LEA Partners

LEA Partners as an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders and executives by leveraging them with practical, hands-on growth expertise to achieve market leadership.

Nils Berger

Investment Manager

Philipp Hertel

Partner

Jan Huber

Investment Manager

Alexi Malikotsinas

Associate

Sebastian Müller

Managing Partner

Kerstin Pfleger

Principal

Stefan Pruden

Associate

Christian Roth

Managing Partner

Nils Seele

Principal

Ingo Wewer

Investment Manager

36 past transactions

LANDWEHR Computer and Software

Acquisition in 2019
LANDWEHR Computer Und Software Gmbh develops and provides software solutions for personnel, trading, and building services companies. The company offers LANDWEHR L1, for personnel services and temporary work; LANDWEHR L2, for building services; LANDWEHR L3, for trade, production, and agriculture; LANDWEHR L4, for event management; LANDWEHR WinLOG, for payroll accounting; and LANDWEHR WinFIBU, for financial accounting. It also offers consulting and installation service of hardware and software. The company also offers server hosting service. LANDWHER Computer Und Software Gmbh was founded in 1994 and is based in Wietmarschen-Lohne, Germany.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2022
Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.

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.

Aleph Alpha

Series A in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based security systems by using machine-learning. It offers data protection from hackers and cyber attacks, leak detection, and tracing using AI. The company is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

Goya

Seed Round in 2023
Goya is a product that saves doctors hours of administrative work related to invoicing and claims management.

AOE

Private Equity Round in 2017
AOE is a leading global Agile Omnichannel eCommerce and Digital Transformation expert with more than 300 incredible people in 8 offices worldwide. AOE's B2C and B2B E-Commerce client base consists primarily of global fortune 1000 companies including Cisco Systems, Commerzbank, Sony, Deutsche Telekom, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines. AOE's OM³ platform is quickly becoming the leading platform of choice for digitally transforming global airport's and airline's non-aeronautical revenues with customers inluding Frankfurt Airport, Heathrow, Auckland, Singapore Airlines etc.

askui

Pre Seed Round in 2021
askui contributes to the vision of a functional digital world through an innovative UI test automation solution. For us here at askui, people are the center of the work that we do. That's why we bring the human touch into theautomation process through askui James. We don't just test UIs according to rigid methods, we understand them like a human.

Flip

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Bellin

Private Equity Round in 2017
BELLIN was founded in 1998 by Martin Bellin, a corporate treasurer, in Ettenheim, Germany, and today consists of over 135 employees focused on creating solutions that reflect the pragmatic, efficient nature of German engineering. They define Theirselves by the treasurers and treasury experts that make up Their team and take pride in Their pragmatic approach to solving treasury problems. They are not just ticking checkboxes on feature sheets, They are leveraging Their core strength, Their knowledge of treasury, to build solutions that work locally and apply globally.

Quality Match

Seed Round in 2021
Quality Match is a high-quality knowledge annotation supplier.

INTRANAV

Series A in 2019
The industrial Internet of Things opens the way to the revolution of industry 4.0. INTRANAV opens up and enables the improvement of products and processes in terms of costs, time and quality with the INTRANAV Platform & Technology. The pre-build Software modules include, for example, process automation, the navigation of automated guided vehicle systems (AGV), RTLS based route-optimization, plant tracking, yard management, fleet management, process mapping, process analysis and safety management. INTRANAV offers a turnkey RTLS platform based on UWB, NB-IoT and 5G, which provides all components and services for your Smart-Factory. Customers can easily build own RTLS Apps on the IntraNav.IO Platform with zero-code using an easy to learn visual programming language.

understand.ai

Seed Round in 2018
understand.ai provides the highest possible training and validation data to make autonomous driving safe and reliable. Their company was founded in the belief that a human’s ability to understand, meaning to interpret or view something in a particular way, can be complemented, enhanced and accelerated by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to a highly repetitive task. Their mission is to push the boundaries of technology and AI to advance the state of autonomous driving. understand.ai provides high-quality training and validation data to enable mobility companies to develop with confidence computer vision and machine learning models that reliably and safely power autonomous vehicles.Their advanced capabilities include segmentation and bounding box annotations for LiDAR and 2D camera data, with specific meta-attributes and instance ID labeling for object tracking. By applying specialized AI technology and continuous quality improvement to accurately and quickly annotate millions of images, they accelerate production of the ground-truth required to make autonomous driving a reality.

