From the financial metropolis of Frankfurt, we are searching for start-ups in Europe that have the power to redefine financial services with their vision. Our investment focus here is on early-stage start-ups whose solutions create real added value, digitally and sustainably, for Commerzbank Group and its customers.
Our investment strategy
With our portfolio companies, we work every day on a common vision: the sustainable and digital transformation of the financial sector.
10
Active investments
0
Exits
0
Unicorn
250K - 3M
Investment sum
Seed - Series A
Investment focus
Europa
Region
Every day we are in exchange with ambitious founders and thus find the most innovative visions of tomorrow. Shortly after the product launch and the first sales, we provide much more than just capital.
In addition to the advantages of cooperating with the Commerzbank Group, we give our portfolio companies access to our investor network. With our industry insights, technical know-how and in-depth experience in banking, we provide support in all matters relating to the development of disruptive future companies.
Our committee
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Our Investment committee
Das Investmentkomitee vereint tiefgreifendes Branchenwissen mit langjähriger Erfahrung in der Beratung von Start-ups. Warum wir gerade diese Personen in unserem Komitee haben? Weil alle Mitglieder selbst Führungskräfte und Entscheider innerhalb der Commerzbank sind und dich somit bei allen wichtigen unternehmerischen Entscheidungen unterstützen können.
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Our committee
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H
Our Investment committee
Das Investmentkomitee vereint tiefgreifendes Branchenwissen mit langjähriger Erfahrung in der Beratung von Start-ups. Warum wir gerade diese Personen in unserem Komitee haben? Weil alle Mitglieder selbst Führungskräfte und Entscheider innerhalb der Commerzbank sind und dich somit bei allen wichtigen unternehmerischen Entscheidungen unterstützen können.
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Our committee
T
H
Our Investment committee
Das Investmentkomitee vereint tiefgreifendes Branchenwissen mit langjähriger Erfahrung in der Beratung von Start-ups. Warum wir gerade diese Personen in unserem Komitee haben? Weil alle Mitglieder selbst Führungskräfte und Entscheider innerhalb der Commerzbank sind und dich somit bei allen wichtigen unternehmerischen Entscheidungen unterstützen können.
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
Susanne Maulwurf
Investment Manager
Christina Koch
Investment Manager
See us in action
Our portfolio
With startups from the FinTech, B2B, SaaS, and Sustainability sectors, we combine ambitious innovations, successful products, and digital, sustainable services in our portfolio. We work with visionary companies that are shaping a better future, digitally and sustainably.
- All
- FinTech
- B2B SaaS
- Sustainability
About
21strategies is a B2B deep tech company specializing in protecting a company’s financial resilience against the risk of currency and commodity price fluctuations. Hedge21 intelligent decision support is at the forefront of your company’s currency business. Hedge21’s goal is to protect profits from losses in foreign currencies. 21Alpha, 21Steel and Swarm21 can be listed as verticals in this context.
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News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2020
Year of neosfer Investment
2020
Contact partner
Karim Menn
Senior Manager Strategy, Growth & Investments
About
21strategies is a B2B deep tech company specializing in protecting a company’s financial resilience against the risk of currency and commodity price fluctuations. Hedge21 intelligent decision support is at the forefront of your company’s currency business. Hedge21’s goal is to protect profits from losses in foreign currencies. 21Alpha, 21Steel and Swarm21 can be listed as verticals in this context.
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Founded
2020
Year of neosfer Investment
2020
Contact partner
Christoph Osburg
Senior Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Candis automates financial processes such as invoice receipt, data entry, invoice approval and data export for small and medium-sized businesses through artificial intelligence. Users only need to link bank, PayPal accounts or credit card and forward their receipts to Candis. Subsequently, approvals can be given by click with multi-step workflows, clear dashboard and convenient comment function can be used. Candis is the perfect pre-system to an accounting or ERP system.
