BLN Capital
Family officeBerlin · Pre-Seed–Series C · 6 people tracked
Investment thesis
BLN Capital invests opportunistically across asset classes with a focus on public and private equity. On the venture side, it backs up to 15 early-stage, innovative and disruptive companies per year, supporting teams in app economics, performance marketing and growth. It also commits up to €10M annually across first-time funds, emerging managers and established funds, plus selected liquid funds, on a global basis. Founded by former Kolibri Games founders, the firm leverages its technology and mobile-gaming expertise and network to build long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs reshaping their industries.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 12, 2026.
Team · 6 people
from the firm's website
Founder mafia
3 people who came through BLN Capital went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 42 of 91 portfolio companiesConsumer ×12Gaming ×10SaaS ×9AI & Machine Learning ×8Fintech ×7Deep Tech ×4Media & Entertainment ×4Climate Tech ×3
HQs:Germany×20United States×6Cyprus×1United Kingdom×1Vietnam×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 11 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×63 founders×1
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 91 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCo-investorsRogue Insight Capital
Active Ownership is an independent, partner-managed investment firm that conducts fundamental research on companies in Continental Europe and Scandinavia and works with boards and management to implement value-creation strategies.
Frankfurt
Advent International is a global private equity firm that invests in carefully selected sectors and executes complex industrial carve-outs, operational turnarounds, and growth strategies across energy, industrial, consumer, fintech, and healthcare sectors globally.
Co-investorsBCI
Apollo is a global asset management and financial services company that manages capital across alternative and traditional investments, including credit, private equity, and insurance solutions for institutional and individual investors.
ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFintechTravel & Hospitality
Ran Ma(Founder)inBrad Menezes(Founder)in
Co-investorsMidCap Financial InvestmentY CombinatorInternational Finance Corporation
Apollo is a venture capital firm that invests in life-science and biotechnology startups, combining entrepreneurial expertise with deep scientific knowledge to support early-stage companies in drug development and personalized medicine.
BiotechDeep TechHealthtechLongevity
Nils Regge(Co-Founder & General Partner)in
Co-investorsCoastCapFJ LabsKfW CapitalTruVenturo GmbHCTI Life Sciences Fund L.P.Foresite Capital+3 more
Los Angeles, US
Jonathan Zweig(Executive Officer, Director)Adam Piechowicz(Executive Officer)
BoardOctavio Herrera(Director)Randy Saaf(Director)
Co-investorsRuna Capital
Audible is a subscription service for audiobooks and exclusive audio originals, offering a catalog of titles across genres such as thrillers, romance, biographies and science fiction.
ConsumerMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Berkshire Partners is a private equity investment firm that invests in and helps scale middle market private and public companies across multiple sectors.
Sector AgnosticBoston, US
Blixt is an investment firm that makes high-conviction investments in small and mid-sized private companies, targeting businesses with €20-100 million in revenue.
Sector Agnostic
Blocks provides a cloud cost management and financial operations tool focused on helping organizations control and optimize their AWS cloud spending.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSBerlin, DE
Co-investorsCaesar Ventures
coherence provides a multiplayer engine, hosting options, and co-development services for building and running online multiplayer games in Unity.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsGaming
Co-investorsSilicon GardensSisu Game Ventures
Electricity Maps is a data platform that combines historical data, live grid signals, and forecasts to provide sustainability and power market insights about electricity grids worldwide.
Climate TechData & InfrastructureEnergy
American video game company behind Unreal Engine, Fortnite and the Epic Games Store, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.
Cary, US
Co-investorsAdvaita Capitalalphabet angelsAltra VentureBreyer CapitalBryant StibelDeclaration Partners+24 more
Evoco is a private equity firm headquartered in Europe that invests in resilient lower-mid-market companies in Western Europe, often via portfolio transactions.
FS Investments is an alternative asset manager focused on the U.S. middle market, offering private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, and multi-asset investment strategies.
Fintech
Co-investorsFS Investments
Fintech
Headline is a venture capital firm whose website presents a portfolio of technology companies.
