Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services 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 | ||
Enjoyventure Management | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Seed Fonds Aachen | Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
STS Ventures | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services 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).
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- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
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Top Financial Services 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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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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Seed Fonds Aachen
Seed Fonds has a strong competence network with national and international investors, business angels & expertes from the industry. They are specialized in the development of comprehensive financing models offering stability and development opportunities on the long term.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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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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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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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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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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