Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social media startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social media companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024
Investor | Social Media Germany investments |
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APX | 3 |
Rouven Dresselhaus | 2 |
Wellington Partners | 2 |
redalpine | 2 |
Mangrove Capital Partners | 2 |
b2venture | 2 |
Advent Venture Partners | 2 |
Concentric | 2 |
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen | 2 |
bmp Ventures | 2 |
Christian Vollmann | 2 |
Ananda Impact Ventures | 2 |
BDMI | 2 |
BlueYard Capital | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
Steffen Zoller | 2 |
WestTech Ventures | 2 |
Scala Ventures | 2 |
Hasso Plattner Ventures | 2 |
allygatr | 1 |
FTX Ventures | 1 |
Berlin Metropolitan Ventures | 1 |
BLN Capital | 1 |
Christian Edler | 1 |
JMES Investments | 1 |
TheVentureCity | 1 |
Cherry Ventures | 1 |
zVentures | 1 |
Global Founders Capital | 1 |
Tom Hulme | 1 |
OMR | 1 |
Erik Huberman | 1 |
George Strompolos | 1 |
MaC Venture Capital | 1 |
Matthew Rutler | 1 |
Richard Wolpert | 1 |
Pitbull Ventures | 1 |
Dirk Freise | 1 |
Companisto | 1 |
Point Nine | 1 |
Björn von Siemens | 1 |
Stefan Glänzer | 1 |
Mischa Rurup | 1 |
RaceBets | 1 |
IBB Ventures | 1 |
Jannis Choulidis | 1 |
Indiana Capital | 1 |
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer | 1 |
Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 |
Simon Levene | 1 |
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
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Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
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Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time
- CorFlow Therapeutics AG — CorFlow Therapeutics is a medtech startup that develops proprietary technologies for diagnosis and treatment of microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients. The CorFlow technologies enable interventional cardiologists to diagnose and treat MVO in severe heart attack patients thereby potentially reducing the short- and long-term complicationrates in these patients.
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
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Albatross AI — Albatross: leading the revolution in user engagement. Our AI technology delivers unparalleled user experiences, maximizes conversions, and unlocks revenue growth. Say goodbye to manual A/B testing and poor recommendations.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
- Frak Labs — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel.
- K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
- Marvel Fusion — Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant.
Advent Venture Partners is one of Europe's most successful growth and venture capital investors in market-leading tech and life sciences businesses. They have designed their strategy, teams and funds so they can focus on backing a select few companies. They pride their selves on establishing true partnerships with entrepreneurs in order tobuild valuable businesses together.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
- WorldStores — Established in 2008, Worldstores is now the UK’s largest online home & garden retailer. Offering unparalleled choice, value for money, customer service and a range of convenient delivery options, Worldstores is renowned as one of the UK's most exciting e-commerce success stories.ACHICA, the luxury flash-sale business, and baby specialistKiddicare also form part of the Worldstores Group and play a key part in the ambitious plans for Worldstores Group in becoming a household name in the home and garden market.
- Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Relai — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
- Satlantis — Making anywhere, home. A fast growing network of bitcoiners, nomads and freedom lovers, built on Nostr. It’s the world’s first “travel and community network” that uses your social graph to connect you with like-minded people from cities all around the world.50 cities are on there with home pages that help you find the best places to eat &drink, the best things to do, the coolest events to attend along with key travel & nomading stats and much more.
TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
- Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
- Zenesis — Zenesis intends to change the way engineering planning processes are carried out.
bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin.
Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
- RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
- XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Ovom Care — Enabling every individual to become a parent.
- OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
- Decade Energy — Decade Energy is the energy infrastructure and optimization partner for transport operators and depot managers who want to electrify their fleets.
Part of media company Bertelsmann, BDMI initially invests $100k to $4m in seed and early stage digital media startups in online video, nextgen publishing and pubtech/adtech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advertising, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Letterhead — Leverage the power of automated email monetization and newsletter engagement with Letterhead. Create newsletters that do all the work for you, engage your readers, and increase revenue. Get started today!
- tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.
BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Formality — Formality provides intelligent contract management services to manage legal documents.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- Pydantic Services — The team behind Pydantic are build developer tools that put developers first.
Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care
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Investment focus
- Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
- voiio — voiio is a leading provider of family benefits for companies and their employees. We make families smile! Our B2B platform enables employees to book and find 1,350+ high quality family services suited to any situation and phase in a family’s life-cycle. Till today hundreds of companies, ranging from SME to Fortune500, trust voiio. Get in touch andfind out how to easily unleash the full economic potential of a family friendly company culture. If you want to have an impact and change the future of work to a better please, get in touch and join our team.
- marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
- Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
- ClimateChoice — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.
Venture Capital and Start Up support, www.scala-ventures.com, Scala Ventures
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Investment focus
- Internet, Social Media, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- adQuota — adQuota is a Copenhagen, Denmark-based premium mobile advertisement platform. adQuota provides publishers of mobile websites and applications with a platform and tools to monetize their mobile publications, and creates rich mobile advertising experiences. It focuses on Rich Media formats for apps and web sites on both mobile devices andtablets. adQuota adStudio provides creative and technical production of Display Banner Ads, Rich Media Ads and Coupon Campaigns.More than 200 publishers use adQuota, which reaches more than 35 million readers and app-users monthly.
- prettysocial media — prettysocial media is the European Social Media Service Provider and Network enabling clients and publishers to monetize their Social Media appearance. By creating sophisticated Content Marketing concepts and formats and distributing those in all relevant social channels, brands communicate, engage and interact with their audience. Combiningcutting edge technology with excellent business intelligence the company delivers insight, strategy and results in all social and digital marketing channels.prettysocial’s Native Avenue Platform is providing a unique and innovative technology to book complex Content Marketing concepts into its Premium Publisher Network, connecting sophisticated Brand Advertising concepts with the reach and engagement of 100’s of leading local, national and international newspaper and magazine publishers.
Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies in Europe and the USA on behalf of Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner, co-founder and chairman of software giant SAP. The support we offer reaches beyond financial commitments. Our multifaceted work includes acting globally as a strategic partner for our informationtechnology growth companies. In Germany, our commitment has taken also the form of a seed program for information technology startups coming out of the Hasso Plattner Institute.After retiring from the operative business of SAP in 2003, Hasso Plattner was appointed Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board. He has devoted his time to the promotion of science, innovation and entrepreneurship ever since.To further these goals, Hasso Plattner founded Hasso Plattner Ventures on July 1st, 2005 in Potsdam, Germany. Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa launched as an affiliate in 2008, operating from Cape Town, South Africa.Hasso Plattner Ventures manages four funds. HP Ventures I started in 2005, focusing on early stage software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In 2008, HP Ventures II and HP Ventures Africa launched, looking for investment opportunities in startup- and expansion-stage companies across the USA, Europe, Israel and South Africa.As of 2015, HP Ventures III, a €150 million fund, focuses on fast-growing enterprise and infrastructure software companies mainly in Germany and the Silicon Valley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Artory — Artory connects the art market with the digital-first, financial ecosystem. Combining our leading technology, art expertise, digital certification, and tokenization, Artory secures on the blockchain verified artwork information from expert partners.
- Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- Robin.io — Automate deployment of complex 5G & enterprise apps to improve productivity and reduce cost with cloud native Kubernetes storage on the Robin platform.
allygatr builds and invests into HR Tech companies and helps them thrive.
Our mission: Transforming HR & recruitment and leading it into the 21st century. Together with our allies, we want to cover the whole HR value chain:
- Attract & Select
- Motivate
- Train & develop
- Retain
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Investment focus
- Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
- Talentlobby — Talentlobby specializes in people consultants for the hospitality and catering sectors who rely on cutting-edge hiring practices.
- HR Autopilot — HR-Autopilot offers workforce management services. The company provides a software solution that links several HR systems, automates workflows, and eliminates manual chores to help reduce errors. Large firms and organizations, for example, benefit from its strong HR system integration and process automation.
For builders, by builders. We back great teams building great products.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
- Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
- Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
Berlin Metropolitan Ventures is an investment firm that offers seed- and pre-seed ventures to its clients. It was founded in 2012 by Felix Schaal and is based in Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Social, Organic Food, Social Media
- Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
- Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ZAPITANO — Zapitano was a social TV startup from Berlin. The company went bankrupt in eary 2014.ZAPITANO offered a completely new interactive TV experience. While watching TV, viewers could login to ZAPITANO via a second screen device, such as a Laptop, Smartphone or Tablet-PC. They could then check into TV-Shows, talk about it with their friends, commenton TV-Stars, vote for their favourite TV-show and more.
