Acton Capital

Acton Capital is a leading later-stage venture capital investor with presence in Munich and Vancouver. Since 1999, the Acton team backs startups in the fields of fintech, SaaS, consumer health, mobility & logistics, education or future of work on their way to market leadership. With over two decades of investment experience in tech-enabled business models, the team has invested 600+M EUR in more than 80 companies across five fund generations. Acton Capital invests worldwide, with a strong focus on Europe and North America.

Dominik Alvermann

Principal

Hannes Blum

Venture Partner

Christoph Braun

Managing Partner

Christina Catania

Investor Relations

Bettina Engert

Director / Advisor Platform

David Fischer

Associate

Joseph Hefele

Associate

Paul-Bernhard Kallen

Managing Partner

EL

Elisabeth Lowenbourg-Brzezinski

Principal

Julius Lühr

Principal

Fritz Oidtmann

Managing Partner

Jan-Gisbert Schultze

Managing Partner

Frank Seehaus

Managing Partner

Jörg Wernet

Director Finance

Sebastian Wossagk

Managing Partner

117 past transactions

Windeln.de

Series D in 2014
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.
Elder was founded on the basic idea that you shouldn’t have to go to a care home unless you want to. You should be able to keep the life you know and love, all while getting the care you need. Elder offers an online platform that focuses on connecting elders with homecare service providers. It offers its services in the United Kingdom. They enables its customers to find homecare service providers according to their needs and preferences.

Ciao

Venture Round in 1999
Ciao was Europe's pioneer of online communities that critically review and rate millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. Available free of charge to consumers in local language versions in major western European and North American markets, Ciao combined unbiased consumer reviews and up-to-date price information from hundreds of online retailers to make it the most comprehensive source of intelligent shopping on the web. [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) acquired Ciao in August, 2008.

Laserhub

Series A in 2020
Laserhub GmbH engages in the production and distribution of sheet metal parts. It offers steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper laser cutting, bending and folding, deburring and thread cutting, powder coating, and laser engraving services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

JustBooks

Venture Round in 1999
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Escapio GmbH

Venture Round in 2008
Escapio GmbH operates an Internet booking portal for independent travelers with a selection of hotels in the German market. It categorizes hotels according to lifestyle criteria and accommodation types; and allows travelers to find and book hotels. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of January 21, 2016, Escapio GmbH operates as a subsidiary of MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG.

Tictail

Series B in 2015
Tictail is a social shopping destination home to the world’s independent brands. For brands, the platform is a DIY e-commerce tool focused on strong community integration, simplicity of use, and attractive, customizable design. With no need for coding or web-design experience, small business owners are given the tools to build global brands. For shoppers, Tictail is a destination to discover and shop home decor and fashion finds from a global community of emerging designers.

Laserhub

Series B in 2022
Laserhub GmbH engages in the production and distribution of sheet metal parts. It offers steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper laser cutting, bending and folding, deburring and thread cutting, powder coating, and laser engraving services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

iwoca

Series C in 2016
Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more. Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1, 2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.

Cluno

Series A in 2018
Cluno GmbH offers car leasing, sharing, and rental services. It offers service and maintenance, insurance, warranty, tyres, and registration services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Metalshub

Series A in 2021
Metalshub is a fully independent company with no conflicts of interests. Metalshub provides a digital marketplace for metals and ferroalloys to promote a more efficient and liquid physical market. Established in 2016, Metalshub is based in Düsseldorf, Germany but operates globally. They are an international team with team members from five different countries and extensive experience in physical metals trading and logistics. Their vision is to become the leading platform for the global metals and ferroalloys community.
SoSafe Cyber Security Awareness (SoSafe GmbH) is a provider of digital training solutions specializing in IT security and awareness building. The strongly expanding team ranges from IT security experts to learning psychologists. SoSafe's awareness platform sensitizes, trains and tests employees of 250+ customers in dealing with all kinds of cyber threats, creating a sustainable security culture. The training is interactive, motivating and 100% data protection compliant and its content can easily be customized, e.g. to incorporate internal security policies or points of contact. With comprehensible KPIs and detailed reporting dashboards, the success of cyber security training finally becomes measurable and visible. Further information is available at www.sosafe-awareness.com

ExpertLead

Series B in 2021
expertlead is a global community of highly qualified tech freelancers. The community decides through coding tests and technical interviews whether potential new members will be accepted into the exclusive network. expertlead supports members of their tech community in all stages of self-employment: from project acquisition, the provision of relevant services, opportunities for further training and peer-to-peer learning, to the assumption of administrative tasks. For companies, expertlead with its tech community takes over the technical assessment of tech specialists and provides access to an exclusive talent pool on a project basis.

mpb.com

Series D in 2021
MPB Europe Ltd, trading as mpb.com, operates an online platform that enables photographers and filmmakers to buy and sell used photo and video equipment. It offers digital SLR cameras, cameras, lenses, compact system cameras, flashguns, dedicated flashguns, video cameras, digital medium format cameras, medium format cameras, digital rangefinder cameras, action cameras, photo and video accessories, memory cards and readers, filters, camera batteries, camera remotes, cleaning supplies, flashgun accessories, battery grips, bags, cases and straps, tripods and supports, outdoor and clothing products, and other photo products. MPB Europe Ltd was founded in 2008 and is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Hublo

Series A in 2021
Hublo (www.hublo.com) is making data-driven marketing simpler. It's a super simple tool, allowing marketers to set-up analytics, monitor precisely what's happening on their website and launch remarketing campaigns without relying on their IT teams.

