Venture Stars

Venture Stars is a venture capital firm located in Munich, Germany, established in 2011. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, targeting innovative digital business models in both the business-to-consumer and business-to-business sectors. With a focus on identifying and supporting promising startups, Venture Stars aims to foster growth in the digital landscape through strategic investments.

Florian Calmbach

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Stefan Pfannmöller

Founding Partner and Managing Director

Raphael Budday

Investment Manager

33 past transactions

Otark

Seed Round in 2024
Otark GmbH is a company focused on revolutionizing the trading of green energy by providing a fully digitalized platform that enhances accessibility and efficiency. With a commitment to neutrality and transparency, Otark streamlines the procurement and billing processes associated with renewable energy transactions, catering to a diverse clientele that includes both large industrial groups and small to medium-sized enterprises. The company aims to facilitate the energy transition by simplifying access to green electricity and improving the management of energy contracts through innovative digital solutions. By addressing the challenges faced by producers and consumers in green energy trading, Otark strives to eliminate existing barriers and enable seamless transactions in the renewable energy market.

VoiceLine

Seed Round in 2024
VoiceLine is a developer of a hybrid voice messaging solution aimed at enhancing productivity in remote and hybrid work environments. The company's software facilitates asynchronous communication, allowing team members to exchange voice notes seamlessly within various tools, such as customer relationship management systems, project management software, and shared documents. This approach reduces the need for scheduled meetings, enabling users to communicate effectively and make informed decisions, particularly within sales teams. By prioritizing personal voice-based communication, VoiceLine helps streamline workflows and improve overall efficiency in professional settings.

Marcley

Seed Round in 2024
MARCLEY is a pioneering company focused on enabling multi-family building owners to utilize green energy through its innovative platform. The company provides a tenant electricity solution that allows property managers, cooperatives, and apartment building owners to install solar panels on rooftops at no upfront cost. This system not only allows property owners to generate environmentally friendly energy but also offers tenants a more affordable alternative to traditional electricity sources. By facilitating the adoption of renewable energy, MARCLEY helps building owners enhance their property's value, reduce reliance on fossil fuels, and support climate protection efforts.

Tilta

Seed Round in 2024
Tilta is a company that specializes in providing white-labeled infrastructure for credit-backed payment flows specifically designed for business-to-business transactions on marketplaces and platforms. By enabling these platforms to offer financial services, Tilta helps drive gross merchandise revenue while creating additional revenue streams for its clients. The company's solutions focus on ensuring frictionless payment experiences, allowing platforms to enhance their service offerings without the complexities associated with managing financial services directly.

Finoa

Venture Round in 2024
Finoa GmbH is a regulated custodian based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in digital asset storage and asset-servicing solutions. Founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing, Finoa offers a platform built on a crypto-native banking infrastructure that allows institutional investors and corporations to securely store and manage cryptographic tokens. The company provides services such as multi-signature processing and biometric fingerprint access, ensuring robust security through cryptographically secured private keys. As a qualified custodian supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Finoa caters to a diverse clientele, including venture capital firms, large corporations, and financial institutions, enabling them to engage with digital assets safely and intuitively.

Biddz

Seed Round in 2023
Biddz is a media engagement platform that fosters connections between music fans and artists, enabling a unique and interactive experience. The company allows fans to support their favorite musicians by participating in activities such as singing along to songs and attending exclusive music events. Biddz aims to create fairer and more transparent revenue streams for artists, ensuring they maintain their creative freedom and control. Through its platform, artists can share in the success of their music while fans can purchase shares in their favorite songs, thus participating in streaming royalties. Additionally, Biddz integrates NFTs that offer fans value through music rights and access to exclusive merchandise and events, enhancing the overall engagement within the music community.

Finanzguru

Series B in 2023
Finanzguru is an AI-powered financial assistant that helps users manage their accounts and contracts efficiently. The platform analyzes users' income and expenses in real time to calculate their disposable income, factoring in upcoming bookings from contractual partners. By providing a comprehensive overview of financial status, Finanzguru empowers users to take control of their finances with ease. The application not only streamlines the management of contracts but also offers personalized recommendations aimed at optimizing savings. Through its user-friendly interface, Finanzguru facilitates financial digitization, ultimately enhancing users' financial situations with minimal effort.

