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Cutting food waste by AI-based planning
Cutting food waste by AI-based planning
AIPERIA (formerly known as PlanerAI) helps suppliers reduce food waste through forecasting – aggregating historical data with real-time data about sales, consumer demand, retail stocks, weather, and store locations.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Franz Seubert
Dr. Fabian Taigel
Dr. Jan MellerHQ
Würzburg
Your Data Cloud
Your Data Cloud
Aiven is a data cloud providing the best managed, open source data infrastructure services to cover all of the needs of complex internet applications. Aiven’s mission is to enable developers to focus on their core business and build great applications without worrying about software infrastructure by providing integrated solutions that will allow teams to do what they couldn’t imagine before
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Founded: 2016
Invested: 2019Founders
Oskari Saarenmaa
Hannu Valtonen
Mika Eloranta
Heikki NousiainenHQ
Helsinki
Generalizable Artificial Intelligence "Made in Europe"
Generalizable Artificial Intelligence "Made in Europe"
Based in Heidelberg, Aleph Alpha is an AI Research & Deployment company that researches, develops and operationalizes large generalizable artificial intelligence models for text, vision, and strategy to ensure the digital sovereignty for public and private sector partners.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2021Founders
Jonas Andrulis
Samuel WeinbachHQ
Heidelberg
Revolutionary laparoscopic surgical smoke removal
Revolutionary laparoscopic surgical smoke removal
Alesi Surgical is a leading innovator in the field of minimally invasive surgery technologies. The company has developed UltravisionTM, the world’s first system that eliminates laparoscopic surgical smoke without the need for gas exchange. Ultravision produces a low-energy electrostatic charge that can significantly improve visibility for surgeons by actively eliminating surgical smoke generated by energy-based surgical cutting instruments.
In addition to improved visibility, Ultravision also allows reducing surgery time by almost 20%. Minimizing healthcare professionals’ exposure to surgical smoke is increasingly important worldwide because of health concerns over the risk of long-term exposure. The technology also benefits the patient as it minimizes the amount of cold, dry carbon dioxide gas used during surgery. Excessive use of carbon dioxide leads to cardiovascular problems, complications in anesthesia, post-surgical pain and longer recovery time for the patient.
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Founded: 2009
Invested: 2017Founders
Dominic Griffiths
HQ
Cardiff
For a better life in buildings
For a better life in buildings
Allthings transforms buildings into digital products. The Allthings platform grants users of buildings access to digital services that simplify everyday life, connect people and improve communication. Property owners benefit from an unprecedented level of transparency in buildings, neighborhoods and across entire portfolios. Thanks to the open, modular design of the Allthings platform, third-party services can be integrated as needed, much like an app store for buildings.
Originally founded in 2013 in Basel as a spin-off of ETH Zurich, the company now has offices in Basel, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Freiburg im Breisgau. Its 60-person team aims to achieve lasting improvements to life in buildings. As a digital pioneer in the industry, Allthings has won numerous prizes and boasts a clientele that includes some of Europe’s largest real estate companies. For more information go to www.allthings.me.
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Founded: 2013
Invested: 2018Founders
Stefan Zanetti
Marc Beermann
Sebastian Tschan
Manfred BauschHQ
Basel
We're building the AI hardware industry from scratch
We're building the AI hardware industry from scratch
Anari AI is building the AI hardware industry from scratch by delivering a new way of designing and using AI chips. It pioneers reconfigurable AI for customers to personalize their infrastructure in just one click; it also enables chip designers to rapidly create and deploy their solutions. Anari’s ThorX is the first chip on the Anari platform that delivers 100x more efficient computing than GPU on 3D/Graph data structures. Anari’s team is global, made up of researchers, machine learning experts, software engineers, and most of the members are PhDs. The company has a global team including advisors from CERN, Berkley, UCLA, and ex VP Software at NVIDIA.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Jovan Stojanovic
Stefan Sredojevic
Bogdan VukobratovicHQ
San Francisco, Novi Sad
Property management in the digital age
Property management in the digital age
Apsiyon is the leading provider of software systems for the Turkish real estate industry, offering on-demand, web-based property management software for residential property managers. With their easy-to-use, comprehensive software, Apsiyon meets an important need in the real estate sector — the main driver of the Turkish economy — that traditional enterprise software providers have long disregarded.
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Founded: 2012
Invested: 2016Founders
Kudret Turk
Erkan Dogan
Meric AkdamarHQ
Istanbul
Next generation treatments for cardiac arrhythmias
Next generation treatments for cardiac arrhythmias
Arga Medtech is a medtech company developing the next generation non-thermal cardiac ablation systems for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Among the cardiac arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is today a global epidemic affecting 33 million people world-wide. AF patients have a 5x greater risk of having a stroke and 3x the risk of developing Heart Failure. The company was formed by industry experts, Randy Werneth & David Neale.
Arga Medtech has offices in Switzerland (Lausane) and the US (San Diego).
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
David Neale (CEO)
Randy Werneth (CTO)HQ
Lausanne
Ariceum Therapeutics is developing novel drugs for systemic targeted radiotherapy (STR)
Ariceum Therapeutics is developing novel drugs for systemic targeted radiotherapy (STR)
Ariceum Therapeutics (Ariceum) is a private, clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company currently focused on the diagnosis and precision treatment of certain neuroendocrine and other aggressive, hard-to-treat cancers. The name Ariceum is an anagram of ‘Marie Curie’. Ariceum’s lead targeted systemic radiopharmaceutical product, 177Lu-satoreotide tetraxetan (“satoreotide”) is an antagonist of the somatostatin type 2 (SST2) receptor which is overexpressed in neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), some aggressive cancers such as small cell lung cancer (SCLC), all of which have few treatment options and poor prognosis. Satoreotide is being developed as a ‘theranostic’ pair for the combined diagnosis and targeted radionuclide treatment of these tumours.
Ariceum Therapeutics, launched in 2021, acquiring all rights from Ipsen. Ipsen remains a shareholder in the Company. Ariceum is headquartered in Berlin, with operations in Germany, Switzerland and Australia.Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2023Founders
Manfred Rüdiger, PhD, CEO
(buy out by HealthCap, EQT-LS Pureos)HQ
Berlin
Non-invasive medical device to treat incontinence
Non-invasive medical device to treat incontinence
Atlantic Therapeutics develops medical devices and the related software, apps and connected health technologies for both professionals and consumers. Their products treat incontinence, sexual health dysfunctions and other associated disorders by strengthening muscles and modulating nerves of the pelvic floor. The first product INNOVO™ is a revolutionary tool to help prevent bladder weakness by actively treating the root cause rather than just the symptoms. It is clinically proven to work, with 93% of users experiencing a significant reduction in leaks after just 4 weeks.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2017Founders
Steve Atkinson
HQ
Galway
Global leader in after-sales services for consumer electronics
Global leader in after-sales services for consumer electronics
B2X is the leading global provider of end-to-end customer care solutions for mobile and IoT devices. Founded in 2007, B2X helps many of the world’s leading mobile and consumer IoT companies deliver a superior after-sales service experience. The company’s unique positioning is based on its global service partner network and its SMARTCARE Technology platform that connects everything to a digitally integrated customer care ecosystem. With more than 1,000 employees and over 500 trusted partners in 140 countries worldwide, B2X is the premier after-sales service provider for manufacturers, insurance providers, carriers and retailers.
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Founded: 2007
Invested: 2012Founders
Karim Barkawi
Rainer KoppitzHQ
Munich
The scalable blockchain database
The scalable blockchain database
BigchainDB allows developers and enterprises to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and applications with a scalable blockchain database. Rather than trying to scale up blockchain technology, BigchainDB starts with a distributed database and then adds blockchain characteristics — decentralized control, immutability and the ability to create and transfer assets. BigchainDB supports a wide range of industries and use cases, from identity and intellectual property to supply chains, energy, IoT and financial ecosystems. With high throughput, sub-second latency and powerful functionalities for automating business processes, BigchainDB looks, acts and feels like a database, but has the core blockchain characteristics that enterprises want.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2015Founders
Trent Mc
Bruce PonHQ
Berlin
DEFINING THE FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE FORENSICS
DEFINING THE FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE FORENSICS
Binalyze is the leading Enterprise Forensics platform provider, enabling security analysts to remotely collect evidence from endpoints and automate the full incident response process. Binalyze completes much of the intricate forensic analysis work in seconds and highlights rare, relevant and malicious findings accurately. By integrating with the established security technologies such as SIEM and SOAR platforms, Binalyze incorporates powerful collaboration and automation capabilities.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2020Founders
Emre Tinaztepe
HQ
Tallinn, Ankara
The location intelligence platform for turning location data into business outcomes
The location intelligence platform for turning location data into business outcomes
CARTO leads the world in location intelligence, empowering organizations and individuals to discover and predict key insights using location data. With CARTO’s intuitive location intelligence platform, analysts and developers build self-service location-based apps that help optimize operational performance, strategic investments and everyday decisions.
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Founded: 2012
Invested: 2014Founders
Sergio Álvarez-Leiva
Javier de la TorreHQ
New York
The World’s Most Advanced Brand Protection
The World’s Most Advanced Brand Protection
The world’s top creators, agencies, and brands rely on Ceartas DMCA to prevent the unauthorized use of their creative work.
Our AI-driven system scans millions of websites to protect your intellectual property, maintaining the integrity and security of your brand.
With Ceartas DMCA, you can easily monitor your content and manage your rights lines. Our proprietary technology keeps you safe from copyright infringement, protecting you and the value of your creations with lightning-quick takedowns at a price to suit every need.Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2024Founders
Dan Purcell
Jonathan SmythHQ
Ireland
The easiest and fastest way to design electronics
The easiest and fastest way to design electronics
Our mission is to bring automation to the electronics design process. We automate electronics engineering and build the most transparent database and marketplace worldwide. Through our platform, we create transparency between component suppliers and engineers and connect supply and demand on a global electronics market place.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2022Founders
Tobias Pohl (CEO)
Alex Pohl (CTO)
Andre Alcalde (CPO)HQ
Munich
Cerbos is an open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution
Cerbos is an open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution
Cerbos makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage.
Today, developers typically have to build this capability from scratch and it’s a really hard problem to solve. Cerbos make this a non-issue for them. Their users can be up and running in minutes and turn their attention back to their core product and business.
Cerbos’ authorization solution is open core, language-agnostic, and scales from prototype to global scale.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2021Founders
Emre Baran (Co-founder, CEO)
Charith Ellawala (Co-founder, CTO)HQ
London
Certivity offers a B2B Automotive RegTech solution to master regulatory complexity and digitalize product integrity
Certivity offers a B2B Automotive RegTech solution to master regulatory complexity and digitalize product integrity
Certivity is a RegTech software company that develops a software platform to seamlessly connect the legal and regulatory world to the engineering processes and thus means a smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and cheaper management of regulatory requirements. The intelligent software will serve as one stop shop, to read & understand regulatory documents and collaborate and interpret on regulatory requirements. Finally, it ensures that everything is integrated in the right place in the engineering process, while at the same time ensuring that updates of the regulations are considered and traced through the development process. Founded in 2021 by Nico Wägerle, Bogdan Bereczki, Jörg Ulmer, and Sami Vaaraniemi, Certivity brought together a young, creative, and dynamic team of highly skilled domain experts working on innovative Software. Certivity has its Headquarters in Munich and an additional site in Stuttgart.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Nico Waegerle (CEO)
Bogdan Bereczki (CPO)
Joerg Ulmer (CTO)
Sami Vaaraniemi (CSO)HQ
Munich
Transform the world of processor design with leading custom compute technology
Transform the world of processor design with leading custom compute technology
„Codasip is a processor solutions company which uniquely helps developers to differentiate their products. We are Europe’s leading RISC-V company with a global presence. Billions of chips already use our technology.
