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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Global Founders Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
Earlybird Venture Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
Point Nine | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
btov Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
IBB Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Berlin. 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 (Berlin)
Global Founders Capital
GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture capital firm that empowers gifted entrepreneurs. The firm seeks to invest in companies that operate within the internet, retail, financial software, media, communication, and information technology sectors. It was founded by Oliver Samwer in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Earlybird Venture Capital
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management, eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Point Nine
Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile. The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio, Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Marketplace, SaaS, Venture Capital
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btov Partners
Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. With investment teams in Digital and Industrial Tech, Btov invests EUR 50m per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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IBB Ventures
IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware and software, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Target Global
Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across their lifecycles. Target Global follows a lifecycle approach, investing in tech companies. Their partners have been investing for more than 15 years in the digital technology space, backing some of the European success stories.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Atlantic Labs
Atlantic Labs is an early-stage venture capital investment firm that is based in Berlin, Germany. They seek to back mission driven founders as early as possible, and help them build world leading companies. They are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, AI/Machine Learning, Mobility, Industrial Automation, Fintech, Proptech, and Community.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Project A Ventures
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering, business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe’s boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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APX
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond – often as their first investor. We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months, depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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bmp Ventures
bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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La Famiglia
La Famiglia is a VC fund backed by entrepreneurs investing in seed stage companies. They are a family of entrepreneurs, business angels, family businesses and industry leaders who nurture great founders through networks, unfair advantages & capital.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Cavalry Ventures
Cavalry invests in companies that are on the path forward to effect positive change. The VC is founded and led by a team with deep founder and investment experience themselves. Cavalry is hands-on, operations-driven, and laser-focused on enabling early-stage entrepreneurs who have the ambition to transform important markets to build the next big thing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Paua Ventures
Paua Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm. Established in 2010 and funded only with management money, Paua has built its way up to become a leading tech investor in Berlin. Paua invests in European early-stage B2B Software companies, acting both as lead or co-lead investor. Their focus is on sectors where they can add the most value to your business: Enterprise Software, Software as a Service, Industry 4.0, Deep-tech (Robotics, Security, IoT, AI/ML, NLP, DevTools..) Paua provides a broad range of services and the team is truly committed in being the best partner for entrepreneurs, aiming to be the bridge between new businesses and the corporate world.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Vorwerk Ventures
Vorwerk Ventures is an independent €150m Venture Capital Fund grown out of the Vorwerk Group in late 2019 and defines itself through a strong commitment towards consumer-facing digital businesses. Our unique direct selling experience in addition to an outstanding track record in Venture Capital provides added value for forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Berlin Germany, we currently have more than €250m in assets under management and are constantly on the look-out for promising opportunities starting with Seed/Series A investments of €1m to €10m and ensuring continuous support reserving up to €15m for upcoming financing rounds. An outstanding founding team, an existing market presence and a well-defined exit strategy framed by a consumer-centric business model are key requirements to us when it comes to making an investment decision.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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German Startups Group
German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital. Since it commenced with operations in 2012, German Startups Group has in its opinion built up a diversified portfolio of investments in young companies and become the second most active venture capital investor in Germany since 2012 (CB Insights, Germany Venture Capital Overview). According to German Startups Group, its investment portfolio reflects a cross-section of extremely promising German startups of various maturity stages and includes some of the most successful and best-known German startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Foundamental
Foundamental is the largest global investor in ConstructionTech and architecture, engineering and design technology. Foundamental backs ambitious founders across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe from inception to IPO. Foundamental currently manages ca. $150 million across their early-stage funds and is an early investor in several category leaders in construction-technology and design-technology, including Infra.Market, Tul, Welcome Homes, Mighty Buildings, Wiz and Speckle.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Architecture, Building Maintenance, Construction, Home Improvement, Home Renovation, Human Resources, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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Redstone
Redstone is a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm working with multiple corporate venture funds. They have reinvented corporate Venture Capital through their VC-as-a-Service model, which connects industry leaders with ambitious founders. Together with their industry partners, they activate corporate capital, knowledge and network to support their entrepreneurs in growing their businesses. Additionally to their investment service they provide tailored intelligence that empowers partners to make better-informed strategic decisions and stay informed about future digital trends. Redstone is run by experienced entrepreneurs and investors with deep roots in the German and European technology ecosystem. Their founding partners have built and advised some of Europe’s largest technology companies over the last two decades. With globally operating investment and data analytics teams, they strive to find and support the most ambitious ventures in sectors and stages that match their funds’ investment theses. As a trusted partner, they pride their self on fast and transparent communication both on the startup and the investor side.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Business Intelligence, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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BlueYard Capital
BlueYard invests in founders with transforming ideas that decentralize markets and empower humanity. Typically $1-3m as an initial investment; active around the world. Most active in crypto / web 3 (e.g. Protocol Labs, Filecoin, Open Zeppelin, Radicle), technologies that help us overcome our largest planetary challenges (e.g. Marvel Fusion, Meatable, Dance), frontier biology to help us live long and prosper (e.g. BitBio, Biofidelity) and vertical software un-bundling monopolies (e.g. Pitch, Wonder).
