Investors

Digital Pioneers is a public VC-firm lead by Bigpoint.com-Founder Heiko Hubertz and has invested in about 10 start-ups such as Panfu, Gamzee, MeetOne and Tipy.

Hasso Plattner Ventures has been established in 2005 by SAP Co-Founder Hasso Plattner. Since then the team around Eran Davidson, Rouven Westphan and Yaron Valler has invested 81m (2010) in around 20 companies such as SponsorPay, Smeet, Feedzilla or UJAM.

Founded in 2000 HV Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested in over 100 businesses, among them immensely successful companies such as Groupon, Zalando, Parship, brands4friends, Experteer, StudiVZ, MyHammer, AdScale, Wooga, eDarling and Gameduell.

Kite Ventures, founded in 2008, focuses on high tech and Internet investment in Europe and Russia and has invested among others in SponsorPay, FreetoPay, Darberry and Altergeo.

Team Europe is a group of successful Internet entrepreneurs and has founded or invested in a number of very successful Internet companies such as spreadshirt, studiVZ, brands4friends, Sponsorpay, Madvertise, Misterspex and Lieferheld.

With the guideline "Funding your ideas!" Tengelmann Ventures GmbH engages in fast growing companies since 2009 and is already considered one of the most important start-up-investors in Germany.