About
Vealo Ventures GmbH is an investment and holding company founded in 2014 by Christian Dereser to bring together his several entrepreneurial projects. Since then, Vealo Ventures has invested in numerous successful technology startups, with the goal to bring together outstanding ideas, strong personalities, and capital to build successful companies.
Portfolio
Munich, Germany
StudySmarter is a leading EdTech startup, awarded „Best Educational App Worldwide“ for its intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. StudySmarter’s vision is to leverage state-of-the-art technology to empower everyone to achieve their educational goals.
Berlin, Germany
vetevo is a leading provider of personalized pet care. It supports pet owners to help their pets lead happier and healthier lives. With its holistic approach to pet health, combining pet care with intuitive products, education, exercise, and nutrition, vetevo has become one of the most popular apps for pet healthcare.
Nuremberg, Germany
With data from thousands of providers and millions of connections, CheckMyBus is one of the leading international search engines for bus connections. CheckMyBus shows rides and prices in over 80 countries in real time and compares them with rail and air connections.
Berlin, Germany
Creative and digital media such as blogs, magazines, podcasts, and YouTube channels use Steady to turn their communities into paying members, including publishers such as Titanic, Der Postillon, and Krautreporter. Steady was awarded the European Digital Media Award in the category “Best Paid Content Strategy.”
Berlin, Germany
unea is creating the operating system for media monetization. With its platform unea is empowering retail and eCommerce companies to transform into successful media and advertising businesses.
Berlin, Germany
mymoria, founded in 2015, is Germany’s pioneer in online funeral planning and web-based funeral provision. Since 2020, mymoria has also been offering its service offline in its funeral boutiques in more and more cities.
Hamburg, Germany
UNOWN is an end-to-end platform for the post-ownership economy. The company enables brands to secure a share in the growing leasing market and customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. UNOWN´s service enables them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
Berlin, Germany
The Berlin-based FinTech QUIN Technologies helps private investors create portfolios according to their individual needs and interact with their friends and the community. With the getquin app, customers have a digital and free investment advisor at their fingertips, which they can use to easily optimize their financial investments.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm based Apotekamo provides Northern European e-commerce excellence to Eastern European markets within pharmacy and health. In a very short time, Apotekamo has taken a leading position among online pharmacies in Southeastern Europe and continues to expand.
Berlin, Germany
Sygns is building the leading centralised platform for the custom made branding industry. The company offers all products and services in the premium signage ecosystem, ranging from handcrafted neon signs to powder-coated channel letters. As a one stop shop, Sygns takes their customer´s ideas and handles every step from technical specification to installation on their wall.
Hamburg, Germany
Planet A Ventures provides early-stage funding and mentoring to startups adressing the world‘s most urgent environmental problems. One of the keys to success is measuring and forecasting the positive ecological impact of the portfolio companies. Vealo Ventures was one of the first backers to invest in the fund, Christian is a member of the Planet A Network (PAN).
Berlin, Germany
SIRIUS is a Music Tech startup with the mission to provide easy access to music education for everyone who loves music. By using innovative technologies, SIRIUS enables musicians all over the world to connect with each other and realize online music lessons at the highest level.
This is how Vealo Ventures invests
News
Planet A Ventures closes its first fund of €160 million
Planet A Ventures supports green-tech startups in Europe. The fund´s mission is to back founders tackling the world‘s largest environmental problems. It has now closed its science-backed climate fund at €160 million. The fund’s investors include REWE, BMW and KfW Capital.
source: TechCrunch
Social trading platform getquin raises $15 million in Series A round
Fast-growing social network for investors, getquin, receives new investment for its expansion with participation from Portage Ventures (Clark) and Horizons Ventures (Wefox, N26), among others. With getquin investors can analyze, monitor and discuss multiple asset classes like stocks, ETF or crypto currencies.
source: financefwd.com (German)
Music data analytics platform ForTunes is acquired by Utopia Music
Vienna-based data analytics platform ForTunes is acquired by Utopia Music. ForTunes was founded in 2015 to help bands, musicians and producers understand and grow their audience. With its global user base, the app fits perfectly into Utopia’s portfolio.
source: musicbusinessworldwide.com
Stockholm based Apotekamo raises 23 million SEK
The leading online pharmacy in central and southeastern Europe, Apotekamo, closed a SEK 23 million Series A round. Its rapid growth convinced several investors, including existing shareholders like Vealo Ventures, to participate in this capital round. The money is intended to strengthen Apotekamo´s continued expansion and technology development.
source: epti.com
StudySmarter secures $16 million Series A extension
In an expansion of its Series A financing round, StudySmarter added $16 million funding from Silicon Valley-based VC Goodwater Capital, bringing the round total to $31 million. Goodwater Capital (Facebook, Twitter, Spotify) thus continues the investment series of numerous world-class investors in the rapidly growing Munich-based EdTech startup.
source: silicon canals
15 Millionen Euro für mymoria in Series C-Finanzierungsrunde
Mit dem Ziel, in drei Jahren zum deutschen Marktführer zu werden, sichert sich mymoria 15 Millionen Euro in einer Series C-Finanzierungsrunde. Das Geld wird verwendet für den Ausbau der ganzheitlichen Weiterentwicklung, beispielsweise für Zukäufe und Integration von traditionellen Bestattungshäusern in die digital geprägte mymoria Gruppe.
source: de.finance.yahoo.com (German)
Purpose-driven Investments
Vealo Ventures encourages its portfolio companies to behave responsibly in environmental and social matters. Financing companies and projects that address the urgent problems the world is facing is becoming an increasingly important part of Vealo Ventures‘ activities.
To help with this idea, Vealo Ventures has set up a fund to help dedicated people realize their ideas for a better world: Vealo Visions.
Vealo Ventures has been sourcing green power since its founding and is climate positive.