Picus Capital

Founded in Munich, Germany in 2015, Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. It works closely with daring founders to build successful global companies across various sectors including financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech, and e-commerce. Picus invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A ventures, aiming to become the closest partner of its portfolio companies by supporting strategic decisions and operative challenges throughout their lifecycle.

Joséphine Allolio

Investor

Santiago Beck

Partner

Pierre Bourdon

Investor

Li Chen

Investor

Grace Cole

Investor

Past deals in Business Development

Niva

Seed Round in 2025
Niva is a global platform that automates business verification and onboarding processes. It uses AI to analyze documents, validate inputs in real-time, and detect fraudulent activity across various data sources, enabling businesses to onboard more quickly and securely while reducing operational burden.

Landbase

Seed Round in 2024
Landbase is a technology company that specializes in automating and optimizing sales and marketing processes for businesses. It operates a lead generation platform powered by advanced AI agents, which work in conjunction with human expertise to intelligently streamline the go-to-market strategy. This automation helps businesses enhance their lead conversion rates and ultimately drive increased revenue.

Baselayer

Seed Round in 2024
Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud for financial institutions. It offers services such as KYB, fraud detection, onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring, and workflow automation, empowering over 1,900 institutions to build trust with businesses.

Niva

Venture Round in 2023
Niva is a global platform that automates business verification and onboarding processes. It uses AI to analyze documents, validate inputs in real-time, and detect fraudulent activity across various data sources, enabling businesses to onboard more quickly and securely while reducing operational burden.

Baselayer

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud for financial institutions. It offers services such as KYB, fraud detection, onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring, and workflow automation, empowering over 1,900 institutions to build trust with businesses.

Inkle

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Inkle operates a virtual public accountant platform that provides on-demand, affordable, and scalable accounting, tax, and compliance services for global companies and US cross-border startups. The platform covers bookkeeping, tax and compliance, accounting, transfer pricing, finance, governance, legal, ESOPs, payroll, and other related services, aiming to simplify cross-border transactions with fast, reliable support.

Limehome

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2018, Limehome operates a platform offering digital apartment rentals for short and long stays. It combines hotel quality standards with apartment comfort, providing guests with stylish suites at affordable prices. The company automates conventional processes such as pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service, and invoicing.

BHub

Series A in 2022
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

Junto

Seed Round in 2022
Junto is an EdTech company that specializes in providing digital live training for businesses. It operates an e-learning platform designed to make business knowledge universally accessible. The platform features courses developed in collaboration with universities, companies, and experienced founders. By leveraging artificial intelligence technology and a proprietary network of vetted trainers, Junto transforms the corporate learning market, allowing businesses to engage in comprehensive training experiences over several weeks.

WeRize

Series B in 2022
WeRize is a pioneering fintech company in India that focuses on serving the financial needs of middle-class families in tier 2 to tier 4 cities, a segment often overlooked by traditional financial institutions. The firm operates a full-stack financial services platform that offers a diverse range of customized credit, insurance, and savings products tailored to the unique requirements of approximately 300 million individuals across these smaller towns. WeRize leverages a social distribution model, enabling financially literate freelancers in over 1,000 cities to sell its products within their communities, thus addressing trust issues and providing essential high-touch sales and after-sales support. This innovative approach eliminates the need for costly branch networks, allowing WeRize to maintain a scalable and economically viable business model while effectively reaching underserved customers. By utilizing proprietary technology, WeRize manages its freelance network without establishing physical locations, ensuring low customer acquisition costs and operational expenses.

Pandas

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Pandas is a B2B e-commerce platform that facilitates connections between Asian manufacturers and small merchants in Latin America. By leveraging foreign relationships and technology services, the company provides access to quality inventory from Asia, catering specifically to the needs of local small and micro-enterprises. This approach allows Latin American merchants to source unique products that are otherwise difficult to obtain, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the market. Through its innovative platform, Pandas aims to streamline the supply chain and support the growth of small businesses in the region.

