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Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Germany

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 45 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Video games startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Germany

Investor	Video Games Germany investments
Neuhaus Partners	2
Holger Hübner	2
Everblue Management	2
Skycatcher	2
NRW.BANK	2
HV Capital	2
3TS Capital Partners	1
Cherry Ventures	1
Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments	1
IBB Ventures	1
Dan Gilbert	1
Oliver Stahl	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Reaktor Ventures	1
YuChiang Cheng	1
Modern Times Group	1
DN Capital	1
Morten E. Wulff	1
Die Brückenköpfe	1
Manouchehr Shamsrizis Alma Mater Capital	1
Johannis Hatt	1
Michael Wieser	1
BLN Capital	1
Anton Gauffin	1
Vester Partners	1
APX	1
Jan Dzulko	1
byFounders	1
TheVentureCity	1
Kliwla Family Office AG	1
Björn Kolbmüller	1
Vito Ventures	1
Sumit Gupta	1
Günther Strunk	1
Go4it Capital	1
Firegroup Holding AG	1
Joseph Tsai	1
Myke Naef	1
Bolero Holdings	1
Harri Manninen	1
Paul Schwarzenholz	1
Play Ventures	1
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	1
Global Founders Capital	1
WestTech Ventures	1

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Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Spain, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
Searchmetrics — Create powerful content that drives organic growth and revenue.

Holger Hübner

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Audio
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

musicube — Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology. Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.).
RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.

Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.

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.

High-conviction investing in Internet and software companies globally

Investment focus

Online Games, Video Games, MMO Games
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Bangladesh, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Onmeta — Onmeta
Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
Stratosphere Games — Berlin-based Stratosphere Games is a mobile development studio formed by gaming veterans from Splash Damage, Riot Games, Smilegate, Huuge and Nexon. Stratosphere works with partners like Gearbox, Boombit and 505 Games worldwide to deliver AAA-quality games. Backed by our own development architecture, we create next-gen experiences for your pocket,with a strong focus on high-end production values, leading-edge multiplayer features, and innovate engagement and retention elements. For more information, visit http://www.stratosphere-games.com.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

widu — widu enables real estate and accommodation companies to source visuals (photography, video, drone) at scale through its serviced marketplace
bNear — bNear is the digital space for all distributed- & hybrid teams - Safe and convenient in Microsoft Teams!
Companyon Analytics — Companyon Analytics provides data security, cloud infrastructure, information technology, technical solutions, and consultancy services.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.
Rabot Charge — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Octomind — Octomind is an AI-powered end-to-end web app testing tool that detects bugs before they are discovered by users. It develops automated software that runs UI tests to discover bugs.
Saleor Commerce — A headless, GraphQL-first e-commerce platform delivering ultra-fast, dynamic, personalized shopping experiences. Find out why developers love it.

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments and its portfolio is managed by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, the investment management group of Deutsche Telekom: www.telekom-capital.com

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

NS1 — NS1 makes it easy to use next-generation DNS for advanced traffic routing, automation & application resiliency. Optimize your websites, apps & infrastructure.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
Helium — Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform building the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earnsa new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room.Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate Hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.

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.

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.

Dan Gilbert is the Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He previously worked at StockX as an Investor. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.

Investment focus

Sports, Digital Media, Internet
Series B, Series A, Seed
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
100 Thieves — 100 Thieves is the premier lifestyle brand and gaming organization. Find out more about 100 Thieves and shop the latest premium apparel drops at 100thieves.com.

Oliver Stahl

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Organic Food
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Fridai the Gamer Assistant — Fridai is the voice assistant for gamers. A voice assistant delivering the unique experience of undisrupted gaming sessions and personalized gaming. Fridai is like having a friend sitting next to you while gaming to help you with whatever you need so you can focus on immersing yourself in your favorite games. With Fridai, the gamer assistant theyuse the most natural extension of gaming – voice access – to create voice enabled tools for gamers and transform the gaming experience into a seamless, frictionless one.
Kombuchery — Establish the leading health and lifestyle brand in the beverage industry. We aim to establish a socially-responsible, healthier, and more affordable alternative to conventional beverages in the market, while disrupting the traditional beverage value chain by leveraging direct-to-consumer subscription and digital marketing channels.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

Reaktor Ventures has moved to the next phase by focusing its efforts to actively supporting current portfolio companies. This means that the fund has ended its investment period and is not investing into new companies. Between 2013 and 2018 we have invested into 42 different companies and one early stage fund. We will naturally keep makingfollow-up investments to current portfolio companies.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Valpas — Valpas is the hygiene protocol that reassures your future guests and keeps your hotel clean from the most uncontrollable: bed bugs
Swappie — Buy refurbished iPhones at an affordable price - Swappie offers refurbished and cheap iPhones with a free 12-month Swappie warranty.
Videoly — The easiest way for online retailers to get hand-picked and automatically embedded product videos.

YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift. YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Gaming
Seed, Series A
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.

MTG is a pure-play esport and gaming entertainment investment company, with some of the strongest brand in our portfolio.

Investment focus

Gaming, Online Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Dazzle Rocks — Dazzle Rocks We are making games for the social generation. A new take on the real-time MMO genre, mobile-first.
Legendary Play — Legendary Play creates mobile games for esport fans. The company was established in 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
Joyride Games — Bringing NFT's and tokens to mobile e-sports, hypercasual, and social game creators. Join the Joyride ecosystem and get access to market leading tools for blockchain game development, publishing, and scaling.

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).

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.
OXOLO — OMASLOT adalah GAMING ONLINE BERLISENSI RESMI dengan promo event menarik terlengkap yang sangat menguntungkan
Lanes & Planes — Lanes & Planes GmbH is the Travel Management solution as Software-as-a-Service that truly maps all areas of the business travel in a digital way.

Founder & Chairperson at GameAnalytics - changing game development. ALso, Advisor & miniature-investor in 10+ companies; mostly in the Nordic start-up community with connections to several major VC companies as well a track record of working with top business angels such as Morten Lund, Tommy Ahlers, Thomas Mygdal, Klaus Lovgreen, JimmyMaymann, Michael Arrington.As entrepreneur Morten has been involved with more than 10 start-ups including TraceWorks, Wulffmorgenthaler, Get In, Wordy (Winner Seedcamp 2010), Lovemade™, and Hello Fitness.

Investment focus

Gaming, Content, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Virtuall — Virtuall is an IT Company that enables brands with the infrastructure to create omnichannel engagement in multiple virtual spaces such as TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Spatial, Hiber, RPM, Roblox, and Zepeto. The platform, Virtuall.Pro helps brands scale their digital engagement by enabling them to distribute and manage their virtual and phygitalproducts from one central hub powered by automation and a digital supply chain.Brands can now reach millions of customers with engaging 3D content with a “click of a button” Virtuall was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark and has offices in Riga and Milan (Virtuall Srl).
GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
Umami Games — It a game developing company by using hyper casual studio.

Die Brückenköpfe is a management consulting and investing firm focused on the German healthcare market.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Life Science
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.
keleya — Keleya enables women and their partners to have a safe and relaxed pregnancy, birth experience and motherhood by providing them with personalized, expert based information, workouts and nutrition plans and a matching midwife. Founded in 2017, Kelaya is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Recare — Recare developed a software platform for discharge management and supply control in hospitals and other medical facilities. With its B2B marketplace, Recare is trying to end the paperwork in the German healthcare system.

Holding von Manouchehr Shamsrizi, Gründer

Investment focus

Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Johannis Hatt is one of the founders of Productsup.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

autengo (acquired by Alzura.com - b2b marketplace for the automotive aftermarket) — autengo offers Software-as-a-Service solutions for car dealerships by providing a product and service cloud for sales and marketing
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!

Michael Wieser studied law in Vienna and Singapore. He co-founded two start-ups (IT provider / energy storage) and also gained experience in private equity. Michael has been investing as a business angel for 10 years and is now a partner at Helvetia’s VC fund.

Investment focus

Gaming, Computer, InsurTech
Seed, Funding Round
France, Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
Benefit Büroservice — Benefit Büroservice is a office management company.
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!

We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.

Investment focus

Video Games, Software, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
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.

Anton Gaufﬁn is the Founder of Sumoing.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Mobile Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Finland, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Gotiva — Explore a universe of creativity with Gotiva apps! Discover Jigsaw Puzzle Universe and more.
Odeeo — People play casual games to relax and have fun. So it’s no wonder the world’s 2.7bn free2play mobile gamers find aggressive full-screen ads annoying. Odeeo’s audio ad platform gets gamers. It’s built to amplify the in-game experience by overlaying contextual audio ads that players actually want to hear. For game developers, that meansmonetizing untapped in-game real estate and boosting incremental ad revenue—without hurting retention.For leading brands, it means cutting through the noise to target an attentive audience at ultra scale in an immersive brand-safe environment. And gamers? They can just play on!
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Vester Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Content, Training, Enterprise
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
Pickler — Pickler is the easiest footprint software for packaging resellers. Make footprint calculations for your packaging within minutes - and win the hearts of customer with to impact transparency.

Jan Dzulko is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everphone. He previously worked at M Cube Incubator as a Chief Executive Officer. Jan Dzulko attended the University of Mannheim.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, Online Portals
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

emplu — 360° benefit and compensation platform
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.

byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in globally ambitious teams connected to the Nordic and Baltic countries. With its unique Collective of founders and operators, byFounders offers its portfolio operational expertise and a global network. Believing in the power of tech to shape our future, byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Monta — Monta is the ultimate platform powering the entire EV charging ecosystem. From drivers, to businesses, to industry partners, we offer software solutions that cover all EV charging needs.
QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
Rig.dev — Rig.dev offers an open-source application platform for Kubernetes. Rig.dev empower developers to work in their own environments with elevated application abstractions, while still leveraging Kubernetes's reliability, portability, and scalability.

