HV Capital

HV Capital is a Munich- and Berlin-based venture capital firm that supports founders in developing their internet companies. Since 2000 HV Capital, formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, has invested in Internet and technology companies through various generations of funds and is one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth investors in Europe. HV Capital has already invested in around 200 companies, including Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility and SumUp. The total of all HV Funds amounts to €1.7 billion. The company supports startups with capital between €500,000 and €50 million. This makes HV Capital one of the few venture capitalists in Europe that can finance startups through all growth phases.

Sven Achter

Risk Management

Rainer Maerkle

General Partner

548 past transactions

Home24

Venture Round in 2016
Home24 SE markets, sells, and ships furniture and home furnishings. Its large furniture products comprise living and dining furniture products, including chairs, tables, and drawers, upholstery products that comprise sofas, armchairs, and ottomans, bedroom furniture products, such as beds, wardrobes, and mattresses, and other products consisting of garden, office, and bathroom products. Home24's small furniture products include lightning products, such as interior and ceiling lights, and table lamps, accessories comprising decorations, curtains, and pillows, and other products, including mirrors, shelves, and cabinets. It sells its products primarily under the Home24, Mobly, Ars Manufacti, Ars Natura, Fredriks, Jack & Alice, Masion Belfort, Mooved, Eva Padberg, and Smood brand names. Home24 serves through a network of seven showrooms in Germany and Austria, as well as online channels, such as Websites and apps. It also operates in Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Brazil. Christoph Cordes, Felix Jahn, Marc Appelhoff, and Philipp Kreibohm founded Home24 in 2009. Its headquarters is in Berlin in Germany.

homefully

Private Placement in 2018
homefully GmbH provides co-living spaces for rentals and paying guest accommodation. The company offers fully furnished bedroom, cleaning services, concierge service and personal check-in services, and kitchen. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with additional locations in Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, and Hamburg, Germany.

Global Savings Group

Series A in 2014
Global Savings Group GmbH operates savings platforms that offer users opportunities to save on shopping in various sectors. It provides deals in the areas of fashion and accessories, books, movies, music and games, electronics and phones, beauty, health and wellness, and more. Global Savings Group GmbH was formerly known as CUPONATION Group GmbH and changed its name to Global Savings Group GmbH in July 2016. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Alasco GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
Alasco GmbH develops software which helps construction companies. The company is headquartered in Ettlingen, Germany.

Isar Aerospace

Series B in 2021
Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that aims to lower the entry barriers to space. It develops launch vehicles dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. Based on rocket engineering research, environmentally friendly propellants, and advanced manufacturing, the company delivers small and medium payloads to orbit. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Jabong.com

Seed Round in 2010
Jabong.com is the best Online shopping Portal in India for men, women & kids for shoes, clothing, watches, sunglasses. Jabong was once thought to own one-quarter of India’s fashion e-commerce market, making it the chief threat to Myntra.

JOKR

Series B in 2021
JOKR is a grocery and delivery platform that provides hyper-local product delivery services. The company offers customers delivery of an assortment of grocery and retail items to their doorstep in less than 15 minutes. It aims to democratize retail by bringing together global suppliers' all-time favorite products and local brands to support the small businesses in every neighborhood while minimizing waste. JOKR currently operates hubs in cities including New York, São Paolo, Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Warsaw, and Vienna. It was headquartered in New York, New York in 2021.

Klima

Series A in 2022
Klima is a provider of CO2 offsetting services used to reverse the effects of climate change. Its application allows users to calculate their footprint and understand the climate impact of their lifestyle and allows them to support science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same amount of emissions elsewhere that helps users realize their carbon emission goals. Klima was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Agreena

Series B in 2023
Agreena is a startup that mints, verifies and sells carbon credits generated by farmers to provide an economic incentive to switch from traditional arable farming to regenerative agricultural methods.

Penta

Series B in 2021
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.

Lieferheld

Seed Round in 2010
Lieferheld is a provider of an online platform for ordering food designed to assist users to get restaurant food easily. The company's platform assists customers to make an order to almost any restaurant in their city without needing to log on to the website operated by the restaurant, enabling users to get their favorite food delivered at their door step.

