Private Equity GPs in Germany
Discover private equity GPs in Germany. The German PE market is Europe's third largest, driven by a deep Mittelstand ecosystem and increasing buyout and growth activity.
Yabeo
Yabeo is a boutique family-money-backed venture capital firm founded in 2011 and based in Pullach near Munich, investing in early-stage tech startups…
PATRIZIA SE
PATRIZIA SE is a listed Augsburg-headquartered global real-assets manager whose infrastructure equity arm (built on the 2022 acquisition of Whitehelm…
Athos
Athos (ATHOS KG / Athos Service GmbH) is the Munich-based single-family office and direct-investment arm of twins Andreas and Thomas Struengmann, who…
Triton Partners
Triton is a European mid-market private equity and credit investor founded in 1997 by Peder Prahl and owned by its partners, with operational headquar…
KGAL
KGAL is a Gruenwald-based real-asset investment manager founded in 1968 that manages around EUR 15 billion for institutional and private investors acr…
Viessmann Generations Group
Viessmann Generations Group is the Allendorf-based family-equity and holding platform of the Viessmann family, recast as a dedicated investment vehicl…
L. Possehl & Co. mbH (Possehl Group)
Possehl is a Luebeck-based, foundation-owned industrial holding whose sole shareholder has been the non-profit Possehl-Stiftung since 1919. It runs an…
Luxcara
Luxcara is an independent, management-owned asset manager based in Hamburg, founded in 2009, investing institutional capital in energy-transition infr…
BU Bregal Unternehmerkapital
DACH mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in Munich in 2015 by Florian Schick and Jan-Daniel Neumann together with the Brenninkmeijer family (C a…
Aquila Capital
Aquila Capital is a Hamburg-based alternative investment manager and BaFin-licensed AIFM founded in 2001 by Roman Rosslenbroich and Dieter Rentsch, fo…
Armira
Armira is a Munich-based investment holding founded in 2008 by Alexander Schemann that invests permanent capital from entrepreneur families and long-t…
Castik Capital
Castik Capital is a European private equity firm founded in June 2014 by Michael Phillips and partners spinning out of Apax, investing through its EPI…
NORD Holding
Hannover private equity investor founded in 1969 and rooted in the Sparkassen savings-bank and VGH insurance orbit, with EUR 5.0bn in assets under man…
Prime Capital
Prime Capital AG is an independent Frankfurt-based alternatives manager founded in 2006 by Wolfgang Stolz, running roughly EUR 4.3bn of assets under m…
DPE Deutsche Private Equity
Munich mid-market buyout and growth firm founded in 2007 by Marc Thiery and Volker Hichert, initially operating as Parcom Deutsche Private Equity. DPE…
Elvaston Capital Management
Elvaston Capital Management is a Berlin-based, entrepreneur-led private equity firm founded in 2009 by Dr. Oliver Thum and Dr. Thomas Keul, specializi…
Target Global
Target Global is a Berlin-headquartered pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Shmuel Chafets and Yaron Valler, investing from seed to p…
HV Capital
HV Capital is a Munich and Berlin based venture capital firm founded in 2000 as Holtzbrinck Ventures, the corporate VC arm of the Holtzbrinck publishi…
CYCAP Asset Management
CEE Group is a Hamburg-based renewable-energy infrastructure asset manager founded in 2000, managing around EUR 2.7bn across onshore wind, solar PV an…
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) is a Frankfurt-listed private equity firm (SDAX, HRB 52491) founded in 1965 and listed since 1985, the first German PE…
Earlybird Venture Capital
One of Europe most experienced venture capital firms (Berlin/Munich, founded 1997), investing across technology and life sciences from seed to growth…
Franz Haniel & Cie
Franz Haniel & Cie. is a wholly family-owned investment holding based in Duisburg and founded in 1756, pursuing an enkelfaehig (grandchild-proof) fami…
Paragon Partners
Paragon Partners is a Munich-based private equity firm founded in 2004 that acquires mid-market companies in the DACH region with operational improvem…
Bertelsmann Investments
Bertelsmann Investments is the corporate venture capital umbrella of German media and services group Bertelsmann, bundling the group's global VC funds…
AGIC Capital
AGIC Capital is a Euro-Asian private equity firm founded in 2015 by Henry Cai, investing in industrial technology, advanced manufacturing and healthca…
