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Top 50 Retail VC Funds & Investors in Germany (July 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
HV Capital
VC Fund
9 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Series A, Seed, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Internet $1.6M–$80M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
9 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $637k–$32M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
7 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $214k–$6.4M
redalpine
VC Fund
6 Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $1.6M–$60M
Presight Capital
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Financial Services $2M–$125M
SquareOne
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, Poland Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $329k–$17M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
4 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
468 Capital
VC Fund
4 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$42M
Partech
VC Fund
4 United States, France, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $1.1M–$55M
Heliad AG
VC Fund
4 Germany, United States, India Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Health Care $1.3M–$110M
Grazia Equity
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B, Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology $1.1M–$59M
Venture Stars
VC Fund
3 Germany Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Pet, Retail $274k–$20M
42CAP
VC Fund
3 Germany, France, Sweden Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.3M–$28M
La Famiglia
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $2.2M–$95M
GENIUS Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Logistics, Health Care $509k–$7.1M
Dumont Venture
VC Fund
3 Germany, The Netherlands Seed, Series C E-Commerce, Apps, Retail $11M–$16M
Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$110M
Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $713k–$14M
Wille Finance
VC Fund
2 France, Germany, Switzerland Series A, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $396k–$36M
Simile Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Germany, India, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, Apps $240k–$5M
Scale Capital
VC Fund
2 Denmark, Norway, Sweden Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1M–$6.1M
PUSH VC
VC Fund
2 Austria, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Software, Apps, Health Care $650k–$31M
Capnamic
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $1.8M–$30M
BitStone Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Israel Seed, Series A Software, Real Estate, Construction $560k–$14M
CapitalT
VC Fund
2 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $585k–$11M
MA Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Internet, Software $560k–$11M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Finland Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Information Technology
EXIST
VC Fund
2 Germany, France, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Mutschler Ventures AG
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, FinTech $2.3M–$79M
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
Tiburon
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Spain Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet $203k–$4.9M
Movens Capital
VC Fund
2 Poland, Czech Republic, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $302k–$17M
Senovo
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, Sweden Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $2M–$66M
MPGI
VC Fund
2 Germany, India, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce $2M–$100M
ECONA AG
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Series A, Seed, Angel Information Technology, Apps, Internet $2M–$6M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
2 United States, Brazil, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.4M–$65M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $1.4M–$100M
NRW.BANK
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology $219k–$71M
Redstone.VC
VC Fund
2 Germany, Finland, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $505k–$17M
Berlin Technologie Holding
VC Fund
2 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Big Data, Internet, B2B $1.3M–$6.6M
Metro
VC Fund
2 Germany, Portugal, United States Series A, Seed, Series C Retail, Analytics, Hospitality $3M–$16M
MSM
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, B2B $219k–$52M
SevenVentures
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, Austria Series B, Seed E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage $27k–$61M
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital
VC Fund
2 Germany, Luxembourg, France Series A, Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.4M–$40M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
2 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $1.1M–$33M
Point Nine
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Internet $900k–$62M
Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $675k–$25M
DN Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $300k–$65M
Berlin Ventures
VC Fund
2 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Internet, Fashion, SaaS
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HV Capital
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 9 investments in Germany Retail startups

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 448
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
  • Isar Aerospace — Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets in an automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. The company was founded in 2018 in Europe.
  • Fifth Dimension AI — Boost your productivity with our AI Assistant for property professionals. Supercharge your real estate teams across investment, asset management, research, and marketing.
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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: 842
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Finbits — Fintech company formed by co-founders with digital product background. The startup is solving major financial problems faced by entrepreneurs in LatAm: time wasted with non-core activities and difficult access to financial products. Finbits is developing an all-in-one finance solution for LatAm SMB. This new solution saves 80% of back-office costsand allows users access to financial products. This new financial OS integrates bank accounts, payment means, third-party ERP, and accounting software already available in the ecosystem. The new platform leverages modern technology and a data driven architecture to provide intelligent insights and financial products.
  • Musa — Musa is a smart city solution providing a platform that efficiently connects waste generators, haulers, and recyclers. Our mission is to guarantee that all waste becomes raw material directed to a productive chain of reuse. This is what connects us, a world without waste where everything can be reused. We want to transform the waste managementindustry by leveraging technology and developing new business models ensuring economic, social, and environmental impact.
  • Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 7 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $542k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 191
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$13M; Series A $3.2M–$31M; Series B $15M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2013

Portfolio highlights

  • 9fin — The leading AI-powered debt market intelligence platform. Real-time news, data, and analytics across LevFin, private credit, and distressed debt.
  • Luya Foods — Sustainable food, Plant-based, Circular food, Meat alternative, Alternative to meat, Okara, Food waste, and Fermentation
  • Carvolution — Carvolution is the next-generation mobility services provider reshaping car ownership through its fully digital subscription service.Carvolution makes choosing a new car exciting. As it removes the hassle out of ownership and the inflexibility out of leasing, it enables consumers to choose their dream car as a convenient monthly subscriptionservice instead of a long-term commitment. Their digitally-powered one-stop-shop streamlines everything from insurance to maintenance: saving customers time and money while enabling efficiencies for all connected parties.
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Presight Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

A simple static landing page for Presight Capital.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 114
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$75M; Series B $8.2M–$125M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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SquareOne
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 76
  • Round size: Seed $329k–$4.8M; Series A $2.9M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $117M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
  • Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Series A $3.3M–$28M; Series B $11M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
  • Linexa — Linexa develops cloud-based SaaS for decoding complex shop floor automation—parsing PLC, HMI, SCADA, and MES systems into a unified, searchable model.
  • Yoummday GmbH — yoummday‘s concept is based on the sharing economy‘s principles. Among an innovative software solution, the marketplace is matching clients and freelancing call center agents whom we call talents. Through the concept, the platform provides a solution to work as a freelancing talent globally. Moreover, the provided technology enables the possibilityfor the talents to work from home.Additionally, a customer‘s project can be implemented efficiently, individually, and flexibly. Next to a talent pool with above 20,000 registered talents, yoummday offers managed services for corporate clients, as well as a self-managing possibility. Both services are allowing the client to monitor the project in real-time based on personally defined KPI‘s. By giving talents up to 80% of the revenue, the motivation is increasing, because the freelancing talent is earning twice as much as a call center agent in their country they live in. The client only has to pay a yoummday provision as well as the talent remuneration which is leading to cost savings up to 40%. Furthermore, yoummday is responsible for training and quality checks which are regularly analyzed and individually modified.Founded in 2016 by Klaus Harisch, Pablo Harisch, and Lion Harisch, yoummday is constantly looking for motivated, self-empowering, curious, critical thinking and problem-solving employees who want to innovate the call center business. The Tech startup is constantly fast-growing and the vision is to create a brand that is an outstanding example as a leading shared economy company that is offering the main assets which are the talents an ecologically friendly way to work from home. Next to a fixed salary, employees are offered various tangible and intangible benefits that are individualized based on the needs of the employee. yoummday is a group-orientated company which is focusing on the employee as the core asset. The headquarter is based in the heart of Munich and a second branch is located in Sofia.
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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: 205
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.3M; Series A $11M–$42M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Customcells Group — With our combined strengths, we are uniquely positioned to deliver customer-centric premium battery technology at scale.
  • Mellow — Detect seizures - with Mellow on your Apple Watch
  • Athens Research — Open-Source Roam Research. A private, extensible, and community-driven knowledge graph.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 537
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $9M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippeo — A global leader, and European specialist, in supply chain visibility, giving companies instant access to predictive and real-time information for all their deliveries.
  • Billogram — Since its start in 2011, Billogram has revitalized the outdated invoicing process by offering companies with recurring payments an intelligent digital platform. Using smart technology, we help companies strengthen their customer relations while also automating payment processes in a way that lowers costs, increases revenue, and reduces churn. Theresult is a payment that pays off for everyone.
  • Diamond — Setup an entire backend system for your online business in a few clicks.
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Heliad AG
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 4 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$29M; Series B $6.4M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Binect (formerly MAX21 AG) — Binect is a platform-based software and fulfillment solution for the security and easy digitization of medium-sized companies. It actively supports its customers in digitizing their document processes. The standardized software solutions (digital outgoing mail, incoming mail, etc.) will in the future mainly be offered as SaaS services on a commonplatform, supplemented by complementary services for the outsourcing of document management (e.g. printing, franking, delivery, or scanning of business documents).
