Heartcore Capital

Heartcore Capital A/S is a venture capital firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in early-stage investments in consumer technology startups. Founded in 2007 as Sunstone Capital, the firm focuses on seed, series A, and growth investments, primarily targeting B2C and B2B2C companies. Areas of interest include direct-to-consumer brands, food, digital health, travel, finance, marketplaces, and consumer subscriptions. Heartcore Capital operates across Europe, with a particular emphasis on the United Kingdom, and occasionally invests in the United States. The firm typically provides funding ranging from €0.25 million to €5 million and has backed over 70 founding teams, raising more than $500 million across multiple funds. With additional offices in Berlin and Paris, Heartcore Capital aims to support founders in building category-defining brands while fostering individual growth.

Claus A. Andersson

General Partner

Felix Becker

Associate

Levin Bunz

Partner

Christer Fahraeus

Venture Partner, Technology

Yacine Ghalim

Partner

Angelo Panumaht Goepel

Associate

Lærke Rud Hansen

Principal

Christian Jepsen

Co-Founder and Partner

Konstantinos Georgios Kokkonos

Associate

Paulina Koschitz

Principal

Soren Lemonius

Co-Founder and Managing General Partner

Yvonne Maetensson

Principal

Tobias Meisner

Principal

Jacob Lange Moresco

Investment Director

Stephanie Munk

Senior Associate

Maximilian Niederhofer

Partner

Max Niederhofer

Partner

Jimmy Nielsen

Partner and Co-Founder

Björn Nilsen

Principal

Yohan Pereira

Principal

Signe Sveinbjørnsson

Partner and COO

Sten Verland

Co-Founder and General Partner

Pekka Vertiainen

Venture Partner, Technology

Kenza Zayani

Analyst

Claus Andersson Ph.D

General Partner

Past deals in Berlin

zolar

Series C in 2022
ZOLAR GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in designing and delivering customized solar and battery systems for residential use. The company provides an online platform that allows homeowners to record data about their properties, plan installations, and configure their solar systems. ZOLAR also offers on-site project visits and installation services, facilitating a seamless transition to private energy supply. By enabling households to generate, store, and consume their own energy, ZOLAR aims to promote energy independence and reduce reliance on traditional energy providers, ultimately lowering costs for consumers.

HeyJobs

Series B in 2022
HeyJobs operates a talent acquisition platform designed to streamline the employee recruitment process by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The platform identifies candidates that closely match job profiles and engages them through a personalized application and assessment process. This innovative approach allows employers to recruit skilled workers efficiently and at a lower cost compared to traditional hiring methods. With a track record of over 50,000 successful hires, HeyJobs aims to connect individuals with fulfilling job opportunities while providing quality candidates to its clients.

Kenbi

Series A in 2021
Herzsache GmbH provides heart care services to patients at home. Herzsache GmbH is headquartered in Altdorf Bei Nurnberg, Germany.

FORMEL Skin

Series A in 2021
FORMEL Skin is a company that specializes in the manufacture of dermatology products, focusing on digitizing and transforming the field of dermatology. It operates as a vertically integrated e-health service, providing medical and science-based solutions to address a wide range of dermatological conditions. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, with products customized after comprehensive evaluations by dermatologists. This approach allows patients with skin issues to receive personalized treatment plans that are designed to effectively address their unique conditions.

Likeminded

Seed Round in 2021
Likeminded is a digital platform focused on mental health, designed to provide individuals with quick and accessible psychological support. The platform offers a variety of services, including individual sessions, group formats, and on-demand support, all delivered by trained professionals such as psychotherapists, psychologists, and coaches. By equipping employees with timely care options during crises, Likeminded aims to enhance well-being, promote personal growth, and address the diverse needs of the workforce. The service is intended to improve employee satisfaction and retention, ultimately contributing to increased productivity and reduced absenteeism.

Kenbi

Seed Round in 2021
Herzsache GmbH provides heart care services to patients at home. Herzsache GmbH is headquartered in Altdorf Bei Nurnberg, Germany.

