Capnamic Ventures

Capnamic Ventures Management GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Germany, specializing in early-stage investments in technology and consumer-oriented businesses across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Founded in 2013, the firm focuses on sectors such as digital infrastructure, adtech, martech, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and e-commerce, among others. Capnamic Ventures typically invests between €0.5 million and €3 million in initial funding rounds, with total investments in a portfolio company reaching up to €6 million over its lifecycle. The firm prefers minority shareholdings and engages in both lead and co-investments. With a history of over 70 investments, Capnamic has achieved more than 30 successful trade sales and 13 IPOs, leveraging its extensive network of institutional and corporate investors to support its portfolio companies. The general partners of Capnamic Ventures include Jörg Binnenbrücker, Olaf Jacobi, and Christian Siegele.

Jorg Binnenbrucker

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Frederik von Bossel

Investment Manager

Franz Diekmann

Investment Manager

Jason Grüninger

Investment Analyst

Olaf Jacobi

Managing Partner

Benjamin Kleinschnitz

Investment Manager

Christian Knott

Partner

Alexandra Kurmulis

Investment Manager

Markus Merz

Investment Analyst

Niklas Raberg

Investment Manager

Christian Siegele

Founder and Managing Partner

Past deals in Berlin

Lumiform

Series A in 2022
Developer of a digital audit and inspection platform designed to provide end-to-end monitoring services. The company's platform helps its users to create smart checklists to make observations and corrective actions, enabling companies to simplify and track quality and safety assurance through digital checklists, smart checks, and instructions.

FreshFlow

Seed Round in 2022
Freshflow is a company focused on developing a food supply chain management platform aimed at grocery retailers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Freshflow optimizes inventory management for fresh products, helping retailers minimize stock-outs and shrinkage. This technology not only enhances profitability for retailers but also addresses the pressing issue of global food waste. Additionally, Freshflow's solutions contribute to reducing carbon emissions in the supply chain, ultimately making fresh food more affordable and accessible to consumers.

Reverse.supply

Seed Round in 2022
Reverse.supply offers a white-label recommerce platform that enables brands to facilitate the return and resale of used items directly through their own online stores. This service allows companies to enter the second-hand market while maintaining control over their brand image and customer experience. By integrating logistical support into their platform, Reverse.supply simplifies the operational complexities associated with resale, allowing brands and retailers to enhance their sustainability efforts without the burden of managing the intricacies of the resale process. This approach helps businesses maximize the lifecycle of their products and engage customers in a more sustainable manner.

Sharpist

Series A in 2022
Sharpist GmbH, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, has developed an online platform focused on coaching and professional development. The platform offers a range of services including video coaching, personalized exercises, micro-tasks, and evaluations. It aims to facilitate individual coaching for professional growth, enabling companies to implement executive coaching at scale across their workforce. By providing tools for goal setting and expert chat, Sharpist helps professionals engage more effectively in their career development.

Circula

Series A in 2022
Circula GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing application software for travel and employee expense management. The company's platform is designed to digitize and simplify the expense reporting process, adhering to European tax standards. Through its mobile and web applications, Circula facilitates real-time expense invoicing, creating a seamless experience for users, including road warriors, accountants, and managers. By providing an intuitive solution for managing individualized expenses, Circula aims to streamline the complexities often associated with travel and expense reporting, ensuring compliance and efficiency for its clients.

Cleverly

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an educational platform designed to support schoolchildren and their parents. The company's platform is a marketplace to find, connect, and offer tutors for all subjects and grade levels, enabling parents to help their children develop the personality, academic, and personal skills they need to lead a professional life later.

Circula

Seed Round in 2021
Circula GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing application software for travel and employee expense management. The company's platform is designed to digitize and simplify the expense reporting process, adhering to European tax standards. Through its mobile and web applications, Circula facilitates real-time expense invoicing, creating a seamless experience for users, including road warriors, accountants, and managers. By providing an intuitive solution for managing individualized expenses, Circula aims to streamline the complexities often associated with travel and expense reporting, ensuring compliance and efficiency for its clients.

