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Top 10 Social VC Funds & Investors in Germany (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Germany Social startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Germany Social startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Retail $5M–$200M
Lakestar
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $2.2M–$91M
Fosun International
VC Fund
1 China, United States, Israel Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology $1.4M–$99M
Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, Content
Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
1 South Korea, United States, China Series A, Series B, Seed Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care $743k–$60M
Deutsche Telemedien
VC Fund
1 Germany Seed, Series A SaaS, Social, E-Commerce
pd ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany Series A, Seed Internet, Online Portals, SaaS $2.6M–$18M
Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $214k–$3.8M
Companisto
VC Fund
1 Germany, Switzerland Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed SaaS, Information Technology, Software $110k–$3.7M
Venista Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Mobile, Software, E-Commerce $1.1M–$5.9M
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in Germany Social startups

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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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $6.2M–$200M; Series C $16M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
  • Skillshare — Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business,and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.
  • Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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Lakestar
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$16M; Series A $6M–$60M; Series B $16M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Rhino — Rhino is a licensed insurance agency that transacts insurance and gives renters financial alternatives to afford the homes they want. It is a smart alternative to security deposits and acts as a general agent for one or more insurance carriers. Rhino was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
  • Taulia — Taulia makes it easy for businesses to free up cash, accelerate payments, and improve supply chain health. Learn about our working capital solutions today.
  • Aetion — Aetion is a health care technology company that provides decision-grade real-world evidence software to biopharma companies, payers, and regulatory agencies.
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Fosun International
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

Fosun International Limited is a Hong Kong-based investment holding company engaged in financial, property, steel, and healthcare businesses. The Company has nine segments. Insurance operates and invests in insurance businesses. Investment is engaged in strategic investment, private equity investment, venture capital investment, and secondarymarket investment.Fosun International Limited was founded in 1992.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 120
  • Round size: Series A $1.4M–$16M; Series B $4M–$35M; Series C $4.3M–$99M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tong Tong Pay — Tong Tong Pay has a financial payment system and has developed payment products such as fast payment, online banking payment, account payment, certified payment, and prepaid card payment. It is a financial payment service provider. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.
  • Maifu Precision — Maifu Precision is a company focusing on providing high-end automation solutions for the plastics industry, covering injection molding and assembly processes.
  • Digital Asset Clearing Center — DACC's technology links blockchain networks with conventional payment infrastructure, such as China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), to offer clearing and settlement services for tokenized assets.
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Nordwest-Zeitung
VC Fund · Westerstede, Niedersachsen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund · Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: South Korea, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 403
  • Round size: Seed $743k–$10M; Series A $1.7M–$26M; Series B $2.6M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.7M in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Adriel — Adriel provides the necessary tools to handle complex campaigns and reach your advertising goals. Drive results at maximum efficiency with a centralized dashboard.
  • StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
  • I-Sense — i-SENS, Inc. is a global company dedicated to improving the lives of people with diabetes and those who care for them.
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Deutsche Telemedien
VC Fund · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

  • Industry: SaaS, Social, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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pd ventures
VC Fund · Augsburg, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Online Portals, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Series A $2.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

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.
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Saarbruecker 21
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $214k–$3.8M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
  • Entrix — Entrix is an optimisation and trading platform for grid-scale battery storage that accelerates the transition towards a clean energy future. Our mission is to enable the most effective use of green energy and to ensure the reliability of the future energy system. We provide state-of-the-art technology and services to both asset owners and potentialinvestors across the globe.
  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
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Companisto
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

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

  • Industry: SaaS, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$3M; Equity Crowdfunding $110k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Idana — Mit Idana befragen Sie Patient:innen vorab digital. Entlasten Sie Ihr Team und begeistern Sie Ihre Patient:innen.
  • Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
  • PerioTrap Pharmaceuticals GmbH — PerioTrap is an early stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to eradicate the root cause of periodontitis
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Venista Ventures
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Germany Social startups

Venista Ventures backs aspiring founders in pre-seed and seed rounds with a strict geographical focus on Germany.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
  • Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
  • ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
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Social VC funding in Germany at a glance

Stats across 12 deals from 20 investors.

20
investors
in Germany Social startups
12
deals
in Germany Social startups
$6M
median round
in Germany Social startups
30%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Series A
most common funding stage

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