  • Sleepz (formerly BMP Holding) — SLEEPZ AG is an e-commerce group focussing on the segment of sleep products. They are establishing ourselves as a “Union for sleep products and home décor”. Since completing our first financial year (2016), they have grown to become one of the largest independent retailers for our market segment in Germany, and they aim to further solidify thisposition in the market.
  • DEAG Deutsche Entertainment AG — Die DEAG ist ein integriertes Entertainment-Content-Unternehmen und ein führender Anbieter von Live-Entertainment in Europa.
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Grazia Equity
VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; 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 is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
  • Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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Venture Stars
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$7.3M; Series A $5.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • Synera — Accelerate product development and unlock potential with powerful workflows that connect your data, tools and teams.
  • Hundeland.de — Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.
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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: 96
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.3M; Series A $2.3M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ALP Bio — Alp Bio’s platform integrates tonsil organoid technology with advanced protein AI to identify and mitigate immunogenic risks in therapeutic antibodies, ensuring safer patient outcomes.
  • Flowlity — Flowlity revolutionizes planners' experience by streamlining tasks within planning tools and automating 95% of planning activities.
  • Quillon — Quillon develops artificial intelligence software designed for technical accounting and financial reporting workflows. The platform enables users to research accounting standards, analyze regulatory filings, and interpret contractual documents with outputs linked to source references for traceability. It provides tools for drafting structuredaccounting memos, performing peer benchmarking across filings, and executing compliance checklists within a unified workspace. The system integrates data from frameworks such as US GAAP and IFRS, along with public filing databases, to support decision-making in areas like revenue recognition and financial disclosures. Quillon also includes collaboration and document editing features that allow teams to review, revise, and finalize reporting materials within the platform.
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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, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 113
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $7.4M–$95M; Series B $22M–$95M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $99M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $509k–$7.1M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 272
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaro — Zaro is a workspace platform that brings AI agents and apps together in one place to automate repetitive business tasks and accelerate important work. The company deploys AI agents that handle real tasks while connecting the apps teams already rely on, enabling operations to scale without scaling headcount. Everything runs on a simple credit-basedmodel where customers only pay for what they use, and users can start free. Zaro enables modern teams to automate busywork, automate the repetitive, and focus on work that moves the business forward. The platform turns AI from a buzzword into something teams use daily for running their business operations.
  • Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
  • Black Forest Labs — Black Forest Labs creates advanced generative deep learning models for images and videos. They focus on making these technologies widely accessible and transparent, ensuring that their innovations are easy to use and understand. This approach aims to democratize access to cutting-edge technology and foster greater trust and utility.
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Wecken & Cie.
VC Fund · Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$4.4M; Series A $3.9M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1M; Series A $240k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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!
  • slice — slice, feel easy with money.slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good,because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, slice UPI ATMs, slice fixed deposits, slice borrow, and UPI-powered bank branch are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.
  • Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.
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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: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Sonair — Sonair is an award-winning deep tech startup building a breakthrough, patented 3D ultrasonic sensor that enables true machine autonomy by making robots safe, affordable, and efficient. Sonair was spun out from a leading European independent research organization, SINTEF, to exploit deep science-to-tech advancements in ultrasonics andMicro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS). Using this technology, the company is delivering a sensor that will transform a robot’s vision from 2D to 3D, offering a significantly improved safety performance over traditional vision systems while cutting costs by 50-80%. The company, based in Oslo, Norway, was founded in 2022 by an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs led by Knut Sandven, former CEO of GasSecure.
  • Bsure — Bsure AS is a Norwegian software company specializing in identity management and Microsoft 365 license optimization. Our flagship product, Bsure Insights, provides organizations with deep visibility into Entra ID users and Microsoft 365 licensing, enabling cost savings, enhanced security, and better license compliance. We help businesses gaincontrol over identities, ensuring they have the right licenses for the right users. Installed directly in the customer’s environment, Bsure Insights guarantees data privacy while delivering actionable intelligence for IT and security teams.