Semasio

Series A in 2012
Semasio GmbH offers user intelligence platform which facilities and targets the activities of marketers. The company develops and markets solutions for profiling and targeting digital media users based on statistical modeling and machine learning. It offers intelligence platform that enables users to build their own database profiles on internet in which they are commercially interested and helps media agencies, publishers, and direct customers in identifying individual target groups with transparency and data ownership. It also enables advertisers to reach through the real time advertising. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

i2x

Private Placement in 2019
i2x GmbH develops artificial intelligence (AI) software to optimize sales and customer calls through real-time automated coaching. Its features for team and individuals includes enables recording of calls for future reference, helps in analyzing calls using a combination of machine learning algorithms, big data and the experiences of colleagues, and receives feedback after every call so that team improves and enhances each customer's experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Spread

Series A in 2023
SPREAD GmbH produces digital products, which includes quantitative calculations and qualitative deductions. It includes management of complex products, seamless three-dimensional interaction, and engineering solutions. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

jobvalley

Series B in 2012
Studitemps specialized in placing qualified students as temp workers, when necessary even on very short notice. Thereby they recruit from their database, which includes 300,000 registered students in Germany. Given their belief “Studenten können alles!” the students work in the office but also in the warehouse, in customer service and many more. Students are flexible and educated. Hence there is proof that their placement is faster and that they are more productive when compared to other employees.

Flip

Series A in 2022
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.

Yapily

Series B in 2021
At Yapily, we enable companies around the world to share financial data and access payment infrastructure. We 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, we exist to power the innovative solutions that will ultimately transform the way we all interact with financial products and services.

Dance

Venture Round in 2021
Dance GmbH manufactures electric bikes for online subscription services. The company provides e-bike subscription services in Berlin through a mobile application, Dance, which provides access to the bike management, maintenance and theft replacement insurance, and monthly subscription fee services. Dance GmbH was formerly known as Supertribe GmbH. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Tourlane

Private Placement in 2018
Tourlane GmbH operates an online travel consulting and booking portal. The company’s platform connects travelers with the travel specialists world-wide. It allows individuals and groups to affordably plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online. Its software offers real time pricing, availability, instant trip visualization, and drag-and-drop adjustments. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Everdrop

Series B in 2022
everdrop GmbH manufactures plastic-free packaged cleanser tablets. It offers spray bottles and laundry detergent powder. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany.

StudiVZ

Series A in 2006
StudiVZ operates as a social media network for college students in Germany. It was launched in 2005.

Dreamlines

Series B in 2013
Dreamlines USA, LLC offers cruise booking packages and services. The company offers cruise deals to various cruise lines such as Carnival Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Disney Cruise Line, Holland America Line, MSC Cruises, Oceania Cruises, Princess Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and Royal Caribbean. Dreamlines USA, LLC was founded in 2012 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Zeuz

Private Placement in 2018
zeuz strives to deliver the best game tech suite for multiplayer games and aims to facilitate backend technologies for game studios. For 15 years, the founding team has been working in the field of multiplayer infrastructure and brings their expertise to all areas of operations. Leading studios such as Funcom, as well as Indie developers like Gamepires already employ zeuz technology. Each year, zeuz provides the infrastructure for a perfect multiplayer experience for over 50 million players in more than 50 countries.

Scalable Capital

Series A in 2015
Scalable Capital is a digital investment service founded in 2014, with offices in Munich and London. It uses proprietary software to offer portfolios which are dynamically optimised with a primary focus on risk management. State-of-the-art technology enables the company to offer a first class investment service, previously only available to large institutional investors, to individuals at a fraction of the cost. The company is funded by major VCs including Holtzbrinck Ventures, Monk’s Hill Ventures, German Startup Group and other prominent angel investors.

