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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Software startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Paua Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
seed + speed Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
Join Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
Catagonia Capital | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe | ||
Project Flying Elephant | Early Stage Venture | Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Software 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 Software Investors & Funds (Berlin)
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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seed + speed Ventures
Seed + Speed Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on seed investments. They invest in software startups mainly in the B2B sector mostly in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. As part of the Maschmeyer Group with offices in Hanover, Munich, Berlin, and San Francisco, they provide innovative startups with equity investments and free of charge sales support.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, FinTech, Software, Virtual Reality
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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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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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Mavericks Founders
Mavericks Founders is an Angel syndicate from Berlin, made up of experienced founders backed by seed investments from other entrepreneurs to support great minds and their visions. We’re not an incubator, accelerator or financial investor. We’re your peer. We’re like you. We’ve been in your shoes. We package experience, manpower and startup investments into your idea to bring it to life!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Health Care, Medical, SaaS, Software, Wellness
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Expedite Ventures
Expedite Ventures is a Business Angel investment club, backed by Europe’s finest tech and product experts to support tech founders hands-on with our expertise and learnings. We expedite their companies to become profitable and/or VC-ready. We solely expedite digital companies in the software space. We particularly aim to support notoriously underrepresented groups such as first-time founders, women and immigrants.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Software
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EMPAUA
EMPAUA consists of an academy for young founders and an incubation unit that supports employees of EMPAUA to launch new businesses. The Academy is an independent Salesforce consultancy and Salesforce-, Marketing Cloud-, and “Salesforce for startups”-Partner. It consists of an interdisciplinary team with decades of combined startup and Salesforce experience – with the succesful projects and certifications to prove it! Services offered by EMPAUA include consulting, implementation, migration, development, training, and maintenance concerning Salesforce and business processes. EMPAUA is focussing specifically on startups, in order to help them achieve greatness through its services. It offers extraordinary and experience-driven business model understanding, stringent process discipline, 24/7 lead and sales generation through Salesforce, delivering a high degree of automation, implementing state-of-the-art lean processes, and supplying the necessary IT-infrastructure.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Industries: Cloud Computing, Consulting, Marketing Automation, Sales, Sales Automation, Software
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