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Cusp Capital

Rüttenscheider Straße 62, Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 45130, Germany

Overview

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms. The Cusp Capital team members are long-time contributors to the technology ecosystem. Over the last fifteen years, they have invested more than € 600m in companies such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Scalable Capital, data Artisans, Personio and SoSafe.

Total investments
21
Lead investments
15
Investments · 12mo
5
Active investors
7
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Investment portfolio

  • Laborai

    Led · Equity · Jun 2026

    Laborai pairs its proprietary AI platform, called Lai, with a network of more than 50 tax and finance experts to provide advisory services. Its first product, Recupera, reviews the last four years of tax returns to detect missed deductions, filing errors, or pending refunds and operates under a no-win, no-fee model. The company reports that since its public launch in 2025 over 200,000 people have used its services and that 100,000 full tax reviews have identified more than €20 million in potential recoveries. Laborai was founded by Said Abouali Sánchez, Pau Comas Ollé and Eduardo Suárez Vallina and is focused on consolidating growth in Spain. The startup aims to expand beyond income tax recovery into broader financial decision areas such as insurance, loans, mortgages and savings to provide accessible financial expertise at scale.

  • Delta Labs

    Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

    Delta Labs was founded from research backgrounds to create a methodology for AI-based customer simulation that combines market research, quantitative modelling, and human-technology interaction. Six months prior to the announcement the company launched Elaiia, a self-service platform that lets teams simulate expected customer responses across product, pricing, messaging, and strategy using calibrated customer segments grounded in real and company-specific data. The team validated the approach while bootstrapped and secured early customers who used the high-precision methodology. With the €4.4M seed round, Delta Labs plans to expand its team to accelerate product and go-to-market efforts. The company framed the raise as the next step after building confidence in its approach and early traction.

  • CertHub

    Led · Seed · Jan 2026

    CertHub offers an AI-first platform that streamlines regulatory compliance for medical-technology companies by automating Quality Management Systems, Technical Documentation, and audit-ready workflows integrated with Notified Bodies. Its software has already been used in validated pilots and real audits, with customers citing 40–80% time savings and roughly 60% faster time-to-certification under the EU Medical Device Regulation. By reducing cost, uncertainty, and regulatory friction, the solution aims to accelerate the introduction of critical medical technologies to market. The company’s roadmap includes scaling adoption among European MedTech manufacturers, deepening integrations with Notified Bodies, and entering additional regulatory jurisdictions such as the United States and China. Future product development will focus on AI-driven audit, documentation, and agentic compliance features. The recent seed financing provides the capital required to fund these expansion efforts.

  • 2501.AI

    Led · Seed · Dec 2025

    Founded in early 2025 in France by Alexandre Pereira and Alex Zhuk, 2501.ai delivers sovereign, on-premise or private-cloud AI agents that continuously monitor, diagnose and remediate IT incidents for SRE, DevOps and SysOps teams. The architecture is designed to meet the highest security standards, enabling deployment in regulated, isolated or classified environments while integrating natively with existing tooling. In under twelve months the startup has secured several dozen six-figure, multi-year contracts and is currently rolling out its platform to roughly 20 enterprise customers, including CAC 40 groups. With fresh capital in hand, management plans to double headcount and scale its R&D program focused on observability, real-time remediation and critical-incident management. The company will also open its first U.S. office in New York to serve growing industrial and critical-services demand. 2501.ai aims to set a new international benchmark for automated infrastructure operations and position itself as France’s category leader by 2026.

  • Tacmind

    Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

    Tacmind has developed a SaaS platform that tracks when and how brands surface inside generative-AI answers, analyzes the tone and context of those mentions, and recommends concrete steps to boost visibility. The software identifies the prompts that trigger brand mentions, benchmarks performance against competitors, and audits external signals—such as directories, reviews, Wikipedia, Reddit posts and media coverage—that influence an AI model’s portrayal of a company. Aimed at in-house marketing teams and agencies, the tool bridges traditional SEO with the emerging discipline of AI Engine Optimization (AEO), giving users data-driven guidance to influence generative search results. The company originated as an internal project after its founders noticed that AI models were already shaping customer discovery but lacked measurement tools. With €2.4 million in fresh capital, Tacmind plans to accelerate integrations with leading conversational models and expand its optimization module so users can implement fast, measurable improvements. The firm positions itself as an essential layer for branding, content, PR and acquisition teams competing for visibility in the “ask-first” era of digital behavior. No revenue or user numbers were disclosed, but the recent financing provides runway to scale product development and go-to-market efforts.

Team

  • Jan Sessenhausen

    General Partner - Investor

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  • Christian Winter

    General Partner - Investor

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  • Wilken Engelbracht

    Venture Partner

  • Maximilian Rowoldt

    General Partner - Investor

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