Dance

Series A in 2021
Dance GmbH manufactures electric bikes for online subscription services. The company provides e-bike subscription services in Berlin through a mobile application, Dance, which provides access to the bike management, maintenance and theft replacement insurance, and monthly subscription fee services. Dance GmbH was formerly known as Supertribe GmbH. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

VAHA

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Ultimate

Private Placement in 2020
ultimate.ai is a virtual customer service agent builder bringing multilingual customer service automation to businesses. The company's s proprietary deep learning technology enables customer service automation in all languages. Automate first-line customer contact across chat, email, and social, increase agent productivity by over 30% for complex cases, and continuously learns to improve the quality of automated and assisted support.

AdScale

Series B in 2008
adscale offers advertisers and website owners a transparent and high-reach trading space for digital advertising space (display, video and mobile). The adscale Supply Side Platform enables publishers to optimize their yield management through private deals and private auctions. Business partners benefit from various optimization technologies (programmatic buying, targeting, data management platform) and a fair price-performance ratio.

Penta

Private Placement in 2020
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.

Legal OS

Seed Round in 2022
Legal OS GmbH develops a library which creates, manages, and analyzes legal compliant and individualized contracts. It helps users collaborate on law contracts. The company offers solutions, such as self-assembling docs, automate business processes, and data connections. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

L’ArcoBaleno

Series A in 2013
L’ArcoBaleno is the ultimate resource for exploring, discovering and collecting extraordinary design from around the world. Our site mixes a curated marketplace with unique magazine-style content covering desirable and intriguing work across the spectrum of design – from furniture, lighting, crafts, and decorative arts to architecture, travel, fashion, and technology. We bring you material from the world’s most exclusive galleries and makers, and offer you our fresh insight through stories, reports and videos produced in collaboration with today’s most forward-looking and influential curators, collectors, designers, musicians, filmmakers and nerds. We want to enliven the global design conversation and inspire you to become even more knowledgeable and passionate about design.

Sastrify

Series A in 2022
Sastrix is a virtual Software-as-a-Service procurement service, helping finance and tech teams to optimize management and cost of SaaS tools in digital-first companies. Our team brings transparency to your existing setup, gets rid of underutilized licenses and negotiates with your suppliers to get the best deals for you. Based on millions in analyzed spend, we typically save thousands of SaaS dollars within 15-20 minutes of your time. Obviously, our mission is to save more money than we cost, creating a win-win situation with our customers.

Electry

Seed Round in 2022
PowerUs is a digital career platform for technical blue-collar workers to empower them in their careers and help them find better jobs.

Easy Taxi

Venture Round in 2015
Easy Taxi is a taxi application that allows people to easily book a taxi and track it in real time. It connects passengers and taxi drivers through Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry devices. It also serves businesses and corporate users through Easy Taxi PRO and Easy Taxi Corporate applications. The company's mission is to convince a new generation of taxi drivers and passengers that using the platform will help reduce traffic and improve mobility. It was founded in 2011 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Semasio

Series B in 2014
Semasio GmbH offers user intelligence platform which facilities and targets the activities of marketers. The company develops and markets solutions for profiling and targeting digital media users based on statistical modeling and machine learning. It offers intelligence platform that enables users to build their own database profiles on internet in which they are commercially interested and helps media agencies, publishers, and direct customers in identifying individual target groups with transparency and data ownership. It also enables advertisers to reach through the real time advertising. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Lendis

Seed Round in 2019
Lendis is revolutionizing the office industry with a digital office management service that lets you easily subscribe to electronics, software, furniture and services depending on your needs. Lendis takes the hassle out of managing offices and lets you focus on what is important: growth of your company.

MeinAuto

Series C in 2011
MeinAuto is an information-sharing portal offers a range of auto-related services to its users.The portal contains news, tests, and information about makes and classes of vehicles. It provides guidance on finding authorized dealers, custom designing, leasing and financing options, as well as car and price comparisons. Furthermore, the portal provides facilities to post queries and obtain answers, email, as well as to receive telephone call assistance from its users.

InterNations GmbH

Series C in 2011
With 1.8 million members in 390 cities around the world, InterNations is the largest global network and information site for people who live and work abroad. InterNations offers global and local networking both online and face-to-face: At around 4,000 monthly events and activities, expatriates have the opportunity to meet with other global minds. Online services include country and city guides created by a team of professional writers, guest contributions about life abroad, and discussion forums to help members with topics such as local housing and job searching. To ensure the quality of the network, InterNations membership is by approval only.

