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Top 25 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Germany in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Sporting goods startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Sporting Goods Startup Investors in Germany in July 2025

Investor	Sporting Goods Germany investments
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen	2
Grazia Equity	2
10x Group	2
Arno Gerken	1
Thieme	1
JCMB Beteiligungs	1
Hitachi	1
Kickstarter	1
ESO Capital Group	1
Berlin Ventures	1
Bonsai Partners	1
Commerzbank	1
BayBG Venture Capital	1
Oakley Capital	1
BayStartUP	1
Andrea Lederer	1
COI Partners	1
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen	1
Omnes Capital	1
Yabeo	1
Dumont Venture	1
Vorwerk Ventures	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
STS Ventures	1
Bernd Geilen	1

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TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zepta — Zepta emphasizes "digital solutions and sustainability in pest control." Zepta develops a digital approach for protecting humans from pests.
Prodlane — B2B Product Management SaaS solution
LipoCheck — LipoCheck is a healthtech startup that focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of lipedema, a condition that affects millions of women. The company offers a digital platform that serves as a support system for patients and treating physicians. LipoCheck's services include helping patients recognize lipedema and providing assistance inbecoming symptom-free. The platform was developed with the experiences of practicing doctors, product managers, and software developers. In addition to its digital services, LipoCheck also offers a range of merchandise including hoodies and shirts.

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

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Vytal — Start the Packaging Revolution! We are offering smart & reusable To-Go Packaging-as-a-Service to gastronomy clients & consumers.In Germany the consumption of take-away, convenience and delivery food & drinks is responsible for about 281 kilotons of single-use packaging waste for immediate consumption and is growing at double digitrates. Most of the time, To-Go food containers, snack boxes or coffee cups have a very short life-span of only 30 minutes after which they are tossed into trash (or litter parks, beaches & the ocean). This is not only a giant waste of economic resources as each single use costs between 15 and up to 0,60€ for a stable bowl/box with a lid. It is a horrendous waste of environmental resources (wood, water, crude oil, metals & energy) that are used to produce this packaging. Therefore, a single use packaging not weighing more than 30 grams can easily come with an ecological backpack of more than 8 kilograms when taking into account all the resources used in production (material intensities taken from Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy). Looking at GHG emissions, the picture is similarly bleak: Using CO2 emission factors and the detailed material mix of the single-use packaging waste analyzed by NABU (German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union), the 281 thousand tons waste from To-Go consumption generated around 556 thousand tons of CO2 or the equivalent of 195k passenger cars per year (assuming an average distance travelled of 15,000km). With the expected rise of take-away, convenience and delivery food, the related emissions are expected to increase at double digit rates as waste volume is expected to increase and as we saw a shift to plastics relative to cardboard or other materials. While there is a growing awareness of the problem, especially in Germany, there is no scalable solution yet and the commonly used alternative of nature-based & ‘biodegradable’ materials like bagasse or PLA also require many resources for production & transport, and have to be incinerated or go to landfill after use as there is currently no way to compost them.
Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
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10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

Arno Gerken

Investment focus

Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

Thieme is a medical and science publisher that provides medical and chemistry information, software, and services to health professionals and students.The company's products include databases for medical student and resident education and board preparation, diagnostic imaging, nursing diagnosis as well as an organic chemical synthesis forthe pharmaceutical industry. Their services include programs for the management of chronic diseases. It also provides custom course software, and publishes journals and books annually in electronic and print form, and has an open-access program.It was founded in New York, New York by Georg Thieme in 1886.

Investment focus

Sensor, Sports, Fitness
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

8sense — Hey, I'm your 8th sense. Your sensor-based posture coach for better back health, well-being, and productivity. Half fitness coach, half physiotherapist.

JCMB Beteiligungs GmbH is a private early stage investment company. JCMB invests either as a lead investor or as a co-investor with other investors and usually holds a minority stake in its portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Audio
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wonderz — Wonderz help to democratize digital content distribution directly to their customers with the help of WunderBox
sofatutor — The online learning platform sofatutor.com illustrates and visualizes all school material in 1,060 videos. Interactive practical exercises for each video, worksheets to print out, and the daily live help with experts guarantee an all-round service.
Campaign — High-quality modern furniture built to last a lifetime. Our sectionals, sofa, loveseat & chair are designed with clean lines, a steel frame & durable fabric.

