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DvH Ventures
Venture capital · Cologne, Germany · Europe
DvH Ventures is an independent venture capital firm based in Cologne that manages several early-stage funds and invests in European startups. It supports portfolio companies with management expertise, an international investor network and a media-for-equity program giving access to publishing brands such as Handelsblatt, WirtschaftsWoche, DIE ZEIT and Der Tagesspiegel.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechFintech
In its own wordsdigital healtheducationfintechdeep techenterprise softwaremedia
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Or find every investor that fitsDvH Ventures lists 26 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (31%), Fintech (19%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (13%). 89% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Kickstart Innovation and Redstone.
Counts come from funding rounds that name DvH Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not DvH Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 26. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 50% |
| Growth | 50% |
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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 62th | 26 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 72th | 8% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 31% | 15% |
| Fintech | 19% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 13% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 9% | 8% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Kickstart Innovation | 2 |
| Redstone | 2 |
| Speedinvest | 2 |
| b2venture | 2 |
| Alstin Capital | 1 |
| Angel Invest | 1 |
| Bayer G4A | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers26100%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare DvH Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with DvH Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Mar 2025 | Series B | |
| 6 Mar 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for DvH Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in DvH Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
26 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35up is a specialized provider of intelligent cross- and upselling technology in e-commerce. | E-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Broken String Biosciences develops gene editing technology and provides bioinformatics products for genome-wide analysis | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Buynomics provides artificial intelligence for revenue growth management to help companies make better decisions based on shopper behavior. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Mar 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company offers various financial products, including flexible installment payments and online credit, to individuals and businesses. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Dermanostic provides online dermatological consultations and treatments through an app | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides digital solutions for shopfloor automation, including pick-by-light, e-kanban, and digital labeling. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Enote provides a digital library of sheet music with various features for musicians | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| HealthCaters provides biometric screenings and health insights to employees in the workplace | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mar 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |||
| Honic makes real world health data across silos accessible for research, including AI applications. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Juli enables patients to identify triggers of their condition by tracking all data that might be relevant to their wellness and provides recommendations for small behavior changes | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Liqid provides wealth management services to its clients. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| LiveEO provides AI-powered Earth Observation insights to help organizations mitigate risks such as deforestation, vegetation, and pipeline risks. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides funeral planning and bereavement services in Germany. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nect provides digital identity solutions for verification, signature, and communication | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Okko Health provides a home vision monitoring concierge service for patients between clinic appointments | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company delivers next generation intelligence for insulin pumps, smart pens and other medical devices | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| OptioPay provides a customer engagement platform for running reward campaigns and collecting customer data | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- dvhventures.de
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 26
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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