New Forge

New Forge is a business angel investor and startup accelerator based in Solingen, Germany, founded in 2019. The firm focuses on supporting early-stage business-to-business technology startups, guiding them through a rapid development process to transition from initial ideas to successful market-ready products. By facilitating growth and providing essential resources, New Forge aims to bridge the gap between concept and commercialization for its portfolio companies.

Alexander Hochguertel

Managing Director

Alexander Hochgurtel

Partner and Managing Director

Rico Hochgürtel

Partner and Managing Director

Fabian Lange

Partner

Mirko Novakovic

Partner

Raphael Weiner

Partner

18 past transactions

progile

Seed Round in 2024
Autonomous Testing with Zero Flakiness. The TrueTest Technology and our AI-based virtual user makes it possible for the first time to test autonomously across software, system, and technology boundaries from a user perspective with the same approach. We simplified automated testing massively and reduced time radically. With it, the automation and maintenance effort is reduced to a minimum: zero flakiness and the enlightening feeling of being in control of your automation and test scenarios. It's not about buzzwords and being one of the cool kids. Our mission was to solve the daily problems of test automation. And that's what we did. OUR TECHNOLOGY Stop losing your time on tasks automation should have eliminated The power of TestResults.io lies in its core, the TrueTest technology. It includes Visual Matching, Visual Sense, and Codified Expertise. Visual Matching Identifies elements in a technology-agnostic way through image convolution, text detection, and our unique ReverseOCR Visual Sense Identifies interaction position without hints to solve flakiness with spatial algorithms and automatic candidate selection. It doesn’t matter if the label is outside or inside, above, left from the field or anywhere else. It doesn’t matter if the position changes in a responsive layout. Visual Sense, always knows what label is related to which field. Codified Expertise Knows how to interact with elements through autonomous interactions and automatic verification.

Rencore

Angel Round in 2024
Rencore is an independent software vendor based in Munich, Germany, specializing in Microsoft 365 Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions. The company provides tools that help organizations effectively manage and govern their cloud services, including Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange, Yammer, Azure, and the Power Platform. Rencore's software simplifies the GRC processes by consolidating relevant information across the Microsoft cloud, continuously identifying compliance violations, and automating enforcement and resolution tasks. This approach allows clients to achieve a flexible and streamlined governance framework tailored to their specific business needs, enabling IT administrators to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Steadybit

Series A in 2024
Steadybit is a developer of a chaos engineering platform designed to enhance the resilience of software systems and protect clients from significant failures and errors in production. The platform enables users to conduct experiments that analyze system performance, proactively reduce downtime, and improve visibility into system vulnerabilities. By identifying weaknesses in a safe manner, Steadybit helps organizations detect issues early, thereby saving time and increasing overall system security. The solution is easy to install and is available in both SaaS and on-premises formats, making it adaptable to various system landscapes.

Anytype

Series A in 2023
Anytype Inc. is a Berlin-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing software solutions for the Web3 environment. The company's primary offering is an operating system designed to provide users with privacy and data ownership. Anytype's software allows clients to securely store their digital content locally while enabling them to manage their work online. Users can create customizable dashboards and organize various types of media, including text and images, without sacrificing their privacy. This approach empowers individuals to capture and organize ideas effectively in a secure digital space.

Stargazr

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Stargazr is an innovative company specializing in AI-driven financial data forecasting software tailored for the industrial sector. By integrating advanced analytics and prescriptive analytics, Stargazr enables CFOs and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams to move beyond traditional, retrospective analysis, facilitating proactive and strategic decision-making. The platform enhances the financial forecasting process by connecting financial and operational data streams, allowing businesses to identify financial bottlenecks in real-time and gain insights into key value drivers within their operations. By transforming raw data into actionable recommendations, Stargazr empowers organizations to enhance profitability, efficiency, and strategic growth in an increasingly complex business environment.

HiPeople

Seed Round in 2022
HiPeople is a company that specializes in automating the recruitment process by providing a platform for skill qualification and candidate insights. The platform allows businesses to create customized skill assessments for various roles, streamlining the pre-screening process for recruiters. HiPeople's offerings include in-depth assessments, reference and background checks, as well as analytics on candidate experience and quality of hire. By leveraging these tools, HiPeople enables organizations to gather comprehensive insights about candidates, facilitating more informed hiring decisions and improving overall recruitment efficiency.

Morgen

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Morgen is a software company that specializes in time management solutions. Its flagship product is an integrated platform designed to consolidate various calendars, tasks, projects, and reminders into a single application. This allows users to efficiently plan, organize, and optimize their schedules, reducing the complexity of managing multiple tools. The platform also includes a native scheduling tool for further streamlining meeting arrangements. Morgen caters to both individual users and teams seeking to enhance their time management capabilities.

HiveMQ

Series A in 2022
HiveMQ is a developer of a robust MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) broker platform that enables businesses to connect, communicate, and manage IoT data effectively, even under real-world stress. The platform serves various industries, including automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, and transportation, offering flexibility, security, and scalability. HiveMQ's technology supports mission-critical applications, such as connected cars and IoT products, making it the trusted choice for leading brands like Audi, BMW, Honeywell, and Mercedes-Benz. By empowering organizations to modernize their operations and enhance customer experiences, HiveMQ has established itself as a standard in the enterprise IoT landscape.

