Cusp Capital

Cusp Capital, established in 2021 and headquartered in Essen, Germany, is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in European software and technology companies. The firm focuses on fast-growing, market-disrupting businesses, with a track record of over €600 million invested in successful companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, and Klarna. Cusp Capital's team, with extensive experience in the technology ecosystem, seeks to back 25 to 30 startups per fund, with an investment horizon of 6 to 7 years.

Johannes Behringer

Principal

Julian Elsässer

Investor

Matthias Muller

Partner and Investor

Matthias Müller

General Partner

Simon Rathke

Investor

Maximilian Rowoldt

Investor and General Partner

Matteo Stegner

Investor

Mauritz Wicke

Investor

Daniel Zakowski

CFO

19 past transactions

LIBEEN Smart Housing

Venture Round in 2025
LIBEEN Smart Housing is a real estate startup focused on making homeownership accessible and affordable, particularly for millennials. The company utilizes a Smart Housing model that allows individuals to use their monthly rent towards purchasing a fully renovated and furnished home in urban centers. LIBEEN streamlines the home-buying process by enabling users to find properties that match their preferences and requirements, facilitating the entire transaction online without the need for banks, appraisers, notaries, or extensive paperwork. This innovative approach aims to simplify and enhance the experience of buying a home, making it more flexible and achievable for potential homeowners.

Meight

Venture Round in 2024
Meight is a company that focuses on leveraging data to enhance driving efficiency and reduce environmental impact. It has developed a platform that forecasts fuel costs and CO2 emissions, providing a detailed digital representation of trucks, including their fuel consumption patterns and driving behaviors such as acceleration and braking. This platform collects unstructured data to deliver insights that help drivers operate more efficiently. Additionally, Meight offers driver training and onboarding services to improve workflow management and integrates with supply chain processes. By doing so, the company enables its clients to increase profitability and scale their operations while contributing to safer and less polluted living environments.

Recyda

Series A in 2024
Recyda is a developer of software designed to assist multinational companies in managing their packaging portfolios effectively within the framework of a circular economy. The company's all-in-one solution enables users to analyze recyclability on a country-specific basis, understand eco-modulated extended producer responsibility fees, and navigate the complexities of packaging recyclability. By centralizing information related to collection, sorting, and recycling, Recyda's software facilitates collaborative project management and provides essential insights into local legislation and waste management systems. This comprehensive approach supports brand owners, retailers, and packaging producers in quickly assessing the recyclability of packaging during sales and development processes, thereby promoting sustainable practices across the packaging value chain.

HERO Software

Series B in 2024
HERO Software provides cloud-based solutions aimed at enhancing office efficiency through digitization. Their platform enables companies to streamline their project management processes from initial contact through implementation and invoicing. Key features of the HERO app include customer and project management, appointment scheduling, construction site documentation, and task management, all designed to support field operations and client visits. The software helps businesses manage the entire order-processing cycle, monitor project progress, and handle planning and invoicing, ultimately improving communication and operational efficiency.

Acto

Seed Round in 2024
Acto is a SaaS software provider that caters to B2B sales leaders. The company leverages artificial intelligence to automate data analytics, providing valuable insights to sales teams about potential risks and opportunities in account management. Acto's platform is designed to enhance the performance of sales teams and drive business growth. It links all data in one place and proactively informs teams about sales opportunities and risks in their customers. This eliminates the need for lengthy searches in Excel reports and allows for a more streamlined and efficient sales process.

VIDA

Venture Round in 2023
VIDA is an impact management software that enables companies to track their impact. Through their software, they plan, monitor, and manage the distributed operations. They help businesses and organizations across a variety of industries bring a data-led approach to their goals.

Fixably

Seed Round in 2023
Fixably is a Finland-based software as a service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Helsinki. It specializes in providing a comprehensive service management system tailored for Apple Authorized Service Providers. The software simplifies the repair service workflow by integrating all necessary tools for technicians and repair shops. This includes features for managing service orders, internal resources, monetary transactions, logistics, and customer communications, while ensuring compliance with Apple’s requirements. By combining practical repair expertise with robust software solutions, Fixably enhances operational efficiency for its clients in the repair industry.

Taclia

Venture Round in 2023
Taclia is a company that specializes in providing digital solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to streamline their operations. It develops an internal tool that facilitates the management of daily business activities, encompassing a wide range of functions such as service and task creation, employee timekeeping, customer relationship management, estimates and billing, inventory management, cost control, and geolocation. Additionally, Taclia offers a facilities management platform that enables service companies to centralize their operations, allowing them to efficiently hire, manage, and track maintenance and repair tasks and associated expenses in real-time. This comprehensive suite of tools is designed to enhance productivity and optimize service delivery for its clients.

Mainteny

Seed Round in 2023
Mainteny is a technology company focused on empowering small and medium-sized facility management companies by providing innovative software solutions. Its platform offers a range of tools designed to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement. Key features include digital assistance, predictive maintenance, and the digitization of maintenance processes and workflows. By equipping facility management companies with these advanced technological resources, Mainteny aims to help them remain competitive in the market and drive revenue growth.

