Investitionsbank Berlin

Investitionsbank Berlin, a business development bank, offers loan-based and investment-oriented forms of financing along with grant programs to small and medium-sized enterprises, large companies, start-ups, universities and research institutions, founders, and companies in difficulty in Berlin. It offers solutions for investment and working capital, order pre-financing, investment financing, internationalization, coaching, and venture capital, as well as technology, research, and development projects. The companies also provides low-interest loans for landlords, investors, municipal housing companies, associations, individual home owners, and home owner communities for new construction, as well as to purchase properties or projects, and modernize and refurbish existing properties with a view to energy-related and barrier-reducing measures. Investitionsbank Berlin was formerly known as Wohnungsbau-Kreditanstalt Berlin and changed its name to Investitionsbank Berlin on January 1, 1993. The company was founded in 1924 and is based in Berlin, Germany.
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Andreas Bissendorf

MD

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Johannes Lischke

Head of Money and Capital Markets, Investor Relations

49 past transactions

clous

Grant in 2020
clous GmbH designs and develops CAD-design software solutions. It offers nails.engine, a software that enables companies to decompose and distribute their engineering tasks locally; clous.platform, a tool that distributes engineering tasks, data exchange, communication, and later also contracting and payment; and clous.community, a tool for community consists of freelancers and service providers and is curated, supervised, and skilled by clous. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

outsmart.ai GmbH

Grant in 2019
outsmart.ai GmbH develops software robots for automation of document-heavy processes. The company offers intelligent process automation platform workist. It offers AI workers, software robots for automating manual processes, such as registration of orders in SAP, forwarding of incoming e-mails to the correct department, and processing of customer inquiries. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

ZAPITANO

Venture Round in 2012
Zapitano was a social TV startup from Berlin. The company went bankrupt in eary 2014. ZAPITANO offered a completely new interactive TV experience. While watching TV, viewers could login to ZAPITANO via a second screen device, such as a Laptop, Smartphone or Tablet-PC. They could then check into TV-Shows, talk about it with their friends, comment on TV-Stars, vote for their favourite TV-show and more.

INHUBBER

Pre Seed Round in 2019
INHUBBER is a SaaS Contract Lifecycle Management platform based on Blockchain and AI. INHUBBER simplifies contracts, making them comprehensible, interactive and easy to manage. It reduces the time, costs and risks associated with negotiating, creating, approving and managing contracts. Founded in 2018 from an R&D project, INHUBBER received two competitive grants and evolved into a software company specializing in cloud-based Contract Management and digital signature solutions. In its MVP, INHUBBER offers a digital signature, a repository and an audit trail at the highest security level. The use of blockchain saves costs, increases transparency, compliance, and security.

Deep Neuron Lab

Grant in 2021
Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.

Covert Science

Grant in 2018
Stealth Startup

INHUBBER

Seed Round in 2021
INHUBBER is a SaaS Contract Lifecycle Management platform based on Blockchain and AI. INHUBBER simplifies contracts, making them comprehensible, interactive and easy to manage. It reduces the time, costs and risks associated with negotiating, creating, approving and managing contracts. Founded in 2018 from an R&D project, INHUBBER received two competitive grants and evolved into a software company specializing in cloud-based Contract Management and digital signature solutions. In its MVP, INHUBBER offers a digital signature, a repository and an audit trail at the highest security level. The use of blockchain saves costs, increases transparency, compliance, and security.

sofatutor GmbH

Series B in 2012
sofatutor GmbH, an edtech company, owns and operates an online learning platform for K-12 pupils and students in Europe. It offers sofatutor.com, an online platform that provides video lessons, practice problems, worksheets, and homework chat for students. The company’s website provides courses and videos in German, mathematics, primary school, English, physics, chemistry, biology, and other subjects. It serves students, teachers, and parents in Germany and internationally. sofatutor GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Upvest GmbH

Grant in 2020
Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the best investments, at the best prices and execution speed.

omni:us

Seed Round in 2016
With omni:us, insurers can develop their own modules with the omni:us Platform and quickly deploy AI into their processes using the Cognitive Claims Kit (CCK), which tackles specific use cases throughout the claims value chain. Document intake, digital claims, coverage check and beyond are enhanced and accelerated by leveraging cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision techniques. Importantly, omni:us creates an environment where both human and machine complement each other in a thriving hybrid workflow. The omni:us Suite sits efficiently on top of legacy software, and requires no inhouse AI/data science expertise to operate. omni:us is proud to count Allianz, Baloise, and AmTrust among its clients. The company is headquartered in Berlin, with a research partnership in Barcelona and representations in the UK, France and the United States. For further information visit omnius.com

Smart Host GmbH

Debt Financing in 2020
Smart Host is a CRM system that connects all guest-relevant information from your PMS and other sources in one place. This data is used for highly targeted, automated newsletter suggestions. Your backoffice can launch those campaigns (100% GDPR compliant) in minutes and in multiple languages. You can track the success of these campaigns down to the level of each and every booking generated. Smart Host: one tool, returning guests, more bookings.

