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Paua Ventures GmbH is a venture capital firm specializing in start-ups and early stage investments. It seeks to invest in areas such as Software-as-a-Service, B2B-marketplaces, B2C mobile, mobile enterprise solutions as well as e-commerce 2.0. It prefers to invest globally with a focus on Europe. It considers investments between $0.2 million and $2 million with a follow up investment of maximum $6 million. The firm acts as both lead and co-investor. Paua Ventures GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Charlotte Baumhauer

Associate

Christian Buchenau

Partner

Christophe Defforey

Founder

Felix Plapperer

Principal

Moritz Poewe

Partner

Georg Stockinger

Partner

Christian Thaler-Wolski

Partner

Federico Wengi

Partner

69 past transactions

KIWI

Convertible Note in 2013
KIWI is the keyless entry system for house and apartment doors of apartment buildings. Access can be centrally managed online in real time via the KIWI Portal. Property managers are spared unnecessary trips. There is also no need to worry about having the right key in the right place at the right time. Over 110,000 residential units are connected to the KIWI infrastructure and more than 600 housing companies are KIWI customers. KIWI doors are already opened over 500,000 times a month with KIWI. KIWI is a service of KIWI.KI GmbH. The Berlin-based company was founded in February 2012. It is managed by Karsten Nölling, CEO, and Hannah Nöthig. More information on www.kiwi.ki.

GraphCMS GmbH

Series B in 2023
GraphCMS GmbH enables developers to build and manage content APIs. It offers tools for agencies and enterprises to build and manage content, as well as build content infrastructure for their digital products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Gießen, Germany.

Outfunnel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Outfunnel OÜ develops a marketing automation and insights platform. The company’s features includes automate email marketing campaigns and tracking email and website. Outfunnel OÜ was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

Talentory

Venture Round in 2012
Talentory is an international recruitment platform that connects employers with recruitment agencies and talent management suppliers. The platform allows employers to define their conditions and publish positions in its network of specialized search agencies. Employers are able to decide which agencies they wish to collaborate with and source candidates by approved agencies. Launched in 2009, Talentory is operated from Zurich, Switzerland.

Wandelbots GmbH

Series B in 2020
Wandelbots is a german startup that enables non-programmers to teach industrial robots faster and cheaper using smart clothing. Based on sensors attached to clothes, the Wandelbots software backend tracks human motion to live-control industrial robots. Operators can teach automation tasks by demonstration. The software backend builds a machine learning model based on several demonstrations and generates automation worklfows. They can be refined and optimized with the software tool. The generated processes are self-adaptive, so learned processes can automatically be used in dynamic environments. This adaptation includes automatic anomaly detection, process adaptation and MES-integration.

FLIP4NEW

Seed Round in 2010
FLIP4NEW is an e-commerce service where customers can exchange their used and unwanted electronic gadgets into new gadgets, vouchers and cash. FLIP4NEW strives to improve the way consumers buy and sell gadgets and offers an entirely new shopping experience. It is focussed on the fast and seamless monetization of customers' gadgets. With a few clicks customers can calculate the trade-in value of their used gadgets and then have multiple possibilities to trade their value for new gadgets, vouchers or cash. Customers save a lot of money as only the differential amount between the price of the new gadget and the trade-in value of the used gadget is charged. On top they save a lot of time, as buying/selling is handled in one seamless transaction.

Jumpstarter AB

Seed Round in 2013
Jumpstarter AB develops software productivity tools for development environments, framework installs, deployment, and hosting. The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Wandelbots GmbH

Series A in 2018
Wandelbots is a german startup that enables non-programmers to teach industrial robots faster and cheaper using smart clothing. Based on sensors attached to clothes, the Wandelbots software backend tracks human motion to live-control industrial robots. Operators can teach automation tasks by demonstration. The software backend builds a machine learning model based on several demonstrations and generates automation worklfows. They can be refined and optimized with the software tool. The generated processes are self-adaptive, so learned processes can automatically be used in dynamic environments. This adaptation includes automatic anomaly detection, process adaptation and MES-integration.

