SPREAD makes product data accessible, intuitive, and actionable. Our Engineering Intelligence Graph connects all kinds of product information to help engineering teams gain an objective understanding of ultra-complex systems like cars, aircraft, and machines. With use cases from R&D to Aftersales, SPREAD is helping customers like Mercedes, VW, and Infineon to accelerate development cycles, increase quality, eliminate millions in inefficiencies, and reduce their environmental footprint.
ecoplanet is a business-to-business energy platform that assists industrial enterprises in their energy transition.
Agreena is the creator of a soil carbon platform with the goal of scaling regenerative agriculture through finance and technology. The company verifies, mints, and sells carbon credits generated by farmers, issues third-party verified carbon certificates, and develops software that uses ground-truth data, satellites, artificial intelligence, and deep tech to enable scalable detection of key metrics, including regenerative agriculture principles, providing clients with both finance and scientific technology solutions to accelerate the global transition to regenerative agriculture and allowing farmers to increase their yields.
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DELLI believes that good food is for everyone. The customer can both buy and sell. A buyer, can enjoy exciting drops and support passionate, independent producers. A maker, can share food or drink with a new community eager to try new things and everyone can be part of it.
Ottonova provides health insurance through its digital platform. ottonova not only makes everyday life easier for you today, but is also your reliable health partner in the future.
charles is a leading WhatsApp marketing platform made in Berlin. Its easy-to-use, interface enables brands to run a powerful, GDPR-compliant WhatsApp channel – with rich functionality to boost sales. Its key features are Campaigns and Journeys. With Campaigns, you can send outbound marketing messages to your consumers, and track responses. With Journeys, you create and send engaging automated conversational flows – like WhatsApp product finders and Black Friday competitions. Plus analytics and proactive support.
Everdrop manufactures sustainable cleaning products. The company offers household products and natural cosmetics that are free of disposable plastic and unnecessary chemicals. According to Everdrop, all of its products are designed to avoid single-use plastic and unnecessary chemicals. Everdrop was established in 2019 and is located in Munich, Germany.
Real-time conversation analytics and continuous coaching. At i2x they are working to radically improve the human-to-human interaction between companies and their customers. They do this by providing real-time insights on business calls for managers on one side, and supporting agents with continuous communication training on the job on the other. i2x enables companies to leverage data and understand what makes their team successful and customers happy - all in real-time and powered by AI. With i2x, the black box of phone calls is decrypted for the first time. Traditionally, contact center success metrics are based on a limited set of data, including call attempts and duration. Built on a fit-for-purpose ASR (automatic speech recognition), i2x opens the doors to deeper, more meaningful insights. The platform evaluates complex speech parameters in real-time to determine the dynamics of a customer conversation. This includes customizable words and phrases, pauses, rate of speech, and speech-to-listen ratio. i2x analyzes sales and service team calls and identifies which approach works best for a specific customer or prospect group. Data-driven best practices are automatically shared with all team members. As a result, managers gain deeper insights into customer interactions, the skills of existing employees evolve and brand experience improves. i2x makes call data analyzable and actionable. “They do not automate, they augment the human intelligence, elevate customer interactions and amplify sales.”
simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month. Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have built a product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android. We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Hadrian’s digital security model focuses on automated event-based scanning. The company's approach maps vulnerabilities in an organization's entire attack surface infrastructure, and provides the critical insights to fortify them. Hadrian is developed by a team of hackers, their approach to digital security allows for continuous security validation, running tests on 1000s of digital assets. Hadrian was established in 2021 by Maurice Clin and Rogier Fischer in Amsterdamnm Noord-Holland.
CoachHub is the leading global talent development platform that enables organizations to create a personalized, measurable, and scalable coaching program for the entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. CoachHub offers AI-enabled coaching, data-driven insights, and integration with HR systems to help organizations deliver effective coaching at scale. The platform allows for remote and online coaching sessions, making it accessible to employees across different locations.
Exporo offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge. The idea begins in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance, as banks no longer finance entire projects as usual due to stricter regulation, and that private investors only have a lot of money, with good conditions and easy to invest in real estate. The result of this observation is the firm decision to develop its own online marketplace to offer real estate projects as an investment opportunity and to provide capital directly between private investors and real estate companies. Simon Brunke, Björn Maronde, Tim Bütecke and Julian Oertzen founded the online platform in 2014, they are constantly evolving and they are board members of Exporo AG. The company now employs more than 120 people and is based in Hamburg's HafenCity.