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News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2015
Year of neosfer Investment
2017
Financing round
Series B
Contact partner
Matthias Lais
Managing Director
About
Candis automates financial processes such as invoice receipt, data entry, invoice approval and data export for small and medium-sized businesses through artificial intelligence. Users only need to link bank, PayPal accounts or credit card and forward their receipts to Candis. Subsequently, approvals can be given by click with multi-step workflows, clear dashboard and convenient comment function can be used. Candis is the perfect pre-system to an accounting or ERP system.
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Founded
2015
Year of neosfer Investment
2017
Financing round
Series B
Contact partner
Matthias Lais
Managing Director
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Dabbel offers a solution that helps to increase climate efficiency in commercial buildings and reduce energy consumption. As a software add-on, Dabbel replaces the manual control of the existing building control system with artificial intelligence and controls the energy systems autonomously and in real time.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2018
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Karim Menn
Senior Manager Strategy,
Growth & Investments
Growth & Investments
About
Dabbel offers a solution that helps to increase climate efficiency in commercial buildings and reduce energy consumption. As a software add-on, Dabbel replaces the manual control of the existing building control system with artificial intelligence and controls the energy systems autonomously and in real time.
Founded
2018
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Karim Menn
Senior Manager Strategy,
Growth & Investments
Growth & Investments
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Gini offers information extraction and digitization from documents – and uses OCR and artificial intelligence to transform unstructured documents into structured data. The best-known application is the photo transfer. Pay an invoice without having to type out the recipient’s details. Regardless of whether invoices are available as scans, PDFs or smartphone photos, all relevant information is read out specifically to fill out the transfer mask fully automatically.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2011
Year of neosfer Investment
2014
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
About
Gini offers information extraction and digitization from documents – and uses OCR and artificial intelligence to transform unstructured documents into structured data. The best-known application is the photo transfer. Pay an invoice without having to type out the recipient’s details. Regardless of whether invoices are available as scans, PDFs or smartphone photos, all relevant information is read out specifically to fill out the transfer mask fully automatically.
Founded
2011
Year of neosfer Investment
2014
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
With Open as App, custom apps can be created in minutes based on data in Excel, Google Sheets or databases. As the only self-service app creation provider, Open as App can automatically handle the logic (calculations/formulas) of data. No programming skills or IT resources are required to use Open as App. The data, calculations and logic are automatically transferred – even as a PDF and the apps created from them are immediately available on smartphones and on the web.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2016
Year of neosfer Investment
2017
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
About
With Open as App, custom apps can be created in minutes based on data in Excel, Google Sheets or databases. As the only self-service app creation provider, Open as App can automatically handle the logic (calculations/formulas) of data. No programming skills or IT resources are required to use Open as App. The data, calculations and logic are automatically transferred – even as a PDF and the apps created from them are immediately available on smartphones and on the web.
Founded
2016
Year of neosfer Investment
2017
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Scompler provides software for marketing and communications that makes understanding content, working with campaigns and thinking in stories holistically controllable. The solution focuses on strategic storytelling, the organization of corporate newsrooms, and the management of social media and content marketing.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2018
Year of neosfer Investment
2020
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
About
Scompler provides software for marketing and communications that makes understanding content, working with campaigns and thinking in stories holistically controllable. The solution focuses on strategic storytelling, the organization of corporate newsrooms, and the management of social media and content marketing.
Founded
2018
Year of neosfer Investment
2020
Contactpartner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
StockRepublic is a B2B2C social trading app that provides private investors with more guidance when making investment decisions. Users can link their bank account to the app, share their securities portfolios, follow like-minded people, publish analyses and, most importantly, compare their own portfolio with that of other users.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2019
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
About
StockRepublic is a B2B2C social trading app that provides private investors with more guidance when making investment decisions. Users can link their bank account to the app, share their securities portfolios, follow like-minded people, publish analyses and, most importantly, compare their own portfolio with that of other users.
