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butterfly & elephant
Corporate VC · Germany · Europe
butterfly & elephant is the investment arm of GS1 Germany, described on the site as a Beteiligungsgesellschaft and accelerator. It invests capital and provides access to GS1 standards, industry partners, technology platforms and a community of companies in consumer goods, retail, e-commerce and healthcare.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense
In its own wordsconsumer goodsretaile-commercehealthcaregs1 standardsproptech
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Or find every investor that fitsbutterfly & elephant lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (21%), Space & Defense (21%) and Consumer (14%). 86% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside GGF, Heartfelt and IFB Innovationsstarter.
Counts come from funding rounds that name butterfly & elephant, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 19th | 9 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 21th | 21% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 21% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 21% | 3% |
| Consumer | 14% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Media & Entertainment | 7% | 4% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| GGF | 1 |
| Heartfelt | 1 |
| IFB Innovationsstarter | 1 |
| PMV | 1 |
| Peak | 1 |
| Prediction Capital | 1 |
| Seeder Fund | 1 |
| imec.istart | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare butterfly & elephant head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with butterfly & elephant| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Jul 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 29 May 2026 | Round | |
| 28 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 5 Feb 2026 | Series A |
Round details for butterfly & elephant
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in butterfly & elephant's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides digitalization and automation services for industrial processes, including product labeling and data analysis | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Amsight provides additive manufacturing quality management software for production teams | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Borro provides a digital deposit system for reusable cups, allowing for automatic refunds and tracking. | Space & DefenseFood & Agriculture | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Cyreen provides a retail media solution for measuring and analyzing consumer behavior in retail stores. | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Gardia produces and sells a smart arm band with fall detection and emergency call functions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company provides reusable shipping packaging solutions, including boxes and bags, for businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| info.link is the data platform that makes product information verified, structured, and citable by OpenAI and Google AI via GS1 Digital Link standard | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company tests and develops packaging return systems for beauty products | Consumer | May 2026Round | Funding round | |
| SLACE connects customers with local retailers through various messaging platforms and helps increase customer frequency and sales | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- butterphant.de
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 5 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 9
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