Sector Agnostic
Co-investorsKfW CapitalPeakYolo Investments
Quvy is an AI tool that generates static and video ad creatives from a product description and ranks each variation by predicted performance using synthetic audience simulations, so marketers can test ideas before spending live ad budget.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsMarketing Tech
Adam PiechowiczJonathan Zweig
Co-investors500 GlobalEvolution VC Partners
FANtium is a platform where users buy fixed stakes in professional tennis players' future prize money and receive yearly payouts in USDC when athletes hit ranking triggers.
Crypto & Web3MarketplacesSports Tech
Co-investorsLatin Leap
ABOUT YOU is an online fashion retailer offering women's clothing, shoes, and accessories from a wide range of labels, with home delivery and free returns.
ConsumerE-commerceRetail Tech
Co-investorsGerman Media PoolW ventures
Wonderz provides a white-label subscription app platform that lets children's content creators launch fully branded cross-platform apps to sell video, games, audiobooks, and storybooks directly to their audiences.
Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSaaSBerlin, DE
Co-investorsGiTV, Inc.KfW Capital
Visionaries (Visionaries Club) is a European venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders, positioning itself around connecting top founders with a network of tech operators and industrial family entrepreneurs who serve as LPs and mentors.
Sector Agnostic
Co-investorsKfW Capital
First Momentum Ventures is a Pre-Seed venture capital firm that invests in technical founders building startups around scientific and technological breakthroughs.
Deep Tech
Co-investorsOVNI CapitalPeakPUSH Ventures
FLEX Capital is a private equity firm that acquires majority stakes in bootstrapped software and technology companies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with revenues between 5 and 50 million euros.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investors10x Group
fruitcore robotics develops industrial robots (the HORST series) and modular robotic cells with accompanying software for manufacturing automation tasks such as machine tending, pick & place, laser marking, quality testing, and gluing.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Co-investorsCapricorn Venture PartnersKOMPAS VCMatterwave VenturesUVC Partners
Industrial Technology and Witchcraft is a game studio developing voxel- and pixel-based video games, including Dawn Apart, a space colony and factory simulation set on a destructible voxel planet.
ConsumerGamingBerlin, DE
Jodel is a hyperlocal community platform where users connect anonymously with people in their geographic area to share tips, news, and stories.
Marketing TechSocial
Alessio Avellan Borgmeyer(Founder)in
Co-investorsFloodgateKima VenturesRubyLightTomahawk.VC10x Foundersredalpine
Junto provides leadership development training that combines experienced business coaches, leadership science, and live cohort-based interactive sessions to drive lasting behavioral change.
EdTechFuture of WorkHR TechBerlin, DE
Marius Hepp Kemper(Founder)inFeliks Eyser(Co-Founder & Chairman)inHR Tech Marius Hepp Kemper(Founder)Johannes Schnell-Kretschmer(Co-Founder & Managing Director)in
Co-investorsPICUS CAPITAL
Kittl is a design tool that enables designers to create professional-quality work with complete creative freedom, featuring intuitive editing capabilities for fonts and graphic elements.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomySaaSBerlin, DE
Tobias Saul(Co-Founder)inNicolas Heymann(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsCreandumIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)Left Lane CapitalLigature VCSignalRank
Kolibri Games is a mobile game developer focused on the idle genre, with games played by millions of users worldwide.
ConsumerGaming
Litejoy Games is an independent game development studio that develops mobile games, including a title available on Google Play.
GamingBerlin, DE
MEINE ERDE offers "Reerdigung", an ecological burial method that transforms a human body into fertile soil within 40 days using microorganisms.
Circular EconomyClimate TechConsumer
Merantix is a Europe-focused group that invests in, builds, and connects artificial intelligence companies and ventures.
AI & Machine LearningDeep Tech
Adrian Locher(Founder)in
Co-investorsAsgard - human Capital for AILinden CapitalPeak
Mustard is a game development studio building mobile games for iOS and Android.
GamingBerlin, DE
Co-investorsBCI
Passbase offers an investor onboarding solution that automates data and document collection from institutional and individual clients, with beneficial owner mapping and compliance monitoring tools.
CybersecurityFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Mathias Klenk(Executive Officer, Director)inDavid McGibbon(Director)
BoardTed Wang(Director)
Co-investorsAlphabetCostanoa VenturesKleiner Perkins
peopleIX is a People Intelligence platform for HR leaders that integrates 100+ HRIS, ATS, LMS and payroll systems, uses an AI Data Analyst to run people analytics, and conducts AI-led voice conversations with employees to explain the reasons behind workforce metrics such as attrition, engagement and retention.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSCologne, DE
Nick Stodt(Co-Founder)Dr. Georg Schaal(Co-Founder)inTobias Mähl(CTO)inKanika Choudhary(Chief of Staff)in
Co-investorsEarlybird Venture Capitalneoteq ventures
Phoenix Games acquires free-to-play game development studios and helps them grow through its proprietary AI-based "Uplift Platform," which optimizes user acquisition and monetization while letting founders retain studio independence.
AI & Machine LearningGaming
Co-investorsSisu Game Ventures
Play Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests early in game studios, consumer "playable" apps, and B2B infrastructure and services startups serving the mobile gaming ecosystem.
ConsumerGaming
Possible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in founders building technology aimed at addressing large-scale challenges such as climate change, sustainable energy, health, and social equity.
Climate TechEnergyImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsOVNI Capital
Powerus is a job marketplace for skilled trades in Germany, connecting workers and employers in sectors including electrical installation, renewable energy, HVAC, plumbing, and building automation.
ConsumerHR TechMarketplacesBerlin, DE
Julian Lindinger(Founder)inKonrad Geiger(Founder)in
Co-investorsFoundamentalY CombinatorGeneral CatalystHeadline
Prime Properties develops and sells luxury homes in exclusive European regions, including the Kitzbühel Alps, Lake Tegernsee, the Mediterranean coast, and Portugal.
Construction TechConsumerPropTech
RCP Advisors is a private equity firm focused on North American small buyout investments, offering limited and general partners access through fund investments, secondaries, and co-investments.
Fintech
Robinhood is a financial trading platform that enables users to manage portfolios across stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, options, futures, and prediction markets.
FintechMenlo Park, US
Vlad Tenev(Co-founder & CEO)inBaiju Bhatt(Co-founder)
Co-investors1/1 CapitalAlgerAmplo VenturesAndreessen HorowitzChamaeleonCommonweal Ventures+40 more
Triple Dragon is a specialist finance company providing non-dilutive debt to game and app developers, publishers, and studios, including user acquisition loans, cashflow funding, project finance, and studio investment secured against app store and ad network receivables.
FintechGamingLondon, GB
Pieter van der Pijl(Co-founder)Diederik van Lede(Co-founder)Charles Brooke(Co-founder)
TrueMyth Games is a mobile game development studio that builds casual puzzle and merge games for iOS and Android, along with free browser gaming platforms including Paixnidia.com (Greek-language games), Solitaire.fyi (card games), and Tavli.net (backgammon).
ConsumerGamingMedia & EntertainmentLimassol, CY
Ubisoft is a video game publisher and developer behind franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six, The Division, and Prince of Persia.
ConsumerGamingMedia & Entertainment
Vista Equity Partners is a private equity and credit investment firm focused on enterprise software and AI companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Vsquared Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in deeptech startups, backing companies tackling significant technological risks.
Deep TechMunich, DE
Co-investorsKfW CapitalPractica CapitalPRIMEPULSE SE
YEARS operates a preventive health clinic in Berlin offering a one-day comprehensive health check combining whole-body MRI, liquid biopsy for early cancer detection, microbiome and bone density testing, ultrasound, and over 230 biomarkers into a physician-reviewed health profile.
Digital HealthHealthtechLongevityBerlin, DE
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioExit BlackstoneNYSE: BXExit Glendower Capitalacq. by CVC
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMerantix · eu-startups.com · Aug 18, 2026
Robinhood · techcrunch.com · Aug 5, 2026
Apollo Health Ventures · cen.acs.org · Apr 16, 2026
fruitcore robotics · trysignalbase.com · Mar 24, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has BLN Capital made?
- BLN Capital has 91 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does BLN Capital invest at?
- BLN Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series C stages.
- What is BLN Capital's typical check size?
- BLN Capital typically writes checks of $55K – $550K.
- What sectors does BLN Capital focus on?
- BLN Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, Gaming, Marketing Tech, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is BLN Capital located?
- BLN Capital is headquartered in Berlin, DE.
- Who does BLN Capital co-invest with?
- BLN Capital most often shares deals with KfW Capital, Peak, BCI, among 105 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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