Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The firm is stage agnostic, meaning it invests in companies at various stages of development, from early-stage ventures to those preparing for an initial public offering. GFC focuses on empowering talented entrepreneurs and seeks investment opportunities in sectors such as internet, retail, financial software, media, communication, and information technology. With a global perspective, GFC aims to support innovative companies across all continents.

Oliver Samwer

Co-Founder & Investor

Marc Samwer

Co-Founder & Advisor

Past deals in Seed Stage

StepChange

Seed Round in 2023
StepChange is building a state-of-the-art urban sustainability platform that helps these environmentally conscious consumers to calculate, understand and track their environmental footprints using sophisticated science-based techniques. We guide our users through personalized missions to reduce their environmental impact, provide them with targeted opportunities to financially support best-in-class sustainability projects in their community (tree plantation, carbon capture, etc.) and offer curated access to certified sustainable brands.

Arch

Seed Round in 2023
Arch is a financial technology company that offers loans to alternative asset owners.

Heru

Seed Round in 2022
Heru builds the a community of gig-economy workers and have a suite of services that help improve their way of life and general well-being. The company's mission is to improve the conditions of independent workers by building, through technology, services, and benefits according to their needs and lifestyle.

Pastel

Seed Round in 2022
Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.

Hyperface

Seed Round in 2022
Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that helps companies create and launch their own credit cards.

Ranger Station

Seed Round in 2022
Ranger Station specializes in modernizing home insurance through a digital platform that enhances the capabilities of insurance agents. By offering a range of affordable and quality personal insurance products, Ranger Station aims to ensure the safety and security of households. The proprietary platform empowers agents to better serve their clients by providing essential tools and resources that facilitate education and informed decision-making regarding personal risk management. Through this approach, Ranger Station seeks to build stronger relationships between agents and customers, ultimately fostering a more secure environment for modern families.

Cognote

Seed Round in 2022
Cognote is a vertical AI assistant automating medical documentation for physicians. They use ambient voice recognition and cognotes to aid in reviewing patient visits and making medical decisions.

getmomo

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a digital banking platform designed to simplify the management of rental deposits and rents. The company's platform quickly sets up rental deposits and creates rental accounts without changing their existing software that facilitates digital tenancy contracts, simplifies inventory management, and provides digital claims settlement, enabling landlords to secure rental units in seconds, open accounts with just a few clicks, and spend less time monitoring rent to reduce costs and increase income efficiently.

Parallelz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Parallelz builds a platform that enables anyone to instantly create, and share “impossible” versions of their favorite mobile games.

Posh

Seed Round in 2022
Posh specializes in automating the recycling of electric vehicle (EV) batteries through the use of robotic arms and computer vision technology. The majority of retired EV batteries retain approximately 80% of their original capacity, yet manual disassembly methods, which pose risks due to high voltage and potential fire hazards, are currently the norm. Posh's advanced automation system addresses these challenges by streamlining the disassembly process, making it safer and more efficient. This innovative approach not only enhances the sustainability of battery recycling but also facilitates broader access to affordable lithium-ion batteries, thereby contributing to the establishment of a circular economy in the electric vehicle sector. By 2030, the company anticipates the existence of 30 million retired battery packs, presenting a significant opportunity for resource recovery and environmental stewardship.

Rider

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a logistics platform designed for online sellers in Pakistan. The company delivers e-commerce products from online stores and marketplaces to the customers' doorstep, also provides cash on delivery and cash now, and delivers later service, enabling vendors to receive payments early and deliver goods to their customers on time.

RAPIDFORT

Seed Round in 2022
RapidFort is a cloud native cybersecurity company helping organizations minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads automatically and continuously. What normally takes weeks to months of menial, manual work with mediocre results is done in minutes with RapidFort, producing optimal results. RapidFort's mission is to Secure The Cloud - RAPIDLY, lowering zero-day exploit risks, and freeing developers to build great software instead of addressing vulnerabilities.. RapidFort is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Salary Hero

Seed Round in 2022
Salary Hero allows your employees to get early pay when they need it.

Ivy Homes

Seed Round in 2022
Ivy Homes uses a proprietary algorithm to estimate property prices and offer instant liquidity to homeowners. Ivy Homes making the process of selling a home simple, transparent, and convenient.

Fung Payments

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fung Payments is the regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails.

Zenbase

Seed Round in 2022
Zenbase is a leader in flexible rent payments, and is committed to economic inclusion that fosters financial empowerment for renters. Our solutions improve the financial wellness of renters while improving operational efficiency for property managers. Rent is usually due on the 1st of the month but that doesn’t align with most people’s bi-monthly pay cycle. We’ve fixed that misalignment and provided other financial tools to help level the playing field.

