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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Germany

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sports startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Germany

Investor Sports Germany investments
Atlantic Labs 12
BITKRAFT Ventures 10
IBB Ventures 6
Possible Ventures 5
March Capital 5
DN Capital 5
APX 5
Rheingau Founders 4
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen 4
Sinan Güler 4
PSV 4
Jenny Saft 4
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal 4
Forward Venture Capital 4
Carcharodon Capital 4
Everblue Management 4
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds 3
Gloria Baeuerlein 3
BLN Capital 3
Maximilian Tayenthal 3
Thomas Weidner 3
IFB Innovationsstarter 3
Ralf Reichert 3
LVP 3
Alper Akcan 3
Dreamcraft Ventures 3
NRW.BANK 3
Vela Partners 3
Antler 3
Think.Health 3
Axel Springer Digital Ventures 3
Capnamic Ventures 3
HV Capital 3
Berlin Ventures 3
Florian Körner 3
aws Gründungsfonds 3
Mustafa Vardalı 3
Russmedia Equity Partners 3
Roman Kirsch 3
Björn Bauermeister 3
Samuel Shank 3
Ralf Dummel 3
Ralf Reichert 3
Müller Medien 2
Investitionsbank Berlin 2
Ebru Dorman 2
Carsten Maschmeyer 2
StartersHub 2
Creathor Ventures 2
Dapper Labs 2
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Atlantic Labs VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Heyflow — Create better customer interactions with conversational flows. More personal. More conversions. Build your flow today! No coding required.
  • SynthFlow AI — Forget lengthy development cycles and expensive machine learning teams. With Synthflow you can build sophisticated, tailored AI agents without technical skills or coding - just bring your data and ideas.
  • SCRYPT Digital — Your trusted partner for crypto assets
BITKRAFT Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 14 investments in the past 12 months
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • GAIA — A collaborative multi-modality AI platform, GAIA is an ambitious movement to give human and AI agents superpowers, uncensored & equitable.
  • New Tales — New Tales operates as a game developer and publisher, focusing on creating original intellectual properties (IPs) and offering publishing support to partner game studios. With a commitment to nurturing game DNA and player communities, New Tales leverages its expertise to enhance the gaming experience. The company's approach includes developingits own game titles while also collaborating with other studios to bring their games to wider audiences. New Tales emphasizes the importance of engaging game narratives and strong community connections in the success of its projects.
  • Mirror World — Mirror World is a blockchain-based virtual world, also known as the Metaverse, where we aim to connect Mirror World with different games and experiences, allowing users to move through different game scenarios with interconnected & independent economic systems.
IBB Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Quantistry — Move beyond traditional chemical simulation software and boost your R&D success. From Quantum to AI. Get started!
  • Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
  • Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.
Possible Ventures VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
  • Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
  • InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions
March Capital VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Overjet — Overjet is the #1 dental AI company that supports DSOs, dentists, dental groups, insurance companies and health plans on their quest to improve oral health.
  • Luminance — Luminance develops document analysis software to secure big data systems for multinational and governmental organizations. Its software provides overview of various companies and picks out warning signs without any instructions; and document clustering and filtering to enable users focus on eliminating administrative tasks. Luminance identifiesrisk clauses, data visualization, and anomaly detection, as well as reviews and enables users to allocate tasks and track the progress of their team; and manages numerous mergers, acquisitions, and financings. It also helps lawyers and legal teams to categorize, review, and analyze various documents and contracts in the data room. Emily Foges founded founded Luminance in 2015. It has its headquarters in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
  • Xage Security — Secure, manage & transform OT, IT and cloud operations. Deliver zero-trust local access, remote access, and data security.
DN Capital VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
  • Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
  • Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it
APX VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 11 investments in the past 12 months
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Spike Technologies — Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of data points for
  • Eleos — Get income protection insurance online with Eleos. All policies include 24x7 Virtual GP, gym discounts and other benefits.
