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Top 50 Retail VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in May 2025

A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in May 2025

Investor Retail Germany investments
Global Founders Capital 9
HV Capital 8
Saarbruecker 21 7
redalpine 6
SquareOne 6
Presight Capital 5
Heliad AG 4
468 Capital 4
Partech 4
Project A Ventures 4
42CAP 3
La Famiglia 3
GENIUS Venture Capital 3
Venture Stars 3
Grazia Equity 3
Dumont Venture 3
NRW.BANK 2
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital 2
MSM 2
SevenVentures 2
PUSH VC 2
DN Capital 2
Tiburon 2
Bayern Kapital 2
Movens Capital 2
MA Ventures 2
Berlin Technologie Holding 2
Capnamic 2
Point Nine 2
Redstone.VC 2
CapitalT 2
Rocket Internet 2
Simile Venture Partners 2
Mangrove Capital Partners 2
Senovo 2
Wecken & Cie. 2
High-Tech Gruenderfonds 2
Cherry Ventures 2
MPGI 2
Wille Finance 2
Metro 2
Index Ventures 2
EXIST 2
ECONA AG 2
Scale Capital 2
FJ Labs 2
BitStone Capital 2
Berlin Ventures 2
Claret Capital Partners 1
TechVision Fund 1
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Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Maki — Maki is your one-stop-shop to help you assess candidates skills, for any position, in any industry, anywhere in the world.
  • Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
  • Scribe Health AI — The #1 Free AI Medical Scribe & Progress Note Taker. Integrated to your EMR. HIPAA Compliant AI Scribe. Save 2 hours everyday. Reduce Burnout by 80%. No credit card signup.
HV Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 14 investments in the past 12 months
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
  • Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
  • NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
Saarbruecker 21 VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
  • 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.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
redalpine VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 10 investments 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
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
  • Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
  • OrthoPulse — OrthoPulse is a medical device manufacturer that produces dental care equipment, treatment control apps, and photo biomodulation solutions.
SquareOne VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
  • 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.
Presight Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Divibank — Divibank is a financing platform offering businesses access to growth capital.
  • Faro — Every garment deserves to be worn. Leveraging technology and a specialised supply chain, FARO enables brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring complete traceability throughout the process.
  • Needle — Needle enables fast, AI-powered information discovery across all your data sources. Moreover, its RAG API helps developers build agentic AI applications.
Heliad AG VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Financial Services
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, India, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • fija Finance GmbH — The new way to earn on your crypto
  • MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
  • lemon.markets — lemon.markets provide a REST API to support creating and executing orders at the stock market and retrieving market data.
468 Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 23 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Oro Labs — ORO Labs, a Tokenized Gold Protocol on Solana
  • HoneyHive — HoneyHive Cloud is an enterprise platform purpose-built for testing, debugging, and monitoring LLM apps.
  • PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
  • Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
Project A Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments 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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ENAPI — As an infrastructure layer company, ENAPI focuses on building the most secure, reliable, and scalable platform for stakeholder collaboration in the EV industry. ENAPI exists to commoditize connectivity and, thus, fuel the green mobility revolution.
  • METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
  • Vaeridion — Clean and affordable air mobility before 2030.
42CAP VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Grid Raven — Maximize the safety and capacity of your grid with accurate ratings based on our hyper-local weather model that accounts with every tree, building and hill.
  • Phase — Design and prototype websites and apps visually and intuitively, in a new powerful product reworked for the digital age.
  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
La Famiglia VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • 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.
GENIUS Venture Capital VC Fund · Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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
  • 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.
Venture Stars VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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!
Grazia Equity VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
  • Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
  • Affinity — Join over 60,000 who trust the Affinity mobile app to manage your personal banking needs and qualify for an Affinity Instant Loan
Dumont Venture VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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
  • 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.
NRW.BANK VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Pilzling — Bio-Pilze direkt aus deiner Stadt.
  • ScrapBees — ScrapBees is a pick-up service for the recycling of scrap metal from commercial businesses and private households.
  • Alteva — Alteva develops battery cells for the decarbonisation of the global transport sector, and focus on high-energy density battery cells with high safety profiles specifically designed for the aviation and heavy-duty transport sectors.
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital is a Luxembourg-based private equity firm founded in 2019.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • 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
  • Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
  • Galytix — Galytix - AI-driven data operating system powering enterprises.
MSM VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 2 investments in the past 12 months
MSM is an early-stage generalist impact fund that invests all across Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, B2B
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
  • 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.
SevenVentures VC Fund · Unterföhring, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
  • 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.
PUSH VC VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Podero — Podero's aim is to create software that controls energy devices, such as batteries, electric cars, and heat pumps, in order to lower CO2 emissions, create new revenue streams for utilities, and lower consumer electricity bills.Podero's objective is to make it possible to coordinate the largest fleet of devices in the world by utilizingtrade algorithms, software automation, and machine learning forecasts to move energy use to the most economical and sustainable times.
  • 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.
  • UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
DN Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Napo — Comprehensive pet insurance by Napo. Full dental cover included. Free unlimited video vet and behaviourist consultations. 5% multi-pet discount.
  • Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
  • Unique — Unlock the power of generative AI in Finance with Unique FinanceGPT. Get custom use cases and accurate insights in a secure, enterprise-ready platform.
Tiburon VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over two decades. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey.They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
  • FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
  • FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.
Bayern Kapital VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 26 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • AlfaDocs — Il primo software in cloud pensato per la gestione completa dello studio medico e dentistico e della relazione medico-paziente. Provalo subito gratis!
  • OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
  • Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
Movens Capital VC Fund · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Poland, Czech Republic, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • PARTORY — PARTORY simplifies sourcing custom metal parts with 8,000+ machines across Europe. Manage orders and inquiries easily in our app.
  • ForActive — ForActive The Best App to Buy & Sell Memberships
  • SKY ENGINE AI — SKY ENGINE AI revolutionizes computer vision with synthetic data and deep learning solutions. Unlock scalable, efficient, and cost-effective AI training.
MA Ventures VC Fund
Investments in the MA Universe.
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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.
Berlin Technologie Holding VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
  • 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.
Capnamic VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 8 investments 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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • experial — experial focuses on providing instant, scalable, and precise consumer insights. technology simulates consumer behavior, demographic patterns, and purchasing decisions without relying on personal data, enabling businesses to conduct real-time market tests and analyses
  • octonomy — octonomy: AI-as-a-Service mit der neuen Generation von KI-Agenten. 80 % Zeitersparnis, 24/7-Support in 30+ Sprachen, live in 20 Tagen.
  • ACCURE Battery Intelligence — Accure is a battery analytics company. The software and AI-driven solution assist manufacturers and operators in monitoring the overall health and safety conditions of a battery system throughout its lifecycle.
Point Nine VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 14 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
  • Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
  • Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
Redstone.VC VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 11 investments 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
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Finland, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Aslan — Aslan a platform or solution designed to enhance employee benefits by offering more customizable and flexible compensation options.
  • Ochy — Ochy is an app that uses AI to analyse running form and gait to identify weak points and provide recommendations on what to do to improve.
  • Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
CapitalT VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • The Netherlands, United Kingdom, 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
  • AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry
  • Chapter — Chapter provides purpose-built AI solutions that streamline workflows and increase efficiency for renewable energy enterprises.
Rocket Internet VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rocket Internet incubates, builds, develops operationally and strategically invests in internet and technology companies globally. It provides operational support to its companies and helps them scale internationally. Rocket Internet's selected companies are active in a large number of countries around the world.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Simile Venture Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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
  • 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.
Mangrove Capital Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.
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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 — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
  • K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Senovo VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Sweden
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.
  • synthavo — synthavo: Identifizieren Sie jedes Ersatzteil mit nur einem Smartphone-Foto in unter 2 Sekunden.
  • CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
Wecken & Cie. VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • KUGU — KUGU - The platform for digital building management. We digitalize processes for property managers, energy companies and housing companies.
  • 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
High-Tech Gruenderfonds VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 45 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
  • Eyeo — eyeo revolutionizes imaging with color splitter sensors. Capture sharper, brighter images in low light using optical waveguide innovation, discover how it works
  • AICA SA — AICA believes programming robots should be at everyone's reach. We combine Artificial Intelligence & an intuitive interface, to help you relocate your production.
Cherry Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 18 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
  • Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
  • Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
MPGI VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bamba — Bamba is a small software development house building Android applications
  • 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.
Wille Finance VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 8 investments in the past 12 months
An international, Swiss-based family office, focusing on private equity (venture & buy-out), real estate and listed assets.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • France, Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
  • 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.
  • Happydemics — Happydemics is the story of frustration become conviction. A frustration with the complexity of market research, neglected by decision-makers in favor of a simplistic and stereotypical vision of a target. But Happydemics is above all the conviction that they must reinvent the experience of studies for brands, but also for respondents, bydemocratizing access to the opinion of all people. Happydemics was born, and 5 years later, Their conviction is stronger every day!
Metro VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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.
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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.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 59 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
  • Hedra — Video creation for everyone.
  • Persona — Online ID verification service to help any business, from any industry, collect, verify, and manage user identities throughout a customer lifecycle.
EXIST VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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
  • 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.
ECONA AG VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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.
Scale Capital VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Scale Capital is an early-stage technology investor, helping Nordic, B2B, and tech founder teams scale and win in the US market.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
  • 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!
  • Telescope — A practical tool for managing sustainability risk in real estate
FJ Labs VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 84 investments in the past 12 months
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fleequid — Buy or sell buses and commercial vehicles through auctions: Join Fleequid and effortlessly participate in top-notch B2B auctions for industrial vehicles
  • Powerhouse91 — Powerhouse91 operates as an eCommerce roll-up platform. Powerhouse91's business model relies on identifying high-potential consumer brands, acquiring, and scaling them through growth capital, shared resources, and e-commerce focused optimizations.
  • Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.
BitStone Capital VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
  • Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Berlin Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.
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Investment focus
  • 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.
Claret Capital Partners VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Claret Capital provides specialty debt financing to European growth businesses, predominantly in the technology, life sciences and environmental sectors. Typical loan sizes range from €1M-€40M with the flexibility to do larger transactions opportunistically.They look for investment opportunities in high growth business with proven managementteams in need of capital to fuel organic growth, acquisitions, equipment purchases, bridge loans and various forms of recapitalization.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Abivax — Abivax recently presented impressive 9-month interim extension data from studies of ABX464 in ulcerative colitis during an oral presentation at DDW 2019, demonstrating a continued duration of beneficial effect in patients after 11-months of treatment. View the conference presentation, here:
  • Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
  • 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.
TechVision Fund VC Fund · Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
VF-Funds for innovative and scalable start-ups from the Rhineland Area, Germany
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • IonKraft — IonKraft can provide better performance at a lower cost while maintaining recyclability, they also promote material reduction and reuse and are commercializing the technology with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
  • PL BioScience — Animal-free cell culture supplements derived from human platelets. Supporting cell expansion and maintenance from research to therapy.
  • Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
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