STS Ventures

STS Ventures is a Cologne-based venture capital firm that invests in companies at various stages from pre-seed to late stage, primarily in the DACH region and the European Union. With a focus on building a solid base, their typical initial investment ranges from €200k to €500k, with the potential for follow-up investments up to €5 million per company. Founded in 2013, STS Ventures prefers to be one of the first investors, providing seed, startup, early venture, and growth capital, as well as bridge financing to help companies grow and succeed.

Nicolas von Cappeln

Principal

Oliver Kaul

Partner

Daniel Perthes

Investment Manager

Alissa Prinsloo

Investment Manager

Stephan Schubert

Founder & Managing Partner

Noah Souvignier

Venture Partner

Thies Wollesen

Investment Manager

36 past transactions

ottonova

Series C in 2017
Ottonova provides health insurance through its digital platform.ottonova not only makes everyday life easier for you today, but is also your reliable health partner in the future.

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.

Klima.Metrix

Private Placement in 2020
Klima.Metrix GmbH develops the software as a service (SaaS) which calculates all climate data to determine the carbon footprint. It offers products such as Management & CSR, Marketing & PR, Human Resources, Controlling & Finance, Accounting & Reporting, and Project Management. Klima.Metrix GmbH was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Vantik

Seed Round in 2021
Vantik is a 2017 launched, Berlin-based PensionTech startup. Their vision is a simple and secure private pension that is as flexible as life itself, their mission is to inspire millennials saving for their future. They are currently in their Seed phase, looking for highly motivated and inspiring team members who want to become part of a cool, motivated, and diversified team in the heart of Berlin.

rebike1 GmbH

Series A in 2019
rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fully refurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.

Snapbus GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
Snapbus GmbH operates snapbus, a platform to hire a bus online. Snapbus GmbH was formerly known as EtaBus GmbH and changed its name to Snapbus GmbH in November 2019. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cologne, Germany.

UpsellGuru

Venture Round in 2019
*** Maximize hotel revenue from room & service up-selling *** UpsellGuru is the first pre-arrival room up-selling system that enables guests to bid on room upgrades. INCREASE YOUR REVENUE Up-selling makes a big impression on your revenue’s bottom line. MINIMIZE THE NUMBER OF FREE UPGRADES Sell your higher room categories for a discounted rate instead of having them empty or upgraded for free. INCREASE GUEST SATISFACTION Enhance guest’s stay with discounted higher room categories and added services. NO RISK No up-front fees and lock-in contracts. Flexible payment models. PMS INTEGRATED UpsellGuru can be interfaced with several PMS providers to automate the process. EXCELLENT RESULTS Top producing hotels achieving up-selling revenues up to €16.000 /month. To find out more about UpsellGuru please visit www.upsellguru.com

Seven Lanes

Seed Round in 2016
Seven Lanes GmbH offers online recruitment and job listing services. The company offers permanent, work from home, and freelance jobs. It provides jobs in fields, such as online marketing, data science and analytics, product and design, and software engineering. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with additional locations in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, Germany.

Seven Lanes

Series A in 2018
Seven Lanes GmbH offers online recruitment and job listing services. The company offers permanent, work from home, and freelance jobs. It provides jobs in fields, such as online marketing, data science and analytics, product and design, and software engineering. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with additional locations in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, Germany.

ottonova

Series B in 2017
Ottonova provides health insurance through its digital platform.ottonova not only makes everyday life easier for you today, but is also your reliable health partner in the future.

Loopline Systems

Private Placement in 2018
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.

carsale24

Series A in 2012
carmoto tectum GmbH owns and operates an online car-selling platform. The company’s platform offers used cars to commercial dealers. The portal provides vehicle-advertising services for the vehicle seller. It serves business and private consumers, estate administrators, insurance companies, and banks. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Hamburg, Germany with addional offices in Solingen and Berlin.

Loopline Systems

Venture Round in 2018
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.

mogenius

Venture Round in 2022
mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, and repetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.