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
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FoodLabs
FoodLabs is a venture studio and investor for startups with solutions to feed ten billion people by 2050 in a sustainable and healthy way. Founded in 2016, the Berlin-based investor is one of Europe’s leading venture firms for food & ag. It has supported over 20 mission-driven teams to launch their ideas and put great concepts into practice. The portfolio covers the entire value chain – from agtech, alternative protein sources, water supply, food security, vertical farming, to food waste and carbon reduction.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Health Care, Nutrition, Sustainability, Venture Capital
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WestTech Ventures
WestTech Ventures is a pre-seed & seed VC in Berlin focusing on Enterprise SaaS as well as New Work and Mobility.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, SaaS, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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Avala Capital
Avala Capital invests in high-growth companies with ambitious goals and the talents to achieve them. The company partners with exceptional entrepreneurs capable of disrupting a market by creating major change in a way which can be sustained and scaled. Its focus is on Internet business models, such as cloud, mobile, and online marketplaces as well as on businesses heavily benefiting from offline to online conversion.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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ECONA AG
ECONA is an independent investment boutique based in Berlin, Germany. As pioneers of the German Internet business, ECONA has been successfully founding and funding high-growth companies since 1999. ECONA has been invested in several successful internet growth companies, such as MyToys, Aperto, XING, and Facebook as well as GIGA.de and Sparwelt.de. Currently, ECONA is invested in foodspring (Onlineshop for high-quality sports nutrition and fitness food), Ampere (Germany’s first independent energy broker), smava (Germany’s first marketplace for private loans), finanzcheck (one of Germany’s largest comparison sites for personal financial products), and several other companies like Sarah Wiener, amapur, Getsafe, Wunderflats, Comatch, Data Artisans, MediDate, Armedangels, iMoney and Dahmakan.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Visionaries Club
Visionaries Club is a venture capital fund backed by European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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The Delta
The Delta is a Venture Catalyst based in Berlin, Germany and Cape Town, South Africa. We build and invest into new ventures. Our ventures have raised more than $1bn im funding and have a value of more than $3bn.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Team Europe
Team Europe builds Internet companies. The Berlin-based incubator has international reach and a current portfolio of 10 companies it has built from scratch. The partners at Team Europe have founded or invested in a number of very successful Internet companies along the way, including spreadshirt, studiVZ and brands4friends.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Join Capital
JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink and rewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: B2B, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
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Axel Springer Digital Ventures
Axel Springer Digital Ventures is Axel Springer Groups’ early-stage investment arm in Europe and in the US. The investment focus is on classified ad models / marketplaces, marketing models and companies in the digital publishing space. Drawing upon the network and resources of one of Europe’s leading largest media companies, Axel Springer Digital Ventures wants to be a value-add partner to companies that are complementary or disruptive to Axel Springer’s business. Axel Springer Group, founded in 1946, is Europe’s largest digital publishing house with leading positions in the European print and digital content as well as in the digital marketing and classifieds segments. Based on the historically strong positions of BILD and DIE WELT in the German newspaper segment, Axel Springer has embarked on a determined growth strategy to digitize and internationalize its business already more than a decade ago. Axel Springer’s digital media revenues in more than 40 countries worldwide already contribute almost 70 percent of total revenues today (compared to 2% in 2006).
