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Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Germany (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Germany Retail startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Retail startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
HV Capital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.5M–$80M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
8 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$125M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $267k–$5.9M
SquareOne
VC Fund
6 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $329k–$30M
redalpine
VC Fund
6 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology $1.6M–$125M
Heliad AG
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, India Series B, Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Retail, Software $1.3M–$110M
Partech
VC Fund
5 France, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $1M–$56M
468 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $500k–$42M
Venture Stars
VC Fund
4 Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Pet, Retail $274k–$23M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$75M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
4 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$175M
GENIUS Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, China, Spain Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Logistics, Health Care $508k–$7.1M
Dumont Venture
VC Fund
3 Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, Retail $11M–$16M
LEA Partners
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Series A, Private Equity Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.8M–$31M
BitStone Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Switzerland, Israel Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Real Estate, Construction $560k–$14M
42CAP
VC Fund
3 Germany, France, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$19M
Capnamic
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $1.8M–$30M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $2.2M–$95M
Interface Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $341k–$44M
Expedite Ventures
VC Fund
3 Germany, Czech Republic, Poland Pre-Seed, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Graphic Design $660k–$4.8M
Grazia Equity
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Seed, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology $1.1M–$59M
MSM
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, E-Commerce, B2B $244k–$52M
Scale Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, Norway, Sweden Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$6.1M
SevenVentures
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Venture - Series Unknown, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage $27k–$128M
Wille Finance
VC Fund
2 France, Germany, Switzerland Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $396k–$36M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$102M
MA Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, India, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, SaaS, Retail $560k–$11M
Deutsche Handelsbank
VC Fund
2 Germany Debt Financing SaaS, Internet, Software $1M–$10M
Metro
VC Fund
2 Germany, Portugal, United States Series A, Seed, Series C Retail, Analytics, Hospitality $115k–$16M
Rocket Internet
VC Fund
2 Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
Insight Venture Management, LLC.
VC Fund
2 United States, Israel, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, SaaS $12M–$140M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, Software $100k–$7.9M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, SaaS $1.2M–$132M
Astutia Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion $69k–$3.9M
Atlantic
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $713k–$14M
CapitalT
VC Fund
2 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $585k–$11M
MPGI
VC Fund
2 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
Point Nine
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$62M
Seventure Partners
VC Fund
2 France, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Seed Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $1.1M–$63M
PUSH VC
VC Fund
2 Austria, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Health Care $650k–$31M
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, Luxembourg, France Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.5M–$50M
Tiburon
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $207k–$4.9M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $209k–$36M
DN Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1M–$82M
COI Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown Food and Beverage, Restaurants, Manufacturing $12M–$22M
Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 India, Germany, Spain Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Automotive, Hotel $240k–$13M
Berlin Technologie Holding
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Advertising, Information Technology $1M–$6.6M
Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $745k–$30M
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1121
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
  • Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Retail startups

HV Capital operates as a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across Europe at all stages, from early seed funding to growth investments. The firm partners with founders to support company development over the long term, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to its network. HV Capital invests across sectors such as software, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology, and supports companies throughout multiple funding rounds