CropSafe

Seed Round in 2022
A simple online platform utilizing satellite imagery to accurately detect and predict impending diseases within your crops, providing relief solutions directly to the landowner.

Virtex Apps

Seed Round in 2022
Virtex Apps, LLC is the creator of Virtex Arena, a multiplayer augmented reality competition hosted by sports teams to engage their fans in new ways. During half-time or other breaks in the sport, a new virtual competition can be started which fans can see on the field/court using an app on their own mobile devices. Audience members all see and interact with the same virtual scene at the same time but from their own perspectives, as though the events were actually happening in front of them. The virtual world provides opportunities for increased advertising/sponsorship revenue, and fans will enjoy an innovative, memorable shared experience that can only occur at the team’s stadium.

Sylndr

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sylndr is an automotive focused e-commerce marketplace bringing innovation to the used-cars market, where customers can reliably and transparently sell and buy used cars. The company is aiming to build trust in the used-car market by becoming the go-to place for customers seeking to sell and buy their cars, through an extensive range of high-quality used vehicles accessible across a diverse set of financing solutions.

Pebble

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of financial software designed to plan personal finance. The company's platform converts clients' cash into USDC, a digital stablecoin backed by traditional reserves of cash and treasuries, and holds cryptocurrencies, enabling users to get options that involve much less risk to deposit their fiat currency into their accounts.

Tranch

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tranch helps businesses pay for invoices through new flexible payment infrastructure. The company offers a checkout experience that allows businesses to choose how they pay for large invoices and put their growth first. Tranch is located in New York City and was founded by Beau Allison and Philip Kelvin in 2021.

Candor

Seed Round in 2022
Candor is a professional network focused on how people work, showing how someone is in Slack, whether they’re a morning person or night owl, and how they like to get feedback.

Voicy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Voicy is the online content platform for discovering, creating and sharing sound-clips and sound-effects on the internet.

Unravel Carbon

Seed Round in 2022
Unravel Carbon is an enterprise software company that focuses on helping businesses in Asia track and reduce their carbon emissions. It offers an AI-driven decarbonization platform that assists companies in measuring, monitoring, and reporting their carbon footprints. The platform converts corporate data into detailed carbon metrics for entire supply chains and automates the creation of climate solutions and regulatory reports. This enables businesses to streamline their decarbonization efforts and enhance their sustainability performance.

Zenos Stadium

Seed Round in 2022
Operator of an e-sports live broadcasting platform intended to host and stream live 3D videos of games to viewers. The company's platform utilizes virtual reality developing skills to create a new virtual world, enabling viewers to watch gameplay live in 3D in the center of a virtual stadium.

R5

Seed Round in 2022
Grupo R5 Ltda operates R5, provides mortgages loans and insurance policy using assets, such as cars and motorcycles as collateral to customers in Bogota, Medellin, Cali, and Bucaramanga. It enables users to buy and provides consulting services online. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Aman

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aman provides modern technology for growing companies to set up and manage their employee benefits, simplifying complexity of benefit administation and delivering a world-class experience. Our platform enables companies to competitively recruit, engage and retain top talents.

Faye

Seed Round in 2022
Zenner Israel help business travelers get to their destination when things go wrong.

Mentum

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a business intelligence and analytics tool intended to help organizations optimize their supply chain process. The company's platform offers customizable dashboards, real-time data visualization, and advanced reporting features, enabling enterprises to effectively analyze and interpret complex data sets, improve operational efficiency, and drive strategic insights.

Atma

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Atma is an Indonesia based social job platform powered by community.

Onyx Private

Seed Round in 2022
Onyx Private is a modern and more accessible private bank for the new generation of young professionals, investors, and entrepreneurs. We offer a premium and digital banking experience with a white-glove concierge service for all your personal finance, wealth and lifestyle needs.

BarRaiser

Seed Round in 2022
BarRaiser plans to help each company create a global standard of interviewing process which is structured, un-biased and keeps candidates’ hiring experience at the centre. BarRaiser's AI powered interviewing platform ensures that every person is given a fair chance during the hiring process. BarRaiser was established in 2020 in Singapore

Kahoona

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of data activation platform designed for the open web for data without compromising privacy or performance. The company's platform leverages first-party data and artificial intelligence to understand users by analyzing their interactions with websites and applications and transforms them into audience segmentation data and actionable insights, enabling clients to reduce CAC (customer acquisition cost) and boost sales.

ChefPrep

Seed Round in 2022
ChefPrep is a food delivery service.