Official website of Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and technology. We will solve customers' and society's challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
United States, Japan, Israel

Portfolio highlights

8sense — Hey, I'm your 8th sense. Your sensor-based posture coach for better back health, well-being, and productivity. Half fitness coach, half physiotherapist.
Captura — Captura is harnessing the power of the ocean to heal the climate through Direct Ocean Capture technology.
DeCurret — DeCurret is into Cryptocurrency Business.

Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

Investment focus

Consumer Electronics, Software, Fashion
Product Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Japan, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naked Root — Naked Root generates technology that makes it simple to grow plants.
IFO Corporation — A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
Uptime Industries — Lemony is a secure, on-premise generative AI platform that delivers organization-wide trust, ownership, and transparency in AI. It provides all AI needs in a box, on-premise, fully private and secure, no cloud access required - $499/mth for up to 5 users. Start exploring organization-specific AI on a desk with a single Lemony Box (Node), andscale for larger teams and increased multi-model usage with multiple Lemony Nodes. All business data are securely grounded in.

ESO Capital Group (“ESO”) is a European special situations investment management group with offices in London and Zurich. ESO manages funds on behalf of institutional investors and has deployed over $500 million in capital since inception.They invest across the capital structure and focus on privately-originated, off-the-run situations backed bythe assets of European small and medium enterprises (SMEs), financial assets and real estate. Their two core areas of expertise include (i) acquiring undervalued and distressed assets, including loans as well as physical or financial assets, and (ii) providing capital to SMEs facing liquidity constraints, from high growth business to insolvency situations. Key to their success is their proprietary pan-European sourcing network and a capital preservation investment approach.ESO Capital UK Ltd is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and registered as an investment advisor with the SEC.

Investment focus

Retail, Sporting Goods, Information Technology
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Arcus FM — Arcus FM is a facilities management company.
Netomnia — Netomnia are investing in and building a new full-fibre network right across the UK. Future-proofing homes and businesses with a reliable, high-quality, and high-speed internet connection.
Churchill Group — An expert facilities management company based in the UK. Work with the UK's largest owned soft services company. Contact Churchill Group today.

Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.

Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

Bonsai Partners is a Venture Capital investment company based in Madrid, Spain. We invest in both primary and secondary opportunities in Tech startups from Europe.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Spain, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Floww — Connecting startups with funding partners, Floww is a data-centric network for innovators, venture capitalists, investors, banks and entrepreneurs.
TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.
Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Commerzbank is a Frankfurt-based commercial bank that provides seed and debt financing investments. For Private and Small Business Customers as well as Corporate Clients, the Bank offers a comprehensive portfolio of financial services. Commerzbank was founded in 1870 and is based in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Embraer — Embraer SA is a Brazil-based holding company primarily engaged in the manufacture of aircraft. The company’s business activities are divided into three business segments: Commercial Aviation; Defense and Security Business, and Executive Aviation. The Commercial Aviation segment is involved in the development, production, and sale of commercialjets, as well as in the provision of support services, with emphasis on the regional aviation industry and aircraft leasing. The Defense and Security Business segment mainly includes the research, development, production and modification of defense aircrafts as well systems and software design. Through the Executive Aviation segment, the company is active in the development, production, and sale of business jets, the provision of support services related to this sector of the market, and aircraft leasing. Embraer has subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and representative offices in Brazil, the United States, France, Holland, and China, among others.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Clearway Energy Group — We're a leading independent clean power developer and operator with over 350 clean energy projects across America.

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
Parkstory — Parkstory offers fully automated parking solutions that are supported by artificial intelligence.
StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.

Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.

Investment focus

Internet, Rental, Real Estate
Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Infravadis — Infravadis is a technology-enabled platform devoted to the market for underground infrastructure maintenance ("UIM").
I-TRACING — I-TRACING provides expert cybersecurity services to secure your digital transformation journey. Benefit from tailored solutions ranging from consulting to integration, managed SOC and 24/7 CERT services.
ProductLife Group — In our life science consulting expertise, we offer pharmaceutical consulting services during all the regulatory lifecycle of medical products.

