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

20 past transactions

Flip

Series A in 2022
Flip GmbH is a company based in Stuttgart, Germany, that develops a workforce engagement and communication platform designed to enhance employee connectivity. The platform, known as Flip, features a web and mobile application that integrates various tools such as company news, updates, surveys, meetings, chat functionality, and an employee directory. It aims to facilitate both top-down and bottom-up communication within organizations, enabling employers to efficiently reach all employees with minimal effort. Additionally, Flip offers integration with existing HR systems, calendar tools, and data security services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare. Founded in 2015, Flip GmbH was previously known as Flip UG.

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 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.

Quality Match

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

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-ins for architectural software, specifically enhancing Autodesk Revit and Trimble SketchUp. The company's technology integrates virtual reality and real-time rendering capabilities, allowing users to visualize their projects dynamically. Enscape's software mirrors changes made in the architectural models in real-time, facilitating immediate feedback during the design process. Users can create and export immersive walkthroughs as standalone executable files, enabling clients and colleagues to explore the designs and manipulate features such as the time of day. Enscape's products are available through licensed packages distributed by resellers across various regions, including North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Flip

Seed Round in 2020
Flip GmbH is a company based in Stuttgart, Germany, that develops a workforce engagement and communication platform designed to enhance employee connectivity. The platform, known as Flip, features a web and mobile application that integrates various tools such as company news, updates, surveys, meetings, chat functionality, and an employee directory. It aims to facilitate both top-down and bottom-up communication within organizations, enabling employers to efficiently reach all employees with minimal effort. Additionally, Flip offers integration with existing HR systems, calendar tools, and data security services. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare. Founded in 2015, Flip GmbH was previously known as Flip UG.

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 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.

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 has grown to employ over 130 staff members and serves more than 600 technical companies. PROCAD offers a suite of software products, including PRO.FILE for connecting product data and documents, PRO.CEED for automating processes, and PROOM for creating virtual project rooms. These solutions are designed to streamline business processes in product development and management, helping organizations effectively manage their product data and documentation. PROCAD focuses on delivering tailored digitalization strategies that meet the specific needs of its clients.

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 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.

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.

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.