LoopMe

Series A in 2015
LoopMe closes the loop on brand advertising. We solve attribution in real time, use AI to optimize media delivery and create measurable, incremental uplift against sales and other marketing goals. Our 1st party data is sourced from proprietary brand surveys and mobile data, including GPS location. This is enhanced by third party data partnerships, which enable LoopMe to access data including credit card purchases, car registrations, loyalty card and TV viewership in-flight. Real-time AI optimization uses this data to optimize media performance to users delivering on brand outcomes, while transparent analytics provides clients with deep insights into their active audience.

eTone Motion Analysis GmbH

Private Placement in 2020
eTone Motion Analysis GmbH provides personalized body sessions for body, mind, and nutrition via digital and interactive personal training. The company offers personal trainers and celebrity fitness classes online. It offers personal training, nutritional counseling as well as mindfulness and meditation exercises for every sport type and fitness level. Additionally, the company owns and operates the VAHA app, the device that offers a comprehensive package for a healthy and mindful lifestyle. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

sennder

Private Placement in 2019
sennder GmbH offers transport and forwarding services through a web based platform. The company provides courier, express, parcel, and cargo forwarding services for short and long haul routes. It provides instant pricing, live tracking, and API integration. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

charles

Seed Round in 2021
Charles GmbH develops and offers conversational commerce suite. It provides intuitive UI that integrates messenger API’s with commerce backend, Integrate conversation trigger, Drive customer value via chat, Multi-Chat APIs, shop integration, Automation, and Template Studio. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

jobvalley

Venture Round in 2010
Studitemps specialized in placing qualified students as temp workers, when necessary even on very short notice. Thereby they recruit from their database, which includes 300,000 registered students in Germany. Given their belief “Studenten können alles!” the students work in the office but also in the warehouse, in customer service and many more. Students are flexible and educated. Hence there is proof that their placement is faster and that they are more productive when compared to other employees.

Legal OS

Private Placement in 2019
Legal OS GmbH develops a library which creates, manages, and analyzes legal compliant and individualized contracts. It helps users collaborate on law contracts. The company offers solutions, such as self-assembling docs, automate business processes, and data connections. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Zencargo

Series B in 2021
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 use 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 trucking and cargo insurance services. Alex Hersham, Jan Riethmeyer, and Richard Fattal founded Zencargo on January 4, 2017. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Auctionata

Series A in 2013
Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvency proceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.

DreamCheaper

Seed Round in 2017
DreamCheaper, a service that searches for cheaper hotel rates and rebooks a room on behalf of guests. The platform works by encouraging previously booked guests to email their reservation to the site. It then scours rates on more than 100 other booking sites and wholesalers – if it finds a cheaper rate it will rebook the guest, taking a 20% fee from the saving made.

Warehousing1

Series A in 2022
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.

Productive Mobile AWSM GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
Productive Mobile AWSM GmbH provides enterprise mobility solutions. It offers Matterway, a platform to make enterprise applications mobile, such as CRM, ERP, reports, dashboards, knowledge bases, employee portals, or intranet. The company’s Matterway includes Studio that enables Product owners to create mobile enterprise apps in a visual way; Gateway app, a single point of access for employees to use all their mobile enterprise apps easily and securely; and Mobility Cloud that is used by administrators to integrate with the corporate network, set permissions, and view audit trails. Productive Mobile AWSM GmbH is based in Berlin, Germany.

Qualifyze

Series A in 2021
Qualifyze (former ChemSquare) was founded out of the Technical University of Darmstadt in September 2017. Today, we are based in Frankfurt am Main, the heart of Germany’s pharmaceutical cluster, where the leading life science companies are based. Our team consists of 16 people with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise in business, engineering, and technology as well as several strategic partners from the pharma, food and cosmetics industry.

