DTCP
DTCP is a platform focused on specialist investment strategies, driven by the conviction that rapid technology adoption fuels innovation, disrupts industries, and unlocks unprecedented wealth creation. Their approach is centered on identifying and investing in transformative sectors, where digital advancements lead to lasting impact and growth. They focus on two primary investment strategies: Infra and Growth. DTCP Infra specializes in digital infrastructure investments within the European mid-market. They target essential assets like data centers, mobile towers, and fiber networks. Their aim is to support the growth of these critical infrastructures, playing a vital role in enabling the modern digital economy. They believe that ESG and sustainability principles are integral to creating value for investors and stakeholders alike by mitigating risks and capturing new opportunities. Proactively addressing ESG matters throughout the investment cycle not only benefits society but also drives value creation and enhances investment outcomes. DTCP Growth partners with top enterprise SaaS entrepreneurs in Europe, the US, and Israel. They focus on growth-stage companies – scale-ups – in Cybersecurity, Vertical SaaS, DevOps, Cloud, AI, and Robotics. Their goal is to drive transformative growth and support their journey toward successful global expansion. DTCP aims to deliver transformative value to its portfolio companies through a team of over 60 professionals with a unique blend of financial acumen and vast operational experience.
DTCP Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
DTCP operates as a platform focused on specialist investment strategies, driven by the belief that rapid technology adoption fuels innovation, disrupts industries, and unlocks wealth creation. Their investment approach is centered on identifying and investing in transformative sectors where digital advancements lead to lasting impact and growth. They focus on both digital infrastructure and growth-stage enterprise SaaS companies. DTCP aims to play a vital role in enabling the modern digital economy by supporting the growth of critical infrastructures and driving transformative growth in their partner companies, supporting their journey towards successful global expansion. The firm also emphasizes ESG principles as integral to creating value for investors and stakeholders, focusing on environmental sustainability and social responsibility to reduce business risk and enhance financial performance. DTCP's ESG Committee oversees the integration of ESG principles across all aspects of their operations.
DTCP Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH
DTCP Digital Transformation Capital Partners is a platform focused on specialist investment strategies, driven by the conviction that rapid technology adoption fuels innovation, disrupts industries, and unlocks unprecedented wealth creation. Their approach centers on identifying and investing in transformative sectors where digital advancements lead to lasting impact and growth. DTCP operates across two primary investment strategies: Infra and Growth. DTCP Infra specializes in digital infrastructure investments within the European mid-market. They focus on developing and operating essential assets like data centers, mobile towers, and fiber networks, supporting the growth of critical infrastructure for the modern digital economy. DTCP Growth partners with top enterprise SaaS entrepreneurs in Europe, the US, and Israel. They concentrate on growth-stage companies (scale-ups) in Cybersecurity, Vertical SaaS, DevOps, Cloud, AI, and Robotics, aiming to drive transformative growth and support their journey toward successful global expansion. DTCP's ESG and sustainability principles are integral to their value creation process. They believe proactively addressing ESG matters throughout the investment cycle not only benefits society but also drives value creation and enhances investment outcomes. They are committed to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Deep Tech & Climate Fonds
Deep Tech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) is a venture capital firm that invests in visionary companies driving breakthrough innovation and the transformation of the economy. As a long-term investor, they partner with entrepreneurs and other private investors, including venture capital funds, family offices, and corporations, to back the technology champions of tomorrow. They focus on companies with long development cycles, deep technology roots, and bold visions, providing capital, expertise, and strategic support to navigate complex growth journeys and reach international markets. DTCF's goal is to strengthen Europe's global competitiveness by helping companies scale, enter new markets, and design future-ready exit paths. They aim to connect high-tech startups, SMEs, and long-term-oriented investors to drive sustainable success and support those who shape the future of Europe's tech leadership. DTCF is funded by the German Future Fund and the ERP Special Fund, and provides long-term support to scale groundbreaking ideas in DeepTech and ClimateTech. They offer more than just funding and act as a sparring partner, offering technology foresight and a cross-industry perspective, with a focus on sustainable, long-term growth. They aim to help build resilient battery value chains, assist in advancing sustainable technologies, and deliver hardware to make clean fusion power a reality. DTCF values a long-term investment horizon and deep technical expertise, aligning with business models focused on sustainable technologies. DTCF aims to bridge the gap between investors, SMEs, and early-growth tech startups. They are committed to investing long-term capital in pioneering DeepTech and ClimateTech companies, leveraging their backgrounds in science, engineering, and venture building to provide hands-on experience and a shared passion for turning innovation into impact. The firm is focused on building bridges between startups and other investors, demonstrating a willingness to dig in, challenge constructively, and make conviction-based decisions. DTCF also takes ESG factors seriously, publishing an ESG report in 2024.