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 511
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$13M; Series A $3.6M–$37M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $783M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
  • Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
  • Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 8 investments in Germany Retail startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $267k–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $542k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$5.3M; Series A $2.9M–$17M; Series B $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace is an NFT company that aims to use earned NFTs rather than purchased NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Its non-transferable badge protocol assists DAOs in developing more effective incentive systems, automating permissions, and enabling non-financialized governance.
  • Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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redalpine
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 6 investments in Germany Retail startups, 17 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 204
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$33M; Series B $16M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • calliora — Calliora develops an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate hospital clinical documentation and coding systems to identify billing errors before invoices are sent to health insurers
  • Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
  • 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.
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Heliad AG
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$29M; Series A $2.3M–$43M; Series B $7M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Limetax — Limetax is a technology-driven tax advisory group that builds an agentic-first accounting and tax network by partnering with established tax firms. The company provides a proprietary AI software platform that integrates directly into traditional accounting infrastructure, allowing local advisors to automate routine workflows and focus on personalclient advisory.
  • Binect (formerly MAX21 AG) — Binect is a platform-based software and fulfillment solution for the security and easy digitization of medium-sized companies. It actively supports its customers in digitizing their document processes. The standardized software solutions (digital outgoing mail, incoming mail, etc.) will in the future mainly be offered as SaaS services on a commonplatform, supplemented by complementary services for the outsourcing of document management (e.g. printing, franking, delivery, or scanning of business documents).
  • Dynamic Creatures — Dynamic Creatures creates responsive character robots for the entertainment and service sectors.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 699
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$9M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
  • Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
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468 Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Relixir — Relixir is AI Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) assistant that maps, monitors and improves AI search rankings.
  • Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
  • ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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Venture Stars
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups, 6 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$7.3M; Series A $5.5M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.7M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alphapet Ventures — Alphapet Ventures GmbH retails pet food online through its websites www.hundeland.de and www.petspremium.de. Alphapet Ventures GmbH was formerly known as ePetWorld GmbH and pets Premium GbmH and changed its name to Alphapet Ventures GmbH in May 2016.
  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Synera — Accelerate product development and unlock potential with powerful workflows that connect your data, tools and teams.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 230
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.9M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$32M; Series B $6.5M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $276M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Reverion — Reverion develops reversible and carbon-negative power plants using patented biogas technology for renewable energy.
  • Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
  • Kuro Technology — Kuro Technology develops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for general contractors in the construction sector. The software automates the analysis of complex project documents, including architectural plans, technical specifications, and bills of quantities, to identify structural or legal contradictions before construction begins. It processes unstructured data to streamline pre-construction workflows, specifically optimizing risk management, cost estimation, and subcontractor bidding. The technology functions as an enterprise data hub to preserve and transfer operational knowledge across different building projects.
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GENIUS Venture Capital
VC Fund · Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Logistics, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, China, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $508k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SonoBeacon — SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform.
  • Evertracker — Evertracker provides the first Neutral and Smart Control Tower for Global Supply Chains that enables manufacturers and producers to get end-to-end visibility and predictability of their global supply chains. The platform provides the transparency on an item level, which enables our users to not only know where their shipments are but what partswill be delayed or have issues. Thus they can plan their production more reliably.
  • Innocent Meat — Innocent Meat turns food producer in cell-based meat producers by developing an automated end-to-end clean meat production system.
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Dumont Venture
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
  • Fiber Elements — Fiber Elements offers breakthrough technology for the fully automated production of smart and resource-optimised basalt fiber reinforcement structures for the construction industry.
  • Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs is building visual intelligence: models that understand, reason, and act in the world. Use FLUX models via our API.
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BitStone Capital
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiml — Optiml develops software that supports real estate decarbonization and energy transition planning. The company provides a digital platform that models building portfolios, evaluates renovation pathways, and assesses financial and carbon impacts of retrofit strategies. Its tools integrate technical, economic, and regulatory data to help assetmanagers prioritize investments and align with climate targets. Optiml also enables scenario analysis, tracking of emissions performance, and reporting capabilities that support sustainability decision-making. The company serves property owners, investors, and financial institutions seeking structured analysis for decarbonization planning and capital allocation.
  • aedifion — Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
  • node.energy — Mit der Software opti.node wird die dezentrale und klimafreundliche Energieversorgung Ihrer Industrie- und Gewerbestandorte radikal vereinfacht. | node.energy
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42CAP
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.3M; Series A $2.5M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $43M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Osavul — Osavul is a software company focused on developing AI-powered solutions for information security. Protect states, businesses and society from disinformation, influence operations and foreign interference.
  • Flowlity — Flowlity revolutionizes planners' experience by streamlining tasks within planning tools and automating 95% of planning activities.
  • Marble — Marble is the first open source transaction monitoring. We automate detection and investigations with unparalleled flexibility and simplicity to allow tech teams to build on top of Marble, while removing manual compliance checks. Built for real-time and scalability, Marble protects against fraud and money laundering leading financial institutions in the EU, UK and over 15 geographies.
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 182
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $2.6M–$23M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $210M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Omegga GmbH — Omegga is developing a non-invasive, purely optical, Al-powered method for in-ovo sex detection of chicken embryos at an early stage.
  • Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
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La Famiglia
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Parloa — Parloa is the AI agent management platform for enterprise CX. Build, test, and scale voice and chat AI agents that turn conversations into loyalty.
  • Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
  • NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
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Interface Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