Phase Software GmbH

Seed Round in 2018
Phase is a visual and intuitive digital design tool, reworked for the new age.

Noscendo

Venture Round in 2022
Noscendo GmbH develops bioinformatics solutions to identify and assess pathogens in bloodstream associated and related infections. The diagnostic procedures can be used by intensive care clinicians to identify bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites in the patient’s bloodstream via Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and to assess the relevance of each pathogen using proprietary algorithms. Noscendo GmbH is based in Duisburg, Germany.

Tylko

Series A in 2016
Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.

Keelvar

Series B in 2022
Keelvar provides strategic sourcing software to large enterprises across the globe. It specializes in advanced sourcing for mature procurement and supply chain management teams seeking best of breed systems.

Go Deed Inc

Series A in 2021
Deed is a corporate social impact platform that helps people do good deeds. The company is composed of a community of socially conscious individuals making a positive impact through volunteerism and philanthropy. It was founded by Deevee Kashi, Steven Liu, and Aske Ertmann, and is headquartered in Brooklyn, Berlin, and San Francisco.

Actyx AG

Venture Round in 2019
Actyx is rethinking manufacturing. We are driving a new manufacturing paradigm based on the Internet of Things, advanced big-data analytics, adaptive user-assistance systems and intelligent machines and robots. We are working hand-in-hand with manufactures to develop the operating system of the factory of the future. We solve hard technical problems, constantly working toward our vision of smart, adaptive, sustainable and efficient manufacturing.

Silexica GmbH

Series B in 2018
Silexica provides software development tools reducing time-to-market of innovative software IP and intelligent products. Enabled by deep software analysis, heterogeneous hardware awareness and quick design space exploration, the SLX programming tools accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems, democratizing accelerated computing. Founded in 2014, Silexica is headquartered in Germany with offices in the US, Japan, and Pakistan. It serves innovative companies in the automotive, robotics, wireless communications, aerospace, and financial industries and has received $28M in funding from international investors.

inai

Seed Round in 2021
Inai is a single integration for your global payment stack. Inai will provide connections to multiple payment service providers ( Stripe, Adyen , Braintree), Wallets, BNPL platforms, open banking providers, fraud, BI and accounting in a single integration. Our dashboard will allow merchants to build custom workflows tailored to their unique business needs without writing any code

JustBook

Seed Round in 2012
JustBook is a hotel shopping club.

Wandelbots GmbH

Series C in 2022
Wandelbots is a german startup that enables non-programmers to teach industrial robots faster and cheaper using smart clothing. Based on sensors attached to clothes, the Wandelbots software backend tracks human motion to live-control industrial robots. Operators can teach automation tasks by demonstration. The software backend builds a machine learning model based on several demonstrations and generates automation worklfows. They can be refined and optimized with the software tool. The generated processes are self-adaptive, so learned processes can automatically be used in dynamic environments. This adaptation includes automatic anomaly detection, process adaptation and MES-integration.

GraphCMS GmbH

Series A in 2021
GraphCMS GmbH enables developers to build and manage content APIs. It offers tools for agencies and enterprises to build and manage content, as well as build content infrastructure for their digital products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Gießen, Germany.

Shore GmbH

Series A in 2014
Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system. Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.

Vue Storefront

Series A in 2021
Vue Storefront is a Progressive Web App Storefront possible to integrate with any eCommerce platform. You can develop a native-like web app that is downloadable on iOS and Android. It makes your eCommerce extremely fast and helps you to support a mobile-first experience.

AskBy.ai

Seed Round in 2018
AskBy GmbH provides data analytics with the help of Artificial driven technology. They provide sequence to sequence training, and translation from natural language to formal language such as SQL, API calls or other query languages. It is based in Berlin, Germany.

Detectify AB

Seed Round in 2015
Detectify offers a SaaS-based tool for security analysis of web applications. Detectify is a service where website owners and developers can enter the domain name of a website and let Detectify analyze its security level by applying a broad range of emulated hacker attacks. Detectify then provides the owner with an easy to understand report that describes the identified vulnerabilities and their potential risk in the hands of malicious hackers.