IndigoBoom

Series A in 2007
IndiGoBoom is a digital music distributor with an annual fee structure as opposed to the majority of its competition who charge per song or album. We are hard nosed internet music biz veterans always ready to go to bat for the independent artist.

Linas Matkasse

Series A in 2011
Linas Matkasse of Sweden is a pioneer in the meal kit delivery space with a pan-Nordic presence in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Total turnover of the company is around $170 million.

Cluno

Series B in 2019
Cluno GmbH offers car leasing, sharing, and rental services. It offers service and maintenance, insurance, warranty, tyres, and registration services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Munich, Germany.

ArtNight GmbH

Venture Round in 2022
ArtNight GmbH organizes art workshops in local bars, cafes, and restaurants. The company distributes tickets online through its portal. It helps artists earn a living with their talent, as well as an opportunity for users to meet new people. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Zenjob GmbH

Series D in 2022
Zenjob GmbH operates an online recruitment platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

LemonOne

Venture Round in 2019
Lemon One provides businesses such as major online marketplaces, real estate agencies and food delivery companies with on-demand photos within hours through algorithms that match them with a broad network of photographers. With Lemon One, businesses get tailor-made, high quality visual content for their online presence, without extra effort.

sofatutor GmbH

Series B in 2012
sofatutor GmbH, an edtech company, owns and operates an online learning platform for K-12 pupils and students in Europe. It offers sofatutor.com, an online platform that provides video lessons, practice problems, worksheets, and homework chat for students. The company’s website provides courses and videos in German, mathematics, primary school, English, physics, chemistry, biology, and other subjects. It serves students, teachers, and parents in Germany and internationally. sofatutor GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Holidaycheck

Venture Round in 2006
HolidayCheck is a leading travel website where users can easily find and book their perfect holiday and share their holiday experience. Hotels are the most important feature on HolidayCheck. With a database of over 300,000 hotels it is easy for potential travelers to find their perfect hotel. Many hotels have already been reviewed, providing an authentic image of the hotel. HolidayCheck’s advanced hotel search enables users to filter the hotels by categories such as star rating, recommendation percentage and amenities. All hotels can then be sorted by popularity or price. The HolidayCheck watch list allows users to select hotels and then compare them based on recommendation, rating, and price. This enables users to tag the hotels they are interested in while browsing and come back to them all later. Travelers can gain an overview and insight into destinations including information on; Trip Preparation, Country & People, Discover & Enjoy and Getting Around. Before travelers book their hotel they will probably want to know what is on offer in the local area and what it is like. Things to do cover sightseeing, Sport & Leisure, Food & Drinks, Nightlife, Shopping and other tips from travelers in the Things to do reviews. Travelers can find the best price by comparing offers from various providers on HolidayCheck with just one click. The newsletter each month presents subscribers with a brand new destination. It provide quality travel information and genuine user pictures to give an authentic insight into the destination. The HolidayCheck idea dates back to 1999 when two guys Markus Schott and Sascha Vasic, frustrated with the lack of authentic information when choosing a hotel, decided to create a website which would give others the opportunity to read real opinions and reviews instead of just catalogue descriptions. They created the first HolidayCheck website as a hobby. In 2004 HolidayCheck was founded as a company in Switzerland. After that HolidayCheck grew even faster and started its first international websites in 2006: www.holidaycheck.com and www.holidaycheck.fr closely followed by Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian and Dutch in 2007. Today HolidayCheck is available in 10 languages. Each month 20 - 30 million people visit HolidayCheck websites. On HolidayCheck users inform themselves about hotels and destinations with about 10 million user opinions. Information is available on more than 300 thousand hotels and 100 thousand points of interest in the holiday destinations. HolidayCheck AG headquarters are located in Bottighofen, Switzerland and has three foreign offices in Warsaw, Paris and Moskow. The majority of HolidayCheck is owned by the listed company TOMORROW FOCUS AG, one of the leading digital media companies in Germany. The main shareholder of Tomorrow Focus AG is the publishing company Hubert Burda Media.

HomeToGo GmbH

Series A in 2015
With more than $150 million raised in funding, HomeToGo (hometogo.com) is the world's largest vacation rental search engine. It allows you to easily search and compare over 17 million accommodation offers in over 200 countries from more than 800 partners, including: Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, and TripAdvisor. With intuitive features such as flexible dates, users can find their ideal vacation rental according to their preferred destination, travel dates, budget, and amenities. HomeToGo was founded 2014 by Dr. Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl, and Nils Regge. It includes the brands Tripping.com and CASAMUNDO. The Berlin-based company currently employs more than 170 people and operates 23 local websites in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo's investors include Insight Venture Partners, Lakestar, Princeville Global, DN Capital, Acton Capital Partners, Global Founders Capital, Perpetual Investors, and mojo.capital.

Knix Wear Inc.

Venture Round in 2019
Knix is a women underwear brand designed with women's needs in mind. The company's underwear are designed to have leak proof, absorbent and anti-odor feature within them. Knix believes in embracing the blood, sweat, and tears that accompany a life well lived.

Seatti

Seed Round in 2022
Seatti - Your Home Office away from Home. Seatti offers remote workers an affordable and flexible alternative to noisy cafés and long-term coworking space contracts. Seatti helps to find unique and flexible workspaces wherever you are and whenever you need it. Private rooms as well as coworking spaces and other kinds of alternative workspaces can be booked on a half-daily, daily, weekly or monthly basis.