In today’s technology market, differentiation is everything. The difference between success and failure. And, in chip design, this difference is quite literally wafer thin. With increasing transistor costs, your developers can no longer rely on semiconductor scaling and legacy processors to achieve your goals. The only way forward is to implement custom compute with designs tailored to your applications.
We deliver custom compute through the combination of the open RISC-V ISA, Codasip Studio processor design automation and high-quality processor IP. Our innovative approach lets you easily customize and differentiate your designs. You can develop high-performing, and game-changing products that are truly transformational.
Unlike traditional design approaches, our custom compute enables you to take control of your destiny. We allow you to set free your creativity and to use your ingenuity. We’re at the leading edge of a transformation in processor design, providing our partners, the most innovative companies on the planet, with a proven alternative to the norm.“
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2021Founders
Dr. Karel Masařík (Founder)
Dr. Ron Black (CEO)HQ
Munich
Our mission: Bringing Quantum Computing to All
Our mission: Bringing Quantum Computing to All
ColibrITD is a quantum computing software startup developing an innovative platform to help transform and optimize classical problems through a hybrid HPC-Quantum approach. Our mission is to help all companies take advantage of the second quantum revolution and not be left behind by this new industrial revolution in the next few years. The future is now.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2023Founders
Hacène Goudjil
Dr. Laurent GuiraudHQ
Paris
Justice-as-a-Service platform for enforcing consumer rights
Justice-as-a-Service platform for enforcing consumer rights
CONNY is Germany’s leading platform for the enforcement of consumer rights. The Berlin-based Legal Tech company was founded in 2016 by lawyer Daniel Halmer launching wenigermiete.de, which today is Germany’s leading platform for tenants’ rights. On the website, tenants can reduce their rent with rent control law (Mietpreisbremse) and defend rent increases and contract terminations. In 2018 CONNY started mehrabfindung.de, a service for financial compensation for unlawful termination of employment. Later in the year, the company launched weniger-internetkosten.de – a service for financial compensation or the termination of DSL-contracts, if the internet provider has failed to provide the promised internet speed. In contrast to traditional law firms, the customers don’t carry any cost risk and don’t have to show up for on-site appointments. Instead, they submit the details of their case within a few clicks. A service fee is only charged when CONNY successfully enforces the claim.
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Founded: 2016
Invested: 2019Founders
Daniel Halmer
HQ
Berlin
CONSTRUCTION 4.0 WITH NO CODE AI
CONSTRUCTION 4.0 WITH NO CODE AI
CONXAI aims to empower the $12 Trillion AEC industry with No-Code AI to revolutionise knowledge management, and help close the productivity gap.
CONXAI is building its platform with the 3rd generation “”Explainable AI (XAI)””, that uses plan, transactional, sensor and historical project data, and different forms of knowledge to generate descriptive and prescriptive insights.
CONXAI’s No-Code play makes it easy even for non-tech users to configure and scale AI powered analytics solutions for a variety of use cases in HSE, Logistics and Quality, much faster and at a fraction of cost of conventional approaches.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2022Founders
Sharique Husain (CEO)
Dr. Muralikrishna Sridhar (CTO)HQ
Karlsfeld
European digital debt marketplace
European digital debt marketplace
CrossLend is a digital debt marketplace with a mission to make the European lending and investment ecosystem more efficient, transparent and profitable.
By means of an innovative securitization solution, we seamlessly connect originator supply with institutional investor demand, creating uniquely flexible, beneficial opportunities for both. With lenders empowered to lend more and investors able to deploy their capital more efficiently, liquidity is available to flow where it is needed, helping fund Europe’s real economy: a win-win-win situation for all.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2018Founders
Oliver Schimek
HQ
Berlin
Save hours of manual work in your sales processes
Save hours of manual work in your sales processes
Ctrl is a customer workspace for revenue teams that helps eliminate all manual work involved in sales processes. Our platform provides a simple interface that seamlessly integrates with work apps and can be easily customized, enabling users to complete and automate an entire workflow in seconds.
With Ctrl, customer-facing teams can easily adopt playbooks, update data and share information with their colleagues, providing full visibility into the sales pipeline.
Join us and empower your Revenue team with the tools they need to work smarter, not harder.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2023Founders
Omri Sagzan
Aviv NahumHQ
Tel Aviv, London
Listen to the best journalism
Listen to the best journalism
Curio is a premium audio platform with a curated library of expert journalism. It provides listeners with stories and insights on critical topics shaping our world, helping them learn and grow.
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Founded: 2016
Invested: 2020Founders
Govind Balakrishnan (CEO)
Srikant Chakravarti (COO)HQ
London
Complete travel technology
Complete travel technology
DCS+ is a leading travel technology company committed to designing and developing enterprise technology solutions for the travel and tourism industries. It is the only company in the travel sector with its own full software stack for any type of travel operator: TMCs, DMCs, tour operators and OTAs.
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Founded: 2002
Invested: 2014Founders
Christian Dinca
HQ
Bucharest
Deed – Social impact technology that inspires action
Deed – Social impact technology that inspires action
Deed is the workplace giving platform your people will love. We help Fortune 500 enterprises and fast-growing mid-market companies provide employees with an exciting experience around volunteering, giving, and everyday actions which make the world a better place. We meets today’s employees where they are while helping companies establish an inclusive and purpose-driven culture. Join us as we transform ESG from “Me” to “We”!
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Founded: 2016
Invested: 2021Founders
Deevee Kashi (Cofounder/CEO)
Aske Ertmann (Cofounder/Chief Architect)
Steve Liu (Cofounder/COO)HQ
Brooklyn, Berlin, San Francisco
New therapy to treat visual field loss
New therapy to treat visual field loss
EBS Technologies has developed the NEXT WAVE™ system, a unique neurological stimulation system for the treatment of visual impairments like glaucoma and other neurological based visual impairments resulting from stroke or trauma. The system can treat the effects of these impairments and partially restore vision in many patients. The company holds several patents in the EU and the United States and has successfully demonstrated the clinical safety and efficacy of NEXT WAVE. The EBS therapy system is approved for the treatment of visual field loss in accordance with EU regulations as a medical device with a CE mark.
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Founded in: 2007
Invested in: 2010Founders
Bernhard Sabel
Kornelia Sabel
Anton FedorovHQ
Berlin
AUTOMATED EDGE OBSERVABILITY PLATFORM
AUTOMATED EDGE OBSERVABILITY PLATFORM
Edge Delta is an automated observability platform that shows the complete picture of applications and services. With Edge Delta, DevOps and SRE teams can detect anomalies, proactively address issues, and make sense of their noisy and complex datasets – automatically and as soon as they’re created.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2022Founders
Ozan Unlu
Fatih YildizHQ
Seattle
AI-based personalization for corporate learning
AI-based personalization for corporate learning
edyoucated is a corporate learning platform providing AI-based personalization of learning paths for the workforce. edyoucated’s mission is to empower people to build the skills of their future by structuring the world’s skills and content so that learners always receive the right learning material based on their prior knowledge, goals, and learning preferences.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2021Founders
David Middelbeck
Marius Vennemann
Jannik Weichert
Jan PapenbrockHQ
Münster
Building the German Quantum Computer
Building the German Quantum Computer
eleQtron is engaged in the construction and commissioning of breakthrough quantum computers with trapped ions. It is a spinoff of the Chair of Quantum Optics at the University of Siegen. eleQtron has successfully implemented new methods for quantum information processing which eliminate the need for laser light for coherent control of quantum logic operations. Instead, qubits are controlled by radio frequency waves in novel ion processors using our proprietary MAGIC technology (Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling). These processors enable individual control of qubits with the highest precision as well as of their interaction, and show a clear path towards massive scaling.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Prof. Dr. Christof Wunderlich
Dr. Michael Johanning
Jan LeisseHQ
Siegen
Operating System for fleets of autonomous mobile robots
Operating System for fleets of autonomous mobile robots
Energy Robotics provides the first software platform for deploying mobile autonomous robot fleets. The SaaS solution unites a robot operating system, a cloud-based fleet management and an AI-driven analytics platform – independent from robot hardware. The robots are used for remote inspection and monitoring in oil&gas, petrochemical, energy, security & surveillance and other industries with harsh or demanding environments. With a Robot-as-a-Service solution, its software platform, together with various hardware from third-party providers, fits diverse customer use cases. Energy Robotics was founded in 2019 by autonomous robot veterans as a spin-off from the Technical University of Darmstadt.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2021Founders
Dr. Dorian Scholz (CPO)
Dr. Stefan Kohlbrecher (CTO)
Dr. Alberto Romay (COO)
Marc Dassler (CEO)HQ
Darmstadt
Waste and Recycling Services
Waste and Recycling Services
Enevo was founded in 2010 with the idea of creating an “Environmental Evolution.” Their vision has always been to transform the financial, environmental and social impact of waste. By collecting and analyzing data from waste containers around the world, they are able to help companies create efficiencies, cut the cost of waste collection and incentivize recycling.
For the past seven years Enevo has provided over 50 cities with data and analytics via their sensor technology for waste and recycling containers. In Europe, Enevo is used mostly to dynamically route trucks based on the fullness level of the containers. In the US, Enevo focuses on providing waste and recycling management services by working directly with restaurant, retail and other waste-producing clients. Enevo is the first waste services company to provide complete waste management outsourcing based on actual data rather than mere assumptions.
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Founded: 2010
Invested: 2014Founders
Johan Engström
Fredrik KekalainenHQ
Espoo
Accessible software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses at scale
Accessible software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses at scale
EthonAI is an industrial tech spin-off from ETH Zürich developing software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2023Founders
Dr. Julian Senoner
Dr. Bernhard KratzwaldHQ
Zurich
Unlocking the D2C asset class at scale
Unlocking the D2C asset class at scale
Everstores is a next-generation investment company that acquires and scales small European-based D2C (direct-to-consumer) brands through its technology platform. Founded in 2022 and based in Berlin, Everstores is on a mission to unlock the D2C asset class at scale. It employs transaction-level data to provide liquidity to long-tail merchants and leverages this data in combination with software through its operating system to drive strong performance.
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Founded: 2022
Invested: 2022Founders
Kristoffer Herskind
Carlos Lopez
Kirill MartynovHQ
Berlin
Authentic Stock Photos and Royalty-Free Images
Authentic Stock Photos and Royalty-Free Images
EyeEm is a photography company and a global community of over 20 million creators. Through their marketplace, advanced computer vision technology, print publication and annual festival, EyeEm connects the photography community with leading brands and agencies.
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Founded: 2011
Invested: 2013Founders
Lorenz Aschoff
Florian Meissner
Gen Sadakane
Ramzi RizkHQ
Berlin
Financial services infrastructure for software businesses
Financial services infrastructure for software businesses
finmid is a platform enabling software businesses to grow their revenue by embedding financial services in their product through a single integration. By productizing the complexity of financial services, finmid empowers companies to offer financial services where FinTech isn’t the mission, but enables the mission.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2021Founders
Alexander Talkanitsa
Max SchertelHQ
Berlin
Hyper-personalised & automated financial technology platform
Hyper-personalised & automated financial technology platform
FintechOS provides a technology platform for financial institutions that allows them to build end-to-end digital applications significantly faster while dramatically decreasing labor costs. The platform allows enterprises to launch customer-centric and hyper-personalized products without the need to replace the existing core engines, thus, enabling them to keep up with the ever-increasing customer expectations of today’s world.
