Hubraum

Hubraum connects tech entrepreneurs and startup companies with the network, capital and business opportunities of Deutsche Telekom. For this hub:raum offers investments and also runs programs in focus fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Smart Home, Internet of Things and Big Data. Since 2012 Hubraum has built a portfolio of more than 20 investments and maintains an ecosystem of around 200 startups.

Konrad Sowa

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Nate Sztrum

Principal

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Appetico

Seed Round in 2013
Appetico is a next-gen cooking app with visual step-by-step instructions.It scales ingredients according to the serving size and also includes an in-app kitchen timer.

Relayr

Series B in 2017
relayr is a rapidly-growing IoT company providing enterprise middleware and IoT solutions for the digital transformation of industries. As a thought leader in enterprise IoT, relayr enables interoperability through industrial-grade platforms. Their software enables comprehensive data analytics and management, empowering businesses to create new solutions and revenue streams with data collected from any device, through any connectivity, throughout any IT ecosystem.

eParkomat

Seed Round in 2017
Our flagship product is called eParkomat, a unique platform in the world that predicts parking spaces availability on and off-street in real time with 96% accuracy without additional hardware such as cameras or sensors. We achieve this by using Artificial Intelligence to process real-time Big Data analysis of mobile operators’ signaling cellular networks. We have also managed to turn this raw data into valuable information for smart cities to make better public policies in terms of urban planning and mobility and for companies to attract more customers, evaluate their sites and increase sales. Some of our customers and partners include T-Mobile, the City of Prague and the VW group (Skoda Auto). Our solution can be integrated to car navigation systems so every car manufacturer will be able to provide customers the best customer experience based on finding a parking space fast and on providing a convenient way of paying for it.

Blinkist

Seed Round in 2012
Where do the world’s smartest people get their ideas? From great books. Blinkist distills the key insights of 2,500+ bestselling nonfiction books into powerful 15-minute reads or listens for your mobile device. In 2017, Blinkist's app has been nominated by Apple as one of the best in the App Store. Blinkist has received the World Summit Award, granted by the United Nations, in the Learning & Education category, as well as a Google Material Design Award for Brand Expressiveness. At Blinkist, we got rid of classical management hierarchies and, instead, distributed authority among all colleagues. Blinkist fosters a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support. Blinkist offers a fantastic workplace in the heart of Berlin-Neukölln including all the benefits you’d expect – from a personalized perk system to free private language lessons. Add a competitive salary, a personal development budget of 1,500€ per year, flexible working hours, and a meaningful product on the rise, and you have a first impression of why Blinkist is a great place to work.

qLearning

Venture Round in 2013
qLearning is a platform for the creation of own learning materials.

Changify

Seed Round in 2013
Changify is a platform for locals to share all things they love or would like to change in their neighborhood. It is a new service for the public to initiate and build support for local and community change projects directly from their mobile phones, and seek backing from brands, councils, local businesses and other supporters. Changify users can spot and share photos of local issues on Twitter using the hashtag #Changify and tweet ideas to solve them.

Salonmeister

Seed Round in 2013
Salonmeister is revolutionizing the last bastion of telephone reservation: beauty-salons and barber shops. With the vision to become the internet’s first address for beauty-bookings Salonmeister was founded in 2012. Today, it is not only that booking platform the founders once dreamed of, but Salonmeister became an expert in regards to scheduling and customer management for local beauty service providers. The Salonmeister calendar is a full fledge customer management tool tailored to the needs of the beauty industry delivering real value to merchants and their customers alike: up-to-date service and less stress for the merchant.

EISENHOWER

Seed Round in 2013
Eisenhower is a task management solution based on the proven Eisenhower matrix time management principle. Built with simplicity in mind, we provide you with a suite of software applications and tools to focus and work on the most important tasks. While helping you to prioritize and plan easily, Eisenhower minimizes stress on the one hand and increases productivity on the other.

PhyTunes

Seed Round in 2021
PHYTunes is staffed with experts in communication theory with extensive experience in the telecommunications industry. We have a passion for building solutions that meet the ever-changing connectivity requirements of consumers and enterprises.

Reputami GmbH

Seed Round in 2013
Reputami GmbH develops online reputation management solutions for local businesses. Its product provides small businesses with tools to analyze customer feedback on social media and location-based services. The company's solution evaluates online customer feedback and allow local businesses to review this data and respond to it. It controls relevant online sources and provides clients with recommendations to improve their online reputation. Reputami GmbH was founded in 2012 and is based in Cologne, Germany. As of March 10, 2016, Reputami GmbH operates as a subsidiary of eKomi, Ltd.

