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Top 25 Pre-seed venture capital firms based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 180 pre-seed venture capital firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,086 professional contacts across them, including 306 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers pre-seed venture capital 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 29, 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 25 largest pre-seed venture capital firms based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active Super Angel fund.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a company builder and early stage investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi, We're XPLORE by UnternehmerTUM your early-stage start-up hub.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Visionaries is a European early-stage venture capital firm built for a new era where hungry beats big.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “bmp is a venture capital firm based in Berlin and Magdeburg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Early investors in Infra.Market, Enter, Permitflow, Tazapay, Speckle, Snaptrude, Wiz Freight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We back founders everyone wants to meet but nobody dares to invest in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture Stars is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm backing the next generation of category-defining AI-native B2C and B2B companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We support exceptional teams with Venture Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venista Ventures is a Cologne, Germany-based pre-seed investor backing tech-driven enterprise and consumer startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a partner, we actively support founders in achieving their goal of building great companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “REAL CHANGE AND SOLVING PROBLEMS IS WHAT DRIVES US EVERY DAY [Burckhardt Bonello | CEO | Founder | Investor] Found Fair is a company builder focussed on creating & supporting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures) is one of Europe's leading early stage investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SquareOne is a venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in B2B technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HPI Ventures was founded in 2024, shaped by the entrepreneurial mindset of Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Magnetic is a European venture capital firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A pre-seed/seed fund for the technology building blocks that our world runs on.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “While VCs generally invest in companies with a unicorn growth trajectory, not every company is made and able to fulfill those ambitious goals regardless of how hard they try.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of pre-seed venture capital firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name pre-seed venture capital 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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Pre-seed venture capital firms based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 180 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 pre-seed venture capital 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 “pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital 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, 306 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 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Pre-seed venture capital firms by metro
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 pre-seed venture capital 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 pre-seed venture capital firms are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 180 pre-seed venture capital 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?
Htgf High-Tech Gründerfonds, headquartered in Bonn, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most pre-seed venture capital firms?
Berlin leads with 56 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (18) and Hamburg (14).
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 306 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 180 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 29, 2026.
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