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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
High-Tech Grunderfonds | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
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 | ||
DvH Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe | ||
Media Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe |
At SeedRound we track over 200,000 investors and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these firms. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, LP’s and funding organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital 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).
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 (Nordrhein-Westfalen)
High-Tech Grunderfonds
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its team of experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences. To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Hardware, Health Care, Software, Venture Capital
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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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DvH Ventures
Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures) is one of the leading European early-stage investors. As an independent venture capitalist, DvH Ventures invests in young technology companies, building successful investment clusters in areas such as digital health, education and fintech. In addition to capital, DvH Ventures supports companies with management expertise and an international investor network. An exclusive media-for-equity program also offers access to strong brands such as Handelsblatt, DIE ZEIT, WirtschaftsWoche and Apotheken Umschau, and thus an enormous reach into the respective target groups. DvH Ventures was founded in 2014 and today manages various venture capital funds from its offices in Cologne and Vienna. Managing partners are Peter Richarz and Fabian von Trotha.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Education, FinTech, Health Care, Venture Capital
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Media Ventures
Media Ventures is an private venture capital company headquartered in Cologne, Germany. In their search for teams and ideas, they provide help at all stages, from start-up to growth, all the way until a company reaches maturity. they concentrate on Europe, with an emphasis on Germany, and have a broad market focus that is not industry-dependent. The package of services they offer is unique.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Social Media, 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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Statkraft Ventures
Statkraft Ventures is a European venture capital firm providing early stage and growth financing to companies. Statkraft Ventures is a trustful long-term partner for founders by providing venture capital and expertise. The company is backed by the Statkraft Group, Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy. Statkraft Ventures is happy to help you leverage Statkraft’s network and resources.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Energy, Venture Capital, Wind Energy
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BitStone Capital
BitStone Capital is an internationally operating company builder and investor who selectively invests in innovative digital Real Estate and Construction business models, and also accelerates their growth with own resources. BitStone supports young companies with its outstanding network, excellent industry know-how and broad expertise in new technologies – from product development through market entry to successful rollout.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Construction, Real Estate, Smart Building, 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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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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Venista Ventures
Venista Ventures is a Cologne, Germany-based pre-seed investor backing tech-driven enterprise and consumer startups. As part of our investment strategy, we invest in outstanding teams based in Western Europe & the Nordics.
Stages: Convertible Note, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: 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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TS Ventures GmbH
Tim Schumacher: In 2001, Tim Schumacher co-founded Sedo.com, the world’s largest domain market place. Since selling the company, Tim is active as an entrepreneur and/or investor in various startups. In 2020, Tim has been awarded as best investor in Germany by the German Startup Association. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Eyeo (makers of AdBlock Plus) and co-founder of SaaS.Group, a Software as a Service portfolio company. Stephan Jacquemot: Stephan has a very successful and long standing career in supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in various roles. He has led the startup units at Microsoft in Germany and Europe and was co-founder of the Microsoft Accelerator in Berlin. Since 2016, he is an active investor with a portfolio of 15 angel investments. Besides his role at TS Ventures he serves as Director Founders Education at the Founders Foundation established by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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LITTLEROCK
They look to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs who are working on ideas that have the potential to distrupt their respective landscape from every angle within the next years. LITTLEROCK is an active investor, leading or co-leading investment rounds. They make early stage initial investments in start-ups typically post launch, with an impressive evidence for the proof-of- concept of the underlying business model/scalability They are looking for founding teams and/ or start-ups that tackle big markets, bring something new to the table and execute scalable business models. Beyond that, they seek visionary, disciplined and inspiring founders who, like us, love challenging the status quo.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Development, 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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Schauenburg Ventures GmbH
Schauenburg Ventures is an international investment company, investing in eraly stage and seed phases. Investments are made in areas such as: Environment, Security, Robotic, Automation, Analytics and Space.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Mülheim An Der Ruhr, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, 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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Moacon Ventures
Moacon Ventures is the online and offline foundations of the entrepreneur Mohammadi Akhabach from the areas of consumer & marketing. We support you at any point in time when the company is founded, from the idea to long-term market success. We are active in Germany, Austria and Asia, with the focus on the German market. We work flexibly and are not restricted to a specific industry, which opens up a wide range of possibilities.hey are active in Germany, Austria and Asia, with a focus on the German market. They work flexibly and are not committed to a specific industry, which opens up a wide range of opportunities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Neuss, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Intelligence, Finance, Internet, Venture Capital
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BLACK RHINO VENTURES
BLACK RHINO VENUTRES accompanies innovative, substantial and promising startups. We do not see ourselves as a pure investor, but as a companion and sparring partner. We support in particular in the areas of product development, go-to-market, legal matters and marketing. Our network consists of experienced entrepreneurs, M&A specialists and company builders. We work under cash for equity, media for equity and consulting for equity agreements.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Quake Capital Europe
Quake Europe is an early-stage international accelerator that targets seed-level investments in consumer-focused 5G tech ventures. The company will launch an accelerator program focused on consumer-facing, 5G immersive entertainment, as well as digital health, and education applications.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Industries: Innovation Management, Marketing, Venture Capital
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