VCDE Venture Partners

VCDE Venture Partners, established in 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany, is a growth equity investment firm specializing in technology companies. It focuses on software, internet, mobile telecommunications, and IT business services sectors. The firm partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams, providing more than just financing. It actively works with portfolio companies to accelerate growth, leveraging its network of 150 European tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans. VCDE seeks companies with proven business models, strong value propositions, and large market potential, serving both consumers and enterprises.

Andreas Thümmler

Founder and Managing Director

19 past transactions

StalkBuyLove

Venture Round in 2018
StalkBuyLove is an online marketplace specializing in women's fashion apparel and accessories. The company is dedicated to providing a curated selection of trendy styles inspired by celebrities and European fashion trends, with new designs made available online within ten days of conceptualization. StalkBuyLove emphasizes unique offerings, often producing limited stock to create a sense of urgency for consumers. Each product is meticulously crafted with attention to detail, ensuring quality in aspects such as fitting, color, and comfort. By prioritizing rapid design and distribution, StalkBuyLove aims to make the latest fashion trends accessible and appealing to a diverse customer base.

itravel Group

Series B in 2018
itravel Group specializes in facilitating customized leisure travel experiences. Through its user-friendly platforms, including tablets, web, and social media, it enables customers to design and book unique vacations tailored to their preferences. This includes selecting specific experiences like kitesurfing or elephant rides, hotel room configurations, and personal preferences. The company's technology seamlessly connects hotels, agencies, and experience providers, catering to the sustainable leisure travel market and offering luxury and premium customized vacations.

itravel Group

Series A in 2017
itravel Group specializes in facilitating customized leisure travel experiences. Through its user-friendly platforms, including tablets, web, and social media, it enables customers to design and book unique vacations tailored to their preferences. This includes selecting specific experiences like kitesurfing or elephant rides, hotel room configurations, and personal preferences. The company's technology seamlessly connects hotels, agencies, and experience providers, catering to the sustainable leisure travel market and offering luxury and premium customized vacations.

123Fahrschule

Seed Round in 2017
123Fahrschule is a digital driving school chain focused on modernizing the traditional driver's license training in Germany. The company specializes in the consolidation and digital expansion of driving education, providing learner drivers with an innovative application software that facilitates administration, e-learning, and individual tracking of learning progress. This software caters to all classes of driver's licenses, enhancing the effectiveness of the training process and making it more accessible for students. Through its digital approach, 123Fahrschule aims to improve the overall experience of obtaining a driver's license in the German market.

itravel Group

Series A in 2016
itravel Group specializes in facilitating customized leisure travel experiences. Through its user-friendly platforms, including tablets, web, and social media, it enables customers to design and book unique vacations tailored to their preferences. This includes selecting specific experiences like kitesurfing or elephant rides, hotel room configurations, and personal preferences. The company's technology seamlessly connects hotels, agencies, and experience providers, catering to the sustainable leisure travel market and offering luxury and premium customized vacations.

Favendo

Venture Round in 2016
Favendo is a provider of mobile tracking and navigation solutions, specializing in indoor positioning for complex environments such as airports, sports stadiums, cruise ships, and manufacturing facilities. Established in 2014, the company has gained recognition for its expertise in asset tracking across various industries, including healthcare and mining. Favendo's real-time location platform employs advanced algorithms to integrate online and offline data, facilitating the development of digital infrastructure for enhanced location-based services. This capability enables enterprises to utilize extensive data sources for improved decision-making. Additionally, Favendo has formed a robust partner network, collaborating with technology firms for high-precision location solutions and industry-specific IoT platform providers to ensure seamless indoor and outdoor tracking.

StalkBuyLove

Series A in 2016
StalkBuyLove is an online marketplace specializing in women's fashion apparel and accessories. The company is dedicated to providing a curated selection of trendy styles inspired by celebrities and European fashion trends, with new designs made available online within ten days of conceptualization. StalkBuyLove emphasizes unique offerings, often producing limited stock to create a sense of urgency for consumers. Each product is meticulously crafted with attention to detail, ensuring quality in aspects such as fitting, color, and comfort. By prioritizing rapid design and distribution, StalkBuyLove aims to make the latest fashion trends accessible and appealing to a diverse customer base.

004

Venture Round in 2014
004 Technologies USA is a mobile application development company based in Champaign, Illinois, with its parent company situated in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The company specializes in creating mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms, catering to smartphones and tablets. In addition to app development, 004 offers a range of e-commerce services designed to support startups in scaling their operations. These services encompass the implementation and hosting of online shops, order management, warehousing, logistics, returns management, multilingual customer service, product sourcing, as well as marketing and accounting support. By providing a comprehensive cloud-based platform and a customized business suite, 004 aims to empower clients to enhance their sales and achieve growth.

clickworker

Venture Round in 2013
Clickworker GmbH is a leading provider of crowdsourcing solutions based in Essen, Germany, specializing in internet-based services both domestically and internationally. Founded in 2005, the company has built a large network of over 6 million freelancers, known as Clickworkers, across Europe, America, and Asia. Clickworker offers a wide range of services, including web research, text creation, categorization, surveys, and mobile crowdsourcing, all delivered in 18 languages and over 30 target markets. The company efficiently breaks down projects into micro tasks that are completed by qualified Clickworkers, ensuring high-quality results through a quality assurance process. Additionally, Clickworker provides a self-service marketplace for smaller tasks, enabling clients to access standardized solutions for text creation, surveys, and sentiment analysis. Its cloud platform enhances data management for e-commerce, offering services such as search engine optimization and data authentication, which help clients accelerate project execution and achieve cost savings. The company was previously known as humanGrid GmbH until its name change in 2013.

