These are the Top Venture Capital Companies in Germany (2021)

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This article showcases our top picks for the best Germany based Venture Capital companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Venture Capital industry, but are all exceptional startups and companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top Germany Venture Capital Companies

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ATAI Life Sciences

ATAI Life Sciences

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ATAI is a global biotech company builder that leverages a decentralized, technology- and data-driven platform model to serve millions of people suffering with mental health disorders. We are committed to acquiring and efficiently developing innovative treatments that address significant unmet medical needs and lead to paradigm shifts in the mental health space.

By pooling expertise, best practices, and resources across our entire portfolio, we mitigate risk and responsibly accelerate the development of impactful and evidence-based therapies.. .

FinLab

FinLab

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FinLab is a Germany-based investment company engaged in the building of companies in the financial services technologies.

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Visionaries Club

Visionaries Club

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Visionaries Club is a VC fund backed by European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs.

Allianz X

Allianz X

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Allianz X is the digital investment unit of the Allianz Group and part of the Group’s Single Digital Agenda. Allianz X invests in digital growth companies that are part of its ecosystems related to insurance: Mobility, Connected Property, Connected Health, Wealth Management & Retirement, and Data Intelligence & Cybersecurity.

It provides an interface between portfolio companies and the digital ecosystem within Allianz as well as drive innovation across Allianz’s operating entities and global lines of business.. .

Companisto

Companisto

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Companisto is an equity crowdinvesting platform for startups. It enables investors to participate in the funding of companies with an investment of their choice, and in return share profits and increases in value of the startup or property.

Companisto is the investment platform for startups and growth companies. Business angels and investors participate in groundbreaking innovations, promising companies, and ideas that write history through venture capital.

As a fintech company, they stand for lean processes, specialized knowledge, and efficient solutions. They are the driver of innovation in the field of professional online corporate finance.

In a diverse society, they assume responsibility for the founding culture in Germany and Europe.. .

APX

APX

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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.

In exchange for 5% equity, we offer a pre-seed deal of 50K, hands-on venture development, and access to our extensive network. We pledge to join follow-on financing rounds alongside other investors.

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 70+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors..

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2b AHEAD Ventures

2b AHEAD Ventures

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2b AHEAD Ventures is an incubator and company builder. It was founded by Sven Gábor Jánszky and his future institute “2b AHEAD ThinkTank”.

2b AHEAD Ventures is based in the former Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig-Plagwitz, where the 2b AHEAD parent institute has developed into Europe’s largest independent future research institute. The main difference between 2b AHEAD Ventures and the other start-up incubators in the region? The strict focus on global business models and the direct link to Silicon Valley.

They do not finance already existing start-up teams, but they take the concepts for disruptive business model innovations, which the 2b AHEAD Institute develops for its customers anyway, and which in their opinion have the potential to profoundly change industries. They build up their own teams of founders around these ideas and accompany them on their way..

Springlane

Springlane

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Springlane fuels people‘s passion for cooking. Started as a shopping club for cooking enthusiasts, Springlane quickly became the leading online retailer in its vertical in Germany, offering more than 15 thousand products from 750 premium brands.

The combination of a state-of-the-art business intelligence technology and a unique content-driven e-commerce approach for customer acquisition and retention set the fundament to build integrated consumer brands, which became the company’s strategic focus in 2018. Today, Springlane ranks among the most influential food content websites in Europe and develops and markets products under four differentiated brands with sales in Germany, Austria, UK, France, Italy, and Spain..

Aircloak

Aircloak

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Aircloak is an early-stage startup that develops software solutions, enabling the immediate, safe, and legal sharing or monetization of sensitive datasets. Its technology is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Aircloak was founded by Paul Francis, Felix Bauer, and Sebastian Probst Eide in 2012 and is based in Berlin, Germany.. .

Fly Ventures

Fly Ventures

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Fly Ventures is a Berlin based VC firm investing in seed stage companies across Europe.

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Deutsche Borse

Deutsche Borse

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Deutsche Borse is an exchange company providing investors, financial institutions and companies with access to global capital markets.

easyfolio

easyfolio

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easyfolio is a German financial services company that enables its customers to invest in diversified portfolios. easyfolio offers three investment strategies – easyfolio 30, easyfolio 50 and easyfolio70.

