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Top 17 Investigation firms based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 120 investigation firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 489 professional contacts across them, including 112 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers investigation firms 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 20, 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.
The 17 largest investigation firms based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Maltego is the world’s most used all-in-one investigation platform that turns complex data into actionable insights in minutes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die FAST-DETECT GmbH ist in Deutschland das führende Sachverständigenbüro für IT-Forensik.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alle Mitarbeiter unseres Unternehmens verfügen über langjährige Berufserfahrung auf vielen Gebieten der Sachverständigentätigkeit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Seit 2003 ist die Forensik.IT als Sachverständigensozietät auf dem Gebiet der Informationstechnologie in unterschiedlichen Themenbereichen tätig, wobei der Schwerpunkt bei der…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ZH-Security is a security and investigations company based out of 1 Am Damm, Leer (Ostfriesland), Lower Saxony, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a specialist for undercover, investigative enquieries as well as visibility and vulnerability analyses (OSINT), we feel obliged to our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir bieten professionelle Lösungen für Behörden, Wirtschaftsunternehmen und Kanzleien.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Each euro going to insurance fraudsters is a euro lost.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zertifizierter Sicherheitsdienst und Detektei bundesweit Wir bieten neben klassischen Sicherheitsdiensten und Beratung auch weitreichende Sonderdienste an.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die KDLB wurde 1997 als das erste kaufmännische Serviceunternehmen speziell für Insolvenzuntersuchungen gegründet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Süss Security GmbH is a security and investigations company based out of 4 Auguste-Viktoria-Allee, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die AED Elit Detektei ist ein spezieller Dienstleister in den Bereichen Wirtschaftsdetektei und Privatdetektei.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die INTAFORS GmbH ist eine hochspezialisierte Beratungsfirma mit Sitz in Hamburg, die sich auf präventiven Schutz vor kriminellen Aktivitäten sowie auf Untersuchungen im…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Forensic Accounting, Fraud examination and preventing, estate, family offices” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Compliance - Research - Investigations - Forensics” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “How to mitigate risks and threats?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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: investigation firms. 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 investigation firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of investigation firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name investigation firms. 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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Investigation firms based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
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 120 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 investigation firms, 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 “investigation firms”. 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 investigation firms), 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 investigation firms, 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, 112 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 20, 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.
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 investigation firms, 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 investigation firms are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 120 investigation firms 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?
Maltego, headquartered in Munich, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most investigation firms?
Berlin leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Frankfurt (6) and Munchen (5).
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 112 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 120 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 20, 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.
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