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10 Berlin Family Offices Investing in Startups (2026)

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Here are ten active single family offices from our database that are based in Berlin and invest in startups, along with their websites:

  1. Aurec Capital Group
    Aurec Capital is a single family office whose story began in the 1960s. Four decades of international business activity instilled an entrepreneurial spirit in the succeeding generations, and the firm now considers a wide range of opportunities across sectors including startups and consumer businesses, aiming to set its own standards rather than follow trends.
  2. Millennium Venture Capital
    Millennium Venture Capital AG is an entrepreneurial Berlin family office with a sector-independent strategy. It concentrates on direct investments, funds, real estate, agriculture, and renewable energies, and its holdings include ECONA AG, identity.vc, and the Berliner Häuser Group.
  3. Ocean Investment
    Ocean Investment is the single family office of Jan Beckers, bundling his investment activities and rooted in his entrepreneurial work in the digital and technology sector. The portfolio centers on fast-scaling digital business models and spans public markets, direct private investments, venture capital, and crypto, with a flexible, stage-agnostic approach.
  4. Sprout & About Ventures
    Sprout & About Ventures is an impact family office with strong ties to one of the leading agricultural businesses in Germany and Austria, a family-owned company that has led in animal feed for more than 80 years on a diverse biotech platform. It invests in alternative proteins and agricultural transformation, backing startups that connect traditional expertise with modern technology.
  5. SRiPLEX Group
    The SRiPLEX Group is a Berlin family office offering individually tailored services and acting as a business angel and investor in projects, companies, and organizations. Beyond its startup investments, the group invests in real estate and develops projects, guided by organic growth, asset security, and cross-generational thinking.
  6. Heilemann Ventures
    Heilemann Ventures is the early stage venture capital holding company of DailyDeal founders Fabian and Ferry Heilemann. Based in Berlin with a six-person team, it focuses on transaction-based business models with early-realizable revenues in SaaS and B2B, primarily in Germany, and currently holds stakes in fifteen companies.
  7. 10K Ventures
    10KV is the private holding of Kim Diocampo and Lily Joo, investing in venture capital, private equity, public equities, and real estate. The pair professionalized their investing through 10K Ventures, putting their own capital and time behind founders, funds, and businesses built on emerging technologies.
  8. WestTech Ventures
    WestTech Ventures is a Berlin investment firm that partners with emerging VC funds in Europe, including micro VCs and solo GPs. It also selectively invests through its network in startups dedicated to making a positive global impact through technology.
  9. Dresselhaus Holdings
    Dresselhaus Holdings is a family office with an entrepreneurial heritage and roots going back to the 1950s in Germany. With a strong digital DNA, it continues to challenge the status quo, with startups as its primary investment domain.
  10. FeSo Invest
    FeSo Invest is a family investment office based in Berlin that looks for opportunities across multiple asset classes. FeSo Invest GmbH serves as its investment vehicle for private equity and venture capital.

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