Buildd

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Buildd develops Banking-as-a-Service software that enables developers to create and launch financial products using embedded finance APIs. It handles compliance, security, partnerships, risk management, and front-end services like onboarding and disbursals.

Selina Finance

Series B in 2022
Selina Finance offers innovative financing solutions for consumers and businesses, focusing on property investors and businesses seeking flexible credit facilities. Incorporated in London in 2019, the company combines expertise in real estate, finance, and technology to provide next-generation financial products tailored to modern customer needs.

BHub

Series A in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

BHub

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

WeRize

Series A in 2021
WeRize is a pioneering fintech company in India that focuses on serving the financial needs of middle-class families in tier 2 to tier 4 cities, a segment often overlooked by traditional financial institutions. The firm operates a full-stack financial services platform that offers a diverse range of customized credit, insurance, and savings products tailored to the unique requirements of approximately 300 million individuals across these smaller towns. WeRize leverages a social distribution model, enabling financially literate freelancers in over 1,000 cities to sell its products within their communities, thus addressing trust issues and providing essential high-touch sales and after-sales support. This innovative approach eliminates the need for costly branch networks, allowing WeRize to maintain a scalable and economically viable business model while effectively reaching underserved customers. By utilizing proprietary technology, WeRize manages its freelance network without establishing physical locations, ensuring low customer acquisition costs and operational expenses.

Limehome

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018, Limehome operates a platform offering digital apartment rentals for short and long stays. It combines hotel quality standards with apartment comfort, providing guests with stylish suites at affordable prices. The company automates conventional processes such as pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service, and invoicing.

Selina Finance

Series A in 2020
Selina Finance offers innovative financing solutions for consumers and businesses, focusing on property investors and businesses seeking flexible credit facilities. Incorporated in London in 2019, the company combines expertise in real estate, finance, and technology to provide next-generation financial products tailored to modern customer needs.

Joblift

Series B in 2019
Founded in 2015, Joblift operates an online platform that aggregates job listings from various sources. It employs machine learning algorithms to provide job seekers with tailored vacancy matches, enhancing the recruitment process.

Limehome

Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Limehome operates a platform offering digital apartment rentals for short and long stays. It combines hotel quality standards with apartment comfort, providing guests with stylish suites at affordable prices. The company automates conventional processes such as pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service, and invoicing.

Limehome

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018, Limehome operates a platform offering digital apartment rentals for short and long stays. It combines hotel quality standards with apartment comfort, providing guests with stylish suites at affordable prices. The company automates conventional processes such as pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service, and invoicing.

Joblift

Series A in 2017
Founded in 2015, Joblift operates an online platform that aggregates job listings from various sources. It employs machine learning algorithms to provide job seekers with tailored vacancy matches, enhancing the recruitment process.

Door.com

Series A in 2017
Door is a technology-driven residential real estate platform that enhances client service and reduces transaction costs. It combines specialized agents, mortgage services, and title expertise under one roof, with a focus on improving the home ownership experience through technology and specialization.

Seven Lanes

Seed Round in 2016
Seven Lanes GmbH, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, operates as a career marketplace that connects highly qualified professionals with employers across Europe. The company specializes in online recruitment and job listing services, catering to approximately 10% of Europe’s knowledge workers. It offers a diverse range of job opportunities, including permanent, work-from-home, and freelance positions primarily in online marketing, data science and analytics, product and design, and software engineering. With additional offices in major German cities such as Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, Seven Lanes emphasizes a commitment to delivering objective guidance and an exceptional user experience for both candidates and employers.

WunderAgent

Seed Round in 2015
WunderAgent is a prominent real estate sales platform in Germany, specializing in investment properties. The company provides a comprehensive online portal that facilitates smart real estate investments by offering consulting services tailored to users' needs. Through this platform, customers can efficiently search for and identify suitable investment properties, simplifying the process of securing real estate investments. By combining technology with expert advice, WunderAgent aims to enhance the investment experience for its clients.
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