Minkabu

Seed Round in 2013
Minkabu Inc. is the operator of the largest social media for investors in Asia. Its core functions are world unique “real-time” financial information through its “crowd analysis” (stock picks by massive investors) and “automated analysis” (automated report system created by unique algorithm based on top analyst knowledge such as various valuation analysis and correlation analysis). By combining these two unique analyses, Minkabu’s goal is to provide live investment ideas for every stock listed on all of the exchanges in the world. Minkabu is now expanding its market coverage all over the world and transforming itself from a social media operator focused in financial markets to a next generation financial information provider.

clickworker

Venture Round in 2012
Clickworker GmbH is a leading provider of crowdsourcing solutions based in Essen, Germany, specializing in internet-based services both domestically and internationally. Founded in 2005, the company has built a large network of over 6 million freelancers, known as Clickworkers, across Europe, America, and Asia. Clickworker offers a wide range of services, including web research, text creation, categorization, surveys, and mobile crowdsourcing, all delivered in 18 languages and over 30 target markets. The company efficiently breaks down projects into micro tasks that are completed by qualified Clickworkers, ensuring high-quality results through a quality assurance process. Additionally, Clickworker provides a self-service marketplace for smaller tasks, enabling clients to access standardized solutions for text creation, surveys, and sentiment analysis. Its cloud platform enhances data management for e-commerce, offering services such as search engine optimization and data authentication, which help clients accelerate project execution and achieve cost savings. The company was previously known as humanGrid GmbH until its name change in 2013.

Zuuka Group

Venture Round in 2012
Zuuka Group is develops an application that includes children's storybooks. Its application allows parents to provide children with entertaining and reading experience.

zuuka!

Venture Round in 2012
The iStoryTime library app offers a wide selection of narrated children’s storybooks, kids' films, TV shows and other classic stories.

eÇift

Venture Round in 2011
eÇift is a subscription-based online matchmaking and dating service designed for individuals who are interested in building a serious, long-term relationship. It provides users with a unique test and then produces a personality profile for each of its members. Using the profiles, the service recommends potential partners for each member. eCift offers a freemium account with limited services, as well as a subscription model. The freemium model attracts new users who can later turn into paying subscribers. As of 2013, eÇift maintains more than 4,000,000 registrations, with 51% women and 49% men, mostly from Turkey. Located in Istanbul, Turkey, eÇift was founded on January 1, 2009.

Tasit.com

Seed Round in 2011
Tasit.com is an online platform that facilitates the buying and selling of used vehicles in Turkey. It serves as a marketplace where users can post images of their cars along with detailed descriptions and pricing information. The platform allows individuals to compare prices and access information on second-hand vehicles available in their vicinity. Additionally, Tasit.com provides a safe environment for users to rent vehicles, enhancing the overall experience of vehicle transactions. By streamlining the process of buying and selling used cars, Tasit.com aims to meet the needs of both sellers and buyers in the automotive market.

zuuka!

Series A in 2011
The iStoryTime library app offers a wide selection of narrated children’s storybooks, kids' films, TV shows and other classic stories.

clickworker

Series B in 2011
Clickworker GmbH is a leading provider of crowdsourcing solutions based in Essen, Germany, specializing in internet-based services both domestically and internationally. Founded in 2005, the company has built a large network of over 6 million freelancers, known as Clickworkers, across Europe, America, and Asia. Clickworker offers a wide range of services, including web research, text creation, categorization, surveys, and mobile crowdsourcing, all delivered in 18 languages and over 30 target markets. The company efficiently breaks down projects into micro tasks that are completed by qualified Clickworkers, ensuring high-quality results through a quality assurance process. Additionally, Clickworker provides a self-service marketplace for smaller tasks, enabling clients to access standardized solutions for text creation, surveys, and sentiment analysis. Its cloud platform enhances data management for e-commerce, offering services such as search engine optimization and data authentication, which help clients accelerate project execution and achieve cost savings. The company was previously known as humanGrid GmbH until its name change in 2013.

zuuka!

Venture Round in 2011
The iStoryTime library app offers a wide selection of narrated children’s storybooks, kids' films, TV shows and other classic stories.

Kognitio

Venture Round in 2011
Kognitio Limited specializes in big data analytics solutions tailored for data science and business intelligence applications. The company offers the Kognitio Analytical Platform, which allows users to conduct in-memory analytics on large data sets, delivering continuous insights with low latency and high scalability. Additionally, Kognitio provides a Datawarehouse-as-a-Service solution known as Kognitio Cloud, which serves as a flexible platform for various analytical needs. By supporting industries such as telecommunications, financial services, retail, travel, and energy, Kognitio enables businesses to leverage advanced analytics for competitive advantage. Founded in 1987 and based in Bracknell, United Kingdom, Kognitio operates as a subsidiary of Kognitio Holdings Ltd. The company's commitment to innovation has established it as a key player in the intersection of big data, in-memory analytics, and cloud computing.
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