Finoa

Funding Round in 2023
Finoa GmbH is a regulated custodian based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in digital asset storage and asset-servicing solutions. Founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing, Finoa offers a platform built on a crypto-native banking infrastructure that allows institutional investors and corporations to securely store and manage cryptographic tokens. The company provides services such as multi-signature processing and biometric fingerprint access, ensuring robust security through cryptographically secured private keys. As a qualified custodian supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Finoa caters to a diverse clientele, including venture capital firms, large corporations, and financial institutions, enabling them to engage with digital assets safely and intuitively.

Synera (ex-ELISE)

Series A in 2022
ELISE GmbH, established in 2018 as a spin-off from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, is based in Bremerhaven, Germany. The company specializes in software development aimed at enhancing the product development process for engineers. Its innovative platform enables users to visually create comprehensive workflows for automated product development, integrating established modeling and simulation tools with Generative Design. This approach allows engineers to efficiently design the technical DNA of their products, streamlining the entire development cycle.

Finanzguru

Series A in 2022
Finanzguru is an AI-powered financial assistant that helps users manage their accounts and contracts efficiently. The platform analyzes users' income and expenses in real time to calculate their disposable income, factoring in upcoming bookings from contractual partners. By providing a comprehensive overview of financial status, Finanzguru empowers users to take control of their finances with ease. The application not only streamlines the management of contracts but also offers personalized recommendations aimed at optimizing savings. Through its user-friendly interface, Finanzguru facilitates financial digitization, ultimately enhancing users' financial situations with minimal effort.

Holidu

Series D in 2021
Holidu GmbH, established in 2014 and based in Munich, Germany, operates a platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking vacation rentals. Its search engine compares prices and user reviews of millions of rental properties across numerous travel websites, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. Holidu's proprietary image recognition technology ensures users find the best deals, potentially saving up to 55%. The company also offers a mobile application for convenient use.

Finoa

Series A in 2021
Finoa GmbH is a regulated custodian based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in digital asset storage and asset-servicing solutions. Founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing, Finoa offers a platform built on a crypto-native banking infrastructure that allows institutional investors and corporations to securely store and manage cryptographic tokens. The company provides services such as multi-signature processing and biometric fingerprint access, ensuring robust security through cryptographically secured private keys. As a qualified custodian supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Finoa caters to a diverse clientele, including venture capital firms, large corporations, and financial institutions, enabling them to engage with digital assets safely and intuitively.

Finoa

Seed Round in 2020
Finoa GmbH is a regulated custodian based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in digital asset storage and asset-servicing solutions. Founded in 2018 by Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing, Finoa offers a platform built on a crypto-native banking infrastructure that allows institutional investors and corporations to securely store and manage cryptographic tokens. The company provides services such as multi-signature processing and biometric fingerprint access, ensuring robust security through cryptographically secured private keys. As a qualified custodian supervised by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Finoa caters to a diverse clientele, including venture capital firms, large corporations, and financial institutions, enabling them to engage with digital assets safely and intuitively.

Synera (ex-ELISE)

Seed Round in 2019
ELISE GmbH, established in 2018 as a spin-off from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, is based in Bremerhaven, Germany. The company specializes in software development aimed at enhancing the product development process for engineers. Its innovative platform enables users to visually create comprehensive workflows for automated product development, integrating established modeling and simulation tools with Generative Design. This approach allows engineers to efficiently design the technical DNA of their products, streamlining the entire development cycle.

Holidu

Series C in 2019
Holidu GmbH, established in 2014 and based in Munich, Germany, operates a platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking vacation rentals. Its search engine compares prices and user reviews of millions of rental properties across numerous travel websites, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. Holidu's proprietary image recognition technology ensures users find the best deals, potentially saving up to 55%. The company also offers a mobile application for convenient use.

