and sellers.

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Logistics
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, Spain

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.

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

Investment focus

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Germany, The Netherlands

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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ZAGENO — ZAGENO is a multi-vendor, online marketplace of life science products which, by simplifying the procurement process, saves more time for science.
XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
Formo — We're Formo, the future of dairy. Using micro fermentation, we create animal-free cheeses that humans love.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Optiml — OPTIML is an end to end software platform harnessing the power of optimization to generate intelligent low cost and low carbon investment strategies for existing buildings. Real estate owners and consultants benefit from the novel data driven approaches scaled from the asset to portfolio level with increased productivity and accuracy for multi yearplanning. OPTIML is a GmbH, LLC headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPTIML leverages over four years of cutting edge engineering, sustainability, and policy research at ETH Zurich with multiple PhDs on the technology.With OPTIML asset, long term strategies to 2050 can be developed for any unique building asset considering all aspects of renovations for asset and construction management. Minimal data input is required but the models can be leveraged with maximum customizability. Scaled to any number of buildings, OPTIML portfolio develops portfolio budgetary and CO2 pathways considering asset level granularity with minimal planning cost.
Lichtwart — Lichtwart is a startup that creates a cloud control platform for efficiently controlling and maintaining lighting systems.
Plancraft — MISSION We empower our customers to focus on what they love: crafts & construction VISION In times of automation, individual and high-quality work of craftsmen will be as demanded as ever. Plancraft paves the way for profitable projects by bringing powerful calculation to an easy-to-use and accessible level.

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
Eprazel — Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning. Their team consists of seasoned professionals all working together to build best-in-class products that serve the $13 trillion US commercial real estate market.
FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions

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

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series C
Germany, Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.
Sirfull Technology — Solutions SIRFULL pour le soudage, l'inspection et la maintenance | Welding cloud logiciel soudage | Linspec Cloud logiciel inspection
SamanTree Medical — SamanTree Medical has developed the Histolog Scanner, a confocal microscopy device intended for imaging the surface of excised human tissue specimens to visualize morphological microstructures. Easy-to-read images are available immediately, providing decision-making support at the point of care.

MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

GoParity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com
UpLink — UpLink is a Telecommunications company that empowers the spread of The Collective Network farther, faster, and cheaper.UpLink believes that connectivity is a human right, an enabler of growth, and an equalizer of opportunities. They envision a world where the Internet is more accessible, inclusive, and affordable. Founded by Carlos Lei Santosand Andre Francisco in 2016 and is located in New York, NY.
WNWN Food Labs — 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

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).

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it

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.

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ENWAY — ENWAY's software is designed for use in electric sweepers. The autonomous sweeper can be used outdoors and indoors and is used in industrial and municipal environments.
Zenhomes — Zenhomes is a Internet company.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Tebi — Tebi is a software company that develops integrated management software apps and tools for hospitality and retail businesses.
Thread AI — Thread AI makes infrastructure simple for enterprises and can drive adoption and innovation in AI.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States

Portfolio highlights

RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free.
trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
Dexory — Discover the only warehouse intelligence platform that helps logistics providers to maximise visibility of daily inventory operations using autonomous robots.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Poland, Czech Republic, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PARTORY — PARTORY offers complete manufacturing solutions in engineering. PARTORY utilising AI and machine learning to streamline the procurement process for low-cost metal parts
ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
SKY ENGINE AI — About Sky EngineSky Engine is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops innovative software solutions to improve computer vision. The company markets the Sky Engine deep learning platform, which is the next-generation of self-learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. The company was founded as aresearch and scientific spin-off in UK.About Sky Engine PlatformThe Sky Engine evolutionary AI platform for the deep learning in virtual reality is designed to overcome the complex object recognition challenges of modern machine/computer vision. It represents the future of self-learning in artificial intelligence technology, supporting efficient and cost effective workflows. Many image recognition tasks require acquisition of large amounts of data and manual data labelling. Sky Engine is designed to replace that. Sky Engine efficiently drives self-learning processes and offers advanced features for object discrimination, workflow automation and adaptive deep learning. Sky Engine is designed for tomorrow’s requirements in advanced analytics and decision support enabling AI business transformation.About Sky Engine client solutionsSky Engine creates flexible and innovative AI vision solutions tailored to customer needs and supports a wide range of industries, providing systems for a variety of data science needs, ensuring business partners get greater value from existing equipment.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
Qura — Qura builds AI to make legal text searchable using natural language.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Monda — Monda is the easy-to-use, all-in-one data monetization platform. Build a safe, fast-growing, and sustainable data business with Monda. Trusted by data-as-a-service (DaaS) companies across the globe.
CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
Dive — Discover SPH fluid simulation software accessible on the cloud and on a browser from anywhere. No hardware, no maintenance - just engineering.