  • Matau Tech LTD — Matau is an AI-powered BI tool that empowers SMEs to access and analyze their data through simple conversations without needing a data team or technical expertise. It integrates seamlessly with existing data sources, allowing you to ask business questions in natural language and receive instant answers. It is like having a data expert always by theuser’s side, ready to answer any business question without the need to hire a data scientist or analyst. Here's how it works:1. Integration: Matau seamlessly connects to the user's existing data sources, such as their e-commerce platform, marketing tools, and databases. It's as simple as installing an app or plugin. 2. Data Consolidation: Once integrated, Matau automatically pulls in all the data and combines it into a centralized, easy-to-understand format. No manual data wrangling required. 3. Conversational Interface: When the user has a business question, they can simply ask Matau using natural language, just like having a conversation with a colleague. For example, they can ask, "What were our top-selling products last month, and why?" 4. Actionable Insights: Matau uses advanced AI and machine learning to analyze the data and provide actionable answers to the user's questions. It not only gives the numbers but also explains the factors influencing those results. 5. Continuous Learning: The more the user interacts with Matau, the better it understands their business and can offer proactive insights and recommendations. It's like having a data expert that continuously learns and adapts to the user's needs.With Matau, users can make data-driven decisions quickly and confidently without getting bogged down in complex analytics or relying on scarce data resources. It empowers everyone in the organization, from sales to marketing to finance, to leverage data for better business outcomes.
Rheingau Founders VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Rheingau Founders is a Berlin&Munich based Venture Capital firm active since 2011. Focusing on pre-seed to Series A investments in Europe, predominantly B2B in the fields of Marketplaces, Software as a Service, InsurTech, and eHealth. Rheingau targets start-ups that have the potential to sustainably disrupt existing processes and value chains.Besides the financial investment, we offer strategic support through the mentorship of our partners.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
  • MoleQlar — MoleQlar is a data and research-driven longevity company. It provides valuable information and offers consumers lab-tested nutritional supplements. The company focuses on functional medicine with optimized nutrition. Their product range includes Uthever NMN, Resveratrol, Betaine, Carnosine, and more. These products are aimed at lowering biologicalage and promoting health and longevity. MoleQlar also offers health tracking services. The company is certified in Germany and delivers its products EU-wide, including Switzerland.
  • Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MiViA — From microstructure segmentation to grain size measurement! Our AI engine provides a fast and reliable metallographic analysis for metallic products.}
  • Packwise — Packwise is bringing Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to the Internet of Things. Their Packwise Smart Cap makes a container intelligent and allows for improved and automated packaging management and logistics. Millions of IBCs are being used by chemical, pharmaceutical and food companies every day. Their Packwise Smart Cap is narrow-band LPWANconnected and provides users with real-time information on the state and location of containers.Packwise develops ready-to-use web applications and can be integrated with existing in-house IT or software through web service API.Packwise GmbH is a German company based in the Silicon Saxony. Packwise is Europe’s pioneer in digital industrial packaging management (IBCs and drums).
  • watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
Sinan Güler Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Wellness, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
  • Digime3D — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
PSV VC Fund · Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 6 investments in the past 12 months
PreSeed Ventures are the preferred travel companion for trailblazing founders when they set out on the journey of transforming startup dreams to successful businesses. Founded in 2000 they have an exceptional track record of spotting, fostering and financing tomorrow’s winners in syndication with top-tier investors locally and globally. As the namesuggests, PreSeed Ventures operates at the earliest stages, where founders need the professional, operational & systematic support of a VC, but the risks are still too high for most VCs in seed stages. Yet to the powerhouse of experts behind PreSeed Ventures, who have experience from hundreds of startup journey in the pre-seed stage, it is an opportunity to support and nurture the growth of promising startups on the rise, minimizing the time and risk to the next investment round.PreSeed Ventures has grown out of the technological research environment at Denmark’s Technical University, DTU. In 2020 they launch their first full blown commercial venture fund, yet continuing to be a subsidiary company to the university.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • spektr — Explore spektr's tailored compliance automation solutions for KYB monitoring, AML compliance, risk management, and more. Try our no-code, customizable platform for free today!
  • UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
  • Yacheng Network — Yacheng Network is a provider of information technology and software services that specializes in offering these services.
Jenny Saft Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
  • Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
  • LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.
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Investment focus
  • Computer, Collaboration, Software
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
  • Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
  • Somewhere — Somewhere, formerly Support Shepherd. We find you amazing employees who cost 80% less than US equivalents, backed by our 6-month Perfect Hire Guarantee.
Forward Venture Capital VC Fund · Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Forward Venture Capital is a Venture Capital fund that invests in early-stage companies in the US and Europe. We support early stage entrepreneurs and help them accelerate their growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
  • Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
  • Elements Advisors — Elements Vitals revolutionize the way you measure, benchmark, and monitor financial health. Save time serving clients & growing your firm.