We build and invest in iconic technology companies

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pandektes — Search, verify, and rely on the law. Pandektes vast database combined with industry-leading search means more firepower in every legal analysis.
  • Hades Mining — Hades is a modern deep tech mining company shaping a sustainable, responsible, and independent future.
  • Superscale AI — Create, launch, and iterate performance ad campaigns with AI. Generate video ads, copy, and creative assets in minutes.
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Expedite Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Agree.com — Agree turns every signed contract into billing, recognized revenue and books that close, in one system built for finance teams.
  • YGO.AI — Richer, more accurate content for every hotel you sell, created automatically and ready for AI assistants.
  • ZukunftMoor — ZukunftMoor is a service company that establishes profitable paludiculture to accelerate the rewetting of drained bogs. They promote the re-wetting of drained peatlands at scale by demonstrating the economic viability of agriculture on wet peatlands ("Paludiculture").
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Grazia Equity
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
  • XO Life — XO-Life.com is an online destination center. That provides services includes digital treatment monitoring and patient feedback R&D, marketing and sales. That offers services for Patient Insights, information exchange between patients and pharma, treatments and indications.
  • Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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MSM
VC Fund · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $244k–$3M; Series A $4.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Denmark, Norway, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $60M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sonair — Make your robot safe, affordable, and efficient with the Sonair 3D ultrasonic sensor.
  • Bsure — Manage your user identities in Microsoft Entra, reduce license costs, and increase security with bsure. Be cost-effective. Be secure.
  • 6 Robotics OÜ — We exist to strengthen defence, protect nations, and deter conflict in an era defined by unmanned warfare.
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SevenVentures
VC Fund · Unterföhring, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