Carmudi

Series C in 2017
Carmudi is the vehicle marketplace that offers buyers, sellers, and car dealers a platform to find cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles online. It displays classified advertisements with details for brand new cars and used cars. Jumia Car provides users with a search option based on the vehicle brand and model, city, and the asking price of the vehicle. It was launched in 2013 by Erwin Sikma, Fritz Simons, and Stefan Haubold. It is based in Jakarta, Indonesia

CoachHub

Series C in 2022
coachhub GmbH operates a digital learning and cloud coaching platform. The company offers bi-weekly personal video coaching sessions with top business coaches and personalized micro-learning nuggets added by the coach. It serves automotive, consumer goods, energy, fashion and lifestyle, financial services, industrial goods, media and entertainment, retail, technology, travel and hospitality, consulting and services, environment and sustainability, pharma and health, and real estate and construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

ZenMate

Series A in 2014
ZenMate is a software solution that encrypts its users' internet connection to protect their privacy while browsing. It was launched by ZenGuard in 2013.

Zeitgold

Series A in 2019
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,

Ultimate

Seed Round in 2019
ultimate.ai is a virtual customer service agent builder bringing multilingual customer service automation to businesses. The company's s proprietary deep learning technology enables customer service automation in all languages. Automate first-line customer contact across chat, email, and social, increase agent productivity by over 30% for complex cases, and continuously learns to improve the quality of automated and assisted support.

Hadrian

Seed Round in 2022
Hadrian is built by hackers with love. Our hacker-first approach is a new way of looking at security platforms. By constantly probing and analysing the IT infrastructure of a company, we provide continuous, real-time insight into its attack surface and digital risks.

Sastrify

Seed Round in 2021
Sastrix is a virtual Software-as-a-Service procurement service, helping finance and tech teams to optimize management and cost of SaaS tools in digital-first companies. Our team brings transparency to your existing setup, gets rid of underutilized licenses and negotiates with your suppliers to get the best deals for you. Based on millions in analyzed spend, we typically save thousands of SaaS dollars within 15-20 minutes of your time. Obviously, our mission is to save more money than we cost, creating a win-win situation with our customers.

Mercavus

Seed Round in 2019
mercavus GmbH operates an online platform that connects independent retailers and brands to facilitate wholesale shopping. Its platform enables retailers to buy products from around the world without having to worry about country borders, different currencies, or language barriers. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Isar Aerospace

Venture Round in 2021
Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that aims to lower the entry barriers to space. It develops launch vehicles dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. Based on rocket engineering research, environmentally friendly propellants, and advanced manufacturing, the company delivers small and medium payloads to orbit. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Germany.

KoRo

Series B in 2022
KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.

Exporo

Venture Round in 2022
Exporo AG operates a online real estate crowdfunding platform in Germany. Its platform serves as a contact point that fits the needs of private investors, who are seeking for real estate investment opportunities and real estate developers seeking for capital. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

super.AI

Series A in 2021
super.AI is a data labeling platform for AI that uses AI and humans to generate, structure, and label any type of data. It has a new approach to data labeling and machine learning called data programming which runs on the AI Compiler that they created. The platform breaks apart a complex task into small pieces like an assembly line and then automates those pieces over time. super.AI compiler quickly transforms computer code from one programming language to another without human intervention for ingesting and analyzing data with machine learning, enabling developers to create machine learning applications quickly and cheaply at a large scale.

Lingokids

Series C in 2021
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.

Solaris

Venture Round in 2021
solarisBank AG develops a banking platform. Its platform enables startups, fintechs, and established digital companies to create custom solutions for their unique financial needs. The company also provides various compliant payment services, including e-money issuing and escrow solutions; support services for account creation and maintenance, and transaction services, as well as deposit and credit business. solarisBank AG is based in Berlin, Germany.

Urban Sports

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Stylight

Series A in 2010
Founded in 2008, Stylight is the leading aggregation platform for the fashion and lifestyle industry worldwide. They help online shoppers worldwide search more than 1,250 online shops at once, compare prices of more than 27 million products, get inspired and find all the best deals. They are not an online shop, and they don't sell products. They are an inspiration and aggregation platform that allows shoppers to price compare products and proceed with their order with one easy click. More than a search engine, the Stylight online magazine offers the best in beauty, fashion, and home & living inspiration. If you have questions concerning an order, please contact the respective online shop directly.

