APX

APX is an early-stage startup investor and accelerator in Berlin backed by Axel Springer and Porsche. Investing across sectors, APX is looking for ambitious founding teams with scalable, digital ideas and global aspirations to support them in becoming successful venture companies. Since 2018, APX has invested in more than 60 companies from 20 different countries together with more than 100 co-investors.

Henric Hungerhoff

Managing Director

Past deals in Pre-Seed Round

FABRİKATÖR BİLGİ TEKNOLOJİLERİ A.Ş. is a company based in Istanbul, Turkey, that specializes in developing a cloud-based manufacturing management platform tailored for small and mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 2018, the company offers its flagship product, Fabrikator, which includes various features such as inventory management, cost calculation, manufacturing planning, order management, production process management, and reporting tools. Additionally, the software supports barcode scanning, multi-user access, and multiple languages, making it versatile for various industries, including textiles, food, mechanics, and carpentry. By streamlining operational tasks, Fabrikator enables business owners to concentrate on their core manufacturing processes.

Glide HQ

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MediaTech, Social Media, News, Publishing Platform, Content Creators

Emocional

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Emocional offers a B2B SaaS solution designed to assist hybrid and remote businesses with over 100 employees in managing stress-related work leaves and improving employee retention. The company's platform leverages advanced AI technologies, including deep learning and computer vision, to analyze non-verbal communication during video calls, identifying stress and burnout patterns. Additionally, Emocional utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to assess text and audio data, allowing organizations to better understand and respond to human emotions. This comprehensive approach enables enterprises to create more human-centric products and services, ultimately fostering a healthier workplace environment.

SQIN

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SQIN operates a mobile beauty community platform that focuses on personalized skin care solutions. It offers users the opportunity to connect with leading dermatologists for immediate treatment of skin health issues. The platform provides a skin analysis scan and product scan, utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with tailored treatments and beauty products based on their individual skin types and needs. Additionally, SQIN features a magazine that delivers daily, personalized content to engage and inspire users in improving their skin care skills. By combining advanced technology with expert advice, SQIN aims to enhance the overall skin care experience for its growing community of users.

GetEase

Pre Seed Round in 2022
GetEase is an on demand marketplace that bring lifestyle services straight to your home.

accessia

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Accessia is a developer of a platform designed to help enterprises manage their software-as-a-service applications more effectively. The platform provides comprehensive visibility into the organization's application environment, addressing issues associated with shadow information technology. By automating and streamlining access processes, Accessia reduces bottlenecks in IT and procurement, enhancing overall productivity. Its self-service portal empowers teams, allowing for efficient app support without the need for manual, ticket-based systems. Additionally, Accessia maintains a complete access log, ensuring audit readiness and facilitating quicker user access reviews, thereby promoting collaboration among security, finance, human resources, and operations functions within a company.

nuvo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ComDocks is a B2B platform enabling high quality product presentations for Manufacturers and Buyers in the FMCG industry.

mysupply

Pre Seed Round in 2022
With mysupply you automate your entire tender process by speeding up the supplier search, evaluating the offers easily and negotiating automatically with the help of our system intelligence.

Well Healthcare

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Disrupting Medical Lab Processes

Duke

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Duke is a technology company that operates a real time car logistics system. Our Mission is to provide an insane customer experience for car rental. Duke offers on demand rental cars through a 24/7 delivery service.

Codio Impact

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Codio Impact is a Software-as-a-Service company based out of Berlin, Germany. We unlock sustainability performance for your company by automating the way you collect, manage and report your Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) data. At the same time, we allow you to remain fully complaint with the newest regulation, leading standards and any type of sustainability audit.

Marq Lab

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Marq Lab is a developer of a mobile application focused on language learning. The platform serves as a virtual learning assistant, offering personalized, snack-sized classes and conversation practice in a chat format. It provides courses in multiple languages, including English, Polish, Turkish, and Russian, allowing users to learn effectively while on the go. By emphasizing motivation and tailored learning paths, Marq Lab aims to enhance the language acquisition experience for its users.

Dana, by a thousand colibris SL

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Dana is an app to improve the mental health and well-being of women transitioning through motherhood addressing the existing infra-diagnostic and lack of treatment. Dana is using audio-based psycho-educational content, mental and emotional self-assessment tools, combined with tele-consultation services and a mother’s community. Dana Therapeutics is a data-centrist AI solution based on behavioral sciences that offers advanced capabilities in prediction, detection and monitoring of patients suffering perinatal mental health disorders, while being able to measure the impact of the Dana intervention on patient improvement. Dana will complete the model with a mental health collaborative platform joining practitioners and data scientists to design custom and evolutive therapies.

