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

Nawid Ali-Abbassi

Principal

Rainer Maerkle

General Partner

Past deals in Leasing

FINN

Series B in 2022
At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

FINN

Series A in 2020
At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

FINN

Seed Round in 2019
At finn our mission is to make mobility fun and sustainable: We help everyone who loves driving their own car but refuses the struggle, commitment and intransparent costs associated with car ownership. We achieve this by offering all-inclusive, immediately available, monthly car-subscriptions. Best thing, yet: While you drive we plant trees as every journey is CO2 compensated.

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.

Lamudi

Venture Round in 2016
Lamudi GmbH operates an online portal for real estate properties, facilitating the buying, selling, and renting of properties in emerging markets. Founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, the platform enables users to search for real estate offers globally and connect with local agents for detailed property insights. Lamudi is particularly focused on markets in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, providing a secure and user-friendly environment for sellers, buyers, landlords, and renters to list or find properties. As of April 2019, Lamudi GmbH functions as a subsidiary of Arabian Web Publishing Group FZ-LLC. Lamudi also has a presence in Indonesia, where it operates as a property management e-commerce company based in Jakarta.

Lamudi

Venture Round in 2015
Lamudi GmbH operates an online portal for real estate properties, facilitating the buying, selling, and renting of properties in emerging markets. Founded in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany, the platform enables users to search for real estate offers globally and connect with local agents for detailed property insights. Lamudi is particularly focused on markets in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, providing a secure and user-friendly environment for sellers, buyers, landlords, and renters to list or find properties. As of April 2019, Lamudi GmbH functions as a subsidiary of Arabian Web Publishing Group FZ-LLC. Lamudi also has a presence in Indonesia, where it operates as a property management e-commerce company based in Jakarta.

erento

Venture Round in 2007
Find. Rent. Enjoy. erento is the largest online rental marketplace in Europe. The company considers itself at the forefront of the collaborative consumption movement. The customers of erento are rental “landlords” that offer their rental items to erento’s more than 20,000 daily website visitors. These rental items include physical wares (sports cars, tools or mobile homes) as well as services. The company was founded in 2003 by Chris Mueller and Uwe Kampschulte as an online marketplace for rental items within Germany. erento quickly grew to Europe’s largest rental marketplace, with locations in Germany, the UK, Austria and Switzerland. In 2006, erento offered approximately 200,000 items for rental. That number tripled to over 640,000 rental items offered on erento in 2007. In 2007 Holzbrink Ventures one of Germany’s largest, most successful venture funds raised its holding in erento to 13 percent. Later in 2009, founder Uwe Kampschulte left the company and was replaced by Oliver Weyergraf. In 2010, the business model was transformed from a commission model to a contract based model. With this contract model, each rental “landlord” can upload a certain number of articles online each month. The items are then advertised via erento’s vast marketing networks. When a user searches for an item, the contact details of erento’s “landlords”, such as website and phone number, are shared directly with the public. On July 1, 2011, the Austrian publishing house Russmedia (previously Vorarlberger Medienhaus) took over erento, purchasing 100 percent of its shares. Shortly thereafter, management of erento changed again, with Rainer Kroesing and Helmar Hipp taking over leadership in February 2012 and Patrick Guenter taking over management in May 2012. In February 2013, an English management expert, Robert Paterson, took over the second chair leadership role at the firm. Paterson was responsible for management of both the Berlin and UK offices of erento. In November 2013, erento grew again by acquiring Finnish online rental platform iRent.fi. Established by the Laakeri Group, iRent.fi has a significant peer-to-peer rental community. With this purchase, erento took a significant step in the direction of peer-to-peer rental and collaborative consumption models, an ongoing goal of the company. As a result of this merger, erento now operates actively in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK and Finland. Since January 2014, erento has been led by Eugen B. Russ as joint CEO in conjunction with Patrick Guenter. At the core of the company are erento's values; they believe in open communication, trying new things, teamwork and commitment.