TeamPages Inc.

Series B in 2009
TeamPages Inc. develops software tools for managing athletic lives and schedules online. Its software tools provide website creation, schedules and reminders, text and email messaging, online registration, iPhone and android mobile apps, and support. The company serves coaches, parents, athletes, teams, clubs, and leagues. TeamPages Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. As of April 11, 2017, TeamPages Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Active Network, LLC.

TripsByTips

Venture Round in 2007
TripsByTips GmbH operates a platform that produces content related to travel and tourism. The company provides travel reportage; texts describing destinations, musicals, museums, zoos, beaches, and more; texts describing hotels and their facilities; points of interests, such as tourist attractions, restaurants, and music or sports events; texts about activities, such as skiing, hiking, diving, shopping, etc.; informative texts about German cities, city quarters, and regions; and SEO texts with various themes for customers from the tourist industry. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of April 16, 2015, TripsByTips GmbH operates as a subsidiary of MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG.

Mobify

Series B in 2017
Mobify is the #1 provider of Progressive Web Apps for eCommerce for retailers and brands that want to close the gap between desktop and mobile conversion rates, keep up with customer expectations and win loyal customer relationships. The Mobify platform delivers a unified customer experience across mobile web and apps, while building customer relationships through push notifications and store drivers. Leading global brands including Lancôme, Crabtree & Evelyn, Paula’s Choice, Carnival Cruise Line, London Drugs, Burlington, PureFormulas, Superdry, Columbia, eXtra Electronics, and ThinkGeek generate extensive revenue through the Mobify Platform and rely on Mobify to grow their customer lifetime value.

Plantura GmbH

Seed Round in 2019
Plantura develops products that combine effectiveness and sustainability. It is inspiring contact points that make gardeners easier and every thumb greener. It is to develop effective and sustainable products for the home garden. It is specialized in sustainable gardening, sustainability, organic & animal-free fertilizers.

Chef's Plate Inc.

Series B in 2016
Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes. It was launched by Jamie Shea and Patrick Meyer in December 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

OnVista Group

Venture Round in 1999
OnVista Group is focused on financial markets Internet companies. In a unique business model in Germany OnVista combines the distribution and marketing of independent financial information by offering a modern online broker.

MedKitDoc

Seed Round in 2021
MedKitDoc offers patients talks to doctors via video conference by medical professionals who can examine patients by using certified medical devices.

Mambu

Series E in 2021
Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than three million active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks.

Yoto

Series A in 2021
The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®

Truphone

Series B in 2008
Truphone provides mobile network services. It has built state-of-the-art SIM software, intuitive management platforms. Truphone also enables other mobile operators to rapidly roll out support for eSIM enabled devices. With Truphone, enterprises and individuals are benefiting from our international SIM cards and worldwide subscriptions, providing global mobility.

MyOptique Group

Series C in 2013
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

AlphaSights

Venture Round in 2008
AlphaSights is a next-generation information services firm, rapidly scaling with offices in New York, London, Dubai and Hong Kong. Our clients – who include many of the world’s leading private equity firms, hedge funds, strategy consultancies, and corporations – turn to us when they need to navigate unfamiliar markets, ramp-up on complex situations, or evaluate new commercial opportunities. Our role is to connect them with the exact industry practitioners who can help them – quickly, discreetly, and across all sectors and geographies. Every month we facilitate more than 5,000 one-on-one connections between our clients and the insight and expertise they need to arrive at better decisions and execute more effectively. Our unique business model and talented team have resulted in a market share that is growing at an incredible rate. Founded in 2008, we are now a worldwide team of 250+ and growing rapidly.

Suite101

Venture Round in 2007
Suite101 is a new kind of knowledgebase centered on personal experience and interests. Suite101 brings together people who thrive on sharing what they've been through, what they know, what they care about.

HomeToGo GmbH

Venture Round in 2018
With more than $150 million raised in funding, HomeToGo (hometogo.com) is the world's largest vacation rental search engine. It allows you to easily search and compare over 17 million accommodation offers in over 200 countries from more than 800 partners, including: Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, and TripAdvisor. With intuitive features such as flexible dates, users can find their ideal vacation rental according to their preferred destination, travel dates, budget, and amenities. HomeToGo was founded 2014 by Dr. Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl, and Nils Regge. It includes the brands Tripping.com and CASAMUNDO. The Berlin-based company currently employs more than 170 people and operates 23 local websites in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo's investors include Insight Venture Partners, Lakestar, Princeville Global, DN Capital, Acton Capital Partners, Global Founders Capital, Perpetual Investors, and mojo.capital.