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
FINN offers monthly car subscriptions to create a sustainable method for mobility. Its mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: FINN helps everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment, and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. The company achieves this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car subscriptions.
Storyblok says its CMS provides ‘highly customizable content blocks and visual editing tools’ in n contrast to other headless CMS solutions which are flexible for developers but might be less so for actual editors to edit.
Informed offers a radical platform that uses modern technologies to curate news and events, enabling users to enjoy the information. Every day, their experts and editors scan hundreds of articles. They believe that skilled human curation is the key to diversified news that is free of filter bubbles and disinformation, and they draw opinions from small and large, Western and non-Western sources
Klima is a personal climate action app. With Klima, everyone can calculate their personal carbon footprint and understand the climate impact of their own lifestyle. Users can offset their emissions by supporting science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Next, the app helps to shrink one's personal footprint through climate education, customized tips, and achievments. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency.
Payrails is a payment operating system for global enterprises that want to effectively manage all aspects of their payment operations in one place. Our end-to-end solution connects merchants to a vast network of payment providers, fraud solutions, and alternative payment methods through one single, intuitive API. Payrails is joined in its mission by top-tier investors Andreessen Horowitz, EQT, General Catalyst, and HV Capital to enable us to solve the growing complexity of payments.
KoRo is a snacking brand that offers a range of products from natural foods to clean-label snacks and functional foods. It specializes in superfoods, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, cereals, various butter variety, supplements, organic drinks, juices, and protein bars.
Crumz is a distribution and development of food and beverage brands.
Certifaction is the world leader in privacy-first eSigning. In an era of increasing privacy concerns, the company offers the ideal solution for organisations wishing to digitise their processes while safeguarding data confidentiality and security. The fully fledged enterprise solution is already being used in a variety of industries, particularly within healthcare, financial services and public sectors, where privacy and security are of paramount importance. The company enjoys huge tailwinds, not only from the new paradigm of working from home, but also from worldwide regulatory pressure to adopt more secure and privacy-preserving solutions like Certifaction. Its modular technology can integrate any type of identity networks and is fully compliant with strongest compliance and security requirements.
Flip is the employee app empowering all employees from firstline to desktop. It does so by combining top-down and bottom-up communication tools such as newsfeed and chat with intuitive integrations in the existing corporate HR and IT landscape. Flip empowers employers by enabling them to reach all employees at the same time with just two clicks. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Flank is an AI-native agentic automation platform for expert teams. Deploy AI agents to your commercial teams. Instantly resolve requests. Unblock all of their bottlenecks, forever, and move at the speed you dream of.
Sastrify is a virtual software-as-a-service procurement service, helping finance and tech teams optimize the management and cost of SaaS tools in successful digital-first companies. The company automates repetitive and annoying processes (e.g. setting renewal dates, reaching out to suppliers, etc.) and uses a dedicated procurement team that benefits from a large database of SaaS benchmarks to get you the best prices on the market.
DELLI believes that good food is for everyone. The customer can both buy and sell. A buyer, can enjoy exciting drops and support passionate, independent producers. A maker, can share food or drink with a new community eager to try new things and everyone can be part of it.
simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month. Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have built a product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android. We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
JOKR is a last-mile delivery platform that allows for a faster, more relevant, more personalized, and more sustainable way of ordering essential grocery and convenience products at a hyper-local scale. The company makes the shopping experience smarter, faster, and more enjoyable, all while returning an extremely valuable asset back to the consumer: their time. JOKR delivers orders either within minutes of purchase, or at a pre-scheduled time, and offers a smooth, frictionless, and nearly instant experience. It is committed to sustainability by creating a more relevant and hassle-free shopping experience to limit people from overfilling their fridges and wasting food. The company is backed by some well-known and successful investors, including G-Squared, GGV, HV Capital, Monashees, and Tiger Global. JOKR focuses on the Brazilian market under the brand “DAKI” and currently has operations in cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, In February 2023, in its series C investment round, the company became worth 1.3 billion dollars, reinforcing the unicorn status guaranteed already in December 2021.
CarOnSale is a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. It is dedicated to providing its customers with the most convenient, profitable, and personalized solution possible. Its goal is to make used car trading as easy as possible.
