Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Capnamic Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
TEV Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Media Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Enjoyventure Management | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Henkel Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Finance Seed investors in Nordrhein-Westfalen. 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:
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- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
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Top Finance Investors & Funds (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
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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TEV Ventures
TEV is a spin-off from Tengelmann Ventures, which is the venture capital subsidiary of Tengelmann Group. The TEV team was responsible for Tengelmann Ventures’ Vintages I and II, two evergreen funds financed from the Tengelmann Group balance sheet. In the past 10 years the TEV team invested more than € 400m into companies that have become market leaders, among them Zalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Wish, Scalable Capital, data Artisans, Lazada and brands4friends. TEV Ventures Vintage III is the third fund managed by the TEV team and the first one open to external LPs. Just as Vintage I and II, Vintage III will be focused on investments in early-stage companies in the consumer-internet, digital services and emerging technology areas. Geographical investment focus will be Germany (70%) and Europe more generally (30%). Fundraising started in July 2019.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Social, 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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Enjoyventure Management
The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Henkel Ventures
Henkel Ventures is Henkel’s corporate venture capital engagement, combining all venture activities across the company’s three business units (Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care). Henkel Ventures actively evaluates and manages equity investments and joint development projects with start-up companies to explore new technologies, applications and business models in areas of strategic interest for Henkel.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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SeedCapital Dortmund
SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG is the right partner. They participate in innovative, technology-oriented companies in the start-up or early stage companies. And yet retain independence. Because when they are holding “only” partner on time. Together they participate in the appreciation and therefore the success of company.
Stages: Seed
Location: Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DocCheck Guano AG
Birds of a feather flock together? Not our style! We promote healthcare startups who believe in their vision and want to be a success at it. DocCheck Guano is a hatchery for precocial birds aiming to land in the market. We provide the ideal fertiliser for startups: capital, know-how, market access and network. Oh, and our focus is on seed funding.
Stages: Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance
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Inncubator Investments
Inncubator Investments Provide small seed investment in a very early stage focusing on digital business models. As a long-time contractor, Inncubator Investments has learned that not only creativity, but the clout and the will lead a business idea to success. Over the last decade they have built up a wealth of experience which they pass on to their investments so that they can benefit from paid by us teaching funds and grow faster.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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dimensional Ventures
dimensional Ventures is the holding/investment company of the dimensional Group. They are not a classical VC firm, they rather build companies or help them grow, so they’re sometimes founders and sometimes an incubator if they meet amazing people. Several startups were either founded by us or developed with their intense participation, e.g. Make.TV Inc. (www.make.tv), Audiotool.com (www.audiotool.com), Hobnox (www.hobnox.com), defrac (www.defrac.com) and papaya (www.papaya-cms.com).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance
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DIGITALHUB.DE
DIGITALHUB.DE is the starting point for digital topics throughout the Bonn region. In addition to a wide variety of events with digital focus, the Hub is a development and meeting place for digital start-ups, companies, science and research.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Moacon Ventures
Moacon Ventures is the online and offline foundations of the entrepreneur Mohammadi Akhabach from the areas of consumer & marketing. We support you at any point in time when the company is founded, from the idea to long-term market success. We are active in Germany, Austria and Asia, with the focus on the German market. We work flexibly and are not restricted to a specific industry, which opens up a wide range of possibilities.hey are active in Germany, Austria and Asia, with a focus on the German market. They work flexibly and are not committed to a specific industry, which opens up a wide range of opportunities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Neuss, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Intelligence, Finance, Internet, Venture Capital
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