Unu

Venture Round in 2021
unu GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design, development, and sale of electric scooters. The company launched its first product, the unu electric scooter, in the summer of 2014, aiming to provide a stylish, emission-free, and user-friendly urban mobility solution. unu GmbH offers various financing options and after-sales support services to enhance customer experience. Its products are available through both retail outlets and online channels, reflecting the company's commitment to connecting people with urban life.

HiPeople

Seed Round in 2021
HiPeople makes it easy to collect in-depth candidate insights at scale. Gather rich insights, and make better hiring decisions. With HiPeople you can seamlessly request, collect, and analyze candidate reference checks.

Buena

Series A in 2020
Home HT GmbH develops a property management mobile application for landlords. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

HiPeople

Pre Seed Round in 2020
HiPeople makes it easy to collect in-depth candidate insights at scale. Gather rich insights, and make better hiring decisions. With HiPeople you can seamlessly request, collect, and analyze candidate reference checks.

Statice

Seed Round in 2019
Statice is a data privacy company that facilitates complex and professional data analysis using privacy-preserving technologies. With the current abundance of information and increasing data privacy concerns and regulations, the company helps companies to truly unlock the hidden value of their data.

Circula

Seed Round in 2019
Circula GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing application software for travel and employee expense management. The company's platform is designed to digitize and simplify the expense reporting process, adhering to European tax standards. Through its mobile and web applications, Circula facilitates real-time expense invoicing, creating a seamless experience for users, including road warriors, accountants, and managers. By providing an intuitive solution for managing individualized expenses, Circula aims to streamline the complexities often associated with travel and expense reporting, ensuring compliance and efficiency for its clients.

Unu

Series B in 2018
unu GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design, development, and sale of electric scooters. The company launched its first product, the unu electric scooter, in the summer of 2014, aiming to provide a stylish, emission-free, and user-friendly urban mobility solution. unu GmbH offers various financing options and after-sales support services to enhance customer experience. Its products are available through both retail outlets and online channels, reflecting the company's commitment to connecting people with urban life.

Fatmap

Funding Round in 2018
FATMAP is an Outdoor Adventure Platform that brings together consumers with businesses, destinations and brands. Their advanced 3D mapping technology, outdoor community and curated adventure guidebook is used by top professionals and outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy better, safer adventure.

Tausendkind

Venture Round in 2018
Tausendkind GmbH operates an online store based in Berlin, Germany, specializing in children's clothing and accessories. Founded in 2010, the company offers a wide range of products, including shirts, pullovers, pants, dresses, swimwear, shoes, and toys, catering to the needs of babies and young children. In addition to fashion, Tausendkind provides essential domestic items such as bathing products, sleeping bags, and nursing pillows. The store features a curated selection of gifts for various occasions, including baptisms and holidays, ensuring that customers can find suitable items for children at different price points. Tausendkind also emphasizes customer support, offering advice on children's fashion and practical accessories that assist families in their daily lives. The company operates as a subsidiary of Droege Group AG.

Lana Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Lana Labs GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in process mining software through its flagship product, LANA. This software enables organizations to continuously monitor and enhance the efficiency of their value chains by utilizing a machine learning algorithm for automated root cause analysis. LANA identifies patterns and optimization potentials in business and production processes, providing users with customizable dashboards for data visualization. By offering automated analyses, Lana Labs aims to assist companies in becoming smarter, more efficient, and quicker in their operations.

Learnship

Venture Round in 2018
Learnship Networks GmbH specializes in providing professional online foreign language training services, utilizing a proprietary distance learning technology to modernize traditional face-to-face training. The company offers a variety of courses, including comprehensive and business language programs, special purpose courses, and relocation language training, all delivered through its innovative Live Teaching Method, which fosters interactive learning in a virtual classroom setting. Learnship's curriculum covers multiple languages, such as English, German, French, Spanish, and Mandarin, among others. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including IT, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and telecommunications, serving customers in over 75 countries and approximately 2,000 corporations worldwide. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Cologne, Germany, Learnship also has locations in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Basel, London, and Chicago, emphasizing its commitment to enhancing international business communication skills for organizations and their employees.

Wundertax

Series A in 2017
Wundertax GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in providing online tax return filing and related services. The company aims to simplify the tax process for individuals and businesses by offering an accessible platform that facilitates the preparation and submission of tax returns. Through its digital services, Wundertax seeks to enhance the user experience in tax compliance, ensuring that clients can efficiently manage their tax obligations.