Qualifyze supports pharma companies with fast, flexible, and reliable supply chain compliance assessments. Qualifyze connects customers, suppliers, and auditors via their data and application platform. They capture and convert proprietary raw audit data to generate unique insights into supplier compliance levels across the supply chain and help their partners in healthcare track, monitor, and forecast quality and sustainability compliance efforts. Through this cloud-based platform, their customers can access and drill down into supplier compliance information at any time across multiple sites, shaping a new way to optimize supplier risk mitigation processes in a streamlined, cost-effective manner. With a global network of over 200 local expert auditors, 1,000+ pharma clients, and the world’s largest database of supplier compliance data from 2,000+ suppliers, Qualifyze is a leading provider of structured and analyzable GxP audit data resulting from onsite inspections in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Plan A is Europe’s leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonization, and ESG reporting software provider. The Greentech has developed a SaaS platform that combines cutting-edge technologies with the latest scientific standards and methodologies. The end-to-end software solution enables businesses to self-manage their entire net-zero journey – from data collection over emissions calculation, target setting, and decarbonization planning to non-financial reporting – in one central hub.
Klima is a personal climate action app. With Klima, everyone can calculate their personal carbon footprint and understand the climate impact of their own lifestyle. Users can offset their emissions by supporting science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Next, the app helps to shrink one's personal footprint through climate education, customized tips, and achievments. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Wasp is a programming language for building full-stack web applications. Wasp is a simple configuration language for building enterprise web apps with less code and best practices. The company was founded by Martin Sosic and Matija Sosic in 2020 and is headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia.
We're building the Disney of the 21st century, creating blockbuster franchises across all media: from text, audiobooks, movies, to theme parks. Our success is most notable in e-books, where we are producing million-dollar hits every month through data-driven story selection and AI optimization. Our ecosystem includes three interconnected apps: - Inkitt: A social reading/writing platform with half a million active authors and millions of readers. - Galatea: Sells optimized stories chapter by chapter. - GalateaTV: Transforms successful e-books into short-form TV series, selling episodes individually. Our proprietary ReadRank algorithm predicts bestsellers, with top stories moving to Galatea. We launch a new TV series weekly. Our future focus is on Hyper Personalisation, adapting stories to individual preferences across all formats using AI.
Schüttflix is a digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel. It is a digital logistics hub for the construction industry. The platform connects construction companies, building material suppliers, waste disposal companies, and freight forwarders. It was founded in 2018 and is located in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia.
At Archlet, we help companies make better and faster sourcing decisions. We believe in creating easy to use and intelligent software products to disrupt the currently mostly manual and time-consuming approach in strategic sourcing.
Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup. Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours. Dance is based in Berlin, Germany.
Packmatic connects brands with packaging suppliers. Their services include packaging requests, onboarding, kick off calls with packaging engineers, sign off on the final product, and supplier matching. Contact Packmatic at info@packmatic.io.
CoachHub is the leading global talent development platform that enables organizations to create a personalized, measurable, and scalable coaching program for the entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. CoachHub offers AI-enabled coaching, data-driven insights, and integration with HR systems to help organizations deliver effective coaching at scale. The platform allows for remote and online coaching sessions, making it accessible to employees across different locations.
Sastrify is a virtual software-as-a-service procurement service, helping finance and tech teams optimize the management and cost of SaaS tools in successful digital-first companies. The company automates repetitive and annoying processes (e.g. setting renewal dates, reaching out to suppliers, etc.) and uses a dedicated procurement team that benefits from a large database of SaaS benchmarks to get you the best prices on the market.
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Felmo offers various veterinary services conveniently and stress-free at your home for your pets.
Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets through automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and ensuring low-cost space access for small satellites.
Yapily enables fairer and better financial services for everyone through Open Finance. Yapily enables companies around the world to share financial data and access payment infrastructure. They connect businesses to thousands of banks through a secure open API. Taking care of the complexity and management of connections, saving businesses time and money. As the world moves towards an open economy, the company exists to power the innovative solutions that will ultimately transform the way they all interact with financial products and services.
