Berlin startup directory
Hand-picked startups, investors, and ecosystem operators in Berlin, with a custom city illustration in europe-startup-guide.com brand colors.
Showing 1–20 of 160 Berlin · Germany
Other cities in Germany
Berlin · Germany results
-
Accelerate Tomorrow AI Summit 2027
Europe's #1 AI summit for business, bringing together 2,000+ business leaders, AI pioneers, and enterprise innovators. They share real-world cases, proven implementation strategies, and the lessons behind successful AI initiatives that help organizations turn AI ambition into enterprise-wide transformation and competitive advantage.
-
Agesync
Agesync (Agesync GmbH), established in 2024 and based in Berlin (with a presence in New York), is a physician-led longevity platform that combines at-home blood diagnostics measuring 40-60+ biomarkers with a network of licensed EU doctors who review results and prescribe personalized hormonal therapy, nutrition, training, and supplement protocols. Its dashboard tracks biomarker trends, protocol adherence, and wearable data such as HRV and sleep over quarterly retesting cycles, and its labs are ISO 15189-certified partners in the EU and US.
-
AI, Data & Quantum Summit 2026 (September 2026)
AIDAQ is one of Europe's largest conferences on artificial intelligence, data and quantum technologies, convening thousands of attendees, hundreds of speakers and many sessions across multiple tracks. It brings together business, policy and science leaders. It is highly founder-relevant, featuring a DeepTech Pitch, a free startup showcase area for selected AI and quantum startups, and a deep-tech founder network.
-
Amorelie
Amorelie was founded in 2013 in Berlin by Lea-Sophie Cramer and Sebastian Pollok as a sexual-wellness e-commerce brand aimed at mainstream, design-conscious consumers. ProSiebenSat.1 began investing in 2014 and acquired a majority stake in 2015, with the company valued at close to €100M by 2018. Both founders had exited management by 2020, and the business was subsequently sold on to the EQOM Group.
-
André Zayarni
André Zayarni is Co-founder & CEO of the vector-database company Qdrant. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, André leads the vector-database company Qdrant.
-
Angel Invest
Angel Invest is a Berlin-based super-angel fund founded in 2018 by Jens Lapinski and Jenny Apostel, positioning itself as one of Europe's most active early-stage investors. The fund targets pre-seed and seed-stage European technology startups, writing roughly €100k–€125k cheques across dozens of investments per year. Lapinski previously led Techstars Berlin, and the fund's portfolio companies have collectively raised hundreds of millions in follow-on funding.
-
Antler Berlin
Antler Berlin is the German branch of Antler's day-zero venture-building model, designed for people who want to start companies before they have a finished team or fully formed idea. Instead of operating like a conventional accelerator that waits for startups to apply, Antler brings together selected founders, operators, and domain experts, then structures an intensive process around co-founder matching, problem discovery, validation, and early company formation. The Berlin program matters because it plugs into one of Europe's deepest pools of technical, industrial, and cross-border startup talent. It is especially relevant for B2B SaaS, climate, and deep-tech founders who need both an initial company-building framework and access to follow-on capital. In ecosystem terms, Antler Berlin sits at the very beginning of the funding pipeline, upstream from seed funds and growth investors. That makes it a useful counterpart to more established accelerators and incubators already in the directory, broadening coverage of how new startups are formed in Germany before they become visible to mainstream venture capital. It also reinforces the directory's mapping of institutions that shape founder formation, not just later-stage company financing.
-
Arbio
Arbio Group is a Berlin-based proptech company that operates an AI-native operating system for managing short-term rentals and serviced apartments across Europe. It combines full-stack property management services with technology to automate core operations including dynamic pricing optimisation, guest communication, accounting, and distribution across booking platforms, while keeping human oversight for hospitality quality. The company has grown partly through strategic acquisitions of existing property-management portfolios, and serves property owners and managers across the DACH region and beyond.
-
AUTO1 Group
AUTO1 Group is Europe's leading digital automotive platform, founded in Berlin in 2012 by Christian Bertermann and Hakan Koç. The company connects used car buyers and sellers across Europe through its B2B platform AUTO1.com for trade dealers and its B2C brand Autohero for consumers. Listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2021 (ticker: AG1), AUTO1 Group has a market capitalisation of approximately €5.5 billion as of May 2026 and employs nearly 7,000 people.