All strategies invest with different weights – according to your personal risk assessment – completely transparent in a basket of stocks and bonds, which reflects the global economy.. .

RAISING

RAISING

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RAISING is an investment banking fintec company.

UFOstart

UFOstart

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We are building the future of marketing for a decentralized world.

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Banking One

Banking One

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Banking One is able to predict which of retail banks customers are currently interested in financial products. Our product is used by sales managers in banks to filter out the most promising customers and distribute these customers to the sales agents.

Resulting in higher earnings for the banks and happy customers since customers are contacted if there is a need and they will not be bothered for no reason.. .

Capmatcher

Capmatcher

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Capmatcher provides services for startups and investors in to find their perfect match by utilizing latest technology.

Lunar Ventures

Lunar Ventures

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Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin.

Cashlink

Cashlink

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The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe’s leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution.

Compared to a traditional security, tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today.

Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech.

As a founding member of the European forum “International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications” (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow’s capital market today.. .

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Peppermint Venture Partners

Peppermint Venture Partners

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PVP is a private venture capital firm based in Berlin, investing in early-stage healthcare companies across Europe with a focus on medical device, digital health, and platform technology companies. Peppermint VenturePartners was established in 2008 by Ingeborg Neumann, Dr.

Joachim Rautter and Dr. Klaus Stöckemann..

German Startups Group

German Startups Group

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German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital.

Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a diversified portfolio of investments in young companies and become the second most active venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights, Germany Venture Capital Overview). According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of extremely promising German startups of various maturity stages and includes some of the most successful and best-known German startups..

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities

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AURELIUS Equity Opportunities has many years of investment and management experience in various industries and sectors. AURELIUS Equity Opportunities employs its management capacities and the necessary financial resources to invest in product innovation, sales and research in order to develop the potential of its subsidiaries.

With offices in Munich, London, Madrid and Stockholm and subsidiaries in Germany, the UK, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia, the United States, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and South Korea, AURELIUS operates throughout the world.. .

Deutsche Beteiligungs

Deutsche Beteiligungs

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Deutsche Beteiligungs is a private equity company. They initiate closed-end private equity funds – DBAG funds – which enable institutional investors to invest in the equity or equity-like instruments of unlisted companies.

DBAG advises or manages these funds. That means DBAG identifies, analyses and structures investment opportunities.

They negotiate investment agreements, support the portfolio companies during the time of their investment and shape the disinvestment process. Their focus is on German Mittelstand companies.

These mid-market businesses are the backbone of the German economy. They feel committed to them.

Their business models and markets have been the focus of their work for decades. Their special focus, moreover, is on companies operating in industrial sectors that are particularly strong on an international comparison.

Currently, DBAG holds more than 20 portfolio companies. Assets under advisement total some 1.8 billion euros..

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TauRes Gesellschaft für Investmentberatung mbH

TauRes Gesellschaft für Investmentberatung mbH

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TauRes specialises precisely in becoming a trustworthy collaborator on your side, building your wealth with you and shaping your future.

Think.Health

Think.Health

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Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures.

LPA Lucht Probst Associates

LPA Lucht Probst Associates

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LPA Lucht Probst Associates is a financial services provider . Tech-based. Brain-powered. Transforming capital markets since 1999.

Blockwall Management

Blockwall Management

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Blockwall Management is BaFin-registered blockchain venture Capital fund.

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Armira

Armira

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Armira is an entrepreneurial industrial holding company.

The SaaSgarage

The SaaSgarage

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Welcome to the cradle of many prominent European Enterprise SaaS companies like (e.g) Contenful, FreeAgent, Riskmethods and Softgarden. SaaSgarage, the synonym for my cooperation with founders, is where a number of leading European SaaS startup companies have refined their business and execution models and prepared their first institutional funding rounds (Seed, Pre-A) before they hit the global roads.

If you landed at this site you are most likely a founder or CEO of a software company, which delivers software to its customers as a cloud based service (SaaS), or you are an entrepreneur who plans to start a new Software as a Service business.. .

HR Ventures

HR Ventures

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HR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, which is part of the HahnAir Group. HR Ventures is based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

HR Ventures is also an EVCA member, the European private equity & venture capital association. HR Ventures was founded to support exceptional entrepreneurs in achieving their goals together as partners.