Nelly

Seed Round in 2022
Nelly provides a tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments. It creates the basis for stress-free and clear work in your practice by drastically reducing the administrative effort for doctors, MFAs, ZFAs, and patients with Nelly. 90% of all healthcare professionals perceive bureaucracy and administrative burdens as the biggest problem in the workplace. The company's mission is to reduce the administrative effort in the healthcare sector by simplifying documentation and payment processes in order to make the practice visit more patient- and employee-friendly.

GamerGains Lab

Seed Round in 2022
GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto with confidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement.

Zenda

Seed Round in 2022
Zenda is a fintech app that enables to pay school fees with pay-now and pay-later options, unlocking rewards for paying on time.

Pillar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pillar is an all-in-one mobile platform helping global citizens break down credit borders. Credit histories are siloed from country to country making it hard for the nomads of this world to access new financial products when settling in a new country. Pillar's credit cards are designed for people with little to no credit score, such as expats settling in a new country.

Off Meat

Seed Round in 2022
Off Foods produces plant-based meat that it distributes to various restaurants. Sales of its flagship product – a chicken-like protein called Off Meat – have grown by 10x since its establishment, according to a company statement.

Shaped

Seed Round in 2022
Shaped is a software design firm founded in 2021 and based in New York. The company specializes in developing APIs that enhance content discovery, social feeds, and customer communication. Utilizing deep-learning technology, Shaped's platform incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning to create personalized feeds, notifications, and recommendations for applications and websites. This enables businesses to better understand user engagement and preferences, ultimately driving increased interaction and potential sales.

Grupo Central

Seed Round in 2022
Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.

Integration.app

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Integration.app is a Unified Integration Platform for B2B applications. It saves months of engineering time by helping build native integrations 10x faster.

Luwjistik

Seed Round in 2022
Luwjistik serves as an API bridge between clients and network partners, connecting them directly to the service providers of their choice.

Fit Hub Indonesia

Seed Round in 2022
Fit Hub Indonesia is a Health & Wellness Startup in Indonesia.

Dukkantek

Seed Round in 2022
Dukkantek provides digital transformation services to improve business processes. It offers online solutions to assist with managing and marketing strategies of companies. Dukkantek is based in Dubai, UAE.

Zaapi

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of digital commerce software designed to accelerate operating systems digitally. The company's platform allows to add business details, create inventory, list catalogs, customize online stores and start selling immediately, enabling businesses to grow their e-commerce businesses through their personalized sales channels of small businesses.

Alaan

Seed Round in 2022
Alaan is a multi-currency spend management platform enabling SMEs to digitise their business expenses by providing employees with corporate cards to make company purchases and automating the invoicing process.

Cecil

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cecil develops a natural asset management platform designed to scale a team and business.

Gradient

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Preemo helps AI practitioners develop and deploy AI applications with ease

Savvy Wealth

Seed Round in 2022
Savvy Wealth is a technology-driven wealth management firm with an emphasis on building software for clients and advisors. The company acquires traditional wealth management firms and supercharging with software to make dramatically more efficient and support more clients without adding additional headcount. Savvy Wealth is headquartered in New York, New York and was founded in 2021.

Marvin

Pre Seed Round in 2022
UserFocus is a user research platform that helps companies conduct, organize, and analyze user interviews. The company is on a mission to help companies build better products and services for their customers. It promotes user-centricity by making qualitative data readable, reliable, and accessible to not just product teams but to everyone in the organization.

upflowy

Seed Round in 2022
Upflowy is a platform to build, optimize, and AB tests their lead and signup flow without any code engine.

Mistho

Seed Round in 2022
mistho.io offers the first open payroll API for Europe, that enables consumers to easily access and share their salary and employment information with third parties such as banks, insurance companies, lenders and others at the click of a button. Our goal is to help businesses build the best consumer experiences in the fintech world that require income information. As a first step, we are now enabling businesses to easily integrate the Mistho app into their existing flow for income verification. Remember the last time you searched for a flat to rent, wanted to lease a car or applied for a loan? At some point during your search you were asked to share your last three months of payslips. You probably had to upload them to a platform or send them via e-mail to your agent. In some cases, you might even have needed to ask your HR department to help you out. Mistho helps exactly here - by offering a digital, directly embedded income verification tool that asks the end consumer to do no more than log in to their payroll portal.

Euler Intelligence

Seed Round in 2022
Euler Intelligence provides a master data portal, middle office service robots, enterprise cognitive search, and brand private domain traffic growth solutions. They also provide search analysis services.

Actual

Seed Round in 2022
Actual is a software company that specializes in providing SaaS modeling solutions for large-scale sustainable infrastructure projects. As the demand for sustainable "net-zero" infrastructure rises to combat climate change and accommodate growing populations, the need for a comprehensive understanding of these initiatives becomes crucial. Actual's platform serves as a collaborative tool for stakeholders involved in these projects, integrating various technologies, regulatory frameworks, and financial models. By facilitating the origination and assessment of potential investments, Actual enables stakeholders to gain insights and develop intuition necessary for identifying and advancing viable infrastructure projects efficiently.