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Founded: 2017
Invested: 2019Founders
Teodor Blidarus
Sergiu NegutHQ
Bucharest, London
Flanks is the Global Open Wealth Standard: Where the wealth management meets the scalability
Flanks is the Global Open Wealth Standard: Where the wealth management meets the scalability
Flanks is a Wealth Tech B2B service platform which digitally optimizes your operational efficiency by automating and scaling the connection with custodian entities.
Our services allow you to eliminate the risk of manual mistakes, improve the user experience between client and financial investor, and create new sources of revenue by offering new services based on the data aggregated.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2023Founders
Joaquim De la Cruz
Sergi Lao
Alvaro MoralesHQ
Barcelona
Welcome to a fraud-free world
Welcome to a fraud-free world
Fraugster is a German-Israeli payment security company founded in 2014 by Max Laemmle and Chen Zamir. After years of working in the payments industry, the team experienced first-hand the challenges of fraud for e-commerce merchants. Their journey began with the vision to design and build an anti-fraud technology that could help create a fraud-free world — one where e-commerce merchants would never have to worry about managing risk again.
They found that all existing anti-fraud solutions were built on outdated technologies, insufficient for dealing with sophisticated cyber criminals. Existing rule-based systems, as well as classic machine learning solutions, are expensive and slow to adapt to new fraud patterns in real-time.
Their team of intelligence and payment experts spent the last several years designing a proprietary technology from scratch. The result is an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that not only eliminates payment fraud but also maximizes revenues by reducing false positives.
Fraugster has been operating around the world since 2016 and is currently responsible for tens of billions of dollars in annual payment volumes.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2016Founders
Chen Zamir
Max LaemmleHQ
Berlin
The home of Living Assets: NFT 2.0.
The home of Living Assets: NFT 2.0.
Freeverse.io is a platform for creating Living Assets: next generation NFTs which can evolve and change based on how they are used; as a result, their market value is controlled by their utility, as opposed to speculation over their rarity. Freeverse’s mission is to bring true ownership of ‘living’ NFTs into the mainstream, where users truly own their assets, yet companies and content creators retain the right to control how those assets are used within their applications.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2022Founders
Alun Evans
Toni Mateos
Alessandro Siniscalchi
Ferran EstalellaHQ
Barcelona
Getsafe is reinventing insurance – Insurance to go
Getsafe is reinventing insurance – Insurance to go
Getsafe is reinventing insurance. The insurtech startup from Heidelberg is using technology and AI to help people identify, organize and protect what they care most about in life: With a few clicks, customers can learn about, buy, and manage insurance on their smartphone – simple, transparent, and fair. Together with renowned partners such as Munich Re and leading venture capital investors, Getsafe is bringing the concept of multi-line insurance into the digital age.
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Founded: 2015
Invested: 2019Founders
Christian Wiens
Marius BlaesingHQ
Heidelberg
Your Legal Infrastructure Platform
Your Legal Infrastructure Platform
Goodlegal is a one stop shop for legal compliance which aims to democratize legal by providing individuals and organizations with a legal infrastructure platform to drive standardization and a frictionless engagement with the internal and external stakeholders. Gearing its users with a powerful and varied toolbox of functionalities, ranging from drag and drop document builder, to out of the box documents, text analysis, e-signature, automation functionalities and integrations, every organization can achieve a sound legal compliance and operations framework in no time.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Vasile Tiple
HQ
Bucharest
GOURMEY is France's pioneering cultivated meat company
GOURMEY is France's pioneering cultivated meat company
GOURMEY is the first cultured meat company in France and one of the few pioneers in Europe. Their mission is to accelerate the world’s transition toward ethical, sustainable, and healthy meat by harvesting it from animal cells. The company creates sustainable restaurant-grade meats directly from real animal cells with a significantly reduced impact on the environment.
Founded in 2019 by CEO Nicolas Morin-Forest (ex-L’Oréal), CTO Dr. Victor Sayous, Ph.D. in molecular biology, and CSO Antoine Davydoff, cell biologist, the company is now a team of 40 world-class scientists and engineers in the fields of gastronomic and food sciences, bioprocess engineering as well as stem cell biology.
Post-Series A, they will open a 37,000-square-foot commercial production facility to fast-track commercialization globally as well as a food innovation center in Paris, France. They will also triple their team and expand their meat product portfolio with exciting upcoming announcements.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2022Founders
Nicolas Morin-Forest (CEO)
Victor Sayous (CTO)
Antoine Davydoff (CSO)HQ
Paris
Breakthrough, low energy direct-air-capture technology with hydrogen as by-product
Breakthrough, low energy direct-air-capture technology with hydrogen as by-product
We have developed a break-through direct air capture technology that turns ambient air into green hydro-carbons to free the world from fossil fuels. By eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere, we contribute to avoiding the climate crisis.
The process consists of 3 main process steps. Absorption in liquid sorbent solution, precipitation as hydrogen carbonate and desorption by either alkali water electrolysis, in which case hydrogen is produced as by-product, or via thermal, low calorific waste heat.
Based on 15 years of research GCT was founded as a university spin-out by 2 serial entrepreneurs and an experienced DAC researcher. The company is based in Essen – in the heart of industrial Germany – surrounded by leading technical universities and global chemical, industrial and energy companies.Milestones
Founded: 2022
Invested: 2023Founders
Florian Hildebrand (CEO)
Dr. Niklas Friederichsen (CTO)
Dr. Peter Behr (CSO)HQ
Essen
ERAP inhibition to overcome the challenges of tumour visibility & T cell exhaustion & in oncology
ERAP inhibition to overcome the challenges of tumour visibility & T cell exhaustion & in oncology
Grey Wolf Therapeutics is a UK- and Australian-based drug discovery and development biotechnology company spearheading a new therapeutic approach in immuno-oncology. The company’s first-of-its-kind immuno-oncology approach is centered on inhibiting the endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases (ERAP1 or ERAP2), which play a key role in the antigen presentation pathway. Inhibiting ERAP1 or ERAP2 generates novel cancer antigens and upregulates certain other neoantigens, resulting in the mobilisation of an entirely novel T cell response against the tumour. This increases tumour visibility where current therapies are ineffective, and bypasses the challenge faced by current immunotherapy when once anti-tumourigenic T cells become irreversibly exhausted and hence ineffective.
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Founded: 2017
Invested: 2022Founders
Peter Joyce, CEO
HQ
Oxford
Embedded Product Protection for eCommerce and Retail
Embedded Product Protection for eCommerce and Retail
Hakuna is a technology company in the insurance space founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneurs Sebastian Jost, Orhan Köroglu and Rupert Mayer. Hakuna provides embedded insurance solutions for eCommerce platforms as well as Retailers with the goal to enable merchants of any size and industry to offer an AppleCare-like user experience.
The insurtech with offices in Munich and Berlin provides the complete infrastructure European-wide, with an API-first approach that delivers tailored product protection plans such as warranty extensions that perfectly blend into the merchant’s value proposition.
Hakuna is backed by well-known VC firms such as Earlybird, Visionaries Club and Discovery Ventures, and top tier business angels including Victor Jacobsson (Founder Klarna) and Marc Christ (Founder SumUp).
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Sebastian Jost
Orhan Köroglu
Rupert MayerHQ
Berlin, Munich
In-memory storage and distributed compute for breakthrough speed and scale
In-memory storage and distributed compute for breakthrough speed and scale
Hazelcast delivers the leading in-memory computing platform for Global 2000 enterprises to achieve ultra-fast application performance – at any scale. Built for low-latency data processing, Hazelcast’s cloud-native, in-memory data store and event stream processing technologies are trusted by leading companies to accelerate data-centric applications.
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Founded: 2012
Invested: 2014Founders
Talip Öztürk
Fuad Malikov
Enes AkarHQ
San Mateo, Istanbul
Service, software, and operations out of one hand helps manage D2C brands from sourcing to final delivery
Service, software, and operations out of one hand helps manage D2C brands from sourcing to final delivery
Hive Technologies is an 11-month young Berlin-based start-up set to revolutionize D2C operations. By providing relevant solutions, Hive addresses customer satisfaction and creates real added value along the entire supply chain. Hive focuses primarily on the fast-growing D2C market.
Hive relies on an integrative solution with operations and software plus an outstanding team with experience from large logistics companies, e-commerce players like Zalando, tech start-ups, and strategic consultancies. Starting from fulfillment, Hive builds full-suite operations software for the entire value chain.
The merchant app enables real-time sync of inventory and order data and enriches information for store owners with valuable logistics insights. The product will grow to feature smart insights and suggestions for optimization to evolve into the operations cockpit for D2C brands. Additional software integrations will allow handling of more complex parts of the supply chain, such as procurement or delivery.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Oskar Ziegler, Franz Purucker, Leonard von Kleist
HQ
Berlin
HiveMQ's MQTT broker makes it easy to move data to and from connected devices in an efficient, fast and reliable manner
HiveMQ's MQTT broker makes it easy to move data to and from connected devices in an efficient, fast and reliable manner
HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. We make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 130 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on our product in production for mission-critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoT products.
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Founded: 2012
Invested: 2021Founders
Christian Meinerding
Dominik Obermaier
Christoph SchäbelHQ
Landshut
Innovation in immunomodulation
Innovation in immunomodulation
ImCheck Therapeutics is designing and developing a new generation of immunotherapeutic antibodies targeting butyrophilins, a novel super-family of immunomodulators.
As demonstrated by lead clinical-stage program ICT01, which has a mechanism of action to simultaneously modulate innate and adaptive immunity, ImCheck’s “first-in-class” activating antibodies may be able to produce superior clinical results as compared to the first-generation of immune checkpoint inhibitors and, when used in combination, to overcome resistance to this group of agents. In addition, ImCheck’s antagonist antibodies are being evaluated as potential treatments for a range of autoimmune diseases.
Co-founder of the Marseille Immunopole cluster, ImCheck benefits from support from Prof. Daniel Olive (INSERM, CNRS, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Aix-Marseille Université), a worldwide leader in γδ T cells and butyrophilins research; from the experience of an expert management team; and from the commitment of leading US and European investors.Milestones
Founded: 2015
Invested: 2022Founders
Pierre d’Epenoux, Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Olive, MD, PhD, Scientific FounderHQ
Marseille
Read tomorrow's bestsellers today
Read tomorrow's bestsellers today
Inkitt is the world’s first data-driven book publisher and has developed an algorithm that can predict bestsellers. Inkitt’s digital library currently holds more than 80,000 stories spanning all genres: romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, thriller and more. Inkitt’s mission is to democratize publishing by putting the power in the audience’s hands: “If readers love it, we publish it.” The company’s algorithm analyses over 1,200 reading behavior dimensions to identify patterns and understand which novels have a strong potential to become future bestsellers. Once a novel is picked up by the algorithm, Inkitt publishes it and also supports the author with cover design and editing services as well as a dedicated marketing team to promote the book.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2015Founders
Ali Albazaz
HQ
Berlin
First real transaction platform for used cars over the net
First real transaction platform for used cars over the net
Instamotion offers a next-generation experience for buying used cars completely online. Extensive, high-quality image material, a quality assessment report by an independent auditor and a test drive video provide a full picture of the vehicle and make an informed online-only decision possible. The car then gets washed, registered to the new owner and delivered to their doorstep free of charge, including a 14-day money back guarantee and a one-year used car warranty that includes wear and tear. The warranty was developed exclusively together with Allianz. Instamotion is headquartered in Grünwald near Munich and currently offers a range of more than 10,000 cars on its platform.
