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FOUNDED 2019 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Addy Weissbeck, Andreas Tussing |
WEBSITE hello-charles.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Charles is the conversational commerce solutions for consumer brands: all you need as a business to offer shopping via WhatsApp and alike. Being backed by Venista and renowned angels, Addy and Andreas are set to create a modern software solution, which combines chat, shop, contact management, campaigns, chatbots, and many more.
FOUNDED 2020 |
HEADQUARTERS Bielefeld |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Nick Huijs, Scott Galvao |
WEBSITE circuly.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The circuly software enables companies to launch and scale their renting business for physical goods. Thereby they support the shift from a linear towards a circular economy.
FOUNDED 2019 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL DTC |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Late Seed |
FOUNDERS Max Laarmann, Georg Blümer |
WEBSITE maniko-nails.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
MANIKO has set out to revolutionize the nail industry. With their innovative Nail Strips they guarantee a perfect manicure for 10 days, while aiming to have industry leading product quality and innovation.
FOUNDED 2020 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Alexander Palffy, Dr. Simon Jordan |
WEBSITE byways.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
byways is the digital logistics partner when it comes to improving the un/loading process between trucks and logistics hubs. Its digital dock and yard management system enables warehousing companies to dynamically manage time slots at ramps and thereby helps to improve planning, reliability, transparency and communication.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS London |
VERTICAL ClimateTech |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Alex Lempka, Nick Carmont |
WEBSITE connect.earth/ |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Connect Earth is developing the API-toolkit to calculate the carbon footprint of any purchase. Building out the merchant-level data infrastructure, they empower consumers and companies to reduce their emissions based on more accurate data.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS London |
VERTICAL Creator Economy |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Sören Creutzburg, Piotr Wolański |
WEBSITE superjoi.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Superjoi is an all-in-one creator economy platform where superfans can fund and co-create content of their favorite creators and get exclusive rewards.
FOUNDED 2022 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL Productivity |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Felix Schaper, Cain Rothe |
WEBSITE tyles.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Tyles is a productivity tool to provide knowledge workers with a platform to collect, sort and share knowledge.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS Würenlingen |
VERTICAL Web3 |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Patrick Tobler, Kristian Portz, Sascha Tobler, Ann-Kristin Mackensen
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WEBSITE nmkr.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
NMKR is an NFT Creation, Minting & Trading Infrastructure provider on various blockchains, offering a suite of tools that help brands, companies and enterprises to launch Whitelabel custom NFT projects.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL B2B SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Seed |
FOUNDERS Sebastian Wengryn, Gerry-Constantin Koch |
WEBSITE contracthero.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
ContractHero is an innovative tool developed for contract management. ContractHero automatically digitizes and analyzes contracts and their components (terms, deadlines, etc.) and visualizes them digitally in the dashboard. This gives customers control over their contracts, transparently manages their business relationships with customers and service providers, and also avoids missed contract deadlines and additional costs.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS London |
VERTICAL AI, FinTech, PropTech |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Seed |
FOUNDERS Onur Demirci, Max Boehnke, Shuwei Liu, Hayley Lemm |
WEBSITE finvise.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Finvise utilises DeepTech AI algorithms to deliver regulated digital property valuations with complete Professional Indemnity Insurance, a labour-intensive process that formerly required weeks, reducing it to a matter of seconds, changing the entire landscape in the lending sector.
FOUNDED 2019 |
HEADQUARTERS Cologne |
VERTICAL Mobility / Travel |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Seed |
FOUNDERS Christian Höber, Tino Engelmann |
WEBSITE pinkbus.de |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Pinkbus offers the fastest long distance bus service in Europe. With the most eco-friendly bus fleet in the market, they bring their guests directly from A to B, quicker and more sustainable than any competitor out there.
FOUNDED 2019 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Martin Kreienbaum, Simon Kreienbaum, Stefan Maier |
WEBSITE kitchn.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Kitchn.io is the operating system for large-scale performance marketing. Customers use Kitchn.io to set up everything from monitoring systems, bulk creating ads to creative testing machines. The drag-and-drop interface allows users to create automations and internal tools using their own business logic and integrations into common business tools like Slack and Google Sheets.
