Monkfish Equity

Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs and focus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses.

ROLF

Managing Partner

Malte Siewert

Managing Partner

STEPHAN

Managing Partner

Peter Vinnemeier

Managing Partner

61 past transactions

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new and function like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Tractive

Venture Round in 2018
Tractive GmbH develops a GPS pet tracking device that helps users to locate their dogs, cats, and other pets. The company also develops pet applications for iOS, Android, and Windows phones. It serves customers via online. The company is based in Pasching, Austria.

GlampingHub

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Glamping is a developer of an online booking platform designed to offer camping and alternative accommodations for travelers. The company's platform provides the guests the worldwide access to the curated collection of unique outdoor accommodations with nature based adventures, enabling travelers to stay in camps with the amnesties of a hotel.

Catawiki

Series B in 2014
Catawiki is an online catalog and auction house for rare, vintage, and hard to find items. The marketplace hosts weekly auctions for categories such as collectibles, art, design, jewelry, watches, and classic cars, comic books, coins, stamps, model trains, wine, vinyl records, jewelry, ceramics, books, and many more. Catawiki’s business model enables its enthusiasts to discover and buy special objects to fulfill their passions. Buyers can also keep track of their own collection based on the company's central catalog. Catawiki was founded in 2008 by Marco Jansen and René Schoenmakers and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.

Heycater!

Seed Round in 2019
heycater! is an online platform for ordering quality business catering.They help organize delicious food for team by connecting with outstanding local caterers.

Vinted

Series D in 2018
Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Campanda

Seed Round in 2014
Campanda builds the world's largest online booking platform dedicated to the rental and sharing of recreational vehicles. Camping enthusiasts can search, compare and book RV rental deals from commercial and private suppliers in over 40 countries worldwide.

Calm

Series B in 2019
Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax. The company is driven by a mission to make the world happier and healthier by developing a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress. Calm was named by Apple as the 2017 iPhone App of the Year and by Google Play as an Editors’ Choice in 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Freshly

Series C in 2017
Freshly, Inc. provides freshly prepared meals online. The company’s meals menu includes entrees and breakfasts with dairy products, eggs, pork, tree nuts, chicken, beef, turkey, fish, soy, and shellfish. It offers monthly and weekly subscriptions. Freshly, Inc. was formerly known as F3 Foods of Arizona, Inc. and changed its name to Freshly, Inc. in December 2014. Freshly, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York. As of October 30, 2020, Freshly, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nestlé USA, Inc.

Lineavi

Seed Round in 2015
LINEAVI is a hypocaloric meal replacement in the form of a powder which, through its unique formula, promotes weight loss. The LINEAVI slimming diet plan boosts the metabolism enabling the fat-burning process without jeopardizing muscle mass. Nearly half of its energy value comes from high-quality protein. LINEAVI is also rich in fiber as well as essential vitamins and minerals. The unique combination of natural ingredients such as lactose-free whey protein, soy, rice, honey and peas makes LINEAVI a remarkable ally to shed the few extra-pounds.

Homeday

Seed Round in 2015
Homeday is a real estate company. It provides a platform for data-driven pairing in the real estate industry. Its platform helps real estate agents to pair with private property owners to sell their property. The Company offers a platform for property owners to find brokers, as well as provides real estate appraisal, land valuation, and leasing services. Homeday was founded by Steffen Wicker and Dmitri Uvarovski in 2014.

Merolt

Seed Round in 2015
merolt is a young and dynamic startup based in Leipzig. Our aim is to revolutionize hotel bookings of business travellers and especially SMEs, allowing direct access to wholesale prices. We want to go one step further and improve the traditional B2B online booking process. Support us in implementing our plan and benefit as one of the first of our solution for the business hotel reservation market.

Reparando

Seed Round in 2016
Since mid-2015, Reparando offers an incomparable mobile phone repair service and is thus a bright spot for desperate smartphone owners. The founders Vincent Osterloh, Jakob Schoroth and Till Kratochwill recognized the unsatisfactory situation for people with defective iPhones or Samsung mobile phones and decided to change them: "Their mobile phone repair should be specially designed for a high level of quality, friendly and competent staff and an optimal service experience Distinguishing customers "- this is the philosophy of the mobile phones.

Muun

Seed Round in 2015
Muun GmbH manufactures and sells mattresses. It offers double-sided topper and double-sided base mattresses. The company offers its products through its store in Berlin, Germany. It also sells mattresses online. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. As of February 4, 2019, Muun GmbH operates as a subsidiary of Matrazzo GmbH.