We define ourselves as an equal partner for all entrepreneurial challenges with in-depth expertise and a large network. The company builds a strong relationship with each founder to create outstanding companies.

We are here to. .

BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures

BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures

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BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures is a Munich based venture capital firm looking for early stage investment opportunities in the energy market all over Europe and Israel.

They focus on scalable business models in the areas of digital energy solutions, storage and e-mobility. They believe the key to success is ensuring great chemistry and collaboration between the founders, management team and investors.

As the venture capital unit of the BayWa r.e. Holding, they combine corporate stability and a deep understanding of the energy market with the entrepreneurial experience and mindset within their dedicated team..

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S-UBG Group

S-UBG Group

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S-UBG Group offers equity financing opportunities to enterprises with a strong growth potential. It primarily invests in emerging growth, seed/start ups, and early-mid -late venture stages.

The firm considers investments within the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia and Aachen, Krefeld, and Mönchengladbach regions. The firm was established in 1988 and is based in Aachen, Germany..

Finance in Motion

Finance in Motion

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Finance in Motion is an asset management firm exclusively focused on development finance. It offers specialized investment advisory services in the management of investment vehicles that have a positive social impact in developing countries and emerging economies and generate a financial return for investors.

The company focuses on micro, small and medium enterprise financing, housing financing, as well as on financing of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy projects. Advising investment funds with a total committed capital of over EUR 800 million, Finance in Motion is one of the world’s leading asset managers in the field of development finance..

Force Ventures

Force Ventures

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Force Ventures is a Venture Studio based in Berlin, Germany.

Aschendorff NEXT

Aschendorff NEXT

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Aschendorff NEXT GmbH & Co. KG is the company for digital corporate investments within the Aschendorff Group.

They invest in companies with innovative, digital business models and good growth prospects that operate under independent brands in regional, national or even international markets. They do not see themselves only as an investor.

Together with their co-investors and experts from the media, technology and start-up world, they form a powerful network that supports and accompanies their portfolio companies on their way to a successful future.. .

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Blockrocket

Blockrocket

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BLOCKROCKET is an early-stage investor and digital accelerator for blockchain startups in Germany.

W Ventures

W Ventures

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W Ventures is a Berlin based venture design and venture capital company that offers a complete framework for the acceleration of digital business ideas for leading international companies in key B2B and B2C sectors. They are an operational VC, technology provider and innovation hub together with their industry and technology partners.

They support start ups from seed to growth and are able to combine the best assets of established companies with the speed, agile processes and mindset of startups to accelerate growth. With their knowledge about transactions, industry experts and extensive network from long-standing service in top management positions, they execute best practice and objective advisory services for their clients.

Furthermore, they offer advisory services to assure the execution of well-ordered succession plans. They deliver mergers & acquisitions advice, advice for digital transformation strategies and co-accountability in digital business creation..

awesome capital

awesome capital

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awesome capital comprises investment vehicles along the lifecycle of a company: from venture capital in early and growth stage, over late stage direct investments to a stock market fund. awesome is run by a German-Chinese partner team and invests industry- and stage-agnostically in data-driven technology companies throughout Europe and China.

The company was founded 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin and Beijing with offices in Munich, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.. .

ERIC - European RealEstate Innovation Capital

ERIC – European RealEstate Innovation Capital

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Capitalizing on the trillion dollar opportunity arising from Real Estate 2.0

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Auden

Auden

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Auden based in the German federal capital of Berlin, invests in carefully selected start-up ventures within its local region. Its formula for success is based, in addition to its own business model and experienced team of professionals, upon its ability to provide strong ongoing support to its portfolio companies through its network and expertise.

Its close working relationships and conscientious monitoring of the investments which it undertakes thus play a critically important role. Through its stringent pre-selection of targets and active oversight of its portfolio companies, Auden offers family offices, institutional and private investors the means to participate in investment opportunities in a high-potential market which can be not only highly complex but also difficult to penetrate without close local connections..

RED Ventures GmbH

RED Ventures GmbH

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the smart home of innovations

Mountain Alliance

Mountain Alliance

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Mountain Alliance is a listed company investing in category defining companies that shape the world of tomorrow.