FOUNDED 2016 |
HEADQUARTERS Cologne |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Djef Rifamole, Wilhelm Raider, Rituraj Mitra |
WEBSITE eyva.ai |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Eyva is the pioneering Operating System uniting stakeholders across the product lifecycle, seamlessly linking millions of consumer, market, and product data points in real time. By revolutionizing product optimization with our clients, our AI-driven platform boosts efficiency in R&D, product management, and marketing. We streamline product lines, reduce failure rates, and tackle rising costs, positioning Eyva as your ultimate Single Source of Truth for product innovation.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS Paris |
VERTICAL NFT / Web3 |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS François Mahl, Guillaume Lestrade, Pierre Josseaux, Patrick McCurley |
WEBSITE tropee.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Tropee is the no-code platform to help NFT collections to create, launch, and manage powerful utilities that delight their NFT holders. The mission is to create the first utility-as-a-service platform.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL Mobility |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS David Shakory, Alexej Habinski, Heidi Strunz, Tobias Kramer |
WEBSITE anymove.app |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
AnyMove is an innovative electric car rental premium service that guarantees vehicles for rent within your walking distance whenever and wherever you need them with a 100% digital process that allows you to book, open and close the vehicles with your phone.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS London |
VERTICAL SaaS |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Zak Nason-Giwa |
WEBSITE fundably.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Fundably is a cutting-edge financial service platform in the UK, designed to connect businesses with the ideal loans ranging from £1k to £20m. Leveraging advanced machine learning technology, Fundably matches companies with the most suitable lenders, ensuring a seamless application process that safeguards the company’s credit score. This efficient, cost-free platform aims to equip businesses with the financial support they need swiftly and effectively. Powered by goodloans.
FOUNDED 2018 |
HEADQUARTERS Vienna & Delaware |
VERTICAL Media & AI |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Zet Dragulev, Ramin Tahbaz, Kate MacRae |
WEBSITE birdsy.com |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Birdsy is an AI-media startup on the mission to bring nature and wildlife back to people’s lives. Providing AI services and camera live streams to record precious wildlife moments 24/7 and sharing the content with thousands of like-minded people on their platform.
FOUNDED 2022 |
HEADQUARTER Berlin |
VERTICAL PetTech |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Sufyan Osamah, Nikolaus Ridder |
WEBSITE honestdog.de |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
HonestDog is on a mission to give pets a home for life by making the pet purchasing process transparent and convenient.
FOUNDED 2022 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL FinTech |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Seed |
FOUNDERS Jan Enno Einfeld, Ingmar Stupp, Christoph Nicola |
WEBSITE tilta.io |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
tilta is building a modular plug & pay lending infrastructure to help merchants enabling lending services for B2B e-commerce transactions to their customers and drive their GMV and add new revenue streams without the hassle of being a financial service provider.
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FOUNDED 2016 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
SECTOR Mobile Marketing |
STAGE Pre-Seed |
MANAGEMENT Matthias Lesch |
EXIT Acquired by PIA Group in 2018 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Founded by former Crobo c-level Matthias Lesch, TAB started with the misson to build a leading player in the global mobile marketing space. The agency driven by mobile performance is there to support its clients, network them, and help them classify consumer types with the aim of identifying individually targeted mobile media channels and acquiring high-value, active app users.
FOUNDED 2006 |
HEADQUARTERS Cologne |
SECTOR SMS Services |
STAGE Incubation |
MANAGEMENT Oliver Zabel |
EXIT Acquired by MIND CTI in 2019 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
GTX offers global SMS services for B-2-B customers, providing business partners a robust and easy-to-use system to send SMS to end-users at the best possible quality and attractive pricing. GTX does not see itself as a SMS-only messaging provider, rather as a one-stop-platform for clients aiming to extend their cross-channel messaging activities.
FOUNDED 2013 |
HEADQUARTERS Dallas (USA) |
SECTOR e-Commerce (B2C) |
STAGE Pre-Seed |
MANAGEMENT Matt Alexander |
EXIT Acquired by G Fifty One in 2016 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Edition Collective is a group devoted to the development of unique, sustainable, and innovative concepts in e-commerce and media. The company operates three clothing brands such as Imprint (formerly Need), and Foremost.
FOUNDED 2012 |
HEADQUARTERS Cologne |
SECTOR Mobile Marketing |
STAGE Incubation |
MANAGEMENT Oliver Wimmeroth, Markus Braun |
EXIT Acquired by Ströer in 2015 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
KissMyAds is a mobile performance marketing network, that connects advertisers and publishers on a global scale. They offer their clients tailored solutions, so that publishers may generate the best return possible with their mobile traffic. On top, KissMyAds supports in developing mobile applications and optimizing mobile activities.