COMATCH GmbH

Series B in 2018
COMATCH GmbH operates a freelancer platform for management consultants and industry experts. It offers consultants in strategy, organization and IT, marketing and sales, finance, market analysis, and operations for companies of all sizes. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

mokono

Venture Round in 2008
mokono is a next generation media company which centers on providing a furtile environment for content creators such as bloggers to produce content they are passionate about, build audiences and monetize their audience, if they wish to by connecting marketers to their audiences. mokono draws from the knowledge of hosting some 1M blogs across Europe and has pioneered new ways of using advertising in the blogosphere by using participative ad formats. mokono has started measuring campaign results via the increase in volume of mentions which have proven to significantly increase after a campaign, including clients such as Nokia, T-Home or BMW. This concept of measurement has initiated a discussion among advertising experts beyond Germany. In May 2009, the iab made volume of mentions an integral part of it's social media definitions. With up to 14 million unique users a month, mokono provides significant reach for marketers and agencies at scale that wish to address the most influential web crowd in Germany and the rest of Europe. Furthermore, mokono supports agencies and companies in the web 2.0 - environment by actively providing knowledge and expertise. In February 2007, Germany's media giant Burda acquired a stake in the company. mokono was founded in 2005 by Florian Wilken and Vasco Sommer-Nunes. The two high school friends form a complementary team, with mokono being their second venture. From 1997 to 2002 they founded and managed an online dating company, which was acquired in 2002, by then the third largest online dating property in Germany.

Elite Partners

Venture Round in 2005
ElitePartner is Germany's pioneer of online partner agencies offering matchmaking services based on psychological profiling. ElitePartner aims at sophisticated singles 30+ looking for a long-term relationship. ElitePartner was acquired by Tomorrow Focus AG in 2007 and became part of the PARSHIP ELITE Group of ProSiebenSat.1 in 2016.

Knix Wear Inc.

Series B in 2021
Knix is a women underwear brand designed with women's needs in mind. The company's underwear are designed to have leak proof, absorbent and anti-odor feature within them. Knix believes in embracing the blood, sweat, and tears that accompany a life well lived.

Themis Solutions Inc.

Series C in 2014
Themis Solutions Inc. develops legal practice management and client intake software solutions for law firms. The company’s platforms are used for billing, case management, contact management, document management, calendaring, online payments, and time and expense tracking. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Burnaby, Canada with additional offices in Toronto, Calgary, Canada; Santa Monica, California; and Dublin, Ireland.

Freska

Series A in 2018
Freska, voted one of the hottest tech start-ups in Finland, is an online home services company currently disrupting the traditional home cleaning industry in the Nordics, backed by top-tier VCs (Acton, Spintop and Addventure) post Series A. Freska delivers top quality cleaning services with total flexibility for the customer to select a time, decide on the service and manage the subscription in an easy-to-use online interface or a native app. However, Freska does not only clean homes, it creates real jobs. All Freska cleaners have been subject to a thorough recruitment process followed by a thorough Freska-onboarding. They are all skilled professionals and core members of the Freska family, knowing that they will earn a good living from their job and have a community that supports them.

Indochino Apparel Inc.

Venture Round in 2011
Indochino Apparel Inc. retails custom online menswear. It offers personalized suits, vests, shirts, pants, chinos, and accessories, such as ties, pocket squares, tie clips, cufflinks, and collar pins and stays. The company also provides wedding suits and gift cards. It operates showrooms in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; San Francisco and Beverly Hills, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Austin, and Dallas, Texas. Indochino Apparel Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with additional locations in the Dallan and Shanghai, China.

Etsy

Series D in 2008
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

mpb.com

Series C in 2019
MPB Europe Ltd, trading as mpb.com, operates an online platform that enables photographers and filmmakers to buy and sell used photo and video equipment. It offers digital SLR cameras, cameras, lenses, compact system cameras, flashguns, dedicated flashguns, video cameras, digital medium format cameras, medium format cameras, digital rangefinder cameras, action cameras, photo and video accessories, memory cards and readers, filters, camera batteries, camera remotes, cleaning supplies, flashgun accessories, battery grips, bags, cases and straps, tripods and supports, outdoor and clothing products, and other photo products. MPB Europe Ltd was founded in 2008 and is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Etsy

Series F in 2012
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

AbeBooks

Venture Round in 2003
AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, listing over 110 million new, used, rare, and out of print books from 13,500 sellers. AbeBooks offers a range of services including support, HomeBase inventory management software, and five international sites to reach global markets. The company often fills a niche for [Amazon](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amazon) in finding hard-to-find or out-of-print books. AbeBooks is an Amazon subsidiary.

sofatutor GmbH

Series C in 2014
sofatutor GmbH, an edtech company, owns and operates an online learning platform for K-12 pupils and students in Europe. It offers sofatutor.com, an online platform that provides video lessons, practice problems, worksheets, and homework chat for students. The company’s website provides courses and videos in German, mathematics, primary school, English, physics, chemistry, biology, and other subjects. It serves students, teachers, and parents in Germany and internationally. sofatutor GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Zenjob GmbH

Series B in 2018
Zenjob GmbH operates an online recruitment platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

iwoca

Series B in 2015
Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more. Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1, 2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.

Fashion For Home

Venture Round in 2012
Fashion For Home is a furniture shop that operates both online and offline, serving Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. It also offers international shipping to businesses and designers outside these three countries. Fashion For Home was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with showrooms in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, and Vienna.

Vimcar

Series B in 2018
As one of Europe’s fastest-growing SaaS startups, Vimcar is redefining business mobility by seamlessly integrating commercial vehicles into digital ecosystems. An innovative combination of live car data and a set of cloud-based applications offer real-time insight into vehicle activity to reduce operational cost for fleets. The company specializes in providing low-price vehicle management services and has already equipped more than 90,000 vehicles with its SaaS solutions in German-speaking countries. In early 2020 Vimcar announced its expansion to the United Kingdom.