Go Deed Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Deed is a corporate social impact platform that helps people do good deeds. The company is composed of a community of socially conscious individuals making a positive impact through volunteerism and philanthropy. It was founded by Deevee Kashi, Steven Liu, and Aske Ertmann, and is headquartered in Brooklyn, Berlin, and San Francisco.

JustBook

Seed Round in 2012
JustBook is a hotel shopping club.

FireStart GmbH

Series A in 2020
FireStart is about empowering everyone to take part in shaping the digital future. With us by your side, you combine the best of human potential and computing power. The FireStart BPM Platform connects professional process planning, powerful workflow automation and profound process analysis in one unified Business Process Management solution. Business units can design their own processes, develop, enhance and optimize in confidence, and even turn them into automated workflows, with smart adapters to the existing IT landscape, including CRM, ERP, and HR systems. Ignite your potential - simply with FireStart!

Intermix Software, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Intermix Software, Inc. designs and develops performance-monitoring products that help data teams to monitor mission-critical data flows. It offers an analytics platform to find and fix the issues impacting data health, spot bottlenecks in data pipelines, detect troublesome queries, and optimize resources. Intermix Software, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DigitalGenius

Series A in 2017
DIGITALGENIUS, INC. develops artificial intelligence software solutions for customer service operations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Pipedrive Inc

Series B in 2017
Pipedrive Inc. develops a web-based sales management tool to help small sales teams manage sales processes. Its tool is used for pipeline management; email integration; activity remainder emails, mobile notifications, and alerts; sales reporting; sales forecasting; Google apps integration; product catalog creation; and API, integrations, customization, web forms, and reliability and safety. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. Pipedrive Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Pipedrive OÜ.

Pipedrive Inc

Series A in 2015
Pipedrive Inc. develops a web-based sales management tool to help small sales teams manage sales processes. Its tool is used for pipeline management; email integration; activity remainder emails, mobile notifications, and alerts; sales reporting; sales forecasting; Google apps integration; product catalog creation; and API, integrations, customization, web forms, and reliability and safety. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York. Pipedrive Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Pipedrive OÜ.

Lesara

Series A in 2014
Lesara is the leading global agile retail pioneer for amazing fashion merchandise at best prices.The company has offices in China and Germany and since its launch in 2013 expanded into 24 markets in 7 languages across Europe, grew its assortment to more than 100.000 SKUs and the the team to over 300 employees.Lesara is operating a completely vertically integrated supply chain and needs only 2 weeks from idea over design, production to product go-live for its collections.The company was awarded as fastest growing tech-company in Europe in 2016.

Bodylabs

Seed Round in 2018
Wellabe is a cloud-based and patient-centered prevention platform. Wellabe enables agile integration of state of-the-art medical sensors in a lab setting for on-site screenings. Participants run through the screening before and after a preventive lifestyle intervention. The re-screenings measure the impact individuals have on their own biomarkers with lifestyle changes. All assessed datasets are stored and interpreted in a cloud platform and can be assessed and enriched by patients with their smartphones. The data is presented to give the participants a comprehensive understanding about their health and keep them motivated. wellabe partners with caregivers, nutrition and sports providers that can help participants to change their markers within a defined timespan. wellabe aims to match the patients’ profiles with the most effective intervention.

Codasip

Series A in 2018
Codasip Ltd. provides IP and EDA tools that enable adoption of application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs). The company’s solutions include Codix, RISC-V, and custom processors. Its customers include AMD, Mobileye, Sigma Designs, Cast, and AVG. The company has strategic partnership with Sezer Technologies, Secure RF, Open Silicon, ALDEC, Inveatech, Iconda, and Bomb Factory. Codasip Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Brno, Czech Republic.

GraphCMS GmbH

Seed Round in 2020
GraphCMS GmbH enables developers to build and manage content APIs. It offers tools for agencies and enterprises to build and manage content, as well as build content infrastructure for their digital products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Gießen, Germany.