JOKR is a last-mile delivery platform that allows for a faster, more relevant, more personalized, and more sustainable way of ordering essential grocery and convenience products at a hyper-local scale. The company makes the shopping experience smarter, faster, and more enjoyable, all while returning an extremely valuable asset back to the consumer: their time. JOKR delivers orders either within minutes of purchase, or at a pre-scheduled time, and offers a smooth, frictionless, and nearly instant experience. It is committed to sustainability by creating a more relevant and hassle-free shopping experience to limit people from overfilling their fridges and wasting food. The company is backed by some well-known and successful investors, including G-Squared, GGV, HV Capital, Monashees, and Tiger Global. JOKR focuses on the Brazilian market under the brand “DAKI” and currently has operations in cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, In February 2023, in its series C investment round, the company became worth 1.3 billion dollars, reinforcing the unicorn status guaranteed already in December 2021.
Enpal is a Berlin-based company that provides all-in-one renewable energy solutions consisting of solar panels, battery, wallbox, heat pump and energy management system for customers across Germany and Italy. Founding and early history Enpal was founded in 2017 by Mario Kohle, Jochen Ziervogel, and Viktor Wingert. The company received early backing from Lukasz Gadowski, the prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and several board members of the Zalando fashion conglomerate. Enpal’s co-founders initially developed a sales-based business model, where end-users could purchase PV systems. Early market research suggested that a lease model would attract more uptake from customers who didn’t want the hassle of high investment costs and maintaining the solar system by themselves. The company settled on a 20-year lease term, which proved wildly successful during the first few years of its existence. Its lease agreements require no upfront payment from the customer and include installation, insurance, maintenance and other services. Rapid growth and expansion For most of its history, Enpal focused on the German market, first around its hometown of Berlin and later throughout the whole country. During the late 2010s and early 2020s, the company opened several satellite offices in an effort to provide responsive, localized sales and service to customers across the country. In 2021, Enpal opened a state-of-the-art training center for solar PV installers, where it trains its rapidly growing team of craftsmen. The company now has more than 200 local installer teams, whose members make up the bulk of Enpal’s employee roster, and a robust, efficient supply chain. Enpal’s key backers have included major impact investors and climate-tech venture firms, including Princeville Climate Technologies, Softbank Vision Fund II, TPG Rise Climate, HV Capital, The Westly Group, and Activate Capital. Co-founder Mario Kohle remains a managing director of the company. Fellow co-founders Jochen Ziervogel and Viktor Wingert (the current Chief Investment Officer) remain deeply involved as well. Enpal has won a number of awards over the years, including first place in the German Sustainability Prize Next Economy Award 2022, first place in the 2023 Smart Home Germany Awards, a 2023/2024 Stern Companies of the Future award, Die Welt #1 Service Champion in Customer Service Award, and KfW Award for Entrepreneurs 2022. The Enpal app was also awarded as Germany’s best solar management app. The company has also been among Germany’s fastest-growing companies in 2022 and 2023 based on the FT1000 ranking. Enpal today Today, Enpal has installed more than 60,000 solar PV systems across Germany and Italy. As of late 2022, Enpal is recognized as the market leader for solar PV installations in Germany. The company’s 2022 revenues exceeded 400 million euros on a headcount of more than 1,000 employees. After pivoting away from the sales model and focusing on leased systems for most of its history, Enpal added back a sales option in 2023 to accommodate customers who want to buy their solar solution. Either model can save the customer tens of thousands of euros over the course of a system’s 20- to 25-year useful lifespan, according to company data. Enpal has also diversified its product offerings in recent years. It now offers all-in-one renewable energy solutions consisting of solar panels, battery, wallbox, heat pump and energy management system.
Linearity is a software company whose products are designed to breathe new life into the design process and provide innovative ways of visualizing ideas. Known previously for the vector graphic design software Vectornator, Linearity’s product lineup includes vector and motion design tools like Linearity Curve and Linearity Move, tailored for both marketing professionals and enthusiasts. Linearity’s products are used to create millions of design assets every week.
Urban Sports Club offers a flexible sports flatrate. The mission is to help people lead a more healthy and active lifestyle. Club members can choose from more than 50 types of sports – ranging from classic gym workout, swimming, yoga, or bouldering, to team sports, wellness and lots more – and more than 10.000 partner venues in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium. Variety, flexible conditions as well as team sports and wellness are offered both for private customers and companies. Urban Sports GmbH was founded in 2012 by Moritz Kreppel and Benjamin Roth in Berlin, Germany. After two years of bootstrapping, the company secured an early-stage financing in 2015 and went on to acquire four of its German competitors, starting with Somuchmore in December, 2016. In January 2018, FITrate came on board, with INTERFIT following in December of the same year. OneFit joined the Urban Sports Club family in August of 2019.
