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.

Nils Berger

Principal

Philipp Hertel

Partner

Alexi Malikotsinas

Principal

Sebastian Müller

Managing Partner

Moritz Pagel

Associate

Kerstin Pfleger

Principal and Head, Fund Operations

Christian Roth

Managing Partner

Nils Seele

Partner

Kurt Weise

Principal

44 past transactions

Moonwatt

Seed Round in 2025
Moonwatt is a technology company that specializes in energy storage solutions. It develops and deploys advanced sodium-ion battery systems, designed to facilitate the integration of large-scale renewable energy sources into the power grid. The company's offerings include both hardware and software components, optimized for co-location with renewable power plants. Moonwatt's innovative technology enables grid operators to replace fossil-fuel power generation with clean energy, thereby accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future.

bliro

Seed Round in 2025
Bliro is a Conversation Intelligence Platform that provides enterprises with the capability to transform business meetings and calls into actionable data. By utilizing advanced AI technology, Bliro operates invisibly and legally, extracting essential information from meetings without the need for intrusive meeting bots. The platform integrates seamlessly with popular online meeting tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, allowing it to automate routine tasks like updating customer relationship management systems and documenting meeting notes. By streamlining these processes, Bliro enhances productivity and supports businesses in managing customer relationships more effectively. Its diverse range of functionalities positions it as a versatile tool for various use cases, from acting as an AI sales coach to facilitating communication via platforms like Slack.

gyde

Seed Round in 2024
Gyde is a developer of a digital platform focused on leadership and talent development. The company provides a comprehensive talent development solution that includes digital micro-learning and cross-company coaching for managers. Through its platform, Gyde facilitates app-based microlearning and thematic exercises, allowing employees to engage in peer coaching sessions and group coaching via video calls. This approach fosters social learning by connecting employees with peers from different organizations, addressing various leadership challenges and enhancing their professional growth.

Gendo

Seed Round in 2024
Gendo is a browser-based application that supports designers by rapidly generating images from their designs, streamlining the creative process. By utilizing generative AI and machine learning, Gendo significantly reduces rendering times, allowing professional artists to create realistic and diverse scenes in minutes instead of hours. The platform eliminates the necessity for costly software licenses and high-end hardware, making advanced design capabilities more accessible to a wider range of users, including architects and visual effects artists. Through its innovative technology, Gendo transforms traditional workflows, enabling users to focus on their creativity rather than time-consuming manual processes.

paretos

Series A in 2024
Paretos is an AI-based decision intelligence platform that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions efficiently. The platform allows business users to evaluate complex data, predict future scenarios, and implement optimal actions through a no-code user interface, eliminating the need for prior data science expertise. By integrating seamlessly into various business operations, Paretos has demonstrated its effectiveness in diverse sectors, including e-commerce, logistics, and consulting. Its use-case focused approach encompasses a range of functionalities such as recommendation engines, dynamic pricing, ad spend optimization, demand and churn prediction, and warehouse optimization. The platform's success stories, including collaborations with notable companies, highlight its ability to deliver significant results as a comprehensive, fully automated solution for forecasting and decision-making.

Flowers-Software GmbH

Venture Round in 2024
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.

Codesphere

Series A in 2024
Codesphere Inc. is a cloud platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Germany. The company specializes in simplifying and streamlining the development, deployment, and scaling of applications. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including an online code editor, integrated CI/CD pipelines, and cloud collaborative services, allowing developers to write, test, and deploy code directly from their browser. This approach eliminates many traditional complexities of managing development environments, enabling efficient collaboration and trivial deployments. Codesphere's platform is designed to meet the needs of modern developers and teams, facilitating global scaling and interconnecting programming environments without requiring extensive DevOps experience.

Assemblio

Seed Round in 2024
Assemblio is a company focused on optimizing assembly processes for various industries through innovative technology. Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from Stuttgart's Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Assemblio aims to revolutionize assembly planning by leveraging artificial intelligence and web technologies. Its platform enables users to efficiently disassemble CAD files and generate comprehensive assembly plans, complete with 3D step-by-step instructions. By automating labor-intensive tasks, Assemblio seeks to enhance productivity and reduce costs, ultimately improving the user experience in assembly operations.

