Neuhaus Partners

Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet (infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.

Peter J. Gombert

Managing Partner

Matthias Grychta

Managing Partner

Gottfried Neuhaus

Founder and Partner Emeritus

46 past transactions

Softgarden

Venture Round in 2015
Softgarden is a provider of online recruitment software that simplifies the hiring process for businesses. Its platform allows companies to post job advertisements on their websites and various job boards, facilitating online applications from candidates. The software includes features for candidate tracking, application management, and employer branding, enabling businesses to assess and discuss applications efficiently. By offering analytics, Softgarden provides insights into the recruitment process, helping organizations make informed decisions. The cloud-based system covers the entire recruitment lifecycle, from publishing job postings to processing applications and selecting suitable candidates, streamlining the hiring workflow for companies.

Smava

Series B in 2015
Smava GmbH operates an online loan comparison portal based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2005. The platform connects private borrowers with a diverse range of banks and private investors, offering personal loans, car loans, debt restructuring options, and credit cards. Smava facilitates a tailored loan experience, enabling customers to secure loans quickly with varying amounts and interest rates. The company has seen significant growth, with the volume of loans brokered increasing from approximately EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion in 2019, and further rising by 45% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period the previous year. To date, Smava has brokered over 8 billion euros in loans, establishing itself as a prominent player in the German credit market.

Searchmetrics

Venture Round in 2014
Enterprise SEO and content marketing platform that provides competitive insight and market analysis

Searchmetrics

Venture Round in 2014
Enterprise SEO and content marketing platform that provides competitive insight and market analysis

Next Kraftwerke

Venture Round in 2013
Next Kraftwerke GmbH is an operator and provider of virtual power plant (VPP) and a certified power trader on various European energy exchanges. Its VPP Next Pool includes a network of medium and small scale power producing units, such as bioenergy, wind, and solar power generators, as well as power consuming units in Central Europe. The company digitally aggregates distributed units and trades their power smartly. Next Kraftwerke GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Smava

Venture Round in 2011
Smava GmbH operates an online loan comparison portal based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2005. The platform connects private borrowers with a diverse range of banks and private investors, offering personal loans, car loans, debt restructuring options, and credit cards. Smava facilitates a tailored loan experience, enabling customers to secure loans quickly with varying amounts and interest rates. The company has seen significant growth, with the volume of loans brokered increasing from approximately EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion in 2019, and further rising by 45% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the same period the previous year. To date, Smava has brokered over 8 billion euros in loans, establishing itself as a prominent player in the German credit market.

Content Fleet

Series B in 2011
Content Fleet is a provider of online marketing services that specializes in enhancing content creation for digital publishers. Utilizing a sophisticated Big Data backend, the company identifies trending topics that can attract new audiences, thereby boosting internet traffic and revenue for its clients. Content Fleet's technology streamlines the editorial process, increasing efficiency and reducing costs for editorial teams. The firm offers a range of services, including content creation, search engine optimization, and a content evaluation system, which together enable clients to produce engaging digital content that delivers measurable results. With a team of 80 professionals, Content Fleet serves notable clients in the media industry, including Axel Springer, Burda, and Yahoo!.

apprupt

Series B in 2011
apprupt is the first premium performance network for mobile advertising. Through an extensive network of premium publishers, apprupt provides advertising companies with specifically targeted solutions for context-driven mobile advertising, such as app marketing, the promotion of mobile websites as well as premium lead generation via interactive mobile ads like click-to-call and click-to-email. Moreover with a new mobile retargeting technology apprupt enables app providers to reactivate their app users.

tolingo

Series B in 2011
tolingo GmbH is a prominent translation service provider based in Hamburg, Germany, with an additional office in Stuttgart. Established in 2007, the company offers a comprehensive range of translation solutions tailored to various industries, including finance, law, marketing, medicine, and technology. Its services encompass the translation of diverse document formats, website localization, urgent translation requests, video transcription and subtitling, as well as editing and certification. tolingo also specializes in creating glossaries, style guides, and providing professional typesetting and desktop publishing. The firm collaborates with a network of translators worldwide, ensuring high-quality translations that meet the specific needs of clients in sectors such as automotive, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and IT. With a commitment to continuous improvement and a strong focus on client relationships, tolingo aims to enhance its service offerings and solidify its position as a leading force in the translation industry.