36pics

Seed Round in 2013
36pics is bringing the charm of analog photography back to smartphones. Use 36pics to create collections of your favorite pictures. And order them straight from your phone.

Contiamo GmbH

Venture Round in 2017
Contiamo GmbH designs and develops a SaaS (Software as a Service) analytics solution which integrates data from different sources in one place. It consumes data from different analytical, data science, and operational applications. The company offers Data Hub, which is the single source of data for all data use cases and allows users to integrate, explore and access data in a single platform. Contiamo GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

HypeLabs

Seed Round in 2017
HypeLabs is the company that created the Hype SDK, an interoperable mesh networking software that improves connectivity on all kinds of devices, from mobile to desktop to IoT, allowing them to connect even when there is no internet. The software works by intelligently connecting devices in local mesh networks using existing connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa and others. This network enables content to securely hop between devices, until it reaches a destination or an Internet exit point, improving range and deliverability. Founded in 2016, the company is located in San Francisco (USA), Porto (Portugal), London (UK) and Krakow (Poland). AngelPad #10 (Spring '16) alumni & Deutsche Telekom WARP alumni.

Goderma

Seed Round in 2013
Goderma is an ehealth company. Goderma takes care of the early detection and assessment of skin problems. Goderma provides dermatological assessment and recommendations for action via the internet and mobile apps within 48 hours.

Mighty-Office

Seed Round in 2013
Mighty-Office is a business app that provides over 30'000 employees mobile access to internal information. Using a branded app, employees can find and use office locations and services such as parking facilities or video conference rooms from their own group.

frestyl

Venture Round in 2013
frestyl is a web and mobile service entirely dedicated to live music that allows venues, clubs and promoters to bring more fans to their shows. frestyl’s web application allows music promoters and venues to quickly import their event calendar, push their shows automatically to Facebook & Twitter, and instantly create interactive event pages with videos, photos and music. To engage a larger audience, organizers pay to add special offers to their upcoming events and gather analytics about their customers. On a night out, fans use frestyl’s mobile app to discover last-minute recommendations for nearby music shows and unlock the exclusive specials when they arrive. With an alpha version already running in Italy, frestyl will launch its new product in Berlin on January 2013.

Justtag Group

Seed Round in 2019
JUSTTAG SP. Z O.O. operates a hyperlocal advertising platform that builds connection between offline and online world. The company engages mobile users through various advertising formats on Wi-Fi networks in public places; targets offline audience; and assists marketers in measuring and analyzing the impact of online campaigns to offline world. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Omnipaste

Seed Round in 2014
Omnipaste is a clipboard manager in the cloud and operates as a short-term memory. It allows users to transfer data between their devices running Windows operating system or Android. Omnipaste has developed a way to copy/paste between devices simply Ctrl+C on Windows and the hold and paste on Android mobile. Omnipaste also saves users time by allowing them to easily transfer data across devices.

Primal Shield

Seed Round in 2013
We let mobile users monetize their personal data. Through our Android app we collect mobile and social networks data. We use the data for profiling mood and personality. We then sell targeted ads and displaying them on the users’ mobile lockscreen. The revenued is then share with the user

Texel

Seed Round in 2018
TEXEL provides a white label platform that enables content owners, broadcasters, and telecom companies the provisioning of a immersive VOD and live 360 degrees videos of desired events. The platform offers a high video quality and network efficiencies and includes advanced social and monetization capabilities. The company, based in New York and Tel Aviv, is led by Amir Segev, Guy Zisman, and Ariel Galinsky, all senior executives from the broadcast and digital media technology world.

CapsuleFM

Seed Round in 2013
Capsule.fm is a service that makes your online content audible. Based in Berlin, Germany and Saigon, Vietnam, Capsule.fm is a startup exploring the unknown territory of personalised radio. We believe audio is the next major step in providing users with digital content. Capsule.fm creates services to speed up the progress. Signup as pilot user at http://signup.capsule.fm.

Cliperize

Seed Round in 2013
Cliperize is a social network for collecting, combining & discovering videos and music from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Dailymotion.

