New Forge

New Forge is a business angel investor and startup accelerator based in Solingen, Germany, founded in 2019. The firm focuses on supporting early-stage business-to-business technology startups, guiding them through a rapid development process to transition from initial ideas to successful market-ready products. By facilitating growth and providing essential resources, New Forge aims to bridge the gap between concept and commercialization for its portfolio companies.

Alexander Hochgurtel

Partner and Managing Director

Rico Hochgürtel

Partner and Managing Director

Mirko Novakovic

Partner

Raphael Weiner

Partner

11 past transactions

Stargazr

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Stargazr specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based financial data forecasting software aimed at enhancing the decision-making capabilities of finance teams. Its innovative platform analyzes, measures, and predicts financial and operational metrics, allowing companies to grasp the financial implications of their decisions. By integrating predictive analytics and sentiment analysis, Stargazr's solution provides insights into both internal performance and external influences, enabling organizations to identify key value drivers and optimize their operations. This comprehensive approach empowers finance departments to make informed decisions that can significantly impact their overall performance.

Morgen

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Morgen is a time management platform that simplifies the scheduling process by integrating multiple calendars and task management tools into a single application. As the complexity of time management increases, Morgen addresses this challenge by offering a holistic solution that allows users to plan, organize, and optimize their schedules effectively. The platform combines various calendar systems and communication channels, enabling users to manage all events, tasks, lists, and reminders in one place. With its native scheduling tool, Morgen helps individuals and teams reduce meeting chaos and streamline their daily activities, making time management more efficient and less fragmented.

HiveMQ

Series A in 2022
HiveMQ specializes in providing a robust MQTT broker platform that facilitates the secure and reliable transfer of data from devices to the cloud. Their technology is designed to handle real-world demands, making it ideal for critical applications across various industries, including automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, and transportation. With a clientele that includes over 100 customers, many of which are Fortune 500 companies, HiveMQ supports mission-critical use cases such as connected cars and IoT products. The platform emphasizes flexibility, security, and scalability, empowering architects and developers to effectively manage and communicate IoT data.

ONVY

Seed Round in 2022
Predictive health - powered by AI. The world's first AI Health Coach - linked to more than 500+ health and wellness data integrations. ONVY is a venture-backed HealthTech startup fusing multiple health & wellness data integrations for a holistic approach to digital health - powered by AI. Conversational AI and Generative AI work in tandem and are connected to all users' current health and wellness data. A personal AI Health Coach continiously translates data insights into actionable feedback, enabling a new era of personalized, proactive, preventive and predictive health management. With its two B2B divisions, "AI-Health-Coach-as-a-Service" and "Prevention-as-a-Service", ONVY HealthTech Group enables digital health and wellness players to enter a new era of customer personalization and offers highly personalized prevention in corporate health and InsurTech. ONVY applies machine learning methods for clustering, classification and regression of biometric time series data, learning from relevant patterns and correlations between user digital biomarkers (320+ wearable integrations), behavioral data, environmental data, nutritional data, demographic factors and more.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2022
Codesphere Inc. is a company that specializes in providing a cloud platform designed to enhance software innovation. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Germany, Codesphere offers an online code editor, GitOps, and collaborative cloud services. Its platform allows users to code and run web applications directly from their browsers without the need for configuration, facilitating teamwork on distributed full-stack TypeScript projects. The company focuses on simplifying the development process through automatic deployments, scaling, testing, and comprehensive security and privacy audits, aiming to streamline the coding experience and optimize every detail for its users.

ArangoDB

Series B in 2021
ArangoDB GmbH, founded in 2014 and based in Cologne, Germany, specializes in a cloud-based multi-model NoSQL database designed for developers and architects. The company's flagship product, ArangoDB, is a distributed, open-source database that supports a versatile data model encompassing documents, graphs, and key-values. This flexibility allows users to efficiently develop high-performance applications using a SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. ArangoDB's native multi-model database is tailored for enterprise use, promoting fast and effective application development while addressing diverse data requirements.

Aifora

Seed Round in 2021
aifora GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Düsseldorf, Germany, develops a platform aimed at understanding and predicting consumer behavior, primarily for retail companies. The company’s software provides solutions that include price optimization and stock management, addressing aspects such as delivery splits, optimal order quantities, and inventory oversight across merchandise categories. aifora emphasizes the importance of the data-sharing economy by making data accessible and actionable for brands and retailers, enabling informed business decisions and enhancing consumer experiences. Utilizing deep learning algorithms, the platform offers targeted pricing, promotions, and merchandise flow strategies to influence customer behavior effectively. Additionally, aifora's intelligent automation reduces repetitive tasks, allowing merchandisers to concentrate on product innovation and improving customer experience.

Stargazr

Seed Round in 2021
Stargazr specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based financial data forecasting software aimed at enhancing the decision-making capabilities of finance teams. Its innovative platform analyzes, measures, and predicts financial and operational metrics, allowing companies to grasp the financial implications of their decisions. By integrating predictive analytics and sentiment analysis, Stargazr's solution provides insights into both internal performance and external influences, enabling organizations to identify key value drivers and optimize their operations. This comprehensive approach empowers finance departments to make informed decisions that can significantly impact their overall performance.

HiveMQ

Seed Round in 2021
HiveMQ specializes in providing a robust MQTT broker platform that facilitates the secure and reliable transfer of data from devices to the cloud. Their technology is designed to handle real-world demands, making it ideal for critical applications across various industries, including automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, and transportation. With a clientele that includes over 100 customers, many of which are Fortune 500 companies, HiveMQ supports mission-critical use cases such as connected cars and IoT products. The platform emphasizes flexibility, security, and scalability, empowering architects and developers to effectively manage and communicate IoT data.

Earthly Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Earthly Technologies, Inc. operates an open-source platform that focuses on build automation for the post-container era. The company has developed a tool that enables users to execute builds within containers, create Docker images, and generate various output artifacts, including binaries, packages, and arbitrary files. The platform supports parallel execution and allows for the importation of dependencies from different directories. Earthly is designed to complement existing build systems rather than replace them, serving as a connective layer that enhances functionality. Users can run Earthly on personal laptops, integrate it into their current continuous integration setups, or utilize it across clusters through Earthly Cloud Build. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Earthly Technologies aims to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of software builds.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2020
Codesphere Inc. is a company that specializes in providing a cloud platform designed to enhance software innovation. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Germany, Codesphere offers an online code editor, GitOps, and collaborative cloud services. Its platform allows users to code and run web applications directly from their browsers without the need for configuration, facilitating teamwork on distributed full-stack TypeScript projects. The company focuses on simplifying the development process through automatic deployments, scaling, testing, and comprehensive security and privacy audits, aiming to streamline the coding experience and optimize every detail for its users.
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