Top 20 Sporting Goods VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in April 2025
A list of 20 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 20 Sporting Goods VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in April 2025
Investor | Sporting Goods Germany investments |
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10x Group | 2 |
Grazia Equity | 2 |
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen | 2 |
Omnes Capital | 1 |
ESO Capital Group | 1 |
STS Ventures | 1 |
Yabeo Capital | 1 |
VRD GmbH | 1 |
Hitachi | 1 |
Oakley Capital | 1 |
Parkshore Holding | 1 |
Commerzbank | 1 |
JCMB Beteiligungs | 1 |
Bonsai Partners | 1 |
Vorwerk Ventures | 1 |
BayBG Venture Capital | 1 |
Berlin Ventures | 1 |
Kickstarter | 1 |
Thieme | 1 |
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen | 1 |
10x Group is a group of serial entrepreneurs and founders investing in founders of digital start-ups in Europe and Silicon Valley.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, India
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- 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.
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.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
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- Formo — We're Formo, the future of dairy. Using micro fermentation, we create animal-free cheeses that humans love.
- 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.
- Affinity — Affinity is a financial solutions company that provides financial inclusion, advisory, and literacy services.
TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
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- In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
- Zenesis — Zenesis intends to change the way engineering planning processes are carried out.
- 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.
Omnes, "Powering Entrepreneurs" is a Leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- France, Germany, United States
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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!
- Quandela — Quandela is an expert in the fabrication of performing devices for the research in quantum photonics and quantum information. They fabricate unique solid-state sources of quantum light. These sources bring a new revolution in quantum technologies based on light.The company's single-photon source device combines photonics and semiconductorquantum dots for quantum communication, computation and sensing and permits to collect the emitted single-photons with exceptional efficiency at high rates, enabling researchers to strongly reduce the charge noise decoherence and assist in the emission of identical photons with fidelity close to unity, an essential requirement for the development of the most advanced quantum applications.
- Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
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.
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- Retail, Sporting Goods, Information Technology
- Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany
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- 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
We are an early-stage investor that believes in flexible Evergreen funding without the limitations of traditional funds.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
- PIONIX — open source software as a service for charging stations / e-mobility
- Rabot Charge — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
They are the family office of a traditional family business.
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- Food and Beverage, Fitness, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
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- Mighty Pea — Mighty Pea is a pea milk producer, which uses yellow split peas in the creation of its beverages.
- SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
- Lyre's Spirit Co — Many years in the making, Lyre’s exquisite range of lovingly crafted alcohol-free, classic spirits was borne from a quest to make the impossible possible. To provide an alternative to those who don’t wish to imbibe alcohol, but still wish to enjoy the mirth, merriment and social intercourse of an evening soiree or shindig. But this is not justany alternative. Every Lyre’s spirit looks, tastes and sashays around the palate just like the original. And yet, the absence of giggle juice enables revellers to remain clear-headed, of good cheer and in fine fettle to pursue whatever tickles their fancy the following day. Lyre’s – the finest range of non-alcoholic classic spirits the world has ever seen.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- United States, Japan, Israel
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- 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 mission is globally scalable carbon capture to support a sustainable future for the climate.
- Soracom — The world's leading companies trust Soracom to connect and manage IoT devices and M2M sensors deployed at scale all over the world.
Oakley Capital partners with ambitious founders and management teams to build successful businesses across three sectors: technology, consumer, education.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Rental, Real Estate
- Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
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- WebCentral — Welcome to Webcentral! Discover fast, secure hosting, web design, and domain services for Australian businesses. Explore our services today!
- ProductLife Group — In our life science consulting expertise, we offer pharmaceutical consulting services during all the regulatory lifecycle of medical products.
- Steer Automotive Group — Explore the Steer Automotive Group a measurably different accident repair centre with more than 30 years industry experience.
Parkshore Holding is an investment company.
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Investment focus
- Fitness, E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
- SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
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.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Audio
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Spain, United States, Germany
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- Livitum — Interior design service and furniture marketplace
- 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.
- PassEntry — The global digital pass issuance company that bridges the gap between your physical wallet and your digital wallet. We do this via our open API platform allowing developers to integrate our technology for their own use cases.
Backing early-stage startups that drive positive impact for people and planet
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- E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark
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- Descycle — Descycle e-waste recycling clean technology
- CoCoach — CoCoach concentrated on developing a feature-rich web platform specifically for health coaches.
- Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Italy, United States
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- 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.
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.
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- Internet, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Kickstarter exists to help bring creative projects to life. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.
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- Consumer Electronics, Software, Fashion
- Product Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Japan, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Sports, Fitness
- Seed
- Germany
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- 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.
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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- rooom — rooom is a global startup based in Germany, launched in 2019. The company’s experienceCloud is an all-in-one platform for creating, managing and promoting engaging 2D, 3D, AR & VR experiences. It works across all desktop and mobile devices. rooom’s experienceCloud is designed to cover the marketing and visualization needs of differentindustries through their comprehensive product portfolio. These include eventCloud (optimized for virtual events, exhibitions, conferences, meetings), spaceCloud (real estate, property, museums), productCloud (3D products, product showrooms) and immerseCloud (tours, guides, 3D books). rooom’s eventCloud is routinely hosting up to 200,000 users for hybrid events like IFA, Berlin and for global customers such as Porsche, Deutsche Telekom, DHL and E.ON. rooom has won over 20 awards, including the Global Eventex Award (twice), the Innovation & Excellence Award and the German Innovation Award.
- Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.
- Coachwhisperer — Coachwhisperer: The live communication system for sports. We take training to the next level and help coaches and athletes reach their true potential.
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