TESTROOM GmbH

Venture Round in 2011
The Hamburg agency TESTROOM specializes in Content Marketing . Content, consulting, design, implementation - their qualified staff will take you in every area forward. As a full-service provider TESTROOM can realize your success on the Internet - from the first consulting on the development of a successful strategy to make the necessary technical programming work and catchy and targeted marketing activities. This mainly includes quality content, but also an organic link building. For we know that only quality content in conjunction with optimized technology and strong recommendation links to a website lasting success. TESTROOM is the perfect partner for any digital issues. They offer customized business solutions for more visibility and reach the network.

Searchmetrics

Venture Round in 2011
Enterprise SEO and content marketing platform that provides competitive insight and market analysis

MIKESTAR

Venture Round in 2010
MIKESTAR.com is the online-karaoke community for Europe. Users can select from hundreds of songs, play them in a web browser and record their own performance. Recordings can be shared with the community. Furthermore MIKESTAR contains a contest area, in which users can mess in singing against each other.

Content Fleet

Series A in 2010
Content Fleet is a provider of online marketing services that specializes in enhancing content creation for digital publishers. Utilizing a sophisticated Big Data backend, the company identifies trending topics that can attract new audiences, thereby boosting internet traffic and revenue for its clients. Content Fleet's technology streamlines the editorial process, increasing efficiency and reducing costs for editorial teams. The firm offers a range of services, including content creation, search engine optimization, and a content evaluation system, which together enable clients to produce engaging digital content that delivers measurable results. With a team of 80 professionals, Content Fleet serves notable clients in the media industry, including Axel Springer, Burda, and Yahoo!.

Hornetsecurity

Venture Round in 2010
Hornetsecurity is a cloud security company. its services provide safe e-mail communication without investments into hardware or software and free of administration or maintenance efforts for IT managers and users. Their product range includes premium spam and virus protection services, e-mail encryption services, e-mail continuity services and e-mail archiving services. The company offers e-mail archive, web filtering, encrypted online storage solutions, advanced threat protection, and hosted exchange services for from small and medium-sized companies to large corporations.

Next Kraftwerke

Seed Round in 2010
Next Kraftwerke GmbH is an operator and provider of virtual power plant (VPP) and a certified power trader on various European energy exchanges. Its VPP Next Pool includes a network of medium and small scale power producing units, such as bioenergy, wind, and solar power generators, as well as power consuming units in Central Europe. The company digitally aggregates distributed units and trades their power smartly. Next Kraftwerke GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

Propertybase

Series A in 2010
Over 200,000 users at 1,900 real estate businesses in 60 countries worldwide. The Propertybase platform connects and simplifies the entire real estate process- from first website click to final closing documents.

apprupt

Series A in 2010
apprupt is the first premium performance network for mobile advertising. Through an extensive network of premium publishers, apprupt provides advertising companies with specifically targeted solutions for context-driven mobile advertising, such as app marketing, the promotion of mobile websites as well as premium lead generation via interactive mobile ads like click-to-call and click-to-email. Moreover with a new mobile retargeting technology apprupt enables app providers to reactivate their app users.

