FinTecSystems
Series A in 2016
FinTecSystems GmbH, founded in Munich in 2014, is a prominent provider of banking APIs and smart data solutions in Germany. The company specializes in online banking-based information and payment services, offering an Open Banking platform that delivers Account Information and Payment Initiation Services. FinTecSystems focuses on analyzing financial data to assist banks, FinTechs, and payment service providers in making real-time loan decisions, minimizing credit risks, and facilitating online transactions. The company's analytics platform aids financial institutions in accurately assessing consumer creditworthiness through automated financial analysis. FinTecSystems is TÜV-certified and has received authorization from BaFin as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With a team of approximately 40 employees across five locations, the company collaborates with notable partners such as N26, Santander, DKB, and Deutsche Handelsbank.
CrossEngage
Seed Round in 2016
CrossEngage GmbH is a Berlin-based company specializing in cross-channel marketing solutions, founded in 2015. It offers a customer data and engagement platform that integrates with various data sources and marketing channels, allowing digital marketers to efficiently manage their campaigns across email, real-time advertising, onsite interactions, and push notifications. The platform provides comprehensive user profiles and advanced segmentation options based on sociodemographic and purchase history data, enabling personalized and consistent communication with customers. CrossEngage aims to enhance customer engagement and loyalty by addressing the challenges of uncoordinated marketing efforts, thus facilitating a more effective marketing strategy for its clients. The company also has an office in London, further expanding its reach within the European market.
Movinga GmbH is a Berlin-based logistics technology company that offers an online platform for relocation and moving services. Established in 2015, it enables customers to find and book movers from a variety of listed logistics service providers, catering to both private individuals and businesses. Movinga focuses on delivering a transparent and user-friendly booking process, providing comprehensive advice from personal relocation advisors, as well as ensuring loading, transport, and transport insurance through dedicated removal teams. The company's vertically integrated approach aims to optimize the moving process for users while supporting medium-sized moving companies by allowing them to list their services on the platform.
Movinga GmbH is a Berlin-based logistics technology company that offers an online platform for relocation and moving services. Established in 2015, it enables customers to find and book movers from a variety of listed logistics service providers, catering to both private individuals and businesses. Movinga focuses on delivering a transparent and user-friendly booking process, providing comprehensive advice from personal relocation advisors, as well as ensuring loading, transport, and transport insurance through dedicated removal teams. The company's vertically integrated approach aims to optimize the moving process for users while supporting medium-sized moving companies by allowing them to list their services on the platform.
Inkitt GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2013 that operates an online community for writers and readers. It provides a platform for authors to share, review, and promote their stories across various genres, including horror, fantasy, romance, sci-fi, and more. Inkitt utilizes a unique data-driven approach to publishing, leveraging crowd wisdom and an algorithm called ReadRank to identify potential bestsellers. The platform allows authors to post their works-in-progress and receive feedback from readers, who can access these manuscripts for free for a limited time. Inkitt also encompasses interconnected applications, including Galatea, which sells optimized stories chapter by chapter, and GalateaTV, which adapts successful e-books into short-form television series. This ecosystem aims to create engaging storytelling experiences across multiple media, with a focus on hyper-personalization through AI to tailor content to individual preferences.
FinTecSystems
Seed Round in 2015
FinTecSystems GmbH, founded in Munich in 2014, is a prominent provider of banking APIs and smart data solutions in Germany. The company specializes in online banking-based information and payment services, offering an Open Banking platform that delivers Account Information and Payment Initiation Services. FinTecSystems focuses on analyzing financial data to assist banks, FinTechs, and payment service providers in making real-time loan decisions, minimizing credit risks, and facilitating online transactions. The company's analytics platform aids financial institutions in accurately assessing consumer creditworthiness through automated financial analysis. FinTecSystems is TÜV-certified and has received authorization from BaFin as an Account Information and Payment Initiation Service Provider. With a team of approximately 40 employees across five locations, the company collaborates with notable partners such as N26, Santander, DKB, and Deutsche Handelsbank.
Movinga GmbH is a Berlin-based logistics technology company that offers an online platform for relocation and moving services. Established in 2015, it enables customers to find and book movers from a variety of listed logistics service providers, catering to both private individuals and businesses. Movinga focuses on delivering a transparent and user-friendly booking process, providing comprehensive advice from personal relocation advisors, as well as ensuring loading, transport, and transport insurance through dedicated removal teams. The company's vertically integrated approach aims to optimize the moving process for users while supporting medium-sized moving companies by allowing them to list their services on the platform.
