The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

telli develops AI agents and a platform for automating customer-facing operations across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and email. Its core offering includes Charlie, an AI coworker that helps teams build and optimise agents, connect internal systems, analyse conversations and identify operational issues. The company says its agents already handle millions of customer conversations for customers ranging from SMEs to large enterprises. telli was founded in 2024 by Seb Hapte-Selassie, Philipp Baumanns and Finn zur Muehlen and is based in Berlin. Financially, the company has raised more than $18.5 million to date following its $15 million seed round. Future plans described by the company include expanding engineering and commercial teams and enhancing voice and multi-channel capabilities to support broader B2C adoption.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2025

Epix Sports positions itself as an “operating system” for local sport facilities, bundling fast-growing activities like padel, bouldering, urban dance and reformer-pilates under one consumer brand. The startup supplies partner operators with both equity and debt, helps them secure prime real-estate, equips them with technology, and drives community-building and marketing to create emotionally resonant, offline sport experiences. Its four-pillar strategy focuses on capital provision, systematic site selection, brand-led community engagement, and operational excellence to achieve profitable growth while enhancing customer experience. By aggregating a highly fragmented market, Epix aims to create category-defining European sport chains and make diverse physical activities broadly accessible. The founding team—led by Amorelie founder Lea-Sophie Cramer alongside Oliver Roskopf, Lukas Brosseder, Johannes Kreibohm and Vanessa Buemann—brings multiple prior exits exceeding €1 billion in value, giving the venture notable execution pedigree. Cramer spearheads community activation and branding, while the other co-founders contribute expertise in operations, real estate, technology and finance. The company has secured nearly €7 million in fresh capital to fund its expansion, though no revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series A · Nov 2024

Predium is a Munich-based proptech that streamlines compliance for real estate and finance companies by reading existing data such as energy performance certificates and invoices and automatically enriching missing information. It augments datasets using AI, satellite images and 3D models to identify ESG risks and prioritize renovation actions based on costs, savings potential and available subsidies for individual buildings or entire portfolios. The platform serves portfolio owners, banks, insurance companies, investors and housing companies, with customers including Deutsche Investment Group, Colliers, Soravia and Baloise. Predium will use its new funding to strengthen its platform, expand to new markets and consolidate its position in the real estate market. The company positions its offering to help clients meet ESG requirements such as CSRD reporting while enabling smarter transaction and renovation decisions. The financing comes as the real estate sector faces regulatory and market-driven change, including EU goals for a climate-neutral building sector by 2050 and shifting interest rates that affect building values and yields. Predium offers an intelligent operating system for decarbonizing buildings, enabling real estate owners, banks, insurers, investors and housing companies to track ESG performance and create CO2 reduction action plans with investment calculations. The platform automates reporting to industry standards such as GRESB and Ecore. Predium’s product targets both real estate and finance industry workflows, combining monitoring, planning and reporting in one solution. The company plans to use new funding for further market development and technological expansion of its platform. Predium aims to become Europe’s leading ESG management platform for building decarbonization. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Munich, Germany. Founded in 2021 and based in Munich, Predium offers a platform that streamlines sustainable real estate management for project developers, property managers and housing companies. The product determines ESG balances, proposes CO2 reduction measures and provides an investment calculation to price measures. It aims to replace time-consuming, manual processes that previously relied on Excel and consulting projects. The company positions its solution as a way to help clients decide which measures to implement and when, and to assess costs and savings over time. Management argues that proactive, economically efficient sustainability management will be essential for real estate companies to survive in the market. Predium recently raised funding, strengthening its financial position to further develop and scale its platform.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2023

Invenda Group, founded in 2017 and led by CEO Jon Brezinski, builds a proprietary operating system and cloud suite for automated retail. Its products include InvendaOS, Invenda Cloud and Invenda Wallet, which leverage IoT, cloud technology and AI to optimize vending machines, smart fridges and micro market kiosks. The company frames its offering as enabling the Internet of Retail, connecting software and hardware to drive curated, measurable customer experiences. Invenda plans to use new funding to continue development of its cloud-based solutions and to support commercial and geographic expansion in the United States. It maintains offices and showrooms in London, Berlin, Stockholm, Novi Sad and Hong Kong and intends to open a US office and showroom in 2023. Partners and integrations include Microsoft and Intel, and customers include Mars Wrigley, Coca-Cola, Selecta and Valora. Invenda builds integrated software and hardware solutions for Automated Retail, selling new vending machines with built-in software or retrofit kits for existing machines. The company offers AI promotions, large touch screens, patented A-Z touchless transaction technology, gamification and crypto capabilities. Invenda says its IoT solutions enable customers to increase sales by an average of 50% and counts clients such as Coca‑Cola, Mars Wrigley and Lindt & Sprüngli. It is active in 14 countries and has subsidiaries in Serbia, Hong Kong and Sweden, while maintaining headquarters in Alpnach, Obwalden. Recent product activity included the installation of its first outdoor machines and a move into larger headquarters to showcase products. Partners include Microsoft, Intel and BLOCKv; the company intends to use funding to expand sales and development as it pursues global growth.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2022

Kenbi is a Berlin-based, tech-enabled healthcare-at-home startup founded in 2019 that operates a largely decentralized network of caregiver professionals. The company uses a proprietary modular app stack and a range of mobile apps to streamline recruitment, onboarding, care planning, documentation, communication, training and billing, and has tested a family-facing app. Kenbi employs over 300 caregiver professionals (80% female), operates 23 care-hubs in Germany and delivers more than 15,000 care visits every month; it is approved by all healthcare insurances in the German states where it operates. The startup provides services from household help and companionship to basic physical care as well as medical and specialized treatments, and issues every caregiver a mobile phone with Kenbi apps installed. The newly raised €23.5 million will be used to continue rolling out Kenbi across Germany and to broaden its tech stack. Kenbi also plans to explore integrating its home-care services with online pharmacy systems, nurse-assisted telemedicine models, connected home devices and big-data analyses for predictive healthcare. Kenbi builds a proprietary tech stack and app to organise local ‘care teams’ that deliver outpatient, at-home services, including some care covered by medical insurance, household help, advice and companionship. The platform includes both patient-facing features and a staff management app. Kenbi says it cuts time spent on unnecessary bureaucratic tasks by up to 20 percent. Founded in fall 2019 and based in Berlin, the company currently reaches about 400 patients across Germany. Kenbi has raised €7 million in seed funding to boost the at-home nursing industry. The company plans to continue developing the product on both the patient and staff sides and to attract more nursing professionals to its network.