KupiVIP

Series D in 2012
KupiVIP is a Russian online fashion retailer selling discounted fashion and home goods from high-street and luxury brands. It has grown rapidly to become a household name in Russia, with 6 million customers. The online fashion retailer hosts up to 20 private online flash sales every day. KupiVIP was launched in 2008 by Vladimir Kholyaznikov, Mikhail Konoplev, and Oskar Hartmann. It is based in Moscow, Russia.

Maple Corporation

Series A in 2019
Maple Corporation develops and operates a telemedicine platform which allows to see a doctor online from phone, tablet, or computer. It provides patients an option to securely text or video chat with a Canadian licensed doctor for diagnosis, treatment, and digital prescriptions. The company allows access of online medical care from licensed physicians and offers online consultations. Maple Corporation was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

computeruniverse

Venture Round in 2006
computeruniverse GmbH operates an online shop for computers, notebooks, home entertainment products, and more. It offers laptops, slates, netbooks, servers, and E-book readers; computer accessories, such as monitors, printers, keyboards, mice, external hard drives, speakers, webcams, headsets, media players, and cables; and personal computer (PC) components, such as hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD), network attached storage (NAS), graphics cards, RAM, processors, mainboards, network hardware, cables, PC cases and accessories, PC power supplies, Blu-ray disc drives, DVD writers, and headsets.

Mobify

Venture Round in 2016
Mobify is the #1 provider of Progressive Web Apps for eCommerce for retailers and brands that want to close the gap between desktop and mobile conversion rates, keep up with customer expectations and win loyal customer relationships. The Mobify platform delivers a unified customer experience across mobile web and apps, while building customer relationships through push notifications and store drivers. Leading global brands including Lancôme, Crabtree & Evelyn, Paula’s Choice, Carnival Cruise Line, London Drugs, Burlington, PureFormulas, Superdry, Columbia, eXtra Electronics, and ThinkGeek generate extensive revenue through the Mobify Platform and rely on Mobify to grow their customer lifetime value.

sofatutor GmbH

Series D in 2018
sofatutor GmbH, an edtech company, owns and operates an online learning platform for K-12 pupils and students in Europe. It offers sofatutor.com, an online platform that provides video lessons, practice problems, worksheets, and homework chat for students. The company’s website provides courses and videos in German, mathematics, primary school, English, physics, chemistry, biology, and other subjects. It serves students, teachers, and parents in Germany and internationally. sofatutor GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Etsy

Series E in 2010
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Etsy

Series C in 2007
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

ELOQUII Design, Inc.

Series B in 2016
ELOQUII Design, Inc. designs and sells fashion apparel for women. It provides dresses, tops, pants and jeans shorts, kady fit pants, skirts, denims and chambrays, leggings, suits, jackets, jumpsuits, swim cover ups, shoes, jewelry, sunglasses and tights, belts, and shapewear. The company sells its products online; and ships its products to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. ELOQUII Design, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Columbus, Ohio with a store in Atlanta, Georgia. As of December 31, 2018, ELOQUII Design, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Walmart Inc.

Zenjob GmbH

Series A in 2017
Zenjob GmbH operates an online recruitment platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Clio

Series B in 2012
Clio is a suite of web-based tools that help law firms in practice management and client collaboration. Clio is a suite of online tools designed to manage a law firm. Completely web-based, Clio is a practice management system that is specifically designed for solo practitioners and small law firms. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in British Columbia, Canada.

The Female Company GmbH

Venture Round in 2020
TFC's mission is to empower women to be proud in their womanhood, by reinterpreting long overlooked and underestimated categories around female health - starting with the period and postpartum products. The company's signature product is a subscription of organic and sustainably-packaged period products that fits through the letterbox. To accelerate change TFC uses its online platform to educate around female health, and its provocative marketing to create awareness. Examples include the "One Girl One Cup" or the award-winning "Tampon Book" campaign, which played a central role in reducing the sales tax on period products in Germany, effective as of Jan 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/no-luxury-book-containing-tampons-is-runaway-hit TFC is based in Berlin and was founded in 2018 by Ann-Sophie Claus and Sinja Stadelmaier.

Nexopia

Venture Round in 2008
http://t.co/BIQk99aLM2 is a unique mag and community where users can create unfiltered content, say whatever they want. Original topics from individual voices.

Avenso

Venture Round in 2007
Avenso is dedicated to bringing photographic art to a wider audience through multi-channel gallerys and online.

Mobify

Series A in 2016
Mobify is the #1 provider of Progressive Web Apps for eCommerce for retailers and brands that want to close the gap between desktop and mobile conversion rates, keep up with customer expectations and win loyal customer relationships. The Mobify platform delivers a unified customer experience across mobile web and apps, while building customer relationships through push notifications and store drivers. Leading global brands including Lancôme, Crabtree & Evelyn, Paula’s Choice, Carnival Cruise Line, London Drugs, Burlington, PureFormulas, Superdry, Columbia, eXtra Electronics, and ThinkGeek generate extensive revenue through the Mobify Platform and rely on Mobify to grow their customer lifetime value.

tolingo GmbH

Series B in 2011
tolingo is one of the most renowned and successful translation agencies in Germany – a fact which motivates us in our work across every division of our company every day and helps drive us to constantly improve the services we offer to our clients. A human touch is crucial, whether in terms of our employees’ respectful, open interaction with one another at our headquarters in Hamburg, our consultations and service meetings with our clients, or the close, productive working relationships we enjoy with our specialist translators and industry experts all over the world. We strive for collaborative success and partnerships on equal footing without losing sight of the expectations we’ve set for ourselves or the standards and goals we’re determined to meet. This is how we’ve been able to transform from a little translation agency into a globally present provider with a sophisticated portfolio of services – with market-leader status in our sights.