FORMEL Skin

Seed Round in 2020
FORMEL Skin is a company that specializes in the manufacture of dermatology products, focusing on digitizing and transforming the field of dermatology. It operates as a vertically integrated e-health service, providing medical and science-based solutions to address a wide range of dermatological conditions. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, with products customized after comprehensive evaluations by dermatologists. This approach allows patients with skin issues to receive personalized treatment plans that are designed to effectively address their unique conditions.

zolar

Series B in 2020
ZOLAR GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in designing and delivering customized solar and battery systems for residential use. The company provides an online platform that allows homeowners to record data about their properties, plan installations, and configure their solar systems. ZOLAR also offers on-site project visits and installation services, facilitating a seamless transition to private energy supply. By enabling households to generate, store, and consume their own energy, ZOLAR aims to promote energy independence and reduce reliance on traditional energy providers, ultimately lowering costs for consumers.

FORMEL Skin

Pre Seed Round in 2019
FORMEL Skin is a company that specializes in the manufacture of dermatology products, focusing on digitizing and transforming the field of dermatology. It operates as a vertically integrated e-health service, providing medical and science-based solutions to address a wide range of dermatological conditions. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals, with products customized after comprehensive evaluations by dermatologists. This approach allows patients with skin issues to receive personalized treatment plans that are designed to effectively address their unique conditions.

Kenbi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Herzsache GmbH provides heart care services to patients at home. Herzsache GmbH is headquartered in Altdorf Bei Nurnberg, Germany.

zolar

Series B in 2019
ZOLAR GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in designing and delivering customized solar and battery systems for residential use. The company provides an online platform that allows homeowners to record data about their properties, plan installations, and configure their solar systems. ZOLAR also offers on-site project visits and installation services, facilitating a seamless transition to private energy supply. By enabling households to generate, store, and consume their own energy, ZOLAR aims to promote energy independence and reduce reliance on traditional energy providers, ultimately lowering costs for consumers.

GetYourGuide

Series E in 2019
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH is an online platform that facilitates the booking of tours, attractions, and activities globally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company operates additional offices in North America and Europe. GetYourGuide serves as a mediator between customers and service providers, offering a wide range of options, including cooking classes and tickets to popular tourist sites, without directly offering its own tours. The platform allows users to book experiences such as skip-the-line tickets and last-minute activities, enhancing the travel experience. Customers can access services for free, while providers pay a percentage of their revenue to GetYourGuide. The platform features a customer review system, which helps users evaluate the quality of tour providers, and it removes those who receive consistently poor reviews from its offerings.

HeyJobs

Series A in 2019
HeyJobs operates a talent acquisition platform designed to streamline the employee recruitment process by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The platform identifies candidates that closely match job profiles and engages them through a personalized application and assessment process. This innovative approach allows employers to recruit skilled workers efficiently and at a lower cost compared to traditional hiring methods. With a track record of over 50,000 successful hires, HeyJobs aims to connect individuals with fulfilling job opportunities while providing quality candidates to its clients.

zolar

Series A in 2017
ZOLAR GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in designing and delivering customized solar and battery systems for residential use. The company provides an online platform that allows homeowners to record data about their properties, plan installations, and configure their solar systems. ZOLAR also offers on-site project visits and installation services, facilitating a seamless transition to private energy supply. By enabling households to generate, store, and consume their own energy, ZOLAR aims to promote energy independence and reduce reliance on traditional energy providers, ultimately lowering costs for consumers.

GetYourGuide

Series D in 2017
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH is an online platform that facilitates the booking of tours, attractions, and activities globally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company operates additional offices in North America and Europe. GetYourGuide serves as a mediator between customers and service providers, offering a wide range of options, including cooking classes and tickets to popular tourist sites, without directly offering its own tours. The platform allows users to book experiences such as skip-the-line tickets and last-minute activities, enhancing the travel experience. Customers can access services for free, while providers pay a percentage of their revenue to GetYourGuide. The platform features a customer review system, which helps users evaluate the quality of tour providers, and it removes those who receive consistently poor reviews from its offerings.

