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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Grazia Equity | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
KIZOO Technology Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
Porsche Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
LBBW VC | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
EnBW New Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Baden-Wurttemberg. 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 Financial Services Investors & Funds (Baden-Wurttemberg)
Grazia Equity
Grazia Equity is a venture Capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential. Based in Stuttgart (Germany), Grazia has been supporting a large number of mostly young companies, often from their foundation to the Initial Public Offering or eventual sale. In contrast to other venture capital firms, they predominantly work with their own capital that they invest as entrepreneurs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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KIZOO Technology Capital
KIZOO provides mentoring, seed and early-stage financing with a focus on rejuvenation biotech. Having been entrepreneurs, VCs and mentors in both, high growth tech and biotech companies theirselves for many years with multiple exits and massive value created for the founders, they now bring this experience to the emerging field of rejuvenation biotech – a young industry that will eventually become much bigger than today’s largest technology markets. ​ As part of the Forever Healthy Group, they directly support the creation of startups that turn research on the root causes of aging into therapies and services for humans. ​ Forever Healthy’s other initiatives include the evaluation of new rejuvenation therapies, evidenced-based curation of the world’s cutting-edge medical knowledge, funding research projects on the root causes of aging and hosting the annual Undoing Aging Conference.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Marketing, Venture Capital
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Porsche Ventures
Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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LBBW VC
LBBW VC founded in 1998 as an independent subsidiary of the Landesbank BadenWuerttenberg, LBBW Venture invests in early and late growth stages of companies. Apart from long term financial support for its portfolio companies, the team offers special commercial support by active introductions to LBBW’s fast corporate client network, pitch sessions with potential commercial clients or direct applications within the bank itself. They have a broad successful international investment track record and growth support experience given their investments in over 60 companies. Their team members backed companies in Europe, Israel and the US and gained deep expertise across various industrial sectors. Their teams track record counts 2 IPO’s, 1 unicorn and multiple trade sales.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: B2B, Big Data, Financial Services, Health Diagnostics, Industrial, Life Science
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EnBW New Ventures
ENV supports entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future – people, planet, profit – by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of the corporate investor EnBW. The startups that we invest in engage and scale with EnBW in its transformation towards becoming a sustainable and digital infrastructure operator.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Energy, Financial Services, Smart Cities, Venture Capital
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Born2Grow
Born2Grow is a german venture fund focusing on early stage investments. They invest up to 500k€ in innovative business models. They are based in Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Born2Grow focus on investments lies within the MedTech, BioTech, FinTech area as well as some other online industries
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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EMBL Ventures
EMBL Ventures is a German venture capital engaged in the financing and development of products and technologies in the healthcare sector. EMBL Ventures manages three Funds with a total of 120m capital on behalf of major European private and institutional investors. We prefer a role as lead or co-lead investor in financing rounds which typically range from 5m to 40m. Our total commitment in a single portfolio company can go as high as 10m. As with our portfolio companies each Partner at EMBL Ventures strives to build long-lasting personal relationships with Investors in our Funds, such as institutionals, high net-worth individuals and family offices. These relationships are based on EMBL Ventures’ core values of open and prompt communication coupled with the ambition to generate maximum return.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, 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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Carcharodon Capital
Carcharodon Capital provides seed financing for start-ups. The funds can also be provided during the foundation and serve the development and development of the company. The investment volume is between € 50,000 and € 200,000 per investment and can be provided in the form of equity, debt capital or as a hybrid (eg silent partner).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Software
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CD-Venture
C.D. Ventures works collaboratively with clients to design sustainable change management solutions in Texas.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn
Zukunftsfond Heilbronn supports as a regional venture capital fund in the very busy South of Germany, the development of young innovative companies from start-up to matural stage. The investment philosophy of Zukunfsfonds Heilbronn is simple: they are investing in young, promising companies with innovative ideas, which have a good market potential and are controlled by a prominent management-team. They are investing in an early stage – from the seed, beyond the start-up to the phase of expansion – in fact as long as it is reasonable for both parties.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Heidelberg Innovation
Heidelberg Innovation is a German investment company catering to life sciences companies with a focus on medical technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Life Science, Venture Capital
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THI Investments
THI Investments is a single family office founded in January 2016 after divesting an 80 year-old family business. It aims to invest in a diversified portfolio of financial and company assets and grow them over the long term. The company is comprised of entrepreneurs, industrialists, and investors and is designed to adapt to and thrive on rapid global changes, such as digitization, demographics, urbanization, and resource sustainability. The company is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Engelhardt Kaupp Kiefer
Engelhardt Kaupp Kiefer is a private equity firm based in Stuttgart, Germany. The firm prefers to invest in companies from the areas of IT, business services, clean technology and innovative volume products.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology
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Hoepfner Brau
Hoepfner Brau is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed/startup, middle market, and growth capital investments. The firm prefers to invest in hi-tech, and food and drinks industries based in Baden-Württemberg and Zürich. It typically invests between €100 million ($127.98 million) and €250 million ($319.95 million) in equity investments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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HyperLink Technology
HyperLink Technology is an innovative investment firm focused on blockchain based capital markets and tokenized securities. They believe in the potential of blockchain technology to radically alter the shape of modern finance, business, and government. They believe in interoperability. In the current model, securities trade and settle across a multitude of disconnected broker, clearinghouse, and custodian databases. They envision a world where security tokens can trade freely across many markets in varying jurisdictions, opening investment opportunities for unexplored investor classes and geographical regions that were previously hindered by bureaucracy, lack of understanding how to participate, cultural or language barriers.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Albstadt, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services
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