LEA Partners

LEA Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2002 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The firm focuses on investing in B2B technology companies throughout Europe. With an entrepreneurial mindset, LEA Partners aims to support ambitious founders and executives by providing practical, hands-on growth expertise to help them achieve market leadership. Through its multi-stage investment approach, the firm seeks to foster the growth of its portfolio companies and drive innovation within the technology sector.

Cornelius Becker

Principal

Nils Berger

Principal

Florian Endres

Investment Manager

Luis Frey

Associate

Philipp Hertel

Partner

Jan Huber

Investment Manager

Niklas Krusche

Investment Manager

Manuel Künzig

Associate

Alexi Malikotsinas

Investment Manager

Kilian Mayer

Investment Manager

Sebastian Müller

Managing Partner

Moritz Pagel

Associate

Kerstin Pfleger

Principal and Head, Fund Operations

Christian Roth

Managing Partner

Felix Schües

Associate

Nils Seele

Partner

Paul Storbakken

Associate

Kurt Weise

Principal

Ingo Wewer

Investment Manager

21 past transactions

Goya

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

Flip

Series A in 2022
Flip GmbH is a developer of an employee engagement and communication platform based in Stuttgart, Germany. The company offers a mobile and web application that facilitates internal communication within organizations, providing tools for company news, updates, surveys, meetings, chat messaging, and employee directories. Flip's platform integrates seamlessly with existing human resource and IT systems, allowing for efficient top-down and bottom-up communication. This approach empowers employers to connect with all employees quickly and effectively. The application is designed to enhance knowledge exchange and feedback among staff, making it particularly valuable for industries such as retail, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare. Founded in 2015, Flip GmbH aims to improve workforce collaboration and engagement through its innovative solutions.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2022
Codesphere Inc. is a company that specializes in providing a cloud platform designed to enhance software innovation. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Germany, Codesphere offers an online code editor, GitOps, and collaborative cloud services. Its platform allows users to code and run web applications directly from their browsers without the need for configuration, facilitating teamwork on distributed full-stack TypeScript projects. The company focuses on simplifying the development process through automatic deployments, scaling, testing, and comprehensive security and privacy audits, aiming to streamline the coding experience and optimize every detail for its users.

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.

paretos

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decision Intelligence 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 algorithm without the need for data science knowledge, enabling clients and users to evaluate complex data, predict future scenarios and take optimal actions without major integration costs.

Aleph Alpha

Series A in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH, based in Heidelberg, Germany, specializes in designing and developing artificial intelligence-driven security systems. The company utilizes machine learning to address contemporary security challenges, focusing on data protection against hackers and cyber attacks. Additionally, Aleph Alpha offers solutions for leak detection and tracing, enhancing the security measures for its clients.

sevDesk

Series B in 2021
sevDesk is a developer of accounting software tailored for small businesses and freelancers. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate various accounting tasks, streamlining processes such as banking and invoicing. It enables users to scan and manage documents efficiently, whether for single or double bookkeeping. The software also generates revenue surplus without the need for a tax consultant, manages cash flow, and provides comprehensive reporting. Additionally, it calculates profit and loss automatically, offering clients real-time insights that enhance their overall accounting experience. By simplifying these processes, sevDesk aims to alleviate the burdens associated with traditional accounting methods.

Quality Match

Seed Round in 2021
Quality Match is a provider of knowledge annotation services that enhances data analysis for machine learning applications. The company develops software aimed at improving the performance of machine learning models by optimizing datasets. Its platform employs data mining and predictive analysis to identify and explain errors within datasets, pinpointing the origins of edge cases. This functionality enables organizations to refine their data labeling processes, thereby increasing both efficiency and accuracy. Through its solutions, Quality Match assists businesses in enhancing the quality and speed of their data management efforts.

Aleph Alpha

Seed Round in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH, based in Heidelberg, Germany, specializes in designing and developing artificial intelligence-driven security systems. The company utilizes machine learning to address contemporary security challenges, focusing on data protection against hackers and cyber attacks. Additionally, Aleph Alpha offers solutions for leak detection and tracing, enhancing the security measures for its clients.

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.

