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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Bosch Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe | ||
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 | ||
First Momentum Ventures | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital 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 Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Baden-Wurttemberg)
Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) is the corporate venture capital company of the Bosch Group, a leading global supplier of technology and services. RBVC invests worldwide in innovative start-up companies at all stages of their development. Its investment activities focus on technology companies working in areas of business of current and future relevance for Bosch, above all, automation and electrification, energy efficiency, enabling technologies, and healthcare systems. RBVC also invests in services and business models as well as new materials that are relevant to the above-mentioned areas of business. RBVC invests from EUR 500k for a seed funding to more than EUR 15m per company for usually 10% to 25% equity position. RBVC prefers to syndicate their investments with existing or new investors in the company and can take the lead as necessary.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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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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First Momentum Ventures
First Momentum Ventures helps your startup to gain its first momentum by backing you with a first investment. They provide young ambitious startups with a first investment, world-class mentoring, and a strong network. They typically invest in B2B startups in the DACH region.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Information Technology, Venture Capital
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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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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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TRUMPF Venture
The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture invests globally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Ditzingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Electronics, Information Technology, Laser, Machinery Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Optical Communication, Quantum Computing, Software, 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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LEA Partners
LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: B2B, Supply Chain Management, Venture Capital
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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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Kärcher New Venture
Kärcher New Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Alfred Kärcher, the provider of cleaning technology for commercial and private customers. It enables innovative and dynamic to further develop their startups founders and to shape the cleaning industry of the future in partnership with it. It seeks to invest in pioneering product-, material- or service-based solution for future challenges within the cleaning sector. Besides its investment, Kärcher is also actively looking for start-up solutions to be used within the Kärcher group like B2B enterprise software as a venture client. In 2019, the Kärcher group achieved, with its operations in 72 countries, the highest turnover of its history (EUR 2.6 billion).
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Winnenden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Business Development, CleanTech, Commercial, Professional Services, Robotics, Venture Capital
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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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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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Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg
MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg GmbH is one of the major venture capital providers in Baden-Württemberg.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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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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