CrossEngage

Venture Round in 2017
CrossEngage GmbH is a Berlin-based company that offers a cross-channel marketing cloud solution designed to enhance customer engagement and loyalty for digital marketers. Established in 2015, the company provides a platform that integrates customer data with campaign management capabilities, allowing marketing managers to orchestrate campaigns across various channels such as email, real-time advertising, onsite messaging, and push notifications. By creating comprehensive user profiles and enabling segmentation based on sociodemographic and historical purchase data, CrossEngage facilitates personalized communication, helping clients deliver consistent and relevant messages to their target audiences. The company also addresses the challenges of uncoordinated marketing efforts, promoting a streamlined approach to cross-channel communication. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, CrossEngage operates an office in London, serving a growing market of digital marketers in Germany and beyond.

Contiamo

Venture Round in 2017
Contiamo GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in a SaaS analytics solution that consolidates data from diverse sources into a single platform. Its primary offering, the Contiamo Data Hub, serves as a central repository for various data use cases, allowing users to integrate, explore, and access data efficiently. This platform addresses the common challenges faced by enterprises, where data is often siloed across legacy systems and cloud environments, leading to frustrations among business users and data scientists due to slow access. Contiamo's solution enhances data accessibility while providing enterprise-scale access management and security. Additionally, the company collaborates with clients to develop tailored data science solutions, leveraging its team's expertise in data engineering and project management to deliver actionable insights that facilitate informed decision-making within existing infrastructures.

Unu

Series A in 2017
unu GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design, development, and sale of electric scooters. The company launched its first product, the unu electric scooter, in the summer of 2014, aiming to provide a stylish, emission-free, and user-friendly urban mobility solution. unu GmbH offers various financing options and after-sales support services to enhance customer experience. Its products are available through both retail outlets and online channels, reflecting the company's commitment to connecting people with urban life.

Zeotap

Series B in 2017
Zeotap GmbH is a customer intelligence platform that assists brands in understanding their customers and predicting their behaviors, which enables more effective investments in customer relationships and products. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Zeotap combines identity and profile data from exclusive enterprise partners with a comprehensive technology platform for unifying first-party customer data, identity resolution, third-party data enrichment, and analytics. The company emphasizes data privacy and security, adhering to strict governance and compliance measures, and holds certifications such as ISO 27001 and CSA STAR. Zeotap serves over 70 of the top 100 global brands, including Unilever, BBVA, and Mercedes-Benz, and has expanded its operations to locations such as New York, Bengaluru, Madrid, and Milan. With a workforce of 145 employees, Zeotap has raised more than $45 million from international investors.

CrossEngage

Seed Round in 2016
CrossEngage GmbH is a Berlin-based company that offers a cross-channel marketing cloud solution designed to enhance customer engagement and loyalty for digital marketers. Established in 2015, the company provides a platform that integrates customer data with campaign management capabilities, allowing marketing managers to orchestrate campaigns across various channels such as email, real-time advertising, onsite messaging, and push notifications. By creating comprehensive user profiles and enabling segmentation based on sociodemographic and historical purchase data, CrossEngage facilitates personalized communication, helping clients deliver consistent and relevant messages to their target audiences. The company also addresses the challenges of uncoordinated marketing efforts, promoting a streamlined approach to cross-channel communication. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, CrossEngage operates an office in London, serving a growing market of digital marketers in Germany and beyond.

Fatmap

Seed Round in 2016
FATMAP is an Outdoor Adventure Platform that brings together consumers with businesses, destinations and brands. Their advanced 3D mapping technology, outdoor community and curated adventure guidebook is used by top professionals and outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy better, safer adventure.

CrossEngage

Seed Round in 2016
CrossEngage GmbH is a Berlin-based company that offers a cross-channel marketing cloud solution designed to enhance customer engagement and loyalty for digital marketers. Established in 2015, the company provides a platform that integrates customer data with campaign management capabilities, allowing marketing managers to orchestrate campaigns across various channels such as email, real-time advertising, onsite messaging, and push notifications. By creating comprehensive user profiles and enabling segmentation based on sociodemographic and historical purchase data, CrossEngage facilitates personalized communication, helping clients deliver consistent and relevant messages to their target audiences. The company also addresses the challenges of uncoordinated marketing efforts, promoting a streamlined approach to cross-channel communication. In addition to its headquarters in Berlin, CrossEngage operates an office in London, serving a growing market of digital marketers in Germany and beyond.