Aleph Alpha

Series B in 2023
Aleph Alpha GmbH is a Heidelberg-based company specializing in the design and development of artificial intelligence solutions that enhance human-machine interactions. The company focuses on creating AI-driven technology for both public and private sectors, offering products that incorporate machine learning for improved data protection against cyber threats, leak detection, and traceability. Aleph Alpha operates a platform that develops and deploys large language models, supporting a robust AI ecosystem in Europe. Its generative AI solutions empower enterprises and governmental organizations to create intelligent products, positioning Aleph Alpha as a key player in the advancement of AI technology.

Dyno

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Dyno is a technology company specializing in occupational pension scheme management. It provides a digital, commission-free platform that automates retirement and health benefits management for businesses. The platform simplifies occupational pension schemes through digital administration, automated HR processes, and commission-free contracts. This enables companies to improve their employer branding and offer more efficient, cost-effective retirement planning to their employees.

AskUI

Seed Round in 2023
AskUI is a developer of an innovative test automation platform designed to enhance the understanding of applications and their contexts through artificial intelligence. The company's solution leverages natural language processing to automate UI tests, focusing on visual features and providing a no-code, black-box testing approach. This enables clients to automate various UI commands by simulating real user interactions. Central to AskUI's philosophy is the integration of a human touch into the automation process, exemplified by their offering, AskUI James, which aims to understand user interfaces in a more intuitive manner rather than adhering to rigid testing methods.

Turn2X

Seed Round in 2023
TURN2X is a company focused on developing advanced technology for producing renewable natural gas (RNG). The firm specializes in creating transportable renewable energy solutions that convert electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind into RNG. Their modular methanation reactors are designed to handle variable load changes, providing industries with a clean and sustainable alternative to fossil natural gas.

enabl

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Enabl is a company that specializes in developing advanced digital solutions for industrial logistics. Their enabl Digital Platform allows customers to seamlessly connect their warehouse systems to a user-friendly digital interface, facilitating efficient scheduling of material transportation. This platform enables users to link their vehicles with drivers or autonomous driving systems, ensuring that transport orders can be executed remotely. Enabl's innovative system for remote control of forklifts complements their offerings, providing tailored automation solutions for specific logistical needs. The company focuses on delivering comprehensive systems through agile development methods, alongside consulting services aimed at identifying challenges and opportunities for optimization within customer operations.

Goya Health

Seed Round in 2023
Goya Health provides a platform for efficient healthcare invoice management.

Daedalus

Seed Round in 2023
Daedalus is a contract manufacturing company that specializes in precision parts for the CNC industry. It leverages advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to create reconfigurable production capacity, allowing for instant retooling to accommodate various manufacturing needs. The company offers a software system that enhances manufacturing efficiency and ensures high reliability and transparency throughout the production process. Daedalus is equipped to handle a wide range of production scales, from prototypes to large-scale manufacturing, thereby supporting diverse customer requirements with agility in both process and part complexity.

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.

Workist

Series A in 2022
Workist is a company that specializes in business process automation through the use of AI-driven robots known as AI Workers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Workist focuses on automating document-heavy administrative tasks, particularly the processing of incoming purchase orders, thereby eliminating the need for manual data entry. Their platform offers a comprehensive suite for data-driven business process analysis and automation, facilitating a seamless integration and automated data exchange among business customers, distributors, and suppliers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Workist aims to enhance operational efficiency, allowing medium-sized companies to transition from manual processes to fully automated operations, ultimately enabling employees to dedicate more time to creative and meaningful tasks.

paretos

Seed Round in 2022
Paretos is an AI-based decision intelligence platform that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions efficiently. The platform allows business users to evaluate complex data, predict future scenarios, and implement optimal actions through a no-code user interface, eliminating the need for prior data science expertise. By integrating seamlessly into various business operations, Paretos has demonstrated its effectiveness in diverse sectors, including e-commerce, logistics, and consulting. Its use-case focused approach encompasses a range of functionalities such as recommendation engines, dynamic pricing, ad spend optimization, demand and churn prediction, and warehouse optimization. The platform's success stories, including collaborations with notable companies, highlight its ability to deliver significant results as a comprehensive, fully automated solution for forecasting and decision-making.