ExpertLead

Series A in 2019
expertlead is a global community of highly qualified tech freelancers. The community decides through coding tests and technical interviews whether potential new members will be accepted into the exclusive network. expertlead supports members of their tech community in all stages of self-employment: from project acquisition, the provision of relevant services, opportunities for further training and peer-to-peer learning, to the assumption of administrative tasks. For companies, expertlead with its tech community takes over the technical assessment of tech specialists and provides access to an exclusive talent pool on a project basis.

Convelio

Series A in 2020
Convelio is a global logistics startup specialized in fine art shipping.

UberMedia

Venture Round in 2011
UberMedia’s diverse suite of products process billions of social, demographic, and location signals daily to understand and influence modern consumers with the most accurate business decision science. Targeted mobile advertising campaigns reach beyond generic visibility to solve real-world business objectives, including customer conquests, improved in-store visits, and increased sales. UberMedia delivers dynamic advertising solutions for Fortune 500 companies across retail, automotive, entertainment, and consumer markets. Recognized as a pioneer in targeted mobile advertising, UberMedia was listed as Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” and The Wall Street Journal’s Top “50 Startups.” UberMedia is headquartered in Pasadena, CA as a network company of Idealab, a world-renowned operator of leading technology businesses. For more information, visit www.ubermedia.com.

GameDuell

Seed Round in 2003
GameDuell is a cross-platform games community, developing games for its website as well as for social networks and mobile devices. With more than 125 million registered players across all platforms, the Berlin-based company counts among the casual and social games providers in the Western markets. GameDuell offers a broad portfolio of over 70 casual online games, mostly developed in-house, such as Fluffy, Maya Pyramid, Bubble Speed, Jungle Jewels, and game classics like Hearts, Solitaire, and Pool. It has a team of 210 experienced members. GameDuell was founded in 2003 by Kai Bolik, Michael Kalkowski, and Boris Wasmuth GameDuell. It is based in San Francisco, C.A.

HomeToGo GmbH

Series B in 2016
With more than $150 million raised in funding, HomeToGo (hometogo.com) is the world's largest vacation rental search engine. It allows you to easily search and compare over 17 million accommodation offers in over 200 countries from more than 800 partners, including: Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, and TripAdvisor. With intuitive features such as flexible dates, users can find their ideal vacation rental according to their preferred destination, travel dates, budget, and amenities. HomeToGo was founded 2014 by Dr. Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl, and Nils Regge. It includes the brands Tripping.com and CASAMUNDO. The Berlin-based company currently employs more than 170 people and operates 23 local websites in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo's investors include Insight Venture Partners, Lakestar, Princeville Global, DN Capital, Acton Capital Partners, Global Founders Capital, Perpetual Investors, and mojo.capital.

ArtNight GmbH

Series A in 2019
ArtNight GmbH organizes art workshops in local bars, cafes, and restaurants. The company distributes tickets online through its portal. It helps artists earn a living with their talent, as well as an opportunity for users to meet new people. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Laserhub

Series A in 2020
Laserhub GmbH engages in the production and distribution of sheet metal parts. It offers steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper laser cutting, bending and folding, deburring and thread cutting, powder coating, and laser engraving services. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.

audibene GmbH

Venture Round in 2013
audibene is the leading internet portal about hearing aid devices. Experienced acousticians give free advice to people with hearing defects and hearing loss. Experienced experts help comparing different hearing systems, inform about the various technologies and support the customers during the whole adaption process.

Indochino Apparel Inc.

Seed Round in 2008
Indochino Apparel Inc. retails custom online menswear. It offers personalized suits, vests, shirts, pants, chinos, and accessories, such as ties, pocket squares, tie clips, cufflinks, and collar pins and stays. The company also provides wedding suits and gift cards. It operates showrooms in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; San Francisco and Beverly Hills, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Austin, and Dallas, Texas. Indochino Apparel Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with additional locations in the Dallan and Shanghai, China.

Zenjob GmbH

Series A in 2017
Zenjob GmbH operates an online recruitment platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Mahalo

Series B in 2007
Inside- Online web directory and knowledge-sharing service that helps individuals find information

momox

Venture Round in 2010
momox GmbH operates an online sale and distribution service for used books, films, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays, vinyl records, games and software, and clothing in Germany, Austria, France, and the United Kingdom. It allows private individuals to sell their used items and buy second-hand goods. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Berlin, Germany with additional locations in Leipzig, Neuenhagen, and Stettin.

Cyberport Digital Outfitters

Venture Round in 1999
Cyberport Digital Outfitters offers an online platform that enables its users to find and buy computer technology and entertainment electronics. It markets tablets, PCs, smart phones, TVs, and its accessories. Cyberport Digital Outfitters was acquired by Hubert Burda Media in September 2006. Cyberport Digital Outfitters was founded in 1998 and is based in Dresdan, Germany.