Carcharodon Capital VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • AskBrian — AskBrian created an AI assistant that empowers business professionals to focus on high-value work by taking care of tedious tasks for you. Meet Brian.
  • JUPUS — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.
  • hitcap esports GmbH — hitcap esports is an online-based platform that connects esports gamers and fans.
Everblue Management VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, eSports
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
  • Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
  • House of Blueberry — House of Blueberry is the leading digital fashion house in the metaverse. Since 2012, Blueberry has served hundreds of thousands of consumers and sold more than 20 million digital assets, making it the industry leader in this quickly expanding sector. Blueberry is actively bringing its community and brand to the biggest web 2.0 and 3.0 metaverseplatforms, where it is already present on a number of platforms.Blueberry was established in 2012 by Gizem Mishi McDuff in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 53 investments in the past 12 months
The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Heidelberg Epignostix — Heidelberg Epignostix is a pioneering start-up led by a dedicated team of DNA methylation-based tumor categorization experts. Heidelberg Epignostix has revolutionized tumor categorization by using the strength of methylation-based algorithms.
  • InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions
Gloria Baeuerlein Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
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Investment focus
  • B2B, Apps, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
BLN Capital VC Fund · Schönefeld, Brandenburg, Germany
We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Software, Gaming
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
  • Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
  • The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.
Maximilian Tayenthal Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Vitt — Vitt is building a platform that simplifies both fundraising for SaaS founders and creates a new asset class for investors to invest in. A SaaS company that has contracted revenue can apply for financing it upfront — rather than waiting for cash to come in monthly, through Vitt's web application they get the cash upfront.Vitt analyses theirfinancial data and gives them a financing decision in a matter of minutes — not months. No more searching for intros to venture capitalists in your network. It shouldn't be about who you know but what you've built.
  • Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
  • beatvest — An investment platform supporting do-it-yourself portfolio building with education and tools
Thomas Weidner Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Thomas Weidner
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
  • Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
IFB Innovationsstarter VC Fund · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Grant
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 3D Spark — Profitability and Sustainability Aligned using 3D Spark's Platform - Empowering Manufacturing with Insights and Efficiency!
  • Stargazr — Stargazr is a AI-powered software that enables you to understand your financial data
  • Neuralfinity — Neuralfinity provides computer AI services. They generalise machine learning models by utilising an ML API as a service.
Ralf Reichert Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
  • Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
LVP VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
  • Jam & Tea Studios — Jam & Tea Studios is a remote game studio that develops and offers multiplayer games. The company's games focus on leveraging innovative content and fostering social connections among players.
  • Steel City Interactive — Steel City Interactive develops gaming.
Alper Akcan Angel
Alper Akcan
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
  • Lisa AI — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Dreamcraft Ventures VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Seed-to-A engineers. We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hakio — Make well-informed decisions, and transform uncertainty into your strategic advantage with AI-powered forecasts.
  • Kvantify — Quantum computing will revolutionize many aspects of computing. We can help your business harness the full potential of Quantum Computing and High-Performance Computing today.
  • Tilta — Provide a financial service, drive your GMV, and add a new revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial servicer provider.
NRW.BANK VC Fund · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • widu — widu enables real estate and accommodation companies to source visuals (photography, video, drone) at scale through its serviced marketplace
  • Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
  • Prothea Technologies — Prothea Technologies is a private medical technology business to provide lung cancer biopsy and therapy in a single hospital visit.
Vela Partners VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Vela Partners is an AI-enabled venture investor based in San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
  • Goooods — Goooods provides engagement in the development and operation of B2B commerce.
  • LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.
  • Base Operations — Base Operations aggregates and visualizes threat data to help companies keep their people and operations safe around the world.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
  • Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
  • Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.
Think.Health VC Fund · Fürstenfeldbruck, Bayern, Germany
Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures. We continuously seek innovations and disruptive business models in digital healthcare, medical technologies and health service providers,
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
  • anvajo — Originally started at TU Dresden, anvajo can now look back on several years of innovative research and successful product development with uninterrupted growth. As part of the business expansion and ongoing team building, anvajo moved into its new headquarters in Dresden in January 2020. On 1300 m² practically all areas, including development,production and support functions are united under one roof.
  • Navignostics — Navignostics combines highly multiplex tumor imaging with advanced data analytics for personalized cancer treatments.