Piggit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Piggit is a smart debt reduction app that rounds up the spare change from everyday transactions to automate extra payments towards debt. The app helps debtholders alleviate their psychological and financial burdens by allowing them to save time and money (interests and insurance costs), without even thinking about it. Piggit was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Paris, France.

EasyQuant

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EasyQuant helps private investors avoid wrong investment decisions to achieve higher profitability, with the help of automation and artificial intelligence.

GerneOhne

Pre Seed Round in 2021
GerneOhne is an online retail platform that aims to transform grocery shopping by promoting a circular model that reduces waste. The company provides groceries and various items packaged in reusable containers, such as glass jars and transport boxes, eliminating single-use plastic. By focusing on waste-free shopping, GerneOhne makes sustainable food delivery accessible to all consumers, fostering a shift in both shopping habits and societal attitudes towards packaging and waste management.

Zoyya

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zoyya is the first online service marketplace for all service providers whose business is based on appointment, offering a modern web & mobile interface to end consumers to book their appointments, any time 24/7. For service providers, Zoyya offers a wide range of professional tools for increasing sales, managing appointments and schedules and engaging with customers. Zoyya’s vision is to modernise the service providing industry and become a widely adopted online service marketplace for end consumers.

askui

Pre Seed Round in 2021
askui contributes to the vision of a functional digital world through an innovative UI test automation solution. For us here at askui, people are the center of the work that we do. That's why we bring the human touch into theautomation process through askui James. We don't just test UIs according to rigid methods, we understand them like a human.

SQIN

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SQIN operates a mobile beauty community platform that focuses on personalized skin care solutions. It offers users the opportunity to connect with leading dermatologists for immediate treatment of skin health issues. The platform provides a skin analysis scan and product scan, utilizing artificial intelligence to match users with tailored treatments and beauty products based on their individual skin types and needs. Additionally, SQIN features a magazine that delivers daily, personalized content to engage and inspire users in improving their skin care skills. By combining advanced technology with expert advice, SQIN aims to enhance the overall skin care experience for its growing community of users.

DeepGears

Pre Seed Round in 2021
DeepGears is an AI-based platform designed to address the challenges of garment sizing and fitting in the online shopping experience. By enabling customers to visualize how clothing fits on a virtual representation of their own body measurements, DeepGears helps users identify their perfect size and discover recommended products. This innovative approach not only enhances the shopping experience but also aims to reduce the rate of returns, which is a significant issue for both retailers and the environment. The platform provides a marketplace for realistic garment simulations and apparel digitization, applicable in both online and in-store settings. With a proven impact on sales and a reduction in returns, DeepGears offers retailers an attractive solution that contributes to sustainability in the fashion industry by decreasing carbon emissions associated with product returns.

Exponential Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Our AI-driven Design of Experiments (DoE) software allows users to conduct successful experiments and data analysis faster and easier than ever before. The integrated Research Management System (RMS) helps to organize your experimental data.

Fyppit

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fyppit (www.fyppit.com) is an online marketplace where people can buy products across categories directly from their local shops, and receive them the same evening via e-cargo bikes. Fyppit is on a mission to bring power back to local, making e-commerce just as convenient, but with more balance, fair commissions and wages, and exponentially more eco-sustainable. - Asset-lite Hub 6 Spoke model - Highly experienced Founding Team with ex.Startupbootcamp, Parlamind & Ninetendo of America - Currently doing a pilot in 3 Berlin districts, with 40+ active selling shops

RideBee

Pre Seed Round in 2021
RideBee UG develops a platform for companies to support carpooling for employees. The company serves companies and universities. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Germany.

AUCTA

Pre Seed Round in 2020
AUCTA is a Berlin-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in immersive technology solutions for industrial organizations. Its platform enables companies to harness their 3D data, allowing the creation and deployment of 3D instructions accessible on any device, without the need for application installation. AUCTA provides a flexible content management system that integrates easily into existing data infrastructures, offering features such as an admin dashboard, editing and updating options, training exports, link generation, and tracking services. By leveraging its augmented reality technology, AUCTA supports effective training, sales, service, and customer experience, empowering mobile workers to operate efficiently and cost-effectively without the need for extensive programming.

