Top 35 Social Network Startup Investors in Germany in September 2025

Investor	Social Network Germany investments
Steffen Zoller	2
Partech	2
Advent Venture Partners	2
Ananda Impact Ventures	2
Daniel Kuhagen	2
Burda Principal Investments	2
Hermann Eul	2
468 Capital	1
Nordwest-Zeitung	1
EXIST	1
Martin Weiss	1
Mischa Rurup	1
Kite Ventures	1
Point Nine	1
Speedinvest	1
Deutsche Telemedien	1
HV Capital	1
Christoph Lymbersky	1
Dirk Freise	1
Martin Ott	1
seed + speed Ventures	1
Companisto	1
RTP Global	1
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen	1
allygatr	1
Bantam Group	1
Connect Ventures	1
Lakestar	1
pd ventures	1
Robin Lingg	1
Michael Ströck	1
Saarbruecker 21	1
HT Ventures	1
IBB Ventures	1
RaceBets	1

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alpic — Alpic's all-in-one cloud platform provides the infrastructure and tools to turn your product into an AI-native experience. Build, deploy and monitor your MCP servers at scale easily, we'll handle the rest.
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.
Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.

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.

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 are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Elio — Putting leading scientific data into context, to enable others to respond to climate change’s dynamism and act on solutions with confidence.
Ocean Ledger — Precision analytics to design, implement & monitor coastal mitigation and adaptation.
NatureMetrics — NatureMetrics is the World-Leading provider of Biodiversity monitoring data, using eDNA surveys, metabarcoding & more. Book your demo today!

Daniel Kuhagen - Investment Professional @ Paragon Partners

Investment focus

Dating, Timber, Software
Seed, Angel, Secondary Market
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mixtable — Mixtable is an online platform that enables its users to setup offline dates with each other. It was launched in 2013 by Tobias Henning and is based in Bayern.
SEMA Software — Transform your construction design process with SEMA's software. Leverage specialised tools for timber construction, prefabrication, roofing & more!

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with Billease and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.

Hermann Eul

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Social Network
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Loxonet — Social Intranet SaaS business founded in Hamburg, Germany. Ranked Top 100 Fastest Growing Startups by Business Insider Germany. Official product of Deutsche Telekom and AiF FTK.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alaan — Take control of your business spend.
SRE.ai — SRE.ai delivers AI agents that automate Salesforce DevOps workflows, allowing for fast, transparent deployments, back-promotions, and impact analysis. With seamless tool integration, SRE.ai minimizes clicks and maximizes productivity, enabling teams to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.
BlindPay — BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business.

Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Content
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
AX Semantics — AX Semantics is a AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company with roots grounded in content and storytelling. Our sophisticated, yet easy to use SaaS-based software makes automated content generation accessible to customers of all sizes, and is used widely within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.Available in 110 languages, AX Semantics works with more than 500 customers, including globally recognized brands like Porsche, Nestlé and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was named one of the world's top five providers of natural language generation platforms by Gartner, and a top emerging company in the NLG market by ForresterAX Semantics is changing the way content is created, published and viewed. Our software allows thousands of users to successfully automate text within two days, and gives people the space to develop and nurture their creative originality.Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Martin Weiss is the Chief Executive Officer at Hubert Burda Media. Martin Weiss attended Harvard University.

Investment focus

Social Network, News, Retail
Pre-Seed, Series A, Series E
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
Morningcrunch — Morning Crunch provides daily email briefings on business-related economic and financial topics. The company provides succinct, bullet-point reports that condense the most significant market and investment information for young professionals to read in under five minutes.
Notonthehighstreet — Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind thepeople that make them.Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are.Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation.With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Mischa Rurup is an entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Usercentrics, a GDPR solution for enterprise customers and online marketing agencies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

OXOLO — OMASLOT adalah GAMING ONLINE BERLISENSI RESMI dengan promo event menarik terlengkap yang sangat menguntungkan
Usercentrics — Usercentrics offers advanced solutions for data privacy and regulatory compliance. Meet privacy requirements, manage user consent, and secure monetization.
HUGit — Save and explore the things that matters the most to you

