Top 20 Angel Investors in Germany (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Juergen Ringbeck
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed | Software, Logistics, Transportation | $3.8M–$4M |
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Jens Hewald
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States | Seed, Angel | Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency | |
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Timo Weltner
Angel
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1 | Germany | Angel | Beauty, Health Care, Venture Capital | |
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Peter Mertens
Angel
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1 | Germany, Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Automotive, CleanTech | $414k–$4.9M |
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Dirk Vandenhirtz
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | AgTech, Software, Venture Capital | |
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Bob Kneip
Angel
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1 | Luxembourg | Seed, Pre-Seed | Consumer, Freelance, Recruiting | $516k–$1.6M |
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Philipp Ahrenkiel
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Logistics, Venture Capital, Marine Technology | |
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Florian Reike
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | FinTech, Finance, Blockchain | $147k–$2M |
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David Rowan
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Croatia, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence | $486k–$5.5M |
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Jens Wasel
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Internet, E-Commerce, Business Development | $118k–$118M |
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Dr. Rainer Zimmermann
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital | |
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Xavier Sarras
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Training, Education, GreenTech | $10M–$23M |
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Robert Wuttke
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Human Resources, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $275k–$3.6M |
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Gunter Dunkel
Angel
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1 | Germany | Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services | ||
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Paul Müller
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $2.3M–$4.5M |
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Ingo Weber
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed | Health Care, Personal Health, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Heiko Rauch
Angel
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1 | Spain, Germany, United States | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | |
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Andreas Burike
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Human Resources | $106k–$9.3M |
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Thomas Wiederspahn
Angel
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1 | Germany | Series A | Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services | |
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Michael Beckert
Angel
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1 | Germany | Series A | Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services | |
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Honorary Professor Dr. Jürgen Ringbeck has been teaching at WHU as an honorary professor since 2014. He has been associated with WHU as a guest lecturer since 2012. As founder and managing director of Ricon GmbH, Honorary Professor Dr. Ringbeck has been an active investor and advisory board member of innovative young companies since 2014.
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- Industry: Software, Logistics, Transportation
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $3.8M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rail-Flow — Rail-Flow provides purchase and tender management, rail offer management, intermodal transportation management, intermodal capacity brokers, transport management, and automatic order entry. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications.
- Flagship Founders — Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.
Jens Hewald is the Co-Founder of Soonami.io and UFOstart. He previously worked at Agrilution as an investor. Jens Hewald attended HTW Berlin.
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- Industry: Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Itembase — Leading Companies use Itembase to onboard merchants across Commerce Systems with enterprise-grade integration and scalability features.
- SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
- UFOstart — We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing.
Timo Weltner is a CEO & Co-Founder at ORCAYA GmbH.
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- Industry: Beauty, Health Care, Venture Capital
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GRENION Group — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Peter Mertens
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, CleanTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $414k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
- DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
- Leegle — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
Following a successful career as an international championship swimmer, Dirk studied Biology at RWTH Aachen University. Working together with Matthias Eberius, he pioneered techniques for measuring the development of duckweed samples using color digital photography, now known as plant phenotyping. This experience laid the foundations for Dirk’sfuture in the biotech industry.In 1998, Dirk and Matthias founded LemnaTec GmbH to develop complete research platforms on a commercial basis. Based in Aachen, Germany, LemnaTec is now the global market leader in plant phenotyping systems with customers all over the world including BASF, Bayer, and Syngenta.Dirk firmly believes that people are a company’s most important asset and he has created a flexible working environment to encourage a healthy life-work balance. By introducing ideas including home working, flexible hours, a company crèche, and even original artwork around the office, Dirk has been able to attract the very best people from their respective fields. Currently, one-third of the employees at LemnaTec are qualified to Ph.D. level or higher.By working in this way, Dirk has created a world-class company that continues to deliver state-of-the-art technology together with first-class service and support. LemnaTec has more experience, more expertise, and more customers than any other supplier in this sector, and in 2014, a second office was established in St Louis Missouri, USA.In 2012, Dirk launched Phenodays, the annual conference for scientists working in plant phenotyping and associated sciences. Now in its fifth year, Phenodays continues to expand with attendees from many countries across the world.Dirk likes to travel and enjoys visiting customer sites, interacting with scientists, and continually exploring new ideas. He is an authority on plant phenotyping and is frequently asked to speak at scientific conferences and meetings. Dirk lives in the historic city of Aachen, Germany, with his wife and two children.
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- Industry: AgTech, Software, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AixPoint — AixPoint is an operator-led deep-tech strategy and fundraising advisory helping AgTech, CleanTech, and BioTech startups go from prototype to scalable go-to-marke
Bob Kneip was the Owner and Vice Chairman Of The Board at Kneip.