- Berry White — BerryWhite manufactures, markets and sells non-carbonated organic fruit drinks. BerryWhite organic drinks, already sold in 27 countries, has just confirmed that they are now due to be sold in 50 Waitrose stores around the UK to complement their presence on Ocado.
We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
- Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
- The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
- Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.
JMES Investments is an Angel & Seed Investment company from Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Film, Beauty
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- FOUNDD — FOUNDD is an app to find movies and shows with friends.
- Mornin' Glory — Mornin’ Glory is a new brand for razors and blades, delivering two blades models for male wet shaving, directly to European mailboxes. A free handle is part of its delivery and gets shipped with the initial order. Mornin’ Glory launched new grooming products with fine natural ingredients. After-shave balm, pre-shave oil, and razor-burn relief aresome of its products, which were introduced in 2014. The grooming products of the company are made in Italy to assure high-quality and perfect skin care for men.Mornin’ Glory was founded in 2012 by Fabio Paltenghi and Nicolas Stoetter. It is based in Berlin, Germany.
Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
- Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
- BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
- Qura — Qura builds AI to make legal text searchable using natural language.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
We typically invest in Seed and Series A start-ups that add strategic value to the Razer ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Health Care, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Triple-A — TripleA helps businesses increase their revenue by enabling crypto payments and payouts, leveraging on the fast-growing 300m+ people using cryptocurrencies.With its white-label, easy setup, instant confirmation, locked-in exchange rate, real-time fiat conversion, and no chargeback crypto payment solution, TripleA meets the needs of e-commercemerchants, retailers, game providers, PSPs, fintech, and marketplaces.TripleA was founded in Singapore in 2017 by Eric Barbier, a repeat entrepreneur in FinTech. The company is licensed by MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (Singapore's Central Bank), allowing partners to operate in a fully compliant and regulated environment.
- XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
- Ross Digital — Home to the World's First Robotic Taochew, 5th Wave Coffee Robotic and Barista + Bartender. Robots and humans join forces at Ratio to create perfectly brewed coffee, exciting cocktails and delicious fusion dishes that will fulfill your every desire.
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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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
- Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
- Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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- Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Smol — laundry capsules. posted.
- Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
- Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
OMR is the platform for marketing makers. We inspire, inform and create chances to network: with our events, seminars, blog, podcast and reports.
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- Software, Beauty, Stock Exchanges
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany
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- Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
- Vickii — Vickii is an app designed for Gen Z (but anyone can use it) that aggregates content on specific stocks or ETFs.These can be tools, podcast snippets, or current events. If you own Apple stock, you'll receive all important Apple news in your feed. In general, an information platform designed to facilitate stock analysis and valuation. Or simplyimmersing yourself in financial gossip.
- HOLY — HOLY is a company that specializes in the production of powder-based beverages. Their product line includes HOLY Energy® and HOLY Iced Tea®, both of which are marketed as having zero sugar and being sustainably packaged. The company's focus is on providing a unique taste experience while also promoting a sense of social responsibility. Theyoffer a variety of flavors and options for customers to try, and they also provide opportunities for interested individuals to join their team.
Erik Huberman is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer ,Partner of Hawke Ventures.He attend to the University of Arizona in 2004.
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- Marketing, E-Learning, Communities
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- HeatMap, Inc — Discover heatmap, the only on-site analytics platform that ties revenue to every pixel on your website. Optimize for buyer behavior and increase your ecommerce sales with revenue-backed, AI-powered heatmaps, scrollmaps, screen recordings, and more.
- Superfiliate — Word of mouth, meet 2023
George Strompolos - CEO, Founder @ Fullscreen
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- Software, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Stonks — Invest in Pre-IPO deals
- Heroic Story — Choose your Path. Brave the Scar. Seek your Fortune.
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups leveraging shifts in cultural trends and behaviors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Fin — Last mile delivery using e-cargo bikes in London. Faster, greener and cheaper deliveries. Zero emissions, zero congestion and warehousing.
- Fully Ramped — Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product
- Reema Health — Transforming the way people navigate the gaps between health care and social care. Reema combines a 24/7 AI-based confidant with in-person community guides to help people meet their social needs.