SevenVentures is a leading TV media investor. 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. Cases such as Zalando, AboutYou, flaconi and inthe current portfolio Grover, refurbed, KoRo and TiNDLE illustrate how companies can benefit from their media power and become strong brands in their respective market segment within a short period of time. The combination of media power and operational know-how make SevenVentures the premier partner for growth through target-group-related and far-reaching TV and digital campaigns.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.9M–$128M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FINN — At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees asevery journey is CO2 compensated.
  • Greenforce — Greenforce creates and sells plant-based foods that are good for both people and the environment. Its products are 100% vegan, made with high-quality raw materials sourced from reputable suppliers, and the entire value chain is transparent. It aims to secure the protein supply for future generations, who cannot be fed animal proteins.
  • Happybrush — Happybrush reinvented the toothbrush and successfully placed it in competition to the incumbents. The powerful sonic technology paired with a high-performance battery revolutionises the way customers brush their teeth.
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Wille Finance
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $396k–$4.6M; Series A $5.9M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edflex — Edflex offers content for businesses such as articles, videos, podcasts, online courses, and books. It is a SaaS solution that connects companies to access online corporate training content. Edflex is working to improve everyone's training by making it more understandable. The company's goal is to be the innovator in bringing togetherparticipants in online training by developing an easy-to-follow learning route. The teams at Edflex strive every day to locate and offer instructional content in a way that makes learning seem natural and effortless, rather than like an extra effort.
  • Newronika — Newronika restores brain and body functions with innovative technologies. We translate our deep knowledge on biosignal decoding into clinical practice, with the aim of improving treatments, health, and wellness. With our revolutionary brain devices, the patient receives the right stimulation at the right moment, thus becoming able to perform normaldaily activities and improve quality of life. Newronika is the spin-off company of two leading research institutions in Italy, the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan. ​ Newronika comprises a multidisciplinary team formed from Neuroscience research groups and involves scientists with expertise in neurophysiology, neurology, biomedical engineering, neuropsychology, bioinformatics, and biotechnologies.
  • Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics Ltd. is a global, clinical-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking treatments to rejuvenate vision in the aging eye.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1591
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • PanGenetics — PanGenetics B.V. develops monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of immune mediated diseases.PanGenetics is a clinical development company that specializes in taking antibodies from the late research stage through to clinical proof of concept. The company is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands with an office in Cambridge, UK. PanGenetics employsa lean business model with manufacturing and clinical development activities outsourced to specialist providers. Apart from PG110, the other clinical program of PanGenetics is PG102, a CD40 antagonist for treatment of autoimmune diseases which is currently being evaluated in a clinical study in psoriatic arthritis patients
  • Milestone Systems — See and know more with video technology. Milestone offers award-winning XProtect video management software, Arcules VSaaS, and BriefCam analytics.
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MA Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Investments in the MA Universe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, India, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$11M; Series A $1.2M–$6.4M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lykon — Empower people to live a healthy life. This is not only the vision of our founder Tobias Teuber, but of the entire team. We are a digital health company that was founded in 2018 and will change the healthcare system for the longterm. Our vision is to empower people to take their health into their own hands. We currently offer a wide range of DNAand blood tests. A few drops of blood or saliva are enough for us to provide customers with tailored nutrition and action recommendations to help them achieve their health goals. With our product, we are active in innovative and exciting fields, such as personalized nutrition and personalized medicineHow does it work?You order these tests online, perform them easily at home and send them back to us by post. After our certified partner laboratories have successfully analyzed the blood and DNA samples, you will receive the test results in your private Lykon profile presented in a clear and easy-to-understand way, and at the same time, you will receive recommendations on how to improve your blood values if necessary.Lykon does not replace medical advice, however, we enable you to control your health - without long waiting hours at the doctor's office.
  • Kinectify — Software that's ushering in a new era of modern risk-management. Follow us for most up-to-date #AML, #KYC, and compliance news for #gaming in the US and Canada.
  • Westhive Coworking Ecosystem — Westhive provides superior flexible workspace solutions. With almost 1000 desks and 5 locations, Westhive is one of the biggest and fastest-growing flex workspace providers in Switzerland. Another 5 locations will be opened during 2022 and 2023. Westhive has been conceived to be more than just a coworking space. The aim was to create aninnovation ecosystem for startups, corporations and freelancers in which they can share their thougths, collaborate and bring great ideas to life.This is why we paid great attention the setup of the space. The dedicated work areas allow for concentrated focus, whereas our lounges and our restaurant – The Westhive Kitchen – are perfect for informal exchange with fellow coworkers and creative breaks with food and drinks alike. The perfect balance of work and play.Westhive has been created as a space that we as founders would love to work in as well. Which we will.
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Deutsche Handelsbank
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Deutsche Handelsbank was established by experienced fin-tech experts as the bank for digital startup and growth companies. They are deeply rooted in the technology startup ecosystem and dedicated to connecting and partnering with innovative technology companies, venture capital investors and domain experts. We accompany startup and digital growthcompanies along their way with growth financing, working capital, banking-as-a-service, and factoring solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Debt Financing
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Debt Financing $1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vitafy — Vitafy GmbH is a pure online player in fitness and sports nutrition, Vitafy addresses the growing healthy living movement.
  • talentsconnect — talentsconnect is the HR Tech company behind the JobShop: a SaaS career-site developed to optimise conversion rates in recruiting. With the JobShop recruiters are able to solve their recruiting bottlenecks and can regain independency from job boards.
  • Factor Eleven — Wir sind Factor Eleven. Ein Product & Tech-Startup mit der Mission die Planung, Kreation, Buchung und Abwicklung von Werbekampagnen einfacher und KPI-basierter zu machen.Durch die Entwicklung von SMARTER TECHNOLOGIE, wird diese Mission von Quartal zu Quartal mehr und mehr Realität. Mit Hilfe unserer technologischen „Core-Produkte“automatisieren wir Arbeitsschritte und ToDos, die heute in Unternehmen viel (unnötige) Zeit rauben und alles andere als effizient fördernd sind. Uns ist wichtig, dass sich Mitarbeiter unserer Kunden und Partner weniger um diese „Standard-Aufgaben“ oder „Trouble-Shooting“ kümmern müssen – sondern mehr Zeit für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge ihres Business haben: Deren Kunden, die Weiterentwicklung der Produkte/Dienstleistungen, Controlling & Learnings, etc.Dabei herausgekommen sind z.B. Media-Produkte, die dediziert entlang der Customer Journey entwickelt wurden und je nach Funnel-Stufe buchbar sind: Abgerechnet nach der KPI, die zur jeweiligen Funnel-Stufe passt/gehört. Ermöglicht wird dies durch unsere eigens entwickelten Algorithmen, die notwendiger Bestandteil sind, um den ambitionierten Ansprüchen von Marketeers und Mediaplanern gerecht zu werden. Darüber hinaus bieten unsere Produkte weitreichende Garantien hinsichtlich Transparenz, Brand Safety und Viewability um auch in Zukunft die Grenzen des Möglichen immer wieder neu zu challengen.
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Metro
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Retail, Analytics, Hospitality
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Germany, Portugal, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$120k; Series A $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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 — Orderbird is focused on building an intuitive and customer-centric solution helping hospitality merchants by introducing Germany’s first iPad-based POS. It is a provider of Integrated Software solutions for independent restaurateurs and SMBs. It is offering its customers professional, easy-to-use POS systems and add-on products optimizing theirbusiness operations and providing a flexible alternative to costly, time-consuming, and paperwork-intensive legacy systems.
  • Gastrozentrale — Gastrozentrale.de is a B2B online shop for kitchen technology and restaurant/catering equipment. From small food stands to canteen kitchens, customers can easily order napkins, industrial refrigerators or patio heaters online.
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Rocket Internet
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Insight Venture Management, LLC.
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1066
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$60M; Series B $19M–$110M; Series C $27M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3B in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Shogun — Shogun software unleashes new possibilities for ecommerce. Shogun Frontend is the only Headless Frontend Platform made for merchants. Learn More.
  • Dext — Dext is the leading bookkeeping automation platform that extracts expense data with over 99% accuracy.
  • Zone & Company Software Consulting — Zone & Co is a premier NetSuite Solution Provider & SDN partner helping companies automate complex lead-to-revenue entirely in NetSuite with Zone Apps.
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Berlin Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

