Investors / Herbert
Herbert
Venture capital
Herbert is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed rounds, typically writing cheques of 500K to 1M and always co-investing with other VCs. It backs founder teams from Europe and partners with them wherever they build.
Invests inFintechEnterprise Software
In its own wordsearly-stagepre-seedseedfounder-ledeuropeoutliers
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Or find every investor that fitsHerbert lists 7 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Fintech (42%), Enterprise Software (17%) and AI & Machine Learning (8%). 75% of its companies are based in Switzerland. It invests most often alongside Adapt Ventures, Born Capital and Evolution-VC.
No funding round on record names Herbert yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 42% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 8% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 8% | 7% |
| Consumer | 8% | 3% |
| Education | 8% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 8% | 15% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7100%
- 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.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 12th | 7 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Herbert head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
7 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billte provides digital billing solutions for businesses | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Contextsdk builds a data infrastructure layer that collects and makes on-device contextual signals available for the entire ecosystem | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Pluto provides corporate card and spend management services, including expense management, procurement, and invoice management | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Lumvin provides LED lighting solutions and engineering services, focusing on sustainable retrofitting and technical product development. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Rheo improves the quality of care with vitals-based monitoring and AI predictions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Roundtable offers a platform and infrastructure for private markets, providing services for founders, investment clubs, fund managers, and investors to raise and invest funds efficiently. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| S2S Ventures provides student founders with a first check to kickstart their startups and works closely with them to raise their pre-seed round. | FintechEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- herbert.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 7
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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