Thermondo

Series D in 2017
Thermondo promote the energy transition with innovative heat solutions.Directly to the customer, providing superior energy products. Thermondo is a an integrated energy company offering state-of-the-art energy efficiency services. Thermondo became the largest installer of heating solution in Germany applying digital process excellence and quality management. They believe in deep vertical integration in order to achieve market disrupting quality and an outstanding customer experience.

sennder

Private Placement in 2018
sennder GmbH offers transport and forwarding services through a web based platform. The company provides courier, express, parcel, and cargo forwarding services for short and long haul routes. It provides instant pricing, live tracking, and API integration. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Zalando

Series A in 2010
Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in Berlin in 2008, we bring head-to-toe fashion to 42 million active customers in 17 markets, offering clothing, footwear, accessories and beauty. The assortment of international brands ranges from world famous names to local labels. Our platform is a one-stop fashion destination for inspiration, innovation and interaction. As Europe’s most fashionable tech company, we work hard to find digital solutions for every aspect of the fashion journey: for our customers, partners and every valuable player in the Zalando story. Our goal is to become the starting point for fashion. Our logistics network with 13 centrally located fulfillment centers allows us to efficiently serve our customers throughout Europe, supported by warehouses in Italy, France, Poland and Sweden with a focus on local customer needs.

Verbit

Series A in 2019
VERBIT.AI develops transcription and captioning software using a combination of AI technologies to make verbal data accessible. The company offers an artificial intelligence-based system that automatically transcribes recorded speech. Its platform offers features, such as enterprise-grade, interactive editor, billing and analytics, monitoring, administration, and success manager and 24/7 support. It serves education, media, legal, financial services, speech companies, financial companies, SEO, and transcription companies. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

CoachHub

Series B in 2021
coachhub GmbH operates a digital learning and cloud coaching platform. The company offers bi-weekly personal video coaching sessions with top business coaches and personalized micro-learning nuggets added by the coach. It serves automotive, consumer goods, energy, fashion and lifestyle, financial services, industrial goods, media and entertainment, retail, technology, travel and hospitality, consulting and services, environment and sustainability, pharma and health, and real estate and construction industries. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Plan A

Series A in 2021
PlanA.Earth GmbH is the first data-driven B2B SaaS platform which helps businesses calculate, monitor and offset their carbon footprint, while creating automatically a sustainability action plan, according to the company's footprint.

Zeitgold

Private Placement in 2019
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,

Mercavus

Seed Round in 2020
mercavus GmbH operates an online platform that connects independent retailers and brands to facilitate wholesale shopping. Its platform enables retailers to buy products from around the world without having to worry about country borders, different currencies, or language barriers. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Zencargo

Series A in 2019
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 use 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 trucking and cargo insurance services. Alex Hersham, Jan Riethmeyer, and Richard Fattal founded Zencargo on January 4, 2017. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom.

Move24

Series C in 2017
Move24 provides moving and relocation services across Europe, including loading and unloading, storage, and handyman and cleaning services. With the new funding, the startup says it seeks become the “provider of relocation services of all kinds”. The company also wants to offer more services connected with relocation, such as electricity contracts.

ottonova

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Wind Mobility

Series A in 2019
Wind Mobility is a micro-mobility company that offers convenient, safe, and fun last mile transportation services. The company attaches great importance to the availability, quality, and safety of bikes and scooters and the usability of its app. With its eco-friendly and healthy product, it aims to make cities a better place, by reducing traffic, carbon dioxide emission, and noise. Wind Mobility was founded in 2017 with locations in Berlin and Barcelona.

Linearity

Seed Round in 2019
Linearity GmbH is a Karlsruhe Germany based company behind Vectornator, an advanced vector design app that unlocks the power of vector graphics for everyone. Vectornator transforms your iPad and iPhone into a professional creative tool that enables you to create high quality illustrations anywhere you go. With its powerful tools, deep integrations and intuitive user interface it enables you to create pretty much anything you can imagine.