M2MGO

Seed Round in 2015
M2MGO is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of industrial automation, infrastructure, and the internet of things. It connects IT and OT data within a data hub, where anyone can build their own applications via a drag and drop editor.

easyID

Seed Round in 2013
easyID is a digital identity service provider. easyID wants to transform the way we prove identity online. Offering users a secure digital passport, easyID wants to add much needed trust to online transactions

Twyla

Seed Round in 2017
Twyla is an enterprise platform that provides a virtual agent for customer support and automates conversations through chatbots. It is driven with a mission to provide seamless, immediate, and relevant customer support while lowering the number of support tickets and the cost of running the support team. Its platform enables businesses of all sizes to harness the knowledge of human subject matter experts. It provides the ability to design and implement conversational experiences that not only save time and money but delights users. Twyla was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Optretina

Seed Round in 2013
OPTretina is a network of opticians, optometrists, and ophthalmologists that helps people know if they have a problem in their eyes. It is committed to working towards the prevention of blindness by offering access to an affordable test for the entire population. Patients go through a 3-minute process which consists of patient anamnesis, retinal images, image assessment, and report delivery. Some basic information is collected such as gender, age, diabetes, and intraocular pressure; the reason for the consultation; medical history; and other information that might be relevant. With the non-mydriatic camera, the pictures of the back of the eye are taken in a dark room. A team of retina experts receive the cases randomly and they write the medical report. If the doctor observes any sign of abnormality, the patient receives clear instructions or recommendations on how to proceed. The healthcare provider downloads and prints out the medical report and then delivers it along with any clarification or explanation that might be required for the patient to understand the medical terminology. OPTretina was launched by [Alejandro Dussan](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alejandro-dussan), [Dídac Royo](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/d%C3%ADdac-royo), [Miguel A. Zapata](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/miguel-a--zapata), and [Mark Ruiz](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-ruiz-2) in 2013 and its operations are based in Catalonia, Spain.

Lateral

Seed Round in 2013
Lateral GmbH provides a cloud-based application that enables users to create a bot, which automatically generates a feed of relevant news for their articles. The company’s solution recommends useful documents based on what users are working on in the cloud; reminds information they created or gathered in the past; and informs by recommending relevant content. Its solution also allows users to discover their content; enables predictive recommendations and personalization; and integrates their content into the Lateral ecosystem. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

stylemarks

Pre Seed Round in 2012
stylemarks is a mobile app that enables users to easily sell, discover and buy unique design products. Anytime. Anywhere. Our vision is to discover and explore new possibilities of peer to peer commerce through mobile technology. We want to do to e-commerce what tumblr did to blogging.

Reparando

Series A in 2017
Since mid-2015, Reparando offers an incomparable mobile phone repair service and is thus a bright spot for desperate smartphone owners. The founders Vincent Osterloh, Jakob Schoroth and Till Kratochwill recognized the unsatisfactory situation for people with defective iPhones or Samsung mobile phones and decided to change them: "Their mobile phone repair should be specially designed for a high level of quality, friendly and competent staff and an optimal service experience Distinguishing customers "- this is the philosophy of the mobile phones.

Excalibur

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Excalibur utilizes the mobile phone to act as a secure hardware token for any and all authentication and authorization needs inside of the enterprise. The ultimate goal is to move all forms of authentication and authorization away from passwords, replace them seamlessly with smartphone-based strong but user friendly multi-factor authentication. Excalibur unique value is in providing backward compatibility with all the applications, Operating Systems (OS) and services the enterprise uses today thus creating a bridge between the password-based present day and password-free future.

The New//Africa

Seed Round in 2013
The New//Africa is a media and event brand putting the young and aspiring AFRICAN achievers on the international agenda. We love to share success stories. We love to build new alliances.

uniGluko sp z.o.o.

Seed Round in 2015
uniGluko sp z.o.o. designs and develops personalized diabetes management software and hardware solutions for patients, doctors, and institutes. The company's solutions include uniGluko MOBILE, which is a personal diabetes control device and application for patients; uniGluko CLINIC, which is a device for diabetes care practitioners; and uniGluko CLOUD platform, which stores measurement results of the company's devices. It serves the healthcare industry. uniGluko sp z.o.o. is based in Kraków, Poland.

Scolibri

Seed Round in 2013
Scolibri is a learning management system, a moderated social network and a content management system rolled into one that connects outstanding student work to the public Internet that is easy and intuitive to use with a clean modern user interface. Scolibri is a credible secure proposition because its cloud service is hosted in data security conscious Germany. Scolibri helps teachers teach more easily, students organizing themselves and parents being updated. The adoption model of Scolibri is clever because it can be driven by individual teachers, groups of autonomous students or from the top down in a whole school installation.

PocketAid

Seed Round in 2013
PocketAid is using self-learning algorithms to support doctors and patients to find the perfect diagnosis. PocketAid aims to bring doctors and patients closer together - and above all to shorten treatment time. Roughly speaking, it is about the recording of the medical history, the state of health via App.