Koio Collective, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Glasses Direct

Venture Round in 2009
As Europe’s leading online prescription glasses retailer, Glasses Direct offer an incredible selection of glasses for men and women. Buying cheap glasses online has never been easier, so if you’re looking to update your spectacles, you’re in the right place. Our online glasses are the same quality glasses as ones you will buy at any high street opticians and in addition to prescription glasses, we also sell prescription sunglasses - all of our glasses online can be made into prescription sunglasses by adding a tint. Our friendly customer service team and opticians here at Glasses Direct are available to help you order your glasses online with us and along with our fantastic online tools, will ensure you find the right spectacles for you.

MyOptique Group

Series B in 2009
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

Frontline GmbH

Venture Round in 2010
Frontline GmbH retails street wear over the Internet and through monthly catalogs. The company sells clothing, shoes and accessories on the Internet through its website. It offers products from fashion and street wear brands. Frontline GmbH was founded in 1984 and is based in Hamburg, Germany. As of June 2, 2015, Frontline GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Mensquare SAS.

Windeln.de

Series C in 2013
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

COMATCH GmbH

Series A in 2016
COMATCH GmbH operates a freelancer platform for management consultants and industry experts. It offers consultants in strategy, organization and IT, marketing and sales, finance, market analysis, and operations for companies of all sizes. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.
SoSafe Cyber Security Awareness (SoSafe GmbH) is a provider of digital training solutions specializing in IT security and awareness building. The strongly expanding team ranges from IT security experts to learning psychologists. SoSafe's awareness platform sensitizes, trains and tests employees of 250+ customers in dealing with all kinds of cyber threats, creating a sustainable security culture. The training is interactive, motivating and 100% data protection compliant and its content can easily be customized, e.g. to incorporate internal security policies or points of contact. With comprehensible KPIs and detailed reporting dashboards, the success of cyber security training finally becomes measurable and visible. Further information is available at www.sosafe-awareness.com

MyOptique Group

Venture Round in 2015
The MyOptique Group is revolutionising the £20bn European optical industry by cutting out the high street middle man – and providing its customers a superior service and significant savings. The group is the clear European leader in the growing online optical segment with a full offering covering all three major segments in the eyewear market - prescription glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses via its online retail brands Glasses Direct, Sunglasses Shop, MyOptique.com, LensOn, Netzoptiker, Eyewearbrands and Lensbest.de. More than two-thirds of sales are outside of the UK market. It carries over 150 brands and 7,000 styles.

mytheresa.com

Venture Round in 2010
mytheresa.com is Germany’s leading online shop, offering fashion savvy customers world wide a well edited selection of today’s top brands and emerging collections, hassle free twenty-four hours a day. Launched in 2006, mytheresa.com features not only top established brands like Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin and Marc Jacobs but also up and coming stars like Alexander Wang, Peter Pilotto and Erdem. Our name and reputation has also led to an exclusive partnership with Tod’s, who has chosen mytheresa.com as their online retailer.

United Ambient Media AG

Venture Round in 2000
Ambient and out-of-home media specialist for young target groups

Zenjob GmbH

Series C in 2020
Zenjob GmbH operates an online recruitment platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Chef's Plate Inc.

Series C in 2017
Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes. It was launched by Jamie Shea and Patrick Meyer in December 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

zooplus

Venture Round in 2000
Online pet food and pet accessory merchant

Mambu

Series D in 2021
Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than three million active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks.

Indochino Apparel Inc.

Series B in 2013
Indochino Apparel Inc. retails custom online menswear. It offers personalized suits, vests, shirts, pants, chinos, and accessories, such as ties, pocket squares, tie clips, cufflinks, and collar pins and stays. The company also provides wedding suits and gift cards. It operates showrooms in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; San Francisco and Beverly Hills, California; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston, Austin, and Dallas, Texas. Indochino Apparel Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Vancouver, Canada with additional locations in the Dallan and Shanghai, China.

FINANZCHECK.de

Series C in 2016
FINANZCHECK.de is an independent consumer loan technology platform that enables German consumers to compare their personal loans and private financial products. The platform gives its customers visibility on all loans available covering the complete value chain from customer acquisition to credit scoring and ultimately contract signing. In addition, Finanzcheck offers B2B2C white label and B2B consumer financing technology solutions for brokers and banks. The company receives funding from Acton Capital Partners, HarbourVest Partners, TA Ventures, HarbourVest Partners, Acton Capital Partners, and various other investors.

Mambu

Series C in 2019
Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than three million active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks.

Ciao

Venture Round in 1999
Ciao was Europe's pioneer of online communities that critically review and rate millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. Available free of charge to consumers in local language versions in major western European and North American markets, Ciao combined unbiased consumer reviews and up-to-date price information from hundreds of online retailers to make it the most comprehensive source of intelligent shopping on the web. [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) acquired Ciao in August, 2008.

HomeToGo GmbH

Series C in 2017
With more than $150 million raised in funding, HomeToGo (hometogo.com) is the world's largest vacation rental search engine. It allows you to easily search and compare over 17 million accommodation offers in over 200 countries from more than 800 partners, including: Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, HomeAway, and TripAdvisor. With intuitive features such as flexible dates, users can find their ideal vacation rental according to their preferred destination, travel dates, budget, and amenities. HomeToGo was founded 2014 by Dr. Patrick Andrae, Wolfgang Heigl, and Nils Regge. It includes the brands Tripping.com and CASAMUNDO. The Berlin-based company currently employs more than 170 people and operates 23 local websites in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific. HomeToGo's investors include Insight Venture Partners, Lakestar, Princeville Global, DN Capital, Acton Capital Partners, Global Founders Capital, Perpetual Investors, and mojo.capital.