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- Industry: Consumer, Freelance, Recruiting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $516k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cyberr® — You chose a career in cybersecurity. We built the professional network for you. Cyberr is where cybersecurity clicks - come join us!
- Fundvis — Fundvis is a FundTech platform where cross-company workflows for the setup and lifecycle management of the fund industry are digitalized.
- ACE Alternatives — Complete fund operations, tax advisory & compliance services for VC & PE funds in Germany & Europe. Simplify your back office and Get started today!
Philipp Ahrenkiel
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- Industry: Logistics, Venture Capital, Marine Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flagship Founders — Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.
Building in Fintech and Blockchain | Occasionally Angel Investing
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Blockchain
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Pre-Seed $147k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Abel — Abel is a technology platform that helps you lend to your business customers, capable of full automation and underpinned by the latest in risk intelligence. Our digital service automates origination, credit decisioning, loan servicing and ongoing risk monitoring front-to-back.
- Forest Park — Your modern operating system for institutional lending, in T+1.
- Unblock — Unblock is building a free, white-labelled, instant and local on and off-ramp to stable cryptocurrencies.
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them. David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content. David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ. David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Croatia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $486k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.
- Rhizocore Technologies — We develop high-performance strains of locally-sourced mycorrhizal fungi to improve tree growth, tree health and tree resiliency. We offer a sustainable solution to increase forest yields whilst improving the ability of trees to sequester carbon.
Investor | Founder & Mentor @ Scale Invest | Board Member @ Oetker Digital | Co-Founder @ KW-Commerce
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- Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Business Development
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$118M; Pre-Seed $118k–$544k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Admetrics — Maximize ad performance with Admetrics: scientifically based data for faster, smarter budget decisions.
- CERTA — CERTA GmbH specializes in providing property valuation services. The company offers a range of services including the creation of value appraisals and residual value appraisals for real estate properties. CERTA GmbH aims to support property owners and investors by delivering detailed assessments to aid in decision-making processes related toproperty investments, sales, and taxation strategies. The team at CERTA GmbH is dedicated to offering precise and comprehensive evaluations, leveraging their expertise in the real estate industry to meet the specific needs of their clients.
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- Industry: FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.
Xavier Sarras is an Impact VC Investor | Experience Economy Expert | Strategy Advisor for C-Levels and Entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Training, Education, GreenTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $10M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- 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.
Robert Wuttke - Founding Partner and Managing Director @ 10x Group
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- Industry: Human Resources, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Germany, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $450k–$3.5M; Angel $275k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- fonio.ai — Founded in Vienna in 2024, fonio.ai provides AI-powered phone assistants that automate customer communication 24/7. The platform answers calls, forwards inquiries, books appointments, and integrates with CRM and ERP systems, while every interaction is transcribed and can be stored, shared, or connected to existing tools.
- Paradigm Robotics — Serving Those Who Serve
Gunter Dunkel
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- Industry: Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Frankfurt-based VC boutique. We source, structure, and co-invest in Healthtech rounds alongside business angels, family offices, and corporate partners. One deal at a time, since 2014.
Paul H. Müller is co-founder of Adjust.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- 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.
- Neocom — AI-Native Commerce Experience Platform One AI to make every shop experience truly 1-to-1. Neocom turns confusing shop experiences into truly personal journeys. Just like talking to an expert who knows exactly what you're looking for.
Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital
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- Industry: Health Care, Personal Health, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- bezahl.de — bezahl.de automates, digitizes, and streamlines the entire receivables process, from invoicing and dunning to financial accounting booking. Bezahl is a financial technology startup.
- LemonDocs — Skin cancer rates have doubled in recent years. The most common problem is that the cancer is not detected early enough to be treated. In the fight against skin cancer, LemonDocs uses artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and its own specialist clinics to provide direct, fast, and comprehensive care for patients, with a focus on early preventionand personalised treatment.
- recoupling — Recoupling is a mobile app that combines scientific findings from couples therapy with gamification. In order to have a long-term relationship, users of Recoupling become even closer as a couple and get to know each other (even) better.
Co-Founder of UFOstart
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Spain, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CodeOp — Coding Academy Empowering Women, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals in Tech. Join Us to Bridge the Gender Gap and Boost Your Career!
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
- Modelmanagement.com — Model Management connects new faces and models with scouts, international modeling agencies and model photographers.
Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Human Resources
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Pre-Seed $106k–$1.4M; Series A $6.9M–$9.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
- Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
Thomas Wiederspahn
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- Industry: Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Frankfurt-based VC boutique. We source, structure, and co-invest in Healthtech rounds alongside business angels, family offices, and corporate partners. One deal at a time, since 2014.
Michael Beckert
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- Industry: Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Frankfurt-based VC boutique. We source, structure, and co-invest in Healthtech rounds alongside business angels, family offices, and corporate partners. One deal at a time, since 2014.
Venture Capital Angel investor funding in Germany at a glance
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