  • All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
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PUSH VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

| Investments that move industries

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $650k–$8.1M; Series A $5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Gustav — Modern staffing teams use Gustav's VMS to source talent from trusted sub-vendors. Fast, secure, and compliant!
  • Voltrac — Voltrac is a robotics company that develops an autonomous, fully electric tractor platform called THOR, designed to operate in demanding environments for both agricultural and logistics use. THOR employs per-wheel electric motors instead of a conventional drivetrain, reducing mechanical complexity and maintenance requirements. It runs on swappable200 kWh battery packs, enabling long-duration operations and continuous work cycles. The platform supports a standard three-point hitch (Category II) and can be configured with a flatbed, making it versatile for fieldwork or transport tasks. Voltrac’s autonomy system combines reinforcement learning with real-time sensor data to adapt driving behavior and implements to changing terrain and crop conditions. Beyond farming, THOR is also intended for frontline logistics missions, with modular designs that can support cargo transport and resilience in challenging settings.
  • enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
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Capnamic
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$8.6M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $5.3M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $216M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • yasp — yasp mission is to transform complex AI capabilities into practical, effective tools that empower businesses in the evolving digital landscape.
  • 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.
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BitStone Capital
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 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
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$9.6M; Series A $1.1M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiml — OPTIML is an end to end software platform harnessing the power of optimization to generate intelligent low cost and low carbon investment strategies for existing buildings. Real estate owners and consultants benefit from the novel data driven approaches scaled from the asset to portfolio level with increased productivity and accuracy for multi yearplanning. OPTIML is a GmbH, LLC headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPTIML leverages over four years of cutting edge engineering, sustainability, and policy research at ETH Zurich with multiple PhDs on the technology.With OPTIML asset, long term strategies to 2050 can be developed for any unique building asset considering all aspects of renovations for asset and construction management. Minimal data input is required but the models can be leveraged with maximum customizability. Scaled to any number of buildings, OPTIML portfolio develops portfolio budgetary and CO2 pathways considering asset level granularity with minimal planning cost.
  • 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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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
  • Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $585k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $41M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Wizenoze — At the heart of the WizeNoze platform is a set of powerful classification algorithms. A smart content editor enables writers and publishers to quickly write and rephrase texts for children, assisted by real-time classification suggestions provided by their algorithms. Developers can easily tap into all the platform's features via an API.Combined with a powerful search engine, the Wizenoze platform provides everything you need to create world-class content for children.
  • Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
  • New Dawn Bio — New Dawn Bio is a biotechnology research firm that specializes in wood production.
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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: Retail, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $560k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • _blaenk — _blaenk is the leading Omnichannel RetailTech startup in Europe (EU Retail Innovation Award 2020). With _blaenk os (omnichannel system) the company connects brick-and-mortar and digital commerce in a revolutionary way for brands and consumers. With the data-driven and flexible approach brands can simply execute retail campaigns in digital andstationary storefronts on demand, generating awareness, consumer data and sales. _blaenk has been featured in Press such as Forbes, Handelsblatt and many more.
  • Lykon — Empower people to live a healthy life. This is not only the vision of our founder Tobias Teuber, but of the entire team. We are a digital health company that was founded in 2015 and will change the healthcare system for the longterm. Our vision is to empower people to take their health into their own hands. We currently offer a wide range ofDNA and blood tests. A few drops of blood or saliva are enough for us to provide customers with tailored nutrition and action recommendations to help them achieve their health goals. With our product, we are active in innovative and exciting fields, such as personalized nutrition and personalized medicineHow does it work?You order these tests online, perform them easily at home and send them back to us by post. After our certified partner laboratories have successfully analyzed the blood and DNA samples, you will receive the test results in your private Lykon profile presented in a clear and easy-to-understand way, and at the same time, you will receive recommendations on how to improve your blood values if necessary.Lykon does not replace medical advice, however, we enable you to control your health - without long waiting hours at the doctor's office.
