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Top 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in July 2025

A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in July 2025

Investor Venture Capital Germany investments
Advanced Blockchain 3
seed + speed 3
TX Ventures 2
Mutschler Ventures AG 2
C3 Venture Capital 2
Nanz medico 1
TEV Ventures 1
Heliad AG 1
German Media Pool 1
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen 1
Klaus Eckstein KG 1
Helaba 1
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) 1
CNB Capital 1
Caesar Ventures 1
w3.fund 1
DEWB 1
HV Capital 1
Futury Capital 1
Deutsche Effecten -und Wechsel Beteiligungsgesellschaft 1
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Advanced Blockchain VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Advanced Blockchain AG is a publicly listed investor, incubator, and partner in the blockchain industry.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
seed + speed VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
  • Delicious Data — Delicious Data offer a demand forecast engine to solve the problem of planning uncertainty in the food service and catering industry. Delicious Data machine learning solution enables kitchen chefs to optimize purchase and production planning saving valuable resources and reducing costs.
  • Eleven Dynamics — Eleven Dynamics is a developer of software technology designed to automate industry quality control. The technology software provides solutions for designing and simulating. The processes include automatically programming measurement paths at optimal process time without the need for being a robotic expert, connecting all hardware in real time, andexecuting the measurement process. The software is used to create custom robotic solutions for clients.
TX Ventures VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We help smart startups to establish and enhance their products and services. We also assist our holdings with their strategic planning activities and offer them shared services and networking platforms. Our collaboration with these entrepreneurs is focused on the pursuit of long-term goals.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Lyfegen — Lyfegen is the first of its kind, a company making value-based healthcare contracting for high-cost therapies a reality for all healthcare stakeholders.
  • Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
  • Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.
Mutschler Ventures AG VC Fund · Baar, Zug, Switzerland
Mutschler ventures has been actively investing in start-up or young internet companies in the areas of e-commerce and / or "matchmaking".
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
  • Invenda — Invenda has the smart technologies to propel your automated retail business into the digital age.
  • Invenda Group — Invenda has the smart technologies to propel your automated retail business into the digital age.
C3 Venture Capital VC Fund · Frankfort, Maine, United States
C3 Management is an asset management company focused on managing venture funds which invest in technology companies worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany, South Korea, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Gatenox — Gatenox brings 4x more clients by streamlining the Corporate KYC process while enhancing the user experience
  • 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.
  • Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
Nanz medico VC Fund · Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Nanz medico offer high-quality rehabilitation.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Wellness, Venture Capital
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Aescuvest — Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EITHealth, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures. The Investment Committee, composed of Aescuvest’s very own investment team and members of tthe Advisory Board of Aescuvest, both deeply rooted in the healthcare industry and with proven track records, have developed a strong and over the last years well tested, pre-screening and due diligence process, to identify and select healthcare start-ups. Aescuvest’’s Management (circle of General Partners) put their ‘skin’ into each investment by committing capital to each company prior introduction to the wider Aescuvest investor base. The combination of innovative ways for equity capital provision, with healthcare industry and investment expertise, provides the Aescuvest portfolio companies a unique platform to develop their business solution, accelerate their path towards commercialization, and lower market access barriers.
  • Let's Flow — Let's Flow helps in Work-Life-Balance and counselling.
TEV Ventures VC Fund · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
  • 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.
Heliad AG VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Heliad's mission is to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. We find, fund, and support market-leading companies across various verticals and regions to power their next phase of growth. As a listed company and through our strong team and strategic partners, we support companies pre, at, and post IPO and act as a gateway to public equitycapital markets. Our evergreen structure allows us to act independently of usual fund lifecycles. It provides our shareholders with unique access to pre-IPO market returns without any restrictions or limitations regarding investment size and term commitment.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Financial Services
  • Series B, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, India, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • fija Finance GmbH — The new way to earn on your crypto
  • MODIFI — Explore digital trade finance and B2B payment solutions that empower your business to grow globally.
  • lemon.markets — lemon.markets provide a REST API to support creating and executing orders at the stock market and retrieving market data.
German Media Pool VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
German Media Pool is Germany's leading independent media for equity fund combining television, out of home, print and radio. We have invested more than 100 million Euro in gross media volume in more than 45 investments rounds into 20 startups.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Retail, Media and Entertainment
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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 — Find the best travel deals with artificial intelligence. Our algorithm connects flights, trains, and buses for perfect trips with matching hotels.
  • Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen VC Fund · Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany · 5 investments in the past 12 months
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH operates as an investment arm of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
  • Eduneon — Eduneon is developing a digital platform to help schools and municipalities plan and manage digital educational change in a systematic and ongoing manner. It uses software solutions to deliver sustainable and pedagogically meaningful media education.
