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 |
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Neuhaus Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe | ||
Hanse Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe | ||
Shortcut Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe | ||
Density Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe | ||
MobilityFund | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Hamburg. 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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Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Hamburg)
Neuhaus Partners
Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet (infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Hanse Ventures
Hanse Ventures is a company builder in Hamburg. The start-up incubator develops its own Internet and mobile business concepts and implements these with suitable founder teams. As an institutional co-founder, Hanse Ventures accelerates the growth of its start-ups using tailored resources. These include product development and design, as well as recruitment, business intelligence, online marketing and a high-profile network of investors and business partners. They do not pursue specific themes, but are extremely interested in dull, complex niches that are preferably as yet unaffected by the efficiency of the Internet. Once they have found such a market segment, it is their declared intention to become the category leader. They respect no geographic boundaries and establish companies that are both nationally and internationally active. They are also interested in ideas and start-ups that are less developed, i.e. they want to be involved from the outset, in order to gain an insight into and help shape concepts as early as possible. They always welcome potential founders – with or without an idea – as well as those who have exciting ideas, but who cannot or do not want to implement these themselves. They see their selves as an institutional co-founder, i.e. they unconditionally contribute everything they can offer to each of their start-ups, in terms of expertise, networking and other added value. their 30-strong team works extremely closely with their start-up portfolio, supporting and advising them with their knowledge of online marketing, product development, business intelligence, service centre know how, HR, design and PR. They also provide office space in Hamburg’s beautiful port city, access to their extensive network of investors and business angels and the experience of successful founders, such as their own founder, Jochen Maaß. They also invest in the financing rounds of their start-up portfolio from their own funds and/or co-investment vehicles. The concentrated power of their accomplishments surpasses that of almost every other market player.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Construction, E-Commerce, Health Care, Internet, Lead Management, Venture Capital
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Shortcut Ventures
Shortcut Ventures is a German venture capital enterprise created by founders for founders. The main focus of Shortcut Ventures investment strategy is on international startups specializing in the fields of internet, mobile, games, and social media. The company mainly invests in startups that are in the early growth stages. Along with the financial support, firms in the portfolio are also provided with access to founder knowledge and know-how. Shortcut Ventures is managed by Dirk Freise, Martin Ostermayer, and Thorsten Rehling, entrepreneurs and founders of multiple companies such as blau.de and handy.de. The enterprise’s main investor is the Dutch telecommunications corporation, KPN.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Venture Capital
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Density Ventures
Early stage investor, co-investments in North America & Europe. We write small cheques and help with making companies investable for others. Focus: Machine Learning in Health, Industrial. Focus going forward: climate positive startups with real impact (Energy generation, distribution, conservation, mobility, zero waste)
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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MobilityFund
Our mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable mobility by backing the best founders in European mobility start-ups. We invest in disruptive mobility start-ups with ambitious founders from Seed to Series A and onwards. Our experienced team includes entrepreneurs from Europe and Silicon Valley who partner with our companies as they scale to become global transportation leaders. – MobilityFund is an independent venture capital fund for European early-stage mobility start-ups. Our target sectors include connectivity, autonomy, shared mobility, electrification & mobility-related services (e.g. logistics and vehicles trading). The fund’s geographical target markets are the EU and selected non-EU countries (incl. UK, Norway, Switzerland, Israel and the US). MobilityFund invests in early stage start-ups, usually from late Seed to Series A financing rounds. At this stage start-ups have typically started marketing their products or services, and are generating first revenues and seeking further capital to scale. MobilityFund’s role is to act as the first institutional investor and the go-to venture firm for mobility start-ups. MobilityFund creates value by supporting its portfolio companies with its capital, expertise, and network.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Automotive, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicle, Finance, Financial Services, Internet of Things, Sharing Economy, Transportation, Venture Capital
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B.I.F.
B.I.F. is a Hamburg-based early stage investor. We support experienced and highly driven individuals in scaling their well defined and thoroughly researched business ideas. We are looking for clear and sustainable value propositions solving real life problems and generating real customer value. Our main investment focus is around digital technology, innovative service concepts and life science opportunities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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TecPier
TecPier is a venture capital investor in early-stage maritime, logistics and supply chain technology startups. It actively supports its portfolio companies with market access, fundraising and mentoring. TecPier has a clear focus on digital and sustainable business models that have the potential to transform the shipping, logistics and supply chain management industries.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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ICOA UG
ICOA UG is a venture capital firm based in Hamburg, Germany helping tech entrepreneurs and innovators turn ideas into international businesses. Since 2018, we’ve partnered with entrepreneurs in the USA, Europe, Asia and Africa who are building technology to rebuild the world we live in. ICOA covers early investment stages. Opportunity is a mindset and we believe in founders who spot something others haven’t seen yet.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Information Technology, Software, Venture Capital
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GLG Green Lifestyle
GLG Green Lifestyle is a venture capital firm based in Germany that finances early stage venture investments. They see ourselves as a sustainable and long term oriented business community. Demand and encourage responsible entrepreneurship is their mission statement. They highly value economic substance and organic growth. The companies within the Green Lifestyle Group not only profit from synergies and Germany’s largest media reach for consciously consuming people, but are also supported with administrative processes. This includes mapping and integrating operational business processes such as accounting, controlling, reporting and cash management or help with tax or legal related questions.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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Lymbersky Capital & Asset Management
Lymbersky Capital & Asset Management is a holding to manage exceptional investments in venture capital, real estate and shares in international corporations. They discreetly advise family offices and private investors on investment opportunities, asset and capital management.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Non Equity Assistance, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Real Estate, Venture Capital
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Friends and Family GmbH
Friends and Family is a seed investor for startups within payments, risk management, credit scoring, and fraud detection industry.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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STARTHUB VENTURES
Starthub-ventures, our focus is on Pre-Seed investments. We assist not only with Pre-Seed capital for our portfolio companies, but also have a vast network that extends particularly across international logistics. Starthub-ventures supports the heroes of tomorrow, who are on their way from Zero to Hero.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Topos GmbH
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Consulting, Employment, Recruiting, Staffing Agency, Venture Capital
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