CaptchaAd

Seed Round in 2010
CaptchaAd GmbH provides online video advertising solutions. Its interactive video advertisement solutions connect advertisers and publishers with consumers through sites and blogs, as well as social and mobile applications. CaptchaAd GmbH was founded in 2008and is based in Bonn, Germany with additional offices in San Francisco and London.

Silexica GmbH

Series A in 2016
Silexica provides software development tools reducing time-to-market of innovative software IP and intelligent products. Enabled by deep software analysis, heterogeneous hardware awareness and quick design space exploration, the SLX programming tools accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems, democratizing accelerated computing. Founded in 2014, Silexica is headquartered in Germany with offices in the US, Japan, and Pakistan. It serves innovative companies in the automotive, robotics, wireless communications, aerospace, and financial industries and has received $28M in funding from international investors.

GraphCMS GmbH

Seed Round in 2018
GraphCMS GmbH enables developers to build and manage content APIs. It offers tools for agencies and enterprises to build and manage content, as well as build content infrastructure for their digital products. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Gießen, Germany.

NAVINUM

Seed Round in 2013
NAVINUM provides e-commerce services of sell wine and beverages. They lead to the best wines by combining the offers of their shop partners with editorial recommendations and soon the personal taste profile of their users.

Noscendo

Series A in 2020
Noscendo GmbH develops bioinformatics solutions to identify and assess pathogens in bloodstream associated and related infections. The diagnostic procedures can be used by intensive care clinicians to identify bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites in the patient’s bloodstream via Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and to assess the relevance of each pathogen using proprietary algorithms. Noscendo GmbH is based in Duisburg, Germany.

Lesara

Seed Round in 2013
Lesara is the leading global agile retail pioneer for amazing fashion merchandise at best prices.The company has offices in China and Germany and since its launch in 2013 expanded into 24 markets in 7 languages across Europe, grew its assortment to more than 100.000 SKUs and the the team to over 300 employees.Lesara is operating a completely vertically integrated supply chain and needs only 2 weeks from idea over design, production to product go-live for its collections.The company was awarded as fastest growing tech-company in Europe in 2016.

Relimetrics, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Relimetrics is a full stack computer vision and machine learning software providing audit-proof quality inspection and process control for Industry 4.0 Applications. We use real-time image processing and video analytics to automate and digitize visual inspections, making them easy, connected, and insightful. We are located in Sunnyvale, CA and Berlin, Germany.

Mbrace

Seed Round in 2014
mbrace labs GmbH provides an online mobile network application that enables the user to discover new people around them. It offers mbrace, a mobile network solution that allows the users to discover relevant people in their city, area, and social circle for joint activities or events, friendships, dating, and more. The company’s mbrace uses public data to build a profile and an individual graph to recommend relevant people based on the user’s location, time, and context. mbrace labs GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Tylko

Seed Round in 2015
Tylko offers uncompromising quality at a fair price, while perfectly fitted to your space & easily ordered online.

Debitos GmbH

Series A in 2012
Debitos GmbH develops an online marketplace which allows companies, banks, and funds to sell their illiquid credit exposures on the market through its auction-based online transaction platform to specialized investors. Debitos GmbH was founded in 2010 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Producteev

Angel Round in 2010
Producteev is one of the leading free Task Management applications for Individuals and Teams connected to : Mac (Mac App Store), Windows Desktop, Web, iPhone, Android, IM (Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger...), EMail (send tasks to task@producteev.com), Gmail, GCal...

Consentio Trade Finance

Seed Round in 2017
Consentio SL operates an online multiplatform that focuses on fruit and vegetable industries to accelerate and optimize the trading processes. It immediate the communication with network, provides instant price updates, and optimizes the process. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

Homeday

Series A in 2016
Homeday is a real estate company. It provides a platform for data-driven pairing in the real estate industry. Its platform helps real estate agents to pair with private property owners to sell their property. The Company offers a platform for property owners to find brokers, as well as provides real estate appraisal, land valuation, and leasing services. Homeday was founded by Steffen Wicker and Dmitri Uvarovski in 2014.