Koio Collective, Inc.

Series A in 2018
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Bueroservice24

Venture Round in 2011
Bueroservice24 AG, a Hamburg, Germany-based provider of virtual office services for small and medium-sized businesses.

Chef's Plate Inc.

Series B in 2016
Chef’s Plate is an online platform that enables users to get fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and chef-inspired recipes to their homes. It was launched by Jamie Shea and Patrick Meyer in December 2014 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Yatego

Venture Round in 2011
Featuring more than 10,000 online shops of specialist and retail dealers, Yatego is one of the leading e-commerce portals in the German-language Internet. Consumers have a choice of more than 3.2 million products. The ordering process is state-of-the art and simple, with secure payment processed by independent trustee and credit card systems. Retailers benefit from Yatego’s one-stop solutions for the e-commerce process with comprehensive related services. The company was founded in 2003 and currently employs more than 100 staff in St. Georgen, Germany. The managing directors are Michael Ollmann, Stephan Peltzer und Patrick Kötter.

TeamPages Inc.

Series A in 2007
TeamPages Inc. develops software tools for managing athletic lives and schedules online. Its software tools provide website creation, schedules and reminders, text and email messaging, online registration, iPhone and android mobile apps, and support. The company serves coaches, parents, athletes, teams, clubs, and leagues. TeamPages Inc. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. As of April 11, 2017, TeamPages Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Active Network, LLC.

edelight

Series A in 2007
edelight.de is a shopping platform which is concerned entirely with the idea of social shopping. Starting late 2006, edelight is one of the first; and so far largest, website of this kind in Germany. There are over 400.000 products; which have been recommended by other people, from over 8000 international online-shops, found on this website. Hence, edelight is not a shop or a search engine, but recommendation marketing at its finest. The operator of this social-shopping platform is edelight GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2006 the company was founded by Peter Ambrozy, Steffen Belitz and Tassilo Bestler. Currently a team of 17 members is working on the further development of the concept. Burda Digital Ventures has had a minority shareholding since July 2007. After a comprehensive relaunch in October 2007, the main focus lies with favourite products and the community members. edelight.de makes its revenue by ad placements on the website, cooperation and commission payments from the partner shops. The company shares this income with its members (Revenue sharing). Currently there are over 2,3 million visitors on our page per month.*There are over 400.000 product recommendations and over 500 partner shops at your disposal. All in all the recommendations on edelight derive from over 8000 online shops to date. 70 percent of the edelight users are female. Since June 2008 the company is also active in the B-to-B area. With Visualdelight, edelight GmbH offers an e-commerce solution for the fashion and lifestyle sector. Renowned retailers of luxury products like Mytheresa and Stylebop and premium trademarks like La Perla and Swarovski are part of the companies’ network. Big names of the German magazine industry like “ELLE”, “Bunte” or “Men’s Health”, but also portals like t-online.de are clients of the edelight e-commerce model and its corresponding know-how. edelight GmbH does not directly make money from providing the technology but through commissions from the integrated partner network.

Windeln.de

Series A in 2011
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

sevenload

Series B in 2008
Sevenload is a social media network for WebTV, videos, and photos. The sevenload channels offer free premium-tv-shows, official music videos, exclusive internet television as well as user generated content. Every channel combines professional videos with independent, intelligent, and creative content from users producing content as well as professional production companies. Sevenload was founded in 2006. Sevenload is a global social media platform for photos, videos. and interactive show formats. The community enables users to manage and share photos and videos online for free. The site offers an array of different interactive WebTV or internet shows in more than 20 languages and various categories. In addition, some of the available channels are from famous and popular artists and musicians. As a new media company, sevenload positions itself as a provider for crossmedial marketing and modern video technology. Part of its business comes from the conceptualization, development, and production of IPTV based internet platforms, software solutions for Web 2.0 applications as well as technology development for third party companies looking for video player, video uploading, video linking, and distribution technologies. Sevenload has already worked with internationally renowned companies such as BMW, Endemol, National Geographic, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Sony Music, Universal Music, and offers companies individual white label solutions. Company executive are Andreas Heyden (CEO) and Dr. Roland Schlager. Company founders include Ibrahim Evsan (Founder), Thomas Bachem (Co-Founder) and Axel Schmiegelow (Co-Founder and Board Member). Company investors are DLD Ventures (Hubert Burda Media) and dw capital GmbH.

Windeln.de

Series B in 2012
windeln.de, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an online retailer of products for babies, toddlers, children, and young mothers in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, and China. It operates through German Shop, International Shops, and Shopping Clubs segments. The company offers a range of products, including diapers, baby food, drugstore products, clothes, toys, strollers, child car seats, baby monitors, and children’s furniture.

Ciao

Venture Round in 2000
Ciao was Europe's pioneer of online communities that critically review and rate millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. Available free of charge to consumers in local language versions in major western European and North American markets, Ciao combined unbiased consumer reviews and up-to-date price information from hundreds of online retailers to make it the most comprehensive source of intelligent shopping on the web. [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) acquired Ciao in August, 2008.

Mambu

Series B in 2016
Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services. The company provides financial institutions of all sizes to design, launch, service, and scale their banking and lending portfolio. It empowers over 7,000 loan and deposit products which serve over eight million end customers. With more than three million active accounts in over 46 countries, ranging from fintech to traditional banks.