Kaisa

Series B in 2016
Freespee AB is a technology company specializing in call monetization solutions for the performance advertising sector, primarily operating in Europe and North America. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with additional offices in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Berlin, Freespee provides various products aimed at enhancing communication and marketing efforts. Its offerings include Freespee Performance, which allows publishers and advertising networks to monetize phone calls generated from their media properties, and Freespee Analytics, a comprehensive tool for tracking leads and analyzing call data. Additionally, the Freespee Mobile Tracking SDK assists app developers in understanding consumer engagement through phone calls. By integrating multiple data sources, Freespee aims to facilitate personalized interactions between brands and their customers, thereby improving the overall consumer experience.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2016
Crate Technology GmbH, known for its CrateDB product, offers an open-source distributed SQL database designed to meet the demands of modern applications, particularly in the IoT sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria, with additional offices in San Francisco and Berlin, the company provides a unique hybrid solution that supports real-time Standard SQL for time series, relational, and JSON data. CrateDB caters to both transactional and analytical needs within a single database platform, ensuring reliability by managing node failures and supporting applications across web, mobile, and IoT environments. The database is utilized by tier-1 customers in various industries, enabling them to perform Big Data analytics, full-text search, and geospatial queries effectively. With over 1,600 CrateDB clusters deployed globally, the platform is integral to many production-data applications, delivering real-time insights and scalability for machine-generated data.

HeyJobs

Seed Round in 2016
HeyJobs operates a talent acquisition platform designed to streamline the employee recruitment process by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. The platform identifies candidates that closely match job profiles and engages them through a personalized application and assessment process. This innovative approach allows employers to recruit skilled workers efficiently and at a lower cost compared to traditional hiring methods. With a track record of over 50,000 successful hires, HeyJobs aims to connect individuals with fulfilling job opportunities while providing quality candidates to its clients.

GetYourGuide

Series C in 2015
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH is an online platform that facilitates the booking of tours, attractions, and activities globally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company operates additional offices in North America and Europe. GetYourGuide serves as a mediator between customers and service providers, offering a wide range of options, including cooking classes and tickets to popular tourist sites, without directly offering its own tours. The platform allows users to book experiences such as skip-the-line tickets and last-minute activities, enhancing the travel experience. Customers can access services for free, while providers pay a percentage of their revenue to GetYourGuide. The platform features a customer review system, which helps users evaluate the quality of tour providers, and it removes those who receive consistently poor reviews from its offerings.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2015
Crate Technology GmbH, known for its CrateDB product, offers an open-source distributed SQL database designed to meet the demands of modern applications, particularly in the IoT sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria, with additional offices in San Francisco and Berlin, the company provides a unique hybrid solution that supports real-time Standard SQL for time series, relational, and JSON data. CrateDB caters to both transactional and analytical needs within a single database platform, ensuring reliability by managing node failures and supporting applications across web, mobile, and IoT environments. The database is utilized by tier-1 customers in various industries, enabling them to perform Big Data analytics, full-text search, and geospatial queries effectively. With over 1,600 CrateDB clusters deployed globally, the platform is integral to many production-data applications, delivering real-time insights and scalability for machine-generated data.

Memorado

Series A in 2015
Memorado is the leading mobile gym for the brain. They strive to significantly improve people’s quality of life around the world through brain training based on neuroscience. Their goal is to redefine how people think about mental performance and help them unlock their true potential. Based in Berlin, they have attracted $5M in funding from some of the best investors across Europe. In just 12 months they are already serving over 4 million members in 25 languages across 229 countries. Memorado has also launched the “Global Cognition Initiative (GCI)”, an open-source research collaboration connecting Memorado's in-house scientists with scientists, researchers, practitioners and teachers around the world who are interested in the research on cognition.

Memorado

Seed Round in 2014
Memorado is the leading mobile gym for the brain. They strive to significantly improve people’s quality of life around the world through brain training based on neuroscience. Their goal is to redefine how people think about mental performance and help them unlock their true potential. Based in Berlin, they have attracted $5M in funding from some of the best investors across Europe. In just 12 months they are already serving over 4 million members in 25 languages across 229 countries. Memorado has also launched the “Global Cognition Initiative (GCI)”, an open-source research collaboration connecting Memorado's in-house scientists with scientists, researchers, practitioners and teachers around the world who are interested in the research on cognition.

