Flash Ventures

Flash Ventures is a pre-seed investment firm based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2020. The firm focuses on providing early-stage capital to talented founders in various sectors, including construction, fintech, consumer, and logistics. By supporting innovative startups, Flash Ventures aims to help them develop transformative businesses.

Victor Hürbe

Investor

André Iaconelli

Principal

Simon D. Trimborn

Partner and Managing Director

Johann Nordhus Westarp

Venture Partner

Yash Zaveri

Partner and Managing Director

36 past transactions

Ofload

Series B in 2022
Ofload is a digital road freight platform that addresses inefficiencies in the logistics sector by connecting shippers with a network of reliable carriers. The platform facilitates end-to-end logistics management, allowing businesses to optimize their shipping processes. By utilizing technology, Ofload enhances visibility for its users, ensuring that shipments are delivered promptly and cost-effectively. The service also maximizes vehicle capacity by filling unused space in delivery vehicles, which contributes to reducing waste in the industry. This approach not only streamlines operations for small and medium-sized carriers but also provides valuable data to improve overall logistics efficiency.

CyberDesk

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a security platform designed to adaptively control who can take what actions on what data. The company's platform minimizes data exposure while ensuring that the right identities get the right access at the right time, enabling clients to manage the access security of human and non-human identities without disrupting business.

truckOs

Seed Round in 2022
truckOS is a platform for transportation businesses. It provides logistics operators with web-enabled freight factoring solutions. The company provides freight payment management solutions for transportation companies. Users can use the platform to verify company information, submit invoices with proof of delivery, and receive payments.

Tranch

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tranch is a fintech company based in New York City, founded in 2021 by Beau Allison and Philip Kelvin. The company specializes in providing flexible payment solutions for businesses, enabling them to manage large invoices more effectively. By offering innovative expense financing services, Tranch allows fast-growing businesses, particularly in the SaaS and service sectors, to enhance their cash flow management. This approach prioritizes spending on growth by enabling companies to pay upfront for significant expenses while offering their customers flexible payment options. Tranch aims to simplify and accelerate accounts receivable processes through its advanced payment infrastructure.

Blipay

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Blipay is a fintech company that offers a digital platform focusing on microcredit and payment solutions in Brazil. Its services enable customers to make purchases at any establishment or website that accepts PIX, a popular payment method in the country. Additionally, Blipay provides digital salary advances and various financial products, allowing users to withdraw funds according to personalized limits and rates. This flexibility ensures that customers can manage their finances more effectively by facilitating payments on their subsequent invoices.

Mistho

Seed Round in 2022
Mistho operates a fintech platform that provides the first open payroll API in Europe, allowing consumers to securely access and share their salary and employment information with third parties, including banks, insurance companies, and lenders. The platform simplifies the income verification process, enabling businesses to integrate Mistho's tools into their existing systems. This service addresses common challenges faced by consumers, such as sharing payslips when applying for loans or renting property, by allowing them to log in to their payroll portal without the need for manual uploads or assistance from HR departments. By streamlining income verification, Mistho aims to enhance consumer experiences across the financial technology sector.

Gobble

Seed Round in 2022
Gobble is a food ordering platform that focuses on group-based meal selection and purchasing. It enables users to view and choose from the orders made by their friends, streamlining the process of selecting meals without the need to navigate through multiple delivery apps. The platform also allows users to search for nearby restaurants and purchase discounted meals collectively, making it easier for groups to coordinate their dining choices. By emphasizing social interaction in the food ordering experience, Gobble aims to enhance convenience and foster a sense of community among users.

Fuzey

Seed Round in 2021
Fuzey provides a comprehensive digital platform aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and independent contractors, including those in the automotive sector, such as mechanics and car dealerships. The platform facilitates business growth and management by enabling users to streamline communications through various channels, including SMS, WhatsApp, email, Facebook, and Instagram. It offers tools to understand customer behavior, manage appointments by syncing directly with calendars, send invoices, and process payments. Additionally, Fuzey helps businesses enhance their online presence by increasing customer reviews, ultimately allowing them to attract, convert, and retain clients more effectively.