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Founded: 2016
Invested: 2016Founders
Dr. Darius Ahrabian
Manfred WölfleHQ
Munich
Lowering the entry barriers to space
Lowering the entry barriers to space
Isar Aerospace democratizes access to space through flexible and low-cost satellite launch services. The company capitalizes on technology leaps in advanced manufacturing, increasing both performance and environmental responsibility. Based on cutting-edge rocket engineering research, the innovative propulsion architecture lowers emissions drastically for sustainable use of space, paving the way for future space exploration.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2019Founders
Daniel Metzler (CEO)
Josef Fleischmann
Markus BrandlHQ
Munich
MedTech company focused on novel ophthalmic implants for patients with glaucoma
MedTech company focused on novel ophthalmic implants for patients with glaucoma
iSTAR Medical SA, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Wavre, Belgium, is a clinical-stage, medical technology company focused on the development of novel ophthalmic implants for patients with glaucoma. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of adult blindness globally.
iSTAR Medical has exclusive rights to the STAR® material from the University of Washington in Seattle (USA) for ophthalmic use. The porous material exhibits outstanding anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory properties providing the foundation for the development of MINIjectTM, designed to be a best-in-class micro-invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) device. MIGS is the most promising and fastest-growing therapeutic option for the treatment of glaucoma. The fast-growing MIGS market is expected to reach $1.1bn worldwide by 2023.
iSTAR Medical’s management team and board have a successful track record in end-to-end product development, with proven clinical, regulatory, and market access capabilities. The company is backed by specialized institutional and private investors.
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Founded: 2011
Invested: 2019Founders
Michel Vanbrabant (CEO)
HQ
Wavre
Global upskilling platform - to close the $6.5T global skills gap
Global upskilling platform - to close the $6.5T global skills gap
Junto is a digital-first upskilling platform.
Today’s relevant business know-how is no longer taught at yesterday’s universities. It is locked in the minds of a small circle of leading global tech operators and their high-growth organizations.
For ambitious startups & their talents Junto unlocks this know-how through interactive live courses powered by world-class tech operators, e.g. with experience from Google, Amazon, Adobe, Gorillas, or N26.
On top of this unique operator network, Junto builds a life-long learning community & technology platform that enables fast growing companies to accelerate their execution and attract & retain the best talent.
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Founded: 2022
Invested: 2022Founders
Marius Hepp
Johannes-Schnell-KretschmerHQ
Berlin
Build the systems that power your operations
Build the systems that power your operations
Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.
Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman, who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building operations systems on the robust and secure Keel platform.
Keel is backed by well-known European investors Earlybird and LocalGlobe.Milestones
Founded: 2022
Invested: 2024Founders
Benoit Machefer
Tom Frew
Jon BretmanHQ
London
Data-driven production & scheduling cockpit for construction projects
Data-driven production & scheduling cockpit for construction projects
koppla is the construction scheduling software that enables construction companies to plan and manage their projects more efficient, fast and cost-effective. By connecting all stakeholders – from project developers and managers to general contractors – in one real-time schedule, koppla allows to immediately identify disruptions, prevent delays and keep the entire construction process on track.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Jerome Lange (CEO)
Marco Trippler (COO)
Lasse Steffen (CTO)HQ
Potsdam
Fully automated digital procurement platform for industrial components
Fully automated digital procurement platform for industrial components
KREATIZE was founded in Tübingen in 2015 by Daniel A. Garcia Rodriguez (CTO) and Simon Tüchelmann (CEO). KREATIZE is Germany’s first fully automated digital production platform for industrial components, bringing together procurement processes, intelligent price management, and order acceptance in a unique way. With locations in Berlin and Tübingen and over 30 employees, the KREATIZE team combines the best of both worlds – the classic manufacturing industry in the south of Germany and the tech world in Berlin. With its automation platform, KREATIZE offers mechanical engineering companies and manufacturing partners services from complete order processing to the delivery of industrial components.
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Founded: 2015
Invested: 2019Founders
Simon Tüchelmann
Daniel A. Garcia RodriguezHQ
Berlin
A REVOLUTION IN SUSTAINABLE, HIGH-SPEED REGIONAL AIR MOBILITY
A REVOLUTION IN SUSTAINABLE, HIGH-SPEED REGIONAL AIR MOBILITY
Lilium is creating a sustainable and accessible mode of high-speed, regional transportation for people and goods. Using the Lilium Jet, an all-electric vertical take-off and landing jet offering leading capacity, low noise, and high performance with zero operating emissions, Lilium is accelerating the decarbonization of air travel. Working with aerospace, technology, and infrastructure leaders, and on track for type certification in 2025, Lilium has strong customer interest for the Lilium Jet worldwide, and a pipeline of potential sales from multiple customers across Europe, South America, the Middle East, the United States, and Asia. Lilium’s 800+ strong team includes approximately 450 aerospace engineers and a leadership team responsible for delivering some of the most successful aircraft in aviation history.
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Founded: 2015
Invested: 2023Founders
Klaus Roewe (CEO)
Daniel Wiegand (Co-Founder)
Sebastian Born (Co-Founder)
Patrick Nathen (Co-Founder)
Matthias Meiner (Co-Founder)
Klaus Roewe (MD)
Oliver Vogelgesang (MD)HQ
Munich
Marvel Fusion – Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant
Marvel Fusion – Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant
Marvel Fusion, founded in Munich in 2019, pursues a new and fast-track route to the commercial application of fusion energy to provide zero-emissions unlimited energy to the global markets. Marvel Fusion’s new technology concept is based on highly intense short-pulsed lasers and proprietary fuel targets. Scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, the University of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently joined forces with Marvel Fusion to bring its fusion concept to fruition. In its next steps, Marvel Fusion will upgrade existing laser systems (2022-2025) to validate its novel technology and to demonstrate the path to net energy gain.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2022Founders
Moritz von der Linden (Co-Founder)
Karl-Georg Schlesinger (Co-Founder)
Georg Korn (Co-Founder)
Heike Freund (COO)HQ
Munich
The global supplier database for strategic sourcing
The global supplier database for strategic sourcing
Matchory brings transparency to global supply chains and offers strategic sourcing an automated supplier search. Supplier data is aggregated worldwide, processed and compiled in a unique database. Using state-of-the-art technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, relevant suppliers from all industries can be identified within minutes. Intelligent search algorithms and AI permanently optimize the search and adapt it to the user. Based on +10m structured data profiles, procurement can generate an individual supplier pool and benefit from real-time-access to relevant supplier data points in one central location.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2022Founders
Aiko Wiegand
Nils Liskien
Martin KonradiHQ
Berlin, Munich
MAYD - Meds at your doorstep
MAYD - Meds at your doorstep
We are MAYD – MEDS AT YOUR DOORSTEP. We are building the first instant delivery service for all products you can get in your next-door pharmacy. We offer our customers over 2,000 products of the most renowned healthcare brands and deliver them within 30 minutes – Monday to Sunday, day and night. Rooted in our local communities, we partner with local pharmacies and help them benefit from digital technologies, connect them to new customers and help them fulfill their orders.
Our team consists of experienced startup founders and motivated first employees passionate about helping people get their meds –when they need them most and making their lives easier.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2021Founders
Hanno Heintzenberg
Lukas PieczonkaHQ
Berlin
The best medical treatment at an affordable price
The best medical treatment at an affordable price
MediDate is Germany’s leading platform for premium lifestyle surgeries in Germany. As a digital clinic provider with a unique customer experience, MediDate allows its patients to access leading surgeons at affordable prices. MediDate accesses existing infrastructure and surgery capacities on the market and combines them into a comprehensive product, acting as a vertically integrated marketplace for both patients and surgeons.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2016Founders
Nico Kutschenko
Sebastian Vohradnik
Eiko GertenHQ
Berlin
Making investing accessible to the masses in emerging markets
Making investing accessible to the masses in emerging markets
Midas is on a mission to make investing accessible to the masses in emerging markets, starting from Turkey. First retail investing app to provide access to US equities, Midas offers US and local equities and funds with zero commission. As the first investing app to achieve sign up, fund and trade in under 10 minutes, Midas works to educate investors and provide a safe platform for growing wealth. Midas also offers a B2B modern trading infrastructure to address deeper problems faced by investors in its target markets.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Egem Eraslan
HQ
Istanbul
Software for every business that wants to grow
Software for every business that wants to grow
Mikro is a leading Enterprise Application Software (EAS) provider in Turkey focusing on SMEs. The company offers a broad range of ERP software, both on-premise and in the Cloud, to its local customer base through its reseller network. The company’s mission is to lead the online transformation of Turkish SMEs to make their operations and book keeping activities more efficient and foolproof.
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Founded: 1988
Invested: 2017Founders
Alpaslan Tomus, Murat Sakarya
HQ
Istanbul
Improved outcomes for cardiac intervention
Improved outcomes for cardiac intervention
Miracor Medical has developed a disruptive therapy for patients with impaired cardiac function. PiCSO® (Pressure-controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion) is designed to improve clinical outcomes in patients affected by large heart attacks, specifically ST-elevation Myocardial Infarcts. PiCSO therapy is used in the cath lab to intermittently increase pressure in the coronary venous system. This leads to improved microcirculatory flow and improved perfusion of the infarcted area, ultimately leading to a smaller residual infarct size after acute myocardial infarction as compared to non PiCSO-treated patients. Decreased residual infarct size after acute myocardial infarction is shown to be directly correlated to reduced mortality and decreased hospitalizations for heart failure. The company has received CE Mark for PiCSO and is preparing for a commercial roll-out.
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Founded in: 2008
Invested in: 2016Founders
Olivier Delporte
HQ
Awans
Enabling privacy-preserving big data applications in the digital age
Enabling privacy-preserving big data applications in the digital age
Mostly AI solves one of the biggest challenges organizations are facing today: balancing their need for Big Data & AI innovation with GDPR/CCPA compliance and privacy protection. By generating Synthetic Data, Mostly AI helps organizations to unlock their privacy-sensitive Big Data assets, as their fundamentally new approach to big data anonymization retains all of the valuable information in a dataset, while protecting the privacy of every data subject. This results in completely anonymous data, that is free to use, free to share and free to monetize.
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Founded: 2017
Invested: 2020Founders
Michael Platzer
Klaudius Kalcher
Roland Boubela
Tobias HannHQ
Vienna, New York
The European leader for moving
The European leader for moving
Movinga offers fix-priced personal moving services without owning any infrastructure. With their carefully selected, trained and company-branded network of professional service companies, Movinga offers country-wide moving services priced by a smart algorithm. Pricing is determined based on various user-entered and automatically gathered variables and optimized for availability, capacity, route planning, price sensibility and customer experience. Movinga is the digital link between the twenty-first century customer and a professional service industry focused on its core business.
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Founded: 2015
Invested: 2015Founders
Finn Age Hänsel
HQ
Berlin
Automating Small Data Machine Learning
Automating Small Data Machine Learning
MyDataModels develops and markets an automated Machine Learning software platform for domain experts in need to build and run predictive models with no machine learning skills.