Rocket Internet SE
Rocket Internet SE is a Berlin-based company builder and evergreen technology holding founded in 2007 by brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer. I…
Global Founders Capital
Global Founders Capital (GFC Global Founders Capital GmbH) is the Berlin-based, stage-agnostic venture capital platform of Rocket Internet, founded in…
Leaps by Bayer
Leaps by Bayer is the impact-focused corporate venture capital arm of Bayer AG, founded in 2015 to invest off the company balance sheet in transformat…
capiton
Berlin mid-market buyout firm founded in 1999 as the private equity arm of the Gothaer insurance group and made independent through a management buyou…
Allianz X
Allianz X is the digital investments arm of Allianz Group, a Munich-based corporate venture capital unit founded in 2016 that makes late-stage growth…
Picus Capital
Picus Capital is a Munich-based early-stage technology venture firm founded in 2015 by Alexander Samwer, Jeremias Heinrich and Robin Godenrath, invest…
Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-headquartered early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by former Zalando operators Filip Dames and Christian Meerm…
dievini Hopp BioTech holding
dievini Hopp BioTech holding is the evergreen life-sciences family-office holding of SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp and his family, based in Walldorf, Ge…
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF)
Germany most active seed-stage venture capital investor (Bonn, public-private partnership founded 2005), having backed 700+ high-tech startups across…
MIG Capital
MIG Capital is a Munich-based venture capital manager that invests in early and growth-stage deeptech and life-sciences companies across German-speaki…
Bosch Ventures
Bosch Ventures (formerly Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, rebranded 2024) is the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, founded in 2007 a…
Project A Ventures
Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage operational venture capital firm founded in 2012, backing pre-seed and seed technology startups acros…
ATON GmbH
ATON GmbH is the Munich-based evergreen industrial holding of the Helmig family, founded in 2001 by Dr. Lutz M. Helmig after the sale of Helios Klinik…
Maxburg Capital Partners
Maxburg Capital Partners is a Munich-based private equity manager founded in 2014 that invests exclusively on behalf of the RAG-Stiftung. It runs a hi…
Auctus Capital Partners
Munich independent lower-mid-market private-equity firm (founded 2001) specializing in buy-and-build/buyout platforms for DACH SMEs, with offices in M…
Hitachi Ventures
Hitachi Ventures is the global corporate venture capital arm of Japan's Hitachi group, operationally headquartered in Munich with offices in Palo Alto…
MBB SE
MBB SE is a listed, family-led German industrial holding company headquartered in Berlin, founded in 1995 as Nesemeier and Freimuth GmbH and listed on…
Hannover Finanz
Hannover Finanz is one of Germany's oldest independent private equity houses, founded in 1979 and based in Hannover. It is an owner-managed, second-ge…
Quadriga Capital
Frankfurt mid-market control-buyout firm operating since around 1990, investing in DACH healthcare, tech-enabled services and smart-industry companies…
Adiuva Capital
Adiuva Capital is a Hamburg-based, entrepreneur-backed small and mid-cap private equity investor founded in 2011, independent of institutional interes…
BID Equity
BID Equity is a Hamburg-based private equity firm founded in 2016 by three former BCG consultants that invests exclusively in European B2B software co…
EMERAM Capital Partners
EMERAM Capital Partners is a Munich-based mid-market private equity firm founded in January 2012 that invests in German-speaking companies across thre…
Orlando Management
Orlando Management is a Munich-based private equity advisor specialising in special situations, turnarounds, corporate carve-outs and succession deals…
Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners
Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners, known as UVC Partners, is a Munich-based early-stage and growth venture capital firm founded in 2011 that bac…
LIVIA Group
LIVIA Group is the independent industrial holding and private investment firm of Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Loew, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Munich…