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

KLIWLA is a single family office that was created in 2016 with an endowment style investment philosophy similar to Yale and Harvard universities and a portfolio divided across a wide spectrum of asset classes.A proven investment approach is employed to seek out globally leading fund managers across traditional asset classes as well asalternatives (Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge Funds), with a successful track record.

Investment focus

MMO Games, Video Games, Online Games
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stratosphere Games — Berlin-based Stratosphere Games is a mobile development studio formed by gaming veterans from Splash Damage, Riot Games, Smilegate, Huuge and Nexon. Stratosphere works with partners like Gearbox, Boombit and 505 Games worldwide to deliver AAA-quality games. Backed by our own development architecture, we create next-gen experiences for your pocket,with a strong focus on high-end production values, leading-edge multiplayer features, and innovate engagement and retention elements. For more information, visit http://www.stratosphere-games.com.

Björn Kolbmüller is co-founder and managing director of zenloop, a SaaS platform for feedback mgmt. using the Net Promoter System (NPS) method. After studying business administration at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Björn Kolbmüller began his professional career at Mister Spex. In 2008 he joined Procter & Gamble's brandmanagement team. Afterwards he co-founded the online perfumery Flaconi together with Paul Schwarzenholz, where he was responsible for marketing, product and tech until the sale to Pro7Sat1. In addition to zenloop, Björn Kolbmüller is an active business angel and passes on his experience to young start-ups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

straede — straede primarily focuses on cycling clothing.
Kittl — Kittl is the most intuitive and easy-to-use design platform which helps you to create stunning designs that impress everyone. Easily learn new design techniques and improve yourself to become a better creator.
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!

Vito Ventures invests in break-through tech and business startups in the fields of IoT, B2B marketplaces, enterprise, SaaS and energy tech. Vito Ventures backs ambitious founders and startups applying technology to solve fundamental problems of society ranging from climate change to energy security. They believe that superb engineering andradical entrepreneurial thinking is needed to tackle major challenges of the upcoming decades. With its investments they empower startups, which will make a difference both within their industry and beyond. Through its industrial investor base, they have access to extensive resources (e.g., R&D facilities, global market reach, mass production capabilities). Its portfolio companies can actively leverage their investor’s domain expertise and knowledge base in the fields of Cooling-, Heating- and Energy-technology, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things. Whether it is developer capacity or prototyping experience, they want to build bridges and open doors whenever possible.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers
Crate.io — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value
Micropsi Industries — Micropsi Industries is a robotics software company. Our AIs allow robots to learn from humans and act in dynamic environments.

Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M

Investment focus

SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising
Seed, Post-IPO Equity
United States, Germany, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.

Günther Strunk

Investment focus

Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Go4it partners with entrepreneurs innovating in sports, digital media and well-being, to create an active and enjoyable world.

Investment focus

Sports, Digital Media, Food Processing
Series A, Funding Round, Series C
United States, Brazil, France

Portfolio highlights

Adventure — Adventure is platform for entrepreneurs and companies, that helps the company achieve more, faster and better.
Fazenda Futuro — Fazenda Futuro is a food tech company that produces flat meat. It offers its first product, the Futuro Burger which is made of pea, soy, and chickpea. The company currently sells its products in approximately 2,000 places across Brazil, with a major presence in the south and southeast of the country, besides Brasilia and Salvador.
Future Farm — Future Farm engages in the production and supply of plant-based protein that captures the taste and texture of real meat.

Firegroup Holding AG is a Swiss holding company.

Investment focus

Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.

Investment focus

Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, China, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cambium Carbon — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
WNBA Enterprises — The official home of the Women's National Basketball Association. Keep up to date with news, scores, and standings for your favorite teams.
Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.

Myke Naef

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Sports
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, 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.
Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.

Bolero Holdings is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Content, Training, Enterprise
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.

Harri Manninen - Founding Partner @ Play Ventures

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

FitXR — Enjoy your workout, not just the results. Try FitXR for 7 days free.
StarBerry Games — StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile games company based in Berlin, Germany. The company develops free-to-play casual mobile games and is best known for its games Merge Mayor and Idle Coffee Corp.
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".

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

move.ai — FREE YOUR MOTION. CAPTURE YOUR IMAGINATION. No more suits, no more restrictions. High fidelity motion capture made easy
Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
Order of Meta — game development company

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
CustomSurg — RETHINKING TRAUMA SURGERY At CustomSurg we are changing the treatment of complex bone fractures from a subjective to an objective approach, through personalized solutions.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

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