Matthew Rutler is the Investor, Executive Vice President, Talent & Business Development at MasterClass, Inc. He attended Roger Williams University.
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- Software, Music, Internet
- Seed, Series A
- United States
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Zigazoo — Zigazoo is the leader in children's short-form video. On Zigazoo, kids make creative video responses to fun challenges and share them with friends.They are American parents and teachers who get their inspiration from children and believe in the power of kid creations. Hailed as "a smarter screen-time activity" by TechCrunch andlauded by children’s media advocacy organizations for its safety, Zigazoo enables kids to share video responses to challenges built by leading museums, zoos, educators, and media stars.
- Hivemapper — Explore the Hivemapper Network's global coverage.
Richard Wolpert Founder and Executive Chairman at HelloTech, a pioneer in the fields of technology, consumer digital media and entertainment for more than 25 years, Richard Wolpert has extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. He is also a Venture Partner at Acrew Capital and an Executive Chairman of Scener.Throughouthis career he has been responsible for many “firsts” including: Conceiving of and teaching CS 193C, the first Macintosh programming class at Stanford University; overseeing and managing the process for the creation of TouchBase, the first multi-user address book for the Macintosh; initiating Disney’s Daily Blast, the first kids Internet subscription service; developing and publishing BitBopTuner, the first Tivo-like product for Internet Radio; helping the launch of MusicNet, the first legitimate music subscription service for the Internet; and debuting Starz! On Demand, the first legitimate online movie subscription service. Wolpert successfully negotiated groundbreaking deals with several major media companies whose content became the basis for many of these products.As an investor, Wolpert is the co-founder and managing director of Amplify.LA; manages personal investment fund Chance Technologies; functions as an advisor to Accel Partners; served as a partner at the Yucaipa Companies; and worked as the managing director of the Mail Room Fund. He has invested in more than 30 companies, a large percentage of which have had successful exits or continue on as successful companies, including: AdECN, AMG, AndroMedia, AudioMill, Data Sage, GameFly, GameSpy, Kongregate, Mob.ly, Scour.net, People Support, Smilebox, Sometrics, Three Rings, Scopely, Playdek and Universal.Wolpert graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science. He is a founding board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America’s summer camps for children and sits on the Cedars Sinai Hospital board of governors.
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- Mobile, Gaming, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Telgorithm — The only messaging API provider to guarantee message deliverability. Upgrade your A2P messaging experience and ignite your ROI with Telgorithm.
- Looped — Looped is the ultimate virtual venue for interactive live streaming and virtual video call meet & greet experiences. Our platform connects creators and fans on a global level.
Pitbull Ventures is a pre-seed VC firm in Los Angeles that backs US vertical SAAS startups
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden, Germany
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- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- Spring Free EV — Fleet managers, high mileage, and gig drivers. No Personal Credit Required. Learn More About Spring Free EV Today! A Stress-Free, Quick, and Unbiased Process to Get You Into an Electric Vehicle. Pay As You Go.
- Shoppinpal — No more manual data reconciliation. Seamless integrations, app onboarding & data migrations that allow your business to thrive.
Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet
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- Education, Software, TV
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Finland
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- heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
- Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
Companisto is an equity platform for startups. It enables investors to participate in the funding of companies with an investment of their choice, and in return share profits and increases in value of the startup or property. Companisto is the investment platform for startups and growth companies. Business angels and investors participate ingroundbreaking innovations, promising companies, and ideas that write history through venture capital. As a fintech company, they stand for lean processes, specialized knowledge, and efficient solutions. They are the driver of innovation in the field of professional online corporate finance. In a diverse society, they assume responsibility for the founding culture in Germany and Europe.
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- SaaS, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland
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- OMC°C — Micro Climate Cultivation is creating a scalable, seasonally farmed product system for vertical urban greening.
- INHUBBER — Simplify contracts and signatures effortlessly with Inhubber. Explore secure storage, AI analysis, and deadline alerts.
- Living Brain — Living Brain is a biotechnology company that develops a new method of rehabilitation treatment using virtual reality.
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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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, France
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- Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
- FLOAT — Float is a product lab that focuses on developing design-led software for the technology sector. The company focuses on producing innovative software products.
