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DARCO Group — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm

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DARCO Group is a Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A venture capital firm. The firm has 12 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
12 companies on record
Partners
11 listed
AUM
$500M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Check size
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-11-06

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

AUM

$500M

Portfolio

12+ companies

Team

11 partners

Investment Thesis

Focused on physical AI, robotics, defense, and space. Strongly aligned to hardware-heavy companies with strategic industrial applications.

How DARCO Group invests

DARCO Group is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.

DARCO Group manages approximately $500M in assets. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.

DARCO Group has backed 12 companies in our records, including DARCO, AllRound Shoe®, Commodus Open®.

Partners & Team

MM

Martina Mayr

Senior Marketing Manager

GH

Gabriele Hang

Finance and HR Manager

DC

Dino Carano

Head of Product Management

ER

Elisa Roth

Customer Service Manager

RG

Robert Grober

Director of Corporate Development

MH

Matthias Hain

Senior Marketing Director

RK

Rainer Kalleitner

Director of Sales

KF

Katharina Feistl

Vice President of Finance

MK

Martin Krautner

IT Manager

JH

Johannes Hagenmeyer

President

U

Unknown

GP

physical ai
robotics
defense
space

Funds

DARCO Fund III

$200M2021
actively investing

DARCO Fund II

$150M2018
fully deployed

DARCO Fund I

$100M2015
fully deployed

Recent Activity

Raised DARCO Fund III ($200M)

2021 · fund records

Raised DARCO Fund II ($150M)

2018 · fund records

Raised DARCO Fund I ($100M)

2015 · fund records

Portfolio Companies (12)

Other

DA

DARCO

Orthopaedic devices

Orthopaedic shoes

AL

AllRound Shoe®

Closed Healing Shoe

CO

Commodus Open®

Open Healing Shoe

ME

MedSurg Pro®

Post-Op Shoe

WC

WCS®

Wound Care Shoe

WC

WCS® Light

Closed Wound Care Shoe

OF

Off-Loading Shoes

Off-Loading Shoes

HE

HeelWedge®

Heel Off-Loading Shoe

OR

OrthoWedge Pro

Forefoot Off-Loading Shoe

RE

Relief Dual®

Off-Loading Shoe

How to pitch DARCO Group
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Martina Mayr, Senior Marketing Manager.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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