Movinga
Seed Round in 2015
Movinga GmbH is a Berlin-based logistics technology company that offers an online platform for relocation and moving services. Established in 2015, it enables customers to find and book movers from a variety of listed logistics service providers, catering to both private individuals and businesses. Movinga focuses on delivering a transparent and user-friendly booking process, providing comprehensive advice from personal relocation advisors, as well as ensuring loading, transport, and transport insurance through dedicated removal teams. The company's vertically integrated approach aims to optimize the moving process for users while supporting medium-sized moving companies by allowing them to list their services on the platform.
Cashboard
Seed Round in 2015
Cashboard is a pioneering fintech company based in Germany, recognized as Europe's first curated marketplace for retail investment across all asset classes. Unlike other platforms that focus on single products, Cashboard offers tailored investment portfolios that encompass a wide range of traditional options, such as stocks, funds, ETFs, and daily deposits, as well as alternative investments, including peer-to-peer lending and real estate crowdfunding. The platform provides a one-stop solution for retail clients, allowing them to manage all their assets through a single account, free of charge, apart from a success-related performance fee. With partnerships from leading European fintechs and banks, Cashboard currently features over 6,500 investment products on its open technology platform. The company has received several accolades for its innovation and has been recognized as one of the top wealth tech firms in Europe. Cashboard is supported by prominent venture capital firms and has been awarded significant prizes for its contributions to the fintech landscape.
McMakler
Seed Round in 2015
McMakler GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Berlin, Germany, is a prominent hybrid real estate brokerage that offers innovative services in the real estate market. The company integrates advanced marketing technology and centralized processes with a local presence, employing nearly 400 real estate agents across major regions in Germany. McMakler is recognized as the most well-known real estate agent in the country, boasting a brand awareness of 33% and is distinguished by its superior service quality. Its platform combines digital analysis, marketing, and communication technologies with personalized advice from local brokers, enabling landlords, real estate agents, and clients to efficiently sell properties.
Secucloud
Venture Round in 2015
Secucloud is a global provider of high-availability cybersecurity solutions, specializing in a cloud-based security-as-a-service platform tailored for telecommunications providers and internet service providers (ISPs). Its flagship offering, the Elastic Cloud Security System (ECS2), delivers enterprise-level security to a diverse range of users, including mobile and landline consumers, small businesses, home offices, and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This scalable platform operates without the need for specialized hardware or proprietary appliances, accommodating over 100 million users and their connected devices. Secucloud's services effectively filter out threats such as trojans, spyware, and viruses, enabling individuals and businesses to securely navigate the complexities of modern cyber threats across all IP-based devices.
Klara operates an end-to-end patient engagement platform tailored for healthcare organizations, facilitating efficient communication between practitioners and patients. The platform allows healthcare teams to provide virtual care, collaborate internally, and automate various front-desk tasks, streamlining workflows and enhancing the patient experience throughout the care journey. Used by thousands of healthcare teams across over 40 specialties, Klara aims to improve operational efficiency and support the growth of patient volume while ensuring easy access to practices and centralized management of administrative responsibilities.
Scondoo
Seed Round in 2013
Scondoo is a Berlin-based mobile app launched at the end of 2012, available on iOS and Android platforms. The free application helps users discover cashback deals and sale items for groceries. Users can take a photo of their receipt after purchasing an advertised product through the app to receive credit directly into their Scondoo account from the brand offering the deal. This process eliminates the need for supermarkets to be involved in the transactions, making it convenient for users to save on their daily grocery purchases.
Miflora
Seed Round in 2013
Miflora GmbH is a Munich-based company that operates an online flower store, specializing in the delivery of fresh and authentic flowers for both private and business customers. The company offers a variety of cut flowers, including traditional seasonal options, and provides services such as flower delivery subscriptions. Miflora also enables corporate clients to send customized gifts, bouquets, messages, and gift wrapping, allowing for personalized experiences through custom printed greeting cards and cover letters. Established as a subsidiary of Blume 2000 New Media AG, Miflora focuses on delivering high-quality floral solutions tailored to individual and corporate needs.
