NCA

Next Commerce Accelerator is a multi-corporate, multi-industry-focused innovation network, startup acceleration program and investment fund. Next Commerce Accelerator offers a startup acceleration program. Together with our 20+ corporate partners, we are an innovation network and early-stage investment fund that empowers founders to succeed. Test drive business models, develop a product-market fit and establish the basis for scalable growth.

Thorsten Wittmuetz

Managing Partner and CEO

48 past transactions

AI Bob

Seed Round in 2025
AI Bob offers architects a digital assistant that automates the review process of blueprint models and quickly provides answers to questions related to building regulations.

ginkgo

Pre Seed Round in 2025
ginkgo is the digital platform for holistic compensation packages starting with company pension plans (bAV).

Immofolia

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Immofolia is a software firm that provides property accounting solution for property management companies.

Mietz

Venture Round in 2024
Mietz is an automated rental platform that streamlines the leasing process for both tenants and landlords through digital process optimization. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the efficiency and speed of finding and renting living spaces. By offering a fully digital and real-time experience, Mietz aims to simplify the rental journey, ensuring that apartment seekers and landlords can connect quickly and securely. The platform also emphasizes data encryption and compliance services, providing a safe and reliable environment for all users involved in the rental process.

progile

Seed Round in 2024
Autonomous Testing with Zero Flakiness. The TrueTest Technology and our AI-based virtual user makes it possible for the first time to test autonomously across software, system, and technology boundaries from a user perspective with the same approach. We simplified automated testing massively and reduced time radically. With it, the automation and maintenance effort is reduced to a minimum: zero flakiness and the enlightening feeling of being in control of your automation and test scenarios. It's not about buzzwords and being one of the cool kids. Our mission was to solve the daily problems of test automation. And that's what we did. OUR TECHNOLOGY Stop losing your time on tasks automation should have eliminated The power of TestResults.io lies in its core, the TrueTest technology. It includes Visual Matching, Visual Sense, and Codified Expertise. Visual Matching Identifies elements in a technology-agnostic way through image convolution, text detection, and our unique ReverseOCR Visual Sense Identifies interaction position without hints to solve flakiness with spatial algorithms and automatic candidate selection. It doesn’t matter if the label is outside or inside, above, left from the field or anywhere else. It doesn’t matter if the position changes in a responsive layout. Visual Sense, always knows what label is related to which field. Codified Expertise Knows how to interact with elements through autonomous interactions and automatic verification.

MERSOR

Seed Round in 2023
MERSOR is an online platform for gifting – selling happiness through unique gifts and joyful gift management

Tryp.com

Seed Round in 2023
Tryp.com is an AI-driven travel platform designed to simplify the booking of multi-destination trips. By integrating various modes of transportation, including planes, trains, and buses, alongside hotel accommodations, the platform provides users with curated travel packages that cater to their preferences regarding layovers, flight schedules, and pricing. This approach enables travelers to efficiently find substantial discounts and personalized travel inspiration without the need to manually compare numerous offers. Through its innovative use of artificial intelligence, Tryp.com aims to enhance the travel experience, making it easier for users to plan and enjoy their journeys.

Fintico

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fintico offers an Embedded Lending Platform to merchants so their customers can choose the best way to finance a purchase: with the best interest rates and the best bank brands. Merchants benefit through a higher conversion rate, driven by a superior UX and high acceptance rates. Banks benefit from access to a wide network of merchants and the ability to win new customers. The Hamburg-based Fintech was founded in 2022 by Jan Lettow and Michael Heuer.

Tryp.com

Seed Round in 2022
Tryp.com is an AI-driven travel platform designed to simplify the booking of multi-destination trips. By integrating various modes of transportation, including planes, trains, and buses, alongside hotel accommodations, the platform provides users with curated travel packages that cater to their preferences regarding layovers, flight schedules, and pricing. This approach enables travelers to efficiently find substantial discounts and personalized travel inspiration without the need to manually compare numerous offers. Through its innovative use of artificial intelligence, Tryp.com aims to enhance the travel experience, making it easier for users to plan and enjoy their journeys.

Tyles

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tyles is a software startup that helps users harness information more efficiently and effectively. The startup allows high-performing professionals to build up critical knowledge at the highest speed possible. It currently functions as a modular note-taking tool, making it extremely simple to save information from any app, such as browsers, PDF files, or presentations, and keep yourself organized without friction.

Quin AI

Seed Round in 2022
Quin AI is a generative behavioral AI platform that focuses on enhancing revenue and customer engagement for online businesses. It offers a real-time visitor insight deep learning platform that transforms digital customer behavior data into actionable insights. By leveraging deep learning and first-party data, Quin AI's technology predicts real-time visitor behavior, allowing businesses to make informed marketing decisions. This approach enables clients to optimize their online presence and engage customers more effectively, ultimately leading to increased revenue.