NOBI

Seed Round in 2022
Nobi provides a cryptocurrency investment platform designed with multiple product offerings for users worldwide. Its mission is to make it easy for people to own crypto and earn yields. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Jakarta Barat, Indonesia.

PropHero

Seed Round in 2022
Our mission is to make property investment simple, stress-free and data-driven. PropHero helps you find, buy and manage the best investment properties using an online platform and propriertary AI algorithms.

Ethlas

Seed Round in 2022
Ethlas is a free-to-play, play-to-earn decentralized app built on blockchain technology.

Archbee

Seed Round in 2022
Archbee is an information technology company founded in 2019 and based in Delaware, United States. It specializes in providing developer tools focused on enhancing knowledge management and collaboration for engineering teams. The company's platform features a documentation portal that enables users to edit and collaborate on documents, integrate with communication tools like Slack, and manage tasks and challenges effectively. By facilitating real-time information sharing, Archbee supports engineers in their planning and project execution, ensuring that new employees can access vital knowledge and details efficiently.

Swipe

Seed Round in 2022
Swipe is a simple billing and payments app for small businesses. Swipe helps in generating instant GST billings, filing returns, track sales, manage inventory, customers & vendors.

Tiba

Seed Round in 2022
Tiba offers SaaS for small businesses that provides control of sales, inventory, accounts payable and receivable in one place. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of business management. With Tiba's system, users can view data, numbers, make sales, manage stock and people easily and from anywhere.

Rino

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rino delivers everything from favorite snacks to shaving cream, detergent, deodorant, and Whenever the customer wishes, wherever they are, instantly the groceries get delivered within minutes.

Tiba

Seed Round in 2022
Tiba offers SaaS for small businesses that provides control of sales, inventory, accounts payable and receivable in one place. The company aims to eliminate the complexity of business management. With Tiba's system, users can view data, numbers, make sales, manage stock and people easily and from anywhere.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
SO-COL is a platform where creators and fans can connect like never before. They are the bridge between web2 social channels and the shiny new web3. But better. And easier.

Truck It In

Seed Round in 2022
Truck It In is a logistics technology company aimed at streamlining road freight operations in Pakistan. Its platform serves over 3.3 million businesses, providing a connection between shippers and truckers. By offering access to a reliable fleet of trucks at competitive prices, Truck It In facilitates instant load bookings and ensures back-haul load availability. The platform automates the delivery tracking process, thereby enhancing efficiency within the logistics industry and unlocking significant resource potential.

Neura Health

Seed Round in 2022
Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

Baly

Seed Round in 2022
Baly is the taxi/car booking application. Baly also provides food and grocery delivery services.

Kula

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kula is a recruitment automation platform built to enable hyper-growth companies to build massive talent pipelines on autopilot.

AppX

Seed Round in 2022
AppX is a developer of mobile applications that enables social media creators to launch their own personalized apps. Initially focused on educational creators, the company has expanded its services to include gaming and fitness creators as well. Through its platform, AppX allows users to customize their applications by selecting user interfaces and features, as well as entering specific application details. This empowers creators to monetize their audiences through courses and premium content, facilitating a new revenue stream while enhancing their engagement with followers.

HeyRenee

Seed Round in 2022
HeyRenee is the personal health concierge, everyone, especially those managing chronic illnesses and conditions, has wanted and needed. The patient-centric HeyRenee platform is designed to consolidate, coordinate, communicate and connect all aspects of medical care. Through long-sought data integration with healthcare providers, the platform endeavors to eventually help all Americans, the underserved especially, connect with their entire healthcare team and relieve the burdens of appointment scheduling, in-home visits, prescription medication administration to Telehealth and remote patient monitoring, and more

Skyven Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Skyven Technologies specializes in providing innovative solar thermal solutions for industrial and commercial heat applications. The company focuses on decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries by capturing waste heat to generate clean, emissions-free steam. By adopting a tech-driven approach, Skyven Technologies aims to facilitate industrial decarbonization through an energy-as-a-service model that finances and mitigates risks associated with capital projects. This strategy enables commercial and industrial facilities to produce green energy while significantly lowering costs and reducing carbon emissions linked to process heat.

Legacy Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Legacy Labs is a game studio on a mission to empower players. We build great games that offer ownership without sacrificing the fun.

AnFin

Seed Round in 2022
AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology and strategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.

Aigen

Seed Round in 2022
Aigen provides a robotics service platform to improve soil health. With a focus on providing better data and direct action for farmers.