Cardisio

Venture Round in 2022
Cardisio is a mobile health tech company that uses artificial intelligence in a non-invasive screening test for coronary and structural heart diseases. The Cardisiography test can detect heart disease early, allowing for preventive treatment to avoid a potentially fatal heart attack. Cardisiography analyzes the individual three-dimensional electrophysical profile of the heart and recognizes pathological patterns of heart diseases using a proprietary algorithm and neural networks (AI). The test requires a PC to access the web service (Cardisio Cloud), a data collector (e.g. a Cardisiograph), and commercially available ECG cables as well as five disposable electrodes.

askui

Seed Round in 2023
askui contributes to the vision of a functional digital world through an innovative UI test automation solution. For us here at askui, people are the center of the work that we do. That's why we bring the human touch into theautomation process through askui James. We don't just test UIs according to rigid methods, we understand them like a human.

Smart Steel Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Smart Steel Technologies GmbH develops artificial intelligence (AI) software products for optimization of steel production and processing. Its temperature optimization AI provides live temperature behavior predictions for every heat's downstream liquid-phase processes that enables steelmakers to remove temperature inconsistency from the casting process and to maintain the quality of casting sequences. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

paretos

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a data science platform designed to automate and optimize businesses. The company's platform is an artificial intelligence-based data science solution that enables the creation of fully automated forecasting models and to use of the machine learning (ML) algorithm without the need for data science knowledge, enabling clients to automate business processes without major integration costs.

Aleph Alpha

Series B in 2023
Aleph Alpha GmbH designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based security systems by using machine-learning. It offers data protection from hackers and cyber attacks, leak detection, and tracing using AI. The company is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

paretos

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a data science platform designed to automate and optimize businesses. The company's platform is an artificial intelligence-based data science solution that enables the creation of fully automated forecasting models and to use of the machine learning (ML) algorithm without the need for data science knowledge, enabling clients to automate business processes without major integration costs.

Enscape

Private Equity Round in 2020
Enscape GmbH develops and offers plug-in for architectural software. The company's product adds virtual reality and real-time rendering capabilities to Autodesk Revit and Trimble SketchUp. It enables users to present, export, and share projects and offers real-time feedback. Enscape GmbH offers its products in form of licensed packages through resellers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa, Panama, China, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Enscape GmbH was founded in 2013 and is based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Workist

Seed Round in 2020
outsmart.ai GmbH develops software robots for automation of document-heavy processes. The company offers intelligent process automation platform workist. It offers AI workers, software robots for automating manual processes, such as registration of orders in SAP, forwarding of incoming e-mails to the correct department, and processing of customer inquiries. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

sevDesk

Series A in 2017
sevDesk simplifies the accounting for small businesses and freelancers. With KI-based automation, they eliminate all the annoying tasks to get the pain out of the accounting process.

sevDesk

Series B in 2021
sevDesk simplifies the accounting for small businesses and freelancers. With KI-based automation, they eliminate all the annoying tasks to get the pain out of the accounting process.

IDL Group

Acquisition in 2019
IDL Group develops professional solutions based on state-of-the-art software that optimally meets the needs of our customers. The IDL CMP Suite meets all consolidation, planning, reporting and business intelligence requirements. Consistent processes with valid data and transparency for accounting, controlling, management and CFOs. IDL solutions grow with the needs of our customers. More than 850 international corporations and medium-sized companies rely on IDL. IDL Group For 25 years: Reliability, commitment, professionalism, innovation. www.idl. eu IDL CPM Suite Modern platform, central portal entry, professionally focused software modules, and apps for all requirements of consolidation, planning, reporting and integrated BI. For on-premise, mobile and cloud. http://www.idl.eu/software IDL Webinars Get to know IDL solutions online.

Aleph Alpha

Seed Round in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based security systems by using machine-learning. It offers data protection from hackers and cyber attacks, leak detection, and tracing using AI. The company is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

PROCAD

Private Equity Round in 2018
PROCAD GmbH & Co.KG designs and develops product and document lifecycle management software. It provides software, such as PRO.FILE, connects product data and documents; PRO.CEED, enables fast, secure, and automated processes; and PROOM, provides virtual project rooms. The company offers data management, product data management, document management, and collaborative product lifecycle management. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Codesphere

Series A in 2024
Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.

Daedalus

Seed Round in 2023
Daedalus develops reconfigurable production capacity that can be retooled instantly. Its robotics and AI technologies enable agile manufacturing for any process, volume, and part complexity.

Workist

Series A in 2022
outsmart.ai GmbH develops software robots for automation of document-heavy processes. The company offers intelligent process automation platform workist. It offers AI workers, software robots for automating manual processes, such as registration of orders in SAP, forwarding of incoming e-mails to the correct department, and processing of customer inquiries. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Flowers-Software GmbH

Seed Round in 2022
Flowers Software is an organization management for digitizing, simplifying and automating recurring workflows.Flowers -Software can be used independent of company size, industry, region, and existing company structure due to its highly flexible no-code process editor.