Top 30 VC Funds & Investors in Germany (October 2026)

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• Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
• SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
• Promptwatch — Track and optimize your brand's visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and other AI search engines. Trusted by 1,840+ brands. Get started today.

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• Predium — Every building owner, real estate portfolio holder, developer and investor faces the challenge that data on buildings, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, tenants and climate risks is either not available or scattered in different places. They also lack the tools to act on their ambitions to become sustainable while remaining profitable.Predium’send-to-end platform empowers you to efficiently manage key building data and cost-effectively identify renovation opportunities. Our proprietary technology helps you to:1) Automate data collection and monitor portfolio-wide ESG data in one dashboard 2) Prioritize renovation opportunities and identify subsidy and financial incentives 3) Track and communicate progress according to industry standards
• telli — telli helps businesses transform customer experience with AI agents that handle conversations and complete the work behind them.
• Invenda Group — Smart vending software and hardware by Invenda Group AG that powers connected devices, turns transactions into insights, and drives revenue for brands, operators, and retailers.

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• Upland — Play. Earn. Connect & Rebuild The World
• Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
• Partex — Genuine OEM spare parts. Search by VIN or model. Fast, trusted delivery.

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• Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
• Contango — Contango is a decentralised exchange bringing expirable futures to DeFi. In DeFi, only perpetual futures exist. But since funding rates are unpredictable, traders do not have control over their costs. With expirable futures, a final price is paid upfront to avoid any bad surprises. Contango is here to bring futures with expiry dates.
• Polymer Labs — Polymer Labs is building a universal IBC routing/roll-up protocol to enable E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

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• Lissi — We provide software for organisations to interact with EUDI-Wallets #eIDAS 2.0
• Antrok — Antrok specializes in supply chain, plant and mechanical engineering, planning and foundry services.
• retoflow — retoflow digitizes and automates planning processes for electricity, gas, and heating network operators.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
• Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.

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• Bluerails — Payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. Get found, acted on, and paid by AI agents. Agent-ready checkout, global settlement, and compliance built in.
• Pave Bank — Pave Bank is built for programmable finance. Hold, move and manage traditional currencies, stablecoins and digital assets from one corporate account, 24/7.
• Mento Labs — Mento Labs' mission is to enable real-world adoption of digital assets by providing transparent and reliable technological primitives to our partners around the world.

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• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
• Range — Built for finance, risk, and operations teams. Range unifies wallets, custodians, and bank accounts, and enforces your policies on every transaction.

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• seedtrace — seedtrace is a SaaS startup from Berlin that develops a digital platform for businesses to manage, prove and communicate the social and ecological impact of their products. The startup focuses on bringing transparency into complex supply chains by fostering the cooperation between actors along the chain, building an ecosystem of organizations thatconfirm their claims and tracing products from seed to shelf.
• deltaVision — We dated this letter 2030. We are writing it in 2026. Orbital refuelling, fluidic systems, and the engineers building the future of space infrastructure.
• Focused Energy — Focused is the leading Laser Fusion company pursuing the most promising path to clean, limitless fusion power... unlocking civilization's next great chapter of growth.

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• 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.
• Let's Flow — Let's Flow connects positive psychology to activities like skiing, yoga, and hiking. They offer services that include golf, mountain biking, snowshoeing, skiing, snowboarding, hiking, and yoga.

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• 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.

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• 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.
• nextmarkets — Nextmarkets is dedicated to `helps private investors to operate in a sustainable and better educated manner on the stock exchange.For this purpose, the company developed a very easy-to-use trading platform in which private investors can trade more than 1,000 CFDs on equities , foreign exchange ( forex , FX ), bonds and commodities veryintuitively - via web and mobile apps . It is scientifically proven that more than 80 percent of all private investors fail on the stock market . This has predominantly behavioral economic reasons.
• Stableton Financial — Explore private blue-chip tech investment opportunities with Stableton. Diversify your portfolio with top private tech companies, offering liquidity, transparency, and growth potential.