KAURI Tech Investment

KAURI Tech Investment

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Kauri CAB Group develops, manages, digitally connects and invests in real estate

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MorphAIs Technologies

MorphAIs Technologies

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MorphAIs is an AI-based venture capital technology firm that enables investments into the most exceptional founders who have the potential to build world class companies. Using a data- and technology-driven approach we reduce the element of human error and -bias throughout the investment decision process and make VC investments more accurate, transparent and inclusive.

A team of mathematicians, machine learning- and behavioural scientists, we have developed a highly accurate de-biased AI technology in order to disrupt the way venture capital is allocated today and create a more capital-efficient, but also inclusive and less biased start-up eco-system by enabling the best entrepreneurs to get funding – irrespective of gender and background. On a mission to become the pioneer in AI-driven VC investments..

Nanostart

Nanostart

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Nanostart is based in Frankfurt, Germany, and is an investment company that caters to nanotechnology companies.

MINE, Inc. and MINE Innovation Engineering GmbH

MINE, Inc. and MINE Innovation Engineering GmbH

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MINE and Reality Ventures provide a unique vertically integrated corporate ecosystem for the creation of technology companies. It offers strategic and financial investors cost-effective, lower risk technology innovation with higher ROI.

A five-stage targeted innovation engineering and technology company creation process called IP Mining:tm: covers the entire path from the original invention at the core of a new technology to the successful establishment of a company for bringing the corresponding products to market. The MINE group of companies, consisting of MINE Holding GmbH, MINE Innovation Engineering GmbH and its subsidiary MINE Inc.

in San Francisco, and Reality Ventures Beteiligungs GmbH were founded and established in Berlin in June/July 2013 by the innovator and entrepreneur Rolf Herken together with the company Dassault Systèmes International S.A.S. as founding partner and first strategic investor.

MINE and Reality Ventures provide a unique vertically integrated corporate ecosystem for the creation of technology companies. Headquartered in Berlin with main research and development centers in San Francisco and Berlin, the two companies are bringing some of the world’s brightest minds together to develop completely new, high impact technologies with extremely low overhead in the shortest possible time.

They design, build and develop platforms and solutions that operate on a massive scale to benefit millions of people. MINE and Reality Ventures also provide the corporate and financial framework for the successful implementation of a new, highly efficient funding model for start-ups that benefits both innovators and investors.

While scientists and engineers will be freed up to put their talent to work on innovative solutions without distraction, it is expected that in return for the funding of this ecosystem, significant strategic advantages and exceptionally large returns will be generated for the strategic and financial investors in Reality Ventures. How it works: Most ideas in technology do not materialize out of the blue.

Vaillant Group

Vaillant Group

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The Valiant Group is a provider of financial advice for investment.

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Mighty Labs

Mighty Labs

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Mighty Labs is a pre-accelerator program, preparing entrepreneurs to propel their business ideas into successful ventures.

Scytale Ventures

Scytale Ventures

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Scytale Ventures is a team of investment management experts, blockchain technology experts, and entrepreneurs.

SpaceTec Capital

SpaceTec Capital

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SpaceTec Capital invests in various fields where space-related disruptive technologies make a difference in growing multi-billion markets.

Venture Leap

Venture Leap

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At Venture Leap, we help entrepreneurial teams to build and launch their digital products. We provide deep technical expertise combined with long standing entrepreneurial experience.

This allows us to quickly identify pain points and provide support in IT development, operations and business strategy. The teams we support come in all shapes and sizes, from individuals, young startups to corporates who want to bring their ideas to life..

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Amentory Ventures

Amentory Ventures

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Amentory Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies and influencing society. Amentory Ventures helps startups to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe.

The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage..

mantro

mantro

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We identify opportunities to create new business models in partnership with medium and large corporates. We co-invest into those ideas in early stages and help our partners therefore to give ideas a realistic chance to survive outside the corporate.

We founded companies in the following fields: Energy, Education, Automotive, Mobility, E-Mobility, PropTech, Hunting (B2C), Logistics, Discrete Manufacturing, Health Care, Employee Benefits, Enterprise Software & Business Travel We are tech enthusiasts but tech agnostic – whatever serves the business best! We are curious to look into different industries and are experts in connecting players from different industries. We prefer longtime partnerships for substantial business.