Voyat Inc. is a technology company focused on enhancing guest loyalty for hotels through its innovative guest retention engine. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Barcelona and Copenhagen, Voyat provides a platform that enables hotels to establish personalized connections with their guests both online and on-site. By leveraging data analytics, the platform allows hotels to present tailored offers, promotions, and loyalty rewards, thereby fostering a direct relationship with each individual guest. This approach not only strengthens customer engagement but also boosts direct bookings and customer lifetime value. Renowned hotel brands, including The New York Palace and Mövenpick Hotels, utilize Voyat's technology to differentiate themselves in a competitive market and cultivate lasting loyalty among their patrons.
SuitePad
Seed Round in 2012
SuitePad GmbH is a Berlin-based company specializing in tablet-based communication solutions for the hospitality industry. Founded in 2012, the company aims to enhance the guest experience by integrating various services into a single device. Its tablets serve as a comprehensive platform for hotel guests, providing essential information about the hotel and its surroundings, while facilitating direct bookings for services such as room service and wellness appointments. SuitePad has successfully collaborated with both private and chain hotels across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to ensure its product meets the specific needs of its clients. Since its first installation in 2013, SuitePad has expanded its presence to 11 European countries and has received multiple industry awards, including the CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award, for its innovative contributions to hotel guest communication.
Amerano
Seed Round in 2012
Amerano is an online retailer specializing in tailor-made shirts, launched in January 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The company focuses on the men's fashion market, offering a range of customizable clothing options that cater to individual preferences. By combining quality manufacturing with an accessible online shopping platform, Amerano aims to provide customers with personalized fashion solutions.
Happy Kidz
Series A in 2012
Happy Kidz GmbH, based in Dresden, Germany, operates an online marketplace focused on providing furniture and toys specifically for schools and kindergartens. The company offers a wide range of products, including designed interiors, children's sports equipment, and playground equipment such as tables, cabinets, shelves, chairs, benches, designed walls, and sandboxes. By supplying these essential items, Happy Kidz aims to help nursery schools create an engaging and entertaining environment for young learners.
we are era
Seed Round in 2012
We Are Era is a pioneering media company that integrates a talent agency and production capabilities across Europe. Established in 2019 as part of RTL Group and Bertelsmann, the company operates offices in major European cities including Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris, employing around 240 staff. We Are Era focuses on creating impactful narratives that resonate with diverse audiences, offering a range of services from TV productions and fictional series to innovative social media content across platforms like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch. By blending influencer marketing and digital video strategies, the company supports brands, broadcasters, and organizations in effectively engaging fragmented audiences and developing sustainable content strategies. Its award-winning productions and campaigns reflect a commitment to storytelling that captures the essence of contemporary culture across various European markets.
Loopcam
Seed Round in 2012
Loopcam is a software development company that specializes in creating a mobile application for iPhones, allowing users to express themselves through short, GIF-based video clips known as loops. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany, Loopcam offers a free app that incorporates unique filters and stickers to enhance user creativity. The platform also features a built-in social network that connects users with creative influencers, celebrities, and prominent media figures, fostering a vibrant community for sharing and discovering engaging content.
Test IO
Seed Round in 2012
Test IO is a developer of a self-service crowd-testing platform focused on enhancing software quality assurance. Originally known as Testcloud, the company leverages a global network of skilled testers along with advanced AI technology to provide a comprehensive testing solution. This approach integrates both automated and human testing methods, allowing application and web developers to obtain detailed reports on reproducible bugs and usability feedback for their websites, mobile applications, and business software. Test IO aims to streamline the software development process by ensuring that products meet high-quality standards before release.
Amerano
Seed Round in 2012
Amerano is an online retailer specializing in tailor-made shirts, launched in January 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The company focuses on the men's fashion market, offering a range of customizable clothing options that cater to individual preferences. By combining quality manufacturing with an accessible online shopping platform, Amerano aims to provide customers with personalized fashion solutions.
JustBook
Seed Round in 2012
JustBook is a mobile application that specializes in last-minute hotel bookings, providing users with information and offers on accommodations in various cities. The platform enables travelers to secure same-day bookings at discounted rates, making it easier for them to find and reserve hotels on short notice. By offering last-minute deals tailored to specific destinations, JustBook aims to enhance the travel experience, allowing users to focus on their journey without the stress of accommodation concerns.