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their product offerings. The platform offers digital bank accounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers. To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.
Wellster is the go-to solution for everyday consumer health. It builds digital clinics along the lifecycle of next gen. health consumers.
Habyt develops and manages community-driven and technologically-empowered co-living spaces. Habyt provides fully furnished private and shared apartments with flexible rental options and transparent pricing, accommodating diverse living arrangements globally. Habyt emphasizes community-driven, tech-enabled co-living spaces, making it easy for residents to connect and collaborate.
Welcome to super.AI. Our Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution leverages the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract data from any document with guaranteed quality. Our platform offers access to the latest AI models and our Data Processing Crowd provides on-demand human-in-the-loop (HITL) review.
Lingokids is the playlearningTM app for more than 10 million families around the world. The app teaches kids ages 2-8 important skills in English to help them discover their natural superpowers. Creativity. Collaboration. Critical thinking. Communication. These are some of the skills that children need to thrive. Parents can join the adventure of learning too. Lingokids has developed more than 600 games and activities kids and parents can play together. Their dream is to have a positive impact on 100 million families and we’re working hard to make it a reality.
We developed a fully automated robotic kitchen serving a variety of 100s of different dishes - always freshly cooked and customised by the user. As a start our business model is selling / leasing the robots to corporate clients to provide a flexible lunch option for employees. We take care of the whole operations and also sell the dishes - which is our actual profit stream. As the robot is very flexible we also see big potential in ghost kitchens, high frequency locations (train stations, airports, hospitals) and restaurants.
Verbit.ai is an AI company that specializes in combining capturing the spoken word using artificial intelligence and supported by humans. It provides transcription and captioning solutions as well as Audio description, Translation, Dubbing and Note taking. It also offers Generative AI applications for unlocking the value of the spoken word. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Scalable Capital is on its way to becoming Europe’s leading digital investment platform. The fintech brings people and technology-based investing together with the goal of democratising financial investments. In addition to services for private investors (B2C), Scalable Capital pursues numerous cooperations with renowned business clients (B2B). The company is funded by BlackRock, Tencent, HV Capital, Tengelmann Ventures and other prominent investors.
FlixBus is a unique combination of tech-startup, e-commerce platform, and transportation company. FlixMobility is a young mobility provider, offering new alternatives for convenient, affordable, and environmentally-friendly travel via the FlixBus and FlixTrain brands. Thanks to a unique business model and innovative technology, the startup has quickly established Europe’s largest long-distance bus network and launched the first green long-distance trains in 2018 as well as a pilot project for all-electric buses in Germany and France. Since 2013, FlixMobility has changed the way over 100 million people have traveled throughout Europe and created thousands of new jobs in the mobility industry. In 2018, FlixMobility launched FlixBus USA to bring this new travel alternative to the United States. From locations throughout Europe and the United States, the FlixTeam handles technology development, network planning, operations control, marketing & sales, quality management, and continuous product expansion. The daily scheduled service and green FlixBus fleet are managed by bus partners from regional SMEs, while FlixTrain operates in cooperation with private train companies. Through these partnerships, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, and a strong international brand meet the experience and quality of tradition. The unique combination of a technology start-up, e-commerce platform, and classic transport company has positioned FlixMobility as a leader against major international corporations, permanently changing the European mobility landscape.
Zencargo provides ocean, road, air, and rail freight services. It develops a platform that allows customers to book, manage, and track their international freight and uses analytics to drive intelligent supply chain decisions that help their businesses thrive. Zencargo enables shippers and their counterparts to collaborate and manage their logistics. It also offers tracking and cargo insurance services. Alex Hersham, Jan Riethmeyer, and Richard Fattal co-founded Zencargo on January 4, 2017. It has its headquarters in London, England.