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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signals Venture Capital
Founded in 2017, signals Venture Capital is an independently managed, financially oriented €100 million fund. We are backed by one of Germany’s leading and most innovative insurance companies. We invest in Seed and Series A phases in startups with a focus on B2B software-centric business models across many enterprise segments.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Heilemann Ventures
Heilemann Ventures is a Berlin-based seed stage venture capital firm, founded in 2011 by Fabian and Ferry Heilemann following their trade-sale of DailyDeal to Google. Ever since, the firm made 20 investments in digital start-ups. Today the Heilemann Ventures team consists of 6 members, most of them experienced digital entrepreneurs themselves. Given the operational diversity of the team member’s backgrounds, Heilemann Ventures contributes to its portfolio-companies competencies in fields such as company building, strategy, sales, marketing/BI, finance, VC-fundraising and m&a/exits. Heilemann Ventures investment focus is geographically centered around the DACH-region but also case-by-case across Europe and the US-East-Coast. The ticket-size sweet spot is in the low to middle six-digit-EUR-range in seed-stage-rounds. Regarding industries and technologies the focus is on SaaS, Marketplaces, FinTech, AdTech, Consumer Health, Logistics and IoT.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: FinTech, SaaS, Venture Capital
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EuropeanPioneers
EuropeanPioneers is a startup accelerator that boosts digital SMEs and web entrepreneurs in the European media and content sector. The company provides public funding as well as an intensive 8-month accelerator programme. EuropeanPioneers was founded by Martin Weber in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Grant, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Internet, Venture Capital
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PropTech1 Ventures
PropTech1 Ventures brings together leading real estate companies and entrepreneurs, serial entrepreneurs from the digital sector, and venture capital experts in a VC fund focused on the untapped innovation potential of Europe’s real estate industry. In addition to capital, PropTech1 offers startups an extensive network in the traditional real estate industry, access to existing customer bases and real estate portfolios, and support in structuring further financing rounds. PropTech1 offers its fund investors access to highly focused deal flow, detailed market research, proven venture capital methodological expertise, economic participation both through the fund and through direct co-investment opportunities, as well as moderated exchange between other innovation-savvy real estate companies and with the PropTech startups themselves.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate, Real Estate Investment, Venture Capital
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Apic Investments
Apic Investments is an early-stage focused Venture Capital, investing in PropTech and RetailTech companies. Apic Investments’ goal is to help build start-ups and to accelerate their business models with capital, industry expertise, and a network.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: CleanTech, Construction, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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Catagonia Capital
Catagonia Capital is an early stage company based in Berlin, Germany. They invest in software and service companies that make use of online and mobile technologies. In so doing, they rely on disruptive business ideas with the potential to redefine established markets. They actively support theur founding teams with resources and comprehensive knowledge. They also apply their experiences to founding their own new companies in the areas of mobile Internet, social and local network applications, as well as other online business models. In addition, they provide support to established companies and corporations in expanding their business in strategically significant technology and Internet areas. With the foundation of spin-ins, corporate start-ups with innovative business models, they help parent companies achieve greater long-term growth through innovation. Catagonia Capital GmbH was founded in 2009 by entrepreneur and investor Ralph Eric Kunz.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Software, Venture Capital
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Lunar Ventures
Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin that come from science, and business in deep tech companies. The firm particularly invests across Europe into founders building high potential startups that specialize in artificial intelligence or machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity, big data, analytics, or other industries.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Cyber Security, Finance, Financial Services, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Machine Learning, Simulation, Venture Capital
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Berliner Volksbank Ventures
Berliner Volksbank Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Berliner Volksbank. They support young, innovative companies in implementing their growth strategy. They stand for stability, reliability, community and partnership at eye level. These values accompany us throughout the investment process and shape the cooperation with their portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Peppermint Venture Partners
PVP is a private venture capital firm based in Berlin, investing in early-stage healthcare companies across Europe with a focus on medical device, digital health, and platform technology companies. Peppermint VenturePartners was established in 2008 by Ingeborg Neumann, Dr. Joachim Rautter and Dr. Klaus Stöckemann.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Finance, Financial Services, Health Care, Venture Capital
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VR Ventures
VR Ventures supports leading-edge startups in the financial services and real estate sector. VR Ventures supports companies with shared access to their network, deep pool of expertise, and market knowledge. VR Ventures is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Professional Services, Venture Capital
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High Rise Ventures