We believe in our teams and in real partnerships, that’s why we put our own cash into our ventures and joint-ventures.. .

Front Equity

Front Equity

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Front Equity is a privately held investment company with two business units.

IKB Deutsche Industriebank

IKB Deutsche Industriebank

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IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG supports medium-sized enterprises and private equity funds in Germany and Europe with loans, risk management, capital market services and advisory services. IKB has had close ties with German companies and entrepeneurs since it was founded in 1924.

The Bank’s business model is based on stable, long-term customer relationships and a pronounced understanding of issues affecting medium-sized enterprises. – Founded in 1924 (as “Bank für Industrieobligationen”) – Around 1,450 employees (around 400 of whom at IKB Leasing GmbH) – Corporate headquarters in Düsseldorf – Locations: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, London, Madrid, Milan and Paris.

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27pilots

27pilots

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27pilots helps organizations set up and operate an Internal Venture Client unit.

Costa Norte & Co.

Costa Norte & Co.

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Costa Norte facilitates long term financial partnerships and strategic collaborations that allows our clients to achieve global success. We do this through a partnership approach that can offer financial, investment and M&A advisory in conjunction with our business partners, allowing you to focus on growing your company.

Our team comes from a ‘building businesses first’ background. That means we have the experience and passion to drive your company to the next level – whatever that may be.

What makes us stand out is our extensive knowledge in how to make that happen. We identify areas where we can make a significant impact.

Costa Norte focuses mainly on early stage companies with high growth potential. We are active in industries including Technology, Health and Medical solutions, Media and Advertising, Financial services, and Real Estate.

We support fast growing companies. Let us help you grow yours..

Virtual Minds

Virtual Minds

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Virtual Minds is provide digital advertising and hosting services.

OHB Venture Capital

OHB Venture Capital

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OHB Venture Capital specializes in start-up and early stage investments.

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INNOVATIONPUNKS

INNOVATIONPUNKS

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innovation.punks is a professional innovation laboratory, startup builder and venture production firm. We invest capital and human resources to bring new companies to market.

Our focus is on our own disruptive ideas in the marketplace sector. Instead of incubating single ventures with individual teams, our model utilises a single team to pursue multiple ventures; evolving them into dedicated operation teams as they scale and mature..

Hoepfner Brau

Hoepfner Brau

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Hoepfner Brau is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed/startup, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm prefers to invest in hi-tech, and food and drinks industries based in Baden-Württemberg and Zürich.

It typically invests between €100 million ($127.98 million) and €250 million ($319.95 million) in equity investments.. .

Saxovent

Saxovent

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Saxovent is a Berlin-based developer of renewable energy, real estate, and agricultural projects. We are also active as a venture capital investor.

In our capacity as an operator as well as an investor we strive to preserve the earth as a place worth living for our children. Saxovent’s commitment is already saving approximately 625,000 tons of CO2 annually – the total emissions of approximately 60,000 people in Germany..

Deutsche Kreditbank

Deutsche Kreditbank

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Deutsche Kreditbank offers the best investments for the financial future.

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Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg

Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg

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ILB was founded in 1992 as an investment bank. As a business development bank, it assists the federal state of Brandenburg and other public bodies in their tasks.

According to the federal state of Brandenburg’s ILB law, the bank has been given a solid basis for its activities and, in compliance with European Union requirements, can avail itself of state guarantees.. .

RBC Investor & Treasury Services

RBC Investor & Treasury Services

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RBC Investor & Treasury Services is a specialist provider of asset services, custody, payments and treasury services.

Startuprad.io

Startuprad.io

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Startuprad.io has been called a “need to know source” and “the authority on German startups” several times. The podcast is the premier English source for German startup news, entrepreneur interviews, and tech events.

Startuprad.io is a global Top 150 Tech Podcast (Chartable), scoring in 42 countries in the podcast charts, across 5 continents.. .

KUBIKx GmbH

KUBIKx GmbH

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Venture Builder of the Schmitz Cargobull AG

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e&Co. AG

e&Co. AG

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e&Co. stands for Entrepreneurs and Consultants.