Vinlivt

Seed Round in 2022
Vinlivt is a financial sales application focused on retirement provision and the management of prosperity. The company develops retirement homes for retirees and offers a comprehensive platform that simplifies financial advice. Its application integrates saving, investing, and hedging functionalities, allowing users to manage their financial activities effectively. Vinlivt also includes a sales hub, contract management, and a content platform called VinHub. Additionally, it features a secure messenger service that facilitates communication between users and financial experts, enabling the safe exchange of data. The overall aim of Vinlivt is to help users control their expenses by connecting bank accounts and ensuring optimal insurance protection.

Mietz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mietz is an automated rental platform that streamlines the leasing process for both tenants and landlords through digital process optimization. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to enhance the efficiency and speed of finding and renting living spaces. By offering a fully digital and real-time experience, Mietz aims to simplify the rental journey, ensuring that apartment seekers and landlords can connect quickly and securely. The platform also emphasizes data encryption and compliance services, providing a safe and reliable environment for all users involved in the rental process.

Perkio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Perkio provides essential information to spark healthy dialogues, collective rewarding experiences, retro, make data-driven change, and improve wellbeing while keeping personal data anonymize services.

Offsetted

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Offsetted is a climate technology startup focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through artificial intelligence and process mining. The company aims to eliminate at least 1% of global emissions annually by providing organizations with data-driven carbon reduction plans. Offsetted offers a comprehensive platform that includes carbon accounting and ESG reporting, enabling businesses to become net zero. Additionally, the company features a B2B marketplace for decarbonization solutions, allowing businesses to access various strategies to manage and offset their ecological footprints. By equipping organizations with tools to monitor and analyze their environmental impact, Offsetted promotes sustainability while enhancing customer loyalty and sales through informative metrics and marketing strategies.

Fleksa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fleksa is a comprehensive digital platform aimed at enhancing the online presence and operational efficiency of restaurants. It offers an AI-powered website and mobile app builder that allows restaurants to create a fully branded online presence optimized for search engines, improving visibility and customer engagement. The platform features a commission-free ordering and reservation system, enabling customers to place orders directly through the restaurant's site without incurring third-party fees. Additionally, Fleksa provides a cloud-based POS system that integrates order management, reservations, payments, and customer data across devices. To modernize the dining experience, it incorporates QR code ordering and payment options, allowing customers to access menus and settle bills from their mobile devices. Fleksa also includes automated marketing tools, such as email and SMS campaigns, along with loyalty programs to foster customer retention. Furthermore, its integration with Google’s Food Ordering service enhances discoverability and accessibility, empowering restaurants to manage operations efficiently while increasing revenue through a direct, commission-free model.

matched.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Matched.io is a human resource platform that specializes in connecting developers with innovative companies through a sophisticated job matching system. Utilizing graph-based self-learning algorithms, the platform evaluates job requirements and developer skills, ensuring a high compatibility between candidates and positions. By considering various factors such as target skills, professional goals, and cultural fit, matched.io streamlines the hiring process, enabling companies to identify suitable developers more efficiently and at a reduced cost. This approach not only simplifies recruitment but also enhances the overall quality of matches made between talent and organizations.

yamuntu

Angel Round in 2021
Yamuntu operates an online retail platform that facilitates connections between retailers and their customers, enabling the creation of nano brand ambassadors. The platform allows users to order products, such as shoes, at attractive discounted prices. Customers can easily share their purchases on social media, including platforms like Instagram, while earning cashback rewards through PayPal. This innovative approach not only helps customers save money but also enhances their shopping experience by consolidating multiple offerings in a single location.

GoroData

Seed Round in 2021
GORODATA is a sales intelligence platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to uncover business-to-business buying signals. By collecting and organizing data, GORODATA provides valuable insights that help businesses identify potential opportunities and make informed decisions. The platform's advanced algorithms and machine learning capabilities streamline the data analysis process, enabling organizations to improve conversion rates and reduce customer acquisition costs. This comprehensive approach assists companies in gaining a competitive edge in their respective markets.

IntoYou

Seed Round in 2021
INTOYOU is a mobile application designed to help consumers test, monitor, and enhance their health while significantly reducing costs. The platform aims to unify health data from various sources, allowing users to monitor their overall health, immunity, and energy levels from the comfort of their homes. By providing personalized insights, INTOYOU empowers individuals to take control of their health and make informed decisions regarding their well-being.

Etvas

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Etvas GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany, operates an online marketplace focused on connecting providers of value-added services with businesses seeking to enhance their customer offerings. The platform aims to foster diversity and empathy in customer interactions by streamlining the sourcing, contracting, and integration of these services. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Etvas enhances user experience, allowing businesses to save time and effort, ultimately facilitating a quicker integration process and contributing to increased revenue.

