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Top 25 Early-stage venture capital funds based in Germany

Name: Early-stage venture capital funds based in Germany
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026 363 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 363 early-stage venture capital funds headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 2,962 professional contacts across them, including 866 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers early-stage venture capital funds headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 14, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest early-stage venture capital funds based in Germany

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 363 early-stage venture capital funds based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to early-stage venture capital funds: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	EWOR	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	237 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2	Htgf High-Tech Gründerfonds	Indirect evidence	Bonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	154 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “HTGF is one of the leading and most active VC investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
3	Earlybird Venture Capital	Strong evidence	Europe, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	126 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Founded in 1997, Pan-European VC Earlybird backs exceptional early-stage companies, supporting them through their growth and development phases and providing financial resources…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4	HV	Strong evidence	München, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	114 contacts →
	Strong evidence “HV is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
5	First Momentum Ventures	Indirect evidence	Remote, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	n/a	78 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As engineers at heart and investors by choice, we are a VC fund for Pre-Seed startups in the Industrial Tech and Deep Tech space in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
6	Picus Capital	Strong evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	71 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7	The Delta	Partial evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	51 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Delta is a venture ecosystem helping ambitious founders build industry-leading ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8	Cherry Ventures	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We built the first wave of European tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9	Baystartup	Indirect evidence	Nürnberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “OUR OFFER TO STARTUPS: With intense feedback and financial coaching, we prepare startups for discussions with interested investors, and to develop the right financing strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10	Spinlab	Indirect evidence	Leipzig, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	45 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SpinLab based in Leipzig, Germany has been repeatedly recognized as one of Europe’s leading startup hubs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11	Zollhof Tech Incubator	Indirect evidence	Nürnberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	43 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We make entrepreneurship happen – for ambitious startups who want to successfully market their idea, for corporate innovators looking to future-proof their business and for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12	Hitachi Ventures	Strong evidence	München, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	38 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Hitachi Ventures is the global venture capital arm of Hitachi Group, a global industrial player active in a broad range of technology sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13	Ecapital Entrepreneurial Partners	Strong evidence	Münster, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Founded in eCAPITAL is an entrepreneur-led venture capital investor focusing on early- and growth-stage deep-tech companies with a positive impact on society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14	Wellington Partners	Strong evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15	Cusp Capital	Strong evidence	Essen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Deals can be send to deals@cuspcapital.com \| Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16	10x Founders	Strong evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	24 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We're the network-powered early-stage investor that unites more than 300 entrepreneurs to back the most ambitious tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17	Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg E.V. Bacb	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	24 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Der Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18	IBB Ventures	Strong evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Strong evidence “IBB Ventures has been providing venture capital to innovative Berlin-based companies since 1997 and has established itself as the market leader in early stage financing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19	Acton Capital	Strong evidence	Munich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Acton Capital is a leading European growth-stage venture capital firm with a presence in Munich and Vancouver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20	Point Nine	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We’re a small equal partnership, based in Europe, investing globally in AI for the digital, physical and biological world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21	BEAM	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Beam is a Berlin-based startup company builder with a bias for logistics and technical challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22	Vorwerk Ventures	Strong evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Vorwerk Ventures is an independent venture capital fund (in its 4th fund generation) from Germany with assets under management of over €400 million.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23	Freigeist	Partial evidence	Bonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Freigeist Capital is a privately-owned investment fund working with visionary founders to build disruptive technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24	Angel Invest	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active Super Angel fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25	SDC Ventures Gmbh	Strong evidence	Dortmund, GermanyHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a company builder and early stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: early-stage venture capital funds. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names early-stage venture capital funds.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of early-stage venture capital funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name early-stage venture capital funds. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Early-stage venture capital funds based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026

29.2%Verified-email coverage

8.2Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

27.8%Largest-city concentration · Berlin

Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

272

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 363 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among early-stage venture capital funds, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “early-stage venture capital funds”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names early-stage venture capital funds), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among early-stage venture capital funds, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 866 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 14, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Early-stage venture capital funds by metro

Early-stage venture capital funds in Berlin101
Early-stage venture capital funds in Munich30
Early-stage venture capital funds in Hamburg27

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names early-stage venture capital funds, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many early-stage venture capital funds are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 363 early-stage venture capital funds headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

EWOR, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most early-stage venture capital funds?

Berlin leads with 101 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (30) and Hamburg (27).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 866 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 363 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 14, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.