First Momentum Ventures
First Momentum Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital firm focused on investing in B2B startups in Europe that address hard problems with complex technology. They aim to be the companion for technology founders at hour zero, providing a strong foundation for sustainable growth. The firm's core belief is in backing highly ambitious teams with scientific or technological breakthroughs, helping them turn these innovations into impactful startups. They emphasize a hands-on, supportive approach, delivering "first momentum" to their portfolio companies. This includes providing resources, a relevant network, and the expertise needed to navigate the complexities of building a successful deep tech startup. Their Pre-Seed DNA means they have deep expertise in guiding companies from zero to one, leveraging their experience since 2015. Their team of engineers and scientists enables them to speak the language of technical founders and understand highly technical products, markets, and commercialization paths. They strive to offer tangible support through high-value connections to talent, customers, and future investors, emphasizing that IQ and EQ are equally important in their relationships with founders. Beyond capital, First Momentum builds ecosystems for technical founders by creating communities, knowledge resources and events tailored to this audience.
Foundamental
Foundamental is a global venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies daring to innovate within the "project economy." This encompasses sectors critical to global growth, including infrastructure, architecture, engineering & construction (AEC), heavy supply chains, and lot-size-1 manufacturing in shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense. They prioritize partnering with exceptional founders from "day zero," leading their first institutional rounds. They aim to be the first partner to visionary founders creating category-defining companies, understanding the unique adversities these companies face in their early years. Foundamental emphasizes a global, collaborative approach, leveraging local market expertise with cross-border knowledge transfer. They focus on deep domain expertise within their chosen verticals to provide valuable insights and support to their portfolio companies.
Futury Venture
Futury Capital invests in promising, high-growth technology companies across all stages, focusing on technology, responsibility, and entrepreneurial thinking. They prioritize companies creating real value for the key industries in the Rhein-Main and Saar regions of Germany. Their investment philosophy emphasizes sustainable, customer-focused, and entrepreneurial approaches, rather than short-term gains, image, or exit-fixation. They aim to build a sustainable ecosystem by connecting research, industry, and capital in the Frankfurt hub. Futury Capital believes that real values are the foundation for lasting value creation and seek to empower startups with a vision and ideas that shape the future. Futury Capital is deeply rooted in the Rhein-Main and Saar regions, providing access to a rich ecosystem. This includes access to talent from >100,000 students and >11,000 researchers, a supportive political environment, industry partners for co-creation and scaling, and co-investors like Headline & Angels for market access and follow-on funding rounds. They emphasize values that create trust, supported by a values-foundation, which lends credibility to their portfolio companies. The firm's approach is characterized by a focus on sustainability rather than purely profit-driven motives, customer focus instead of solely chasing image, and an entrepreneur-mindset instead of only concentrating on exits. They aim to nurture startups with a vision and ideas that define the future. They seek to support companies that will grow from the Rhein-Main area to throughout Europe.
Hitachi Ventures
Hitachi Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm that partners with founders building world-changing innovation. They provide partnership and access for ambitious founders transforming the world. With over $1B AUM, Hitachi Ventures aims to set new standards for corporate venture, fostering collaboration and growth within its portfolio companies. They focus on supporting builders bold enough to explore uncharted territories and invest in individuals crazy enough to reimagine climate, energy, and industry. The firm appears to invest across Digital, Industrial, and Climate Tech. They offer support beyond just capital, aiming to be a strong ally for their portfolio companies. They look for founders combining relentless execution with clarity of thought on complex issues, valuing EQ over IQ in the long term and choosing teams based on these values. They focus on building lasting impact through their investments. Several members of the investment team bring unique experiences that are designed to foster strong connections with the founders they work with. Hitachi Ventures also leverages its expertise in deal structuring and strategic advisory work to offer advice on portfolio company matters and fund structuring and administration. Their collaborative approach involves productive partnerships with internal teams, external stakeholders, and portfolio companies, reflecting a philosophy that the most successful outcomes emerge from inclusive dialogue and shared strategic vision.
Hubraum
Hubraum is the tech incubator of Deutsche Telekom, focusing on fostering innovation transfer and creating business opportunities by connecting startups, developers, ecosystem partners, and Deutsche Telekom. Their strategy involves offering access to cutting-edge innovation labs in Berlin and Krakow, equipped with telco assets like 5G tech, connectivity APIs, and Wi-Fi Sensing. They run various programs like the Security Co-Creation Program, Tangible Tomorrow, and the First Mover API Program to support startups. Hubraum also provides physical workspaces with amenities and access to tech expertise. They actively showcase successful collaborations with startups, highlighting how they accelerate growth and facilitate market entry.