Vitafy

Venture Round in 2018
Vitafy GmbH is a Munich-based company specializing in online retail of sports nutrition supplements, catering to the muscle building, endurance, and diet sectors. Established in 2011, Vitafy has positioned itself as a key player in the growing healthy living movement by offering a comprehensive range of products, including protein supplements, mass gainers, amino acids, fitness accessories, health snacks, and beverages. The company also provides valuable training and nutrition tips, along with recipes for low-fat and low-carbohydrate dishes, aimed at promoting long-term and sustainable weight management. By focusing exclusively on the online market, Vitafy addresses the needs of fitness enthusiasts seeking to enhance their performance and overall well-being.

Smart Host

Series A in 2018
Smart Host GmbH is a Berlin-based company specializing in hospitality customer relationship management (CRM) software tailored for the hotel industry. Established in 2016, it also operates offices in Austria and South Tyrol. The company's comprehensive platform consolidates guest-related information, enabling hotels to design highly targeted and automated marketing campaigns that are fully GDPR compliant. Smart Host’s software empowers hotel management to launch campaigns swiftly, track their effectiveness at the booking level, and enhance guest communication through personalized interactions. By leveraging data analysis and segmentation, Smart Host aids hoteliers in understanding customer expectations, ultimately leading to improved guest retention and increased direct bookings.

Solvemate

Venture Round in 2018
Solvemate GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in artificial intelligence for customer service automation. The company’s platform enables businesses to create customized chatbots by inputting their specific knowledge, resulting in highly personalized and contextual conversations with customers. Solvemate's advanced conversational AI engine is designed to learn quickly, integrate seamlessly, and resolve customer inquiries efficiently, setting it apart from other chatbot solutions on the market. By streamlining customer support, the platform increases satisfaction while reducing operational costs and providing valuable insights for service teams. Solvemate has successfully partnered with various innovative brands, including On Running and musicMagpie, helping them improve customer experiences and enhance loyalty through effective service automation.

Holidu

Series B in 2018
Holidu GmbH, established in 2014 and based in Munich, Germany, operates a platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking vacation rentals. Its search engine compares prices and user reviews of millions of rental properties across numerous travel websites, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. Holidu's proprietary image recognition technology ensures users find the best deals, potentially saving up to 55%. The company also offers a mobile application for convenient use.

Solvemate

Seed Round in 2017
Solvemate GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in artificial intelligence for customer service automation. The company’s platform enables businesses to create customized chatbots by inputting their specific knowledge, resulting in highly personalized and contextual conversations with customers. Solvemate's advanced conversational AI engine is designed to learn quickly, integrate seamlessly, and resolve customer inquiries efficiently, setting it apart from other chatbot solutions on the market. By streamlining customer support, the platform increases satisfaction while reducing operational costs and providing valuable insights for service teams. Solvemate has successfully partnered with various innovative brands, including On Running and musicMagpie, helping them improve customer experiences and enhance loyalty through effective service automation.

AlphaPet Ventures

Venture Round in 2017
AlphaPet Ventures GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Munich, Germany, operates online platforms for pet products, specifically through its websites www.petspremium.de and www.hundeland.de. The company specializes in the retail of pet food and various accessories, including collars, toys, and other supplies for dogs and cats. With a focus on e-commerce, AlphaPet Ventures provides pet owners with a convenient way to access a wide range of quality products tailored to the needs of their pets. Originally known as ePetWorld GmbH and pets Premium GmbH, the company rebranded to AlphaPet Ventures GmbH in May 2016.

Hundeland.de

Venture Round in 2016
Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.

Holidu

Series A in 2016
Holidu GmbH, established in 2014 and based in Munich, Germany, operates a platform that simplifies the process of finding and booking vacation rentals. Its search engine compares prices and user reviews of millions of rental properties across numerous travel websites, including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. Holidu's proprietary image recognition technology ensures users find the best deals, potentially saving up to 55%. The company also offers a mobile application for convenient use.

