VCDE Venture Partners

VCDE Venture Partners, founded in 2008 and based in Frankfurt, Germany, is a growth equity investment firm specializing in technology companies, particularly in the areas of software, the internet, mobile telecommunications, and IT business services. The firm aims to build and nurture successful growth companies by collaborating with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams. VCDE Venture Partners focuses on businesses with established models that effectively address large markets and provide significant value to customers, whether consumers or enterprises. The firm’s fund, backed by 150 European tech entrepreneurs and industry veterans, fosters a robust network that enhances expertise and collaboration among investors and portfolio companies. This strategic approach enables VCDE Venture Partners to deliver value beyond mere financing, actively supporting the growth of its investments.

Malte von der Ropp

Managing Director

Andreas Thümmler

Founder and Managing Director

19 past transactions

StalkBuyLove

Venture Round in 2018
StalkBuyLove operates as an online marketplace focused on women's fashion apparel and accessories. The platform features a carefully curated selection of trendy styles inspired by celebrities and European catwalks, allowing consumers to access the latest fashion within days of conceptualization. StalkBuyLove emphasizes unique designs, ensuring that customers are less likely to encounter others wearing the same items. The company's approach involves limited stock availability, prompting quick purchases to avoid sold-out situations. Each product undergoes thorough checks for fitting, color, comfort, design, and quality before being made available online. By handpicking fabrics and designs, StalkBuyLove aims to provide fashionable, beautiful, and accessible pieces for its customers.

itravel Group

Series B in 2018
itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personal preferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.

itravel Group

Series A in 2017
itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personal preferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.

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 allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personal preferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.

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 operates as an online marketplace focused on women's fashion apparel and accessories. The platform features a carefully curated selection of trendy styles inspired by celebrities and European catwalks, allowing consumers to access the latest fashion within days of conceptualization. StalkBuyLove emphasizes unique designs, ensuring that customers are less likely to encounter others wearing the same items. The company's approach involves limited stock availability, prompting quick purchases to avoid sold-out situations. Each product undergoes thorough checks for fitting, color, comfort, design, and quality before being made available online. By handpicking fabrics and designs, StalkBuyLove aims to provide fashionable, beautiful, and accessible pieces for its customers.

004

Venture Round in 2014
004 Technologies USA, based in Champaign, Illinois, is a mobile application development company with a parent organization in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The firm specializes in creating mobile applications for both iOS and Android devices. In addition to app development, 004 offers traditional contract-for-hire services. The company also provides a range of e-commerce solutions aimed at helping startups scale into larger enterprises. Their services include online shop implementation and hosting, order management, warehousing, logistics, returns management, multilingual customer support, product sourcing, and marketing. Through a cloud-based platform and customized business suite, 004 Technologies enables its clients to enhance sales and foster growth effectively.

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. The marketplace allows users to post images and details of their cars, including features and sale prices. It serves as a classifieds website where individuals can access information about second-hand vehicles, enabling them to compare prices and make informed decisions. Additionally, Tasit.com offers services that enhance the safety of car rentals, contributing to a more secure and efficient vehicle transaction experience.

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, focusing on data science and business intelligence applications. The company offers the Kognitio Analytical Platform, which enables in-memory analytics on large data sets for real-time insights, and Kognitio Cloud, a Datawarehouse-as-a-Service solution. Kognitio serves various industries, including telecommunications, financial services, retail, gaming, and energy, by providing tools that enhance data visualization and support high concurrency SQL operations. This allows businesses to analyze vast amounts of complex data efficiently, thereby improving their decision-making capabilities. Founded in 1987 and based in Bracknell, United Kingdom, Kognitio was previously known as White Cross Systems Limited before rebranding in 2005. It operates as a subsidiary of Kognitio Holdings Ltd.
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