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We are engineers, developers, scientists and business people – but we‘re all entrepreneurs. We meet you at eye level and do whatever is takes to help you achieving your goals. Strategy, product development, regulatory, hiring or sales – we use our hands and brains for you and your team to become successful.

Becoming the next category leader doesn‘t come for free. We fuel your ambition by investing early-stage venture capital. For a reliable long-term relation, we invest early and have a decent reach to support you on your journey. Our international network backs your later rounds.

Authentic early-stage investing takes a lot of work and time. We believe that real human-to-human interaction is the key to successful long-term relationships. We are here for you when you need us and at your site if you call for us. That‘s why we mainly invest in teams that we can reach within two hours.

Brain

We invest in startups, we can offer more than a money investment. That is why we always have a peer on our team who understands your customers, knows your market and feels you dealing with your challenges.

We want to be real value-add. Having a long VC history, we gathered a lot of experience in building successful companies. We support you hands on in all your challenges, organize workshops with experts and connect with our numerous partners.

Whether it’s first key hires, adapting corporate strategy, support with approval processes and reimbursement or setting up a sales playbook – we are familiar with the many challenges that you as startups face and help to overcome them more quickly.

Cash

We are an early-stage VC dedicated to investing in technology companies that have the potential to enable or disrupt major industries. Our strategy centers on getting involved early, primarily focusing on Seed stages, with occasional Series A initial investments. We only invest in cases in which we are confident to take the lead, but we don’t always have to do so. We feel comfortable in strong consortia with other VCs and business angels.

Technology plays the keyrole in tackling the most pressing challenges of our time and in improving people’s working and living conditions. We work with the best entrepreneurial teams and visionaries, capable of crafting transformative technology. We are a b2b investor. Our focus spans across SaaS/software, IoT, digital solutions, medtech, biotech, new materials and greentech/cleantech. We invest in ventures with a convincing technology core providing strong competitive edge and serving important customers needs.

  • STAGES: (Pre-) Seed | Series A
  • AUM: > 100 Mio. €
  • INITIAL TICKET: 500k € - 2,0 Mio. €
  • MAX AMOUNT: 6,0 Mio. €

Proximity

We are an ecosystem player, providing a strong regional presence and deep-rooted network. It‘s a crucial part of our mission to offer hands-on support and be there in person when we are needed. We want to keep our approach authentic and reliable. That‘s why we focus our investment activities within a rough two-hour reach from us – that‘s Rhineland area (Germany) and neighbouring Netherlands and Belgium. Given a strong fit and extra conviction, we’re open to investments across whole Germany.

The early stages are the period for a startup in which future success is defined. Finding product-market fit and an effective go-to-market strategy early are keys to market dominance. We‘re passionate about sharing our insights in that. The critical role of frequent social interaction cannot be overstated.

Network and access are among the most crucial offerings an investor can provide. We facilitate exclusive interaction wtih the established economy via the S-UBG Group, giving young startups access to their first potential customers or partners. The network includes over 150 SME companies resulting from 30 years of investment experience of S-UBG.

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