Issuu

Series B in 2014
Issuu, Inc. is a digital publishing and discovery platform founded in 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It provides a range of solutions that allow users to create, publish, and share digital publications such as magazines, catalogs, and corporate literature. The platform hosts over 17 million publications and attracts more than 80 million active readers monthly, delivering approximately 5.5 billion page views. Issuu's offerings include tools for custom viewer themes, API integrations for managing content, and monetization solutions through Issuu Story Cloud. The platform is designed to enhance the reading experience by transforming PDFs and images into visually appealing formats accessible across various devices and social media. With additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Berlin, Germany, Issuu serves a diverse audience, including designers, developers, publishers, and advertisers, ultimately aiming to democratize the publishing experience while preserving the essence of print media.

CrateDB

Seed Round in 2014
Crate Technology GmbH, known for its CrateDB product, offers an open-source distributed SQL database designed to meet the demands of modern applications, particularly in the IoT sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Dornbirn, Austria, with additional offices in San Francisco and Berlin, the company provides a unique hybrid solution that supports real-time Standard SQL for time series, relational, and JSON data. CrateDB caters to both transactional and analytical needs within a single database platform, ensuring reliability by managing node failures and supporting applications across web, mobile, and IoT environments. The database is utilized by tier-1 customers in various industries, enabling them to perform Big Data analytics, full-text search, and geospatial queries effectively. With over 1,600 CrateDB clusters deployed globally, the platform is integral to many production-data applications, delivering real-time insights and scalability for machine-generated data.

GetYourGuide

Series A in 2014
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH is an online platform that facilitates the booking of tours, attractions, and activities globally. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company operates additional offices in North America and Europe. GetYourGuide serves as a mediator between customers and service providers, offering a wide range of options, including cooking classes and tickets to popular tourist sites, without directly offering its own tours. The platform allows users to book experiences such as skip-the-line tickets and last-minute activities, enhancing the travel experience. Customers can access services for free, while providers pay a percentage of their revenue to GetYourGuide. The platform features a customer review system, which helps users evaluate the quality of tour providers, and it removes those who receive consistently poor reviews from its offerings.

Kaisa

Series A in 2012
Freespee AB is a technology company specializing in call monetization solutions for the performance advertising sector, primarily operating in Europe and North America. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with additional offices in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Berlin, Freespee provides various products aimed at enhancing communication and marketing efforts. Its offerings include Freespee Performance, which allows publishers and advertising networks to monetize phone calls generated from their media properties, and Freespee Analytics, a comprehensive tool for tracking leads and analyzing call data. Additionally, the Freespee Mobile Tracking SDK assists app developers in understanding consumer engagement through phone calls. By integrating multiple data sources, Freespee aims to facilitate personalized interactions between brands and their customers, thereby improving the overall consumer experience.

Amen.

Seed Round in 2012
Amen provides a way for users to voice strong opinions. Amen is available as an iOS app and on the web. Investors include A-Grade and Index Ventures.

Gidsy

Seed Round in 2012
Gidsy is a community marketplace that connects individuals with authentic experiences, enabling them to offer and book a wide range of tours, local activities, and workshops. Functioning similarly to a platform for local experiences, Gidsy addresses the need for engaging daytime activities rather than focusing solely on accommodations. As of January 2012, the website features curated listings, known as 'city pages,' for major cities including New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Through its online service, Gidsy allows users to discover and share unique experiences, enhancing their travel adventures worldwide.

Issuu

Series A in 2007
Issuu, Inc. is a digital publishing and discovery platform founded in 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It provides a range of solutions that allow users to create, publish, and share digital publications such as magazines, catalogs, and corporate literature. The platform hosts over 17 million publications and attracts more than 80 million active readers monthly, delivering approximately 5.5 billion page views. Issuu's offerings include tools for custom viewer themes, API integrations for managing content, and monetization solutions through Issuu Story Cloud. The platform is designed to enhance the reading experience by transforming PDFs and images into visually appealing formats accessible across various devices and social media. With additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Berlin, Germany, Issuu serves a diverse audience, including designers, developers, publishers, and advertisers, ultimately aiming to democratize the publishing experience while preserving the essence of print media.
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