Everstox

Series A in 2021
Everstox is a Munich-based Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) company that provides a comprehensive logistics platform designed to enhance e-commerce and retail operations. The platform addresses the complexities of logistics by optimizing warehousing and fulfillment processes, ultimately enabling brands to operate more efficiently. Everstox offers a unified logistics network across Germany, the UK, Europe, and the US, allowing businesses to access tailored warehousing, omnichannel fulfillment, and expedited shipping services. By leveraging cloud technology, the platform facilitates scalable and data-driven solutions that reduce inefficiencies and transport emissions throughout the supply chain. Everstox aims to ensure that all brands have equal access to high-quality logistics services, streamlining operations for improved customer satisfaction and business growth.

Flash

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Flash offers an online platform that provides instant checkout services, designed to enhance the purchasing experience for consumers. The technology enables contextual checkout options that can be accessed through various channels, including social media ads, SMS, email, QR codes, and product packaging. By focusing on both business-to-business and business-to-consumer models, Flash primarily serves innovative direct-to-consumer brands that prioritize customer satisfaction. The platform allows consumers to easily compare prices, identify discounts, and choose optimal shipping and return options, facilitating seamless transactions and improving the overall shopping experience.

Hivebound

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Hivebound is a developer of a digital logistics platform that focuses on enhancing supply chain and logistics execution. The platform connects and manages modern supply chain ecosystems, offering features such as real-time visibility, yard management, and advanced analytics. By facilitating digital delivery and providing guidance for both analog and manual systems, Hivebound enables clients to effectively manage and digitize their supply chain operations.

Bageera

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bageera operates an investment platform focused on natural capital assets, aiming to protect and restore nature while providing accessible investment opportunities for both retail and institutional investors. The company sources projects dedicated to sustainable management of natural resources and transforms them into fractionalized digital securities. These securities are then marketed on Bageera's proprietary exchange, allowing a broader audience to invest and gain real ownership in environmentally beneficial initiatives. By democratizing access to these investments, Bageera seeks to redefine the value of emerging assets linked to nature, making it possible for everyone to participate in the potential of natural capital.

Compensa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Compensa is a SaaS platform which helps companies fight climate change by measuring and offsetting their carbon emissions

Yobz

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yobz provide to Gen Z the opportunity to get shift works to improve their lives, to take work experience and get opportunities to improve their skills to growth.

ROQ Technology

Seed Round in 2021
ROQ is a platform for creating, launching, and managing online apps. There is a Spryker-like platform for SaaS apps underneath ROQ Technologies. Tim Niemeier, a former CTO at Rocket Internet, and Fabian Wesner, a former CTO at Project A, are the founders of the Berlin startup.

BintanGO

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BintanGO is a creator-powered marketing platform that facilitates connections between fans, celebrities, and brands. The platform enables creators to engage with their audiences through personalized experiences while also promoting products and collaborating with brands. By streamlining the campaign process, BintanGO offers cost-effective solutions that enhance the productivity and monetization capabilities of creators, agencies, and brands alike. Its financial tools further assist creators in managing and growing their businesses, ultimately fostering long-term revenue generation through collaboration.

insureQ

Seed Round in 2021
InsureQ is an insuretech startup that specializes in providing tailored insurance solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), freelancers, and startups. The company simplifies the insurance process, allowing businesses to save both time and money by offering a straightforward platform for obtaining coverage. InsureQ's digital distribution model enables users to access all relevant commercial insurance products by answering a few basic questions, ensuring that their specific needs are met. Partnering with Hiscox, a well-established player in the insurance industry with over a century of experience, InsureQ guarantees a level of safety and stability for its clients.

Zaapi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zaapi is a digital commerce software provider that offers e-commerce sellers a comprehensive platform to manage their online operations. It enables users to build websites, manage inventory, and create catalogs, all while streamlining workflows through a single interface. The platform supports multi-channel selling, allowing businesses to engage with customers via various channels, including web and social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and LINE. By centralizing communication and providing timely notifications, Zaapi ensures that sellers can respond to customer inquiries efficiently. This all-in-one solution is designed to help small businesses accelerate their growth in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Responsibly

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Responsibly operates a supplier data platform focused on responsible procurement. This platform serves as a centralized resource for diverse supplier data from various providers, facilitating easier and more informed sourcing decisions. By streamlining the data pipeline, Responsibly helps clients reduce administrative costs associated with supplier management. The platform enables users to connect with both external and internal data sources, assess their suppliers, and create comprehensive supplier profiles. This holistic approach provides clients with enhanced visibility into their procurement activities, empowering them to make strategic and sustainable decisions.