Scale Capital is an early-stage technology investor, helping Nordic, B2B, and tech founder teams scale and win in the US market.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Collo — Collo provides industrial areas with resolution liquid-particle mixture sensors that monitor and measure the digital fingerprint of liquids.
Players 1st — Join 3000 golf clubs using Players 1st to boost your business with pre-made surveys, smart analytics, and benchmarks, capturing real-time golfer feedback!
Quantica — A Berlin-based 3D printing start-up pushing the boundaries of multi-material and high-performance material jetting.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LoopUp — LoopUp exists to provide multinational businesses with one global telephony provider, simplifying and centralizing telephony management and support, and delivering economies of scale. LoopUp is the world leader in global coverage for Microsoft's certified Operator Connect program.
StruxHub — Construction Management Software. Best project management software for construction, Jobsite Management. Scheduling Software for Construction Field Teams.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
Prothea Technologies — Prothea Technologies is a private medical technology business to provide lung cancer biopsy and therapy in a single hospital visit.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

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/)

Investment focus

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

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!
slice — slice is a one-stop payment app for all spending needs. Their goal is to make money management simpler & faster for their users. It is backed by leading investors such as Tiger Global, Insight partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

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.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Luxembourg, France

Portfolio highlights

9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
Heimkapital — Heimkapital is a real estate platform that allows homeowners to tap into their home equity to address their important financing needs.
anybill — We provide technology and infrastructure to create smart added value for the connected POS of the future. anybill develops technology and software solutions based on the digital receipt to establish a contemporary and environmentally friendly alternative for receipt issuance. The aim is to use the receipt as the first digital touchpoint to thecustomer in stationary retail and to offer further smart and interactive added values. The anybill services can be integrated as white label modules into merchant apps, banking apps or used as a stand-alone solution.

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.
OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
SPiNE — SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Germany, France, United Kingdom

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
Carbonx — ClimeFi is your trusted carbon credits procurement and management partner for high-quality permanent carbon dioxide removals to reach your net zero targets.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

METRO GROUP is a Germany-based holding company and international retailing company. It operates numerous outlets in various countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. The Company operates a portfolio of sales brands, which offers a range of services for private and commercial customers. The portfolio comprises Metro Cash & Carry brand, which isactive in the self-service wholesale industry, Real hypermarkets brand, which operates the Real stores across Europe offering both food and non-food products; Media Markt brand, which is active on the European market in the consumer electronics retailing industry; Saturn brand, which operates consumer electronics stores and Galeria Kaufhof brand, under which the Company operates department stores in Germany and Belgium. The Company is also engaged in the real estate operations (Metro Properties), logistics (Metro Logistics), Information Technology (Metro Systems) and advertising services.

