NFQ

NFQ is a software development company that partners with tech-driven businesses, focusing on a variety of industries including e-commerce, transportation, logistics, and travel. The company specializes in software engineering, product development, process digitalization, business analytics, digital strategy, user experience (UX) development, and data science and automation services. With a team of over 400 development specialists, NFQ takes a hands-on approach to support entrepreneurs at various growth stages, from seed and incubation to later-stage development. The firm operates globally, with offices in Europe and San Francisco, and aims to help create and scale technology-driven companies effectively.

Harald Braunstein

Founding Partner and CEO

Wolfgang Heigl

Founding Partner

22 past transactions

Raus

Seed Round in 2022
Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.

Raus

Seed Round in 2022
Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.

Productpine

Seed Round in 2021
Productpine is an innovative shopping platform designed to enhance consumer purchasing while promoting sustainability. It allows consumers to buy their favorite products at competitive prices, simultaneously contributing to environmental initiatives. The platform leverages advanced technology to significantly reduce marketing costs for direct-to-consumer brands, with savings redirected towards selected sustainability projects that offset CO2 emissions. In addition to supporting eco-friendly efforts, Productpine employs an intelligent recommendation engine to facilitate cross-selling, helping brands maintain quality margins and brand integrity while gaining insights into consumer preferences. Through its unique approach, Productpine effectively aligns consumer interests with positive global impact.

The Naked Market

Seed Round in 2020
The Naked Market is an innovative consumer products company focused on developing a diverse range of health-oriented food and beverage brands. Catering primarily to millennials, the company produces non-genetically modified and keto-friendly snacks, including puffs, ready-to-eat acai smoothie bowls, and chicken chips. By offering products that align with customers' preferences and values, The Naked Market emphasizes environmental sustainability, global development, and mental health.

GoStudent

Series A in 2020
GoStudent is an online tutoring platform that connects students with qualified tutors for personalized, one-to-one video lessons across more than 20 subjects. Utilizing a membership model, students can book sessions through the platform, which offers features like a virtual classroom, whiteboard, and document-sharing capabilities. The platform serves primary, secondary, and college-aged students, facilitating over 400,000 tutoring sessions monthly. GoStudent has a diverse network of approximately 15,000 customers and collaborates with around 5,500 international tutors. The company employs over 600 staff members and operates 12 international offices. Additionally, it incorporates artificial intelligence to enhance tutor selection and onboarding. GoStudent has successfully raised over €291 million in funding from various investors.

Accept.inc

Seed Round in 2019
Accept.inc is a technology-enabled lender that allows qualified buyers to make all-cash offers on homes without incurring additional costs. Founded in 2016 by Adam Pollack, Nick Friedman, and Ian Perrex, the company aims to facilitate homeownership by leveling the playing field for buyers through its innovative platform. Accept.inc provides a seamless experience for agents and mortgage-qualifying buyers, ensuring that all parties involved in the transaction benefit. The company offers various services, including refinancing and loan underwriting, and specializes in FHA, VA, and USDA loans to assist first-time homebuyers and homeowners. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Accept.inc began operating its current model in mid-2019.

Pop Meals

Seed Round in 2018
Pop Meals, founded in 2021, is a food delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance logistics and cooking automation. The company provides an online marketplace for ordering fresh, healthy, and ready-to-eat meals, focusing on lunch and dinner options crafted by culinary chefs. With a daily changing menu, Pop Meals combines large-scale production with customer data and machine learning to optimize its offerings. The use of AI extends to last-mile delivery, allowing the company to maintain some of the lowest delivery costs in the industry while ensuring balanced meals are conveniently delivered to customers' homes or offices.

Joblift

Series A in 2017
Joblift GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany, operates an online job aggregator that connects job seekers with potential employers by compiling job listings from various sources. Founded in 2015 and originally named Everyjob GmbH, Joblift utilizes advanced machine learning techniques and big-data algorithms to enhance the job search experience. This meta-search platform aims to simplify the recruiting process for users by delivering job vacancies that align closely with their preferences. Through its technology-driven approach, Joblift offers performance-based multichannel recruiting solutions, helping employers find suitable candidates from millions of job advertisements while promoting transparency in the recruitment process.

Lemoncat

Venture Round in 2017
LEMONCAT GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, operates an online platform that specializes in business catering services. The company provides a marketplace designed to simplify the process of sourcing local catering options for meetings, conferences, and events. With a diverse selection of caterers, LEMONCAT offers businesses a user-friendly experience, featuring a low price guarantee and the convenience of free cancellations up to 48 hours before an event. By focusing on quality food options and reducing the logistical challenges associated with catering, LEMONCAT aims to enhance the everyday dining experience in professional settings.