  • Kinectify — Kinectify LLC is a trailblazing Anti-Money Laundering (AML) platform designed for the gaming industry, offering a fully configurable solution for managing compliance across gaming organizations. Trusted by interactive, commercial, and tribal operators, Kinectify integrates data from premier data partners like LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, Exiger, andGracenote Sports. It provides users with access to vast information on individuals, companies, global research capabilities, net worth estimates, watchlists, and screening information on professional athletes.Empowering businesses with enterprise-wide AML compliance, Kinectify offers advanced configuration menus and APIs, giving users complete control over their AML programs. Testimonials from industry professionals confirm Kinectify’s impact, providing a sophisticated and easy-to-use platform built by and for compliance professionals.Committed to the highest data security standards, Kinectify is SOC compliant, ensuring robust security measures for safeguarding data.
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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 inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 216
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • XO Life — XO Life is to build the largest real-world evidence platform for patient insights for all medications and therapies. Together with one of Europe's leading research institutes for patient-centered research, the PROMIS Institute Germany of the Charité, and various pharmaceutical manufacturers, patient experiences are to be recorded in astandardized and systematic manner across a wide range of diseases. Patients are to be enabled to record their therapy course and outcome independently as well as scientifically validated so that these patient insights from real treatment practice can be used in the life science industry and by medical professions.
  • OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
  • Goodly Innovations — Goodly Innovations is the leading regulated industry-focused global Pharma 4.0 provider for extended reality shop floor guidance. From cleanrooms to secondary packaging areas, labs and more, Goodly can help improve Pharma and BioPharma clients efficiency, OEE, quality, training and more
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EXIST
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Mutschler ventures has been actively investing in start-up or young internet companies in the areas of e-commerce and / or "matchmaking".

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$5.5M; Series A $2.5M–$26M; Series B $18M–$79M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
  • Invenda — Smart vending software and hardware by Invenda Group AG that powers connected devices, turns transactions into insights, and drives revenue for brands, operators, and retailers.
  • Invenda Group — Smart vending software and hardware by Invenda Group AG that powers connected devices, turns transactions into insights, and drives revenue for brands, operators, and retailers.
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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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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 $203k–$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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Movens Capital
VC Fund · Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$3.7M; Pre-Seed $302k–$1.9M; Series A $318k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Volteum — Electric vehicle (EV) fleets made easy. Volteum helps companies transition to EVs, optimize charging, and manage electric car fleet operations efficiently.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Doctor.One — Doctor.One is a next generation virtual clinic, helping any doctor build a subscription-based private practice. Our goal is to give everyone direct access to a private doctor, with the aim of restoring the trusted doctor-patient relationship as the foundation of healthcare.
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Senovo
VC Fund · München, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$8.4M; Series A $2M–$13M; Series B $5M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Websitebutler — Websitebutler provides online consultation to create your new website including maintenance.
  • SlidePresenter — Omnora: Easy creation of learning content. Secure and impart knowledge with interactive, user-friendly solutions for companies.
  • IAMIP Sverige AB — AI-powered patent software for advanced search, real-time monitoring, and IP collaboration. Track competitors, analyze trends, and drive innovation with IamIP.
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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: 47
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $3M–$6M; Series A $7.7M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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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ECONA AG
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1119
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.5M–$30M; Series B $11M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Lastro — Lastro is an all-in-one real estate management platform with integrated payments that simplifies managing rental properties. It helps landlords streamline workflows by organizing lease contract information in a cloud-based system, automating rent charging processes, monitoring tenant obligations and generating customized reports.
  • Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
  • Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1170
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $10M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $117M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Codat — Codat turns on-demand client data into personalized insights that help commercial banking teams deepen relationships and grow revenue.
  • StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.
  • Trustpilot — Trustpilot is a powerful review platform - free and open to all. With more than 58 million reviews of over 270,000 domains, Trustpilot gives people a place to share and discover reviews of businesses, and we give every company the tools to turn consumer feedback into business results. Our mission is to bring people and businesses closer together tocreate ever-improving experiences for everyone. Trustpilot reviews are seen more than 3 billion times each month by consumers worldwide. With offices in Copenhagen, London, New York, Denver, Berlin, Melbourne and Vilnius, Trustpilot's 700 employees represent more than 40 different nationalities.
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 130
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
  • Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
  • Emergence Therapeutics — Emergence Therapeutics is a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high-need cancers. Its lead program combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4 – an important target for a broad range of cancers which has been clinically validated as anADC target by enfortumab vedotin, now approved for the treatment of urothelial cancers by the US Food and Drug Administration. Emergence is also actively exploring opportunities to develop further first- or best-in-class ADCs driven by therapeutic need.
