Top 25 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in July 2025
A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Social network startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Social network companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Social Network VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in July 2025
Investor | Social Network Germany investments |
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Burda Principal Investments | 2 |
Ananda Impact Ventures | 2 |
Advent Venture Partners | 2 |
Partech | 2 |
468 Capital | 1 |
HT Ventures | 1 |
RaceBets | 1 |
Point Nine | 1 |
Kite Ventures | 1 |
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen | 1 |
IBB Ventures | 1 |
seed + speed | 1 |
Speedinvest | 1 |
HV Capital | 1 |
Saarbruecker 21 | 1 |
Companisto | 1 |
RTP Global | 1 |
Deutsche Telemedien | 1 |
Nordwest-Zeitung | 1 |
Connect Ventures | 1 |
pd ventures | 1 |
allygatr | 1 |
Wellington Partners | 1 |
Lakestar | 1 |
Bantam Group | 1 |
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.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Health Care, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, Finland
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- 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!
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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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Series B, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
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- 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.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
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- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- Makersite — AI, data and apps for procurement, product design and expert teams to make faster sustainable product and supply chain decisions, at scale.
468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Singapore
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- Apolink — Apolink is building the world’s most interoperable satellite relay network in low Earth orbit. The hybrid communication architecture combines RF and optical inter-satellite links to enable real-time, continuous connectivity for satellite operators across industries.
- Lyra — AI-Native Zoom For Revenue Teams
- Yuno — Improve your general knowledge by listening to short audio stories and taking fun quizzes
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- 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.
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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Investment focus
- 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
Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, France
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- Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
bm|t supports innovative and growth-oriented companies in Thuringia with equity investments and venture capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, United States
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- Zepta — Zepta emphasizes "digital solutions and sustainability in pest control." Zepta develops a digital approach for protecting humans from pests.
- Leapter — Leapter is created to revolutionize enterprise software development by turning business needs into practical, visual designs.
- 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.
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.
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- 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.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
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- Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
- ORUS — ORUS specializes in high-resolution hyperspectral spatial data and associated analytical services.
- Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Flank — Legal OS automates high volume legal queries & requests for the world's fastest growing technology companies, saving time & generating new revenue.
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States, Israel
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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.
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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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
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- Paypercut — Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration.
- Trupeer Ai — Trupeer helps anyone transform rough screen recordings into professional product videos and documents using AI.
- Insight Health — Insight Health provides an AI-driven platform for healthcare that automates common clinical tasks using various specialized AI agents. The platform features AI agents for patient pre-visit intake and follow-ups, AI-based referral processing, phone triage, appointment scheduling, chart preparation, and clinical documentation capture. This enableshealthcare providers to reduce their administrative workload and focus more on direct patient care.
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.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- 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.
Nordwest-Zeitung is a information and communication provider in Germany.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Social, Content
- Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- 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.
We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- 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.
pd ventures is a venture capital firm based in Augsburg, Germany.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- Germany
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- 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.
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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- Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
- 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.
- Senior Connect — An AI-driven career platform that matches senior professionals with companies seeking expertise, aligning their skills and personality with employers' needs.
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
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- Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
- HepaRegeniX — HepaRegeniX is developing drugs for treating acute and chronic liver diseases that effectively restore the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes. The therapeutic concept is founded on research by Professor Lars Zender’s group at the University Hospital Tübingen, which identified mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase 4 (MKK4) as a keyregulator of liver regeneration. Work by Professor Zender’s team showed that using small RNA molecules to suppress MKK4 gene expression restored the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes, even in severely diseased livers. Founded in 2015, HepaRegeniX is developing small-molecule MKK4 inhibitors to treat liver disorders, potentially including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Reneo — Discover Reneo, Germany's leading platform for asset transformation and decarbonization in residential real estate. Unleashing ecological and economic potential through cutting-edge proprietary software.
- Murphy AI — Murphy uses AI to help businesses recover unpaid invoices through respectful, personalized communication.
- Fuse Games — Based in Istanbul, Fuse Games’ vision is to build mobile games that are loved by wide and diverse player groups. Founded by a team that has strong gaming, growth and execution background, Fuse Games’ initial focus is on developing a MOBA game that includes strong meta elements and innovative ways to create a sense of ownership.
They are passionate about seeing their portfolio companies become successful.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- 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.
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