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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 investors for Finance startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
| Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project A Ventures | http://www.project-a.com | Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Linkedin | |
| Global Founders Capital | https://www.globalfounderscapital.com | Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Linkedin | |
| finleap | https://www.finleap.com/ | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Linkedin |
| Cherry Ventures | http://www.cherry.vc | Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Linkedin | |
| btov Partners | http://www.btov.vc | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Linkedin |
At Early Stage Life we track over 1,000,000 investors and over 3,800,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of investors to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 77 Finance investors in Germany. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Finance Investors & Funds (Germany)
Project A Ventures
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Global Founders Capital
GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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finleap
finleap is Europe’s #1 fintech ecosystem. In addition to access to capital, it offers a network of investors as well as partners and talent.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Asset Management, Banking, Finance, FinTech, Insurance
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Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a seed fund, founded by entrepreneurs with substantial experience in building fast-scaling technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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btov Partners
Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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APX
APX invests up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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UVC Partners
We partner with Europe’s most ambitious early-stage B2B tech startups.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Picus Capital
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Insurance, Renewable Energy
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Atlantic Labs
Atlantic Labs is an early-stage venture capital investment firm that is based in Berlin, Germany.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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FinLab
FinLab is a Germany-based investment company engaged in the building of companies in the financial services technologies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Capnamic Ventures
Capnamic is a venture capital firm from Berlin/Cologne doing early-stage investments in outstanding teams in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Iconic Holding
Iconiq Holding is a decentralized venture capital group that builds a premier digital asset management ecosystem.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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Paua Ventures
Paua Ventures is a Venture Capital investor based in Berlin focusing on early-stage and seed investments.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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HV Capital
HV Capital is a venture capital firm that supports founders in developing their internet companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Target Global
Target Global is a venture capital firm that invests in tech companies across all stages of their lifecycle.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Wellington Partners
Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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IBB Ventures
IBB Ventures invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Lunar Ventures
Lunar Ventures is a deep-tech, seed-stage venture fund with a team of 3 deep-tech expert partners in Berlin.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Vision, Cyber Security, Finance, Financial Services, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Machine Learning, Simulation, Venture Capital
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Next Mobility Labs
Growing sustainable digital mobility startups
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Automotive, CleanTech, Consulting, Finance, Information Technology, Internet, Software, Venture Capital
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Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund intends to invest in groundbreaking therapeutic approaches and technologies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Biotechnology, Finance, Venture Capital
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Rheingau Founders
Rheinhau Founders is a Berlin&Munich based venture capital firm
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Media and Entertainment, SaaS, Venture Capital
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Target Partners
Target Partners is a German venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Commerzbank
Commerzbank is a commercial bank that provides seed and debt financing investments.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Seed
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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Fly Ventures
Fly Ventures is a specialized VC for technical founders solving hard problems. Fly invests from day-zero to seed.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Enterprise, Finance, Venture Capital
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leAD Sports & Health Tech Partners
leAD sources, funds, and drives growth of early-stage sports and health tech startups globally.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Exchanges, Financial Services
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Hevella Capital
Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme
ClimAccelerator provide with the tools, opportunities and network to transform climate change idea into commercial success.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Training
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Ananda Impact Ventures
Let’s build stuff that truly matters! We back game-changing companies across Europe to achieve global impact.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Finance, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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KfW
KfW is a German state-owned development bank.
