Led · Equity · Oct 2025

Waste Ant is a young company whose specific product offering was not detailed in the article, but it is actively gearing up for broader European expansion. In September, the firm completed a new €1.2 million financing round, which increased its cumulative capital raised to roughly €4 million. The fresh capital strengthens the balance sheet and will be deployed to accelerate growth initiatives in additional European markets. Following the transaction, ownership is split approximately equally between the founding team and external investors. No metrics on revenue, customers, or other operating indicators were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Series B · Mar 2021

Founded in 2018, Munich-based Rebike Mobility buys used e-bikes from corporate leasing fleets, reconditions them at its 100-person facility in Kempten and resells them online and in Decathlon retail locations. The company currently operates four shop-in-shop stores within Decathlon’s German sports superstores and plans to open four more in March and at least ten by year-end, including a flagship inside Berlin’s Alexanderplatz location. Rebike processed 25,000 bikes in 2025 and aims to refurbish 30,000 in 2026. Revenue exceeded €40 million last year and is projected to top €50 million this year. The startup employs about 150 people in total. Future expansion plans include additional refurbishment sites and entering neighboring markets such as France, Belgium and Switzerland in partnership with Decathlon.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2019

Vantik is a mobile-first retirement account that lets users open an account and save via monthly or one-off transfers starting at €1. Deposits are invested in the Vantik Fund, a diversified mix of stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities targeting a 3% annual return. Customers can withdraw their money at any time, and Vantik charges a yearly service fee of 1.18%. The service-fee revenue is shared among partners handling account and portfolio management, fund administration, depository, investment advice, and Vantik’s sales and support. The company was founded in 2017 by Til Klein and Lara Hämmerle and positions itself as an alternative to traditional life-insurance pension products. Vantik emphasizes mobile-first flexibility and visibility for retirement savings aimed at a generation used to managing finances on smartphones.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2017

Ottonova is a German private health insurer that offers private health insurance alongside digital services, including personal consultations via chats. The company emphasizes digital-first customer service through chat-based and other digital offerings. In its latest fundraising it secured €34 million, contributing to its broader financing history. Founder and CEO Roman Rittweger has framed the company’s strategy around profitable, efficiency-focused growth rather than pure growth at all costs. Since its inception in 2016 Ottonova has raised a total of $174 million. The leadership emphasizes moderation and strong operational efficiency as core parts of its future approach. Ottonova is a Munich-based insurtech that aims to provide purely digital private health insurance targeted at young, high-income earners (Generation Y). Customers use an app to complete contracts with only a few clicks. The startup models its approach on Oscar, a New York City insurtech. Financially, Ottonova recently raised €10 million from Debeka, which received slightly more than 10% of the company's shares. This investment follows a €15 million raise in March from several investors, including Vorwerk Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. The capital will support Ottonova's push to scale its digital offering to its target demographic. Ottonova is building a digital platform offering private health insurance products. It raised a new multi-million euro funding round of approximately €15m, bringing total capital raised to about €20m. Backers in the latest round included Tengelmann Ventures, B-to-V Partners and STS Ventures, joining earlier investors Holtzbrinck Ventures and Vorwerk Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to continue to develop and launch the platform. Ottonova aims to receive formal approval from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) within 2017. Co-founded by Dr. Med. Roman Rittweger, Sebastian Scheerer and Frank Birzle, the Munich-based insurer employs approximately 50 people and is continuing to hire across business areas.

Participated · Series C · Dec 2016

Movinga offers online booking for city-to-city house moves by combining logistics technology, a consumer app and a two-sided marketplace that works with professional relocation partners. The company currently operates in Germany, France and Sweden and employs almost 220 people. Movinga has expanded through acquisitions, including taking assets and staff from bankrupt competitor Move24, and says it acquired brands, IP, domains and technology from that business. The startup recently launched MovingaNow to enter inner-city local moves and plans real-time on-demand logistics under that brand with an algorithm-driven "Pool Service." It has leased electric Streetscooters for transports and plans a mix of professional companies and student helpers for MovingaNow initially. Planned expansion includes additional European countries (Austria and the Benelux region) and entry into international overseas moves. Movinga says it aims to reduce inefficiencies and under-utilised capacity in the fragmented relocation industry. Movinga is a European platform for house removals that aggregates removal jobs and dispatches work to partner removals companies. The company currently operates in Germany and France, focusing on intercity moves, and says it has facilitated over 30,000 moves since 2016. Movinga reports it is on track for annual revenues "significantly over 20 million Euros." The startup is investing in its technology to automate pricing and dispatch, and is building SaaS ERP tools to digitize processes for removals partners. It is exploring consumer add-on services such as switching electricity providers and arranging home broadband, and is targeting intracity and on-demand removals as future growth areas. The company says new capital will be used for further growth and to achieve operational break-even. Movinga is a Berlin-based removals marketplace that aimed to use technology to deliver instant algorithmically-generated quotes and help removal companies aggregate jobs. The company reportedly burned through much of its $25M Series B, saw two founders leave amid an unsubstantiated allegation of impropriety, and laid off a quarter of its staff. Now under new management, Movinga has raised €17M in a Series C and is positioning to recover. Management says the startup has spent months bolstering its development team and building out the platform to rely far less on manual work for quoting and job organisation. Product work includes a partner portal where removal companies can apply for single or pooled jobs and receive priority based on quality scores from customers. According to the company and investors, the tech has now caught up to its original narrative and investor participation is a vote of confidence in its ability to scale. Movinga is a Berlin-based online relocation startup that offers technology-enabled moving services by bundling professional partners and its own fleet of moving vans. The company claims it can relocate customers for up to 70% less than average moving firms by harnessing excess capacity and efficiently allocating resources. Movinga emphasizes strong customer service as a differentiator from traditional, mostly offline moving companies. It currently operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK and plans to scale into Italy, the Benelux countries and Scandinavia. The startup is about a year old and has raised financing to support that expansion, including a recent $25 million round and an earlier €6 million funding round. Prior backers include Earlybird, Heilemann Ventures and various business angels such as Florian Heinemann and Philipp Kreibohm. Movinga is an online relocation company that sells and coordinates household moves using technology to bundle resources and manage logistics. The startup combines excess capacity from professional partners with its own fleet of moving vans to keep prices low. Movinga claims it can relocate customers for up to 70% less than average moving companies. The company emphasizes improved customer service compared with mostly offline incumbents. It currently operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK. The latest investment is intended to help the company scale into Italy, Benelux and Scandinavia. Financially, Movinga has raised multiple rounds and its total funding has reached the "8 figures."