- Tengo — Tengo is a SaaS platform that helps businesses win more public tenders and design to simplify and centralize the entire tendering process.
Bjorn von Siemens possesses a native drive and understanding for applying technologies to solve challenges in healthcare. Bjorn earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. He conductedseveral years of postgraduate research at the University of St. Gallen as well as at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. Prior to founding caresyntax®, Bjoern was active as an investor and advisor for technology ventures. He is a recognized thought-leader in the areas of applied IoT and AI technologies in healthcare.
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- Health Care, Medical, Software
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States
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- Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
- friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
- Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
- LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
- ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.
Mischa Rurup is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Usercentrics, a GDPR solution for enterprise customers and online marketing agencies.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Indonesia
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- OXOLO — OMASLOT adalah GAMING ONLINE BERLISENSI RESMI dengan promo event menarik terlengkap yang sangat menguntungkan
- Usercentrics — Usercentrics is a leading consent management platform (CMP) that empowers companies to obtain, manage and document the consent of their users
- HUGit — Save and explore the things that matters the most to you
RaceBets.com claims to be one of Europe's leading online bookmakers offering horse betting. Founded in 2006 as a daughter company of online sports book bet-at-home since 2009 they are independent from any other bookmaker. In 2010 the company moved from Germany to Malta and the German Racing Association acquired 40% of the shares.
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- Social Media, Social Network, Social Media Management
- Seed
- Germany
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- HUGit — Save and explore the things that matters the most to you
IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
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- Software, Health Care, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
- Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
- Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Jannis Choulidis
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- E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
- Angel
- Germany
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- friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
Indiana Capital is a team of private equity and venture capitalists that offer funding and assist businesses from setup to operations.
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- News, Life Science, Social Media
- Seed
- Germany
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- Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv
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- Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- ProcessOut — Route transactions, analyze and report on your entire payment ecosystem and switch on providers in one click. Trusted by leading brands.
- SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
- Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, Israel
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- Table22 — The #1 restaurant subscription management platform
- Tabs — Tabs provides AI-powered accounts receivable software to save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.
- Casap — Casap is an award-winning dispute automation platform that streamlines compliance, reduces operational costs, and enhances consumer satisfaction by automating up to 30% of dispute cases. Trusted by fintechs and financial institutions to deliver fast, accurate, and compliant resolutions.
Simon Levene is a co-founder and partner of London’s Mosaic Ventures, the Series A focused venture capital firm with over $300M under management. He has spent 20+ years in tech on both sides of the Atlantic, in operations and VC. Notable investments include early bets on Etsy and Squarespace, each now worth several billion.Simon founded Mosaicalongside partner Toby Coppel in 2014, in order to bring their strong Silicon Valley networks and top-level experience to help Europe-based entrepreneurs that have global ambition. Simon began his career on the west coast, co-founding the international business of @Home Network (later Excite@Home). From 2001, Simon spent four years as VP Corp Dev for Yahoo!, moving back to Europe as the continent’s tech ecosystem was gaining momentum.As a VC, Simon joined Accel London as a partner in 2006. During his time at Accel, and later as an angel and venture partner at Index, Simon invested at Series A in Squarespace, Myheritage, ResearchGate, Shapeways, Appcard, Knewton, and Enfore; as well as Etsy and Fotolia at Series B.At Mosaic, Simon focuses on platforms, marketplaces, consumer services, consumerized SaaS and crypto/blockchain. He has led investments in Convoy, Nexar, Blockstream, Veriff, Lyvly and Clue.
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- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- AppCard — AppCard is a B2B online platform that enables merchants to retain customers through loyalty programs, analytics engines, rewards, and personalized offers. The platform’s setup requires no integration with the merchant's POS and takes less than 20 minutes. It allows businesses to view crucial amounts of data on a single dashboard, offeringmultiple cloud based-analytics and business intelligence reports. The AppCard smartphone and web-based applications increase stickiness, making offers more visible to customers and driving more customers into a merchant’s store repetitively. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in New York, United States.
- GroupSpaces — GroupSpaces is a London-based company developing technology to help real-world groups and communities manage and promote themselves online. Today its software helps manage over 1 million memberships for sports clubs, charities, university societies, national associations and many other groups. GroupSpaces was founded in 2007 by
- ResearchGate — Access 130+ million publications and connect with 20+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research.
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