Investment Rounds: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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TA Ventures
TA Ventures is an international venture capital firm backing ambitious founders of technology companies across Europe and North America.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Logistics, Venture Capital
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Media Ventures
Media Ventures is an private venture capital company.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Social Media, Venture Capital
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Cavalry Ventures
Cavalry is a Berlin-based early-stage Venture Capital fund.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Creathor Ventures
Creathor Ventures invests in technology-oriented companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Health Diagnostics, Internet of Things, Medical Device
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La Famiglia
La Famiglia is an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Brandenburg Kapital
Brandenburg Kapital invests in technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Team Global
Team Global is a technology holding company that helps build internet companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Incubators, Venture Capital
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System.One
System.One is a pre-seed venture capital fund based in Berlin, Germany.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator
Axel Springer Plug and Play is a Berlin-based pre-seed startup accelerator.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Digital Media, Finance, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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KIZOO Technology Capital
KIZOO provides mentoring, seed and early-stage financing with a focus on rejuvenation biotech.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Marketing, Venture Capital
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Avala Capital
Avala Capital invests in high-growth companies with ambitious goals and the talents to achieve them.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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IFB Innovationsstarter
The IFB Innovationsstarter GmbH is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Monkfish Equity
Monkfish Equity is a venture capital firm that prefers to invest in seed or pre-seed stage companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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Hubraum
Hubraum connects tech entrepreneurs and startup companies with the network, capital and business opportunities of Deutsche Telekom.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Incubators, Telecommunications, Venture Capital
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Vito One
Vito One is provide seed funding to technology companies with bold ambitions.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
The Business Angels Club Berlin is the official business angel association of the states Berlin and Brandenburg.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Advice, Association, Communities, Finance, Impact Investing, Service Industry
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SaaSgarage
SaaSgarage offers SaaS co-founding, angel investing, and mentoring.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Advice, Angel Investment, Finance, Information Technology, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Henkel Ventures
Henkel Ventures is Henkel’s corporate venture capital engagement, combining all venture activities across the company’s business units.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Enjoyventure Management
The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Purple Orange Ventures
Purple Orange Ventures is an entrepreneur-led impact seed fund based in Berlin.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Food and Beverage
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Seedmatch – a brand of OneCrowd Group
Seedmatch is the first equity based crowdfunding-platform for startups and early-stage companies in Germany.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Crowdfunding, Finance, FinTech, Funding Platform
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Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures
DB DV is the VC arm of Deutsche Bahn Group and invests in startups with innovative technology in mobility, logistics and infrastructure.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Digital Marketing, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thuringen
bm-t beteiligungsmanagement thüringen is a regional venture capital and private equity company with fokus on Thüringen/ Germany only.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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BayStartUP
BayStartUP prepares startups for investors talks and provides them with a network of several hundred investors and business angels.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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DIGITALHUB.DE
DIGITALHUB.DE is an accelerator for digital startups with funding, infrastructure and a large network of investors and companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Moacon Ventures
Moacon Ventures is a holding company of the entrepreneur Mohammadi Akhabach in the Consumer & Marketing sector.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Business Intelligence, Finance, Internet, Venture Capital
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Vogel Ventures
Vogel Ventures is the early stage investment company of Vogel Business Media.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services
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TEV Ventures
Venture Capital for Europe’s Most Ambitious.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Social, Venture Capital
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dimensional Ventures
dimensional Ventures is a Investment company of the dimensional Group.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance
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Grazia Equity
Grazia Equity is a venture capital firm investing in innovative, technology driven startups with high potential.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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WestTech Ventures
WestTech Ventures is a pre-seed & seed VC in Berlin focusing on Enterprise SaaS as well as New Work and Mobility.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, SaaS, Service Industry, Venture Capital
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BSH Future Home Accelerator Powered by Techstars
BSH and Techstars are looking for innovative startup companies from around the globe.
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance
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DocCheck Guano AG
Guano provides the ideal fertilizer for startups: capital, know-how, market access and network
Investment Rounds: Seed
Industries: Finance
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Project A Ventures
Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Global Founders Capital
GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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finleap
finleap is Europe’s #1 fintech ecosystem. In addition to access to capital, it offers a network of investors as well as partners and talent.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Asset Management, Banking, Finance, FinTech, Insurance
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Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a seed fund, founded by entrepreneurs with substantial experience in building fast-scaling technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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btov Partners
Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Asset Management, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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APX
APX invests up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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UVC Partners
We partner with Europe’s most ambitious early-stage B2B tech startups.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Picus Capital
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy.
Investment Rounds: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Insurance, Renewable Energy
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Atlantic Labs
Atlantic Labs is an early-stage venture capital investment firm that is based in Berlin, Germany.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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FinLab
FinLab is a Germany-based investment company engaged in the building of companies in the financial services technologies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Industries: Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Incubators, Venture Capital
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Capnamic Ventures
Capnamic is a venture capital firm from Berlin/Cologne doing early-stage investments in outstanding teams in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Iconic Holding
Iconiq Holding is a decentralized venture capital group that builds a premier digital asset management ecosystem.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Initial Coin Offering, Seed
Industries: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Financial Services, Internet, Venture Capital
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Paua Ventures
Paua Ventures is a Venture Capital investor based in Berlin focusing on early-stage and seed investments.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, SaaS, Venture Capital
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HV Capital
HV Capital is a venture capital firm that supports founders in developing their internet companies.
Investment Rounds: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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