STS Ventures

STS Ventures is a tech-oriented VC that is strongly differentiated from other venture capital funds primarily by its focus on camel tech start-ups and its investment focus on niche markets. Camel start-ups are companies that are resilient and resistant and can therefore survive even under difficult economic conditions, pandemics or global crises. The VC bundles the business angel activities of the Cologne-based serial entrepreneur and investor Stephan Schubert. In addition, business angels, entrepreneurs and family offices who are friends or in close business association with Stephan Schubert invest jointly with him through STS Ventures. Since the advent of the internet in Europe in the late 1990s, Stephan Schubert has invested in numerous technology-driven start-ups and has become one of the most active and experienced business angels in Germany.

Oliver Kaul

Partner

22 past transactions

ArtNight GmbH

Venture Round in 2022
ArtNight GmbH offers unique do-it-yourself art workshops.

GetSteps

Seed Round in 2021
GetSteps produces and markets insoles. Every insole is customized for every foot and every pair of shoes. The various materials are integrated into insoles based on footprint, shoe shape, and any prior ailments. Also available is free shipping.

Swaarm

Seed Round in 2021
Swaarm is a performance-based marketing platform that provides an innovative martech tracking and campaign management solution for agencies, advertisers and partners to manage, track, analyze and optimize their marketing campaigns at scale. Swaarm was founded in Berlin, Germany in September 2020 by Yogeeta Chainani and Alexandru Dumitru, who both individually bring more than 10 years of industry technology experience. The company foundation is based on the underlying principles set by the co-founders of simplicity, affordability, and collaboration. Swaarm provides a new performance-based tracking platform that provides agencies, advertisers, and networks with the ability to fully track and control their marketing efforts in real-time ensuring profitable growth. While current market offerings only provide limited data insights and require substantial manual work processes, Swaarm was built to overcome these pain points. The platform is engineered from the ground up by Swaarm’s team of highly skilled adtech enthusiasts to be simple to use, yet powerful, with data-driven campaign automation to help marketers successfully measure and optimize campaigns at an economic price.

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.

Rebike Mobility

Series B in 2021
Rebike Mobility purchases new E-Bikes from tier 1 manufacturers and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, and Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers subscription, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike.com. Rebike Mobility also purchases used stock of E-Bikes and sell them fully refurbished to consumer.

Talentspace

Seed Round in 2020
Where the world’s most interactive virtual & hybrid career fairs and hiring events are hosted.

Rebike Mobility

Series A in 2019
Rebike Mobility purchases new E-Bikes from tier 1 manufacturers and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, and Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers subscription, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike.com. Rebike Mobility also purchases used stock of E-Bikes and sell them fully refurbished to consumer.

snabBus

Seed Round in 2019
snabBus brings together travelers and bus companies for a unique chartered-bus experience.

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 Having raised over 2M€, acquiring more than 500 enterprise customers autengo was acquired by Alzura (tyre24), the leading european b2b marketplace for the automotive aftermarket.

Baqend

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Baqend develops Speed Kit, a SaaS plugin solution to accelerate e-commerce websites by more than 50% within 2 days. Baqend is a research spin-off from the University of Hamburg on the mission of building a web without loading times. The founders pioneered a novel approach to speed up the delivery of dynamic data. Speed Kit bundles years of this research in a plugin for large-scale e-commerce and brand websites, that is easily implemented by just a line of JavaScript code. Today, some of the leading European e-commerce players like Decathlon, Galeria, and BMW already rely on Speed Kit to improve their conversion rates, user experience, and SEO ranking. Since the product’s speed uplift is cleanly proven by statistically sound A/B-tests, Baqend is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Germany.

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.

Loopline Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Loopline Systems is an HR tech company, created to deliver a solution for strategic performance development, agile feedback and people analytics. We strongly believe that business development is individual development and vice versa. We dare say, our greatest priority is to make work the fun it can be.

Seven Lanes

Series A in 2018
Seven Lanes is a career marketplace for 10% of Europe's knowledge workers. Focusing on general management and online marketing roles, it is connecting the most qualified professionals with great companies at scale. Its talent advocates and account managers are dedicated to providing candidates and employers with objective guidance and unparalleled user experience.

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 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.

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.

Seven Lanes

Seed Round in 2016
Seven Lanes is a career marketplace for 10% of Europe's knowledge workers. Focusing on general management and online marketing roles, it is connecting the most qualified professionals with great companies at scale. Its talent advocates and account managers are dedicated to providing candidates and employers with objective guidance and unparalleled user experience.

Movinga

Series C in 2016
Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.

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.de is the unique online platform where individuals can sell their car free of charge in bid rounds to professional certified used car dealers every day.
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