The platform is powered by a unique mathematical expression engine, inspired by evolutionary algorithms. The engine has removed major roadblocks of this category of algorithms making their commercial use possible. Particularly suited for numerical datasets with a small number of records/samples, commonly known as Small Data, MyDataModels addresses primarily two markets: scientific research and industry.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2019Founders
Denis Bastiment
Alain Blancquart
Simon GazikianHQ
Sophia-Antipolis
Decentralized infrastructure for on-chain value transmission
Decentralized infrastructure for on-chain value transmission
M^0 (read “M ZERO”) Labs aims to develop a decentralised network enabling institutional participants to reliably link assets to a decentralised infrastructure. The M^0 network will provide participants with the liquidity, transparency, composability, and governance required for sophisticated on-chain monetary transactions.
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Founded: 2022
Invested: 2023Founders
Luca Prosperi (CEO)
Oliver Schimek (COO)
Gregory Di Prisco (Lead Architect)HQ
Berlin
THE MOBILE BANK
THE MOBILE BANK
N26 is Europe’s first Mobile Bank with a full European banking license and is setting new standards in banking. N26 has redesigned banking for the smartphone, making it simple, fast and contemporary. Opening a new bank account takes only eight minutes and can be done directly from your smartphone. Users receive a Mastercard to pay cashless or withdraw cash all around the world. They can block or unblock their card with a simple click and send money instantly to friends and contacts. N26 was founded in early 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal. In two years N26 has acquired more than 500,000 clients. It operates in 17 countries: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain and currently employs 290 people. Since January 2015, N26 has been available for Android, iOS and desktop.
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Founded: 2013
Invested: 2014Founders
Valentin Stalf
Maximilian TayenthalHQ
Berlin
Unlocking unparalleled computing power in high-end processors through disruptive optical interconnects
Unlocking unparalleled computing power in high-end processors through disruptive optical interconnects
The unprecedented demand for computing resources is closely linked to the development of High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence applications. To meet this demand, it is essential to propose new processor technologies. In this framework, the main bottleneck limiting performance lies in the interconnections ensuring data exchanges between electronic entities within processors.
NcodiN is developing a revolutionary nanophotonic chip called optical interposer: it integrates interconnects that use light as the vehicle of information. Those links replace standard electrical interconnects based on copper wires and eliminate their drawbacks (low bandwidth, ultra-short reach, high energy consumption). This solution will allow NcodiN’s clients to unlock the full scalability of their processor architectures and achieve unprecedented computing power.
The NcodiN interposer is based on a patented & proprietary technology, developed by the founding team throughout 15 years of research at the Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies (C2N, France), a CNRS laboratory. The breakthrough innovation consists of ultra-small optoelectronic nanodevices, capable of converting an electronic signal into an optical one and vice versa.
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Founded: 2023
Invested: 2024Founders
Francesco Manegatti (CEO)
Bruno Garbin (CTO)
Fabrice Raineri (CSO)HQ
Palaiseau
Restaurant Discovery Platform
Restaurant Discovery Platform
NeoTaste is a mobile app that empowers users to explore restaurants and cafés in their city, enticed by exclusive deals available at these locations. We have managed to digitally bring together gastronomy and guests, which results in new advantages for both sides. Through NeoTaste, restaurants can showcase attractive deals, optimizing their capacity utilization and attracting fresh clientele. Acting as a free marketing platform, NeoTaste opens doors for restaurateurs to expand their customer base and enhance their digital presence.
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Founded: 2020
Invested: 2024Founders
Henrik Sander
Tobias DüserHQ
Berlin
Telecommunication solutions from the cloud
Telecommunication solutions from the cloud
Business communication around the world is undergoing the greatest change in its history. A modern business phone system in the cloud is an investment for the future of any business, regardless of size or industry. NFON offers unlimited capacities for the challenges faced by companies, whether they have two or 249,000 employees. NFON is a cloud solution “Made in Germany” that stands for data protection, reliability and TÜV-certified voice quality. These facts together with the more than 150 intelligent features, simplicity of operation, cost-effectiveness and essential security features all contribute to NFON being one of the leading providers worldwide. Operating in 13 European countries, NFON AG has its headquarters in Munich.
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Founded: 2007
Invested: 2009Founders
Hans Szymanski
HQ
Munich
Streamline Industry 4.0 with a step-by-step Industrial IoT platform
Streamline Industry 4.0 with a step-by-step Industrial IoT platform
Our guiding North Star is a world where Industrial IoT serves as the vital element for seamless, smart, and sustainable operations. “Connecting the dots” is more than just a phrase; it’s our DNA. This vision fuels our brand’s growth, equipping us to provide transformative solutions across industries. Nortech AI’s platform will act as the conduit linking a range of industrial needs, from data analytics to process automation.
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Founded: 2021
Invested: 2023Founders
Anders Paulsen
Francisco Roque
Halvard LøvikHQ
Bergen, Lisbon
REVOLUTIONIZING PATHOGEN IDENTIFICATION THROUGH RELEVANCE-BASED DECISIONS
REVOLUTIONIZING PATHOGEN IDENTIFICATION THROUGH RELEVANCE-BASED DECISIONS
Noscendo offers a completely new way of identifying pathogens. Through a paradigm shift based on proprietary algorithms and software harnessing next-generation sequencing, Noscendo identifies pathogens from patient samples. This supports physicians in their daily work to make the right decisions in difficult situations and in a relevant time frame.
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Founded: 2017
Invested: 2020Founders
Dr. Silke Grumaz
Dr. Kai Sohn
Dr. Peter Haug
Dr. Philip Stevens (CEO)HQ
Duisburg
Nosh structures foods through biology
Nosh structures foods through biology
Nosh.bio, is a Berlin based startup focused on developing the next generation of highly functional food ingredients, from clean label, non-GMO, microbes.
Positioned as B2B Partner, Nosh helps animal-free foods to achieve the breakthrough and appeal the mass market to create a food system that is no longer harmfull to the planet, animals or people.
Founded in 2022 by Tim Fronzek, a german entrepreneur, and Felipe Lino, a brazilian bioscientist, the company already represents 8 different nationalities and will launch its first products within the next 12 months.Milestones
Founded: 2022
Invested: 2023Founders
Tim Fronzek - Co-Founder & CEO (MD),
Dr. Felipe Lino - Co-Founder & CTO,
Xiangdong Zhao - Co-Founder & Senior ScientistHQ
Berlin
The easiest way to get from city to city in Turkey
The easiest way to get from city to city in Turkey
oBilet is the leading online marketplace for intercity bus tickets in Turkey. Bus travel is the most preferred form of intercity transportation in Turkey, with over 300 active bus operators selling 250 million tickets annually. oBilet aggregates the offerings for end users, helps bus operators gain better visibility and provides software solutions for bus companies to intelligently manage their entire operation.
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Founded: 2012
Invested: 2015Founders
Yigit Gurocak
Ali YilmazHQ
Istanbul
Obligate is a platform for blockchain-based bonds on Polygon, changing the way companies raise corporate debt
Obligate is a platform for blockchain-based bonds on Polygon, changing the way companies raise corporate debt
Obligate combines the efficieny of DeFi with the trust and regulation of traditional finance. Obligate is a platform built on the polygon blockchain and enables companies to raise corporate debt directly from investors. The full transaction flow is automated using blockchain technology such as smart contracts and tokens, reducing cost and time substantially compared to traditional offerings.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2021Founders
Dr. Stephan D. Meyer
Benedikt Schuppli
Dr. Philipp von RandowHQ
Zurich
Next Generation Topical Ophthalmics
Next Generation Topical Ophthalmics
Public Listing – Founded by leading diabetic eye disease and diabetic eye screening physician Dr. Einar Stefánsson (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland, Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University Hospital Iceland) and leading drug delivery scientist Dr. Thorsteinn Loftsson (Professor of Physical Pharmacy, University of Iceland), Oculis focuses on ophthalmic drugs and novel topical eye drug formulations. Oculis has developed a formulation technology consisting of a novel technique to facilitate drug absorption to both anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The advantage is a drug formulation where diseases of the posterior part of the eye can be treated with a simple topical application (i.e., eye drops) instead of injections.
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Founded: 2003
Invested: 2020Founders
Riad Sherif MD (CEO)
Sabri Markabi MD (CSO)
Einar Stefánsson MD PhD (CIO)HQ
Lausanne
LARGEST PUBLISHING PLATFORM FOR SOCCER GLOBALLY
LARGEST PUBLISHING PLATFORM FOR SOCCER GLOBALLY
Reaching more than 70 million football fans worldwide every month across its platform and social media channels, OneFootball is the most popular football media platform for the new generation of football fans. It’s the only app with a fully personalised homestream for non-stop news on your favourite club, and the only company to offer single live football matches in-app on a pay-per-view basis.
In the spirit that football is more than just 90 minutes, OneFootball operates a 24-hour newsroom to provide fans across the world with the comprehensive football content they crave – from statistics and live scores of 200+ leagues and competitions worldwide to breaking news, highlight clips, live streaming, transfer rumours and features. Native integration from OneFootball’s network of hundreds of independent content creators, clubs, federations, players and broadcasters adds an additional 13,000+ pieces of content per week.
OneFootball is available in 12 languages and is the best-rated sports app in the world, based on millions of App Store and Google Play reviews. Founded twelve years ago, the company has 220 employees at its headquarters in Berlin and regional offices in London, New York, Mexico City and São Paulo.
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Founded: 2008
Invested: 2013Founders
Lucas von Cranach
HQ
Germany
People analytics and employee listening for fast growing companies
People analytics and employee listening for fast growing companies
Orgnostic is the people analytics platform primarily built for small and medium, fast-growing companies. It helps CHROs and management teams quickly gain visibility on important organizational metrics and make data-enabled people decisions without hiring additional data scientists or a people analytics team.
Orgnostic connects with existing HRIS, ATS, People Management, and other non-HR apps (e.g. finance spreadsheets) to gather, normalize and interpret people data scattered across multiple systems. It also enriches existing data sets with science-backed, automated engagement surveys and NLP engine. By doing so, Orgnostic lets HR teams take a deep dive into the data for further insights and run predictive analytics for their workforce planning and other strategic HR initiatives.
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Founded: 2019
Invested: 2021Founders
Luka Babic
Igor BogicevicHQ
Belgrade
Health insurance for the mobile age
Health insurance for the mobile age
ottonova has been reinventing the way customers interact with their health insurance by building a completely new technology platform with a user-friendly front-end mobile application. Simple processes, transparency, and a wide range of digital services are fundamental for ensuring maximum satisfaction among customers in all matters relating to their insurance and health – while also saving as much time as possible.
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Founded: 2015
Invested: 2021Founders
Dr. Roman Rittweger
Sebastian Scheerer
Frank BirzleHQ
Munich
Oviva helps people improve their health with medical nutritional therapy
Oviva helps people improve their health with medical nutritional therapy
Oviva is a digital health company that helps people with conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and food allergies improve their health with medical nutritional therapy delivered by technology. Clients can log meals with photos, record activity and weight with trackers, and ask questions. A therapist provides personalized support and advice to help people achieve their goals. Our goal is to improve access and outcomes to better treatment at lower costs.
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Founded: 2014
Invested: 2020Founders
Kai Eberhardt
Manuel Baumann
Mark JenkinsHQ
Altendorf
One platform for payment operations
One platform for payment operations
Payable provides payment operations software for companies allowing teams to reconcile payments and make bank transfers. It enables businesses to scale and automate the lifecycle of money movement with a single API and dashboard. The company was founded in 2022 by Daniel Yubi, Raz Musca and employees from Checkout.com, Stripe, Curve and Truelayer.
