xDeck
Vitalisstraße 67, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 50827, Germany
Overview
We are xdeck. from founders, for founders. xdeck is Germany’s first startup accelerator from founders for founders and not for profit. xdeck is a venture-platform that accelerates and invests into innovative, data-enabled tech startups. xdeck is seed-funded by the founders of FOND OF and made possible through strong partners: Capnamic Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Deutsche Bank, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Kienbaum Consultants International, Köln Business, McKinsey & Company, Volksbank Köln Bonn. Get in touch if you are looking for a strong network, access to funding and operative know-how. No frills. no fuss.
- Total investments
- 24
- Lead investments
- 3
- Investments · 12mo
- 8
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Information Technology
- Internet
- Software
Investment portfolio
- LawX
Participated · Seed · May 2026
LawX develops an AI-driven platform that automates operational processes for law firms and notaries, including data capture, workflow management, document handling, contact and calendar management, and billing. The platform combines case management, workflow automation, document processing, communication management and billing within a single system. LawX positions itself to address fragmented legacy systems and labour shortages that leave many operational tasks manual across the legal sector. The company plans to expand its product offering into the broader law firm market and aims to become a leading operating system for legal work across Europe. Following its €7.5 million seed raise, LawX intends to use the funding to continue product development, expand the platform, and scale sales and customer support functions.
- Omniscient
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
Founded by former McKinsey consultants Arnaud d’Estienne and Mehdi Benseghir, Omniscient provides a unified intelligence layer for senior leadership. Its AI-driven platform aggregates and contextualises data from sources including media, social platforms, and internal systems. A network of specialised AI agents analyses areas such as regulatory developments, supply chains, and competitive activity and synthesises outputs into concise, real-time briefings. The system is designed to operate across multiple markets and languages and to continuously adapt to each organisation’s context. Omniscient is already working with global companies and is expanding capabilities toward predictive and prescriptive analytics. The company recently raised $4.1 million in pre-seed funding to support engineering hires, product development, and commercial expansion.
- AVES Reality
Participated · Seed · Jan 2026
AVES Reality develops AI models and procedural reconstruction algorithms that transform satellite and airborne image data into deterministic, physics-consistent 3D digital twins. These highly accurate virtual environments enable customers to train, simulate and validate autonomous systems before real-world deployment, addressing the lack of scalable, repeatable test settings. Through its cloud-based AVES-Launcher platform, simulations for new geographic areas can be generated in minutes instead of months, and the company already works with leading automotive OEMs on virtual validation of autonomous vehicles. AVES Reality is also collaborating with NVIDIA on reference workflows that supply structured synthetic data to world foundation models such as NVIDIA COSMOS, and it has demonstrated early use cases in smart-city traffic monitoring. Investors view the company as a key enabler at the intersection of geospatial AI, autonomy, simulation and world modeling. Capital from the latest seed round will be directed toward further technology development, scaling operations and expanding into new markets. Existing investors’ continued participation signals sustained confidence, although no revenue or user figures have been disclosed.
- Orq.ai
Participated · Seed · Dec 2025
Founded in 2022 and based in Amsterdam, Orq.ai offers a unified control layer that covers the entire AI agent lifecycle—from experimentation and evaluation to observability, governance, and runtime. The platform is designed to close the "production gap" that often prevents enterprise AI prototypes from operating reliably at scale, giving engineering teams clarity on model behaviour, data flows, and regulatory compliance. Its architecture lets customers run AI workloads on their own infrastructure, satisfy data-residency requirements, and reduce dependence on external providers—features that resonate with highly regulated industries and the public sector. Unlike point solutions focused on a single step, Orq.ai bundles experimentation, AI gateway, monitoring, and governance in a single environment, simplifying industrial-grade deployments. With regulatory pressures such as GDPR and the forthcoming EU AI Act intensifying, the company positions itself as essential infrastructure for compliant AI operations. To date, Orq.ai has raised a total of €7.3 million. The newly secured capital will be used to grow its engineering, enterprise sales, and customer-success teams, deepen its European footprint, and kick-start expansion in North America.
- Scavenger AI
Participated · Seed · Oct 2025
Frankfurt-based Scavenger AI builds a single, natural-language interface that connects to ERP, CRM, SQL and other internal systems so employees across finance, operations and sales can retrieve quantitative insights in seconds. The product emphasizes full traceability, GDPR compliance and explainability, positioning itself as a European alternative to U.S. business-intelligence tools and targeting the large SME segment in the DACH region. Current customers include Telekom, Mann & Schröder and Wangen Pumpen. By eliminating reliance on spreadsheets, dashboards and scarce data talent, the platform aims to democratize data-driven decision making across an organization. The company has secured €2.5 million in seed capital to date. With this funding, Scavenger AI plans to accelerate product development and broaden its rollout across Europe, bringing enterprise-grade analytics to a wider range of small and mid-sized companies.
Team
Dennis Zeiler
Senior Investment Manager
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