Backing exceptional founders in FinTech and PropTech
Steve Anavi & Alexandre Prot
Qonto
Alexander Michel & Benjamin Michel
Finanzguru
Christian Schneider-Sickert
LIQID
Dr. Larissa Leitner & Dr. Annika von Mutius
Empion
Clemens Hammerl, Ibrahim Imam, Domagoj Dolinsek, Sander van de Rijdt, Constantin Köck
PlanRadar
Miriam Wohlfahrt, Nicolas Kipp, Fabian Heiß & Jens Röhrborn
Banxware
VR Ventures backs technology companies that innovate the financial and real estate economy. We invest where our expertise and network can empower management teams to achieve substantial growth and value.
3 Verticals:
FinTech, PropTech, B2B SaaS
Typical Stage:
Seed, Series A
Typical Ticket Size:
€0,5 - €2,0 Mio
At VR Ventures we support our portfolio companies through our unique network: with our close ties to the Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken – one of Europe’s biggest banking groups – we can kick start your early growth. We manage VR Ventures together with Redstones dedicated FinTech team and help you navigate through every day challenges of an early founder.
Lukas Zörner — VP Germany, Qonto
“The network of VR Ventures has been a real Value-Add to Penta (acquired by Qonto) along our journey. Working together with the great team at VR Ventures has also personally been very rewarding.”
Throughout the Corona crises, VR Ventures LPs offered access to KfW support loans for Pentas business clients, which Penta was not allowed to apply for.
Wladimir Nikoluk — CEO, Atlas Metrics
"The VR Ventures' deep network in the financial industry has helped us to jumpstart our traction and to upgrade our go-to-market."
VR Ventures helped Atlas Metrics to win its first banking and life insurance customers within a couple of months and increase its early MRR significantly. Needless to say, that VR Ventures uses Atlas Metrics for its own ESG reporting.
Annika Mutius — Managing Director, Empion
"As our lead investor, VR Ventures offers much more than just financial support. In addition to personal support in strategic and operational challenges, the network effects with Volksbank are a particularly great added value for us."
Within the first year in the VR Ventures portfolio Empion won over six of our bank-LPs as clients and increased its early MRR significantly.
Jens Röhrborn — CEO, Banxware
"VR Ventures was a great supporter of Banxware from the beginning. In fact they brought us the lead investor for the next round."
VR Ventures introduced Banxware to the lead investor of their Seed round. One of VR Ventures LPs was the first banking partner to provide Banxware with a total of 100 million euros in credit volume for SMEs.
Acatus is a financial services company that provides a debt capital markets platform for banks and other organizations.
Investment Year
2019
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Atlas Metrics ist the single source of truth for ESG data.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Backbone offers a platform for visualizations of any kind.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Embedded banking platform providing technology and resources for corporate finance.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Bergfürst is a crowdfunding platform for real estate making professional asset classes accessible to all.
Investment Year
2013
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
CURE Finance provides an intelligent digital bank for healing professions.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
ContractHero offers cloud-based contract management software for SMEs providing a complete overview of all their documents.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Empion is a data-driven job platform that matches companies and candidates based on company culture, values, and skills.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Finanzguru is the most intelligent financial assistant, giving users full control over their finances.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Finleap Connect enables the integration of banking functions with partners' products and applications.
Investment Year
2017
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
The SaaS software Flexcavo serves as a central platform for construction companies to manage their machinery fleets.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Flexperto enables seamless end-to-end communication and digitalizes sales activities.
Investment Year
2016
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Homaio is a direct investment platform for carbon allowances. It unlocks global compliance carbon markets for individual investors seeking to combine strong returns with real emissions reduction at scale. By doing so, it seeks to massively steer capital towards assets that effectively reduce emissions.
Investment Year
2023
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Hypatos offers automation of financial document processing for business, such as invoices.
Investment Year
2018
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Kertos turns data protection into actual compliance.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
LIQID is a digital asset manager focused on the investment needs of affluent private clients.
Investment Year
2017
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Marley Spoon is a cooking platform that offers recipes and allows its customers to order seasonal ingredients.
Investment Year
2017
Vertical
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Orus built an app-based one-stop-shop specialized in insuring SMEs — currently retailers, restaurants, freelancers, and small businesses. Its digital and fully individualized customer journey allows Orus to complete the full process, from online subscription (in 3 minutes) and tailored contracts to a digital claim management process that allows for reimbursement in just a few hours.
Investment Year
2023
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Palturai visualises connections between companies, institutions, and decision-makers.
Investment Year
2021
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Penta is a digital enterprise bank and offers a fast and secure approach to business banking.
Investment Year
2020
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
PlanRadar is a SaaS to communicate within construction and real estate projects.
Investment Year
2017
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Qonto is an online bank that provides financial tools for small and medium-sized businesses and freelancers.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Remind.me is a reminder service to stay on top of utility company notice periods.
Investment Year
2019
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
RightNow gives consumers comprehensive access to legal support.
Investment Year
2020
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Roobeo is a digital marketplace for construction tools, building materials and equipment.
Investment Year
2019
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Shore is a point of sale, inventory management, live reporting and E-Commerce all in one iPad app.
Investment Year
2016
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
Digital planning and processing of heater replacement, accelerating the energy transition.
Investment Year
2020
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
B2B structured lender that provides working capital facilities to SMEs and Mid-Cap companies.
Investment Year
2019
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
BVB Ventures
Co-Investors
With its payment layer, the Estonian financial service provider makes it possible to directly purchase NFTs with credit cards, simplifying the payment process.
Investment Year
2022
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
CarbonX is a leading Market Intelligence and provider of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Procurement, Financing and CDR Portfolio Risk Management services. The company expertly facilitates and manages CDR portfolios for global clients such as Adyen, BCG, or Euronext.
Investment Year
2024
Vertical
SaaS
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
Combine the virality of referral marketing with the immediacy of payment. Kohort makes the process of collaborating, paying, and saving totally seamless for the retailer and their customers by applying referral rewards on a purchase, even days after the purchase has been made. Integrated in minutes, Kohort’s gamified social checkout technology turns your customers into your brand’s most valuable influencers, increasing conversion and cutting customer acquisition costs in half.
Investment Year
2023
Vertical
FinTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
nuwo is the leading office furniture-as-a-service platform that helps companies design and digitally manage inspiring work environments. With a holistic full-service solution, nuwo offers more than just furniture. The company makes it easy to furnish, finance and manage workspaces in the office and at employees' homes. From large corporations to traditional medium-sized businesses, companies rely on nuwo as a reliable solution to create healthy, legally compliant and productive work environments.
Investment Year
2023
Vertical
PropTech
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
IBB Ventures, Haufe Group Ventures, Takkt AG
xAI is a company working on building artificial intelligence to accelerate human scientific discovery. xAI is guided by the mission to advance the collective understanding of the universe.
Investment Year
2024
Vertical
AI
Fund
VR Ventures
Co-Investors
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