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.
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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 in Bavaria. 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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $3.9M–$32M; Series B $3.9M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • Arcos — Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company that builds and operates modern infrastructure protection and alarm management systems.
  • HyImpulse Technologies — HyImpulse develops dedicated sub-orbital and orbital launch services using hybrid propulsion-based launch vehicles. Their SR75 is a single stage sounding rocket using a hybrid rocket engine to deliver institutional and commercial experiments into a micro gravity environment during a suborbital flight.
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Astutia Ventures
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Astutia Ventures GmbH

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $69k–$1.1M; Series A $2.4M–$3.9M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • reINVENT — reINVENT simplify all communication and planning processes for your construction project via a central digital platform.They revolutionize the hardly digitized building industry by offering a software platform to connect all major parties during and after construction. It‘s their mission to redesign all customer processes with digital solutions forcommunication, data transfer and documentation to generate significant cost and time savings for building contractors and project developers.
  • Horizn Studios — Discover premium travel luggage & accessories engineered in Germany - designed for the modern explorer who values quality and innovation.
  • Building Radar — Speed up your business with early stage construction leads! The fastest lead technology for measurable sales success in the construction industry.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 275
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $4.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
  • Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
  • Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems,Its platform enables precise, adaptable connections between chips, fibers, and light sources beyond traditional packaging constraints.This company focuses on scalable photonic integration to accelerate the development of high-performance optical systems.
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Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$6.9M; Series A $3.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mika — mika is an accounting solution firm that offers monthly bookkeeping, payroll, invoice management, and financial planning services.
  • happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
  • allO — Discover the best all-in-one restaurant system to manage operation and delight guests.
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CapitalT
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.5M; Series A $3.1M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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Seventure Partners
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 274
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.7M; Series A $3.2M–$28M; Series B $3.4M–$63M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekstere — Ekstere facilitates selling and purchasing verified-quality used bicycles at a reasonable price.
  • Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
  • Presto Engineering — We enable companies imagine and implement microelectronics solutions in high-value markets such as Industrial, Automotive, Communication and Medical.
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PUSH VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