Enpal is a Berlin-based company that provides all-in-one renewable energy solutions consisting of solar panels, battery, wallbox, heat pump and energy management system for customers across Germany and Italy. Founding and early history Enpal was founded in 2017 by Mario Kohle, Jochen Ziervogel, and Viktor Wingert. The company received early backing from Lukasz Gadowski, the prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and several board members of the Zalando fashion conglomerate. Enpal’s co-founders initially developed a sales-based business model, where end-users could purchase PV systems. Early market research suggested that a lease model would attract more uptake from customers who didn’t want the hassle of high investment costs and maintaining the solar system by themselves. The company settled on a 20-year lease term, which proved wildly successful during the first few years of its existence. Its lease agreements require no upfront payment from the customer and include installation, insurance, maintenance and other services. Rapid growth and expansion For most of its history, Enpal focused on the German market, first around its hometown of Berlin and later throughout the whole country. During the late 2010s and early 2020s, the company opened several satellite offices in an effort to provide responsive, localized sales and service to customers across the country. In 2021, Enpal opened a state-of-the-art training center for solar PV installers, where it trains its rapidly growing team of craftsmen. The company now has more than 200 local installer teams, whose members make up the bulk of Enpal’s employee roster, and a robust, efficient supply chain. Enpal’s key backers have included major impact investors and climate-tech venture firms, including Princeville Climate Technologies, Softbank Vision Fund II, TPG Rise Climate, HV Capital, The Westly Group, and Activate Capital. Co-founder Mario Kohle remains a managing director of the company. Fellow co-founders Jochen Ziervogel and Viktor Wingert (the current Chief Investment Officer) remain deeply involved as well. Enpal has won a number of awards over the years, including first place in the German Sustainability Prize Next Economy Award 2022, first place in the 2023 Smart Home Germany Awards, a 2023/2024 Stern Companies of the Future award, Die Welt #1 Service Champion in Customer Service Award, and KfW Award for Entrepreneurs 2022. The Enpal app was also awarded as Germany’s best solar management app. The company has also been among Germany’s fastest-growing companies in 2022 and 2023 based on the FT1000 ranking. Enpal today Today, Enpal has installed more than 60,000 solar PV systems across Germany and Italy. As of late 2022, Enpal is recognized as the market leader for solar PV installations in Germany. The company’s 2022 revenues exceeded 400 million euros on a headcount of more than 1,000 employees. After pivoting away from the sales model and focusing on leased systems for most of its history, Enpal added back a sales option in 2023 to accommodate customers who want to buy their solar solution. Either model can save the customer tens of thousands of euros over the course of a system’s 20- to 25-year useful lifespan, according to company data. Enpal has also diversified its product offerings in recent years. It now offers all-in-one renewable energy solutions consisting of solar panels, battery, wallbox, heat pump and energy management system.
BUX specializes in the fields of fintech, mobile apps, investments, stocks, and zero-commission. Its platform makes commission-free investing accessible, intuitive, and affordable for both first time and existing investors. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland.
jobvalley’s Workforce-as-a-Service platform connects the student workforce with flexible assignments via a technology-driven, two-sided marketplace. The company’s technology is developed fully inhouse, with six dedicated development teams continuously adding further automation features and improving platform scalability. jobvalley is headquartered in Cologne and employs >400 employees across six hub locations in Germany.
charles is a leading WhatsApp marketing platform made in Berlin. Its easy-to-use, interface enables brands to run a powerful, GDPR-compliant WhatsApp channel – with rich functionality to boost sales. Its key features are Campaigns and Journeys. With Campaigns, you can send outbound marketing messages to your consumers, and track responses. With Journeys, you create and send engaging automated conversational flows – like WhatsApp product finders and Black Friday competitions. Plus analytics and proactive support.
PlusDental is a fast-growing Digital Health Startup in the area of digital orthodontics operating from Berlin/Germany. We treat cosmetic cases of malocclusion (teeth straightening) through our innovative treatment approach using clear aligners. We are a fast growing team of business people and dentists/orthodontists aiming at revolutionising the treatment of aesthetic orthodontics in Europe. Clear aligners are a fast-growing market segment world wide and we want to help more customers to use the benefits of this easy to use and versatile treatment method. We make treatments much more convenient and affordable for our customers through the use and development of cutting-edge technology.
Roadsurfer is a camper rental company that offers campervan rental services at more than 13 locations. It helps consumers will find individual camping spots in the great outdoors that can book easily and conveniently online. The company offers over 2,500 campers at 22 locations in several European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. Roadsurfer was started in 2017 and is based in Munich, Germany.
About the Sdui Group Since its foundation in Koblenz in 2018, the Sdui Group has developed into one of the fastest growing education technology companies in Europe. As a reliable partner, the EdTech provider supports educational institutions, providers and ministries in digitalisation and develops innovative operating systems for digital schools and preschools. The aim of the platform is to connect teachers, educators, parents and children through intelligent functions. The Sdui Group's solutions reduce the administrative burden, freeing up time for the organisations' main task: to provide the best possible education. To this end, the Sdui Group offers GDPR-compliant solutions with features such as chat, translation functions, cloud, class register or AI lesson planners that are specifically tailored to the needs of schools and preschools. The Sdui Group also includes the administration and management platform PUPIL and the learning and grade management offering Additio. The company is based in Koblenz and currently employs around 230 people. It is active in more than 70 countries. Following the acquisition of FoxEducation, a total of 22,000 educational institutions use services offered by the Sdui Group.
Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking. It automates bank accounts and invoices, offers online cashless banking services, and helps to open an online banking account in minutes, enabling consumers to manage their cashflows easily. Penta's mission is to disrupt business banking in Europe and worldwide. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Hyperganic radically redefines engineering with the goal to help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. The company’s software platform creates parts, structures and entire machines through Artificial Intelligence, and enables mass production in digital factories using industrial 3D printing. The resulting products are more advanced, efficient and sustainable than traditionally engineered objects.
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.
Actio access to professionals in practically any area, including career, relationships, finance, cuisine, nutrition, sports, yoga, styling, and legal advice. Actio allows users to book private meetings for advice. Actio was established in 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
Everdrop manufactures sustainable cleaning products. The company offers household products and natural cosmetics that are free of disposable plastic and unnecessary chemicals. According to Everdrop, all of its products are designed to avoid single-use plastic and unnecessary chemicals. Everdrop was established in 2019 and is located in Munich, Germany.
Exporo offers investors an overview of real estate projects in which they can invest easily, transparently and free of charge. The idea begins in 2013 with the realization that real estate project developers are increasingly looking for alternative sources of finance, as banks no longer finance entire projects as usual due to stricter regulation, and that private investors only have a lot of money, with good conditions and easy to invest in real estate. The result of this observation is the firm decision to develop its own online marketplace to offer real estate projects as an investment opportunity and to provide capital directly between private investors and real estate companies. Simon Brunke, Björn Maronde, Tim Bütecke and Julian Oertzen founded the online platform in 2014, they are constantly evolving and they are board members of Exporo AG. The company now employs more than 120 people and is based in Hamburg's HafenCity.
Felmo offers various veterinary services conveniently and stress-free at your home for your pets.
Sennder is a digital road freight forwarder that links commercial shippers with freight carriers. It provides automation, transparency, and efficiency with its in-house-developed platform for the freight market. They digitalize the truckload-shipping ecosystem by providing mobile apps to drivers, fleet management tools to carrier managers, and logistics management solutions to shippers. The company offers real-time booking as well as precise live tracking, bringing full transparency to any logistics supply chain. It integrates directly with the shippers’ transport management and freight management systems via APIs and by cutting the multiple middlemen, it increases efficiency and reduces cost for all stakeholders.
Atolls is the world’s largest shopping engagement platform, empowering millions of people to take smarter spending decisions. The company operates a network of digital shopping destinations, including coupon sites, cashback platforms, and shopping communities, that are trusted by hundreds of millions of shoppers each year. The company is active in more than 20 countries and counts over 1000 employees in its offices around the world.
Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets through automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and ensuring low-cost space access for small satellites.
FINN offers monthly car subscriptions to create a sustainable method for mobility. Its mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: FINN helps everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment, and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. The company achieves this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car subscriptions.
Ultimate develops a virtual agent platform. They provide customer experiences through automation. Their deep-learning artificial intelligence technology works with agents to learn from historical chat data and reply to suggestions.
At VAHA they are passionate about motivating people to reach their full potential and believe that everyone can live a full and energetic life through the experience of FLOW. Flow is the "sweet spot" where the challenge fits your personal skills perfectly. This is exactly the point at which optimal progress and absolute motivation are achieved.
Verbit.ai is an AI company that specializes in combining capturing the spoken word using artificial intelligence and supported by humans. It provides transcription and captioning solutions as well as Audio description, Translation, Dubbing and Note taking. It also offers Generative AI applications for unlocking the value of the spoken word. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world. The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancy to a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
The Naked Market is a next-generation consumer products company that is creating a portfolio of food & beverage brands.
Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup. Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours. Dance is based in Berlin, Germany.