We are an agile management consultancy and investment company focusing on complex change situations – especially in the automotive and mobility industries. Working to our maxim of “enabling value”​, we offer tailor-made solutions to a range of strategic, organisational, and operational challenges.

The key to success is our team of entrepreneurial personalities and their charisma, passion, and courage. Our clients include entrepreneurs facing big challenges and ambitious goals, some of whom are global industry giants, while many are small-to-medium-sized or family-run companies.

What unites them is their intention to change the status quo and secure lasting value-adds. We have several offices in Europe and one Asian dependance in Seoul, South Korea..

Evalue

Evalue

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Evalue invests in global venture capital and private equity at all stages.

BITREAL Capital

BITREAL Capital

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BITREAL Capital provides professional and regulated solutions to cryptocurrency owners and investors as well as traditional professional and semi-professional investors. BITREAL Capital is currently in the final phase of the launch of the BRECO series of funds which can be used effectively to: 1.

Benefit from the chances presented by the German premium commercial real estate market 2. Enter the world and opportunities of Virtual Currencies with strictly limited downside 3.

Secure price gains of Virtual Currencies by directly exchanging Bitcoins for Interests in the Fund. 4.

Get a call option on Bitcoin as a Fiat Investor. Investors choose wether they want their equity and profits paid out in Fiat or Bitcoin/Ether.

e-navik GmbH

e-navik GmbH

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Our investment style is one of hands-on partnership, relying on the high quality teams that we back. Our business model involves a serious commitment on our part to help grow the businesses.

We expand the horizons offering you several value creation initiatives with equity impact approach.. .

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FLYACTS

FLYACTS

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Als Digital Innovation Factory produzieren wir digitale Innovationen. Unsere Arbeit beginnt dort, wo Baukästen und Bestandssysteme aufhören.

Dazu setzen wir auf eingespielte und crossfunktionale Product-Teams, bestehend aus Product Owner, Information Architect, Visual Designer, Frontend & Backend Developer, System Architect und Quality Manager, die zusammen mit wagemutigen Gründern digitale Produkte entstehen lassen und ganze Branchen wachrütteln. In Form eines Corporate Venturings unterstützt FLYACTS Gründungswillige, um deren Ideen eines digitalen Geschäftsmodells Realität werden zu lassen.

Unser bewährter MVP-Ansatz ermöglicht dabei einen schlanken und vor allem schnellen Marktstart. FLYACTS hat bereits über 200 Digitalprojekte betreut und mehr als 20 digitale Neugeschäfte entwickelt..

Epic

Epic

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EPIC Companies GmbH is out of business. It is the incubation and venture capital arm of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG specializing in young start-up companies.

The firm seeks to invest in e-commerce industry. It prefers to invest in Europe.

EPIC Companies GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based on Berlin, Germany.. .

NEOSTARTER

NEOSTARTER

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NEOSTARTER is a unique startup platform, running on advanced technologies that enable founders, experts, investors and corporates to interact in uncomplicated and accurate ways. The outcomes support fast-tracking, high visibility and one-to-one connectivity to foster targeted success within the start-up game.

NEOSTARTER simplifies the process of raising capital, accelerates business processes on all sides, promotes the development of competences and saves the time resources of all those involved. As a result, NEOSTARTER will provide an innovative ecosystem for the entire startup world in the form of a social network, digitizing the startup process: – Startups will be able to present themselves, make contacts and get a direct channel to interested investors and professional consultants.

– Consultants such as lawyers and tax consultants will get another distribution channel with NEOSTARTER and can specialize themselves. – For investors, NEOSTARTER will offer the opportunity for new interesting investment opportunities according to their investor profile.

All this will be complemented by an innovative milestone feature, a global payment solution, a job board, webinars of real experts and so on. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest news or get in contact via [email protected].

GLOBAL VENTURES Capital Management GmbH

GLOBAL VENTURES Capital Management GmbH

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GLOBAL VENTURES is the holistic end to end value creation partner for venture investments.

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Topos GmbH

Topos GmbH

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For over 30 years, TOPOS has been a partner to medium-sized companies in filling management and key positions with top candidates. This makes TOPOS one of the most experienced and efficient personnel consultancies in Germany and currently the second-biggest owner-operated consultancy in the industry.