Searchmetrics

Venture Round in 2010
Enterprise SEO and content marketing platform that provides competitive insight and market analysis

tolingo

Series A in 2009
tolingo GmbH is a prominent translation service provider based in Hamburg, Germany, with an additional office in Stuttgart. Established in 2007, the company offers a comprehensive range of translation solutions tailored to various industries, including finance, law, marketing, medicine, and technology. Its services encompass the translation of diverse document formats, website localization, urgent translation requests, video transcription and subtitling, as well as editing and certification. tolingo also specializes in creating glossaries, style guides, and providing professional typesetting and desktop publishing. The firm collaborates with a network of translators worldwide, ensuring high-quality translations that meet the specific needs of clients in sectors such as automotive, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and IT. With a commitment to continuous improvement and a strong focus on client relationships, tolingo aims to enhance its service offerings and solidify its position as a leading force in the translation industry.

playnik

Series A in 2009
Playnik publishes browser games for game developers and provides content for media companies. Its products are free-to-play browser games that monetize via premium accounts and item sales worldwide. Playnik also provides marketing solution for development studios to concentrate solely on developing new titles. It began operation on March 1, 2008 as wwg worldwidegames, with its headquarters in Münster in Germany as a subsidiary of next idea as of April 27, 2012.

Hornetsecurity

Venture Round in 2009
Hornetsecurity is a cloud security company. its services provide safe e-mail communication without investments into hardware or software and free of administration or maintenance efforts for IT managers and users. Their product range includes premium spam and virus protection services, e-mail encryption services, e-mail continuity services and e-mail archiving services. The company offers e-mail archive, web filtering, encrypted online storage solutions, advanced threat protection, and hosted exchange services for from small and medium-sized companies to large corporations.

Tellja

Series A in 2009
Tellja provides digital recommendation marketing services. It began operation in 2009 as Pelvit, with its headquarters in Frankfurt in Germany.

sofatronic

Series B in 2009
sofatronic, is a technology provider for the development of interactive Blu-ray and New TV application.

Kaboa

Seed Round in 2009
Die KABOA GmbH ist ein deutsches StartUp mit Sitz in Unterföhring bei München. KABOA website: www.kaboa.de KABOA on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/cFupO9 Aufgabe: Die Konsumenten im Supermarkt sollen ein gesteigertes Einkaufserlebnis durch zusätzliche Dienste und Rabattmöglichkeiten erhalten. "Einkaufengehen" wird einfacher... "Nie wieder etwas vergessen..." Ihre persönlichen Vorteile: Mit dem KABOA-System ist ein zu Hause vergessener Einkaufszettel für Sie kein Problem mehr! Sie brauchen sich noch nicht mal mehr die Mühe zu machen und einen Einkaufszettel schreiben. KABOA nimmt Ihnen diese Arbeit ab und errechnet aus Ihren vergangenen Einkäufen, welche Artikel Sie bei Ihrem nächsten Einkauf benötigen. Zusätzlich bekommen Sie einen Überblick über aktuelle Angebote und Produkte. Den Rest übernehmen wir – damit Sie sich auf den Spaß am Einkaufen konzentrieren können und nicht zu Hause feststellen, dass Sie etwas vergessen haben zu kaufen. Ganz neu: Jetzt auch im ersten Lebensmittel-Onlineshop!

Charismathics

Series A in 2008
Charismathics is the independent supplier of Smart Card Middleware, TPM Based Device Authentication and Virtual Smart Cards

Hornetsecurity

Venture Round in 2008
Hornetsecurity is a cloud security company. its services provide safe e-mail communication without investments into hardware or software and free of administration or maintenance efforts for IT managers and users. Their product range includes premium spam and virus protection services, e-mail encryption services, e-mail continuity services and e-mail archiving services. The company offers e-mail archive, web filtering, encrypted online storage solutions, advanced threat protection, and hosted exchange services for from small and medium-sized companies to large corporations.

OSN

Series B in 2008
OSN is an operator of pay-TV broadcasting stations that offers digital content such as blockbuster movies, sporting events, lifestyle programming, and series that are being offered to customers in the Middle East. It also provides entertainment content for devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile phones via its online and mobile app entertainment platform, offering movies and series on the go.

