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Luqom Group

Website
Location
Berlin, Germany

LUQOM GROUP is the leading digital platform for lighting fixtures in Europe. Through their online shops as well as their presence in key European marketplaces, they provide more than 500 suppliers with direct access to private and commercial customers across 27 countries. They offer customers more than 50,000 products through LUQOM GROUP’s online shops and channels: from entry-level to premium segment online shops, as well as private label brands to renowned design products. LUQOM GROUP targets both consumers (B2C) and professional clients (B2B). All target groups benefit from their strong customer service which is tailored to local needs. B2B customers also value that they support them with professional lighting planning and other consulting services. LUQOM GROUP aims to create the best journey to individually design living spaces with light.

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Gartenhaus

Location
Hamburg, Germany

Gartenhaus is a leading European online platform for home & garden projects and offers garden houses, sheds, carports, terraces, saunas, and other, often bulky, garden and home-related products with garden houses being its core product category.

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Polhus

Website
Location
Malmö, Sweden

Manufacturer of wooden houses in the Nordic region. The company offers self-designed attefallshus, sheds, saunas cabins, playhouses and friggebodar, helping customers to choose luxurious and affordable wooden houses as per their requirements.

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CHRIST GROUP

Exited
Location
Hagen, Germany

CHRIST Group is active in the jewellery and watches sector in Europe. It encompasses CHRIST Juweliere und Uhrmacher seit 1863 GmbH, VALMANO GmbH, and CHR Logistik & Service GmbH.CHRIST Group is the market-leading supplier of watches and jewellery in Germany with its three retail brands CHRIST seit 1863, VALMANO and BRINCKMANN & LANGE.

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Osaro

Website
Location
San Francisco, USA

OSARO, a San Francisco-based company focused on AI for industrial automation. They are building technology for the factories, warehouses, and logistics systems of the 21st century. They were founded to build technology and products that make robots smarter. Not only do they lead their peers in practical revenue-generating applications, they also have released 2 products, have deployments on 4 continents, and have relationships with several major global automation suppliers and integrators. As the currently brittle global supply chain is besieged by pandemic, fires, and climate change, e-commerce is exploding and so is the demand for their products. Their customers are investing in smart robotics automation to improve productivity now, to build operational resilience against future shocks, and to create a better and safer workplace for the 21st century.

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Robinhood

Exited
Location
Menlo Park, USA

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.

eight

Givve

Exited
Website
Location
München, Germany

givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.

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Palantir Technologies Inc.

Exited
Location
Denver, USA

Palantir Technologies Inc. is a software company that builds enterprise data platforms for use by organizations with complex and sensitive data environments. From building safer cars and planes, to discovering new drugs and combating terrorism, Palantir helps customers across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors transform the way they use their data.

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Bloomfarms

Exited
Location
San Francisco, USA

Bloom Farms is a cannabis company on a mission to bring safe and enjoyable products to consumers who use cannabis as part of a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle. Along the way, they are out to remove the negative social stigmas of cannabis. Sustainably farmed and responsibly made, their products are beautifully designed around the mantra: relaxation, relief, creativity and fun. Bloom Farms grows cannabis in California by responsible family farmers who care about the land, the environment and the patients in need of their products.

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AM GmbH

Exited
Website
Location
Meschede, Germany

For AM GmbH, IT is an ongoing process: IT design and development, sustainable, efficient operation of all solutions with personal 24/7 support, right up to ready-to-use applications from the cloud. AM GmbH is independent of the operating model, because its own cloud architects orchestrate IT operations for customers in their own high-class data centers, in the global clouds and on-premises. For over 10 years, AM GmbH has been looking after satisfied medium-sized and corporate customers from all over Germany from its three locations in Meschede, Dortmund and Hamburg with over 100 committed employees.

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Cantourage

Location
Berlin, Germany

The Cantourage GmbH is a Berlin-based cannabis company that has already established itself as one of the leading European companies in the medical cannabis sector. Founded in 2019, the company enables producers from across the world to bring their product into the European market more quickly and cheaply, without having to deal with complex and lengthy regulatory processes. Cantourage is run by industry experts and pioneers of the European medical cannabis sector. Cantourage offers products in all relevant market segments: dried flowers, extracts and Dronabinol. Through its platform, Cantourage helps non-EU producers to tackle the complexity of adhering to EU-GMP guidelines, by easing market access and offering a completely new and enhanced way of distributing their products. Cantourage offers services and support to its platform partners from product imports and transformation to warehousing and logistics to Sales and Marketing.

