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Top 45 Video Games Startup Investors in Germany in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 45 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in January 2026

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

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

Holger Hübner

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Audio
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

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.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

n8n — n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool
Tzafon — Tzafon's vision is to broaden the lightcone of awareness by pushing the boundaries of machine intelligence, striving to extend the frontier of what intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and contribute.
Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.

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 — Get found in AI Search with Conductor

Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.

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.
Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
CrateDB — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value

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.

Anton Gaufﬁn is the Founder of Sumoing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Gotiva — Darvin lets you design and build real mobile apps using just your ideas. No coding skills needed. Fast, easy, and ready for Google Play and App Store.
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.

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, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

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.

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, Funding Round
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.

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.

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, Online Portals, Health Care
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.

Founded in the Saarland venture financing mbH was (briefly: SWG) in 1997 to assist with the goal of emerging technology companies in their early stages and already existing innovative companies in the development of new products and their marketing by providing equity and quasi-equity.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

NIFTEE — NIFTEE.EU is Europe's auction house for exclusive and hand-curated NFT art from today's most relevant artists. Niftee provides a well-known online buying experience and has created a previously unheard-of marketing opportunity.
Effinigo — Effinigo provides IoT-based retrofitting solutions for older buildings, specializing in demand-based control of lighting, heating, and energy monitoring. Our solutions offer a simple, cost-effective way to boost energy efficiency and lower carbon emissions.
K | Lens — K | Lens GmbH is a high-tech start-up developing a product range based on the K|Lens technology, their innovative and patented image acquisition and processing technology.The K|Lens technology has been invented at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and further developed during an incubation period with IT Inkubator inSaarbrücken, Germany. They have raised seed funding in 2017 and 2020 and now, their team of highly motivated Computer Vision experts is working on the development of their first product for industrial automation / industry 4.0.

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.
ClimateChoice — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

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 — 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!

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.

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, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Denmark, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Venture Capital Investments

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Social CRM
Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Zeeg — Create a customized landing page in just a few clicks and let your customers easily book appointments with you.
viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.

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

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats

Angel and Seed stage investments in fast growing and highly scalable startups in growing markets led by dedicated entrepreneurs that are passionate about what they are doing. We invest in people that we would love to work with and who are capable to implement the quick iterations needed to make a startup company successful.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

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.
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.
Composo — No more testing by vibes. Conduct data-driven evaluation to find the best prompts, models & end to end architecture for LLM applications.

One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.

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.

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

Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.
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.

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.

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.

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, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
DC Connected — Mobility Enhancement Platform
Synergi — Synergi app features smart charging, smart climate, solar charging, and more to help you use electricity when it's cheap and good for the planet. Start saving and earning with smart electricity use!

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

Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

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.

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

Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
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.
Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.

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.

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

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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
Umami Games — It a game developing company by using hyper casual studio.

Firegroup Holding AG is a Swiss holding company.

Investment focus

Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Pre-Seed
Germany

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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.

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

Investment focus

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

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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.

Myke Naef

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Sports
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

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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.

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, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.

Johannis Hatt is one of the founders of Productsup.

Investment focus

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

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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.

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

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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.

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
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

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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.

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

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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.
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.

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

Digital Media, Sports, Video
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Germany

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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 — 2025's Top 5 Best Headphones Top Rated and Reviewed. Easily choose and compare the Best Headphones for you all in one place. (Fan Favorites)

Vester Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Content, Training, Enterprise
Series A
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.

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

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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!

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