PraKom Software

Acquisition in 2022
PraKom Software specializes in providing vendoc software services tailored for the trade, retail, and construction industries. The company's platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools including mobile input terminals, automated processes, professional evaluations, quotation calculations, materials management, and accounting. These services enable clients to efficiently manage their business processes without unnecessary complexity or costly, underutilized features.

Cardisio

Venture Round in 2022
Cardisio is a mobile health technology company specializing in non-invasive screening solutions for coronary and structural heart diseases. Its flagship product, the Cardisiography test, leverages artificial intelligence to analyze the heart's three-dimensional electrophysical profile, identifying pathological patterns associated with heart diseases. This early detection capability allows for preventive treatments, potentially averting fatal heart attacks. The testing process requires a PC to access the Cardisio Cloud, along with a data collector, such as a Cardisiograph, and standard ECG cables with disposable electrodes. By offering a convenient and accessible method for heart disease screening, Cardisio aims to reduce unnecessary cardiac-related complications and healthcare costs, ultimately improving patient outcomes.

Flip

Series A in 2022
Flip is an employee app designed to enhance communication within organizations, catering to both frontline and desktop employees. Founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, Flip combines top-down and bottom-up communication tools, including a newsfeed and chat features, to facilitate effective information sharing. The app integrates seamlessly with existing corporate HR and IT systems, allowing employers to reach all employees simultaneously with minimal effort. By empowering organizations to streamline their communication processes, Flip addresses the needs of the operational workforce and enhances overall employee engagement.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2022
Codesphere Inc. is a cloud platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with additional offices in Germany. The company specializes in simplifying and streamlining the development, deployment, and scaling of applications. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including an online code editor, integrated CI/CD pipelines, and cloud collaborative services, allowing developers to write, test, and deploy code directly from their browser. This approach eliminates many traditional complexities of managing development environments, enabling efficient collaboration and trivial deployments. Codesphere's platform is designed to meet the needs of modern developers and teams, facilitating global scaling and interconnecting programming environments without requiring extensive DevOps experience.

AskUI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AskUI is a developer of an innovative test automation platform designed to enhance the understanding of applications and their contexts through artificial intelligence. The company's solution leverages natural language processing to automate UI tests, focusing on visual features and providing a no-code, black-box testing approach. This enables clients to automate various UI commands by simulating real user interactions. Central to AskUI's philosophy is the integration of a human touch into the automation process, exemplified by their offering, AskUI James, which aims to understand user interfaces in a more intuitive manner rather than adhering to rigid testing methods.

Base Net

Acquisition in 2021
Base-Net provides software solutions for credit management.

B+m Informatik

Acquisition in 2021
b+m Informatik AG, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Meldorf, Germany, specializes in IT consulting and software solutions tailored for the banking and insurance sectors. With nearly 90 employees, the company offers both standard products and professional services to a diverse clientele, including large savings banks, commercial banks, and insurance companies in Germany. Its flagship product, FGCenter, positions b+m as a market leader in supporting banks throughout the application process for promotional loans. Additionally, the AGS Portal enables insurers to effectively distribute their products through various channels. By combining deep sector knowledge with software expertise, b+m Informatik AG plays a crucial role in advancing the digitization of the financial sector, enhancing the efficiency of IT systems and automating business processes for its clients.

paretos

Seed Round in 2021
Paretos is an AI-based decision intelligence platform that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions efficiently. The platform allows business users to evaluate complex data, predict future scenarios, and implement optimal actions through a no-code user interface, eliminating the need for prior data science expertise. By integrating seamlessly into various business operations, Paretos has demonstrated its effectiveness in diverse sectors, including e-commerce, logistics, and consulting. Its use-case focused approach encompasses a range of functionalities such as recommendation engines, dynamic pricing, ad spend optimization, demand and churn prediction, and warehouse optimization. The platform's success stories, including collaborations with notable companies, highlight its ability to deliver significant results as a comprehensive, fully automated solution for forecasting and decision-making.