Ecoisme

Seed Round in 2014
Ecoisme is a home energy monitoring system that detects home appliances consumption and shows how much money users spend on it. It eliminates grid and solar energy overuse and notifies owners if something is about to break. The system requires just one sensor in the home which tracks energy consumption and it is connected to the fuse box in a contactless way. Ecoisme made a successful Indiegogo campaign, got CES Best of Innovations Award. In June Ecoisme became a member of EEI, and is working on pilot projects with EDF, Virgin Media and Dubai Energy and Water Authority.

Tail

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Tail is a mobile application that together with a fashionable clip helps its users take better care of their dogs. The application informs its users what their dogs are doing at the moment when their owners are not around and advise the owners on what to do in the coming months. Tail is based in Los Angeles, California.

uniGluko sp z.o.o.

Seed Round in 2016
uniGluko sp z.o.o. designs and develops personalized diabetes management software and hardware solutions for patients, doctors, and institutes. The company's solutions include uniGluko MOBILE, which is a personal diabetes control device and application for patients; uniGluko CLINIC, which is a device for diabetes care practitioners; and uniGluko CLOUD platform, which stores measurement results of the company's devices. It serves the healthcare industry. uniGluko sp z.o.o. is based in Kraków, Poland.

KoalaMetrics

Pre Seed Round in 2015
KoalaMetrics Sp. z o.o. develops a technology for telecoms and mCommerce platforms that enable them to identify psychographic profiles based on their smartphone usage. It engages in predicting user’s interests, behavior, and intents for enabling marketers to understand their clients and customize their offers. The company is based in Krakow, Poland.

ciValue

Seed Round in 2016
CiValue provides a marketing collaboration solution for retailers and their suppliers. Its platform enables retailers to provide their suppliers with aggregated market insights and identify customer segments with significant growth potential; and analyzes purchase history owned by the retailer, and translates it into brand-oriented shopper profiling. The company also provides predefined analytical dashboards and ad-hoc query tools that enable brands to identify early shopping trends and calibrate collaborative activities; and a guided targeting tool that supports the brand manager in identifying target groups with revenue growth potential by automatically creating the loyalty map for each product. CiValue is based in Caesarea, Israel.

Contiamo GmbH

Seed Round in 2013
Contiamo GmbH designs and develops a SaaS (Software as a Service) analytics solution which integrates data from different sources in one place. It consumes data from different analytical, data science, and operational applications. The company offers Data Hub, which is the single source of data for all data use cases and allows users to integrate, explore and access data in a single platform. Contiamo GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

DeviceHub

Angel Round in 2015
DeviceHub.net empowers ambitious developers to build tomorrow. We provide an integrated solution for IoT projects development, combining cloud integration with business intelligence in order to integrate both hardware and web technologies. We offer data gathering, cloud logic, triggers, real-time remote control, and analytics in a friendly user interface. We offer a PaaS (Platform as a Service) through which the hardware/mobile developers can connect and remotely manage multiple devices. This has enabled individuals and SMEs to rapidly develop systems for fleet management, intelligent vending machines, global container tracking, wearable electronics and many others. Our PaaS offering is modular and built to scale with security and performance as primary objectives. It can be fully white-labeled, re-branded, and installed on-premise or in a Virtual Private Cloud for Enterprise-grade deployments.

CloudStorm

Seed Round in 2018
CloudStorm provides robotic process automation solutions. It offers CloudStorm, a process automation software toolkit that connects the systems that employees use and automate their repetitive tasks using software robots. The company’s toolkit is also used for automating tasks, connecting software, excel integration, creating complex workflows, data entry and reporting, and remote workforce applications. CloudStorm was founded in 2016 and is based in Budapest, Hungary with additional offices in Vienna, Austria; and Kraków, Poland. It has cloud datacenters in Germany, Ireland, and the United States.

Flexperto GmbH

Seed Round in 2015
Flexperto GmbH provides video based communication platform for online medical support, online language teaching, and video consultation for education, finance, health, and insurance markets. The company provides all-in-one solution to book services, schedule appointments, exchange files, and engage live over video. It also offers Flexperto enterprise edition for the digital transformation of different service workflows from video-communication in the insurance and banking industry to online medical consultations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Teraki

Debt Financing 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.

ubirch GmbH

Seed Round in 2020
ubirch GmbH develops Internet of Things software security system by using block chain technology. The company provides software that transmits the data, which is cryptographically signed on the Internet of Things sensor. It serves production, insurance, startups, energy, and supply chain and logistic industries. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Cologne, Germany with an additional office location in Berlin, Germany.