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Redstone.VC
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups, 20 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Seed $505k–$7M; Pre-Seed $1M–$4.4M; Series A $1.6M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $57M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • INXM — INXM develops Orchestrator, a process execution engine that turns user intent into executable workflows for enterprises.
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  • &Charge — &Charge is your e-mobility platform which rewards your activities and shopping trips with free energy for your electric car.
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Berlin Technologie Holding
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Big Data, Internet, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ENWAY — ENWAY's software is designed for use in electric sweepers. The autonomous sweeper can be used outdoors and indoors and is used in industrial and municipal environments.
  • Zenhomes — Zenhomes is a Internet company.
  • Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
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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: 7
  • Round size: Series A $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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 — The iPad POS system orderbird POS is a complete POS solution that is ideal for bars, restaurants and clubs. The cash register system can be individualized according to your needs. It will send the waiter's orders directly & wireless to the kitchen and bar. The iPad POS system will provide detailed reports per day, month, waiter and shift.The system operates via WiFi with pre-configured printers that are available in the orderbird store. orderbird POS is the perfect combination of low costs and high performance.orderbird was founded in 2011 by Jakob Schreyer, Bastian Schmidtke, Patrick Brienen and Artur Hasselbach with the goal of establishing a more affordable and intuitive POS system that fits the real needs of the modern catering industry. The fast-growing company is currently home to more than 100 employees at its Berlin location. Over 5,000 customers — restaurants, cafés, bars, clubs, ice cream shops and beer gardens — in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland are already using the orderbird POS system.
  • Retail Media Group — Retail Media Group GmbH (RMG) is a cross-industry marketing platform for retail data. RMG monetizes retail and customer insights from leading retailers such as Media Markt, Saturn, real, Thalia and Metro. Based on these data, RMG enables advertisers to address their respective target audiences individually and without scatter losses. With a digitalreach from more than 60 million IDs, it is a leading partner in the European trade sector. RMG is the Center of Competence when it comes to the effective handling of customer insights in retail marketing compliant with data protection regulations. Furthermore, the company strives to advance the digital transformation of the trade industry.
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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, Software, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $219k–$3M; Series A $4.1M–$52M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
  • Pollen — Pollen is developing a universal battery-swapping network for mopeds and motorcycles, enabling riders to quickly exchange depleted batteries for fully charged ones, reducing downtime and supporting efficient, scalable electric mobility in urban environments.
  • 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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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:Series B, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 63
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.2M; Series B $13M–$61M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Greenforce — Greenforce offers meat alternatives for a sustainable future with the power of plants and 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.
  • Getvoila — voilà is the Berlin-based company that enables people to enjoy fine dining experiences at home, with nationwide delivery.
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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
  • Geography: Germany, Luxembourg, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$40M; Series A $2.1M–$23M
  • 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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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 583
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $3.5M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
  • FINE Legal — fine. holt Dir Dein Geld einfach, digital und ohne Risiko.
  • NAVAN Technologies — NAVAN Technologies, Inc., (NAVAN) is a pre-clinical stage biotechnology company developing and commercializing its proprietary NanoStraw platform technology, which establishes a direct, physical connection into cells to overcome a huge challenge faced by researchers globally: delivering material into hard-to-transfect-cells in an efficient yetgentle and non-perturbative manne
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 260
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.7M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $10M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sereact — The only real-world verified Vision-Language-Action AI. Proven at scale. Trained on the world's largest dataset of robotic picks.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 149
  • Round size: Seed $675k–$10M; Series A $2.5M–$12M; Series B $8M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $234M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Proggio — Transform your project management with timelines that enhance productivity and clarity. Discover how Proggio AI can help.
  • 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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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Germany Retail startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 295
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$9M; Series A $3.1M–$25M; Series B $8.6M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $300M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!
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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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Retail VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 227 deals from 247 investors.

247
investors
in Germany Retail startups
227
deals
in Germany Retail startups
$6.3M
median round
in Germany Retail startups
42%
lead investors
lead at least one round
31%
Seed
most common funding stage

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