Axel Springer Digital Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the Venture Capital unit of Axel Springer SE, investing in digital companies globally.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, Digital Media, Internet
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.
  • Proportunity — Proportunity is a technology-driven mortgage lender. The company pushes the edge on real estate data-driven investment insights. It uses machine learning to accurately forecast house prices and up-and-coming areas, providing loans to buyers looking to purchase homes in forecasted high-growing areas.Vadim Toader and Stefan Boronea startedProportunity in 2016, which is headquartered in London, England.
  • Goggo Network — Autonomous Mobility as a Service. We deploy and operate fleets of shared autonomous vehicles to transport people and goods.
Capnamic Ventures VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • MARKT-PILOT — MARKT-PILOT is proud to support machine manufactures and help them better manage the after-sales and supply chain management issues. As of today, MARKT-PILOT used its innovative AI-based software to analyze and optimize parts pricing for over 70 machine manufacturers. The results show that more than 90 percent of parts have high sales and profitpotential, since they are either underpriced or overpriced. This means that machine manufacturers are missing out on millions of euros. With the MARKT-PILOT software, PRICE-RADAR, manufactures now have comprehensive market intelligence and thus enable an intelligent market-oriented pricing strategy.
  • SurFunction — SurFunction is a system provider for contactless surface modification. It employs surface structures inspired by nature to improve and make items more sustainable, while actively contributing to society and beneficial ecological change.
  • Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
HV Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 24 investments in the past 12 months
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
Portfolio highlights
  • simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
  • Creator.Bid — Hub for the AI Creator Economy
  • Storyblok — Storyblok is an intuitive content management system that helps your developer and marketing teams get value from your content faster and create innovative digital experiences.
Berlin Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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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 is Europe’s fastest growing digital, OTC energy trading platform. Our platform digitalises the end-to-end professional energy trading process. Using enmacc allows participants to gain speed, efficiency and security when trading in energy markets. More than 340 companies, with over 1.600 active traders, are already taking advantage of enmaccand are utilising our continuously growing network of energy suppliers, industrial companies, energy trading houses and municipal utilities for trading in power & gas. All of our clients can benefit from increased market access, additional liquidity and other business development opportunities. enmacc customers can use three different trading screens: entender (sales trading) & entender pro (professional trading) – the world-leading Request-For-Quote (RFQ) technology for energy markets; enmarket – the OTC price screen and marketplace for one-click trading; and engreen – the state-of-the-art trading screen for Guarantees of Origin (GoOs). Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. Complete documentation and audit-proof archiving of all trading activities on the platform take place automatically. The real-time credit check guarantees secure trading and processes for all participants. We do everything we can to make the daily work of energy traders and portfolio managers easier by enabling them to focus on the things that really matter.
  • OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.
Florian Körner Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
  • Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
aws Gründungsfonds VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria
aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Austria, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Valutico — Valutico is the world‘s leading provider of web-based company valuation tools.Started in 2014 by a team of enthusiastic Corporate Finance professionals and web developers, the concept was born out of frustration with the status-quo in Corporate Finance practice: That professional company valuations used to be the domain of only the mostsophisticated of investors.At Valutico, it has been their mission from the outset to offer cutting-edge valuation tools to a much wider audience. Today they empower everybody to perform company valuations that meet and exceed the standards of even the leading investment banks and advisory firms.The company today is headquartered in Vienna/Austria and has an additional office in Frankfurt/Germany.
  • ToolSense — Connecting the way OEMs do business.ToolSense enables OEMs to improve customer service, generate insights for R&D and increase customer loyalty - through digitizing their products with the 'ToolSense NOW' IIoT platform and 'ToolSense IOT' Hardware.ToolSense is the winner of Austrian Foreign Trade Award "Born GlobalChampion 2018", ORF Futurezone Award "Best IoT Startup 2017", part of Deutsche Telekom's "hub:raum NB-IoT Warp Program", part of SAP's "Startup Focus Program" and part of University of Applied Sciences Technikum Vienna's "Student Startup Incubator Program".
  • Arkeon Biotechnologies — Arkeon turns CO2 into functional, carbon-negative ingredients for food
Mustafa Vardalı Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
Russmedia Equity Partners VC Fund · Schan, Schaan, Liechtenstein
We are the investment arm of a 100 year+ Austrian family business and specialise in acquiring, managing, and operating profitable niche businesses in Online Marketplaces, Consumer Apps and SaaS.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Rental, iOS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • PaulCamper — Hire out a private motorhome with insurance. Hire and hire out campers & caravans with PaulCamper. Personal, easy & safe.
