Top 10 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Germany in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wine and spirits startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Germany in May 2025

Investor	Wine And Spirits Germany investments
Loyal VC	2
CNB Capital	1
Brandenburg Kapital	1
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt	1
Ace Ventures	1
SquareOne	1
Robert Wuttke	1
Pente Capital	1
Nils Glagau	1
Andreas Etten	1

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Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edept — enabling global career mobility, transforming student success stories
Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
The Leaf Protein Company — Unlocking Earth's most abundant source of proteins - green leaves.

CNB Capital believes in the power of technology-driven entrepreneurship. We understand real innovation creates moat and defensibility. We provide long-term commitment, building an enduring partnership without the usual exit pressure.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hydrogrid — All-in-one solution for optimizing hydropower plants. Increase revenues by up to 18%, reduce spill by up to 12%, and save valuable time with Hydrogrid Insight.
watttron — Watttron invents a revolutionary heating system that can heat up surfaces heterogeneously.Watttron develops an innovative heating technology that can be used in various industrial processes. It is superior to current heating systems in many ways and offers a number of advantages. On the following pages, you will find information about possibleapplications and opportunities.The company is located in the Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Freital – a technology and start-up center on the outskirts of Dresden, the state capital of Saxony.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

family.cards — Family.cards provides elders with barrier-free access to digital solutions and all the tools they need to manage their circumstances.
Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt

Investment focus

SaaS, Rental, Travel
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

VRdirect — VRdirect is the Virtual Reality platform that enables enterprises to create use case-driven VR solutions that truly support real-life business processes and deliver concrete business value.
Vicampo — Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by thecompany’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.

Ace Ventures was designed to help new ideas, smart people and great companies to successfully enter the Internet business in Germany.

Investment focus

Apps, Electronics, Wine And Spirits
Series B, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

iMediSync — iMediSync provides automatic brain wave analysis and neuromodulation solutions.
Joy — Experience wedding planning the way it should be, from beautiful wedding websites and invitations, to registries and online RSVP.
Kither Biotech — Kither Biotech is a pharmaceutical product company that focuses its R&D activities on the development of new drugs. The R&D activities of the company mainly involve the development of new drugs to treat chronic inflammatory diseases.In recent years Kither has focused its first line of activities on the development of a small peptide(KIT2014) developed internally for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, a disease that predominantly affects the lungs and that currently has no cure. The KIT2014 peptide was assigned the Orphan Drug designation from the European Medicines Agency. The KIT2014 compound is currently undergoing the pre-clinical phase of clinical development.Kither’s product portfolio also includes a molecule (CL27), also developed internally, that is being developed for the treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases and Allergic Asthma. The company is about to start the pre-clinical phase of development of the CL27 molecule.

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.

Robert Wuttke - Founding Partner and Managing Director @ 10x Group

Investment focus

Recruiting, Human Resources, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
MapJam — MapJam provides map publishing tools to personalize, brand, and add important context to maps. It also offers developers and enterprises vector maps that work seamlessly with great Open Source projects from OpenStreetMap, Mapzen, Leaflet, D3, Font Awesome, kolor.js, and others. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Lawn Love — Lawn Love is modern, on-demand lawn care. Get your #stressfree quote today at lawnlove.com

At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.