BayStartUP prepares startups for investors talks and provides them with a network of several hundred investors and business angels.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

AUDAVIS — AUDAVIS is developing the most innovative approach that will revolutionize auditing. With data-driven full automation by AUDAVIS and a new AI-based approach, every financial statement becomes a breeze with unprecedented efficiency.
traplinked — Digitale Fallensysteme - Endlich wissen, was los ist! Mit den traplinked Sensormodulen JERRY und TOM erhalten Sie in Echtzeit ein digitales Abbild Ihrer Kontrollpunkte.
BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.

Andrea Lederer

Investment focus

Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

Co-Investor Partners is a private equity investor focused on mid-sized growth companies in German-speaking countries – with offices in Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. It has conducted direct investments for the last 21 years, supporting mid-sized companies in growth phases.Co-Investor Partner seeks to invest in companies ranking #1-3 ineach market with double-digit underlying company's growth, proven business models with at least EUR 10m in revenues and positive unit economics and energetic, visonary teams with proven managerial skills. Focused industries include Health-/Medtech/ Diagnostics, E-Commerce/ Retail Tech, SaaS/ Digital Services/ IT-Security, Advanced Materials/ Specialty Chemistry and Automation/ Robotics. The firms sweet spot are equity tickets between EUR 15-25 (including follow-on investments). Co-Investor Partners benefits from its highly professional investment team as well as its stable network of entrepreneurs that provide investment capital as shareholders of the group and co-investors for direct investments. Co-Investor Partners builds on a wealth of experience from more than 50 equity investments and has 11 active investments under management currently in various sectors. Among the successful investments are Mister Spex (partial exit through IPO), Fixatti (sold to listed chemical company Arkema), Euroimmun (sold to the US laboratory specialists PerkinElmer) and Casualfood (exit to Orior AG). The group consists of Co-Investor AG, Zürich, as well as its three wholly-owned subsidiaries of Co-Investor Deutschland GmbH, EVP Capital Management AG and Co-Investor Financial Services GmbH headquartered in Frankfurt am Main.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Restaurants
Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Freaks 4U — Freaks 4U is a marketing agency that offers corporate communications, in-house media, and productions for gaming and esports.
Mister Spex — Mister Spex is an online store that sells various brands of glasses and contact lenses in Germany. Its product range includes over 5000 different glasses, sunglasses, sports eyewear, and contact lenses from more than 60 brands and designers.The store’s offerings include sports labels such as Adidas, Carrera, Lacoste, and Oakley to designer brandssuch as Burberry, Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Gucci, Jil Sander, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, Tom Ford, and Versace.Mister Spex was launched in 2007 and its operations are headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It also operates its own websites in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.
Keller Sports — Clothing, shoes, equipment ➤⭐ over 150 premium brands for your sport ➤10% KELLER Premium-discount*✨ ➤Free shipping from 150 €✅

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

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.

Omnes VC is the Venture Capital arm of Omnes Capital, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation with €4.8 billion in assets under management and a 20 year + experience in: venture capital, buyout & growth capital, private debt, renewable energy, co-investment, secondary funds of funds. Omnes Capital is fullyindependent.With 65 business sales including 14 IPOs carried out in 16 years, Omnes VC is one of the key players in France in financing innovative SMEs with expertise in both Technology and Healthcare sectors. Omnes VC has supported 120 companies and has invested more than €500M in businesses such as Scality, Novaled, BioVex, arGEN-X, Pixium, Blablacar.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
France, Germany, United States

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!
VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.

We are an early-stage investor that believes in flexible Evergreen funding without the limitations of traditional funds.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
WithLess — Apps multiply, costs grow, admin spirals. We get it. The tools your team needs WithLess time, money, and admin.
Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.