Ciao AG

Venture Round in 2014
Ciao was Europe's pioneer of online communities that critically review and rate millions of products and services for the benefit of other consumers. Available free of charge to consumers in local language versions in major western European and North American markets, Ciao combined unbiased consumer reviews and up-to-date price information from hundreds of online retailers to make it the most comprehensive source of intelligent shopping on the web. [Microsoft](/organization/microsoft) acquired Ciao in August, 2008.

Flaconi

Venture Round in 2012
Flaconi GmbH operates an online portal which offers perfume, cosmetics, and beauty products. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Kolay

Funding Round in 2017
Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.

Horizn Studios

Private Placement in 2019
Horizn is a travel tech venture, headquartered in Berlin. Their hero hardware product is their Smart Luggage range. As first vertical, online player in the European luggage market, and Europe's first Smart Luggage brand, HS designs, develops and sells premium quality, innovative travel products at very competitive prices. Their products offer GPS, Chargers, Proximity Alerts, Travel App, Personal Travel Assistant, and more - subtly integrated in a very contemporary design.

Comtravo

Seed Round in 2016
Comtravo is a travel and tourism company that specializes in travel management, business travel, and online booking. It features machine learning and software platforms that help SMEs to book, manage, and expense their business travel. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Masterplan.com

Series A in 2018
Masterplan com GmbH develops and offers e-learning videos for digital skills. The company provides structured courses to employees for imparting digital education. The company's platform offers lessons by combining learning sessions and e-learning videos with knowledge review, enabling companies to equip their employees. The company was formerly known as Mastermind Internet GmbH. Masterplan com GmbH was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Bochum, Germany.

Coffee Circle

Seed Round in 2014
coffeecircle is an online platform to order coffee and accessories.

Exporo

Series A in 2017
Exporo AG operates a online real estate crowdfunding platform in Germany. Its platform serves as a contact point that fits the needs of private investors, who are seeking for real estate investment opportunities and real estate developers seeking for capital. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

LemonSwan

Private Placement in 2019
LemonSwan GmbH operates as a dating agency. Its LemonSwan principle is a test based on scientific findings provides valuable information about ones personality within a partnership. Then the test matches the customer’s preference and personality traits with each other. The user can register on the website by entering the details that are required by the website. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Pixsy

Seed Round in 2015
Pixsy helps professional photographers, artists and businesses find and fight image theft online. Marketing leading reverse image search technology. Global licensing recovering and legal compensation their clients.

RightNow

Venture Round in 2018
RightNow is a leading consumer factoring provider and one of the most successful German legaltech startups. With its products, RightNow buys consumer claims from everyday life situations and pays a large part of the reimbursement within only 24 hours. The claims are assessed using specially developed algorithms and enforced in court through highly automated processes.

Barnebys

Venture Round in 2014
Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional and local businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team.

ArtNight GmbH

Seed Round in 2017
ArtNight GmbH organizes art workshops in local bars, cafes, and restaurants. The company distributes tickets online through its portal. It helps artists earn a living with their talent, as well as an opportunity for users to meet new people. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

inne

Series A in 2019
Inne is a Berlin-based biotech startup that builds a hormone-based mini lab for women with a mission to make natural contraception convenient and accurate. They aim to help women tune into their bodies and make informed decisions about their fertility and overall female health. Inne uses biochemistry and an app to track hormones and understand what it means and how they affect a woman's everyday fertility.

TopCheck

Seed Round in 2015
TopCheck UG (haftungsbeschränkt) operates an online portal for price comparison of financial products. It provides price comparison for car, home, travel, health, and life insurance. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. As of February 8, 2017, TopCheck UG (haftungsbeschränkt) operates as a subsidiary of Compare Africa Group.

Wellnow

Seed Round in 2016
Wellnow Group GmbH provides online services for mobile massage. It provides massage therapies, which includes wellnow classic, massage for relaxation and pain relief; wellnow intense, massage for neck pain and muscle tension; wellnow sports, sports massage with stretching elements for regeneration; wellnow wellness, massage to relax, wellnow pregnancy, massage for pregnant women for relaxation and recreation; and wellnow couple massage. It also offers its services through wellnow app. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Ampido

Seed Round in 2013
Ampido is an online platform that enables users to find and rent parking spots. Users can rent out private parking spaces, drive ways, and garages through their smartphones. Ampido is based in Koln, Germany.