Our range of services in personnel consulting includes modern headhunting, executive search, the search for specialists and experts, and management development. In addition, we support our clients in the TOPOS Interim Management division with temporary managers and Chief Restructuring Officers.

Since our foundation in 1988, we have successfully filled several thousand positions with individual strategies. In our daily work, we rely on our national and international network, professional search processes and transparent evaluation methodology.

With seven locations in Germany, TOPOS lives customer proximity. Our clients also benefit from our cross-location approach.

Our team of consultants is in constant exchange and accumulates its industry-specific knowledge, so that our clients can be sure that even the most demanding projects are handled efficiently and successfully. Since 2015 TOPOS is also investing actively into HR-Tech-Startups of all kinds to help shaping the recruitment of the future..

FoundersLink

FoundersLink

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FoundersLink GmbH is a European pioneer in venture creation.

administration HGU GmbH

administration HGU GmbH

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HGU was founded in Hamburg, Germany in 1995 and conducts its activities as an AG (= Aktiengesellschaft, comparable to Inc.) since 1999. HGU Hamburger Unternehmensbeteiligungs AG can be translated as HGU Hamburg Private Equity AG.

The shareholder is Constantin von zur Mühlen who also compose the board of director. HGU AG is a member of Bundesverband Deutscher Kapi­talbeteili­gungs­gesellschaften (German Venture Capital Association) e.

V. (BVK), Bundesverband mittelständischer Wirtschaft (BVMW) as well as care investor during the early phase financing of the Technologie-Beteiligungs-Gesellschaft mbH der Deutschen Ausgleichsbank (tbg).

wayra Germany

wayra Germany

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Over the last nine years, we have invested more than €49 million from wayra and over €1.9 billion from 3rd parties in helping to scale the global startup ecosystem. We offer to our startups a global network of hubs in the main capitals of 10 countries across Europe and Latin America with cash and business development support.

Currently, there are more than 530 active startups in our portfolio; over 130 of them won Telefónica as a client. We access new markets alongside Telefónica and celebrated over 50 meaningful exits and great examples of joint revenue generation..

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Wessel Management

Wessel Management

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Wessel Management GmbH is the vehicle for venture capital and other investments made by the family of Rolf Christof Dienst. For 40 years, they have been investing directly (and through Rolf, founding partner of Wellington Partners, also indirectly) with entrepreneurs, who show the greatest potential to achieve success for interesting ideas and/or technologies.

They particularly like to engage with companies, which contribute to the wellbeing and prosperity of society in general. We mostly invest in conjunction with a small group of co-investors – all experienced entrepreneurs themselves with specific industry knowledge and wide-ranging personal networks.

Together with these partners, they support our portfolio companies actively. They often engage at an early stage and their own investments typically range from 1% to 25% of a portfolio company’s share capital.

While they love accompanying entrepreneurs on their journey to commercial success, human interactions and ethical aspects equally define their partnerships.. .

Barikuta Partners

Barikuta Partners

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Barikuta Partners is driving its own ideas based on a standardized research approach. Barikuta is constantly looking for great talent to grow outstanding ventures.

Barikuta provides services and access to capital to let ventures focus on their core business. Barikuta has been the incubator and driving factor behind PAY.ON, payworks and Payreto and other ventures in the Fintech space..

Alpha Build

Alpha Build

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Alpha Build specialises in founding and financing new businesses either for start-ups or newly growing divisions of corporates. To this end, Alpha Build takes an active role in the development, marketing and scaling of the newly created business opportunities.

Alpha Build participates in several founding processes at the same time and, above all, contributes its scientific entrepreneurial expertise in addition to financial resources. Hence, Alpha Build establishes teams that drive the development of the respective new business forward and complement the initiating team.

This leads to an acceleration of the learning process of the initiating team and to a steady growth of the new business for both start-ups and newly diversified corporate divisions. Alpha Build Institute, the first institute for Company Building, provides the scientific base for all business activities of Alpha Build..

Trateco GmbH & Co. KG

Trateco GmbH & Co. KG

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Trateco GmbH & Co. KG is an investment firm that focuses on seed investments for up and coming small businesses.

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Bavaria Industries Group

Bavaria Industries Group

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Bavaria Industries Group is a holding company that specializes in the takeover and re-organization of unprofitable enterprises.

