Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Germany in May 2026

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• 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 — Where enterprises go to win in AI search

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• 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.
• Treasure — Do more with a single AI agent: 24/7 market awareness and cross-chain activity across Crypto News, DeFi, dApps, Games, and DAOs.

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• musicube — MassiveMusic is a global music and sound partner specializing in sonic branding, sound strategy, music innovation & licensing.
• 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.

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• OSPHIM — OSPHIM is an AI-based technology combines data visualization, precise anomaly detection, and intelligent process setup for injection molding processes
• paXos — paXos serve three key industries and bring a lot of expertise and know-how from a large number of projects with them. Synergies can be found not only in engineering but also in cross-industry topics such as consulting, project management, training, and personnel management. They provide services like Consulting, Engineering, Project Management,Training, and many more.
• Co-reactive — Co-reactive is a ClimateTech startup that provides decarbonization of the construction industry at scale. Co-reactive works with suppliers of CO₂ and raw materials, manufacturers of cement and concrete, and certification bodies throughout the value chain to scale from pilot plants to large industrial units in the range of 100–300 kilotons. Feedback

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Meshcapade — Foundation models that teach AI to see, understand, and move.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

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• VAULT — Flick is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of software development, android, iOS, and mobile applications. Flick draws an audience of sports fans who want to engage on a deeper level with their favorite sports influencers, teams, and leagues. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mamaroneck, New York.
• 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.
• 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.

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• straede — straede primarily focuses on cycling clothing.
• Kittl — Heritage Type provides solutions that automate complex design processes to create beautiful graphics.
• Industrial Technology and Witchcraft — We make games in voxels and pixels. We are hiring!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• xaitment — xaitment develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software for video games and simulation developers. It offers xaitMap, an AI SDK that provides automatic navigational mesh generation, as well as pathfinding and local steering for single and crowd movement; xaitControl, an AI SDK that offers character behavior modeling; xaitKnow, an AI SDKthat allows to develope knowledge modeling for the game world and to manage the knowledge within that world; and xaitThink, an AI SDK that allows to develop high-level behavior modeling for a game. xaitment also provides services, such as help desk support, onsite support, and SDK updates, as well as creates project specific features. It serves game studios, defense/simulation, middleware partners, technology partners, and academic partners. Andreas Gerber founded xaitment in 2004, with its headquarters in Quierschied in Germany. It has additional offices in the United States, Germany, England, China, Korea, and Japan.
• fg microtec — fg microtec GmbH provides multimedia applications for 2.5G, 3G, and WLAN mobile phones. Its products include OMA/IMS compliant push-over-cellular clients, IMS and SIP based VoIP solutions, videotelephony, and video sharing over 3G and WLAN networks. The company also provides embedded software solutions, push to talk over cellular solutions,embedded applications, layered architectures, OMA enabler conformance tests, and data streams and protocols. It serves mobile phone manufacturers. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Munich, Germany with an additional office in Zagreb, Croatia.
• Medicom Technologies — Medicom connects disparate silos of health information so that they can be easily and securely searched and shared.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Soley — Strategisches Produktportfolio-Management einfach digitalisieren mit Soley: Produktportfolio-Analyse und Produktportfolio-Optimierung auf Knopfdruck.
• Wirepas — Wirepas offers a standards-based, ultra-reliable mesh connectivity for infrastructure-grade IoT. Proven in millions of devices worldwide.
• Artisense Corporation — Pocket-sized camera module enables centimeter-precise positioning in any environment. Indoors and outdoors. Critical for autonomous vehicles, robotics, mapping.

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• 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.

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• Gotiva — Play thousands of jigsaw puzzles for free on Android and iOS
• 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!
• Benjamin — Start saving more money with our cash back app that automates the cash back earnings for people and businesses.

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• Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
• Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
• Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Sumary — Sumary is a finance-tech company that offers an AI-powered reporting, budgeting & forecasting for e-conomic.
• Digitail — Grow your practice, offer a modern client experience, and automate routine practice tasks with the proven all-in-one veterinary software.
• DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

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• CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
• Senodis — The digital transformation of industry is not developed on paper; it requires pioneering work to implement specific solutions and applications off the beaten track. With our experience and our network at the interface between materials research, optical sensors, and digital data analysis, we and our partners provide the missing building blocks forthe connection and digitization of your production.
• CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.

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• Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
• Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
• Interface — Interface is an AI-native Document Management System for High Hazard Industries.

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• DBtune — Most databases are shipped with very conservative default settings across a host of parameters to ensure that they can function properly for a wide variety of applications. However, once a database has been installed and applied to a particular application, there is plenty of room to tune these parameters in a way that improves your particulardatabase performance.
• Spare-it — Spare-it offers a solution to track office waste streams in real-time.
• Composo — No more testing by vibes. Conduct data-driven evaluation to find the best prompts, models & end to end architecture for LLM applications.

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• 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 — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.

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• Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
• Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
• PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.

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• 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.

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• Spike Technologies — Spike is an API for all fitness and health data from wearables & loT devices designed for digital health app developer.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
• Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.

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• Era Software — Lightstep is the easiest way for developers and SREs to understand complex systems.
• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Tino — Tino is building the future B2B payment network. The company allows merchants to use their credit card receivables as credit collateral, accessing working capital seamlessly and cheaply.Due to this increase in merchant purchase power, suppliers can boost their commercial opportunities, while keeping their default risk under control. The companyultimately aims to streamline the commercial relationship between merchants and their suppliers, leveraging data to boost transactions for B2B buying and selling.Pedro Sonego de Oliveira and Luis Eduardo Cascão founded Tino on November 2021. It has its headquarter in São Paulo, Brazil.

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• 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.

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• Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
• Remitly — Send money online faster and more securely with Remitly, and discover our great exchange rates and low money transfer fees.
• GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

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• Virtuall — Virtuall: Transforming 3D content production with a platform designed for agencies and studios. Streamline workflows, collaborate seamlessly, and scale your creative potential with powerful 3D tools.
• GamerzClass — A new beginning for GamerzClass
• Propane — Propane is an AI-powered operating system for customer intelligence, built for modern product and GTM teams. It automates continuous customer and user research through embedded AI agents, integrated workflows, and real-time analysis—turning feedback into a scalable system, not a one-off task.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• anvajo — Lab diagnostics for everyone, everywhere. Understanding fluids through light and algorithms
• Skinuvita — Skinuvita specializes in developing digital home treatment solutions for chronic autoimmune skin diseases such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and vitiligo. Utilizing specific wavelengths of UV light (311nm) that have a calming effect on skin's immune cells responsible for inflammation, Skinuvita's approach to phototherapy aims toimprove the quality of life for patients. The company offers a patient app that guides users through therapy sessions and analyzes responses for dosage optimization, alongside tools for dermatologists to monitor treatment progress. This innovative approach allows for effective management of skin conditions from the comfort of one's home.
• 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.

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• 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".

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• 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.

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• GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
• Sphinx — AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs.
• Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.

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• INSRD — Elevate your startup's growth with tailored coverage, digital comfort and unparalleled service. From newborn to unicorn, insuring your success.
• Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
• 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.

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• 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 allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.

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• 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.
• Doppler Labs — 2026's Top 5 Best Headphones Top Rated and Reviewed. Easily choose and compare the Best Headphones for you all in one place. (Fan Favorites)

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

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• 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!