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pd ventures
Corporate VC · Augsburg, Germany · Europe
pd ventures is the corporate venture arm of Mediengruppe Pressedruck in Augsburg, investing since 2009. It backs media-related web services and internet and mobile applications with innovative business models, and supports portfolio companies with synergies and network from the media group.
Invests inE-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment
In its own wordsmediaweb servicesmobileinternetsaasnatural language generation
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Or find every investor that fitspd ventures lists 3 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are E-commerce & Marketplaces (40%), AI & Machine Learning (20%) and Media & Entertainment (20%). 100% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Airbridge Equity Partners, Claret Capital Partners and HOWZAT Partners.
No funding round on record names pd ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Airbridge Equity Partners | 1 |
| Claret Capital Partners | 1 |
| HOWZAT Partners | 1 |
| Mountain Partners | 1 |
| Octopus Ventures | 1 |
| Riverside Acceleration Capital | 1 |
| Senovo | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers267%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company133%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 40% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 20% | 18% |
| Media & Entertainment | 20% | 4% |
| Education | 20% | 7% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Airbridge Equity Partners
Compare pd ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
3 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | |||
| Lingoda provides live online language classes with certified teachers | Education | Portfolio page | ||
| Ryte provides a platform for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing website user experience | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- pddigital.de
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 3
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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