DuMont Venture Holding GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of M. DuMont Schauberg - a leading media corporation based in Germany. DuMont Venture is actively seeking high-growth potential companies in the Digital Media and IT segments, and financially and strategically supports the development, market launch, andinternationalization of its partners.DuMont Venture invested in successful companies like plista, rebuy, Picanova, lieferando, Learnship, navabi, ZooRoyal, movingimage, northworks, farbflut or Fairrank.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

navabi — navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labelsvia worldwide express delivery.The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
ZooRoyal — ZooRoyal is an online platform that offers accessories and supplies for pet dogs, cats, reptiles, horses, fish, and more. Its operations are based in Würselen, Germany.
rankingCoach — rankingCoach offers a complete digital marketing app for small businesses and a variety of resellable digital marketing solutions including SEO, local marketing, brand watch, Google Ads, and social media marketing. rankingCoach app creates a tailored digital marketing strategy based on the individual requirements of each business. This marketingplan is supported by easy to follow step-by-step video tutorials and specialized tools for each key digital marketing approach, including AI-generated Google Ads; keyword finding and tracking tools for SEO, as well as newsfeeds for review and brand monitoring.These award-winning products from rankingCoach are available in 32 countries and 14 languages, directly as well as from numerous well-known hosting companies, TELCOs, online publishers, website builders, CMSs, and businesses in the MarTech sector.

Vorwerk Ventures is an independent €150m Venture Capital Fund grown out of the Vorwerk Group in late 2019 and defines itself through a strong commitment towards consumer-facing digital businesses. Our unique direct selling experience in addition to an outstanding track record in Venture Capital provides added value for forward-thinkingentrepreneurs. Headquartered in Berlin Germany, we currently have more than €250m in assets under management and are constantly on the look-out for promising opportunities starting with Seed/Series A investments of €1m to €10m and ensuring continuous support reserving up to €15m for upcoming financing rounds. An outstanding founding team, an existing market presence and a well-defined exit strategy framed by a consumer-centric business model are key requirements to us when it comes to making an investment decision.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sunhero — Sunhero delivers custom-built solar panel solutions. Sunhero offers consumers a hassle-free method of installing customised photovoltaic solar systems on their homes, be that either purchasing outright or renting for a 20 year period.
CarbonPool — Innovative carbon credit insurance which pays claims in carbon credits, not cash. See how we can help you.
Sorella Care — Sorella is the first network of multidisciplinary health places for women. Sorella ensures that every woman, regardless of age, has access to a comprehensive care pathway offered by women's health specialists.

Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!

STS Ventures is a tech-oriented VC that is strongly differentiated from other venture capital funds primarily by its focus on camel tech start-ups and its investment focus on niche markets. Camel start-ups are companies that are resilient and resistant and can therefore survive even under difficult economic conditions, pandemics or global crises.The VC bundles the business angel activities of the Cologne-based serial entrepreneur and investor Stephan Schubert. In addition, business angels, entrepreneurs and family offices who are friends or in close business association with Stephan Schubert invest jointly with him through STS Ventures. Since the advent of the internet in Europe in the late 1990s, Stephan Schubert has invested in numerous technology-driven start-ups and has become one of the most active and experienced business angels in Germany.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

GIPEDO — We believe sport content consumption will become more diversified in the future, not less. Hence, we put clubs and rights holders into control by providing a platform that turns stadiums into digital assets to supercharge content monetisation.
MANSIO — MANSIO's unique IT solution enables cross-company relay transportation. Thereby, the semi-trailer is handed over from one truck to another at a parking lot along the route. After this “trailer swap”, the truckers drive back to their particular home regions with their own semi-truck and the swapped trailer from the opposite direction.In theMANSIO transportation system, empty runs to find return loads and parking-search-traffic are eliminated. Semi-trucks can be used very cost-efficiently in a second shift and - by that - generate additional revenue. In the future, the MANSIO trailer handover system will also allow battery-electric trucks with short ranges to be used on certain sections of long distance transport routes.
Golfstrom Energy GmbH — Embedded financial services for renewable energy

Bernd Geilen used to work as CEO for ING Germany.

Investment focus

SaaS, Consumer, Online Portals
Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Beplus — Jetzt schnell und einfach mit be+ zeitfressende Routineaufgaben reduzieren, komplexe Prozesse vereinfachen und Benefits erlebbar machen.
PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

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