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• Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
• Smartblue — Smartblue develops and runs software and processes to monitor and optimize zero emission energy systems. As a hardware independent specialist Smartblue delivers a software service for the maintenance, life-cycle management, production forecasting and remote control of photovoltaic and energy storage systems all together in one centralized “SmartControl” Operations and Control Center web application. We help our customers drive down overall operational cost through automation, smart failure detection and big data analysis on imminent defects.
• OMEICOS Therapeutics — OMEICOS Therapeutics is developing a novel, first-in-class, small molecule utilizing a new Mode of Action. OMEICOS' novel therapeutic strategy is based upon the discovery of natural metabolites of omega-3 fatty acids that mediate a strong anti-arrhythmic effect. In contrast to all other anti-arrhythmic drugs, OMEICOS' substances activatean endogenous cardio-protective signaling pathway that not only stabilizes the heart rhythm but shall provide curative effects to the diseased organ by preventing its electrical and structural remodeling.

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• 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.
• Nanda Technologies — Nanda Technologies was founded in 2006 in Munich. They are an international team of experienced engineers and managers from the semiconductor/high-tech industry. They are in the process of bringing their new product to the market by working together with selected lead customers.
• Sloning BioTechnology — Sloning BioTechnology has developed a unique and patented technology platform to build DNA molecules with exceptional features regarding sequence limitations, reliability and production cost on an industrial scale robotic system the Slonomics technology platform.

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• Limetax — Limetax is a technology-driven tax advisory group that builds an agentic-first accounting and tax network by partnering with established tax firms. The company provides a proprietary AI software platform that integrates directly into traditional accounting infrastructure, allowing local advisors to automate routine workflows and focus on personalclient advisory.
• Binect (formerly MAX21 AG) — Binect is a platform-based software and fulfillment solution for the security and easy digitization of medium-sized companies. It actively supports its customers in digitizing their document processes. The standardized software solutions (digital outgoing mail, incoming mail, etc.) will in the future mainly be offered as SaaS services on a commonplatform, supplemented by complementary services for the outsourcing of document management (e.g. printing, franking, delivery, or scanning of business documents).
• Dynamic Creatures — Dynamic Creatures creates responsive character robots for the entertainment and service sectors.

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• nu:legal — Employment contract in 30 minutes, created by expert lawyers. GDPR-compliant, no waiting. nu:legal for businesses in Germany.
• Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
• Epitome Therapeutics — Epitome Therapeutics is an early-stage biotechnology company developing CADENCE, a next-generation epigenome editing platform for precise, durable, and context-dependent control of gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence, with the aim of establishing a new therapeutic modality for diseases driven by dysregulated gene activity.

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• nyris — Our custom search engines make it easy for people to find products, spare parts, and components for industry and eCommerce
• Qdrant — Qdrant - Open-Source Vector Search Engine
• Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.

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• Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
• Rivercell — Rivercell develops a proprietary, programmable laboratory data platform alongside an artificial intelligence world model of the human cell to map and analyze therapeutic cellular responses. The integrated framework combines automated longitudinal, multimodal, and perturbational wet-lab testing to collect high-resolution datasets measuring how living tissue changes over time under specific treatments. Its value proposition is centered on serving as a cross-disease discovery engine that accelerates and de-risks drug development by accurately forecasting cellular mutations, clinical efficacy, and treatment resistance in silico.
• Rabot Energy — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
• Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.