Aleph Alpha

Series A in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH is a Heidelberg-based company specializing in the design and development of artificial intelligence solutions that enhance human-machine interactions. The company focuses on creating AI-driven technology for both public and private sectors, offering products that incorporate machine learning for improved data protection against cyber threats, leak detection, and traceability. Aleph Alpha operates a platform that develops and deploys large language models, supporting a robust AI ecosystem in Europe. Its generative AI solutions empower enterprises and governmental organizations to create intelligent products, positioning Aleph Alpha as a key player in the advancement of AI technology.

sevDesk

Series B in 2021
sevDesk is a developer of innovative accounting software tailored for small businesses and freelancers. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate various accounting tasks, significantly reducing manual effort and streamlining the overall process. By enabling users to manage documents through a single application, sevDesk supports both single and double bookkeeping, facilitates invoicing and banking, and offers features such as cashbook management and automated profit and loss calculations. This comprehensive approach allows clients to gain real-time insights into their financial status, simplifying their accounting needs while eliminating the necessity for a tax consultant.

Quality Match

Seed Round in 2021
Quality Match is a technology company that specializes in enhancing machine learning models through optimized datasets. Its platform employs data mining and predictive analysis techniques to identify errors in datasets, locate edge cases, and offer strategies for improvement. By doing so, Quality Match helps businesses streamline their data labeling processes, increase efficiency, and ultimately improve the speed and quality of their machine learning models.

Aleph Alpha

Seed Round in 2021
Aleph Alpha GmbH is a Heidelberg-based company specializing in the design and development of artificial intelligence solutions that enhance human-machine interactions. The company focuses on creating AI-driven technology for both public and private sectors, offering products that incorporate machine learning for improved data protection against cyber threats, leak detection, and traceability. Aleph Alpha operates a platform that develops and deploys large language models, supporting a robust AI ecosystem in Europe. Its generative AI solutions empower enterprises and governmental organizations to create intelligent products, positioning Aleph Alpha as a key player in the advancement of AI technology.

Workist

Seed Round in 2020
Workist is a company that specializes in business process automation through the use of AI-driven robots known as AI Workers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Workist focuses on automating document-heavy administrative tasks, particularly the processing of incoming purchase orders, thereby eliminating the need for manual data entry. Their platform offers a comprehensive suite for data-driven business process analysis and automation, facilitating a seamless integration and automated data exchange among business customers, distributors, and suppliers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Workist aims to enhance operational efficiency, allowing medium-sized companies to transition from manual processes to fully automated operations, ultimately enabling employees to dedicate more time to creative and meaningful tasks.

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 processes. The company’s product integrates seamlessly with popular modeling software, such as Autodesk Revit and Trimble SketchUp, providing real-time rendering and virtual reality capabilities. This allows users to create immersive 3D experiences from their models while significantly reducing production time and streamlining the feedback process. Enscape’s software enables architects to generate design iterations quickly, export projects as videos, and share them effortlessly. The company distributes its products through licensed packages via resellers across various regions, including North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Flip

Seed Round in 2020
Flip is an employee app designed to enhance communication within organizations, catering to both frontline and desktop employees. Founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, Flip combines top-down and bottom-up communication tools, including a newsfeed and chat features, to facilitate effective information sharing. The app integrates seamlessly with existing corporate HR and IT systems, allowing employers to reach all employees simultaneously with minimal effort. By empowering organizations to streamline their communication processes, Flip addresses the needs of the operational workforce and enhances overall employee engagement.

Smart Steel Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Smart Steel Technologies GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing artificial intelligence software aimed at optimizing steel production and processing. The company's AI solutions focus on enhancing quality control, energy efficiency, and CO2 management within the steel manufacturing sector, which includes applications in automotive and construction. Smart Steel Technologies offers a temperature optimization AI that predicts live temperature behavior during the casting process, helping steelmakers eliminate inconsistencies and maintain high-quality casting sequences. The company reports process efficiency improvements of 5-10% at various stages of production and provides integration support, collaborating with metallurgists, process engineers, and AI specialists to help clients achieve their optimization goals while reducing casting defects and overall quality costs.

