STS Ventures

STS Ventures GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Germany, founded in 2013. The firm specializes in seed, startup, and early-stage investments, focusing on companies in the DACH region, which includes Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. STS Ventures typically makes initial investments ranging from €200,000 to €500,000, with the potential for follow-up investments totaling up to €5 million per company. The firm invests personal capital from its management and is interested in various sectors, including business products and services, consumer products and services, financial services, and information technology. By investing at early stages, STS Ventures aims to help build a strong foundation for emerging companies.

Nicolas von Cappeln

Principal

Stephan Jacquemot

Partner

Oliver Kaul

Partner

Daniel Perthes

Investment Manager

Alissa Prinsloo

Investment Manager

Stephan Schubert

Founder & Managing Partner

Noah Souvignier

Venture Partner

Thies Wollesen

Investment Manager

22 past transactions

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.

Swaarm

Seed Round in 2021
Swaarm Tech GmbH, founded in September 2020 in Berlin, Germany, develops a performance-based marketing platform designed for agencies, advertisers, and networks. The company’s platform offers an adtech tracking solution that enables users to manage, track, analyze, and optimize their marketing campaigns effectively and at scale. Co-founders Yogeeta Chainani and Alexandru Dumitru leverage over a decade of industry experience to create a solution that emphasizes simplicity, affordability, and collaboration. Unlike existing market offerings that provide limited data insights and require extensive manual processes, Swaarm's platform is engineered to overcome these challenges. It allows for real-time tracking and control of marketing efforts, ensuring profitable growth for its users. With a focus on user-friendliness and powerful data-driven campaign automation, Swaarm aims to assist marketers in measuring and optimizing their campaigns efficiently and economically.

Vantik

Seed Round in 2021
Vantik GmbH is a Berlin-based startup that specializes in digital private pension products aimed at millennials. Founded in 2017, the company offers retirement planning services through an online platform and mobile application, allowing young people, professionals, and freelancers to manage their pensions easily. Vantik provides its services via an account at DAB BNP Paribas bank, emphasizing flexibility and security in retirement savings. The company seeks to inspire millennials to take an active role in planning for their financial future.

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.

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.

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.

snabBus

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

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

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

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.

Vantik

Seed Round in 2019
Vantik GmbH is a Berlin-based startup that specializes in digital private pension products aimed at millennials. Founded in 2017, the company offers retirement planning services through an online platform and mobile application, allowing young people, professionals, and freelancers to manage their pensions easily. Vantik provides its services via an account at DAB BNP Paribas bank, emphasizing flexibility and security in retirement savings. The company seeks to inspire millennials to take an active role in planning for their financial future.

Loopline Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Loopline Systems GmbH, founded in 2014 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing software aimed at enhancing employee feedback and performance management. The company's flagship product, Loop Now, is a cloud-based solution designed for continuous employee surveys, 360-degree feedback, and Objectives and Key Results (OKR) management. Additionally, Loopline offers tools that facilitate feedback meetings, performance reviews, and employee development, positioning itself as a key player in the HR tech sector. By focusing on strategic performance development, agile feedback mechanisms, and people analytics, Loopline Systems aims to foster individual growth and improve workplace dynamics.

Seven Lanes

Series A in 2018
Seven Lanes GmbH is a career marketplace that specializes in online recruitment and job listing services, primarily targeting Europe's knowledge workers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company has expanded its presence with offices in several major cities, including Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt. Seven Lanes offers a diverse range of job opportunities, including permanent, freelance, and remote positions in fields such as online marketing, data science, product design, and software engineering. By focusing on general management and online marketing roles, the company aims to connect highly qualified professionals with suitable employers, enhancing the overall recruitment experience through dedicated talent advocates and account managers who provide objective guidance to both candidates and companies.

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.

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.

ottonova

Series C in 2017
Ottonova Holding AG, founded in 2015 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing health insurance products via a digital platform. The company focuses on simplifying the insurance experience for its users, offering a range of services designed to support their health needs. Ottonova aims to be a dependable health partner, ensuring that customers have access to the necessary resources for their well-being. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to enhance the everyday lives of its clients while addressing their long-term health insurance requirements.

ottonova

Series B in 2017
Ottonova Holding AG, founded in 2015 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing health insurance products via a digital platform. The company focuses on simplifying the insurance experience for its users, offering a range of services designed to support their health needs. Ottonova aims to be a dependable health partner, ensuring that customers have access to the necessary resources for their well-being. Through its innovative approach, the company seeks to enhance the everyday lives of its clients while addressing their long-term health insurance requirements.

Seven Lanes

Seed Round in 2016
Seven Lanes GmbH is a career marketplace that specializes in online recruitment and job listing services, primarily targeting Europe's knowledge workers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company has expanded its presence with offices in several major cities, including Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt. Seven Lanes offers a diverse range of job opportunities, including permanent, freelance, and remote positions in fields such as online marketing, data science, product design, and software engineering. By focusing on general management and online marketing roles, the company aims to connect highly qualified professionals with suitable employers, enhancing the overall recruitment experience through dedicated talent advocates and account managers who provide objective guidance to both candidates and companies.

Movinga

Series C in 2016
Movinga GmbH operates an online platform for relocation and moving bookings. The product can be used to find and book movers from number of listed companies according to their need at a particular period of time. Additionally the product can be used by logistic service providers in order to list them. Movinga GmbH was founded in 2015 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

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.

carsale24

Series A in 2012
Carsale24 operates an online platform that facilitates the sale of used cars through a digital auction format. Founded in 2010 and based in Hamburg, Germany, with additional offices in Solingen and Berlin, the platform allows individuals to sell their vehicles free of charge in bid rounds to certified professional dealers. It serves a diverse clientele, including business and private consumers, estate administrators, insurance companies, and banks. Carsale24 provides comprehensive services such as vehicle valuation and advertising, streamlining the car trade-in process for all participants in the marketplace.
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