They are a Berlin-based company builder with a passion for Prop Techs. Their focus is to help early stage tech start-ups that have a great team and a convincing technology.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Linden Capital
Linden Capital is a Venture Capital firm based out of Berlin, Germany. It is focused on investing at early stages in emerging digital brands at the intersection of technology and creativity. The real relevance of an idea stems from it’s quality and originality – combined with clear focus and determination to take it to a next level of significance. Linden Capital combines subject matter expertise with entrepreneurial spirit and an international network of peers to best support its portfolio companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures
Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures (DBDV) is the corporate venture arm of Deutsche Bahn Group, Germany’s largest railway company and leading mobility provider. With funds of €100 million, DBDV intends to invest in startups with data-driven business models in the areas of Mobility, Logistics, Smart City, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. All within and beyond Deutsche Bahn’s core rail businesses. Investments will be sourced on a global basis, with emphasis on Europe, the United States and Israel. Funding is provided for startups from the Seed to Series C stage, with significant possibilities for follow-up funding. Alongside external investments, DBDV also is focused on promoting intrapreneurship inside the Deutsche Bahn Group and is working closely together with the group’s existing startup engagement platform Beyond1435 to leverage the acceleration of financed startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Digital Marketing, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Estag Capital
Estag Capital is a private investment company based in Berlin. It invests venture capital in young, up-and-coming companies and concepts, in particular in the areas of renewable energy / cleantech, Web 2.0 and gaming. With the aid of seed or early-phase financing and a network of experts, young entrepreneurs or start-ups are supported from their foundation onwards in the implementation of their promising business models. estag | Capital AG is a capital provider, financing partner and adviser in all forms of entrepreneurial activity.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Amplifier
Our mission is to invest in and drive founders and engineers to solve our planet’s biggest problems. Reshaping old industries, and redesigning core operating systems. Our aim is to ensure future planetary sustainability. Our playground is the hard, the forgotten, and the overlooked.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Industrial, Logistics, Robotics, Transportation, Venture Capital
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Vireo Ventures
We support and invest in early-stage companies that disrupt the established ways how we generate, manage, and use energy. We believe that we must find new ways how to create connectivity between the physical and digital world in order to build the 21st century infrastructure to support how we live, move and work.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Apollo Health Ventures
Apollo Health Ventures is an Early Stage Investment Firm interested in accelerating breakthrough scientific discoveries to the clinic by building life science companies around new therapeutic technologies. Apollo Ventures focuses on assets with the potential to treat, prevent, or even reverse age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Heart Disease, Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Cancer, with the ultimate goal of increasing healthy human lifespan. Apollo invests in early stage companies, works with scientists and entrepreneurs to create new ventures, and engages in hypothesis-driven company building.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical, Venture Capital
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Digital Health Ventures
Digital Health Ventures (DHV) is a sector-focused Venture Capital Fund based in Berlin. They are experienced early-stage investors with a track record that includes several strong European healthcare innovators. Our mission is to build a sustainable Digital Health ecosystem. They actively support portfolio entrepreneurs and leverage our networks in tech and healthcare. They work together closely and find joint solutions. They invest in startups which will play a significant role in healthcare and that want a strong partner during this journey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Rebate Networks
Rebate Networks is one of the leading operators and investors of local e-commerce platforms with unbeatable online deals. The company founds and invests in innovative enterprises all over the world, such as lashou.com in China, dailydeal.de in Germany or kuponvilag.hu in Hungary. Operated from its headquarters in Berlin Germany, Rebate Networks develops global marketing and technology strategies for an international network of high-tech e-commerce startups. Thereby the company successfully combines revolutionary ideas, profitable business models as well as latest trends, and exports them to fast-growing markets worldwide – to this date to more than 30 countries. Rebate Networks was founded by its CEO Michael Brehm and chairman Stefan Glänzer in 2010.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Coupons, E-Commerce, Venture Capital
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Brandenburg Ventures
Brandenburg Ventures is the early-stage oriented venture capital company founded by Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, best known as the co-inventor of MP3. They actively help innovative IPR-centric companies with early-stage funding and our top-end global network within the digital media ecosystem.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Starstrike Ventures
Starstrike Ventures are well experienced Berlin-based business angels, who invest in early stage companies. The team consists of experts across all areas of digital B2C/(B2B) businesses such as product/UX, marketing, data modelling, IT scalability and more. Starstrike Ventures invests their experience, network and skills to help funded start-ups thrive and be the best they can be.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Ocean Investment