Lition Energie

Seed Round in 2021
Lition Energy is an marketplace that connects renewable energy prodcuers and consumers directly. It is a governmental-licensed electrecity provider in Germany. It supplies over 10.000 households with electricity and gas and currently growing by over 100 customers a day.

Babbel

Seed Round in 2008
Learn a language like you've always wanted to

LiveEO GmbH

Series B in 2022
LiveEO is a real-time earth observation application that makes use of the synergies of EO data and geolocation services. The company uses satellite imagery to deliver innovative infrastructure monitoring in the verticals railway, electricity, and pipelines and empowers the operators to save in operational expenses by observing dangers from vegetation, height changes, and third party interactions along the network.

Thermondo

Series D in 2017
Thermondo promote the energy transition with innovative heat solutions.Directly to the customer, providing superior energy products. Thermondo is a an integrated energy company offering state-of-the-art energy efficiency services. Thermondo became the largest installer of heating solution in Germany applying digital process excellence and quality management. They believe in deep vertical integration in order to achieve market disrupting quality and an outstanding customer experience.

Lofelt GmbH

Grant in 2016
Lofelt GmbH designs develops, and manufactures a music bracelet that works alongside headphones. The company offers haptic technology device for use in gaming, AR, VR, automobile, consumer electronics, toys, medical, and entertainment industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Teraki

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Teraki GmbH develops software solutions for scaling of Insurance, predictive maintenance, and autonomous driving applications by enabling access to more qualitative data. Its software enables to fulfil low-latency SLAs required by the end-user and ultimately to adapt key KPIs such as cost-per-mile at the highest precision and lowest latency. The software also enables automotive insurance (UBI), predictive maintenance, fleet management and AD applications to perform in high volume, production series. It also offers crash detection, and autonomous driving services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Expertcloud.de

Venture Round in 2013
expertcloud.de GmbH operates as an virtual and online call center. The company provides the service for its employees to work from home and offer the customer’s service through calls, emails, and live chat. expertcloud.de GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

clipkit

Grant in 2015
With an overall reach of 250 million marketable premium video views per month in Germany and Turkey, clipkit is one of the largest and fastest growing independent online video marketers in Europe. With the combined forces of their video syndication technology, their own video player technology and a huge video library clipkit builds new video reach every day and brings together advertisers, publishers, and video producers. The clipkit GmbH was founded by Cengiz Kurz (Managing Director) and Werner Vollert in October 2008 in Coburg, Germany. Since August 2009 their headquarter has been based in Berlin. By today, they employ a team of 55 in the fields of ad sales, publisher acquisition, content & licensing, product management, support, and IT. Following Berlin, new offices have been opened in Frankfurt, Cologne, Istanbul and Porto. They are experts for online video distribution and marketing. clipkit knows the demands of big video owners and publishers as well as the needs of specialized video producers and website editors. Through a long history and variety of online video campaigns they have a great understanding for advertisers and their wish for the best possible content and context. clipkit is constantly developing the future of online video advertising and content syndication with an integrated approach.

viasto GmbH

Venture Round in 2017
viasto GmbH develops and delivers a video interviewing solution for a range of industries and companies. The company offers interview suite, a video interview and assessment tool that enables recruiters get impression of their candidates’ specific skills and competencies. The company also use psychologically valid selection processes to evaluate and find the match for the role, team, and company. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Returbo GmbH

Grant in 2013
Returbo GmbH owns and operates an online retail store for returned goods. Returbo GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of October 21, 2016, Returbo GmbH is in liquidation. As of January 23, 2017, Returbo GmbH operates as a subsidiary of home24 SE.

Mashero

Venture Round in 2013
The importance of targeting will increase significantly in the future. They are convinced. Because it allows companies targeted one-to-one communication, thus increasing the advertising consumer acceptance. They provide Their customers with the Web application that they can use their online advertising investments more efficiently and effectively. Simple, flexible and resource-saving. They pay for Their software products to technical excellence and superior quality. And stand on a user-friendly operation, in terms of customer needs in the foreground and technical aspects in the background.