Ofload

Venture Round in 2021
Ofload is a digital road freight platform that addresses inefficiencies in the logistics sector by connecting shippers with a network of reliable carriers. The platform facilitates end-to-end logistics management, allowing businesses to optimize their shipping processes. By utilizing technology, Ofload enhances visibility for its users, ensuring that shipments are delivered promptly and cost-effectively. The service also maximizes vehicle capacity by filling unused space in delivery vehicles, which contributes to reducing waste in the industry. This approach not only streamlines operations for small and medium-sized carriers but also provides valuable data to improve overall logistics efficiency.

Otto

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Otto is an AI-powered copilot for wealth managers, designed to streamline and automate essential advisory admin workflows. By handling repetitive tasks and administrative work, Otto frees up advisers and paraplanners to dedicate more time to focus on their clients.

Katoo

Seed Round in 2020
Katoo provides a food procurement platform designed to streamline the relationship between restaurants and suppliers. Through its mobile application, restaurants can easily order ingredients and receive competitive pricing from top suppliers. The platform allows suppliers to receive orders in a standardized digital format, enhancing communication and efficiency. By reducing time spent on low-value tasks, Katoo enables both restaurants and suppliers to focus more on their core business activities. Additionally, the platform offers tools for managing orders and tracking valuable business insights, ultimately empowering the food supply chain.

Fuzey

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Fuzey provides a comprehensive digital platform aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and independent contractors, including those in the automotive sector, such as mechanics and car dealerships. The platform facilitates business growth and management by enabling users to streamline communications through various channels, including SMS, WhatsApp, email, Facebook, and Instagram. It offers tools to understand customer behavior, manage appointments by syncing directly with calendars, send invoices, and process payments. Additionally, Fuzey helps businesses enhance their online presence by increasing customer reviews, ultimately allowing them to attract, convert, and retain clients more effectively.

Mana

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mana develops conversational AI products aimed at enhancing productivity in various aspects of work, learning, and daily life. The company has gained recognition for its innovative offerings, being ranked #1 on Product Hunt and shortlisted for Product of the Year 2022. Founded by experienced professionals with backgrounds in leading companies such as Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, and SoftBank, Mana provides tools that facilitate automated sales outreach, instant lead generation, and personalized email communication. Its technology empowers users to improve their business operations through AI-driven search engine optimization and article generation, making it accessible across multiple devices.

Everstox

Seed Round in 2020
Everstox is a Munich-based Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) company that provides a comprehensive logistics platform designed to enhance e-commerce and retail operations. The platform addresses the complexities of logistics by optimizing warehousing and fulfillment processes, ultimately enabling brands to operate more efficiently. Everstox offers a unified logistics network across Germany, the UK, Europe, and the US, allowing businesses to access tailored warehousing, omnichannel fulfillment, and expedited shipping services. By leveraging cloud technology, the platform facilitates scalable and data-driven solutions that reduce inefficiencies and transport emissions throughout the supply chain. Everstox aims to ensure that all brands have equal access to high-quality logistics services, streamlining operations for improved customer satisfaction and business growth.

Ofload

Seed Round in 2020
Ofload is a digital road freight platform that addresses inefficiencies in the logistics sector by connecting shippers with a network of reliable carriers. The platform facilitates end-to-end logistics management, allowing businesses to optimize their shipping processes. By utilizing technology, Ofload enhances visibility for its users, ensuring that shipments are delivered promptly and cost-effectively. The service also maximizes vehicle capacity by filling unused space in delivery vehicles, which contributes to reducing waste in the industry. This approach not only streamlines operations for small and medium-sized carriers but also provides valuable data to improve overall logistics efficiency.

