Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for E-Commerce 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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Tiburon | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Munich, Bayern, Germany, Europe | ||
Dumont Venture | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Hanse Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe | ||
K – Invest | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Pforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
Larix | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top E-Commerce Seed investors in Germany. 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 E-Commerce Investors & Funds (Germany)
Tiburon
Tiburon, led by Felix Artmann and Daniel Wild, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over a decade. They have made it their mission to support innovative startups to achieve more. If you just want cash, go somewhere else. They invest smart money and see their selves as your sparring partner on your entrepreneurial journey. They provide you with access to their outstanding network offering marketing expertise, significant synergies and continuous strategic advice. They focus on seed startups in the digital sector and your business preferably operates in the areas of B2B SaaS, Platforms, FinTech, E-Commerce, and Media.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Finance, Financial Services, 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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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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K – Invest
K-Invest is an early stage venture capital firm backed by one of Germany’s biggest distance retailer – the KLiNGEL Group. They are investing in digitally driven start-ups having the potential to change commerce and adjacent industries. Thus, their investment activities are focused on (e)-commerce, fashion/consumer goods, ad/retail-tech, logistics and data-centric companies. They are growing their portfolio further and are ready to support start-ups not only with funds between 0.5 and 2 mio. EUR but also with corporate resources.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Pforzheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Larix
LARIX is a fund created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and aims to align itself with the most active founders globally who believe in digital transformation and want to take action to capture this value.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Automotive, Coworking, E-Commerce Platforms, Logistics, Real Estate
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iVentureCapital
iVentureCapital is a founded 2011 in Hamburg, Germany, invest in young, aspiring online companies. In addition to funds, iVentureCapital offers entrepreneurial experience and knowledge as well as business contacts – in short: “Smart Money”. Potential industries for investments are IT-, Web- and Media-related fields, particularly in the Games market (browser games, mobile games, affiliation programs). Potential portfolio companies should exist for at least 1 to 2 years and show first achievements, which do not necessarily have to be profits. First customers or prototypes are just as presentable as convincing products or services.
Stages: Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Marketing, Mobile Apps, Online Portals, Venture Capital
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Langenberg Ventures
Langenberg Ventures focuses in particular on pre-seed investments. They invest in outstanding makers with entrepreneurial DNA and do not make this exclusively dependent on the respective business idea. Langenberg Ventures scan the market and help motivated founders to recognize innovations and turn their visions into reality. They invest only own capital and offer optimal investment opportunities for other investors.
Stages: Seed
Location: Uetze, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Advertising, E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile, Software
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Munkky Ventures
Behind Munkky Ventures, a venture capital company founded in June 2019 by Samuel Azarev (Founding Partner and CEO).There is a young, dynamic team of entrepreneurs and experts that has finished the year 2020 with 4 ventures in the portfolio and already one exit. This year we are pleased to announce that Scherwin Salehi has joined the Munkky Family as a further partner and 4 other great ventures have joined the Munkky Family. We love the founders of our ventures and they are the most important part of our decision-making process when investing in a new startup, for example. FOUNDER, FOUNDER, FOUNDER, and then idea, concept, vision, etc. Based on our experience, we know which next strategic steps are relevant for your startup and which investors from our network can drive your business forward. Our goal is to help startups grow and succeed.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Coworking, CRM, E-Commerce, Fashion, FinTech, Manufacturing, Personal Branding, Software
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bridges+links | Family Venture Network
bridges+links is a venture capital consortium of German family holdings, family offices and family-owned companies that enables direct investments as a joint platform. With our evergreen investor profile, we combine financial investor rationale and synergy potential for later growth phases. We are interested in scalable business models with clear differentiation, attractive unit economics and sustainable growth rates in the late seed/series A stage. We are industry-agnostics, but lie special focus on: Digital Health, AgTech, ChemTech, e-Commerce, Food Innovation, Industry 4.0, Supply Chain & Logistics and B2B SaaS with headquarters in DACH & the Netherlands. We have successfully advised our family investors on several deals, among them: Wunderflats; Plantix; Wellster; Lizza; Vetevo; Heartbeat. For more information on our scope, investments and family investors please visit our website.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Animal Feed, Chemical, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care, Industrial Automation, Logistics, Manufacturing, SaaS, Supply Chain Management
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Admitad Invest
The fund provides finance, consultations of experts and advice of mentors as well as office space to new startups operating in the internet sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Affiliate Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile Advertising, SaaS, Venture Capital
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media + more service GmbH
Die media + more service GmbH beteiligt sie sich an jungen Unternehmen aus den Bereichen News, Online-Werbevermarktung, eCommerce, B2B, Mobile, Networks und kontextorientierte Services. Dabei verstehen wir uns als strategischer Investor und investieren insbesondere in neue Trends und Geschäftsmodelle aus dem Bereich digitaler Medien, ggf. mit der Möglichkeit diese auf das Kerngeschäft des Medienunternehmens zu übertragen. Die wesentlichen Themengebiete der Entwicklungen, mit denen wir uns beschäftigen, umfassen die Bereiche Mobile, Social Media, Data, Sensoren und Lokalisierung.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce
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Magmatic Ventures
Magmatic Ventures is a Venture Capital Boutique investing in disruptive, digital start-ups. They are supporting start-ups financially with investment and finding co-investors, In addition, they can help in operations, strategy and talent recruitment. In areas where they don’t have the expertise directly in our team, they can leverage a great network. They invest preferrably in local start-ups and in truely fantastic start-ups globally. They are based in Düsseldorf, Germany, and have an interim office in Munich.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Big Data, Cyber Security, E-Commerce, E-Learning, FinTech, GovTech, Marketplace, SaaS, Virtual Reality
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Fabelhaft Ventures
Fabelhaft Ventures founded by Manuel Siskowski and Fabian Fuhrmann builds and invests in companies that redefine the rules of their industry. We are entrepreneurs at heart and focus on the art of brand building. From launching new brands to revitalizing legacy brands we concentrate on the digital consumer. Based on technology and collaboration we strive for innovation in established markets.
Stages: Seed
Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany, Europe
Industries: 3D Printing, E-Commerce
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