3YOURMIND GmbH

Grant in 2019
3YOURMIND GmbH develops industrial 3D printing software platform. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany with additional offices in San Francisco, California and Wroclaw, Poland.

Outfittery

Series A in 2013
OUTFITTERY’s mission is to take the pain out of shopping for men – as an online version of the “personal shopping”. Our personal style experts put together two or three outfits for each of our customers based on their preferences and personality from a range of top brands. Each customer is served and advised personally after a first online contact and an (optional) phone call. We keep the range of clothes constantly up to date by looking for the most interesting men´s fashion brands and the best items of popular designers worldwide. Our service is free and the individually selected items are sent to our customers free of charge. Customers only pay for the pieces that they want to keep in their wardrobe and feel comfortable in. OUTFITTERY today is the pioneer and market leader in curated shopping for men in Europe, shipping to eight countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Sweden and Denmark).

Aroundhome

Grant in 2014
Aroundhome is a online broker for household products and services.

synergist.io

Seed Round in 2016
Synergist.io is used by procurement departments, commercial teams, and alternative legal service providers to execute high-volumes of recurring contracts with minimal effort. It provides a centralized and transparent workflow that is optimized for negotiating contract terms -- the most tedious and unpredictable step in the process. Users can manage increasing volumes of contracts required to onboard suppliers or close new business, all with minimal involvement from legal. They’re guided step-by-step through the process and are empowered to negotiate where necessary, within safe boundaries and using terms that have been pre-approved by their legal team.

Fyber

Private Equity Round in 2010
Fyber is a global technology company, developing a next-generation monetization platform for mobile publishers.Fyber combines proprietary technologies and expertise in mediation, RTB, video and audience segmentation to create holistic solutions that shape the future of the mobile app economy.Their vision is to create a world in which people have affordable access to quality content, while enjoying a pleasant, relevant user experience.Their mission is to empower mobile publishers to unlock the true value of their properties by building a holistic, efficient, frictionless monetization environment.

Crowd Guru

Venture Round in 2012
Crowd Guru GmbH provides a platform that enables to businesses to outsource their assignments to crowd workers. It offers Crowd Guru, an internal management system that allows users to complete multiple of projects through task distribution. The company also provides research, data processing, and mass categorization services. Crowd Guru GmbH was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

YOLIFE

Grant in 2019
Yolife’s mission is to help 1 million people add 15 healthy years to their lives. This science-based app is designed to make life-extending easy and accessible. Therefore, Yolife creates an AI-driven personalized health program based on each user's specific areas of improvement: nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress and social life. The app’s lifestyle suggestions are fueled by more than 300 scientific studies and constantly updated.

Tracks

Seed Round in 2021
TRACKS GmbH develops and offers software solutions that makes use of artificial intelligence to predict the fuel consumption of trucks in order to help the road freight industry reduce it. It uses machine-learning methods to analyze data from trucks, environment to predict fuel consumption, and creates a visibility of the factors that impacts it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

FinReach GmbH

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, finreach solutions is a Berlin based fintech company on a mission to make the enablement of consumer financial potential as simple and effective as possible. They enable their partners to realise new business opportunities by providing added value to their products and services. Their partners rely on us to stay agile, deliver faster solutions, and make the most of their IT investment with API-led connectivity. finreach solutions developed the first automated current account switch kit (ASK), allowing banks to increase their share of primary current accounts. Headquartered in Berlin, their team of 30 is led by CEO Markus Dränert and CPO Taner Akcok; both have profound experience in aspects that relate to entrepreneurship, technology and marketing, making them the perfect match to drive forth finreach solutions in a competitive environment.

Contentful

Grant in 2015
Contentful operates as a content platform to build digital experiences at scale. It enables enterprises to deliver omnichannel digital experiences with greater speed and scale than with a traditional CMS. Contentful unifies content in a single hub, structures it for use in any digital channel, and integrates seamlessly with hundreds of other tools through open APIs. Companies such as Spotify, Urban Outfitters, Jack in the Box, The British Museum, Xoom, Lenovo, and many others rely on Contentful’s content platform.

Covert Science

Grant in 2018
Stealth Startup

Envio Systems

Venture Round in 2019
Envio Systems develops cloud-based building technologies for existing commercial buildings. It offers BASE, a building management software that helps property owners and managers to overcome technical barriers to energy efficiency upgrades; and CUBE, which enables users to find qualified professionals to install and connect digital controls and sensors in buildings. Matthew Standish, Reza Alaghehband, and Rodolfo del Valle founded Envio Systems on November 15, 2013. It has its headquarters in Calgary in Canada.