Ocean Investment is a Single Family Office based in Berlin. The family principal is a serial entrepreneur and successful investor across asset classes.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Asset Management, Venture Capital, Wealth Management
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Kompass Digital
Kompass Digital is the VC with Investment focus on Financial Services, Digital Health and Smart Home. Kompass Digital invest in digital startups that have the potential to shape industries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Morphais VC
Morphais is a Quant VC that enables investments into the most exceptional founders through AI. Using a data and technology-driven investment approach, we reduce human error and bias along the entire investment value chain to make investments more accurate, transparent, and inclusive.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Venture Capital
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Uplift1
With its revenue-based financing solution we offer entrepreneurs a non-dilutive and easily accessible source of growth capital – paid back via revenue share. This is similar to seed funding or series A but without the hassle of fundraising.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Amentory Ventures
Amentory Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies and influencing society. Amentory Ventures helps startups to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: 3D Technology, Angel Investment, CRM, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet, Venture Capital
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Bellevue Investments & Co
Bellevue Investments is a private owned holding and investment company with numerous national and international subsidiaries and investments. It was formed in 1993 by Jürgen Jaron, Dieter Rein and Erhard Rein, Tilman Herberger, and Titus Tost. Bellevue invests in young, innovative companies that fit in today’s and tomorrow’s market needs. It intensively accompanies companies and acts as their partner.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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COOPERATIVA
COOPERATIVA supports its principals in managing their direct company and VC fund investments. Cooperativa Venture Capital Management GmbH (together with our shareholders and all related parties also “COOPERATIVA”) is managed by Managing Partners Nikolas Samios and Anja Rath (Arnold). The Senior Partners, Jan Henric Buettner (founder of BV Capital / e.ventures) and Andreas von Blottnitz (entrepreneur and business angel) add a wealth of experience and network. Christian Vollmann (serial entrepreneur and “Angel of the Year”, BAND 2017) acts as Venture Partner (all individuals together, the “Partners”). The Partners combine experience from participation in more than 200 venture capital transactions. The Partners are regular (non-profit) contributors in the media and the respective associations with the goal to foster equity culture, good governance in startups & grownups and the best possible market conditions for the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Catena Capital
Catena Capital (www.catena-capital.com) is a Berlin-based company builder and investment firm focused on Blockchain, Token Economy and Decentralized Systems. They fund and accelerate in the early-stage investment phase.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Blockchain, Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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Angelize
Angelize is a community of founder-turned-investors writing first cheques. Every year, we invest in ~50 pre-seed technology start-ups through our fund.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Enfilade Capital
Enfilade Capital is an independent investment & advisory boutique providing a broad range of services for both young and established businesses. They actively invest in seed and early-stage tech start-up companies and provide support in different areas ranging from consulting and interim management, nearshoring of IT-projects to fundraising and investor relations. Furthermore, they reliable partners when it comes to transaction management, financial restructuring as well as capital structure composition. Enfilade Capital was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Yesss CAPITAL
Yesss CAPITAL is an early-stage seed fund focusing on Technology, Energy and Entertainment startups in North America, Europe and the developing world. It was born out of the passion for innovations and the recognition that synergies do exist between diverse sectors, companies & humans and their growth can be greatly enhanced if their efforts are synchronized. The strategy is to be in a diverse spectrum of companies operating with innovative ideas, that match current and expected needs worldwide and have the potential to solve the developing world’s greatest challenges. Challenges in energy and environment, food safety and supply, and access to healthcare and education f.e. They believe these problems are so huge, technology is the answer. The target are companies with a clear vision for the future, high return-potential and capability to create significant value and long-term benefits.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Banking, Energy, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Venture Capital
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SmartHectar Innovation
SmartHectar Innovation is an international hub for corporate-startup collaboration in AgTech and WaterTech based in Berlin. They drive innovation through matchmaking and co-creation. In addition to SmartHectar Accelerator, they offer several other programs that enable companies to innovate with startups. They offer first-class growth opportunities to startups from a seed to later stage. They bring together two different worlds with one shared mission – to solve the global challenges in agriculture and water.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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UNIALEX
UNIALEX Holding GmbH is a private investment company that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Our primary target is to establish the world’s largest company outside of the USA and China. UNIALEX incubates and invests in high scalable companies worldwide. Our network accelerates the growth of companies we work with. Be a part of a fast and innovative scaling process. Together we set new records.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Finance, Venture Capital
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