ASC Investment

ASC Investment

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ASC Investment invests in mid-market companies and consults them.

Business Buddies GmbH

Business Buddies GmbH

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We address outstanding founders of technology based startup companies, invest in them, help building the company and raising capital.

Neumann Ventures

Neumann Ventures

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Raising Money, Fundraising-Coach, Venture Capital, Business Angel, Corporates, Equity Story, Entrepreneurship, Angel Network

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Softshell

Softshell

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Softshell is a value-added Distributor for Cybersecurity and Data Protection. Softshell provides both sales and marketing services, as well as innovative IT security, data protection and business productivity products and solutions that enable resellers and their customers to work more effectively with their markets.

Softshell is well known for successfully launching new vendors into the German-speaking regions (DACH: Austria, Germany, Switzerland) of Europe, as well as supporting information security resellers in their sales and marketing efforts.. .

biw AG

biw AG

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BIW AGis licensed to provide the full range of banking services and is affiliated to the Deposit Insurance Fund.

Isar Financial Partners GmbH

Isar Financial Partners GmbH

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Isar Financial Partners provides management consulting services to corporate and institutional clients as well as start-up companies on funding, liquidity, equity, mezzanine and debt capital as well as risk management issues. The consulting team has deep and longstanding experience in international capital and credit markets.

The consulting approach is client centred while being able to consider the requirements of other involved parties. Isar Financial Partners also invests and manages its own funds on an at-arms-lengths basis and invests in venture capital and private equity..

Qubit Ventures

Qubit Ventures

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Qubit Ventures builds purpose driven businesses in next-generation technology spaces. We provide capital and knowledge to connect the best of breed experts in software technology with high street innovations of tomorrow.

Founded in 2018 as a technology advisory business, we strictly focus on learning and inference algorithm solutions to streamline and advance processes in governments, enterprises and startups.. .

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Helix Council

Helix Council

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Helix Council is not a conventional organization and we do not intend to become one.

Business Angels Agentur Ruhr

Business Angels Agentur Ruhr

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Business Angels Agentur Ruhr is a business angel network that enables startups to get investment.

Berlin Startup Consulting

Berlin Startup Consulting

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Berlin Startup Consulting is a boutique early-stage startup consulting company. It specializes in strategy, investor readiness, and public fundraising.

The company also develop marketing and digital strategies and advise their client’s companies to make the right project and budget decisions. Its marketing solutions includes strategies, campaigns, designs, content marketing, and performance marketing.

Berlin Startup Consulting was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.. .

Semafora systems

Semafora systems

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Semafora specializes in semantic technologies, data migration, NLP knowledge extraction, contract management, IoT monitoring, and more.

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Jamit GmbH

Jamit GmbH

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Venture Capital & Private Equity

New Commercial Room

New Commercial Room

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NCR is a venture capital and consulting company focused on innovative future industries and related cross-sector technologies.

4Seed Investments

4Seed Investments

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Seed-Stage Investments

Rapid Venture Accounting

Rapid Venture Accounting

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We are a software house and outsourcing service provider for venture capital and private equity companies. Our software solution “Reporting.VC”​ represents a holistic portfolio management tool.

It connects all persons involved in an investment process – from portfolio companies and investment management to co-investors and fund investors. Reporting.VC structures all the necessary information: Document exchange, captable maintenance and simulation, KPI exchange and automatically generated financial reports.

As an outsourcing service provider, we not only use Reporting.VC ourselves – we also prepare portfolio reports, fund reports and international (IFRS) financial statements for our clients. At the same time, we evaluate the portfolio on the basis of verifiable input data.

Rapid Venture Accounting stands for open communication, precision and efficiency. As a service provider and software provider in the niche of venture capital and private equity companies, we maintain a fundamentally honest and trusting relationship with our clients.

We focus on our core competencies of reporting, investor communication, company valuation and bringing people together. Our aim is to work with you in a spirit of trust..

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Pioniergeist

Pioniergeist

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Pioniergeist orchestrates an innovation ecosystem around startups, corporates, universities and investors.

Ektitaby

Ektitaby

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ektitaby is a global platform for startups and ecosystem enablers.

Thoughtful

Thoughtful

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Startup consultantcy based in Berlin

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