Fishlabs

Series A in 2007
Fishlabs Entertainment, established in 2004 and based in Hamburg, is a prominent independent developer and publisher in the mobile gaming industry. The studio is recognized for its award-winning portfolio, which includes popular titles such as Galaxy on Fire™, DEEP™, Blades & Magic™, Rally Master Pro™, and Snowboard Hero™. Fishlabs has launched a wide array of high-quality 3D action, racing, sports, and RPG games across various platforms, including iOS, Android, and Mac OS, utilizing their proprietary ABYSS® technology. The flagship title, Galaxy on Fire 2™, has garnered significant attention, being featured by Apple and pre-installed on devices from major manufacturers. In addition to its original intellectual properties, Fishlabs has developed successful branded games for notable clients like Volkswagen and Barclaycard, achieving substantial download success across multiple countries. Collectively, the company's titles have amassed over 100 million game installs, underscoring its impact on the mobile gaming landscape.

Emporis

Venture Round in 2007
Emporis is a provider of information regarding the building industry, and manages data about structures in more than two hundred countries. Emporis is the world market leader for information about buildings with 10 or more floors. Emporis manages data which comes from a variety of sources such as data researchers, building-related companies, the public audience, vendors, and an editorial community.

Cellity

Series A in 2007
Founded in October 2006, Hamburg-based cellity AG offers an addressbook 2.0 web and mobile platform and innovative mobile telephony services based on its own software technology. The new cellity Communicator includes the cellity Addressbook 2.0, which synchronizes automatically all contact information from different sources, like the mobile phone book, Outlook, Twitter, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoomail, Gmail and Social Networks like Plaxo and LinkedIn, and keeps them updated. The cellity Communicator also integrates smart functions such as mobile e-mail, freeSMS, low-priced international calls, easy conference calling and a secure and reliable backup service. The free cellity cellphone applications have already been downloaded over 6 million times in over 160 countries and work with any mobile and SIM card.

Exit Games

Series B in 2007
Exit Games GmbH develops multiplayer mobile and online games. Its products include multiplayer games, Real time, Pun, Bolt, and Quantum; communication, chat and voice; and self hosted servers. Its Neutron, a platform connects network and service providers with users all over the world and used by game publishers, developers and mobile communications companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hamburg, Germany with additional office in Portland, Oregon and Tokyo, japan.

Hornetsecurity

Seed Round in 2007
Hornetsecurity is a cloud security company. its services provide safe e-mail communication without investments into hardware or software and free of administration or maintenance efforts for IT managers and users. Their product range includes premium spam and virus protection services, e-mail encryption services, e-mail continuity services and e-mail archiving services. The company offers e-mail archive, web filtering, encrypted online storage solutions, advanced threat protection, and hosted exchange services for from small and medium-sized companies to large corporations.

sofatronic

Series A in 2006
sofatronic, is a technology provider for the development of interactive Blu-ray and New TV application.

Intenium

Venture Round in 2005
INTENIUM GmbH is focusing on the female gaming audience and is one of the leading publishers of Casual games for Multiplayer -, Online – and PC- areas in Europe. The Hamburg-based company is operating and managing many gaming platforms and own IPs worldwide, including “DEUTSCHLAND-SPIELT!” (www.deutschland-spielt.de), Free To Play world Alamandi (www.alamandi.de) and Bonga Online (www.bonga-online.com,iPad) and shortly launched cross-platform game The Rats Online (www.therats-online.com, iOS, Android, Social Networks). INTENIUM constantly strengthens its international activities by having either direct presence or long-term partnerships in Europe, North America and Asia. The Publisher has at its possession a highly experienced development studio in Kaliningrad, Russia.

