Bayern Kapital
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Bayern Kapital is a public venture capital company based in Bavaria, Germany, that invests in high-tech, deep tech, and life sciences startups and scaleups. It acts as an anchor investor, providing funding from pre-seed to growth stages.
Bayern Kapital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Germany. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in high-tech, deep tech and life sciences. Its stated cheque size is €250,000 to €50 million. €1.3 billion under management and 120 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in innovative Bavarian startups and scaleups from all areas of technology: from high-tech to deep tech and life sciences.”
— Bayern Kapital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Germany
- Invests in
- Bavaria, Germany
- Sectors
- high-tech, deep tech, life sciences
- Cheque size
- €250,000 to €50 million
- Assets under management
- €1.3 billion
- Portfolio
- 120 companies
Team, as Bayern Kapital publishes it
- Ahmet Bayram Investment Manager
- Andreas Huber Senior Investment Manager
- Ariel Golan Investment Director
- Benjamin Schwiewagner Investment Director
- Bernd Schafberger Head of Venture Capital Investments I Authorised Signatory
- Bernhard Köhler Investment Director and Authorised Signatory
- Bettina Grotz Investment Manager
- Brigitte Linseis Senior Investment Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on bayernkapital.de. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Creathor Ventures 1 shared company: eos.info
- H&S Investment GmbH 1 shared company: conntac.net
- ZAKA VC 1 shared company: conntac.net
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Bayern Kapital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://bayernkapital.de/en/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, portfolio_count, status
- https://bayernkapital.de/en/for-investors/layer
- https://bayernkapital.de/en/team/people
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Record 157 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-27 · confidence high
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