MIG Capital
MIG Capital's core philosophy revolves around "Aus Visionen Werte schaffen" which translates to "Creating value from visions". The firm focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs to shape the companies of tomorrow. Although the specific investment thesis isn't explicitly detailed on the homepage, the numerous portfolio companies and their exit data suggest a strong interest in innovative technology and healthcare companies. Their strategy seems to involve identifying promising early-stage ventures, providing capital and support for growth, and ultimately achieving successful exits through acquisitions or IPOs.
Matterwave Ventures
Matterwave Ventures is a European VC firm focused on backing hardware and software companies in the Industrial Technologies space. They aim to empower early-stage companies to reshape industrial value chains and become global leaders. The firm's core belief centers around funding companies that contribute to a sustainable, sovereign, and digitalized European industry. Their investment strategy revolves around three key areas: Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, and Climate Tech. In Industrial Tech, they support the digital transformation of industry to create upskilled local workforces, globally competitive, high-value exports, and superior industrial products. For Deep Tech, they back global champions in frontier technologies, building resilient supply chains and sovereign dual-use capabilities for long-term industrial autonomy. In Climate Tech, they invest in technologies driving smart industrial decarbonization, enabling global winners in novel climate solutions, and delivering proven climate impact at scale. They are particularly interested in companies that address the challenges and opportunities within the European industrial landscape. This includes fostering technological independence, promoting sustainable practices, and driving the adoption of digital solutions across various industrial sectors. They aim to create a future where European industries are competitive on a global scale, while also remaining environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Matterwave Ventures seeks companies demonstrating groundbreaking innovations that can have a significant impact on the European industrial ecosystem. They are dedicated to supporting the growth and development of these businesses, with a focus on enabling them to become market leaders and contribute to the overall advancement of European industry.
NRW.BANK
NRW.BANK is the promotional bank of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany. Its primary objective is to support the state of NRW in its structural and economic policy tasks. It achieves this by offering a wide range of funding instruments across three main areas: Economy, Housing, and Infrastructure/Municipalities. These instruments include low-interest promotional loans, equity financing, and promotional consulting services. NRW.BANK operates in a competition-neutral manner, collaborating with all banks and savings banks in NRW. The bank's support for the economy includes initiatives for startups, established companies, and those undergoing transformation. This support ranges from providing basic guidance for new businesses to offering venture capital for startups through programs like NRW.Venture. For established companies, NRW.BANK facilitates growth, investment, digitalization, innovation, and internationalization through structured financing and equity capital. In the housing sector, NRW.BANK supports private individuals in building or buying homes, modernizing existing properties, making them accessible, and preserving historical buildings. The bank also assists in creating rental housing and offers services for existing customers and financing for associations. For infrastructure and municipalities, NRW.BANK provides long-term investment financing, secures liquidity, manages funding, and offers consulting on economic efficiency in municipal construction, sustainable municipal development, and investments in areas like digitalization, infrastructure, climate protection, housing, and waste management.
Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures GmbH
Investing in highly disruptive technologies to enable a sustainable future, focusing on scalable digital business models that enhance energy efficiency, renewable energy availability, and industrial optimization.
Salvia GmbH
Salvia invests in innovative companies in healthcare and life sciences, providing capital, expertise, and network support to drive growth and impact. The firm emphasizes hands-on involvement and a non-hierarchical, collaborative culture.
TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
CFH, operating as TGFS Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen and WMS Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen, provides tailored equity solutions to startups and established SMEs in Saxony, Germany. They aim to support Saxon companies across diverse financing needs by offering capital and know-how, leveraging an established network in business, administration, industry, and finance. For startups, they focus on technology financing, and for established SMEs, they facilitate growth financing and succession solutions. CFH offers capital and Mezzanine financing to growth-oriented mid-sized businesses. They have been active in Saxony for over 25 years, indicating a strong commitment to the regional economy. Their investment strategy involves two active funds: TGFS, targeting founders and young companies, focusing on knowledge-based, technology-driven startups, and WMS, dedicated to supporting established Mittelstand companies. CFH has a team with over 190 years of combined investment experience, having realized a substantial number of transactions and invested a considerable amount of capital (amount not specified). They emphasize a partnership-based approach with their portfolio companies, drawing on their extensive transaction experience and internal team capabilities, with significant experience in structuring and exiting deals. CFH aims to be a reliable partner, assisting companies not only with capital but also with strategic guidance and leveraging their network for growth and success. They provide access to their vast experience and resources to ensure portfolio companies thrive. Their focus on technology-driven and high-growth potential businesses suggests a forward-looking approach, contributing to the innovation ecosystem in Saxony and beyond.
Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen (TGFS) and Wachstumsfonds Mittelstand Sachsen (WMS) are two funds managed by CFH. TGFS focuses on providing equity to knowledge-based, technology-driven start-ups in Saxony. WMS targets established medium-sized enterprises in Saxony, offering equity and mezzanine financing for growth initiatives and succession solutions. CFH supports Saxon companies in various financing events by providing capital and know-how, leveraging an established network in business, administration, industry and finance. The firm has been actively investing in Saxony for over 25 years.
Trind Ventures
Trind Ventures backs bold consumer ideas across Europe, focusing on early-stage consumer and community-driven startups. They invest in founders who build for real users, not just pitch decks, and provide support from the first ticket to multi-round investments. They look for startups that spark change and demonstrate early traction that can be turned into lasting growth. The firm is committed to long-term partnerships with its portfolio companies. The firm's focus is on companies operating in the consumer sector, including apps, marketplaces, and community-driven platforms. They prioritize companies that are building products people actually use, love, and talk about. Trind Ventures aims to help its portfolio companies scale with discipline, emphasizing capital efficiency and strong execution. Specifically, they are looking for companies that are addressing changing consumer attitudes, rising awareness of sustainability, and increasing cost-consciousness. They're excited to support companies expanding into new markets and bringing sustainable options to a broader audience.
Tvm-Capital
TVM Capital Life Science invests in the development of exciting life science products and the growth of companies to become innovative leaders in their market segment. They work closely with portfolio companies as true partners, enabling their ideas and bringing new therapies and medical products to market. Their approach focuses on building value for investors by providing capital to reach value inflection points, offering solid exit options. TVM employs a dual-pronged strategy. One aspect involves financing innovative early-stage therapeutics through single-asset companies, leveraging a strategic relationship with Eli Lilly and Company. The other is investing in differentiated commercial-stage medtech, diagnostics, digital health products, and late-stage therapeutics. TVM focuses on investments with clear and attractive exit strategies to maximize returns in a reasonable timeframe. Beyond capital, TVM provides portfolio companies with resources tailored to their needs, including recruiting management and board members, honing development, sales and marketing plans, QMS and manufacturing/supply chain logistics, regulatory strategies, finding potential partners, and executing financing and exit strategies. They aim to build groundbreaking companies that become industry leaders. TVM Capital Life Science emerged from Techno Venture Management, launched in 1983, and has focused exclusively on Life Sciences since 2012. The firm invests in assets and companies that provide a clear and attractive exit strategy, with the goal of maximizing returns.
Unternehmertum Venture Capital
Unternehmertum Venture Capital focuses on supporting and empowering entrepreneurs to solve societal challenges and drive technological innovation. They aim to build entrepreneurial bridges and foster collaboration within the Munich innovation ecosystem and beyond. Their strategy includes providing resources, education, and networking opportunities to startups, fostering corporate innovation partnerships, and facilitating access to new markets. They are deeply involved in creating a leading startup hub in Europe, with a strong connection to the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The firm seeks to identify and scale promising startups, helping them to mature and contribute to the global economy. They demonstrate a commitment to building a strong ecosystem and supporting ventures from their earliest stages through to sustainable growth.
YZR Capital GmbH
YZR Capital focuses on investing in European HealthTech companies, from pre-seed to Series B, that are improving patient care, increasing provider efficiencies, and innovating value chains within healthcare. They aim to back ambitious entrepreneurs tackling complex challenges in global healthcare, combining deep expertise with fast execution to help build global champions with lasting impact. The firm emphasizes a hands-on, collaborative approach, leveraging their sector expertise to accelerate growth and support the founder's vision, building strong personal relationships with a shared ambition, and the freedom to innovate. They focus on quality over quantity, backing the right founders at the right time, and scaling them into market leaders across Europe. YZR Capital believes Europe offers an unmatched mix of world-class talent, deep tech expertise, and rising healthcare innovation potential. They aim to fill a critical knowledge gap and deploy capital when others paused, positioning themselves as a catalyst for this fast-growing ecosystem. They seek to partner with founders who are making healthcare more efficient, transparent, and accessible, building solutions that shape a healthier future. Their investment approach is centered around supporting founders who are building category-defining companies with scalable, tech-enabled solutions. They actively support their portfolio companies with functional and healthcare-specific know-how from day one. They aim to identify and scale companies that can address the growing challenges within healthcare such as a shortage of healthcare workers and the increasing number of people living with chronic diseases.
