Led · Equity · Oct 2025

Azuro is building what it calls Europe’s first user-owned portfolio of smart vacation homes, replacing traditional short-term rentals with a co-ownership model. For a starting price of €40,000, customers purchase a share that gives them access to multiple two-bedroom, design-focused properties in leading European holiday hotspots. The homes are developed in-house, priced near net asset value, and managed through a fixed owner-to-home ratio to ensure consistent availability year-round. Azuro targets busy professionals who want high-end, low-hassle alternatives to owning a single second home. The company will launch initial developments in Mallorca and the Alps, with nine locations planned over the next two years and first openings slated for 2026. By 2028, it intends to deploy more than €50 million in real-estate capital, creating a new holding vehicle for Europe’s regulated second-home market. This strategy positions Azuro at the intersection of real-estate finance, hospitality and lifestyle amid tightening European short-term rental regulations.

Led · Equity · Jul 2025

Saint Sass is a Berlin-based fashion startup known for statement legwear, lingerie, and bodysuits. Its core products include tights, fishnets, underwear, bodysuits, socks, and other accessories, with tights produced in Italy and socks in Portugal. Founded by Larissa Schmid and Vivien Wysocki, the brand emphasizes confidence, self-expression, and celebrating femininity through bold designs. The company recently raised €4.2 million in a funding round led by Infinitas Capital and Daniel Bronk. The investment is intended to accelerate growth by expanding operations, enhancing product offerings, and supporting product development, marketing, and scaling production. The raise arrives amid digital transformation and sustainability shifts in the fashion industry and positions Saint Sass to pursue broader international growth from its Berlin base.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

einwert provides a value-management platform that delivers valuations prepared by certified appraisers within a few days and centralizes all valuation and market data. Its workflow software coordinates qualified partner appraisers and integrates documents and data via interfaces for digital access. The platform aggregates market data from many providers to enable real-time value analysis and benchmarking for portfolio optimization, re-letting, and ESG investments. Einwert reports internal time savings of over 70 percent and offers full transparency through digital order management. Customers include BNP Paribas REIM, Exporo and Engel & Völkers. The founding team plans to use new capital to expand the platform and pursue leadership in the European market. einwert provides software-enabled real-estate appraisals that combine a cloud platform, system interfaces and a network of certified appraisers to produce standardized, ESG-informed valuation reports in days. The startup replaces manual parameter determination with intelligent suggestions to speed up and standardize reports. Customers place and manage orders via einwert's cloud platform or immediate system interfaces. The company says manual appraisals can take up to six weeks, and its software aims to shorten turnaround and enable further use of appraisal data. einwert’s approach emphasizes comprehensible valuation suggestions and sustainable findings. The company is led by founder and CEO Christina Mauer and founder and CTO Maximilian Schlachter.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2023

Wonder Brands pivoted from buying established sellers to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure and developing its own digital brands across marketplaces like MercadoLibre and Amazon. The company uses marketplace data plus AI-driven operations, marketing, analytics, supply-chain and working-capital tools to create and scale products. In the past 12 months it launched more than 15 brands and introduced over 2,000 SKUs, with plans to double SKUs in the next year and enter new product categories. Wonder Brands reached profitability in 2022 and is generating over $100 million in annualized revenues with an annual growth rate exceeding 100%. It currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay and plans to use new capital to expand into the rest of South America, hire staff, build distribution channels and invest in go-to-market. Wonder Brands acquires digitally native sellers on MercadoLibre, Amazon and other marketplaces and uses technology and operating support to scale them. The company offers category and brand management, marketing and performance, inventory and logistics automation, and channel operations. It focuses on home & garden, sports & fitness, and beauty & personal care. Founded in January 2021 by Nicolás Gonzalez Luna and Federico Malek, the company currently has 20 employees and plans to triple headcount in the next month. Wonder Brands targets larger sellers (at least $5M in revenue) using a buy-and-build approach rather than pure consolidation. The company aims to reach $55 million in revenue by year-end and $100 million within the following 12 months, and plans to begin operations in Brazil by the end of 2021.

Led · Seed · Jan 2022

Storypod builds a wifi-connected IoT audio player that, when activated by magnetic “Craftie” yarn toys, read-along books, or interactive flash cards, plays original and licensed songs, stories, podcasts, learning topics and games for kids up to age 10. Founded by Daniel Buelhoff in 2019 and based in Miami, the company launched via a successful Kickstarter and began delivering pre-orders in March 2021. Despite Covid-related supply chain issues, Storypod achieved double-digit month-over-month growth and reached seven-figure revenue in seven months. The product line includes licensed content such as Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood through a deal with Fred Rogers Productions. Storypod is currently a seven-person team planning to expand to about 30 employees in the coming months due to brisk sales and multiple new licenses. The company plans to use new funding to build out its team, expand product lines, and grow its content library to support its stage-based, screen-free edutainment vision. Storypod makes a screen-free interactive audio player for children that is activated when a child magnetically attaches a lovable "Craftie" yarn toy to unlock cloud-downloaded content for offline playback. Content includes classics, original stories, lullabies, nursery rhymes, counting and STEM games, and interactive Q&A features; the product launches with 20 Crafties and plans to add dozens more. The MyCraftie feature lets family members record their own audio through the Storypod app, and the company plans to offer read-along physical books for a tactile, screen-free experience. The device is aimed at kids aged 3 and up and is available in English and Spanish. Storypod’s core team of ten is distributed globally; production is in China, software work is being done in Argentina, and the company has secured its first licensing deal in the education space. Storypod is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to bring the product to market.