CarbonCloud

Series A in 2023
CarbonCloud is a software-as-a-service platform that specializes in helping the food industry calculate and understand its carbon emissions in real time. Founded in 2019 as a research spin-off from Chalmers University of Technology, the company combines expertise from climate researchers and technology professionals to provide innovative solutions for food and beverage producers and retailers. Its platform allows users to quickly establish emissions baselines, aggregate and visualize emissions data across their portfolios, and assess climate-related performance across supply chains. By enabling stakeholders to set meaningful climate targets and take informed actions, CarbonCloud aims to facilitate significant progress in mitigating climate change within the complex food value chain, from production to consumption.

Immerok

Seed Round in 2022
Immerok is a company dedicated to enhancing the experience of building, running, and supporting Apache Flink in the cloud. Founded in 2022, it offers a fully managed cloud service that specializes in real-time stream processing applications, allowing developers to harness the power of real-time decision-making and automation. With a team of experts in Apache Flink, Immerok aims to empower companies to remain at the forefront of innovation by providing scalable and efficient solutions for stream processing.

RealPort

Venture Round in 2022
RealPort is a digital investment platform focused on providing regulatory-compliant opportunities in sustainable infrastructure assets for small institutional investors and private wealth capital. The platform facilitates passive capital participation, addressing the mezzanine and secondary capital needs of asset owners. By offering flexibility in ticket sizes, it allows investors to access diverse private market investment opportunities across various geographies and sectors. RealPort prioritizes transparency within the sustainable investment landscape while aggregating access to experienced environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment managers. This enables institutional investors to diversify their portfolios through single-asset investments and streamlined, cost-efficient transaction processes.

HERO Software

Series A in 2022
HERO Software provides cloud-based solutions aimed at enhancing office efficiency through digitization. Their platform enables companies to streamline their project management processes from initial contact through implementation and invoicing. Key features of the HERO app include customer and project management, appointment scheduling, construction site documentation, and task management, all designed to support field operations and client visits. The software helps businesses manage the entire order-processing cycle, monitor project progress, and handle planning and invoicing, ultimately improving communication and operational efficiency.

LIBEEN Smart Housing

Seed Round in 2022
LIBEEN Smart Housing is a real estate startup focused on making homeownership accessible and affordable, particularly for millennials. The company utilizes a Smart Housing model that allows individuals to use their monthly rent towards purchasing a fully renovated and furnished home in urban centers. LIBEEN streamlines the home-buying process by enabling users to find properties that match their preferences and requirements, facilitating the entire transaction online without the need for banks, appraisers, notaries, or extensive paperwork. This innovative approach aims to simplify and enhance the experience of buying a home, making it more flexible and achievable for potential homeowners.

Fixably

Seed Round in 2022
Fixably is a Finland-based software as a service (SaaS) company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Helsinki. It specializes in providing a comprehensive service management system tailored for Apple Authorized Service Providers. The software simplifies the repair service workflow by integrating all necessary tools for technicians and repair shops. This includes features for managing service orders, internal resources, monetary transactions, logistics, and customer communications, while ensuring compliance with Apple’s requirements. By combining practical repair expertise with robust software solutions, Fixably enhances operational efficiency for its clients in the repair industry.

Hivebuy

Seed Round in 2022
Hivebuy is an enterprise-wide procurement-to-pay solution designed to simplify the procurement process for businesses. The platform allows users to create, submit, and track purchase requisitions while offering an intuitive approval workflow that enhances communication and saves time. With features such as a centralized database for managing supplier information, integrated catalogs for easy ordering, and real-time monitoring of procurement processes, Hivebuy enables organizations to improve operational efficiency. Additionally, the platform supports budget tracking and spend analysis, providing businesses with the tools necessary to manage their procurement activities effectively.

audvice

Seed Round in 2021
Audvice is an audio-based learning and collaboration platform that enables companies to harness the power of voice messages for effective information sharing among teams, partners, and customers. Recognizing the widespread popularity of audio content, Audvice allows users, ranging from executives to trainees, to easily record, edit, and organize voice messages into structured playlists. This functionality supports various business needs, including employee onboarding, internal communications, sales enablement, and training. The platform's AI-driven capabilities facilitate the creation of private podcasts from audio, video, or text, ensuring that knowledge is easily accessible regardless of location or schedule. Companies such as Red Bull and ADAC have adopted Audvice to enhance their onboarding processes, briefings, and follow-ups, making communication more engaging and efficient.

CarbonCloud

Seed Round in 2021
CarbonCloud is a software-as-a-service platform that specializes in helping the food industry calculate and understand its carbon emissions in real time. Founded in 2019 as a research spin-off from Chalmers University of Technology, the company combines expertise from climate researchers and technology professionals to provide innovative solutions for food and beverage producers and retailers. Its platform allows users to quickly establish emissions baselines, aggregate and visualize emissions data across their portfolios, and assess climate-related performance across supply chains. By enabling stakeholders to set meaningful climate targets and take informed actions, CarbonCloud aims to facilitate significant progress in mitigating climate change within the complex food value chain, from production to consumption.

SIDES

Series A in 2021
SIDES is a Berlin-based startup that offers cloud software specifically designed for the restaurant industry, including restaurant chains, ghost kitchens, and individual businesses. The company has developed a comprehensive restaurant management system that streamlines various processes, such as marketing, customer orders, shift planning, procurement, warehousing, delivery services, and payment processing. By integrating these functions into a single platform, SIDES enables restaurants to simplify their operations and focus on delivering quality services to their customers, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the rapidly evolving on-demand service market.
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