b.value AG
b.value AG is a venture capital firm focused on investing in DeepTech startups that combine exceptional founders and disruptive technologies to create solutions for a sustainable future. They aim to build a portfolio of fast-growing companies that define the future of production processes and markets, bridging the gap between R&D and global markets. Their strategy is based on identifying and supporting companies with talented founders, scalable business models, and disruptive, protected technologies. The firm specializes in companies operating in the European D-A-CH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), particularly those in the pre-seed and seed stages. b.value acquires minority stakes, co-investing with other investors to minimize risk and pool resources. This collaborative approach enables them to foster the success and growth of promising companies. b.value emphasizes its deep technology expertise and operational experience in building and managing biotech and high-tech companies. They aim to offer strategic and financial support, as well as access to a comprehensive network of industry experts, scientists, investors, policymakers, and thought leaders to assist in scaling their portfolio companies. The firm believes that sustainable processes and products are fundamental for the future. Their focus lies on biotechnology (including precision fermentation, sustainable chemicals, food/feed, life science methods) and advanced materials, sectors they view as having above-average growth and innovation potential.
eCapital
eCAPITAL is an entrepreneur-led venture capital investor that focuses on early- and growth-stage deep-tech companies with a positive impact on society. They believe that technology is key for solving some of today’s largest problems and improving the way people work and live. The firm supports visionaries who can build this technology, understands their challenges and ambitions, and helps them form great teams and build extraordinary companies. eCAPITAL aims to build European deep-tech teams into global hidden champions and position them so strategic buyers with access to international capital markets step. They seek to partner with founders who have bold ideas and innovative technologies, supporting them in every pivotal moment with strategic support and access to an international network. The firm focuses on companies that are decarbonizing lives and driving the green energy transition, building secure data ecosystems, and turning data into business insights. eCAPITAL emphasizes the growing strategic importance of areas such as mobile security and cybersecurity, especially as critical digital touchpoints are treated as infrastructure.
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners
eCAPITAL is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm focused on early- to growth-stage deep-tech companies with a positive impact on society. They believe that technology is key to solving some of today's largest problems and improving the way people work and live. The firm supports visionary founders in building extraordinary companies and bringing us closer to a future that benefits everyone. eCAPITAL targets companies with groundbreaking innovations in software & information technology, cybersecurity, industry 4.0, new materials, and cleantech, with a specific emphasis on companies driving the green energy transition and securing data ecosystems. Their investment strategy centers around identifying and backing European deep-tech teams that can become global hidden champions. They aim to build strategic relevance by positioning these companies for acquisition by larger, strategic buyers with access to international capital markets. eCAPITAL's investment approach emphasizes strategic support, providing access to an international network of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and founders. They also provide valuable contacts and extensive expertise, allowing them to challenge strategies, help refine business models, and bring in new ideas. They take an entrepreneurial approach, demonstrating a passion for bold ideas and new technologies, and aim to support founders in every pivotal moment.
10K Ventures
10K Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests its own capital and time in early-stage startups, funds, and businesses. They are inspired by relentless founders tackling big problems globally and are intellectually curious about massive opportunities driven by emerging technologies. Their investment strategy revolves around 100x ambition, aiming to turn $10-50k tickets into >$1Mn outcomes, focusing on bold and fast-moving companies from Day 0 to pre-seed with a clear path to >1Bn€ exits within 10 years. They prioritize business models that redefine and outperform the status quo, favoring innovative and scalable technologies with significant value creation potential. 10K Ventures emphasizes founders who can effectively sell their vision, execute flawlessly, and compound their successes over the long term. They seek founders with strong founder-market fit and the courage to pursue significant, long-term growth rather than optimizing for short-term gains. They aim to win deals through relevance and reputation, focusing on providing value-add to attract top founders. They build a strong network of investors, talent, and BD/partnerships to provide valuable introductions. They strive to maintain a good reputation for picking winners, avoiding a spray-and-pray approach, acting as superfans for founders and going the extra mile to provide support when needed. Their investment approach is multi-asset class, but their core focus is on venture-backed companies. They have a strong track record, with over 20 direct early-stage startup investments, achieving >6x TVPI and +46% IRR, including 6 soonicorns and a 9-figure exit. They have also invested in 4 early-stage funds spanning Emerging Markets and UK / Europe.