Investment focus

Hospitality, Restaurants, Retail
Series A, Seed, Series C
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sensei — We are the leading European provider of autonomous stores, with an AI-powered solution to build efficient operations and deliver a seamless shopping experience.
orderbird — The iPad POS system orderbird POS is a complete POS solution that is ideal for bars, restaurants and clubs. The cash register system can be individualized according to your needs. It will send the waiter's orders directly & wireless to the kitchen and bar. The iPad POS system will provide detailed reports per day, month, waiter and shift.The system operates via WiFi with pre-configured printers that are available in the orderbird store. orderbird POS is the perfect combination of low costs and high performance.orderbird was founded in 2011 by Jakob Schreyer, Bastian Schmidtke, Patrick Brienen and Artur Hasselbach with the goal of establishing a more affordable and intuitive POS system that fits the real needs of the modern catering industry. The fast-growing company is currently home to more than 100 employees at its Berlin location. Over 5,000 customers — restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, ice cream shops and beer gardens — in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland are already using the orderbird POS system.
Retail Media Group — Retail Media Group GmbH (RMG) is a cross-industry marketing platform for retail data. RMG monetizes retail and customer insights from leading retailers such as Media Markt, Saturn, real, Thalia and Metro. Based on these data, RMG enables advertisers to address their respective target audiences individually and without scatter losses. With a digitalreach from more than 60 million IDs, it is a leading partner in the European trade sector. RMG is the Center of Competence when it comes to the effective handling of customer insights in retail marketing compliant with data protection regulations. Furthermore, the company strives to advance the digital transformation of the trade industry.

Investments in the MA Universe.

Investment focus

Retail, Internet, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

_blaenk — _blaenk is the leading Omnichannel RetailTech startup in Europe (EU Retail Innovation Award 2020). With _blaenk os (omnichannel system) the company connects brick-and-mortar and digital commerce in a revolutionary way for brands and consumers. With the data-driven and flexible approach brands can simply execute retail campaigns in digital andstationary storefronts on demand, generating awareness, consumer data and sales. _blaenk has been featured in Press such as Forbes, Handelsblatt and many more.
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 2015 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 ofDNA and 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.
meinAdmin — AI driven managed service provider.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

ECONA is an independent investment boutique based in Berlin, Germany. As pioneers of the German Internet business, ECONA has been successfully founding and funding high-growth companies since 1999. ECONA has been invested in several successful internet growth companies, such as MyToys, Aperto, XING, and Facebook as well as GIGA.de andSparwelt.de.Currently, ECONA is invested in foodspring (Onlineshop for high-quality sports nutrition and fitness food), Ampere (Germany's first independent energy broker), smava (Germany's first marketplace for private loans), finanzcheck (one of Germany's largest comparison sites for personal financial products), and several other companies like Sarah Wiener, amapur, Getsafe, Wunderflats, Comatch, Data Artisans, MediDate, Armedangels, iMoney and Dahmakan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Apps
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
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.

SevenVentures is the TV media investor worldwide. As the investment arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, they are the ideal partner for B2C growth companies, especially in the consumer goods, retail and service sectors that have the potential to achieve sustainable success through the use of TV advertising. Zalando is a great case to illustrate howcompanies can benefit from their media power and become market leaders within a short period of time. The combination of media power, capital and their operational know-how make SevenVentures the premier partner for international growth.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

mybacs — mybacs is a DTC, research-driven, Biotechnology company specialized in the human microbiome. Our goal is to revolutionize the market around intestinal healthcare and thus make a decisive contribution to the daily well-being of our customers. Our team of pharmaceutical scientists and physicians is focused on the development of innovative andhighly-dosed synbiotic supplements. These are aligned by our singular formulations from specifically selected probiotic cultures, prebiotics as well as minerals and vitamins tailored to the individual needs of our customers.
Matsmart — Matsmart sells surplus food online. A major part of the food would otherwise be thrown away due to packaging changes, short or expired expiry dates or other reasons. During 2017, Matsmart saved 2022 tonnes of food from going to waste. The company has seen explosive growth, reaching recurring revenues of SEK 200 million. Matsmart was founded by KarlAndersson, Erik Södergren and Ulf Skagerström, and launched in Sweden in 2014. Since then, the company has also expanded to Norway and Finland. Long live the food!
Formo — We're Formo, the future of dairy. Using micro fermentation, we create animal-free cheeses that humans love.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Evana — Evana is a specializing in data exchange company.
iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies

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