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DB1 Ventures — VC Firm

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DB1 Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in Fintech, AI / ML, Developer Tools. The firm has 11 portfolio companies in our records.

Portfolio
11 companies on record
Partners
15 listed
Sectors
Fintech, AI / ML, Developer Tools, Other, Enterprise, SaaS
Check size
Not in our records
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-06-17

Portfolio

11+ companies

Team

15 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2021Investments in last 12 months: 0

How DB1 Ventures invests

DB1 Ventures is a vc firm. The firm focuses on Fintech, AI / ML, Developer Tools, Other, Enterprise.

Investing since at least 2020, DB1 Ventures has backed 11 companies in our records, including Clarity AI, HQLAx, Trumid. Its most recent recorded investment was in 2021.

Partners & Team

MH

Markus Hablizel

Head of DB1 Ventures

CO

Christoph Osburg

Investment Principal, DB1 Ventures

MF

Monika Fuchs

Investment Principal, DB1 Ventures

VH

Victor Hugo Gómez Zerpa

Senior Vice President, DB1 Ventures

MR

Marc Rosenberg

Unit Head

MS

Moritz Steinbach

Associate Vice President

RD

Rishab Dhar

Vice President

LN

Lisa Norris

Senior Vice President

RL

Ralf Leonhard

Head of Compensation and Benefits

CH

Christine Heineke

Executive Assistant

FK

Frank Klaas

Managing Director

SK

Salome Kissel

HR Assistant

KL

Karen Lenz

Director of Sales

AD

Anke Dannenberg

Head of Governance

DV

DB1 Ventures founder not publicly listed

Founder

Industry Focus

Invests In

Fintech
AI / ML
Developer Tools
Other
Enterprise
SaaS

Portfolio Companies (11)

2021

CL

Clarity AI

Sustainable Finance/ESG·Growth Stage
HQ

HQLAx

Blockchain/FinTech·Growth Stage

2020

TR

Trumid

FinTech·Growth Stage·DB1 Ventures.

Electronic corporate bond trading platform operating an all‑to‑all marketplace.

Other

OP

OptimX Markets

Capital markets / trading platform·Seed funding round of about USD 3m led by DB1 Ventures, with Aquis Exchange participating.·DB1 Ventures, corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Börse Group.

US-based fintech building a digital block trading platform for institutional block transactions in equities markets.

FI

figo GmbH (now Figo / Finleap Connect lineage)

Open banking / payments & data fintech·Series B financing round; DB1 Ventures invested a seven‑digit amount for a significant minority stake.·DB1 Ventures, the investment vehicle of Deutsche Börse AG.

Open banking / open finance provider offering APIs to access, analyse and use bank account and financial data.

MO

Morning Dew Tropical Plants

Wholesale·Operating

Morning Dew Tropical Plants is a wholesale tropical plant brokerage and logistics operation serving customers across the United States. The company focuses on coordinating supply between growers and retailers while maintaining reliable delivery, strong vendor relationships, and disciplined execution.

TR

Trifacta

Data infrastructure / analytics tools·Minority investment; listed by DB1 Ventures’ head as a recent portfolio company (round and stage not specified).·DB1 Ventures.

Data wrangling / data preparation software for analytics and machine learning.

RE

RegTek.Solutions

Regtech / capital markets·Minority investment; cited as a recent DB1 Ventures investment in an interview with the DB1 Ventures team.·DB1 Ventures.

Regtech firm providing regulatory reporting and compliance solutions to capital markets participants.

DI

Digital Asset Holdings

DLT / capital markets infrastructure·Minority investment; cited as one of DB1 Ventures’ “recent investments” alongside other specific portfolio names (exact round not specified in the source).·DB1 Ventures (corporate VC arm of Deutsche Börse Group).

Enterprise blockchain company building distributed ledger infrastructure for financial institutions.

WE

Wematch

Capital markets fintech / trading infrastructure·Series B equity round; DB1 Ventures acquired a minority stake as part of a USD 19.5m Series B.·DB1 Ventures (corporate VC unit of Deutsche Börse Group).

Fintech platform digitising trading workflows for wholesale derivatives, replacing voice broking with web-based matching and negotiation tools.

How to pitch DB1 Ventures
  • •Lead with your fit in Fintech, AI / ML, Developer Tools — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Markus Hablizel, Head of DB1 Ventures.
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