Axentiv

Venture Round in 2004
Axentiv is a consulting firm with a focus on strategy and organization development, software applications and technology integration. axentiv helps companies with strategy, organization and information technology to progress more successfully in their business. As a consulting company, we serve customers from industry, trade and service. In doing so, we close the gap between classic management consulting and IT implementation. Based on strategic goals, we design and implement modern IT and organizational solutions. With them companies are able to work more economically and efficiently, to open up new sales, production or procurement potential and thus to increase their performance and competitiveness. axentiv is a certified service partner and special expertise partner of SAP AG.

Infitel International

Venture Round in 2004
Infitel International develops and markets pioneering network-convergent technology.

Netlife AG

Venture Round in 2004
Netlife is a developer and provider of software solutions for financial service providers in the areas of banking, securities accounts and financing.

Exit Games

Series A in 2004
Exit Games GmbH develops multiplayer mobile and online games. Its products include multiplayer games, Real time, Pun, Bolt, and Quantum; communication, chat and voice; and self hosted servers. Its Neutron, a platform connects network and service providers with users all over the world and used by game publishers, developers and mobile communications companies. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Hamburg, Germany with additional office in Portland, Oregon and Tokyo, japan.
Garderos makes industrial-grade routers which are self-managing and cyber-secure. They work with their customers to make sure that their multi-site router projects are fully-functional and secure against cyber-attacks.

MyHeritage

Series A in 2004
MyHeritage is the global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into their past and treasure their family stories for generations to come. Our powerful technology does the searching for you, revealing fascinating new details about your family history — effortlessly. The company was founded in 2003 by our CEO – entrepreneur and family historian Gilad Japhet. From a humble garage startup, MyHeritage has grown into a global company with 90 million users across 196 countries. Our 370 employees work out of bright, spacious offices in Israel, North America, and Europe to deliver an exceptional user experience in 42 languages. Guided by our core values of innovation, compassion and diversity, our team undertakes many voluntary community initiatives, using our expertise and technology to reunite families. We are delighted to go the extra mile for our users, offering 24/7 support and striving to create a true sense of community in the world of family history. In October 2013 MyHeritage was named the most promising Israeli start-up for 2013-14 by "Globes" magazine.

Gentleware

Venture Round in 2003
Gentleware AG was founded in 2000 in Hamburg, Germany with a strong basis in the the open source project ArgoUML. In addition to the product line "Poseidon for UML", the firm also offers training and consulting as well as tool customization for high productivity software engineering.

octocom AG

Venture Round in 2002
ctocom AG develops and markets 3D laser-scanning software and hardware.

NXN Software

Series C in 2001
NXN Software is supplier of Digital Asset and Production Management solutions for the computer graphics and digital entertainment industries.

DocMorris

Venture Round in 2001
Doc Morris is an online provider of medical and pharmaceutical products. The company's goal is comprehensive services around the drug therapy, with which we want not only our customers, but also physicians and health insurances as a competent partner to the side. In addition to the highest pharmaceutical standards, we rely on information, exchange and networking. The company was founded in 2000, and acquired by Celesio AG in 2007.

handy.de Vertriebs GmbH

Venture Round in 2000
handy.de offers Internet ideas for the mobile phone generation and is the leading mobile portal in Germany with more than 650,000 registered users. With a comprehensive shop and innovative services, such as the delivery of ringtones and icons via SMS, the WAP portal wap.handy.de, news via SMS and the forwarding of e-mails to mobile phones, especially a young, mobile-enthusiastic target group should be addressed , The 40-person team of investors includes G + J Multimedia Ventures, venture capital firm Techno Nord, fluxx.com AG, Dangaard, Ingo Schwarz and Hasso Plattner (founder of SAP).

Ricardo

Venture Round in 1999
The ricardo Group operates leading online marketplaces in five Western European countries, namely Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Greece, under the websites ricardo.ch, autoricardo.ch, shops.ch, ricardolino.ch, qxl.dk, qxl.no and ricardo.gr. All operations are run on a single technology platform, with local marketing, sales and product groups in each territorial market.