Limehome is a hospitality startup that combines the quality standard of a hotel with the coziness and comfort of an apartment. They offer nightly stays for a weekend away as well as discounted monthly rates for longer project stays or business trips (subject to availability). The company digital entry system allows its guests to enter their suite anytime after 4pm and the guest receive their personal access codes via SMS and e-mail on the arrival day. Limehome automates all conventional processes of hotel business from pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service to invoicing. It also offers guests a completely digitized journey with large, stylish suites featuring Scandinavian design, which would be extremely expensive in common three- to four-star hotels. Limehome was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
Lingokids is the playlearningTM app for more than 10 million families around the world. The app teaches kids ages 2-8 important skills in English to help them discover their natural superpowers. Creativity. Collaboration. Critical thinking. Communication. These are some of the skills that children need to thrive. Parents can join the adventure of learning too. Lingokids has developed more than 600 games and activities kids and parents can play together. Their dream is to have a positive impact on 100 million families and we’re working hard to make it a reality.
Heartbeat enables providers to learn from the most important data point in healthcare: quality of life. We are experts in the field of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and passionate about generating high-quality Real World Evidence.
simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month. Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have built a product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android. We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Everdrop manufactures sustainable cleaning products. The company offers household products and natural cosmetics that are free of disposable plastic and unnecessary chemicals. According to Everdrop, all of its products are designed to avoid single-use plastic and unnecessary chemicals. Everdrop was established in 2019 and is located in Munich, Germany.
IMMO is Europe’s first technology-led residential real estate platform, designed to create quality portfolios of existing single-family rental (SFR) housing at speed and scale. We’ve built a unique end-to-end solution, providing institutional partners with sourcing, acquisition, portfolio management, lettings and property management, enabling them to drive performance and maximise returns. Founded in 2017, we have assembled an experienced team of 130+ which includes successful entrepreneurs and industry leaders with expertise from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Uber, HSBC, Amazon, Procter & Gamble, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Google and many more. We have an established presence in the UK, Germany, Spain and India and have been awarded “Tech Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum.
Klima is a personal climate action app. With Klima, everyone can calculate their personal carbon footprint and understand the climate impact of their own lifestyle. Users can offset their emissions by supporting science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Next, the app helps to shrink one's personal footprint through climate education, customized tips, and achievments. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
Schüttflix is a digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel. It is a digital logistics hub for the construction industry. The platform connects construction companies, building material suppliers, waste disposal companies, and freight forwarders. It was founded in 2018 and is located in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Felmo offers various veterinary services conveniently and stress-free at your home for your pets.
Scalable Capital is on its way to becoming Europe’s leading digital investment platform. The fintech brings people and technology-based investing together with the goal of democratising financial investments. In addition to services for private investors (B2C), Scalable Capital pursues numerous cooperations with renowned business clients (B2B). The company is funded by BlackRock, Tencent, HV Capital, Tengelmann Ventures and other prominent investors.
Alasco supports project controllers and developers through automated workflows and the availability of financial data placed in a central information source. This increases the productivity of the participants. This method also decreases the probability of errors, assures comprehensive transparency, and faster decision-making.
Actio access to professionals in practically any area, including career, relationships, finance, cuisine, nutrition, sports, yoga, styling, and legal advice. Actio allows users to book private meetings for advice. Actio was established in 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
Solarisbank is a Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their product offerings. The platform offers digital bank accounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers. To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital.
PlusDental is a fast-growing Digital Health Startup in the area of digital orthodontics operating from Berlin/Germany. We treat cosmetic cases of malocclusion (teeth straightening) through our innovative treatment approach using clear aligners. We are a fast growing team of business people and dentists/orthodontists aiming at revolutionising the treatment of aesthetic orthodontics in Europe. Clear aligners are a fast-growing market segment world wide and we want to help more customers to use the benefits of this easy to use and versatile treatment method. We make treatments much more convenient and affordable for our customers through the use and development of cutting-edge technology.
homefully develops a real estate platform designed to provide co-living spaces that connect people in cities. Their platform provides a selection of suitable apartments with pricing quotations, furnished rooms, electrical gadgets, equipment, a kitchen, and cleaning services.
Zeitgold provices an app which combines human expertise with artificial intelligence to allow small companies such as owners of cafes, restaurants, small retailers or craft businesses (who ususally have 3 to 20 employees), to manage preparatory accounting and other administrative tasks and run their business easily. The app app covers all areas of a business’s finance processes. In details, the system features: – a digital, real-time and compliant cash journal, – a tool to automate preparatory bookkeeping, – a document archive, – payments tools to manage open invoices, – tools to manage personnel master data and pay employees,