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• fulfin — Fulfin is the leading provider of customized financing solutions for online businesses in Germany and plays an important role in the supply of liquidity in the e-commerce industry. On the platform developed by fulfin, the credit application as well as the credit check is done online, easily and quickly. The fulfin team has significant experiencein the fields of e-commerce, fintech and risk management.
• Heycater! — heycater! is an online platform for ordering quality business catering.They help organize delicious food for team by connecting with outstanding local caterers.
• Stylique — Stylique operates as an interior design platform that connects relevant B2B partners directly with each other and with customers.Stylique gives B2B partners a platform for multi-level direct sales and marketing (SaaS) and customers a one-stop-shop for interior design and renovations (marketplace).The company was founded in 2017 and is based inDüsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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• StrikeAd — StrikeAd Fusion, a proprietary technology platform for agencies and advertisers to plan, execute, and evaluate their mobile advertisements. It is created to answer the ever growing need of media planning and buying agencies to manage their mobile campaigns effectively through a single platform. The company's platform is not a bolt on to anexisting DSP but a mobile-specific platform in its own right, a single console through which agencies can plan, execute and evaluate hundreds of mobile campaigns, minute-by-minute, on a global basis.
• MAIA Technology — MAIA is a cloud native, API-first platform that unifies mission-critical data, Portfolio Management, Trading & Compliance, Risk & Performance, IBOR and Middle Office workflows into one architecture.
• Mobile Travel Technologies — Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT) is the leading mobile travel technology specialist for airlines, hotels and travel intermediaries with an extensive customer base across the global travel industry.MTT’s advanced mobile travel platform powers some of the most successful and highest revenue generating mobile channels in the travel industry. As apioneer in this space having first launched mobile bookings for airlines in 2006, MTT has remained a first mover in mobile travel and has picked up many awards along the way for its successful, customer focused travel apps & mobile sites. MTT offers its clients unrivalled travel industry expertise, world-class mobile development, creative design, mobile usability expertise and a sophisticated mobile travel platform. MTT clients include Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), the flag carrier for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, LAN Airlines in Chile and TAM Airlines in Brazil (the LATAM Airlines Group), easyJet, transavia.com of the Air France KLM Group, Flybe, Jumeirah Group and Atlantis The Palm, Dubai.

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
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• Flagship Founders — Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.

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• Flagship Founders — Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.

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• Rebike Mobility — Rebike Mobility purchases new E-Bikes from tier 1 manufacturers and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, and Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers subscription, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike.com. Rebike Mobility also purchases used stock of E-Bikes and sell themfully refurbished to consumer.
• Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
• Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

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• JUCR — JUCR is revolutionizing the way people charging their electric vehicles. Don’t think about the process itself - just pick the right location and you’re ready to go! Never worry about where to charge, how much it will cost, or when is the best time for doing this. With a global charging flatrate and more than 250,000 charging points you can enjoythe freedom every time.
• Tryp.com — Cheap trips and travel deals to destinations worldwide. Compare top offers, discover new places and grab the best price on your next getaway.
• Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.

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• Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
• 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.
• Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

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• NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.
• Smalt — Smalt recruits and trains young tradespeople in our innovative hybrid academies. Our B2B customers can also take advantage of our world-class, digitised installation services. Our highly skilled staff are outfitted with cutting-edge technology to provide high-quality installations for our partners.
• comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.

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• zero44 — Effortlessly manage your carbon regulations compliance with zero44 software solutions. Streamline your EU ETS and CII management vessel by vessel, charter by charter, and DoC by DoC for effective and hassle-free carbon regulation management.
• Avocargo — Avocargo provide services involving shared electric freight bikes to urban users. Their application is used to rent their cargo bikes anywhere in their business areas and enabling users to carry goods in the bikes.
• Flagship Founders — Flagship Founders invests in maritime technology, logistics, and shipping firms.

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• CWP Energy — Community Windpower are the UK's leading renewable energy specialists. Specialising in onshore wind farm projects.
• The Bromley Companies — Since its founding in 1972, The Bromley Companies has built a diversified portfolio of real estate across the country. Our senior management team, with collectively over 120 years of experience at the firm, has successfully collaborated on a broad range of property investments, development, and dispositions.With our sharp focus on developingcompelling tenant spaces and highly personalized service, Bromley has developed many loyal relationships with both global Fortune 500 enterprises as well as individual residential tenants.
• Endeavor Real Estate Group — Endeavor is a full service commercial real estate company with in-house research, acquisition, financing, development, leasing and management capabilities.