Pop Meals

Seed Round in 2017
Pop Meals, founded in 2021, is a food delivery service that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance logistics and cooking automation. The company provides an online marketplace for ordering fresh, healthy, and ready-to-eat meals, focusing on lunch and dinner options crafted by culinary chefs. With a daily changing menu, Pop Meals combines large-scale production with customer data and machine learning to optimize its offerings. The use of AI extends to last-mile delivery, allowing the company to maintain some of the lowest delivery costs in the industry while ensuring balanced meals are conveniently delivered to customers' homes or offices.

Trade Machines FI GmbH

Venture Round in 2016
TradeMachines understands how difficult it is to trust in used machinery. They work with trustful industrial auctioneers and renowned machinery traders to ensure you receive the best connection between the two. Industrial auctions are a popular possibility to find great bargains when it comes to used machinery. In these industrial auctions potential buyers find used equipment of companies who became insolvent or who decided to get rid of a selection of their machines. But industrial auctions are not the only way how to find the right used machines for cheap prices. Machinery traders list their offers on TradeMachines as well. As a result of the extensive offer of used machines, it is much easier and less time consuming to the find right offer.

StyleLounge

Venture Round in 2016
StyleLounge offers you a large and varied selection of well-known brands and shops. Here you do not have to search long for your new favorite pieces. Just enter the product of your choice and in the next step choose the color you want to convince and the price you want to invest. If you already have an absolute favorite shop or identify yourself with a specific brand - one that you just always good, then you can also enter this directly. They will then show you an overview of everything that might suit you and you can browse quickly and easily in different shops, so you are guaranteed to overlook no nice part!

ShipBob

Series A in 2016
ShipBob Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing online shipping and fulfillment services tailored for small e-commerce businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob offers an end-to-end fulfillment solution that includes warehousing, order management, and package delivery, enabling direct-to-consumer brands to ship products within 1-2 business days. Its platform integrates with various e-commerce platforms such as Shopify, Amazon, and eBay, allowing merchants to manage orders, track inventory, and communicate with customers effectively. ShipBob's services encompass pickup, packaging, batch fulfillment, and returns, supported by a network of fulfillment centers across the United States, including a key facility in Dallas, Texas. The company also provides a smartphone application for scheduling pickups and tracking shipments.

Fleet

Seed Round in 2016
Previously known as Shipstr, Fleet is efficiently streamlining the commercial shipping industry through a cloud-based platform. Fleet provides a cloud-based platform that businesses can use to book transportation for international freight. Fleet is the first platform to address the needs of shippers moving commercial freight overseas. Fleet provides instant quotes, improved decision making by showing provider lead times, ratings and reliability, direct access to all of the service providers, and a team room to communicate directly with service providers for status and view shipping documents.

DreamCheaper

Seed Round in 2015
DreamCheaper, a service that searches for cheaper hotel rates and rebooks a room on behalf of guests. The platform works by encouraging previously booked guests to email their reservation to the site. It then scours rates on more than 100 other booking sites and wholesalers – if it finds a cheaper rate it will rebook the guest, taking a 20% fee from the saving made.

eHealth MediDate

Series A in 2015
An excess of unused surgery capacity in healthcare leads to inefficient medical treatments & high costs. Medidate works with clinics and surgeons, using existing infrastructure more efficiently to offer premium medical treatments at better prices. Clinics are freed of the administrative tasks preceding surgery, such as initial consultation, billing and appointment as well as surgery coordination. Doctors use Medidate as an platform to access patients and pre-organised surgery capacity.

Dreamlines

Series A in 2012
Dreamlines, founded in 2012, has established itself as the largest cruise portal in Europe and is recognized as the fastest-growing cruise platform worldwide. With a presence in 12 countries across five continents and a workforce of over 600 dedicated employees, Dreamlines serves a diverse customer base, making it the largest cruise online travel agency outside the United States. The company specializes in simplifying the cruise booking process, offering a comprehensive platform that allows travelers to search, compare, and book a wide range of cruises while receiving independent advice tailored to their needs. Additionally, Dreamlines operates its own tour operator business, providing unique cruise packages curated by experienced experts, which are exclusively available through its platform. The development of an in-house GDS/CRM system enables Dreamlines to enhance customer satisfaction and optimize internal processes, reinforcing its position as a leading player in the global cruise market.

GetYourGuide

Seed Round in 2012
GetYourGuide operates an online platform that allows users to book tours, attractions, and activities globally. Founded in June 2009 by Jochen Mattes, Johannes Reck, Martin Sieber, Pascal Mathis, Tao Tao, and Tobias Rein, the company acts as a mediator between customers and service providers, facilitating the booking of experiences such as cooking classes and skip-the-line tickets for popular tourist sites. The platform is accessible via the internet and mobile applications, providing a variety of options for travelers, including last-minute activities and guided tours. While the service is free for customers, providers pay GetYourGuide a percentage of their revenue for each booking. An integrated customer review system helps users assess the quality of tour providers, with the platform actively removing those that consistently receive poor reviews.
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