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Founded: 2022
Invested: 2022Founders
Daniel Yubi
HQ
London
Next-generation spending management software
Next-generation spending management software
Payhawk is a unique platform that enables CFOs and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end, from the moment an employee requests money, to loading their corporate card with funds, paying and collecting the invoices, to reconciling all transactions in the company accounting software, and finally generating real-time, up to date reports. Payhawk closes the gap between corporate cards and expense management by providing a product that works on top of existing banks.
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Founded: 2018
Invested: 2020Founders
Hristo Borisov
Boyko Karadzhov
Konstantin DzhengozovHQ
Sofia, London
Innovative catheter technology to treat acute ischemic stroke
Innovative catheter technology to treat acute ischemic stroke
Perfuze is developing innovative catheter technology to treat acute ischemic stroke. The technology is intended to provide superior clinical outcomes in shorter procedural times; resulting in safe, cost-effective therapy.
Milestones
Founded: 2018
Invested: 2018Founders
Wayne Allen
Liam MullinsHQ
Galway
The eyes and brains of industrial robots
The eyes and brains of industrial robots
Photoneo is a leading provider of complete 3D vision technology with advanced object recognition and manipulation capabilities for industrial automation systems. The company develops one of the most advanced 3D scanners in the global market with patented computer vision software and sensors.
Milestones
Founded: 2013
Invested: 2018Founders
Jan Zizka
Tomas Kovacovsky
Michal MalyHQ
Bratislava
Verified security. Now possible.
Verified security. Now possible.
Picus Security offers Continuous Security Validation and Mitigation as the most proactive approach to ensure cyber-resilience. Picus measures the effectiveness of defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments, providing the insight required to build the right security strategy to better manage complex operations.
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Founded: 2013
Invested: 2019Founders
Volkan Erturk
Hamdi Alper Memis
Suleyman Ozarslan
Aycan IricanHQ
San Francisco
Percutaneous solution to mitral regurgitation
Percutaneous solution to mitral regurgitation
Polares medical is a medical device company with a novel device for treating mitral valve regurgitation.
Milestones
Founded: 2017
Invested: 2018Founders
Jacques R. Essinger, Ph.D
HQ
Lausanne, Palo Alto
orally delivered sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor modulators for hematological malignancies
orally delivered sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor modulators for hematological malignancies
PrioThera is a clinical stage pharma company developing a non-immunosuppressive molecule for the treatment of high-risk acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Today, at least 30,000 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) procedures are performed on AML patients every year worldwide, with acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) remaining the major complication of HSCT. S1P receptor (S1PR) modulators have been shown to largely reduce the egress of T-cell subsets from lymphatic tissues and are thereby suggested to inhibit GvHD while at the same time enhancing graft-versus-leukemia benefits in patients receiving allogeneic HSCT. Priothera is developing mocravimod (KRP-203), a S1PR modulator, to enhance the curative potential of allogeneic HSCT. Mocravimod has been extensively tested in multiple immunological models and has shown a survival benefit and reduced severity of GvHD in a clinical study evaluating acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients undergoing allogeneic HSCT.
Milestones
Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Florent Gros (Co-Founder/CEO)
Dhaval Patel (Co-Founder/Supervisory board)
Brice Suire (Co-Founder/CFO)
Stephan Oehen (Co-Founder/COO)
Christoph Bucher (Co-Founder/CMO)
Simone Seiter (Commercial Director)HQ
Dublin
Lung cancer biopsy and treatment in a single hospital visit
Lung cancer biopsy and treatment in a single hospital visit
Prothea Technologies’ vision is to offer lung cancer biopsy and treatment in a single hospital visit. Lung cancer is the third most common form of cancer in the U.S. and annually claims more lives than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. Prothea is developing a medical device consisting of a Microendoscope combined with an Image Processing System, which enhances visualisation by providing in situ analysis of lesion structure at a molecular level. Further R&D is planned to develop a laser ablation catheter for the treatment of lesions immediately following visualisation and biopsy. The integration of these two systems (real-time imaging and ablation) will streamline biopsy and treatment into a single hospital visit, reducing time-to-treat from weeks to minutes, thereby relieving hospital pressures and improving patient outcomes.
Milestones
Founded: 2024
Invested: 2024Founders
Crispin Simon (CEO)
Kev Dhaliwal (CSO/CMO)
Jim Stone (CTO)
Anne Moore (COO)HQ
Edinburgh
Next-gen quantum sensing platform for magnetic field sensing
Next-gen quantum sensing platform for magnetic field sensing
Based in Munich, QuantumDiamonds develops quantum sensors that can detect magnetic fields with an unprecedented sensitivity and which can be used in semiconductor manufacturing, healthcare and chemistry applications.
Milestones
Founded: 2022
Invested: 2023Founders
Kevin Berghoff
HQ
Munich
A unified data science platform for data prep, machine learning and model deployment
A unified data science platform for data prep, machine learning and model deployment
RapidMiner builds software for real data science, fast and simple. It makes data science teams more productive by offering a single platform that unifies data prep, machine learning and model deployment. More than 200,000 users in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products to acquire more customers, reduce financial risk and increase operational performance.
Milestones
Founded: 2007
Invested: 2013Founders
Peter E. Lee
Ralf Klinkenberg
Ingo MierswaHQ
Boston
remberg offers a new breed of software for companies to digitalize processes around their equipment
remberg offers a new breed of software for companies to digitalize processes around their equipment
remberg is a Munich-based start-up, building a new breed of CRM-software for companies to digitize processes around their equipment such as machines, buildings and vehicles – the basis for the age of the internet of things (IoT).
Milestones
Founded: 2018
Invested: 2022Founders
David Hahn
Julian Madrzak
Hagen Schmidtchen
Cecil WöbkerHQ
Munich
Drag and Drop shop floor for the Industrial Metaverse
Drag and Drop shop floor for the Industrial Metaverse
RIIICO simplifies the creation of digital twins for manufacturing facilities. RIIICO enables enterprise manufacturers to create competitive and sustainable factory designs by combining powerful deep learning algorithms with an accessible browser scenario manager. Started in 2021 at RWTH Aachen University the company participated in UC Berkeley SkyDeck in 2022. Combining both Bay Area entrepreneurship and German engineering our team forges the backbone of the industrial metaverse.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2023Founders
Felix Fink (CEO)
Jan Büchsenschütz (COO)
Patrick Mertens (CTO)HQ
Aachen
Product-led sales platform
Product-led sales platform
Founded by Elin Lütz and Jonatan Dykert in 2021, Ripe is a Sweden-based company that has developed a product-led sales platform helping B2B companies to reveal and engage with their most relevant users and customers. The platform enables revenue teams to couple product and CRM data to uncover and engage with prioritized sales opportunities.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Elin Lütz
Jonatan DykertHQ
Stockholm
Making Software Development Manageable via AI for Software Engineering
Making Software Development Manageable via AI for Software Engineering
Software is the most important success factor in all industries. Many IT developments are laborious or even fail. For the first time in 50 years of “software crisis,” Seerene, the first integrated, AI-based analytics platform for the End-to-End Management of Software Systems provides radically new means enabling companies to manage, control, and optimize their software management – a complex industrial manufacturing process – and consistently deliver reliable, dependable and affordable software systems. Through AI-based software analytics processes, Seerene opens up a new level of knowledge and insights in the form of a ‘Digital Boardroom’ for decisionmakers in software engineering.
Milestones
Founded: 2015
Invested: 2015Founders
Dr. Johannes Bohnet
Marc HildebrandtHQ
Potsdam
Your digital road freight forwarder
Your digital road freight forwarder
sennder is Europe’s leading freight forwarder offering shippers access to their connected fleet of thousands of trucks. In a traditional industry, sennder is fast-forwarding road logistics, focusing on the digitalization and automation of all road logistics processes. By leveraging proprietary technology, sennder is building an ecosystem that leads the industry into the 21st century with a new degree of transparency, efficiency and flexibility.
Milestones
Founded: 2016
Invested: 2017Founders
David Nothacker
Nicolaus Schefenacker
Julius KöhlerHQ
Berlin
Instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic tests
Instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic tests
Sense Biodetection Limited is a molecular diagnostics company focused on bringing tests to the True Point-of-Care. Sense was founded in 2014 by Harry Lamble and Ralph Lamble, who combined their respective expertise in molecular sciences and medical device design to realise their vision of empowering patients through decentralised testing. Sense is developing a new class of diagnostic product to break down the barriers that have led to the current model of centralised testing. Sense products are simple, ultra-rapid, handheld tests which remove the need for advanced hardware to determine a result. Sense operates from bespoke laboratory, with development and manufacturing facilities in Cambridge and Oxford, UK and is growing rapidly as it seeks to take its first product to market.
Milestones
Founded: 2014
Invested: 2019Founders
Harry Lamble
Ralph LambleHQ
Cambridge
UPGRADING SUBSTANDARD VIDEO MEETINGS INTO HIGHLY ENGAGING SESSIONS
UPGRADING SUBSTANDARD VIDEO MEETINGS INTO HIGHLY ENGAGING SESSIONS
Sessions is an award-winning communication & collaboration platform that enables customer-focused teams to interact effectively with their clients. From sales pitches to product demos; webinars to user research; and training to onboarding, it empowers teams to create the right structure; access the right information; deliver the right content. By seamlessly integrating workflows, apps, information, and actions into a single platform, Sessions has redesigned the entire video conferencing experience to focus on efficiency, engagement, and execution for both organizations and their customers.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Radu Negulescu
Radu TintescuHQ
Bucharest
Dedicated to developing innovative therapeutic solutions with its proprietary shape memory polymers for endovascular markets
Dedicated to developing innovative therapeutic solutions with its proprietary shape memory polymers for endovascular markets
Shape Memory Medical Inc. is dedicated to developing innovative therapeutic solutions with its proprietary shape memory polymers for endovascular markets. With devices approved in more than 25 countries spanning regions in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Australia, we are the first medical device company to introduce an FDA-cleared medical device utilizing shape memory polymer (SMP) technology to a vascular market.
Milestones
Founded: 2009
Invested: 2024Founders
Ted Ruppel (President and CEO), Duncan Maitland, PhD (Co- Founder), Mike Henson (Chairman of the Board), Thomas Thaler, PhD (Investment Advisor), Thom Rasche (Board Member)
HQ
Santa Clara
The fastest way to swap cryptocurrencies
The fastest way to swap cryptocurrencies
Shapeshift is the world’s first decentralized exchange platform for crypto assets like Bitcoin or Ether. With its core trading engine, Shapeshift allows for trustless and seamless swaps of crypto assets without being a custodian, thereby guaranteeing full user privacy and control over the respective asset. The company’s vision is to become the very epicenter of digital asset trading by launching further products such as its decentralized portfolio management tool Prism. Shapeshift was founded by Erik Voorhees, one of the leading Bitcoin pioneers and entrepreneurs.
Milestones
Founded: 2014
Invested: 2017Founders
Erik Voorhees
HQ
Zug
The data platform and API marketplace for financial services
The data platform and API marketplace for financial services
Sikoia helps Fintechs, lenders and corporates not only navigate but capitalise on the latest financial innovations and cut through the noise of an increasingly fragmented Fintech service provider landscape. By unifying third party data and APIs into a single interface while automating workflows and advanced analytics, Sikoia extends the capabilities of existing systems, increases efficiency, and reduces regulatory risk.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2021Founders
Alexis Rog
Stephen Simmons
Alastair BulgerHQ
London
Cloud Simulation Platform for Engineers
Cloud Simulation Platform for Engineers
Simr’s (formerly UberCloud) mission is to make high performance computing (HPC) a reality for every engineer.
