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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Capnamic Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
coparion | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Media Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
BitStone Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Dumont Venture | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Cologne. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Cologne)
Capnamic Ventures
Capnamic is a venture capital firm from Berlin/Cologne doing early-stage investments in outstanding teams in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. The team’s expertise includes 70+ investments, 30+ successful trade sales and 13+ IPOs as well as broad professional experience across various industries and functions. Capnamic unites institutional and corporate investors thus offering its portfolio companies a unique network of sparring partners and customers. The firm’s general partners are Jörg Binnenbrücker, Olaf Jacobi, and Christian Siegele.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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coparion
Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so. Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparion team discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully. Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Media Ventures
Media Ventures is an private venture capital company headquartered in Cologne, Germany. In their search for teams and ideas, they provide help at all stages, from start-up to growth, all the way until a company reaches maturity. they concentrate on Europe, with an emphasis on Germany, and have a broad market focus that is not industry-dependent. The package of services they offer is unique.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Social Media, Venture Capital
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BitStone Capital
BitStone Capital is an internationally operating company builder and investor who selectively invests in innovative digital Real Estate and Construction business models, and also accelerates their growth with own resources. BitStone supports young companies with its outstanding network, excellent industry know-how and broad expertise in new technologies – from product development through market entry to successful rollout.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Construction, Real Estate, Smart Building, Venture Capital
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Dumont Venture
DuMont Venture Holding GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of M. DuMont Schauberg – a leading media corporation based in Germany. DuMont Venture is actively seeking high-growth potential companies in the Digital Media and IT segments, and financially and strategically supports the development, market launch, and internationalization of its partners. DuMont Venture invested in successful companies like plista, rebuy, Picanova, lieferando, Learnship, navabi, ZooRoyal, movingimage, northworks, farbflut or Fairrank.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, SaaS, Venture Capital
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STS Ventures
STS Ventures is a Cologne-based industry agnostic early-stage investor. We typically invest in firms headquartered in the DACH region. A typical initial investment ranges from €200k – €500k with up to a total of €5 million per company through follow-up investments. To help build a strong foundation, we prefer to be amongst the first investors.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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TS Ventures GmbH
Tim Schumacher: In 2001, Tim Schumacher co-founded Sedo.com, the world’s largest domain market place. Since selling the company, Tim is active as an entrepreneur and/or investor in various startups. In 2020, Tim has been awarded as best investor in Germany by the German Startup Association. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Eyeo (makers of AdBlock Plus) and co-founder of SaaS.Group, a Software as a Service portfolio company. Stephan Jacquemot: Stephan has a very successful and long standing career in supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in various roles. He has led the startup units at Microsoft in Germany and Europe and was co-founder of the Microsoft Accelerator in Berlin. Since 2016, he is an active investor with a portfolio of 15 angel investments. Besides his role at TS Ventures he serves as Director Founders Education at the Founders Foundation established by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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VENPACE
Rethinking insurance. VENPACE develops digital business models for the insurance industry and invests in trailblazing ideas on the market. We support innovative solutions and help startup teams to grow. Through our unique ecosystem, we rethink insurance. We implement and support digital business models with know-how and passion – either as strategic investor or as initiator. Company Building – Together with our partners and investors, we identify the insurance industry’s challenges and chances of tomorrow, develop innovative business models and found them as startups from scratch. Venture Investment – We look for passionate founding teams that create value through their creative ideas and digital solutions. Our investment sweet spot: pre-seed and seed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Auto Insurance, Health Insurance, Insurance, InsurTech, Life Insurance, Venture Capital
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Rotonda Investor Office
Rotonda Investor Office provides support in your investment activities as well as access to a dealflow of prequalified top deals.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Quake Capital Europe
Quake Europe is an early-stage international accelerator that targets seed-level investments in consumer-focused 5G tech ventures. The company will launch an accelerator program focused on consumer-facing, 5G immersive entertainment, as well as digital health, and education applications.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Innovation Management, Marketing, Venture Capital
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