PKRS.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
We believe that one day everyone will have an AI-powered personal coach on their phone. The result? A global shift in health, performance and productivity. Using a chat based UI and an AI-driven infrastructure, the PKRS.AI app delivers proprietary personalized daily workouts, nutrition and mindset content supported by a 24/7 human coaching dream team. Think of Doctor-On-Demand but for people that want to perform better (and with an AI layer on top). - PS - WE ARE NOT A “FITNESS APP”: - We are the first training our machine over actual proprietary human-to-human coaching data - We work with 350+ APIs (smartwatches and IoT), so we have billions of data, enabling the development of machine learning algorithms - We have 9 world championship titles and 1 Olympic gold medal within the team - We have several celebrity athletes that will launch the product providing high capital efficiency for our initial users - We are creating a "PKRS.AI Score" (grit/resiliency/behavioral score), an API that will be used by the insurance, recruiting and education industries - Our human-in-the-loop architecture already has scalable metrics and will be gradually replaced by our software

JOKR

Series A in 2021
JOKR is a grocery and delivery platform that provides hyper-local product delivery services. The company offers customers delivery of an assortment of grocery and retail items to their doorstep in less than 15 minutes. It aims to democratize retail by bringing together global suppliers' all-time favorite products and local brands to support the small businesses in every neighborhood while minimizing waste. JOKR currently operates hubs in cities including New York, São Paolo, Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Warsaw, and Vienna. It was headquartered in New York, New York in 2021.

Lecturio

Series B in 2017
Lecturio provides the highest quality medical education content delivered in the most advanced teaching platform for medicine. Built in collaboration with instructors from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown University and more, Lecturio combines excellent didactics with high-tech delivery. Leading universities around the world trust us to help them deliver their unique approaches to teaching medicine and the platform adapts to their curricula and teaching methods.

Lingokids

Seed Round in 2017
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.

IMMO

Series A in 2020
From renting furnished IMMO homes as a young adult to selling a house to IMMO later in life, the company’s vision is to become “Your housing partner for life”. IMMO digitally sources, appraises and acquires centrally located properties at scale on behalf of institutional investors, thereby helping consumers sell their homes effortlessly and providing investors with desired real estate exposure at scale. The acquired properties are improved into IMMO homes that are fully renovated & furnished, meaning tenants enjoy modernised “living as a service” homes designed for long-term stays.

MONKI MUN SL

Private Placement in 2018
MONKI MUN SL develops language learning applications and games for kids. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

Everdrop

Seed Round in 2020
everdrop GmbH manufactures plastic-free packaged cleanser tablets. It offers spray bottles and laundry detergent powder. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Schüttflix

Venture Round in 2020
Schüttflix GmbH provides construction material delivery services through its application. It offers sand, crushed rock, and gravel. It connects suppliers, customers, and truckers via an application. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Gütersloh, Germany.

Ultimate

Private Placement in 2018
ultimate.ai is a virtual customer service agent builder bringing multilingual customer service automation to businesses. The company's s proprietary deep learning technology enables customer service automation in all languages. Automate first-line customer contact across chat, email, and social, increase agent productivity by over 30% for complex cases, and continuously learns to improve the quality of automated and assisted support.

Care

Series E in 2012
Care.com improves the lives of families and caregivers by helping them connect in a reliable and easy way. It offers solutions to help families make informed decisions in one of the most important and highly considered aspects of their family life—finding and managing quality care for their family—their children, parents, pets and other loved ones. In providing families a comprehensive marketplace for care, it is building the largest destination for quality caregivers to find fulfilling employment and career opportunities globally. The Company strives to help its members—families and caregivers—pursue their passions and fulfill the basic human need of caring for each other.

tutoria GmbH

Series A in 2007
tutoria offers qualified individual tutoring for pupils and students. It allows the user to spot the best tutor in his or her region. All tutors are certified and checked by tutoria and can be booked on demand. We make sure that the learning process is monitored on an ongoing basis through the submission of an online progress report after each lesson. In addition, you will receive a personal steering cockpit and supporting applications. The pedagogic support team of tutoria will be happy to assist you via phone or email. tutoria enables you to organize your tutoring and learning online!