Traditionally, HPC required operating an on-premise computing cluster with the associated capital and operational costs. Simr helps R&D organizations transform themselves by adopting a cloud-first mindset. We make it easy for engineers to use the cloud so they can achieve the benefits of HPC without any of the shortcomings.
Founded in 2013, Simr’s award winning software container technology and network of partners has led to us being recognized as a pioneer in technical computing as a service by analysts from Gartner, IDC, 451 Research and HPCwire.
Milestones
Founded: 2014
Invested: 2017Founders
Burak Yenier
Wolfgang GentzschHQ
Sunnyvale, Izmir
SIMULATION SOFTWARE REINVENTED FOR THE WEB
SIMULATION SOFTWARE REINVENTED FOR THE WEB
SimScale is the world’s first cloud-based engineering simulation platform for CFD, FEA and thermal simulation and it is revolutionizing the way engineers and designers create products. The SimScale platform is accessible completely via a standard web browser, with an easy-to-use interface that supports numerous simulation types.
By harnessing the power of the cloud for simulation, SimScale eliminates the hurdles that have traditionally accompanied simulation tools: high installation costs, licensing fees, deployment of high-performance computing hardware and necessary updates and maintenance. Users always have the latest version of SimScale.
With the SimScale community, all users have free access to thousands of simulation projects. From beginners to advanced users, the community is a place for “crowdsourcing” simulation knowledge and collaboration. Individuals, small businesses and large enterprises worldwide have introduced SimScale into their workflow to virtually test and validate preliminary designs rather than using costly physical prototyping.SimScale offers Community, Commercial and Enterprise plans that can be customized to meet the needs of any user. Founded in 2012 in Munich, Germany, SimScale is comprised of a talented team of engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians who are dedicated to making simulation technology accessible to everyone. Discover its community of 80,000 professionals and public library of ready-to-use simulation templates with a free 14-day trial.
Milestones
Founded: 2012
Invested: 2014Founders
David Heiny
Anatol Dammer
Johannes Probst
Vincenz Dölle
Alexander FischerHQ
Munich
The online loan comparison portal
The online loan comparison portal
smava is an online loan comparison platform. It brings private applicants together with a huge variety of banks and private investors, offering highly attractive interest rates for loans from 1,000€ up to 120,000€. Using smava’s sophisticated scoring technology, customers can receive a tailored online loan with the best conditions free of charge within seconds. Our customers use financing for a large number of plans, such as car financing, property renovation and loan consolidating. Furthermore, customers receive free and independent advice from our highly trained loan consultants. smava’s concept has convinced independent testers for years.
Milestones
Founded: 2005
Invested: 2007Founders
Alexander Artopé
HQ
Berlin
Developer-first security company that helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure
Developer-first security company that helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure
Snyk is a developer-first security company that helps software-driven businesses develop fast and stay secure. Snyk is the only solution that seamlessly and proactively finds and fixes vulnerabilities and license violations in open source dependencies and container images. Snyk’s solution is built on a comprehensive, proprietary vulnerability database, maintained by an expert security research team in Israel and London. With tight integration into existing developer workflows, source control (including GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab), and CI/CD pipelines, Snyk enables efficient security workflows and reduces mean-time-to-fix.
Milestones
Founded: 2015
Invested: 2020Founders
Guy Podjarny
Danny Grander
Assaf HefetzHQ
Boston, London
Targomo Helps You Answer the Most Complex Location Questions
Targomo Helps You Answer the Most Complex Location Questions
By combining advanced geospatial analytics with artificial intelligence, Targomo is supporting organizations worldwide in data-based decision making. Our location intelligence solutions empower professionals of all skill levels to integrate and utilize large-scale location data across multiple business units. Applications range from branch network optimization to logistics planning in a wide range of industries dealing with complex location challenges.Milestones
Founded: 2013
Invested: 2018Founders
Henning Hollburg
Marc HildebrandtHQ
Potsdam
TastyUrban develops innovative virtual restaurant brands. Made to Deliver!
TastyUrban develops innovative virtual restaurant brands. Made to Deliver!
TastyUrban is an asset-light virtual restaurant franchise. Partnering with acclaimed international chefs with expertise in R&D and large-scale food production, we develop best-in-market, delivery-first food concepts, which are licensed out to local restaurant partners. Our host restaurants, using their existing kitchen equipment and personnel, gain access to our exclusive brands and are able to generate new revenue streams through our unique, scalable franchise model.
Milestones
Founded in: 2022
Invested in: 2023Founders
Felix Chrobog (CEO)
Marc Hansell (COO)
Gerry Pidgeon (CFO)HQ
Berlin
semantha® - AI with natural language understanding to speed up your document processes
semantha® - AI with natural language understanding to speed up your document processes
Our artificial intelligence semantha® understands natural language regardless of the choice of words. She is able to read large amounts of text and finds relevant content.
Milestones
Founded: 2017
Invested: 2021Founders
Sven Körner
Mathias Landhäußer
Georg Müller
Malik El GuesaouiHQ
Karlsruhe
Interactive and social shopping
Interactive and social shopping
TILT is social commerce platform aiming to create an immersive shopping experience for the next generation. On the mobile app, shoppers can jump into video and live stream rooms created by brands, invite friends, or chat with other shoppers. Brands can connect their stores to TILT in seconds, allowing them to create shoppable content by linking their products to rooms. By creating a social shopping experience, TILT aims to solve the boredom inherent in online shopping.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Abhi Thanendran (CEO, co-founder)
Neil Shah (co-founder)HQ
London, Toronto
SPEED UP YOUR BUSINESS
SPEED UP YOUR BUSINESS
Tradico offers a non-banking alternative for SMEs to improve working capital management and obtain liquidity. The company acts as an intermediary between buyer and seller, known as “finetrading”. Tradico pays the seller immediately, and grants the buyer an extended payment deadline. For this, Tradico charges interest. Because the seller is paid immediately, he will often grant a trade discount, which offsets the interest the buyer needs to pay to Tradico. The whole process happens online through their software system tradiCORE, which includes a user interface for the customer, automatic risk scoring and generation of credit limits for the customer.
Milestones
Founded: 2013
Invested: 2016Founders
Manuel Hehle
HQ
Munich
B2B financing platform
B2B financing platform
Traxpay as a cloud-based B2B Augmented Payments platform provides secure bank-grade and regulatory compliant financial process automation and B2B payments services to corporates, digital marketplaces and B2B commerce networks.
Milestones
Founded: 2009
Invested: 2012Founders
Markus Rupprecht
HQ
Frankfurt
Workflow-powered automation for offensive cybersecurity in the cloud
Workflow-powered automation for offensive cybersecurity in the cloud
Trickest enables bug bounty hunters, penetration testers, and SecOps teams to build and automate workflows from start to finish. It’s powered by the 100+ open-source tools adopted and used by ethical hackers and security engineers globally. Backed up with managed cloud-scale infrastructure, Trickest offers a fully customisable automation platform. Trickest is on the mission to deliver exceptional technology that fights complexity with simplicity and makes offensive cybersecurity accessible to everyone.
Milestones
Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Nenad Zaric (CEO & Co-Founder)
Mihailo Tomic (CPO & Co-Founder)HQ
Belgrade
Serverless data platform
Serverless data platform
Upstash is a cloud-based data service aimed at serverless and edge computing. It has products such as Redis and Kafka, where customers can store and access data without dealing with infrastructure. The per-request pricing model allows developers to only pay for what they use. Global replication and built-in REST API provide low-latency data access from anywhere, including edge functions.
Milestones
Founded: 2021
Invested: 2022Founders
Enes Akar
Mehmet DoganHQ
San Jose
The Investment API of Europe
The Investment API of Europe
Upvest enables businesses to build great investment experiences, tailored to their customers’ needs. Their single investment API and digital infrastructure – along with the modular design – make it easy and cost-effective to offer customised investment products. It’s all backed by comprehensive support, covering everything from licences and vendor management to back- and middle office. Upvest is one of the few providers in Europe today that holds licences in the areas of financial commission business, proprietary trading and custody business in the traditional securities area and has a custody licence for crypto. This makes Upvest a securities trading company that can offer and handle all investment assets.
Milestones
Founded: 2017
Invested: 2020Founders
Martin Kassing (founder/CEO)
Tobias Auferoth (CFO/MD)HQ
Berlin
Fastest-growing Frontend Platform for Headless Commerce
Fastest-growing Frontend Platform for Headless Commerce
Vue Storefront, a Frontend Platform ready to be paired with any headless commerce platform, is designed to free eCommerce businesses from any tech limitation. It can be connected with any headless backend, headless CMSs, and other 3rd party services, making it possible for merchants to compose their systems from best-of-breed services, extend them in time, and adjust to the current business needs in terms of UI, UX and DX without compromising the integrity and depth-in testing processes.
Milestones
Founded: 2020
Invested: 2021Founders
Patrick Friday (CEO)
Filip Rakowski (CTO)
Bart Roszkowski (COO)HQ
San Francisco, Wroclaw
AI platform for automated document processing in B2B transactions
AI platform for automated document processing in B2B transactions
Workist is on a mission to eliminate manual document processing in B2B transactions. WorKI, Workist’s AI software, intelligently understands business documents like orders, invoices, and delivery notes and automatically processes all relevant information to perform trade transactions. Our objective is to free people from repetitive work, giving them back the freedom to perform value-adding, meaningful work – one saved keystroke at a time.
Milestones
Founded: 2019
Invested: 2022Founders
Tim Wegner
Alexander Müller
Dr. Fabian BrosigHQ
Berlin
Personalised Semantic Search for private, energy- and cost-efficient on-site search
Personalised Semantic Search for private, energy- and cost-efficient on-site search
Xayn is pioneering next genAI for large organizations. The European startup builds secure, sovereign, and sustainable AI systems that leverage the power of language models at scale. Based on the latest research, Xayn develops its technology as an efficient and privacy-protecting AI solution “Made In Germany”. Xayn develops Noxtua, Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI, with special insights, input, and legal expertise from CMS, one of Germany’s leading business law firms.
Born out of research at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the Berlin-based company is committed to European values of transparency, privacy, and sustainability and develops its AI systems in part as open-source technology.
Founded in 2017 by Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, Professor Michael Huth and Felix Hahmann, Xayn’s academic vision remains, with a workforce comprised of more than 35% PhDs. The startup has received investment funding of 19.5 million EURO from Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Earlybird, and Dominik Schiener.