Feral GmbH

Private Placement in 2020
Feral GmbH develops, manufactures, and distributes a saliva biosensor device for monitoring fertility. The company offers a hormone based minilab, inne System, which allows the women to collect and measure saliva through inne strips and inne Reader. It also develops a mobile application, inne App, which stores hormonal reading from inne Reader for fertility and ovulation tracking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

ArtNight GmbH

Venture Round in 2022
ArtNight GmbH organizes art workshops in local bars, cafes, and restaurants. The company distributes tickets online through its portal. It helps artists earn a living with their talent, as well as an opportunity for users to meet new people. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Dogo GmbH

Seed Round in 2021
Dogo App UG provides Dogo, a mobile dog-training app that helps to strengthen the bond between dog owners and their friends. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new and function like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Wallapop

Seed Round in 2013
Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. The company was founded by Agustin Gomez in September 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Tourlane

Seed Round in 2017
Tourlane GmbH operates an online travel consulting and booking portal. The company’s platform connects travelers with the travel specialists world-wide. It allows individuals and groups to affordably plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online. Its software offers real time pricing, availability, instant trip visualization, and drag-and-drop adjustments. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Uniplaces

Seed Round in 2014
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

LemonSwan

Seed Round in 2019
LemonSwan GmbH operates as a dating agency. Its LemonSwan principle is a test based on scientific findings provides valuable information about ones personality within a partnership. Then the test matches the customer’s preference and personality traits with each other. The user can register on the website by entering the details that are required by the website. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

SpareFoot

Series D in 2015
SpareFoot is the largest online marketplace for storage, making it easier to move and store your stuff. Our website lets you find and compare the best storage deals near you, and instantly rent online or by phone for free. With the most up-to-date information on storage available, SpareFoot makes finding your stuff a home the easiest thing to cross off your to-do list.

Loopline Systems

Venture Round in 2016
Loopline Systems GmbH develops software for employee feedback and OKRs. It offers Loop Now, smart cloud solution for continuous, automated employee surveys and 360 degree feedback and OKR management. The company also provides Loopline, a tool for feedback meetings, performance reviews, and employee development. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Feral GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
Feral GmbH develops, manufactures, and distributes a saliva biosensor device for monitoring fertility. The company offers a hormone based minilab, inne System, which allows the women to collect and measure saliva through inne strips and inne Reader. It also develops a mobile application, inne App, which stores hormonal reading from inne Reader for fertility and ovulation tracking. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Opinary

Angel Round in 2016
Opinary is a Berlin-based startup that established a new way for users to share their opinion in online content. Their technology helps 84 million monthly users to share their view with a tap and understand opinion trends at a glance. Publishing partners – including global leaders like The Times, HuffPost, NBC etc., use Opinary to engage and monetize their audiences, while global brands like Toyota or Mastercard boost attention, create conversions and generate insights.

Wunderflats

Seed Round in 2015
Wunderflats is an online platform that enables users to find and rent furnished apartments in Germany. It brings together tenants, landlords, and companies on one platform and makes renting a furnished apartment as convenient as possible. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Berlin.

JustSpices

Seed Round in 2014
Just Spices is a spice-mix and meal-prep brand that manufactures and markets food products. With numerous spice blends and pure spices, Just Spices inspires online and in an increasing number of supermarkets a growing consumer base to refine their own dishes and become creative in the kitchen. In addition to that, in 2018, the spice manufactory also launched the Just Spices IN MINUTES fix category online and nationwide in all REWE supermarkets. Just Spices offering 7 “fix” meal preparations that see Just Spices provide the recipe and spice mix needed to prepare a quick meal, with only a few additional fresh ingredients required to complete the dish. Since then, with 27 fix recipes, the company has been setting new standards for the fast and easy preparation of modern dishes in everyday life. Just Spices was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Horizn Studios

Series A in 2016
Horizn is a travel tech venture, headquartered in Berlin. Their hero hardware product is their Smart Luggage range. As first vertical, online player in the European luggage market, and Europe's first Smart Luggage brand, HS designs, develops and sells premium quality, innovative travel products at very competitive prices. Their products offer GPS, Chargers, Proximity Alerts, Travel App, Personal Travel Assistant, and more - subtly integrated in a very contemporary design.