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KitchenAdvisor

Location
Hamburg, Germany

KitchenAdvisor is a referral platform for kitchens. They connect the customer with the perfect kitchen studio. They support the whole thing with 2 algorithms: The Price Predictor, which is able to give the customer a price for the kitchen within 10 minutes, and the Store Matcher, which uses machine learning to find the best studios in the region.

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Mondosano

Location
Hamburg, Germany

Mondosano is a patient-centric digital recruitment provider based in Hamburg, Germany. Mondosano is specialized in data-driven patient recruitment, as well as patient engagement and patients insight campaigns.

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Art 19

Website
Location
Münster, Germany

Art 19 is a company created to raise money for human rights causes from the sale of artworks by the world’s leading contemporary artists. The name “Art 19” is an abbreviation of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression”. Art 19 is an initiative founded by managers with lifetimes of experience in the worlds of art and human rights.

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Staages

Location
Berlin, Germany

Staages is a music company which believes in the highest standards and greatest traditions of first-class music production. Through their expertise and strategic service resources, STAAGES has access to the whole spectrum of music production. From the creation of the first song notes to international touring, they pass by mastered recording, professional publishing, artist management, album launching and video production.

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Rademacher

Exited
Location
Rhede, Germany

Rademacher is a leading manufacturer of proprietary smart home systems. With Rademacher products, shutters, blinds, awnings, lights, and other electrical devices can be operated from anywhere in the world via the internet using a smartphone or tablet computer. In addition to its HomePilot home automation systems, the company's product range includes innovative belt winders, tubular motors, control mechanisms, actuators, and garage door openers. Radermacher products meet its customers' needs thanks to their excellent design and high level of functionality. They are also quick and easy to install.

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Dornbracht AG

Exited
Location
Iserlohn, Germany

Dornbracht is a leading specialist for superior designer fittings and accessories for bathrooms, spas and kitchens. The company, with headquarter in Iserlohn, Germany, was founded in 1950 and today is internationally active with its product portfolio in more than 125 markets. As a premium brand, Dornbracht stands for innovative technology and high-quality standards at manufactory level, "Made in Germany" with highly qualified employees and state-of-the-art production technologies.

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IFASEC GmbH

Exited
Website
Location
Dortmund, Germany

IFASEC is an IT security company that develops security softwares and performs automated penetration testing of web pages and provides services in the static and dynamic code-analysis of software and apps. IFASEC provides security teams with end-to-end solutions to tackle modern threats.

twentythree

Life BioSciences

Location
Boston, USA

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, MA, Life Biosciences is pursuing therapies targeting three molecular pathways that regulate the biology of aging: mitochondrial uncoupling, chaperone-mediated autophagy, and epigenetic reprogramming. Their platform approach enables them to develop pharmaceutical treatments with the potential to prevent, treat, and/or reverse multiple aging-related diseases, each with critical unmet needs.

twentyfour

Roadsurfer GmbH

Location
München, Germany

Roadsurfer is a leading platform for outdoor travel. On the rental side, Roadsurfer is characterized by a first-class service and thus logically also by a high level of customer satisfaction. Roadsurfer rents out Bullis, as the newer VW buses are now blasphemously called, so campers, just a “real” motor home. Most use such vehicles, which are built for the road rather than for self-sufficient life, for short trips. Roadsurfer has increased the demand for such buses to become Europe's largest campervan rental company - in just a few years.

twentyfive

Formlogic

Location
Seattle, Washington, USA

Formlogic is reinventing Precision Part Manufacturing. Formlogic’s autonomous manufacturing technology uses machine learning and physics simulation to provide fast delivery of precision parts.

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SmithRx

Location
San Francisco, USA

SmithRx is the next-generation pharmacy benefit partner built on a modern technology platform that creates new levels of flexibility, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. It’s a new path forward that aligns incentives and harnesses data analytics to deliver an exceptional pharmacy benefit product. A San Francisco based technology company, SmithRx was founded in 2016 to create a cost-competitive PBM that offers clients a proven pass-through model, a single technology platform, concierge level service, and strong drug cost, rebate, and service level guarantees.

twentyseven

Freeform

Location
Los Angeles, CA

Freeform is a cutting-edge metal 3D printing company founded by accomplished leaders and engineers from SpaceX.  Freeform deploys software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing on-demand production to mainstream industries at any scale. Its advanced printing technology and manufacturing-as-a-service model eliminate historical production barriers by enabling manufacturers in any industry to quickly go from idea to volume production. The Freeform team consists of leaders and engineers from the world's most innovative companies.

twentyseven

Halo Industries

Location
Palo Alto, USA

World class innovators are creating novel laser-based hardware systems for materials fabrication that help manufacturers drastically reduce waste, improve quality, and enable next generation technologies.

twentyseven

AnyMove

Location
Berlin, Germany

AnyMove is the platform for P2P (person-to-person) car sharing. At AnyMove, as a car owner, you can easily and securely rent a car to other private individuals. During the rental period, the car is covered by your insurance partner. As a tenant, AnyMove gives you access to a large number of different cars from private individuals. The keys are handed over between the car owner and the tenant digitally via the AnyMove app.