FOUNDED 2014 |
HEADQUARTERS Suwanee (USA) |
SECTOR Telecommunications |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Warren Platt |
EXIT Management Buyout in 2019 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Mobile Life offers Premium Billing in the most dynamic markets in Latin America delivering their partners the fastest and most reliable connections with aggressive payouts and rapid payment clearance. Mobile Life delivers the local market knowledge their customers need and facilitates market entry to to the ever expanding Latin American regional subscriber base.
FOUNDED 2012 |
HEADQUARTERS Hamburg |
SECTOR Consumer Apps |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Hauke Windmüller, David Nellessen, Michael Asshauer |
EXIT Acquired by moovel in 2017 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Familo is an app, which uses intelligent geolocation features to help families and groups of friends, colleagues, or roommates all over the world to improve communication in their daily lives. The company’s mission is to offer easy-to-use precise location technology and allow members to share their locations with their families or group whenever necessary.
FOUNDED 2011 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
SECTOR Travel |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Stefan Menden, Sebastian Fallert, Florian Waldmann, Ognjen Zeric |
EXIT Acquired by Secret Escapes in 2015 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
JustBook’s concept is easily explained: offering exklusive last minute best-price deals for mobile last minute bookings with a very smooth and fast booking process. Hotels get access to a safe and closed channel, through which they can sell vacant rooms to an attractive, high-value userbase without cannibalizing existing demand.
FOUNDED 2012 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
SECTOR SaaS, BI |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Jakob Rehermann, Martin Blumenau |
EXIT Acquired by RIB Software in 2019 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Datapine is a young innovative company located in the heart of Berlin. They are developing a highly scalable SaaS tool that will revolutionize the way of performing database analysis by making even complex functionalities available to non-technical persons. With their product, they aim to become the innovation leader in the business intelligence market for small and medium-sized companies.
FOUNDED 2012 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
SECTOR e-Commerce (B2C) |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Oliver Bronner, Marc Linneweber, Stefan Decker, Andrei Bezyazychniy |
EXIT Acquired by JUNIQE in 2014 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Stylemarks is a mobile app that enables users to easily sell, discover and buy unique design products. Anytime. Anywhere. Their vision was to discover and explore new possibilities of peer to peer commerce through mobile technology.
FOUNDED 2022 |
HEADQUARTER Berlin |
VERTICAL B2B Software / DevTool |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Tobias Neveling, Dennis Zelada Piedrasanta |
EXIT Acquired by Apideck in 2023 |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
delta is building an unified API schema for the fragmented SME tool landscape to help companies build their critical data infrastructure in a highly reliable and GDPR-compliant way while speeding up their time-to-market.
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FOUNDED 2012 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
SECTOR Consumer Apps |
STAGE Seed |
MANAGEMENT Baris Tamer, Alex Napetsching, Emiliano Saurin |
EXIT |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Klash is the platform to challenge and dare your friends on anything that’s fun! Built on top of Facebook, Klash makes every competition among friends more social and easy to engage with.
FOUNDED 2020 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL DTC |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Romina Bungert, Laura Jassoy |
EXIT
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
SOIL Skincare develops evidence-based holistic skincare, that is personalized to their customers’ needs. Romina’s and Laura’s mission is to enable anyone to have beautiful and clear skin by applying SOIL’s products that consist of 100% natural and sustainable ingredients.
FOUNDED 2016 |
HEADQUARTERS Cologne |
SECTOR SaaS, AdTech |
STAGE Incubation |
MANAGEMENT Tobias Neveling |
EXIT |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Performinc was a SaaS-solution for data visualization and fraud detection in mobile marketing. It was built on top of one of the leading affiliate tracking systems, aiming to facilitate campaign management and reduce fraudulent impact on marketing operations.
FOUNDED 2021 |
HEADQUARTERS Berlin |
VERTICAL B2C FinTech |
INITIAL INVESTMENT Pre-Seed |
FOUNDERS Andrea Fernandez, Artyom Chelbayev |
EXIT |
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Vitamin is a FinTech that aims to build the super app to help women achieve financial independence and educate them with learning and investing content and features.