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Top 25 Venture capital companies based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 461 venture capital companies headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 3,334 professional contacts across them, including 973 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers venture capital companies 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.
The 25 largest venture capital companies based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Start2 Group is a global innovation leader and one of Europe’s top-ranked startup hubs (#2 by Financial Times and Statista;#1 for Hub Network and Alumni Track Record).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HV is one of the leading early-stage and growth investors in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LEVERAGING ENTREPRENEURIAL AMBITION As an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity and venture capital firm LEA Partners funds and supports ambitious B2B Tech founders…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Delta is a venture ecosystem helping ambitious founders build industry-leading ventures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La Famiglia is a European seed and growth-stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At better ventures, we believe that purpose-driven entrepreneurs will change our world for the better.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are around 300 entrepreneurs, creators & solvers with deep roots in the Tech & Start-up world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Wellington Partners is one of the most successful pan-European venture capital firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DIGITALHUB.DE [Digital Hub Bonn]| Wir begleiten digitale #Startups mit unseren #Accelerator Programmen #HubGrade,#HubGradeCyber und #Investment SHEroes, stellen…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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: venture capital companies. 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 venture capital companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of venture capital companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name venture capital companies. 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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Venture capital companies based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 14, 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 461 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 venture capital companies, 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 “venture capital companies”. 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 venture capital companies), 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 venture capital companies, 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, 973 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.
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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 venture capital companies, 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 venture capital companies are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 461 venture capital companies 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?
Start2 Group, headquartered in Munchen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most venture capital companies?
Berlin leads with 130 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (36) and Hamburg (32).
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 973 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 461 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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