Acton Capital
Acton Capital is a Munich-based growth-equity and late-stage venture firm founded in 1999 as the investment team of Hubert Burda Media (Burda Digital…
Certina Holding
Certina Holding (branded CERTINA GROUP) is a Munich-area family industrial holding founded in 1997 by Dr. Hans Wehrmann and headquartered in Gruenwald…
Yttrium
Yttrium is a Munich-based B2B technology growth equity investor that partners with management teams of fast-growing software and software-enabled serv…
INDUS Holding AG
INDUS Holding AG is a listed (SDAX, ticker INH, ISIN DE0006200108) German buy-and-hold industrial holding based in Bergisch Gladbach, founded in 1989…
Bayern Kapital
Bavaria public venture-capital company (subsidiary of LfA Foerderbank Bayern) making direct minority equity investments in high-tech Bavarian startups…
Point Nine Capital
Point Nine (P9) is a Berlin-based thesis-driven early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Christoph Janz and Pawel Chudzinski, specializing…
Mutares
Mutares SE & Co. KGaA is a Munich-listed (SDAX) private equity holding founded in 2008 by Robin Laik that acquires corporate carve-outs and companies…
Deutsche Balaton Aktiengesellschaft
Deutsche Balaton AG is a Heidelberg-based, publicly listed evergreen investment and holding company founded in 1991 and controlled by Wilhelm K.T. Zou…
Redstone
Redstone is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 that operates a VC-as-a-Service model, managing multiple sector and themat…
Visionaries Club
Visionaries Club is a Berlin- and London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok, focused on Euro…
Maguar Capital
Maguar Capital Partners is a Munich-based private equity firm founded in 2019 that backs B2B software companies in the DACH small-cap segment, typical…
Halder
Halder is a Frankfurt-based mid-market private equity firm investing in profitable German-speaking (DACH) Mittelstand companies via management buy-out…
CommerzVentures
CommerzVentures is a Frankfurt-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 as the corporate venture arm of Commerzbank, becoming an independent investm…
468 Capital
468 Capital is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Ludwig Ensthaler, Florian Leibert and Alexander Kudlich, with additi…
EOS Partners
EOS Partners is a Munich-based small-mid buyout firm founded in 2015 that pursues majority buyouts of DACH SME category leaders in software and IT-ena…
Nordwind Growth
Nordwind Growth, formerly Nordwind Capital, is a Munich-based growth and small-mid buyout investor founded in 2012 that backs high-growth technology c…
bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thueringen
bm-t Beteiligungsmanagement Thueringen (bm|t) is the public venture capital and private equity arm of the Free State of Thuringia, based in Erfurt and…
BlueYard Capital
BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based deep-tech venture capital firm founded in 2016 by former Earlybird partners Ciaran O'Leary and Jason Whitmire. It i…
Burda Principal Investments
Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is the growth-capital division of Hubert Burda Media, founded in 2016 and investing the family-owned media group's b…
Borromin Capital Management
Independent Frankfurt mid-market buyout firm doing majority deals in the DACH region and Benelux across industrials, consumer and business services. S…
BMH Beteiligungsmanagement Hessen
Hessen public mid-market equity and venture-capital investor (Wiesbaden, 100pc Helaba subsidiary), taking direct open equity (offene Beteiligung) in y…
PINOVA Capital
Independent Munich private-equity firm founded in 2007, providing growth capital and succession solutions to fast-growing niche technology and industr…
Vsquared Ventures
Vsquared Ventures is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2020 that backs European deep-tech companies from pre-seed to Series A…
CMP Capital Management-Partners
CMP Capital Management-Partners is a Berlin-based private equity manager founded in 2000, one of the first German firms specialised in turnaround and…
FLEX Capital
FLEX Capital is a Berlin-based operational private equity firm founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneurs Christoph Jost and Peter Waleczek, investing in…
Callista Private Equity