Bluedot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bluedot is a marketplace where electric vehicles reach charging units and charger owners can share their spots with others. It is a software and hardware integrated system with a mobile application where charger owners can easily schedule and share charger and make money, while electric car owners reach all the chargers which are publicly and privately-owned. Bluedot Technologies began its operations in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

UNOWN

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Unown is an end-to-end platform for the non-ownership economy. We believe that through leasing, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset. We enable brands to secure their share in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.

pleez

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Transforming the ordering processes across hospitality industry

Zag City

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Zag City is a PropTech platform that offers an innovative solution in residential real estate. It is a digital platform that creates a new type of rental income for landlords in the course of short-term rentals. With Zag City, tenants can optimize their residential assets and boost net operating income.

Osterus

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Osterus GmbH develops a data analysis software for human resource (HR) departments. The company offers Platform for HR and HR Intelligence solution that can automatically evaluate CVs and cover letters and creates risk profiles and help HR and operations to find and interview talent around the world. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Along

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a B2B sales alignment platform designed to offer a sales engine marketplace for digital entrepreneurs. The company's platform offers tools for sales cycle management, owning client relationships, and providing information for business agreements, enabling users to access deal information in a single place and manage customer relationships while increasing the sales of the business.

getquin

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Getquin, founded in January 2020 and based in Berlin, Germany, develops an investment software platform that assists users in managing and optimizing their investment portfolios. The application serves as a personalized investment advisor, enabling users to construct tailored ETF portfolios and track their performance across various brokerage accounts. It simplifies the investment process by providing tools for monitoring existing trading accounts and evaluating the performance of selected securities. With a focus on enhancing user experience in navigating the complex financial landscape, Getquin aims to make investing more accessible and efficient for individuals.

Seecares

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Seecares Ltd is a company that has developed a platform aimed at enhancing the real estate investment process. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, with additional offices in New York and Berlin, Seecares generates digital offering memorandums that streamline deal closures for commercial real estate developers and investors. The platform provides web-based investment packages enriched with big-data analysis and external data sources, allowing users to conduct interactive financial analyses. By validating pro-formas through multiple data sources and increasing transparency in the investment process, Seecares facilitates smoother project management, tracking, and comparison, ultimately expediting real estate transactions.

AUCTA

Pre Seed Round in 2020
AUCTA is a Berlin-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in immersive technology solutions for industrial organizations. Its platform enables companies to harness their 3D data, allowing the creation and deployment of 3D instructions accessible on any device, without the need for application installation. AUCTA provides a flexible content management system that integrates easily into existing data infrastructures, offering features such as an admin dashboard, editing and updating options, training exports, link generation, and tracking services. By leveraging its augmented reality technology, AUCTA supports effective training, sales, service, and customer experience, empowering mobile workers to operate efficiently and cost-effectively without the need for extensive programming.

Spotter

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A better way for you and your team to access and work with all your brands images, videos and other creative assets. Spotter is an all-new workplace collaboration app for content-driven work. It centralizes your work and cuts production time in half. Go from assets to campaign to distribution easily. Made for designers, marketers, creative operations and sales. Content coordinators, brand and social media managers. Creative directors, runners – and many (many) more.

Scavengar

Pre Seed Round in 2020
World-Scale Spatial Storytelling & Experience Marketplace

Marine Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are a technology startup from Latvia currently based in Germany. We bridge the innovation gap in the maritime sector speeding up the era of mass automation processes within the logistics industry. To reach this goal we develop a fuel optimization system for vessels aiming to build the best data set in the industry. Backed-up by the APX (Porsche and Axel Springer early-stage VC) and industry companies like Marine Software Solutions (1% of the vessel market) and Unimars Group (25 years of maritime history) we have already started to gain the traction in one of the most closed and old fashioned industries in the world.

ThinkImmo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ThinkImmo UG (haftungsbeschränkt) offers a search engine for real estate investors to find lucrative investments. It offers property listings with return factor and location analysis. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Seashell

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Seashell helps IoT engineering teams reduce complexity throughout the entire lifecycle of their Linux-based connected products. As a turnkey SaaS platform we bring cloud-native concepts and open-source technologies to any company’s edge applications.

Dilecy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Dilecy offers a software tool that enables people to control their personal data at any company. Dilecy automates the process of exercising one's rights under the game-changing GDPR so users can access, delete, and restrict the processing of their data. Users can send automated requests to more than 10,000 companies. The software is free to use and open-source. Due to end-2-end encryption and local storage Dilecy does neither see any content of any data requested nor store it. It was founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany

Yolife

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Yolife’s mission is to help 1 million people add 15 healthy years to their lives. This science-based app is designed to make life-extending easy and accessible. Therefore, Yolife creates an AI-driven personalized health program based on each user's specific areas of improvement: nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress and social life. The app’s lifestyle suggestions are fueled by more than 300 scientific studies and constantly updated.

