Our Approach

What do we look for?

We invest in early stage startups (Pre-Seed - Series A) having a B2B software based business model.

 

Our preferred industries include Banking, Insurance, Public, Sports, Utilities, Manufacturing Industries and Mobility.


TECH4EQUITY & VENTURE CAPITAL

adesso ventures invests via venture capital and tech for equity. Our portfolio startups have access to rare top developers and IT-experts from the very start. Thus, we ensure an early market entry as well as high software quality and scalability. Furthermore, we support recruiting and training software development teams of our startups to ensure a smooth transition of knowledge and competencies.


ACCESS TO adesso INDUSTRIES

adesso ventures introduces portfolio startups to adesso customers in their respective industries. Thus, startups are getting valuable market feedback to reach early product-market-fit and to expand their customer base.

START-UP SUPPORT

Furthermore, adesso ventures supports in several ways business development, growth and fundraising.

Our Team

adesso ventures is the venture capital arm of the adesso Group. We are getting support of >8000 employees at 62 locations in 12 European countries.

GREGOR SCHWALD

Managing Director

MALTE UNGER

Managing Director


MERLIN HANNEMANN

Investment Manager

MAREIKE MARIEL WITTIG

Investment Analyst

ELMEDINA BLACA

Investment Analyst


DAVID SCHLICHT

Investment Analyst

JULIANE BURSY

Management Assistant


Our Portfolio

Digital health for chronic skin diseases


Open source authentication beyond passwords

Digital wound documentation 

Security-awareness-platform with customisable training courses


Document processing based on large language models and computer vision

Smart tennis court with AI-App

Central data infrastructure in the health sector to support research & development


Helps cloud-native companies take proactive security measures

Blockchain-based solution that significantly reduces costs and execution time in fund processing

 KI-based sales action recommendations


Physical therapy at home

The digital satchel

 The 360° platform for timber trade and AR measurement


News

investment in Passkeys startup

adesso ventures, the venture capital arm of the adesso Group, is investing in passkeys start-up Hanko. A new way to sign in that works completely without... more

new investment in digital wound care

A new startup investment in the health sector. WUNDERA offers digital wound documentation and other functions to digitise care... more

Data Protection Officer approves

Another milestone for the handling of data for better medicine. Honic is supported by the data protection authority of Baden-Württemberg and receives its approval... more


New Investment in the sector of cybersecurity

A full-service awareness platform with the aim of training companies in the areas of information security and data protection... more

A new health startup investment

Honic with its Medhive from Neckarsulm offers a health data platform for medicine and research "made in Germany"... more

iotis wins StartUp-Camp 2022

The startup with the smart soccer ball has won a three-month scholarship to the renowned Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley... more


 

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