Ruuky

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ruuky is a German neobank tailored specifically for Generation Z, aiming to provide a social interactive banking experience. The company offers both virtual and physical debit Mastercard options, facilitating seamless transactions. Ruuky's payment platform includes a smart saving assistant that personalizes financial insights based on individual income and expenses. This feature empowers users to take charge of their financial well-being while enabling quick money transfers with a single click. With a vision for European expansion, Ruuky seeks to redefine banking for a younger generation by integrating social interaction and innovative financial tools.

BERLIN GREEN

Seed Round in 2020
We bring nature home - with the unity of technology, design, and craftsmanship. Grow anything you want, all year round. Smart and modular Indoor Gardens. Nominated to the German Design Award 2020.

KOALA

Seed Round in 2020
KOALA is the retail industry's solution to an easy mobile checkout. It is the merchants' data warehouse and is integrated with current checkout systems. Customers use their smartphones at the point of sale for self-scanning and mobile payments.

Crumb

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Crumb is an online healthcare application that aims to enhance daily physical activity by rewarding users for their movements with incentives from various stakeholders, including gyms, employers, and brands. Recognizing that a significant percentage of deaths are linked to preventable diseases, Crumb encourages moderate daily activity as a means to improve overall health. The application tracks users' daily activities, such as steps taken or stairs climbed, and summarizes this information to help them visualize their progress toward achieving their goals. By aligning user activity with relevant products and services, Crumb promotes consistent physical activity and fosters a healthier lifestyle.

Nextsale

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Nextsale is a sales promotion platform designed to enhance website sales through social proof and urgency. The platform allows businesses to showcase testimonials, inform visitors about website activity, and encourage purchases by displaying previous orders. It also helps retain potential customers by presenting promotional campaigns when they exhibit exit intent. Additionally, Nextsale provides customizable popups for collecting emails and SMS numbers, and offers free shipping upsell promotions to drive sales. By integrating these features, Nextsale aims to convert visitors into customers effectively.

Prodisfy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
At prodisfy, They’re reinventing after-sales & product interactions by reducing friction to zero. their product assistant helps users to manage products & get things done smoothly. For brands, They build a full-stack platform that digitizes their after-sales processes by enabling all stakeholders incl. field service technicians & consumers.

Opushero

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Opushero operates a recruitment platform designed to address staff shortages by providing qualified short-term workers, particularly for the hotel industry. The platform offers a streamlined solution for companies and recruitment agencies, allowing them to access workers from various sectors, including catering. Opushero emphasizes an open, transparent, and ethical approach, which fosters strong relationships and high levels of repeat business. Clients can evaluate potential staff based on specific criteria such as punctuality, appearance, and commitment, ensuring they find the right support for their needs in a single, efficient location.

Perkspotting

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Perkspotting is a bespoke reward and benefits platform. Its mission is to empower employees and give them the autonomy to pick and choose their own perks. The company believes that forward-thinking employers can go beyond one-size-fits-all benefits packages and offer highly personalized benefits, tailored to the individual needs of their staff members.

Inga.

Seed Round in 2019
Inga is a developer of a recruitment platform that leverages performance marketing, chatbots, and machine learning to enhance the hiring process. The company's software enables employers to transform passive job seekers into active candidates through targeted online advertising. By attracting individuals who may not be actively searching for jobs, Inga's technology facilitates their engagement through sophisticated recruiting chatbots that conduct automated interviews. This process not only informs candidates about job criteria but also helps recruiters efficiently compare candidates within the database. Inga's platform continually optimizes the advertising display using machine learning, making it a cutting-edge solution in the recruitment industry.

Roamlike

Pre Seed Round in 2018
At Roamlike, hosts of vacation rentals find everything that is important for the furnishing and operation of their vacation rental at the best price – from the couch to the coffee machine. They will get the best prices or even free products because they expose brand products to their guests. Roamlike has created a unique in-home communication infrastructure to make travelers aware of brand products in the accommodations.

Utry.me

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Utry.me is an online grocery platform that enables members to try new products at no cost for their first experience. The platform features a diverse and continually expanding selection of items, allowing users to explore various products while filling their shopping carts. This approach not only benefits consumers by introducing them to new offerings but also provides product creators with an opportunity to reach potential customers. By facilitating this trial process, Utry.me fosters a dynamic marketplace that connects consumers with innovative products.

BasicButler

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BasicButler UG is an online subscription-based retailer specializing in men's wear, including T-shirts, pants, socks, and undergarments. Founded in 2017 and based in Kiel, Germany, the company provides a curated selection of apparel from well-known brands, catering to various styles such as sporty, classic, and casual. BasicButler's subscription service not only focuses on comfort but also incorporates fashionable insights, allowing customers to enjoy stylish options suitable for sports, leisure, and business. By offering a diverse range of products at reasonable prices, BasicButler meets the needs of modern consumers seeking convenience and quality in their wardrobe choices.

