HV Holtzbrinck Ventures is a venture capital firm in Germany that focuses on companies operating in the consumer, digital companies, education, enterprise, fin-tech, healthcare, mobility, and retail sectors. Founded 2000 in Munich, Bayern, Germany by Lars Langusch, it invests in early stage ventures, late stage ventures, private equity, seed, series A, series C, and series B rounds. Its portfolio companies include Limehome, Global Savings Group, Sanity Group, Scoutbee, and Delivery Hero. As of February 2020, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has made 286 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 14, 2020, when Limehome raised €21M. HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has had 68 exits, the most notable of which include Delivery Hero, Rocket Internet, and HelloFresh. V Holtzbrinck Ventures has raised four funds, their latest being HV Holtzbrinck Ventures Fund VII. This fund was announced on January 22, 2018 and raised a total of €306M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Lendico is a Berlin-based operator of a peer-to-peer lending platform.
GameDuell is a Berlin-based company founded by Kai Bolik, Michael Kalkowski and Boris Wasmuth.
Verbit.ai is a Tel Aviv-based artificial intelligence company founded by Tom Livne, Eric Shellef, Iris Getz and Kobi Ben Tzvi.
Exporo AG is a Germany-based company founded by Bjoern Maronde, Tim Bütecke, Simon Brunke and Julian Oertzen.
People
Alexander Kolisch
Employee
Barbod Namini
Employee
Christian Saller
General Partner
Christine Kanz
Accounting
Christoph Jung
General Partner
David Kuczek
General Partner
Felix Kluhr
Principal
Heiko Kottkamp-Ramann
CFO
Jan Miczaika
Employee
Jasper Masemann
Employee
Katharina Buttenberg
Employee
Lars Langusch
Employee
Lars Langusch
Founding Partner
Martin Weber
General Partner
Rainer Maerkle
Employee
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Global Savings Group
Limehome
Sanity Group
Scoutbee
VAHA
Verbit.ai