Kite Ventures is a global investment company that specializes in marketplace and transactional network investments for startups and early stage companies. It focuses on high technology and internet investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies in Europe and New York.Kite Ventures is a Russia-based company that was founded in 2008 by EdwardShenderovich.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dataminr — Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
Auctionata — Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvencyproceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Attio — Unlock your team's true potential with Attio, the data-driven CRM for modern teams. Manage everything from sales leads through to recruitment pipelines.
sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

Deutsche Telemedien assists small and medium-sized companies in digitizing their local marketing and a driver of digital transformation. Deutsche Telemedien publishes the telecommunications directories Das Telefonbuch, yellow pages, yellow pages regional, and Das Örliche. This has grown into a digital platform - with numerous innovative servicesand features.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

LODGEA — Build your own booking website with LODGEA, the website builder and booking engine for short term rentals. Free 30 day trial. Drag & drop editor, direct connectivity, marketing optimization, multi-currency & multi-language support, flexible payments. Schedule a demo call today!
nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Framer — Framer is a tool to design interactive high-fidelity prototypes for iOS, Android, desktop, or the web. It enables users to turn static mockups into interactive prototypes and to experiment quickly with dynamic, native-feeling animations and interactions.Framer integrates with design tools, exports smoothly to mobile devices, and is powered bythe language of the modern web, Javascript. The company was founded by Jorn Dijk and Koen Bok.
PraxiPal — PraxiPal is building an AI-driven healthcare workforce to tackle the increasing shortage of healthcare staff.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Prior to founding GLOBAL VENTURES, Christoph was a partner at M2P Venture & Capital Partners, CEO of Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments (T-Venture) and Vice President at DT Capital Partners. At Detecon International he headed the restructuring & efficiency practice and worked for the turnaround management boutique Turnaround ManagementSociety. Christoph founded, managed and successfully exited several companies such as an internet service provider, an IT consulting & security company and a new media publishing company earlier in his career.In addition, Christoph is the author of some bestselling textbooks on corporate restructuring, international management and financial markets. Christoph studied at the University of Hamburg and received a Master of Accounting as well as an MBA from Bond University, Australia. Afterwards he went to France and received his Doctorate with honors, from a leading French University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, E-Commerce Platforms
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aptera — Aptera Motors is engaged in designing, engineering, and assembling the most efficient transportation in the world. Aptera Motors, Corp. was formerly known as Accelerated Composites. It was founded in 2006 and is based in Carlsbad, California.
Convesio — Convesio is a one-stop solution to grow your commerce business. Get scalable WordPress hosting, marketing automation and enterprise payments.
WinSanTor, Inc. — The WinSanTor Solution HOPE FOR NEUROPATHY SUFFERERS Unmet NeedNeuropathy affects nearly 1 in 15 Americans. It is one of the largest unmet medical challenges existing today, with no FDA-approved treatments outside analgesics. Peripheral Neuropathies BreakthroughWe

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

Investment focus

Education, Software, TV
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

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.

Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix

Investment focus

Legal, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
Mobius Labs — Multimodal AI for the world's scale. Fast, secure, and affordable technology for visual, audio, and text applications.

Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
Eleven Dynamics — Eleven Dynamics is a developer of software technology designed to automate industry quality control. The technology software provides solutions for designing and simulating. The processes include automatically programming measurement paths at optimal process time without the need for being a robotic expert, connecting all hardware in real time, andexecuting the measurement process. The software is used to create custom robotic solutions for clients.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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. Book a demo now.
Living Brain — Living Brain is a biotechnology company that develops a new method of rehabilitation treatment using virtual reality.

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tazapay — Experience Tazapay's best-in-class global payment solutions for businesses. Our extensive network supports cards, local payment options, and bank transfers in over 173 countries, ensuring seamless collections, secure holding, and efficient payouts worldwide.
FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Archestra.AI — Enterprise-grade platform enabling non-technical users to safely leverage AI agents and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers with security guardrails and compliance.

bm|t supports innovative and growth-oriented companies in Thuringia with equity investments and venture capital.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Leapter — Leapter is created to revolutionize enterprise software development by turning business needs into practical, visual designs.
warmwind — warmwind operates as an AI operating system for visual process automation.
PERCEPTEC — PERCEPTEC is an application-oriented think tank with the aim of accelerating the process of modernization and digitalization of the optometric and ophthalmological sector.