Milestones
Founded: 2017
Invested: 2018Founders
Leif-Nissen Lundbaek
Felix Hahmann
Michael HuthHQ
Berlin
Multiprotein analysis
Multiprotein analysis
Multiprotein analysis
Treatment of inflamed lesions in the coronary vessels with cryotechnology
Treatment of inflamed lesions in the coronary vessels with cryotechnology
Treatment of inflamed lesions in the coronary vessels with cryotechnology
Global leader for audience data
Global leader for audience data
Global leader for audience data
We empower people to make better business decisions by digitizing supply chain processes
We empower people to make better business decisions by digitizing supply chain processes
HQ
Berlin
Digital real estate platform
Digital real estate platform
Digital real estate platform
MENA's property listings champion
MENA's property listings champion
MENA’s property listings champion
HQ
Dubai
Crowd sourced software testing
Crowd sourced software testing
Crowd sourced software testing
Portal-based business process management
Portal-based business process management
Acquired by Cordys
Gene transfection technology
Gene transfection technology
Acquired by Lonza
Metabolic and inflammation pharmaceuticals and research technology
Metabolic and inflammation pharmaceuticals and research technology
Acquired by Amgen
Autologous cartilage replacement for arthritis
Autologous cartilage replacement for arthritis
IPO
The IoT experts
The IoT experts
Acquired by Aurubis
Milestones
Founded: 2006
Invested: 2011Founders
Thorsten Schaefer
Dirk SommerfeldHQ
Berlin
Biomimetic and drug-eluting coating for medical devices
Biomimetic and drug-eluting coating for medical devices
IPO
Biomimetic and drug-eluting coating for medical devices
Biomimetic and drug-eluting coating for medical devices
IPO
Non-invasive, continuous hemodynamic monitoring
Non-invasive, continuous hemodynamic monitoring
Acquired by Edwards Lifesciences
Network entertainment components
Network entertainment components
Acquired by SMSC
Real-time localization technology for tumor tracking
Real-time localization technology for tumor tracking
Acquired by Varian Medical System
Rideshare marketplace
Rideshare marketplace
Acquired by BlaBlaCar
Drive customer engagement and marketing ROI with personalized cross-channel campaigns in real-time
Drive customer engagement and marketing ROI with personalized cross-channel campaigns in real-time
CrossEngage is a SaaS-based Cross-Channel Marketing Platform, combining a Customer Data Platform with Cross-Channel Campaign Management capabilities, easily integrating with current data sources and marketing channels. The company takes care of customer data management, selecting a marketing campaign and channel per user, but leaves the delivery of messages to existing vendors per marketing channel so that existing infrastructure doesn’t need to be replaced. The solution helps mid- to large-sized companies with digital businesses to improve their CRM activities by delivering a consistent communication across all marketing channels.
Milestones
Founded: 2015
Invested: 2015Founders
Manuel Hinz
Markus WübbenHQ
Berlin
Platform for real estate life cycle management
Platform for real estate life cycle management
Acquired by aconex
Leading couponing platform
Leading couponing platform
Acquired by Google
The AI-powered Code Review that revolutionized software development
The AI-powered Code Review that revolutionized software development
Merger between DeepCode and Snyk
Milestones
Founded in: 2016
Invested in: 2019Founders
Boris Paskalev
Veselin Raychev
Martin VechevHQ
Zurich
Leading Turkish online health platform
Leading Turkish online health platform
Merger between DeepCode and Snyk
Milestones
Founded in: 2016
Invested in: 2019Founders
Boris Paskalev
Veselin Raychev
Martin VechevHQ
Zurich
Leading Turkish online health platform
Leading Turkish online health platform
Exited via secondary transaction
HQ
Istanbul
Democratizing fashion
Democratizing fashion
Dolap.com is an online C2C marketplace that brings together sellers and buyers of secondhand fashion goods. From luxurious vintage products to gently used fast fashion items, a wide selection of apparel and footwear items can easily be sold through the platform. The mobile application also provides a social platform for its fashion-loving users to like and follow others and curate their own wardrobe reflecting their unique styles.
Milestones
Founded: 2016
Invested: 2016Founders
Cenk Civici
Yigit Darcin
Hande IzmirliogluHQ
Istanbul
Leading Turkish online health platform
Leading Turkish online health platform
Exited via secondary transaction
HQ
Istanbul
Democratizing fashion
Democratizing fashion
Dolap.com is an online C2C marketplace that brings together sellers and buyers of secondhand fashion goods. From luxurious vintage products to gently used fast fashion items, a wide selection of apparel and footwear items can easily be sold through the platform. The mobile application also provides a social platform for its fashion-loving users to like and follow others and curate their own wardrobe reflecting their unique styles.
Milestones
Founded: 2016
Invested: 2016Founders
Cenk Civici
Yigit Darcin
Hande IzmirliogluHQ
Istanbul
Online consumer information / decision support
Online consumer information / decision support
Acquired by Digital River
Reducing friction in emerging markets bond trading
Reducing friction in emerging markets bond trading
emBonds is the first dedicated electronic trading platform for the secondary trading of Emerging Markets bonds. Disrupting the troubled dealer-to-end client OTC market, the company offers a global all-to-all marketplace. End clients trade directly with specialist market makers and other end clients in an exchange-like environment with efficient settlement and counterparty risk infrastructure.
Milestones
Founded: 2013
Invested: 2014Founders
Kerim Acanal
Mehmet ArtunHQ
London, Istanbul
Predictive bio-simulation technology
Predictive bio-simulation technology
IPO
Java System Software for embedded systems
Java System Software for embedded systems
Merger with Purple Labs
Digital network for combat sports
Digital network for combat sports
FITE is the leading independent digital distributor of combat sports. For the enthusiast, the FITE app turns your phone into a universal streaming stick compatible with every Wi-Fi connected TV in the world. Fans of combat sports enjoy curated MMA, premium boxing and wrestling video content at a single destination. For promoters it is a direct distribution and marketing channel with global reach and a relevant audience.
Milestones
Founded: 2012
Invested: 2014Founders
Kosta Jordanov
HQ
Sofia
Turkey's leading marketplace
Turkey's leading marketplace
Acquired by eBay
HQ
Istanbul
Monitoring and control solutions
Monitoring and control solutions
Acquired by Xsilogy
Turkey’s top local commerce marketplace
Turkey’s top local commerce marketplace
Turkey’s top local commerce marketplace
HQ
Istanbul
Medical device coating specialist
Medical device coating specialist
Acquired by BMC Software
Biggest independent mortgage broker in Germany
Biggest independent mortgage broker in Germany
IPO
Mobile last minute hotel booking
Mobile last minute hotel booking
Acquired by secret escapes
Holographic laser miniature projection technology
Holographic laser miniature projection technology
Acquired by Promethean
Acquired via trade sale: Flexible legal outsourcing for in-house legal teams
Acquired via trade sale: Flexible legal outsourcing for in-house legal teams
Acquired via trade sale.
Lexoo is a flexible legal outsourcing solution for in-house legal teams. Their clients include some of the world’s most innovative and fast-growing companies.
Lexoo takes on the recurring work often handled by legal departments to enable them to focus on strategic work instead. Using playbooks and workshops Lexoo ensures work is completed as if it were done by a colleague and keeps rework to a minimum.
Milestones
Founded: 2014
Invested: 2018Founders
Daniel van Binsbergen
Chris O'SullivanHQ
London
Mobile advertising RTB and targeting platform
Mobile advertising RTB and targeting platform
Acquired by Ligatus
next-generation process intelligence
next-generation process intelligence
Acquired by Microsoft
Minit is a provider of automated business process discovery and mining software (“process mining”) used to visualize and analyze the business processes of an organization based on actual data obtained from the enterprise software applications.
Milestones
Founded in: 2014
Invested in: 2017Founders
Rasto Hlavac
HQ
Bratislava
Embedded software for mass-market devices
Embedded software for mass-market devices
IPO
Web-based medical record and lab result management
Web-based medical record and lab result management
IPO
LIVING THROUGH GAMES
LIVING THROUGH GAMES
Peak Games has successfully built a global user base for its community-based, multiplayer board and card games as well as its innovative casual puzzle games. The company has quickly moved from being a dominant regional leader with culturally relevant titles to a global player, serving cross-platform games with mass appeal. Over 275 million users around the world have installed at least one of the company’s products. Peak Games is funded by Earlybird Venture Capital, Hummingbird Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst.
Aquired by Zynga
Milestones
Founded: 2010
Invested: 2011
Exit: 2020Founders
Sidar Sahin
HQ
Istanbul
Embedded software for mass-market applications
Embedded software for mass-market applications
Merger with Esmertec
Catheters and implants for neuro-interventional therapies
Catheters and implants for neuro-interventional therapies
Acquired by Covidien
Mobile social gaming platform
Mobile social gaming platform
Acquired by Blackberry
The first digital integrated facility service cloud
The first digital integrated facility service cloud
Service Partner ONE provides the first digital integrated facility service cloud for facility services and related procurement. The cloud service connects via its web-based applications commercial clients and service providers to enable a fully digitized process from customer acquisition, via order processing and execution to invoicing. Combining the best of CRM, ERP, DMS, CAFM in a user-friendly and simple designed interface, the first facility service cloud – “SP ONE”. While clients can easily procure, manage and expense facility services via one single point, service providers get access to the first digital integrated service cloud to sell, operate and administer.
Service Partner ONE is on its way to become the go-to-destination for commercial clients and service providers in the facility service market.
Milestones
Founded: 2008
Invested: 2011Founders
Yuval Ben-Itzhak
HQ
Prague
Intra-coronary thermographic system for detection of inflamed plaque
Intra-coronary thermographic system for detection of inflamed plaque
Acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb
Turkey's e-commerce champion
Turkey's e-commerce champion
Turkey’s e-commerce champion
HQ
Istanbul
Online lotteries and games
Online lotteries and games
IPO
Affordable electric mobility and clean mobile electricity
Affordable electric mobility and clean mobile electricity
Ubiquitous charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) becomes reality. ubitricity has developed a solution to make charging and billing of green electricity affordable everywhere. The ubitricity MobileCharging System offers the first possibility to roll out scalable charging infrastructure everywhere. To this end, ubitricity has developed an intelligent charging cable that incorporates all metering and billing technology: the SmartCable. The user portal offers, among other services, a transparent overview of all transaction data, with charging and transaction data managed by ubitricity.
Customers include energy utilities and fleet managers, providing them with a system solution that integrates hardware, installation, software and processing of data.Milestones
Founded: 2008
Invested: 2010Founders
Knut Hechtfischer
Frank PawlitschekHQ
Berlin
A powerful AI-enhanced end-to-end automation platform
A powerful AI-enhanced end-to-end automation platform
UiPath streamlines processes, uncovers efficiencies and provides insights, making the path to digital transformation fast and cost-effective. It was founded in Bucharest, Romania and headquarters are now in New York City.
Milestones
Founded 2005
Invested 2015
IPO 2021Founders
Daniel Dines, co-CEO
HQ
New York
Commercial online media site
Commercial online media site
Acquired by Konzept Dialogue
FASHION TOGETHER
FASHION TOGETHER
IPO
Empowering people to improve their health through convenient medical check-ups
Empowering people to improve their health through convenient medical check-ups
wellabe is one of the most exciting health start-ups in Europe. wellabe’s goal is to change corporate health management by helping employees to get a better understanding of their key health metrics through an individualised and digitalised medical check-up. wellabe developed a transportable lab which is capable of gathering and analysing more than 60 key health factors within a 20 minute-procedure. Based on these data points users receive a face to face consultation with a medical doctor through the wellabe tele-doctor video solution. Users also get a calculated ‘body age’ as well as personalised prevention programs to enhance their current health situation within wellabe’s smartphone app. Employers gain anonymised insights of the health status quo of their workforce, which makes their corporate health programs measurable. wellabe wants to raise awareness about personal health for employees to improve their quality of life and for employers to support them with their sustainable human resource management.
Milestones
Founded: 2018
Invested: 2019Founders
Sebastian Dünnebeil
Michael TheodossiouHQ
Munich
Productivity platform for teams and individuals
Productivity platform for teams and individuals
Acquired by Microsoft
Turkey's food delivery champion
Turkey's food delivery champion
Acquired by Delivery Hero
HQ
Istanbul