Zeotap

Series A in 2015
Zeotap GmbH is a customer intelligence platform that assists brands in understanding their customers and predicting their behaviors, which enables more effective investments in customer relationships and products. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Zeotap combines identity and profile data from exclusive enterprise partners with a comprehensive technology platform for unifying first-party customer data, identity resolution, third-party data enrichment, and analytics. The company emphasizes data privacy and security, adhering to strict governance and compliance measures, and holds certifications such as ISO 27001 and CSA STAR. Zeotap serves over 70 of the top 100 global brands, including Unilever, BBVA, and Mercedes-Benz, and has expanded its operations to locations such as New York, Bengaluru, Madrid, and Milan. With a workforce of 145 employees, Zeotap has raised more than $45 million from international investors.

Unu

Seed Round in 2015
unu GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in the design, development, and sale of electric scooters. The company launched its first product, the unu electric scooter, in the summer of 2014, aiming to provide a stylish, emission-free, and user-friendly urban mobility solution. unu GmbH offers various financing options and after-sales support services to enhance customer experience. Its products are available through both retail outlets and online channels, reflecting the company's commitment to connecting people with urban life.

The ADEX

Series A in 2015
The ADEX GmbH provides a data management platform for advertisers, publishers, and agencies. It offers its platform for data-protection requirements; automated collection, analysis, evaluation, segmentation, management, and activation of big data and structures; and enrichment of own data with the help of third party data. The ADEX GmbH was formerly known as The AdExchange GmbH. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany with office locations in Hamburg, Germany; London, United Kingdom; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Singapore. As of January 25, 2017, The ADEX GmbH operates as a subsidiary of virtual minds Aktiengesellschaft.

Tausendkind

Venture Round in 2015
Tausendkind GmbH operates an online store based in Berlin, Germany, specializing in children's clothing and accessories. Founded in 2010, the company offers a wide range of products, including shirts, pullovers, pants, dresses, swimwear, shoes, and toys, catering to the needs of babies and young children. In addition to fashion, Tausendkind provides essential domestic items such as bathing products, sleeping bags, and nursing pillows. The store features a curated selection of gifts for various occasions, including baptisms and holidays, ensuring that customers can find suitable items for children at different price points. Tausendkind also emphasizes customer support, offering advice on children's fashion and practical accessories that assist families in their daily lives. The company operates as a subsidiary of Droege Group AG.

Adjust

Series C in 2014
Adjust is a global app marketing platform that specializes in providing solutions for measurement, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and marketing automation. Established within the mobile app economy, the company operates 16 offices worldwide and serves approximately 40,000 applications. Its platform combines attribution for advertising sources with in-depth in-app analytics and store statistics, delivering valuable insights into app performance, rankings, ratings, and reviews. This comprehensive approach allows advertisers and agencies to automate and streamline multi-channel campaign management for mobile user acquisition. Leading brands, such as Procter & Gamble, Rocket Internet, and Tencent Games, utilize Adjust's services to enhance their marketing strategies and secure their investments. In 2019, Adjust achieved significant recognition in the European market by securing one of the largest funding rounds, raising nearly $230 million.

Adjust

Series B in 2013
Adjust is a global app marketing platform that specializes in providing solutions for measurement, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, and marketing automation. Established within the mobile app economy, the company operates 16 offices worldwide and serves approximately 40,000 applications. Its platform combines attribution for advertising sources with in-depth in-app analytics and store statistics, delivering valuable insights into app performance, rankings, ratings, and reviews. This comprehensive approach allows advertisers and agencies to automate and streamline multi-channel campaign management for mobile user acquisition. Leading brands, such as Procter & Gamble, Rocket Internet, and Tencent Games, utilize Adjust's services to enhance their marketing strategies and secure their investments. In 2019, Adjust achieved significant recognition in the European market by securing one of the largest funding rounds, raising nearly $230 million.
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