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42CAP

Seitzstraße 23, Munich, Bayern, 80538, Germany

Overview

42CAP is a seed stage investment firm based in Munich, Germany. They initially invest € 0.5 to 1.5m in seed-stage tech- and data-driven companies across Europe with global ambition.With eCircle they previously built one of Europe’s largest SaaS companies and sold the profitable business to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.

Total investments
62
Lead investments
23
Investments · 12mo
10
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • SaaS
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • ARC Intelligence

    Led · Seed · Jul 2026

    ARC Intelligence develops an AI-native Finance OS that consolidates data from ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems into a single platform for finance teams. The platform is designed to reduce reliance on fragmented data, spreadsheets and manual reporting, providing a real-time view of financial and operational data to speed decision-making. ARC reports that its platform supported more than 200,000 business decisions and saved over 100,000 hours of manual work within six months. Since its pre-seed round about a year ago, the company says it has increased revenue tenfold and signed customers including Burmester, Pfanner Schutzbekleidung, Ferrotec, OCONO Group and Robert Bürkle, as well as private equity clients Auctus Capital and GENUI. ARC plans to expand ERP integrations, strengthen engineering, and pursue international growth with the goal of evolving into an AI-native operating system for ERP-intensive businesses.

  • ALP Bio

    Led · Seed · Apr 2026

    Founded in 2025 and based in Schlieren, ALP Bio is building a hybrid platform that combines human tonsil-derived immune organoid readouts with generative AI to predict and reduce anti-drug antibody risk earlier in antibody discovery and development. The platform is designed to support lead candidate screening, ADA risk stratification, and sequence optimisation while preserving therapeutic function. ALP Bio emphasizes integrating experimentally measured human immune biology with machine learning models to bring more clinically relevant signal into earlier decision-making. The team plans to scale lab automation and throughput and pursue early partner projects with pharmaceutical and biotech teams. Financially, the company recently completed a €1.9 million pre-Seed round to fund platform expansion and commercial engagement in Switzerland and the US.

  • Quillon

    Led · Seed · Apr 2026

    Quillon develops an AI platform for technical accounting and financial reporting that links each analytical conclusion directly to source material using a proprietary knowledge graph of accounting standards integrated with EDGAR. The system supports step-by-step research, contract analysis, peer benchmarking, and memo drafting while allowing human accountants to review, edit, and validate each stage so outputs remain auditable. The company initially focuses on technical accounting memos used for material financial decisions and plans to expand into broader quarterly and annual financial reporting workflows. Founded in 2023 by Nikolay Dakov, Ivaylo Stefanov, and Atanas Dobrev, Quillon is built in Sofia with operations in San Francisco. Its recent $1.5M pre-seed raise, led by 42CAP with angel participation from investors affiliated with NVIDIA and Roblox, is intended to grow engineering and go-to-market teams and shift the product toward finalized deliverables. The company positions its product as addressing gaps left by general-purpose AI tools that lack verifiable citations and auditability.

  • Galtea

    Led · Seed · Mar 2026

    Galtea provides infrastructure and tooling for testing, validating and benchmarking generative AI agents, focusing on generating high-quality, use case-specific test scenarios. Its platform supports continuous, dynamic testing and tailored evaluation metrics to help teams assess performance, accuracy and security prior to deployment. The company offers enterprise packages and recently launched a self-service offering with a free trial to make its tools more accessible to developers. Galtea's solution is already used by customers across multiple sectors and aims to reduce the cost and time of AI validation through automated scenario generation. Financially, the company has raised $3.2M in a seed round that brought total funding to $4.1M and plans to invest the new capital in engineering and commercial growth.

  • Qdrant

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

    Qdrant builds a high-performance, composable vector search engine that lets engineers combine dense and sparse vectors, metadata filters, multi-vector representations, and custom scoring functions at query time. Written entirely in Rust, the platform gives teams granular control over indexing, scoring, filtering, ranking, and latency-versus-precision trade-offs, making it suitable for retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and agentic reasoning. The engine deploys flexibly across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and edge environments and is already used in production by enterprises such as Tripadvisor, HubSpot, OpenTable, Bazaarvoice, and Bosch. Its open-source project has surpassed 250 million downloads and accumulated 29,000 GitHub stars, highlighting strong developer adoption. Qdrant has been recognized in The Forrester Wave: Vector Databases (Q3 2024), GigaOm’s Radar for Vector Databases v3 (2025), and Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100. The company’s recent Series B financing strengthens its ability to scale these offerings and cement composable vector search as core AI infrastructure.

Team

  • Alex Meyer

    General Partner

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  • Thomas Wilke

    General Partner

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  • Julian von Fischer

    Partner

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  • Konstantin Urban

    Venture Partner