Early-stage VC. Pre-Seed and Seed stage. We are investing in Health- & Green Tech start-ups with singificant impact and outstanding teams.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Voltrac — To Secure Our Borders and Food Supply.
  • enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
  • Aitiologic — A precision medicine startup providing multi-modal liquid biopsy solutions for early disease detection and targeted therapy.
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Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $207k–$4.9M; Series A $2.2M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow

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.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 138
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $209k–$2.1M; Series A $2.4M–$36M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • syte — syte simplifies real estate decisions with AI-based software. Founded in 2021 and based in Münster, Germany, the company analyzes land and buildings in real time and makes complex real estate analyses easily accessible. The syte platform offers digital twins by intelligently linking various types of data, including cadastral and LiDAR data, aerialand satellite images, and market data. The database enables informed statements to be made about development opportunities, renovation potential, energy requirements, economic efficiency, and subsidy options.Project developers, real estate agents, and banks use syte for valuations, planning, and consulting. This includes evaluating locations, reviewing investment decisions, analyzing portfolios with regard to renovation needs, and identifying subsidies. Instead of time-consuming individual research or external expert opinions, the platform enables a reliable initial assessment.The team of over 30 people led by founders Matthias Zühlke and David Nellessen serves over 200 customers – from local real estate agencies to banks with thousands of properties. syte has received multiple awards for its innovative software, including the German AI Award 2023 and the PropTech of the Year Award 2025.
  • Nunos — NUNOS develops biological treatment technology that processes cattle slurry and digestion residues on farms into a thin, low-odor liquid fertilizer with plant-available nutrients. The company offers fully automated, stand-alone treatment systems that integrate into existing farm infrastructure and continuously process daily manure volumes. Its process stabilizes nutrients in chemically stable forms to support precise, demand-based fertilization and long-term storage with reduced nutrient losses. The resulting fertilizer can be used in open-field agriculture, greenhouses, ornamental plant cultivation, and soilless growing systems. NUNOS originates from space research as a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center and adapts closed-loop nutrient recycling concepts to agricultural applications. The company also applies its technology to recycle nitrogenous wastewater in closed habitats such as lunar or martian stations.
  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 452
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Grover — Grover is a platform that enables users to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them.The product-as-a-service company gives the freedom of renting by bringing the access economy to the consumer electronics market and offering a simple, monthly subscription model for the best in tech. It allows private customers, as well asbusinesses, to get access to a wide assortment of over 1500 tech products such as smartphones, laptops, virtual reality (VR) gear, and wearables profiting from the flexibility and full usage rights at a fraction of the purchase price.Michael Cassau established Grover in Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 2015.
  • Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a 360° marketing and communications agency focused on gaming and esports, offering services such as brand and marketing consulting, social media and community management, editorial services, event management, logistics, creative services, media productions, and other community solutions.
  • Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment &#10148;&#11088; over 150 premium brands for your sport &#10148;10% KELLER Premium-discount*&#10024; &#10148;Free shipping from 150 &euro;&#9989;
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Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Advertising, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $1.5M–$1.9M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 157
  • Round size: Seed $745k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $240M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Edgify — Product recognition, loss prevention and real-time store intelligence on the retail hardware you already own. 8,000+ devices, 2,042 stores, 12 countries.
  • Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
  • Titan Operating System —
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Retail VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 317 deals from 348 investors.

348
investors
in Germany Retail startups
317
deals
in Germany Retail startups
$5.6M
median round
in Germany Retail startups
42%
lead investors
lead at least one round
29%
Seed
most common funding stage

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