  • PlanRadar — PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.).Today, there are in each real estate project on average 1-2 issues per 100ft². PlanRadar's solution with web access and native apps for all kinds ofmobile devices (iOS, Android, Windows) supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information.Project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property &facility managers or investors and owners can record any kind of information (e.g. tasks, defects, ec.) in a cost & time-saving way directly on the site with their tablet or smartphone and assign them in real-time to responsible project stakeholders.PlanRadar has already more than 7,000 customers and more than 60,000 users from 45 different countries worldwide. Thousands of our users save already 7 working hours every single week.
  • Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
Roman Kirsch Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Italy, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
  • Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
  • Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Björn Bauermeister Angel · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
Björn Bauermeister is the co-founder and Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures.Bjoern Bauermeister, CFA attended Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
  • Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
Samuel Shank Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Hitch — Hitch Offers Private and Shared Ridesharing Between Cities. Easily Book Online or via the Mobile App. Door-to-door and Station-to-station Rides Available.
  • Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
  • Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.
Ralf Dummel Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
  • Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
  • TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
Ralf Reichert Angel · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
  • Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Müller Medien VC Fund · Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Müller family media and its partner network are very strong companies from different media sectors. Versatile and individually therefore also the CVs and personalities of their employees who every day with passion and curiosity to work in their teams to achieve common goals.Hans Müller has 65 years the telephone directory publisher Hans Müllerfounded from his living room out - the foundation for the company's family Müller media. His pioneering spirit is still felt today by the fourth generation and with all my colleagues.The company Müller family media is locally connected and networked world. With their five business segments directories, radio, print media, book and new business they are represented with locations in Europe, USA and Asia. More than 2,000 people every day win the confidence of consumers and customers. Changes and challenges of the media world motivate us to pick up trends early in order to help shape this. Their cooperative working lives of mutual esteem and trust.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
  • Fraud0 — Eliminate invalid and low-quality clicks on your ads. Protect all your acquisition channels. Get clean and bot-free marketing data - fraud0.
  • handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
Investitionsbank Berlin VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) is the subsidy bank of the Federal Land of Berlin. With its newly orientated economic support and subsidy policy, it actively contributes towards developing Berlin as a business and industry location.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
  • Lition Energie — Lition Energy was an marketplace that connects renewable energy prodcuers and consumers directly. It was a governmental-licensed electrecity provider in Germany. It supplied over 20.000 households with 70.000 people with clean energy before it closed down as part of the European Energy Crisis in the winter of 2021.
  • Deep Neuron Lab — Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.
Ebru Dorman Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ebru Dorman
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Teleporter — Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally.
  • Genz Biotech — Genz is a biotech research & development company, developing novel diagnostic solutions for complex diseases, like cancer, coronavirus pandemic. Genz provides solutions for medical centers and/or end-users in cooperation with genetic disease and diagnostic centers. To date, Genz received 4 R&D grants and approval by Turkish Ministryof Health for 3 genetic tests.
  • Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Carsten Maschmeyer Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Germany, Austria, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
  • AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
  • JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
StartersHub VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup the system for good.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
  • IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
Creathor Ventures VC Fund · Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany
We have been investing at the frontier of technology and science for over 30 years. We know what it takes to succeed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
  • HeyJobs — Intelligent recruiting | more hires with performance marketing | only qualified candidates | fast recruiting success | over 1,500 companies use HeyJobs to find employees
  • Humanoo — HUMANOO | MAKING PEOPLE HEALTHIER! HUMANOO is the digital health platform for employees and insurance clients. We enable our users to improve their physical and mental health. Simple, effective, proven - all in one app. With customized programs and innovative eHealth solutions, we guide our users in the areas of fitness, physio, yoga, mindfulnessand nutrition to their self-imposed goals. For the first time, companies and insurance companies can use comprehensive decentralized analysis to understand the health of their employees or insurance clients and make it a measurable success. Our team currently consists of 65 employees from 15 nations with different talents. In our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg, software developers, designers, marketing and sales specialists work together with sports and nutrition scientists as well as yoga teachers and physiotherapists. What we share is the goal to motivate people to stay healthy.
Dapper Labs VC Fund · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Canada, Singapore
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