Seven Lanes

Private Placement in 2018
Seven Lanes GmbH offers online recruitment and job listing services. The company offers permanent, work from home, and freelance jobs. It provides jobs in fields, such as online marketing, data science and analytics, product and design, and software engineering. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany with additional locations in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, Germany.

rebike1 GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fully refurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.

JustWatch

Pre Seed Round in 2017
JustWatch is a new streaming search engine - to help you find out where to watch movies legally. What’s new on Netflix, Hulu or iTunes? Where to watch your this movie you’ve been talking about? On JustWatch you can find all that in one app. To make the experience even more worthwhile, you can customize your individual settings and use easy and intuitive filters for providers like Google Play and Amazon Prime, many different genres or release year. Their goal is to connect movie fans with their favourite content worldwide. JustWatch is starting out as a webapp optimized for tablets and smartphones. However, it works on laptops and computers too. For users, this service is completely free. Their business model is to help movie studios advertise to the right audience. Therefore they are building a fully integrated adtech stack to be able to target those fans. Their goal is to make movie marketing a lot more efficient for advertisers and a lot less annoying and more valuable for users.

Talentspace

Seed Round in 2020
TalentSpace GmbH operates an online recruiting event platform. Its platform allows users to attend online recruiting events and meet interesting companies looking to hire the talents; and build next event. TalentSpace GmbH was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Swaarm

Seed Round in 2021
Swaarm Tech GmbH develops a performance based marketing platform. The company’s platform offers an adtech tracking solution for agencies, advertisers, and networks to manage, track, analyze, and optimize their marketing campaigns at scale. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

rebike1 GmbH

Series B in 2021
rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fully refurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.

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.

Gebrauchtwagenheld GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
Gebrauchtwagenheld GmbH develops vehicle management software solutions for small and medium-sized independent car dealers. The company’s solution allows car dealers to save, create and send documents related to vehicles and checkout in one system; to manage the vehicles; and to manage customer data. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

autengo

Venture Round in 2019
autengo offers Software-as-a-Service solutions for car dealerships by providing a product and service cloud for sales and marketing

Loopline Systems

Private Placement in 2020
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.

Baqend

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Baqend develops a performance add-on that uses innovative caching algorithms to minimize loading times of e-commerce websites. Their product Speed Kit helps shops and brands to turn page speed into their competitive advantage. Speed Kit is a web performance insurance: added as a JavaScript, it accelerates websites by 50–300%. With its automatic optimizations, Speed Kit improves the user experience, increases the conversion rate and SEO ranking, offloads the server, and dramatically reduces marketing costs through lower bounce rates. Baqend's technology is already leveraged by more than 6000 websites such as Baur in the Otto Group. Baqend’s mission is a web without loading times.

sapaso

Seed Round in 2017
Sapaso operates as a service provider for the professional management of membership fees. The firm handles the payment processing, dunning, and receivables management. They also offer to their customers the analysis of payment flows and accounting. In this way, Sapaso claims to be able to prevent payment losses, save hours of administrative work, and improve the customer loyality. What makes Sapaso unique is that its service is not only available for eCommerce but also takes care of non-digitized companies which so far have no access to modern payment processing.

rebike1 GmbH

Private Placement in 2019
rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fully refurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.

Swaarm

Seed Round in 2022
Swaarm Tech GmbH develops a performance based marketing platform. The company’s platform offers an adtech tracking solution for agencies, advertisers, and networks to manage, track, analyze, and optimize their marketing campaigns at scale. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Tilta

Seed Round in 2024
Building is an embedded lending infrastructure for B2B e-commerce transactions. They provide financial services, drive GMV, and add a revenue stream without the hassle of being a financial service.

snabBus

Seed Round in 2019
snabBus automatically compare hundreds of buses from bus companies in your area.

Vantik

Seed Round in 2019
Vantik is a 2017 launched, Berlin-based PensionTech startup. Their vision is a simple and secure private pension that is as flexible as life itself, their mission is to inspire millennials saving for their future. They are currently in their Seed phase, looking for highly motivated and inspiring team members who want to become part of a cool, motivated, and diversified team in the heart of Berlin.