-
Barkibu
Barkibu is a pet health insurance company offering insurance-backed veterinary cost coverage for dogs and cats, allowing pet owners to visit any vet clinic and get reimbursed for illness and accident treatment. Its terms of use identify Barkibu Germany GmbH, registered at Rosenthaler Strasse 72A, 10119 Berlin, as the licensed European insurance intermediary operating the service, registered with ORIAS and supervised by France's Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution for its French market activities.
-
Bitkom
Germany's leading digital industry association representing over 2,200 companies in the digital economy. Bitkom organizes startup visibility formats including the Innovators' Pitch competition and the hub.berlin conference, connecting early-stage founders with established tech corporates and policymakers shaping Europe's digital landscape.
-
Blockbrain
Blockbrain builds private enterprise AI assistants that connect to internal knowledge tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and email. The platform creates context-aware internal search and answer workflows to reduce information fragmentation and speed up employee access to institutional knowledge.
-
CarOnSale
CarOnSale is a Berlin-based B2B digital marketplace for used-car wholesale trading across Europe. Licensed car dealers and OEMs use the platform to list, appraise, auction, buy, and sell used vehicles to professional buyers. Beyond the auction itself, CarOnSale operates an integrated software ecosystem that bundles ancillary services such as vehicle inspections and reports, logistics and transportation, financing, pricing algorithms with guaranteed pricing, and payment processing, aiming to streamline cross-border transactions between dealers. The company is also Mercedes-Benz's partner for marketing lease returns and demonstration vehicles in Europe.
-
CCW (Call Center World) 2026
Customer service and contact center event centered on AI, automation, and CX tech. Price: expo-only often free/low cost; congress passes about EUR 1500+. Good for chatbot and voice automation startups.
-
CCW (Call Center World) 2027
CCW 2027 restructures into four Masterdays running 22-25 February in Berlin - Future Readiness Day, Customer Love Day, Touchpoint Excellence Day and AI Transformation Day - with the exhibition running 23-25 February. Billed as Europe's home of customer service, CX and AI for over 27 years, the event covers innovation in customer dialogue.
-
Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Filip Dames, Christian Meermann, and Daniel Glasner, three serial founders who previously built and exited companies in the Rocket Internet orbit and wanted a fund that operated like an ex-operator first-round partner rather than a traditional generalist. The firm has grown into one of the most consistently visible seed funds in Europe, with over EUR 750 million under management across five generations of funds and a portfolio that includes FlixBus, GetYourGuide, Auto1 Group, Forto, Infarm, Flink, Juni, and Choco. Cherry invests from EUR 500K to EUR 4M at pre-seed and seed across consumer, marketplaces, B2B SaaS, fintech, and climate tech, and opened offices in London, Paris, and Stockholm during the 2021-2023 expansion cycle. It is one of the relatively small group of European seed funds that regularly competes head-to-head with US tier-one firms on European first checks.
-
Choco
Choco is a Berlin-based food supply chain platform founded in 2018 by Daniel Khachab, Rogerio Da Silva Yokomizo, and Julian Hammer. The company provides an AI-powered digital ordering and inventory management platform connecting restaurants with food distributors and suppliers, aiming to reduce food waste across the supply chain. Choco reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $1.2 billion valuation and has raised over $300 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue, and Left Lane. The platform links over 10,000 suppliers with more than 15,000 restaurants across Europe and North America.
-
Christian Bertermann
Christian Bertermann is Co-founder & CEO of the used-car marketplace AUTO1 Group. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Christian leads the used-car marketplace AUTO1 Group.
-
Christian Hecker
Christian Hecker is Co-founder & CEO of the mobile broker and bank Trade Republic. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Christian leads the mobile broker and bank Trade Republic.
-
Christian Nagel
Co-founder and General Partner of Earlybird Venture Capital (founded 1997). Based in Berlin, he invests across deep tech, fintech and enterprise software and has been a board member and backer of multiple European category leaders over Earlybird's 29-year history.