Enscape

Private Equity Round in 2020
Enscape GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany, specializes in developing plug-in software that enhances architectural design tools like Autodesk Revit and Trimble SketchUp. Its product integrates real-time rendering and virtual reality capabilities, allowing users to visualize their projects instantly and make changes on the fly. This functionality enables architects to present, export, and share their designs effectively, providing a more immersive experience for clients and colleagues. Enscape's software also allows users to export walkthroughs as standalone executable files, facilitating easy exploration of projects, including adjustments to elements like the time of day. The company offers its products through licensed packages via resellers across multiple regions, including North America, Europe, and Asia.

Flip

Seed Round in 2020
Flip GmbH is a developer of an employee engagement and communication platform based in Stuttgart, Germany. The company offers a mobile and web application that facilitates internal communication within organizations, providing tools for company news, updates, surveys, meetings, chat messaging, and employee directories. Flip's platform integrates seamlessly with existing human resource and IT systems, allowing for efficient top-down and bottom-up communication. This approach empowers employers to connect with all employees quickly and effectively. The application is designed to enhance knowledge exchange and feedback among staff, making it particularly valuable for industries such as retail, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare. Founded in 2015, Flip GmbH aims to improve workforce collaboration and engagement through its innovative solutions.

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.

LANDWEHR Computer and Software

Acquisition in 2019
LANDWEHR Computer und Software GmbH, founded in 1994 and located in Wietmarschen-Lohne, Germany, specializes in developing software solutions tailored for personnel services, building services, trade, production, and agriculture. The company's offerings include LANDWEHR L1 for personnel services, LANDWEHR L2 for building services, LANDWEHR L3 for trade and agriculture, LANDWEHR L4 for event management, as well as payroll and financial accounting solutions through LANDWEHR WinLOG and LANDWEHR WinFIBU. In addition to software development, LANDWEHR provides consulting, hardware and software installation services, and server hosting. The company emphasizes a collaborative approach, working closely with clients to ensure the continuous practical improvement of its solutions.

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.

PROCAD

Private Equity Round in 2018
PROCAD GmbH & Co. KG is a German software company based in Karlsruhe, specializing in product and document lifecycle management solutions for mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 1985, the company employs over 130 professionals and serves more than 600 technical firms. PROCAD offers a range of software solutions, including PRO.FILE, which connects product data and documents; PRO.CEED, which streamlines and automates processes; and PROOM, which facilitates virtual project collaboration. These tools are designed to digitalize and enhance business processes in product development and management, ensuring efficient data handling and collaboration across various departments. By focusing on the unique needs of mid-sized companies, PROCAD aims to provide effective digitalization strategies that improve operational efficiency and reduce costs.

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.

sevDesk

Series A in 2017
sevDesk is a developer of accounting software tailored for small businesses and freelancers. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate various accounting tasks, streamlining processes such as banking and invoicing. It enables users to scan and manage documents efficiently, whether for single or double bookkeeping. The software also generates revenue surplus without the need for a tax consultant, manages cash flow, and provides comprehensive reporting. Additionally, it calculates profit and loss automatically, offering clients real-time insights that enhance their overall accounting experience. By simplifying these processes, sevDesk aims to alleviate the burdens associated with traditional accounting methods.

Bellin

Private Equity Round in 2017
BELLIN, founded in 1998 by Martin Bellin in Ettenheim, Germany, operates as a subsidiary of Coupa Software Incorporated and employs over 135 professionals. The company specializes in web-based treasury software designed to provide a comprehensive, real-time overview of treasury management for multinational corporations and financial institutions. BELLIN's solutions focus on liquidity planning, financial risk management, global payments, and netting, catering to a diverse range of clients, including large multinational small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and banks. The team, comprised of treasury experts, emphasizes a pragmatic approach to addressing treasury challenges, leveraging their extensive knowledge to develop effective solutions that are both locally relevant and globally applicable.

AOE

Private Equity Round in 2017
AOE GmbH specializes in open source-based enterprise web portal development, web content management, and e-commerce solutions for a diverse range of sectors, including telecommunications, aviation, healthcare, and manufacturing. With a global presence and offices in Europe, the United States, and Asia, the company supports both B2C and B2B e-commerce initiatives, serving a client base that includes Fortune 1000 companies. AOE's offerings encompass the development and integration of web applications, omni-channel e-commerce solutions, and mobile applications, as well as consulting services for digital strategy and requirements analysis. The company's OM³ platform is particularly recognized for enhancing non-aeronautical revenues for airports and airlines. AOE also provides agile project management, hosting services, and robust support operations, ensuring comprehensive management of enterprise web solutions. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, AOE has established itself as a leader in digital transformation and e-commerce innovation.
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