Munich-based turnaround and carve-out investor founded in 2013 that acquires majority stakes in loss-making, non-core group subsidiaries and business…
DB1 Ventures
DB1 Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Boerse Group, launched in July 2016 and based in Frankfurt. It invests off the Group bal…
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners is a Muenster-based venture capital firm founded in 1999 that funds early to growth stage deep-tech companies in sof…
Porsche Ventures
Porsche Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Porsche AG, founded in 2016 and investing off the company balance sheet under an annual frame…
Vorwerk Ventures
Vorwerk Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2007 as Vorwerk Direct Selling Ventures, the corporate venture arm of t…
Arcadia Beteiligungen Bensel Tiefenbacher & Co. GmbH
Arcadia Beteiligungen is a Hamburg-based small-mid buyout firm founded in 2000 by Wolfgang Bensel, Christoph Tiefenbacher and Mathias Turwitt, three m…
Perusa
Perusa is a Munich-based private equity firm specialised in acquiring and developing mid-sized companies in transformation, carve-out, succession and…
Acathia Capital
Acathia Capital is a Frankfurt-based private equity firm founded in 2013 that value-invests in fully regulated European insurers, banks and financial…
Bavaria Industries Group
Bavaria Industries Group AG (formerly Bavaria Industriekapital AG) is a Munich-based evergreen industrial holding founded in 2003 that acquires, restr…
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF) is the corporate venture arm of pharma group Boehringer Ingelheim, launched in 2010 and headquartered in Inge…
Capnamic Ventures
Early-stage (pre-seed to Series A) B2B software and deep-tech venture capital firm based in Cologne and Berlin, backing tech startups from German-spea…
BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft
Bavaria largest SME equity investor (Munich, founded 1972): an evergreen off-balance-sheet Mittelstand investor providing direct minority equity (offe…
BWK GmbH Unternehmensbeteiligungsgesellschaft
BWK is a Stuttgart-based evergreen Mittelstand investment company founded in 1990, backed by LBBW (40 percent), Wuestenrot and Wuerttembergische (35 p…
Cusp Capital Partners
Cusp Capital Partners is an Essen-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by the former Tengelmann Ventures team led by Christian Winte…
ECBF Management GmbH
ECBF Management GmbH, based in Bonn, is the management company of the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, the first venture capital fund exclusively de…
Henkel Ventures
Henkel Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of German consumer-goods and adhesives group Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, headquartered in Duesseldorf.…
Novum Capital Management
Frankfurt mid-market private-equity boutique founded in 2006 by Udo von Klot-Heydenfeldt and Felix Hoelzer, focused on succession deals, carve-outs an…
Süd Beteiligungen (SüdBG)
Stuttgart-based mid-market private equity investor and a wholly owned subsidiary of Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW), providing majority and minor…
WF World Fund Management
World Fund is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2021 that backs European climate-tech startups with the potential to save at least 100 me…
Alstin Capital
Alstin Capital is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm founded by German entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer that backs late-seed and Series A…
Apollo Health Ventures
Apollo Health Ventures is a transatlantic early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 with dual offices in Berlin and Boston (plus Luxembourg) th…
coparion
coparion is a Cologne-based venture capital co-investment fund launched in 2016 by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (via the ERP Specia…
Ananda Impact Ventures
Ananda Impact Ventures is a Munich-based impact venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Johannes Weber and Florian Erber, widely regarded as one of Eu…
GESCO SE
GESCO SE is a listed evergreen industrial holding based in Wuppertal that acquires, holds and develops profitable German Mittelstand companies under a…
Cavalry Ventures
Cavalry Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in European software startups,…
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