Solvemate

Seed Round in 2015
Solvemate GmbH is a Berlin-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in artificial intelligence for customer service automation. The company’s platform enables businesses to create customized chatbots by inputting their specific knowledge, resulting in highly personalized and contextual conversations with customers. Solvemate's advanced conversational AI engine is designed to learn quickly, integrate seamlessly, and resolve customer inquiries efficiently, setting it apart from other chatbot solutions on the market. By streamlining customer support, the platform increases satisfaction while reducing operational costs and providing valuable insights for service teams. Solvemate has successfully partnered with various innovative brands, including On Running and musicMagpie, helping them improve customer experiences and enhance loyalty through effective service automation.

Hundeland.de

Venture Round in 2015
Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.

AlphaPet Ventures

Series A in 2014
AlphaPet Ventures GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Munich, Germany, operates online platforms for pet products, specifically through its websites www.petspremium.de and www.hundeland.de. The company specializes in the retail of pet food and various accessories, including collars, toys, and other supplies for dogs and cats. With a focus on e-commerce, AlphaPet Ventures provides pet owners with a convenient way to access a wide range of quality products tailored to the needs of their pets. Originally known as ePetWorld GmbH and pets Premium GmbH, the company rebranded to AlphaPet Ventures GmbH in May 2016.

Vitafy

Seed Round in 2014
Vitafy GmbH is a Munich-based company specializing in online retail of sports nutrition supplements, catering to the muscle building, endurance, and diet sectors. Established in 2011, Vitafy has positioned itself as a key player in the growing healthy living movement by offering a comprehensive range of products, including protein supplements, mass gainers, amino acids, fitness accessories, health snacks, and beverages. The company also provides valuable training and nutrition tips, along with recipes for low-fat and low-carbohydrate dishes, aimed at promoting long-term and sustainable weight management. By focusing exclusively on the online market, Vitafy addresses the needs of fitness enthusiasts seeking to enhance their performance and overall well-being.

Miflora

Seed Round in 2013
Miflora GmbH is a Munich-based company that operates an online flower store, specializing in the delivery of fresh and authentic flowers for both private and business customers. The company offers a variety of cut flowers, including traditional seasonal options, and provides services such as flower delivery subscriptions. Miflora also enables corporate clients to send customized gifts, bouquets, messages, and gift wrapping, allowing for personalized experiences through custom printed greeting cards and cover letters. Established as a subsidiary of Blume 2000 New Media AG, Miflora focuses on delivering high-quality floral solutions tailored to individual and corporate needs.

Shoplove

Seed Round in 2013
Shoplove is an online platform that provides its users with lifestyle solutions. The platform enables its users to connect with a range of online retailers to purchase lifestyle products. It enables its users to display its products on their website. Furthermore, it allows its users to share their preferred products with others. Shoplove was launched in 2012 by Hendrik Braun and Timo Trumpp and is based in Munich.

JustBook

Seed Round in 2012
JustBook is a mobile application that specializes in last-minute hotel bookings, providing users with information and offers on accommodations in various cities. The platform enables travelers to secure same-day bookings at discounted rates, making it easier for them to find and reserve hotels on short notice. By offering last-minute deals tailored to specific destinations, JustBook aims to enhance the travel experience, allowing users to focus on their journey without the stress of accommodation concerns.

Hundeland.de

Seed Round in 2012
Hundeland.de is retails pet food online.

JustBook

Seed Round in 2012
JustBook is a mobile application that specializes in last-minute hotel bookings, providing users with information and offers on accommodations in various cities. The platform enables travelers to secure same-day bookings at discounted rates, making it easier for them to find and reserve hotels on short notice. By offering last-minute deals tailored to specific destinations, JustBook aims to enhance the travel experience, allowing users to focus on their journey without the stress of accommodation concerns.

FreshFlow

FreshFlow is a technology company focused on transforming the food supply chain through artificial intelligence. It has developed a platform that assists grocery retailers in managing fresh products more effectively. By optimizing shelf management, the platform aims to minimize stock-outs and reduce waste, thereby maximizing profits for retailers. FreshFlow's innovations contribute to lowering global carbon emissions while making fresh food more accessible and affordable for consumers. Through its efforts, the company addresses the critical issue of food waste on a global scale.
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