Localyze

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Localyze is a global mobility platform that specializes in relocation management for companies and their international employees. The platform offers an all-in-one software solution designed to streamline the entire relocation process, addressing critical areas such as visa arrangements, insurance, banking, and cultural integration. Localyze provides a personalized dashboard for each employee, displaying tailored information and next steps relevant to their unique circumstances. This approach allows companies to efficiently manage the relocation process by keeping track of the status of various aspects for all international employees. By simplifying bureaucracy and offering comprehensive support, Localyze enables businesses to facilitate smoother transitions for employees moving to new countries.

TourScanner

Pre Seed Round in 2018
TourScanner is a specialized meta-search engine focused on tours and travel activities. It allows travelers to explore a wide range of offers from various websites, enabling them to compare prices and find the best options for their needs. The platform aggregates information on thousands of excursions, sports classes, city tours, cooking classes, museums, and shows, facilitating an efficient booking process. By streamlining the search for travel activities, TourScanner empowers travelers to make informed decisions and secure ideal experiences at competitive prices.

Koop

Seed Round in 2018
Koop is the worldwide first business network for independent construction companies. We connect companies and facilitate project cooperation, trade and knowledge sharing! Koop provides independent construction companies with specialised content, group purchasing discounts and software tools that empower construction companies to work independent, financially strong & digitally fit for the 21st century! Cooperativism enables companies to increase their market power by working together. Especially craft and construction companies have been using this business model for decades. Koop brings this concept into the digital era, enabling cooperation above regional borders by using most recent technologies to create a SME-friendly user experience! Creating immediate benefits for construction companies through digital software is hard, especially since 90% of their revenue requires hard manual labor! That is why we partnered up with craft associations, manufacturers, wholesalers, startups and media partners to provide our users with the content about BIM / Digitization / Recruiting, valuable discounts and tools to increase brand reach. These partnerships also allow us to offer Koop free-of-charge for our users. We receive a flat 5% commission for every purchase made with one of our partners! We do not share or sell any of our users data with our partners! We hold ourself strictly accountable by German GDPR requirements and do not allow any kind of advertisement on our platform! Don't believe us? Check it out and register now on www.JoinKoop.com

Gasido

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Gasido GmbH is a B2B platform based in Munich, Germany, specializing in the purchase of industrial gases. Founded in 2017, the company offers a comprehensive range of gases, including technical, medical, food, and specialty gases, as well as liquid nitrogen and dry ice. Gasido caters to various sectors, serving welders, metalworkers, restaurateurs, medical practices, and medium-sized manufacturing companies. The platform allows customers to obtain gases directly and around the clock, providing access to locally available standardized products at transparent prices. Notably, gasido's services are utilized by a significant portion of DAX 40 enterprises, highlighting its role in the industrial gas market.

Whelp

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Whelp, Inc. is an AI-powered customer support software as a service (SaaS) solution that enables businesses to manage customer interactions across various channels, including voice, SMS, email, and social media. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the company caters to call centers, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, and sales teams in diverse sectors such as airlines, healthcare, education, insurance, banking, and retail. Whelp's platform integrates traditional and modern customer support channels into a single interface, allowing organizations to adopt a personalized approach to customer service, ultimately enhancing customer satisfaction and driving sales growth.

MateCrate

Seed Round in 2017
MateCrate is a comprehensive provider of esports tournament organization, specializing in the creation and management of both national and regional competitions. The company has collaborated with notable entities like Ubisoft and kicker, and has developed its own initiatives, including the UNITED Pro Series, a professional tournament series for CS:GO. Additionally, MateCrate is equipped with a professional studio that produces high-quality gaming and esports content. Their offerings include live on-stage tournaments with cash prizes, ensuring a secure environment for participants and enhancing the overall gaming experience for enthusiasts.

FORWARD

Pre Seed Round in 2017
With our innovative transporting network and intelligent algorithms, we make short-hauling simple for shippers and carriers of all kinds. Shippers benefit from guaranteed transport capacity, a built-in tracking & tracing solution as well as automatically generated proofs of deliveries. Carriers manage and grow their business through the FORWARD app. Renew your thinking on short-haul trucking and improve daily processes with us.

Movemates UG

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Movemates is an on-demand logistics marketplace for short-hauling. We are bringing together carriers and shippers of all kinds. We make metropolitan logistics simple, transparent and digital.

sleekcommerce

Seed Round in 2017
sleekcommerce develops cloudbased e-commerce solutions. Our product sleekshop is a fullstack-backend with integrated e-commerce api for creating user-experience driven e-commerce solutions, for any device, with any programming language.

Prelovee

Seed Round in 2017
Prelovee is THE place to be for secondhand fashion. The search engine for secondhand fashion within a fragmented market full of single items
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