Flaconi

Venture Round in 2012
Flaconi GmbH operates an online portal which offers perfume, cosmetics, and beauty products. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

RiseML

Seed Round in 2017
RiseML creates software to help machine learning teams scale their deep learning infrastructure. RiseML was founded in September 2016 by Henning Peters and Elmar Haussmann. They are building a unified interface for AI supercomputers.

Actyx AG

Seed Round in 2017
Actyx is rethinking manufacturing. We are driving a new manufacturing paradigm based on the Internet of Things, advanced big-data analytics, adaptive user-assistance systems and intelligent machines and robots. We are working hand-in-hand with manufactures to develop the operating system of the factory of the future. We solve hard technical problems, constantly working toward our vision of smart, adaptive, sustainable and efficient manufacturing.

Detectify AB

Series A in 2018
Detectify offers a SaaS-based tool for security analysis of web applications. Detectify is a service where website owners and developers can enter the domain name of a website and let Detectify analyze its security level by applying a broad range of emulated hacker attacks. Detectify then provides the owner with an easy to understand report that describes the identified vulnerabilities and their potential risk in the hands of malicious hackers.

Stripe

Series C in 2015
Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules. They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth.

Keelvar

Series A in 2020
Keelvar provides strategic sourcing software to large enterprises across the globe. It specializes in advanced sourcing for mature procurement and supply chain management teams seeking best of breed systems.

Shore GmbH

Seed Round in 2012
Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system. Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.

Detectify AB

Series B in 2019
Detectify offers a SaaS-based tool for security analysis of web applications. Detectify is a service where website owners and developers can enter the domain name of a website and let Detectify analyze its security level by applying a broad range of emulated hacker attacks. Detectify then provides the owner with an easy to understand report that describes the identified vulnerabilities and their potential risk in the hands of malicious hackers.

Shore GmbH

Venture Round in 2015
Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system. Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.

Phase Software GmbH

Seed Round in 2019
Phase is a visual and intuitive digital design tool, reworked for the new age.

Go Deed Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Deed is a corporate social impact platform that helps people do good deeds. The company is composed of a community of socially conscious individuals making a positive impact through volunteerism and philanthropy. It was founded by Deevee Kashi, Steven Liu, and Aske Ertmann, and is headquartered in Brooklyn, Berlin, and San Francisco.

Outfunnel

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Outfunnel OÜ develops a marketing automation and insights platform. The company’s features includes automate email marketing campaigns and tracking email and website. Outfunnel OÜ was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia.

KIWI

Series A in 2015
KIWI is the keyless entry system for house and apartment doors of apartment buildings. Access can be centrally managed online in real time via the KIWI Portal. Property managers are spared unnecessary trips. There is also no need to worry about having the right key in the right place at the right time. Over 110,000 residential units are connected to the KIWI infrastructure and more than 600 housing companies are KIWI customers. KIWI doors are already opened over 500,000 times a month with KIWI. KIWI is a service of KIWI.KI GmbH. The Berlin-based company was founded in February 2012. It is managed by Karsten Nölling, CEO, and Hannah Nöthig. More information on www.kiwi.ki.

Shore GmbH

Series B in 2015
Shore is the leading provider of web-based business solutions for local service providers. The company offers easy and cost-effective access to digital communication and productivity software. The product portfolio spans from Online Booking over a professional CRM system, easy-to-use marketing tools to an efficient iPad-based cash system. Technical knowledge is not required. Shore enables local service providers to benefit from the versatile potential of digital solutions and helps them bring their business to new heights. Founded in 2012, Shore provides its solutions in 10 European countries and opened its first US office in LA in 2015.

Amorelie

Seed Round in 2014
Amorelie is a fashionable onlineshop for Lovelife.

Intermix Software, Inc.

Angel Round in 2016
Intermix Software, Inc. designs and develops performance-monitoring products that help data teams to monitor mission-critical data flows. It offers an analytics platform to find and fix the issues impacting data health, spot bottlenecks in data pipelines, detect troublesome queries, and optimize resources. Intermix Software, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.