NFQ
They see ourselves as the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs” and they take a very hands-on approach to investing. They strongly believe that the key to successful investing lies not just in finding the next outstanding internet brand – but in helping to create it. They focus on later-stage growth phases but do also seed and incubation stages. Additionally to our investment, they are supporting the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 400+ development specialists delivering company-building services including strategy, engineering, operational scaling, recruiting, business development, product delivery, and product marketing. NFQ invests globally and across industries into companies which scale through a technology.
NFQ has offices in Europe and San Francisco.
22 past transactions
Tourlane GmbH
Seed Round in 2017
Tourlane GmbH operates an online travel consulting and booking portal. The company’s platform connects travelers with the travel specialists world-wide. It allows individuals and groups to affordably plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online. Its software offers real time pricing, availability, instant trip visualization, and drag-and-drop adjustments. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
eHealth MediDate GmbH
Series A in 2015
An excess of unused surgery capacity in healthcare leads to inefficient medical treatments & high costs. Medidate works with clinics and surgeons, using existing infrastructure more efficiently to offer premium medical treatments at better prices. Clinics are freed of the administrative tasks preceding surgery, such as initial consultation, billing and appointment as well as surgery coordination. Doctors use Medidate as an platform to access patients and pre-organised surgery capacity.
Raus
Seed Round in 2022
Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
Trade Machines FI GmbH
Venture Round in 2016
TradeMachines understands how difficult it is to trust in used machinery. They work with trustful industrial auctioneers and renowned machinery traders to ensure you receive the best connection between the two. Industrial auctions are a popular possibility to find great bargains when it comes to used machinery. In these industrial auctions potential buyers find used equipment of companies who became insolvent or who decided to get rid of a selection of their machines. But industrial auctions are not the only way how to find the right used machines for cheap prices. Machinery traders list their offers on TradeMachines as well. As a result of the extensive offer of used machines, it is much easier and less time consuming to the find right offer.
Kyte
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Kyte’s mission is to offer the most compelling and most customer-centric way to get a car for consumers on top of fully virtualized cloud fleet ecosystem.
dahmakan
Seed Round in 2017
Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.
The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowest delivery costs in the industry.
Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
GetYourGuide
Seed Round in 2012
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. The company offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Berlin, Germany with additional offices in North America and Europe.
Productpine
Seed Round in 2021
Making D2C efficient.
At Productpine, we believe in a world in which brands are able to interact directly with consumers at all times. Productpine’s mission is to save brands up to 75% of the costs and time when marketing and selling their products directly to consumers. Productpine has built a single D2C commerce platform that lowers the customer acquisition cost of brands through a combination of platform economics and software.
Shipbob Inc.
Series A in 2016
Shipbob Inc. develops an online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates shipment services from FedEx, UPS, and USPS; and offers pickup, packaging, warehousing, and batch fulfillment services. The company also provides ShipBob, a smartphone application that enables users to schedule pick-ups; and a tracking number that allows users to track their shipments. Shipbob Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It has a warehouse in Dallas, Texas.
dahmakan
Seed Round in 2018
Pop Meals is a food delivery service that utilizes artificial intelligence in logistics and cooking automation.
The company combines centralized, large-scale production with customer data, machine learning and the chefs in the industry to offer food delivery experience. It applies artificial intelligence to last-mile delivery offering the lowest delivery costs in the industry.
Dahmakan was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Shipbob Inc.
Series A in 2016
Shipbob Inc. develops an online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates shipment services from FedEx, UPS, and USPS; and offers pickup, packaging, warehousing, and batch fulfillment services. The company also provides ShipBob, a smartphone application that enables users to schedule pick-ups; and a tracking number that allows users to track their shipments. Shipbob Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It has a warehouse in Dallas, Texas.
Lemoncat GmbH
Seed Round in 2016
It all started with a passion. Passion for good food. Good food in the office everyday life.
With much experience and expertise, Doreen Huber founded a marketplace for business catering in Berlin in 2016: LEMONCAT
Joblift GmbH
Series A in 2017
Joblift is a meta-search platform providing job seekers with the most intuitive and frictionless experience during the recruiting process. They apply latest machine learning techniques and big-data based algorithms in order to offer their users matching job vacancies that truly matter to them.
Dreamlines
Series A in 2012
Dreamlines USA, LLC offers cruise booking packages and services. The company offers cruise deals to various cruise lines such as Carnival Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America Line, MSC Cruises, Oceania Cruises, Princess Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and Royal Caribbean. Dreamlines USA, LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Lemoncat GmbH
Venture Round in 2017
It all started with a passion. Passion for good food. Good food in the office everyday life.
With much experience and expertise, Doreen Huber founded a marketplace for business catering in Berlin in 2016: LEMONCAT
Fleet Logistics, Inc.
Seed Round in 2016
Previously known as Shipstr, Fleet is efficiently streamlining the commercial shipping industry through a cloud-based platform. Fleet provides a cloud-based platform that businesses can use to book transportation for international freight.
Fleet is the first platform to address the needs of shippers moving commercial freight overseas. Fleet provides instant quotes, improved decision making by showing provider lead times, ratings and reliability, direct access to all of the service providers, and a team room to communicate directly with service providers for status and view shipping documents.
Board.live
Seed Round in 2019
Accept.inc is a mortgage company that allows buyers to make a cash offer on the next home using the company's cash.
The company helps home buyers lock down a house with an all-cash offer. Cash buyers are four times more likely to win in a bidding war and often save tens of thousands off of a property’s purchase price compared to those with mortgages. Looking to be a cash buyer for the 80% of people who need a mortgage, by approving people for massive loans and then making 2% off the mortgage.
Accept.inc was founded in 2016 by Nick Friedman, Adam Pollack, Ian Perrex, and Nate Gruendemann and is based in Denver, Colorado.
DreamCheaper GmbH
Seed Round in 2015
DreamCheaper, a service that searches for cheaper hotel rates and rebooks a room on behalf of guests. The platform works by encouraging previously booked guests to email their reservation to the site. It then scours rates on more than 100 other booking sites and wholesalers – if it finds a cheaper rate it will rebook the guest, taking a 20% fee from the saving made.
Tourlane GmbH
Series A in 2018
Tourlane GmbH operates an online travel consulting and booking portal. The company’s platform connects travelers with the travel specialists world-wide. It allows individuals and groups to affordably plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online. Its software offers real time pricing, availability, instant trip visualization, and drag-and-drop adjustments. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
StyleLounge
Venture Round in 2016
StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest.
If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourself with a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part!
GoStudent
Series A in 2020
GoStudent sells memberships for a global school connecting students with world-class teachers in a 1-1 virtual learning setting. GoStudent builds infrastructure for teachers allowing them to focus on the teaching part and everything else being taken care of. The screening, onboarding and maintaining of teachers is data driven and gives them a 2-year advance against possible competition. Their model is scalable in every country globally since it does not depend on local curriculum and content generation. Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Vienna in Austria.