  • Persival — Persival | Perception Sensor Simulation and Model Validation
Klaus Eckstein KG VC Fund
Klaus Eckstein KG
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
  • Funding Round
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Aescuvest — Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EITHealth, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures. The Investment Committee, composed of Aescuvest’s very own investment team and members of tthe Advisory Board of Aescuvest, both deeply rooted in the healthcare industry and with proven track records, have developed a strong and over the last years well tested, pre-screening and due diligence process, to identify and select healthcare start-ups. Aescuvest’’s Management (circle of General Partners) put their ‘skin’ into each investment by committing capital to each company prior introduction to the wider Aescuvest investor base. The combination of innovative ways for equity capital provision, with healthcare industry and investment expertise, provides the Aescuvest portfolio companies a unique platform to develop their business solution, accelerate their path towards commercialization, and lower market access barriers.
Helaba VC Fund · Frankfort, Maine, United States
Wholesale and Investment Banking
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Investment focus
  • B2B, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
  • Series A, Debt Financing
  • Germany, United States
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.
  • Amergin Asset Management — Tailor-made financing solutions for all our clients to enable them to invest, manufacture, divest and operate aircraft, rail and other long-lived transportation assets
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 34 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, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Eyeo — eyeo revolutionizes imaging with color splitter sensors. Capture sharper, brighter images in low light using optical waveguide innovation, discover how it works
  • nuuEnergy — nuuEnergy is a tech-enabled solution aiming to revolutionize the heat pump installation industry. By leveraging technology and industry expertise, we streamline the purchasing and installation process. Our unique approach, refinanced through innovative strategies, promotes a self-reliant and carbon-neutral lifestyle for all our customers.
  • Steuerboard — Steuerboard serves as a collaborative platform facilitating digital interaction between tax advisors and clients. The mission of Steuerboard is to rethink the way accountants and clients work together.
CNB Capital VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria
CNB Capital believes in the power of technology-driven entrepreneurship. We understand real innovation creates moat and defensibility. We provide long-term commitment, building an enduring partnership without the usual exit pressure.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Caesar Ventures VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Caesar Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Freshflow — Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste.
  • ginkgo — ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).
  • FireDome — FireDome's innovative wildfire defense system utilizes a two-tiered approach. First, a mechanical launcher rapidly deploys a protective barrier to block the direct path of encroaching wildfires. Second, the system actively and swiftly detects and extinguishes spot fires caused by airborne embers tha
w3.fund VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz operates a generative AI-powered learning community. The platform enables users to create a course about any topic, in any language, and get hooked on learning.
  • Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
  • Mento Labs — Mento Labs is a decentralized EVM platform for launching and managing multi-currency stable assets.
DEWB VC Fund · Jena, Thuringen, Germany
As a listed private equity company DEWB provides support for strong growth, medium capitalized technology companies in the form of equity capital, expertise in corporate development and its sector network. The investment focus lies in the areas of photonics and sensor systems as well as their fields of application in automation and industrialengineering and related areas which offer promising prospects for the future. Investors in the DEWB share gain access to the significant potential for added value offered by these key technologies of the 21st Century: Discover the light.Since 1997 we have invested over 360 million Euros in 59 companies and realized more than 465 million Euros through 43 exits, eight of which were IPOs. DEWB’s current investment portfolio covers seven companies from the areas of photonics and sensor systems, as well as biotechnology and IT.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland
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.
  • 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.
HV Capital VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 18 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
  • Flank — Legal OS automates high volume legal queries & requests for the world's fastest growing technology companies, saving time & generating new revenue.
  • Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
  • CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Futury Capital VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We are looking for the newcomers, the architects of the future, the movers & shakers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Eduneon — Eduneon is developing a digital platform to help schools and municipalities plan and manage digital educational change in a systematic and ongoing manner. It uses software solutions to deliver sustainable and pedagogically meaningful media education.
  • Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
  • Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.
Deutsche Effecten -und Wechsel Beteiligungsgesellschaft VC Fund · Jena, Thuringen, Germany
As a listed private equity company DEWB provides support for strong growth, medium capitalized technology companies in the form of equity capital, expertise in corporate development and its sector network. The focus of the investment, which concentrates on the German-speaking countries (D / A / CH), lies in the areas of photonics andsensor systems which offer promising prospects for the future. Investors in the DEWB share gain access to the significant potential for added value offered by these key technologies of the 21st Century: Discover the light.Since 1997 we have invested over 350 million Euros in 55 companies and realized more than 420 million Euros through 36 exits, eight of which were IPOs. DEWB's current investment portfolio covers 11 companies with a total value of more than 40 million Euros from the areas of photonics and sensor systems, as well as biotechnology and IT.Focus on photonics - key industry of the 21st century. Photonics and sensor systems are amongst the most promising growth areas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Optical technologies utilise light (photons) as a "tool," information or energy medium. They cover the full range of technologies for light* generation, e.g. lasers, bulbs,* manipulation, e.g. lenses, gratings, * transfer, e.g. optical fibre,* conversion, e.g. solar cells, LED,* storage, e.g. CD, DVD, holograms,* visualization, e.g. displays and * exploitation, e.g. water sterilization using UV rays.As a result of their superior physical properties, optical processes and technologies are increasingly replacing the previously established processes and applications. Examples of this are the use of lasers in material processing, new display technologies and optical storage media. As cross sectional technologies, optical technologies provide a wide range of industries with various applications. This creates a reduced dependency upon the cycles of individual sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Semiconductor, Biotechnology, Wireless
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Austria
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.
  • 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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