Labfolder

Venture Round in 2013
labfolder is developing a lab notebook software allowing scientists in academic and industrial research to combine the usability of the good old paper notebook with the data organization capabillities, the searchability and shareability of a browser-based software. They are based in Berlin, Germany.

Decimo GmbH

Seed Round in 2016
decimo gmbh provides invoice pre-financing and factoring services to freelancers, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The company provides credit invoice, receivables, and bills payments factoring services to freelancers and traders. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany. As of January 24, 2020, decimo gmbh operates as a subsidiary of aifinyo AG.

Pinstyle

Seed Round in 2013
Pinstyle is operates an online fashion network that is tailored to users’ shopping style. Its network enables users to pin their favorite fashion looks and connect with an international style set; create wishlists; browse styles; and shop products online.

Dojo Madness GmbH

Series A in 2016
Dojo Madness GmbH develops a set of tools that helps gamers to master their play. The company offers LOLSumo, an Android and iOS based real-time virtual coaching application for League of Legends that enables gamers to build orders and crucial information about their match; OVERSUMO, an overmatches virtual coach, which features detailed performance analysis, gameplay tips, and hero guides; DOTASUMO, a virtual coach for DOTA 2 players seeking to improve their game. It offers post-game insights, and enables users to analyze and improve his or her gameplay; and Shadow.GG, a SaaS platform providing analytics and data visualizations for Counter-Strike. It also offers BRUCE.GG, a platform that allows gamers to get their own plays as videos, share them with their friends, rate their clips, and coach each other with its tools; and offers automatically generated top scenes, match analysis, and tactical insight for coaching. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Deep Neuron Lab

Seed Round in 2021
Deep Neuron Lab develops AI products to produce financial data.

sprylab technologies GmbH

Seed Round in 2015
sprylab develops and implements highly successful mobile strategies, apps and back-end solutions for midsize and large enterprises. By intelligently combining the wealth of experience, a highly skilled workforce and agile development methodologies the company is capable of creating high quality solutions within a very short period of time.

DCMN

Debt Financing in 2015
DCMN is helping digital brands to grow their business. Our approach is simple: they develop and execute individual growth strategies that combine marketing services with our proprietary ROI-optimization technology to help our clients scale. The “right solution” is unique to every business model, industry, and growth goal. This is why they will never offer a one-size-fits-all solution to our clients. Instead, they choose the media mix that works best – across TV, radio, out of home, online, mobile, and print.

DocCirrus

Seed Round in 2013
Doc Cirrus is an IT company and provider of pioneering products and solutions in German and international healthcare. With the certified software "inSuite" medical practices and MVZ master all tasks extremely efficient, transparent and the maximum of data protection. Based on inSuite and partnered with partners, Doc Cirrus realizes integrated care structures and sets new standards for a modern doctor-patient contact. inSuite is a web-based practice software that supports and relieves doctors and practice staff: intuitively, intelligently, in the background. Including an unprecedented ease of use and quality of doctor-patient communication.

Belyntic

Seed Round in 2019
Belyntic offers the first generally applicable purification kit for chemically synthesized peptides. HPLC-free Peptide Purification with Belyntic’s Catch & Release Technology. Belyntic’s team is dedicated to bring peptide purification to the next level. Don’t hesitate to contact them for information and inquiries.

synergist.io

Seed Round in 2017
Synergist.io is used by procurement departments, commercial teams, and alternative legal service providers to execute high-volumes of recurring contracts with minimal effort. It provides a centralized and transparent workflow that is optimized for negotiating contract terms -- the most tedious and unpredictable step in the process. Users can manage increasing volumes of contracts required to onboard suppliers or close new business, all with minimal involvement from legal. They’re guided step-by-step through the process and are empowered to negotiate where necessary, within safe boundaries and using terms that have been pre-approved by their legal team.

Solvemate

Funding Round in 2020
More than a Chatbot. We improve your Service experience. Solvemate is a leading Customer Service Automation platform for an improved Service experience. Its chatbot enables self-service Support with near instantaneous solutions, around-the-clock. Solvemate's unique approach means it learns more quickly, integrates more easily, and resolves requests faster and more reliably than any other chatbot on the market. Companies benefit from happier customers and lower costs.

Neonga

Series A in 2010
Neonga GmbH offers online game publishing solutions. The company offers its product for free as personal computer downloads, browser games, facebook or to be played on mobile handsets. Neonga GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin, Germany.