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Carbon Health

Location
San Francisco, USA

Carbon Health is a modern, tech-enabled healthcare company transforming the primary care, urgent care, and virtual care experience. With a team of expert physicians, engineers, and designers, Carbon Health pushes the boundaries of medicine to deliver personal, accessible, and high-quality care. Carbon health aims to give patients connection to their medical records, quick access for immediate and ongoing healthcare needs, and a network of healthcare experts. Carbon health wants patients to feel as though they have an advocate - like a doctor in their family.  With a growing network of trusted clinics, and an end-to-end platform that supports ongoing care management and virtual appointments, Carbon Health ensures world-class care is affordable and always in reach.

twentyseven

FoundersLane

Exited
Location
Berlin, Germany

The company FoundersLane builds digital business models together with established corporations. Behind this is a mixture of digital strategy consulting, company builder and private equity. Under the name FoundersLane, more than 100 tech entrepreneurs and tech experts who are familiar with founding, building, and scaling business models come together. FoundersLane blends entrepreneurial flair with corporate assets to create and grow strategically significant digital ventures, even in regulated sectors like healthcare.

twentyseven

Unioncrate

Location
New York, USA

Unioncrate is an integrated business planning platform that unites artificial and human intelligence so CPG brands can plan, execute, and pivot supply chain strategies at the click of a button. Unioncrate unifies supply chain, financial, and operational data, eliminating blind spots from forecasts and slashing hours out of the demand planning process - creating a digital brain for business.

twentyseven

Deel

Location
San Francisco, USA

Deel is a developer of a payroll platform used to re-imagine payouts for businesses working with remote contractors. The platform is used by remote teams that connect localized compliance and automates payments in one system of record, as well as provides contracts and templates to be used for tax forms and localized contracts, automated payment,invoicing and receipts, and customer support. It aims to offer to every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easier.

twentyseven

Outdoor Toys

Location
Mid Wales, UK

Founded in 2006 and based in Mid Wales, Outdoor Toys is among the largest outdoor garden toys specialists in the UK. The company offers over 1,000 products and specialises in Modular Toys, including swing sets, slides and climbing frames, as well as ride-on toys, trampolines, sandpits and accessories. The company operates a vertically integrated value chain with its own product design, UK manufacturing, customer service, dedicated logistics fleet and direct online sales to customers through its own website as well as online marketplaces.

twentyseven

HEAVN

Location
München, Germany

Heavn is a leading pioneer company with groundbreaking signature products with propietary technology in the field of Human Centric Lighting, a dynamic lighting concept to enhance health and performance.

twentyseven

KLAVIYO

Exited
Location
Greater Boston Area, east Coast, New England, USA

Klaviyo is a leading customer data and marketing automation platform dedicated to accelerating revenue and customer connection for online businesses. Klaviyo makes it easy to store, access, analyze and use transactional and behavioral data to power highly-targeted customer and prospect communications. The company's hybrid customer-data and marketing-platform model allows companies to grow by fostering direct relationships with customers, without giving up their valuable data to popular big-tech ad platforms. Over 275,000 innovative companies like Unilever, Custom Ink, Living Proof and Huckberry sell more with Klaviyo.

twentyseven

Gordian

Location
San Francisco, California, USA

Gordian Biotechnology is a therapeutics company focused on diseases of aging, the major unmet medical need of our generation. Age-related diseases have complex causes that include interactions with the aged environment, and traditional ex vivo screening methods have failed to produce effective treatments.To address this problem, Gordian’s platform combines gene therapy with single-cell sequencing to test hundreds of therapies in individual animals, the only model that captures the full complexity of age-related disease.We thus scale in vivo efficacy testing to cover every therapeutic target at the very beginning of the drug discovery process. This lets us choose targets that really impact disease biology, to develop and commercialize therapies for the world’s deadliest diseases, and eventually for the processes of aging itself.