Tractive

Private Placement in 2018
Tractive GmbH develops a GPS pet tracking device that helps users to locate their dogs, cats, and other pets. The company also develops pet applications for iOS, Android, and Windows phones. It serves customers via online. The company is based in Pasching, Austria.

inne

Seed Round in 2017
Inne is a Berlin-based biotech startup that builds a hormone-based mini lab for women with a mission to make natural contraception convenient and accurate. They aim to help women tune into their bodies and make informed decisions about their fertility and overall female health. Inne uses biochemistry and an app to track hormones and understand what it means and how they affect a woman's everyday fertility.

Masterplan.com

Private Placement in 2018
Masterplan com GmbH develops and offers e-learning videos for digital skills. The company provides structured courses to employees for imparting digital education. The company's platform offers lessons by combining learning sessions and e-learning videos with knowledge review, enabling companies to equip their employees. The company was formerly known as Mastermind Internet GmbH. Masterplan com GmbH was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Bochum, Germany.

Hundeland.de

Seed Round in 2013
Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.

Delivery Hero

Secondary Market in 2017
Delivery Hero is a worldwide network of online food ordering sites, operating in 21 countries and with over 73,000 restaurant partners. Delivery Hero operates in Germany, UK, Austria, South Korea, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Switzerland, China, India, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Panama, and Puerto Rico. The Group has more than 1000 employees globally, with 400 working from its Berlin Headquarters. Delivery Hero has received $523 million in investment in 2014 alone with investors including Insight Venture Partners, Luxor Capital Group, Kite Ventures, Team Europe, ru-Net, Tengelmann Ventures, Point Nine Capital, Vostok Nafta, and Phenomen Ventures.

ezCater

Series D in 2018
ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company offers ezManage, a catering management platform; and ezOrdering that provides restaurants with means to accept online catering orders on their own website. ezCater, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Denver, Colorado.

Lecturio

Series A in 2014
Lecturio provides the highest quality medical education content delivered in the most advanced teaching platform for medicine. Built in collaboration with instructors from Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown University and more, Lecturio combines excellent didactics with high-tech delivery. Leading universities around the world trust us to help them deliver their unique approaches to teaching medicine and the platform adapts to their curricula and teaching methods.

X24Factory

Seed Round in 2016
X24 is operating some of Europe's leading online furniture marketplaces - main markets in DE/FR/IT. Different from Wayfair, X24's marketplaces are listing full catalogs of leading industry manufacturers and retailers like IKEA, OTTO Group, Home24, XXXL, Höffner, Made.com, Wayfair - totalling some 4 million living products. X24 is using A.I. driven approaches towards data sheet enrichment and displays proprietary 3D digital showrooms and mobile AR formats at scale.

Horizn Studios

Series A in 2018
Horizn is a travel tech venture, headquartered in Berlin. Their hero hardware product is their Smart Luggage range. As first vertical, online player in the European luggage market, and Europe's first Smart Luggage brand, HS designs, develops and sells premium quality, innovative travel products at very competitive prices. Their products offer GPS, Chargers, Proximity Alerts, Travel App, Personal Travel Assistant, and more - subtly integrated in a very contemporary design.

4scotty

Seed Round in 2015
4scotty was founded especially for talents in IT to significantly simplify the process of getting the right job in an intransparent market.Talents define their dream position, can check their own market value and decide which companies they would like to get in touch with. The experienced 4scotty Talent Advocates support users in the entire process.Getting the right job was never so easy and relaxed. Companies apply to automatically pre-matched talents with transparent and individual job offers. They invite the talents directly to a personal interview. This saves a lot of time for both parties. For companies, 4scotty combines the best of headhunting, active sourcing, job ads, and employer branding on one platform and with great service. 4scotty makes IT recruiting easy and fast.

ZAGENO

Seed Round in 2016
ZAGENO is on a mission to accelerate scientific innovation by streamlining biotech purchasing processes with its award-winning, first-of-its-kind e-commerce platform. With over 10 million products available, ZAGENO makes online shopping for any research material convenient, efficient and reliable. The ZAGENO experience includes its Scientific Score, a best-in-class product rating system that offers unbiased, peer-reviewed ratings to support accurate purchasing decisions. Available on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, ZAGENO makes biotech purchases easier than ever and is an ideal sales channel for suppliers and partners. Founded in 2015, ZAGENO has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Berlin, Germany.

RightNow

Private Placement in 2019
RightNow is a leading consumer factoring provider and one of the most successful German legaltech startups. With its products, RightNow buys consumer claims from everyday life situations and pays a large part of the reimbursement within only 24 hours. The claims are assessed using specially developed algorithms and enforced in court through highly automated processes.

Kolay

Seed Round in 2019
Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.