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Top 25 Seed stage investors based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 179 seed stage investors headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,307 professional contacts across them, including 448 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers seed stage investors 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 22, 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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179Companies
1,307Contacts tracked
448Verified emails
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The 25 largest seed stage investors based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 179 seed stage investors based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to seed stage investors: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceBonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-200154 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
2Partial evidenceEurope, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-200126 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
3Strong evidenceMünchen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-200114 contacts →

Strong evidence

“HV is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5071 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5Partial evidenceCologne, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5026 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Capnamic is a venture capital firm based in Cologne, Berlin and Munich with a focus on early-stage investments in outstanding teams in the German-speaking regions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
6Strong evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5024 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 22, 2026
7Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5023 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
8Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1021 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Beam is a Berlin-based startup company builder with a bias for logistics and technical challenges.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9Indirect evidenceBonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5020 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Freigeist Capital is a privately-owned investment fund working with visionary founders to build disruptive technology companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active Super Angel fund.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
11Strong evidenceDortmund, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5019 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a company builder and early stage investor.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12Partial evidenceGarching, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202651-20019 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Hi, We're XPLORE by UnternehmerTUM your early-stage start-up hub.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5016 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“bmp is a venture capital firm based in Berlin and Magdeburg.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
14Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1016 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Nucleus Capital is a first-check investor backing frontier founders.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15Strong evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5015 contacts →

Strong evidence

“NAP is a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed venture capital investor, investing in European technology companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
16Strong evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-5012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are a seed investor focussing mainly on Enterprise- and B2B-software startups in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and Europe.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1010 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Senovo focuses on early stage B2B SaaS investments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18Indirect evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Tiburon, led by Daniel Wild and Felix Artmann, has been investing successfully into inspiring founders for over a decade.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026
20Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We back founders everyone wants to meet but nobody dares to invest in.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
21Indirect evidenceStuttgart, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-509 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22Strong evidenceFrankfurt, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-109 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Futury Venture Fund was launched in 2018 as a cooperation between experienced institutional and private investors and the State of Hesse to invest in early-stage tech…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23Indirect evidenceKöln, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We support exceptional teams with Venture Capital.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“As a partner, we actively support founders in achieving their goal of building great companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 202611-507 contacts →

Partial 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 22, 2026

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Seed stage investors based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026
34.3%Verified-email coverage
7.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
31.8%Largest-city concentration · Berlin
Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
140
11-50
34
51-200
5

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 179 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 seed stage investors, 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 “seed stage investors”. 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 seed stage investors), 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 seed stage investors, 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, 448 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 22, 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.

Seed stage investors by metro

  • Seed stage investors in Berlin57

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 seed stage investors, 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 seed stage investors are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 179 seed stage investors 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 seed stage investors?

Berlin leads with 57 headquartered companies, followed by Hamburg (14) and Munich (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 448 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 179 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 22, 2026.

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About this data

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.