twentyseven

ABOUT YOU

Exited
Location
Hamburg, Germany

ABOUT YOU digitises the classic shopping stroll by creating an inspiring and personalised shopping experience on the smartphone. At ABOUT YOU, the focus is on the customers, who are supported in expressing themselves individually through fashion. On the website aboutyou.com and the multi-award winning ABOUT YOU app, customers find versatile inspiration and more than 400,000 items from over 2,000 brands. ABOUT YOU is one of the largest fashion and lifestyle platforms in Europe.

twentyseven

NOIBU

Website
Location
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Serving enterprise customers globally, Noibu is the industry leader in eCommerce error monitoring and lost revenue prevention. Noibu's software platform monitors your eCommerce site and flags and prioritizes errors that prevent real customers from checking out, while collecting all the information required to quickly resolve them.

twentyseven

Lockerverse

Location
Delaware, USA

Lockerverse is a non-fungible token (NFT) community platform that tells ‘culture-defining stories’. The Lockerverse platform empowers iconic and emerging athletes, entertainers, artists, designers, and brands to tell culture-defining stories. Lockerverse also provides fans unique access, digital and IRL experiences, content, and community.

twentyseven

REBELLE

Exited
Website
Location
Hamburg, Germany

REBELLE is the leading German online marketplace for designer second-hand fashion and offers fashion and accessories from the luxury and high-end sectors. Sellers can list and sell their used designer items. With the concierge service, Rebelle also offers sellers an all-inclusive service and takes over the entire sales process: from the creation of professional text and image material to packaging and shipping.

twentyseven

Ydeon

Website
Location
Hamburg, Germany

The YDEON Group, headquartered in Hamburg, combines the companies GartenHaus GmbH, Polhus and OutdoorToys under one roof. With over 20 online stores in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Finland, among others, it is Europe’s leading digital platform for all garden projects.

twentyseven

Quilt

Website
Location
Redwood City, CA

Founded in Redwood City, CA, Quilt builds home heat pump systems for a better climate. Its mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating. Quilt’s integrated hardware and software system offers stylish design and enables room-by-room control for maximum comfort and efficiency. Quilt makes it easy to upgrade from traditional heating systems through its technology-enabled, direct-to-homeowner purchase-and-installation experience.

twentyseven

Numeral

Location
San Francisco, CA, USA

Numeral automates all aspects of sales tax which simplifies the sales tax process.

twentyseven

Enter

Website
Location
Berlin, Germany

Enter helps millions of people to decarbonise their homes by providing the easiest end-to-end solution of one-stop energy audits, procurement, financing, and energy monitoring. With Enter clients have all the data of their home in one app.

twentyseven

Medmo

Website
Location
New York, NY, USA

Medmo is a healthcare platform that gives uninsured and underinsured consumers the freedom to obtain medical imaging services at a price they can afford, without hidden fees or confusion, from accredited healthcare providers in their area.

Selected portfolio companies

LUQOM

Luqom Group

Berlin, Germany

CHRIST GROUP

Hagen, Germany

Exited
osaro

Osaro

San Francisco, USA

Robinhood

Robinhood

Menlo Park, USA

Exited
Exited
givve

Givve

München, Germany

palantir

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Denver, USA

Exited
Bloom farms

Bloomfarms

San Francisco, USA

Exited
Exited
am

AM GmbH

Meschede, Germany

cantourage

Cantourage

Berlin, Germany

kitchenadvisor

KitchenAdvisor

Hamburg, Germany

mondosano

Mondosano

Hamburg, Germany

art19

Art 19

Münster, Germany

staages

Staages

Berlin, Germany

dornbracht

Dornbracht AG

Iserlohn, Germany

Exited
ifasec

IFASEC GmbH

Dortmund, Germany

Exited
life biosciences

Life BioSciences

Boston, USA

roadsurfer

Roadsurfer GmbH

München, Germany

formalogic

Formlogic

Seattle, Washington, USA

simthrx

SmithRx

San Francisco, USA

freeform

Freeform

Los Angeles, CA

halo industries

Halo Industries

Palo Alto, USA

anymove

AnyMove

Berlin, Germany

carbon health

Carbon Health

San Francisco, USA

founderslane

FoundersLane

Berlin, Germany

Exited
rademacher

Rademacher

Rhede, Germany

Exited
deel

Deel

San Francisco, USA

HEAVN

München, Germany

Klaviyo

Greater Boston Area, USA

Exited

Gordian

San Francisco, USA

ABOUT YOU

Hamburg, Germany

Exited

NOIBU

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lockerverse

Delaware, USA

rebelle

REBELLE

Hamburg, Germany

Exited

Ydeon

Hamburg, Germany

Quilt

Redwood City, CA

Numeral

San Francisco, CA, USA

Enter

Berlin, Germany

Medmo

New York, NY, USA

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