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

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Clypp — We make documentation sexy. Clypp is an enterprise SaaS solution that helps employees explain software and workflows through video tutorials. The content is intelligently transcribed and shared on an internal platform with colleagues, customers and partners. This way, companies can save up to 20% of their employees' working time, which wouldotherwise be spent on preparing and searching for work-relevant information.
Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
Senior Connect — An AI-driven career platform that matches senior professionals with companies seeking expertise, aligning their skills and personality with employers' needs.

They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AI Lean — Simplify your lien compliance with the only fully automated solution.
Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
Groma — We blend traditional real estate investment, development and management with innovative technology to better serve our tenants, investors and communities.

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
ai-coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ravical — Ravical equips professional services firms with AI agents that collaborate and scale, unlocking practical value today and future growth tomorrow.
Murphy AI — Murphy uses AI to help businesses recover unpaid invoices through respectful, personalized communication.
Belong Entertainment — Belong Entertainment Inc. is a FanTech company creating the financial layer of fandom. Belong empowers artists and brands to connect directly with truly verified fans through proprietary features like FanScore™, KYF™ (Know Your Fan), and Dropblock™. Fans earn rewards, exclusive access, and unique experiences by engaging, spending, and proving theirfandom.The team consists of experienced entrepreneurs who have held senior leadership positions in global entertainment and fintech companies such as Spotify., Belong is launching first in the U.S. with a college and influencer-focused rollout. Its flagship product, the Belong Card, gives fans access to rewards, exclusive drops, and artist-branded experiences while providing artists and brands with verified engagement and transaction insights.Belong’s mission is to transform how culture is monetized by shifting from customers to fans—unlocking the next generation of loyalty, payments, and pop culture engagement.

pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.

Investment focus

Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.

Robin Lingg is a manager at Ringier .

Investment focus

News, Social Network
Pre-Seed
Germany

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Morningcrunch — Morning Crunch provides daily email briefings on business-related economic and financial topics. The company provides succinct, bullet-point reports that condense the most significant market and investment information for young professionals to read in under five minutes.

Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

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Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.

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

Investment focus

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

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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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Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Social Network
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States

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tucan.ai — Tucan enables companies to automatically extract, link and analyse information from their conversations. Automatic meeting minutes and rich notes - focus on your conversations, let Tucan.ai take care of the rest!
AppVirality — AppVirality is a plug-and-play growth hacking toolkit for mobile applications that helps app developers in identifying and implementing the right growth techniques, no coding required. Its referral marketing solution helps customize, launch, and automate referral campaigns for mobile apps and SaaS products. Its tools work through a softwaredevelopment kit and dashboard and customizable application referral programs to help boost a brand its app installs and engagement that enable mobile-focused companies to identify and implement the right growth techniques without having to write new code.AppVirality was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
HomeBeat.Live — HomeBeat.Live ® is a Berlin based PropTech Start-up, with focus on multi-family residential real estate. The leading B2C solution empowers individuals to drive forward the long-overdue digitalisation of their home buildings – free of charge, without any technical knowledge and live within 10 minutes.The cloud based platform is conceived as amixture of well known services like Slack™, DropBox™, ZenDesk™, WhatsApp™, Doodle™ and FaceBook™ with purpose to serve the needs of a modern multi-family building. With HomeBeat.Live, communication, transparency, cost and general efficiency are vastly improved. The platform empowers vibrant communities, 24/7 access to information and enhances safety in the building. Asset holders gain data- and platform sovereignty. Related property managers obtain access to a powerful tool which supports their activities whilst increasing customer satisfaction. HomeBeat.Live provides a win-win situation to all stakeholders.Homebeat.live GmbH was founded in 2016 by Bruno Acar and Anton Skorochod to ignite a new paradigm in property management. The freemium SAAS platform is currently available internationally, in over 6 languages, both as a web-application and as a mobile app.

IBB Ventures is for all those who make a difference and create a sustainable future. We invest public funds as venture capital and, together with Berlin startups, help to promote our capital as a business location.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

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ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
Lumoview Building Analytics — Lumoview digitizes buildings in 2 seconds per room with a device that can be used by everyone. The data is then analyzed highly automated in the cloud. The connected online platform empowers building owners to take action and improve their buildings and reduce CO2 emissions.
dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.

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.

Investment focus

Social Media, Social Network, Social Media Management
Seed
Germany

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