IntraNav

Series A in 2019
IntraNav is a developer of a process virtualization platform that aims to enhance efficiency in manufacturing, intralogistics, and shipment. The company specializes in the industrial Internet of Things, facilitating the transition to Industry 4.0 through its advanced INTRANAV Platform and Technology. This platform features pre-built software modules for process automation, navigation of automated guided vehicles, route optimization based on real-time location systems (RTLS), plant and yard management, fleet management, process mapping, analysis, and safety management. IntraNav offers a comprehensive RTLS platform utilizing ultra-wideband, narrowband IoT, and 5G technologies, providing all necessary components and services for smart factory applications. Clients can effortlessly create their own RTLS applications on the IntraNav.IO Platform using a user-friendly visual programming language that requires no coding skills.

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.

The IDL Group

Acquisition in 2019
The IDL Group is a developer of advanced corporate performance management and business intelligence software based in Frankfurt, Germany. With over 25 years of experience, the company specializes in providing solutions that address consolidation, planning, analysis, and reporting needs. The IDL CMP Suite offers a modern platform with a central portal and a range of software modules designed to support financial processes, ensuring transparency and data validity for accounting, controlling, and management. Serving more than 850 international corporations and medium-sized businesses, IDL Group emphasizes reliability, commitment, and innovation in its offerings. Their solutions are adaptable, designed to grow alongside the evolving needs of their clients, and are accessible through various deployment options, including on-premise, mobile, and cloud.

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 is a leader in AI-driven data annotation specifically designed for autonomous driving applications. The company's Automation Engine facilitates data annotation for projects of any scale, catering to the needs of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and other autonomous driving technologies. With a team of over 70 experts in AI, automotive, and cloud technologies, understand.ai leverages extensive experience in data annotation to enhance the development pipeline for dSPACE, which joined the company in 2019. This collaboration supports the simulation and validation processes essential for the safe deployment of autonomous driving functions. Understand.ai provides market-leading solutions to address various challenges in data logging, anonymization, data selection, and scenario generation, thereby ensuring high-quality training and validation data for the industry.

sevDesk

Series A in 2017
sevDesk is a developer of innovative accounting software tailored for small businesses and freelancers. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to automate various accounting tasks, significantly reducing manual effort and streamlining the overall process. By enabling users to manage documents through a single application, sevDesk supports both single and double bookkeeping, facilitates invoicing and banking, and offers features such as cashbook management and automated profit and loss calculations. This comprehensive approach allows clients to gain real-time insights into their financial status, simplifying their accounting needs while eliminating the necessity for a tax consultant.

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 is a global leader in open-source enterprise web solutions, specializing in web portal development, web content management, and e-commerce services. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, AOE operates additional offices in key international locations, including San Francisco, Zürich, Dubai, and Hong Kong. The company serves a diverse range of sectors, such as telecommunications, aviation, healthcare, and manufacturing, providing tailored solutions that enhance both B2C and B2B e-commerce capabilities. AOE's offerings encompass the development and integration of web applications, agile project management, and comprehensive digital strategy consulting. Their OM³ platform is particularly notable for its role in transforming non-aeronautical revenues for airports and airlines. With a strong client base that includes Fortune 1000 companies, AOE is committed to helping organizations seamlessly blend offline and online experiences through innovative digital products and services.

Flip

Flip is an employee app designed to enhance communication within organizations, catering to both frontline and desktop employees. Founded in 2018 and based in Stuttgart, Germany, Flip combines top-down and bottom-up communication tools, including a newsfeed and chat features, to facilitate effective information sharing. The app integrates seamlessly with existing corporate HR and IT systems, allowing employers to reach all employees simultaneously with minimal effort. By empowering organizations to streamline their communication processes, Flip addresses the needs of the operational workforce and enhances overall employee engagement.
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