ONVY HealthTech

Seed Round in 2022
Predictive health - powered by AI. The world's first AI Health Coach - linked to more than 500+ health and wellness data integrations. ONVY is a venture-backed HealthTech startup fusing multiple health & wellness data integrations for a holistic approach to digital health - powered by AI. Conversational AI and Generative AI work in tandem and are connected to all users' current health and wellness data. A personal AI Health Coach continiously translates data insights into actionable feedback, enabling a new era of personalized, proactive, preventive and predictive health management. With its two B2B divisions, "AI-Health-Coach-as-a-Service" and "Prevention-as-a-Service", ONVY HealthTech Group enables digital health and wellness players to enter a new era of customer personalization and offers highly personalized prevention in corporate health and InsurTech. ONVY applies machine learning methods for clustering, classification and regression of biometric time series data, learning from relevant patterns and correlations between user digital biomarkers (320+ wearable integrations), behavioral data, environmental data, nutritional data, demographic factors and more.

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.

ArangoDB

Series B in 2021
ArangoDB GmbH is a company that specializes in developing a cloud-based multi-model NoSQL database tailored for developers and architects. Founded in 2014, the company offers ArangoDB, a distributed, open-source database that supports a flexible data model encompassing documents, graphs, and key-value pairs. This versatility enables users to build high-performance applications utilizing a SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, ArangoDB aims to facilitate efficient application development through its innovative database solutions, which are designed for both individual developers and enterprise environments.

Aifora

Seed Round in 2021
Aifora GmbH is a technology company based in Düsseldorf, Germany, specializing in retail automation through its advanced optimization software. Founded in 2017, Aifora's platform leverages big data and machine learning to help retail businesses understand and predict consumer behavior effectively. It offers solutions for price optimization and stock management, assisting clients in determining optimal order quantities and improving merchandise flow. By creating a shared data ecosystem, Aifora enables brands and retailers to make informed decisions that enhance consumer experiences and drive profitability. The company's use of deep learning algorithms allows for more accurate pricing and promotional strategies, while intelligent automation streamlines repetitive tasks, allowing merchandisers to concentrate on product innovation and enhancing customer engagement.

Stargazr

Seed Round in 2021
Stargazr is an innovative company specializing in AI-driven financial data forecasting software tailored for the industrial sector. By integrating advanced analytics and prescriptive analytics, Stargazr enables CFOs and financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams to move beyond traditional, retrospective analysis, facilitating proactive and strategic decision-making. The platform enhances the financial forecasting process by connecting financial and operational data streams, allowing businesses to identify financial bottlenecks in real-time and gain insights into key value drivers within their operations. By transforming raw data into actionable recommendations, Stargazr empowers organizations to enhance profitability, efficiency, and strategic growth in an increasingly complex business environment.

HiveMQ

Seed Round in 2021
HiveMQ is a developer of a robust MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) broker platform that enables businesses to connect, communicate, and manage IoT data effectively, even under real-world stress. The platform serves various industries, including automotive, energy, logistics, smart manufacturing, and transportation, offering flexibility, security, and scalability. HiveMQ's technology supports mission-critical applications, such as connected cars and IoT products, making it the trusted choice for leading brands like Audi, BMW, Honeywell, and Mercedes-Benz. By empowering organizations to modernize their operations and enhance customer experiences, HiveMQ has established itself as a standard in the enterprise IoT landscape.

Steadybit

Seed Round in 2021
Steadybit is a developer of a chaos engineering platform designed to enhance the resilience of software systems and protect clients from significant failures and errors in production. The platform enables users to conduct experiments that analyze system performance, proactively reduce downtime, and improve visibility into system vulnerabilities. By identifying weaknesses in a safe manner, Steadybit helps organizations detect issues early, thereby saving time and increasing overall system security. The solution is easy to install and is available in both SaaS and on-premises formats, making it adaptable to various system landscapes.

Earthly Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Earthly Technologies, Inc. is an open-source platform specializing in build automation for the post-container era. Founded in 2020 and based in Redwood City, California, the company has developed an array of tools that simplify continuous integration and deployment processes. Its primary product, the Earthly framework, enables developers to create repeatable builds that can run in any environment. The platform supports the creation of Docker images and various artifacts, such as binaries and packages, while also allowing for parallel processing and dependency management from multiple directories. Additionally, Earthly provides Earthly CI, a fast and efficient continuous integration platform, as well as Earthly Satellites, a remote build runner compatible with any CI system. By streamlining these development processes, Earthly Technologies aims to enhance efficiency and consistency in software development.

Codesphere

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Steadybit

Seed Round in 2020
Steadybit is a developer of a chaos engineering platform designed to enhance the resilience of software systems and protect clients from significant failures and errors in production. The platform enables users to conduct experiments that analyze system performance, proactively reduce downtime, and improve visibility into system vulnerabilities. By identifying weaknesses in a safe manner, Steadybit helps organizations detect issues early, thereby saving time and increasing overall system security. The solution is easy to install and is available in both SaaS and on-premises formats, making it adaptable to various system landscapes.
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