UNOWN

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Unown is an end-to-end platform for the non-ownership economy. We believe that through leasing, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset. We enable brands to secure their share in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.

GlassDollar

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GlassDollar UG (haftungsbeschränkt) operates a scouting engine that enables pilots between corporates and startups. Its solution analyze sources and data points, collects data about millions of start-ups over time, and processes. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

mietwise

Pre Seed Round in 2019
mietwise offers a simple payments management platform for landlords, property managers and tenants. For existing property management platforms, mietwise also offers an API, allowing partners to directly compete with banks in offering an integrated rental deposit and payments solution. This allows them to better serve new and existing users, in that they are able to offer a seamless end-to-end experience throughout the entire life-cycle of a rental property. For landlords, property managers and tenants, mietwise is a better and faster way to securely manage rental deposits and payments online. Via the mietwise platform, private and small-to-medium sized landlords and property managers are able to easily manage their property portfolio’s rental deposits and payments effectively using their fully digitalised process.

ThisThat

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ThisThat Limited is a company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, that specializes in designing and developing a social polling application. Founded in 2017, the app enables users to ask questions, share opinions, and engage with others through polls. It allows users to follow profiles, facilitating interaction within the community. The app is designed to collect opinions at scale and on demand, making it easy for users to share polls across various social media platforms or via web links, thereby generating a significant number of responses quickly.

treffen

Pre Seed Round in 2019
We believe that PropTech is about people. treffen transforms the coworking experience, offering an affordable human-centric coworking solution for people to interact and get engaged in the real world. We've partnered with leading hospitality brands as our real estate gathering point. Instead of paying rent, we drive foot-traffic of coworkers to hotels’ unused spaces, so they can generate revenue from selling services.

ThisThat

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ThisThat Limited is a company based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, that specializes in designing and developing a social polling application. Founded in 2017, the app enables users to ask questions, share opinions, and engage with others through polls. It allows users to follow profiles, facilitating interaction within the community. The app is designed to collect opinions at scale and on demand, making it easy for users to share polls across various social media platforms or via web links, thereby generating a significant number of responses quickly.

BETAFASHION

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BETAFASHION automates and streamlines the time-consuming process of merchandise planning and allocation and is one of the first B2B SaaS provider to optimise this area for Brands. It automates the entire planning and communication process to be able to allocate always the right product to all retailers (online & offline).

GameBuddy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GameBuddy GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Hamburg, Germany, has developed a gaming application called "Gamebuddy." This platform offers a unique way for gamers to engage in competitive gaming by facilitating interactive challenges that enhance the experience for both players and viewers. GameBuddy enables users to stream gameplay, create personal profiles, and connect with other gamers, all while providing features such as a personalized newsfeed and weekly summaries. The application aims to foster community and interaction among players by allowing them to suggest suitable teammates and stay informed about friends' activities and statistics.

Pukket

Pre Seed Round in 2019
The all is one solution to automatically build and manage brand fans on social media. Pukket enables brands to automatically identify their top customers on social media, onboard them automatically using a chatbot, and engage them through rewards and challenges.

RemoteMore

Pre Seed Round in 2019
RemoteMore IVS provides a platform that connects remote developers with companies that hire remotely. It offers RemoteMore, an online platform that enables developers to find full-time remote jobs and work remotely for companies. The company’s platform also enables companies to hire full-time remote developers and connect with remote developers. Its platform is used by iOS developers, Android developers, Java developers, Python developers, JavaScript developers, .NET developers, PHP developers, companies, and others. RemoteMore IVS was founded in 2017 and is based in Aarhus, Denmark.

Dogo GmbH

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Dogo GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, offers a mobile application designed for dog training. The Dogo app serves as a digital training assistant, helping dog owners enhance their relationship with their pets through structured training programs. By providing accessible training resources, the app aims to facilitate effective communication and bonding between dogs and their owners.

Flow Lab

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Flow Lab is a training application designed to enhance mental and emotional fitness, primarily aimed at individuals seeking to optimize their work performance. Recognizing that mental distractions and emotional distress can hinder productivity, Flow Lab promotes the idea that achieving a state of flow—where individuals can fully utilize their potential while feeling at ease—requires dedicated training of the mind and emotions. The app integrates science-based mindfulness meditation techniques with principles from performance psychology to create personalized training programs. Additionally, it employs gamified interactions and progress tracking to foster long-term motivation, encouraging users to establish a consistent mental fitness routine.