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Top 25 Venture capital firms focused on startups based in Germany

RevenueBase identified 392 venture capital firms focused on startups headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 3,026 professional contacts across them, including 936 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.

This list covers venture capital firms focused on startups 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.

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392Companies
3,026Contacts tracked
936Verified emails
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The 25 largest venture capital firms focused on startups based in Germany

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 392 venture capital firms focused on startups based in Germany, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 29, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to venture capital firms focused on startups: 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 evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200265 contacts →

Partial 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 29, 2026
2Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 2026201-500237 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
3Indirect evidenceBonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200154 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, 2026
4Indirect evidenceEurope, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200126 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 29, 2026
5Indirect evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-200114 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
6Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 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 29, 2026
7Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 2026201-50051 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Delta is a venture ecosystem helping ambitious founders build industry-leading ventures.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
8Partial evidenceNuremberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5047 contacts →

Partial 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 29, 2026
9Partial evidenceLeipzig, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5045 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SpinLab based in Leipzig, Germany has been repeatedly recognized as one of Europe’s leading startup hubs.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
10Partial evidenceNuremberg, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5043 contacts →

Partial 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 29, 2026
11Strong evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5038 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 29, 2026
12Strong evidenceMünster, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5031 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 29, 2026
13Strong evidenceCologne, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5026 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 29, 2026
14Strong evidenceEssen, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5024 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 29, 2026
15Partial evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5024 contacts →

Partial 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, 2026
16Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-1024 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Der Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
17Strong evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5022 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, 2026
18Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5021 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 29, 2026
19Partial evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 20261-1021 contacts →

Partial evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
20Strong evidenceMunich, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5020 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We are an internationally investing venture capital firm with offices in Munich, Berlin, Hannover and San Francisco.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
21Strong evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5020 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 29, 2026
22Partial evidenceBonn, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5020 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, 2026
23Indirect evidenceBerlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
24Indirect evidenceDortmund, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202611-5019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026
25Indirect evidenceGarching, GermanyHQ checked Sep 29, 202651-20019 contacts →

Indirect evidence

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

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026

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Venture capital firms focused on startups based in Germany at a glance

As of Sep 29, 2026
30.9%Verified-email coverage
7.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
25.3%Largest-city concentration · Berlin
Sep 29, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
304
11-50
71
51-200
9
201-500
3
1,001-5,000
1
10001+
1

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 392 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 firms focused on startups, 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 firms focused on startups”. 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 firms focused on startups), 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 firms focused on startups, 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, 936 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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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 firms focused on startups, 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 firms focused on startups are there based in Germany?

RevenueBase identified 392 venture capital firms focused on startups 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 Munich, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most venture capital firms focused on startups?

Berlin leads with 99 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (46) and Hamburg (28).

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 936 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 392 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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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.