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Prequel Ventures
Venture capital · Berlin, Germany · Europe
Prequel Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs founders building technology for Europe's industrial economy, including supply chain and production software. It invests pre-seed and seed checks of €50k to €250k and reports 24 portfolio companies.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordssupply chainindustrialroboticsartificial intelligencemanufacturinglogistics
Your fit with Prequel Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsPrequel Ventures lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (36%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (18%) and AI & Machine Learning (18%). 50% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Heartfelt, Backbone Ventures and D11Z.Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Prequel Ventures, 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 | 33% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 0% |
| 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 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 67th | 36% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Heartfelt | 2 |
| Backbone Ventures | 1 |
| D11Z.Ventures | 1 |
| High-Tech Gründerfonds | 1 |
| Kopa Ventures | 1 |
| PMV | 1 |
| Paladin Capital Group | 1 |
| Project A | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 36% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 18% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 9% | 1% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 9% | 1% |
| Legal & Compliance | 9% | 2% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Prequel Ventures 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 Prequel Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 5 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 3 Jul 2025 | Seed | |
| 4 Feb 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Prequel Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Prequel Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides an eAuction solution for procurement teams to manage negotiations and sourcing projects | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Feb 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Depotcharge operates a marketplace for charging electric vehicles at depots | Mobility & LogisticsE-commerce & Marketplaces | Sept 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Nautica Technologies develops robotic systems for maintaining and protecting ocean infrastructure | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Resourcly provides parts intelligence for manufacturing using AI to connect engineering and commercial data | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Valuemize develops product lifecycle cost management software | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| The company develops AI agents for transport and logistics | AI & Machine LearningLegal & Compliance | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- prequelvc.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 6
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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