Vitable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vitable is a direct-to-consumer company that specializes in personalized vitamin supplements designed to support individuals in maintaining a healthy and balanced diet. Through a flexible subscription model, Vitable delivers customized vitamin boxes tailored to each customer's specific health goals, lifestyle, and dietary needs. The product range includes a variety of supplements such as fish oil, calcium, vitamin D, magnesium, zinc, and probiotics. By eliminating the guesswork associated with selecting vitamins from numerous options on store shelves, Vitable aims to provide consumers with convenient and effective solutions for their health and wellness.

Payflow

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Payflow is a financial platform that offers a unique employee benefit by providing instant access to earned salaries, thereby enhancing employees' financial well-being. Founded in 2020 and backed by Rocket Internet, the company operates from Spain. Payflow's service allows employees to access their earnings without affecting the company's cash flow or complicating payroll processes. This approach not only improves employee productivity and engagement but also helps organizations manage their financial operations more effectively. Through its platform, Payflow aims to support both employees and employers in achieving better financial management.

Wagetap

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wagetap is a platform that provides employees with on-demand access to their salaries, allowing them to withdraw part of their pay before the traditional payday. By integrating with a company's payroll system, Wagetap adjusts payslips accordingly for any withdrawals made. This service enables employees to track their earnings and manage unexpected expenses, fostering financial flexibility. Wagetap serves as a valuable tool for businesses looking to recruit, retain, and engage their workforce effectively.

Everstox

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Everstox is a Munich-based Logistics-as-a-Service (LaaS) company that provides a comprehensive logistics platform designed to enhance e-commerce and retail operations. The platform addresses the complexities of logistics by optimizing warehousing and fulfillment processes, ultimately enabling brands to operate more efficiently. Everstox offers a unified logistics network across Germany, the UK, Europe, and the US, allowing businesses to access tailored warehousing, omnichannel fulfillment, and expedited shipping services. By leveraging cloud technology, the platform facilitates scalable and data-driven solutions that reduce inefficiencies and transport emissions throughout the supply chain. Everstox aims to ensure that all brands have equal access to high-quality logistics services, streamlining operations for improved customer satisfaction and business growth.

insureQ

Pre Seed Round in 2019
InsureQ is an insuretech startup that specializes in providing tailored insurance solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), freelancers, and startups. The company simplifies the insurance process, allowing businesses to save both time and money by offering a straightforward platform for obtaining coverage. InsureQ's digital distribution model enables users to access all relevant commercial insurance products by answering a few basic questions, ensuring that their specific needs are met. Partnering with Hiscox, a well-established player in the insurance industry with over a century of experience, InsureQ guarantees a level of safety and stability for its clients.

Flash Coffee

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain founded in 2019, with its headquarters in Singapore. The company specializes in selling a variety of hot and cold beverages, including espresso, Americano, latte, cappuccino, and various flavored teas and shakes. Customers can conveniently order and pay for their drinks through the Flash Coffee app, choosing to pick up their orders from one of its storefronts or opt for delivery through major platforms. The business aims to make coffee easily accessible and affordable for consumers on the go, enhancing the overall coffee experience.

Katoo

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Katoo provides a food procurement platform designed to streamline the relationship between restaurants and suppliers. Through its mobile application, restaurants can easily order ingredients and receive competitive pricing from top suppliers. The platform allows suppliers to receive orders in a standardized digital format, enhancing communication and efficiency. By reducing time spent on low-value tasks, Katoo enables both restaurants and suppliers to focus more on their core business activities. Additionally, the platform offers tools for managing orders and tracking valuable business insights, ultimately empowering the food supply chain.

Tinvio

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Tinvio is a developer of supply chain and commerce software aimed at enhancing collaboration between merchants and suppliers. The platform allows users to communicate with suppliers, create purchase orders through a mobile interface, and maintain a digital ledger of all transactions, including orders and invoices. By providing insights to improve purchasing decisions, Tinvio empowers businesses to work more effectively together, ultimately driving productivity and profitability for all parties involved. Through its user-friendly design and supportive features, Tinvio seeks to ensure that every merchant and supplier can operate more efficiently.
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