Founded
2019
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Userlane provides digital adoption solutions, from software implementation to onboarding and customer support. Userlane helps companies increase software adoption and simplify and automate processes. A key feature of Userlane is its interactive guides. These work like a navigation system, guiding users through the software application step-by-step and in real time. This means that anyone can operate complex software immediately without any prior knowledge.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2016
Year of neosfer Investment
2016
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
About
Userlane provides digital adoption solutions, from software implementation to onboarding and customer support. Userlane helps companies increase software adoption and simplify and automate processes. A key feature of Userlane is its interactive guides. These work like a navigation system, guiding users through the software application step-by-step and in real time. This means that anyone can operate complex software immediately without any prior knowledge.
Founded
2016
Year of neosfer Investment
2016
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Authada offers digital solutions for legally secure identification in real time – both remotely and at the point of sale. The ID card contains a chip on which the personal data is stored. The Authada app turns the smartphone with NFC interface into a reader and transmits the data via an encrypted channel.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2015
Year of neosfer Investment
2018
Financing round
Series A
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
About
Authada offers digital solutions for legally secure identification in real time – both remotely and at the point of sale. The ID card contains a chip on which the personal data is stored. The Authada app turns the smartphone with NFC interface into a reader and transmits the data via an encrypted channel.
Founded
2015
Year of neosfer Investment
2018
Financing round
Series A
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Circula is a software platform for managing employee expenses, travel and benefits. With Circula’s app, employees can scan their receipts on the go and get reimbursed or subsidized. Supervisors then get an overview of all their employees’ transactions in an all-in-one app with effective automated workflows.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2017
Year of neosfer Investment
2019
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
About
Circula is a software platform for managing employee expenses, travel and benefits. With Circula’s app, employees can scan their receipts on the go and get reimbursed or subsidized. Supervisors then get an overview of all their employees’ transactions in an all-in-one app with effective automated workflows.
Founded
2017
Year of neosfer Investment
2019
Contact partner
Julian Bürklein
Senior Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Etvas is a B2B2C digital provider of add-on services that add value to business partners’ products and optimize customer touchpoints for better monetization and customer retention. The cloud API-based marketplace unites under one roof all providers of add-on services with customers from banks, insurance companies, online stores or mobile operators.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2019
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
About
Etvas is a B2B2C digital provider of add-on services that add value to business partners’ products and optimize customer touchpoints for better monetization and customer retention. The cloud API-based marketplace unites under one roof all providers of add-on services with customers from banks, insurance companies, online stores or mobile operators.
Founded
2019
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Sebastian Scheib
Investment Manager
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
Global Changer provides a carbon accounting tool for companies to quantify and reduce their Co2 footprint. In addition to calculating emissions and identifying reduction opportunities, Global Changer also allows for sustainability reporting and budgeting, as well as access to Co2 offsetting projects.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
Founded
2020
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Christina Koch
Investment Analyst
About
Global Changer provides a carbon accounting tool for companies to quantify and reduce their Co2 footprint. In addition to calculating emissions and identifying reduction opportunities, Global Changer also allows for sustainability reporting and budgeting, as well as access to Co2 offsetting projects.
Founded
2020
Year of neosfer Investment
2021
Contact partner
Christina Koch
Investment Analyst
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
02.01.2022
pliant bekommt $6,5 Millionen Seed-Finanzierung von Alstin und ...
About
OptioPay is a financial technology provider specializing in Open Banking for customer-centric, value-added solutions and bank data-based campaigns. OptioPay increases the value, flexibility and transparency of payouts by offering higher-value vouchers from numerous well-known retailers and service providers such as Adidas, Amazon, Douglas, Ikea, Lieferando, Otto, Rewe, Rossmann or Zalando as a payout option.
News & Press
21.02.2021
Fairown sichert sich Seed-Kapital i.H.v. 4,2 Mio. €
02.01.2022