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COMPANY PROFILE
smava
Germany's largest online credit market
Valuation
$1–2.5B
Last recorded · 2026
Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
Headcount
100–500
Current team size
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germany
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A8 investors entered at this stage
Oliver Jung- SGStefan Glänzer
- NPNeuhaus Partners
- TSTim Schwenke
- SVSella Ventures
Earlybird Venture Capital- PSPeter Schüpbach
- LGLukasz Gadowski
Series B and later5 investors entered at this stage
- PVPhenomen Ventures
- MCMojo Capital
- VPVitruvian Partners
Runa Capital- VCVerdane Capital
Employees mapped
319
incl. 7 AI specialists
Founders
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Key operators
7
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Potential founders
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likely future founders
Talent movements
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past 12 months
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former smava employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
LILipoCheckEst. 2022
Helena RapprichGermanySignal score76
COContractHeroEst. 2021
Sebastian WengrynGermanySignal score66
ZLZenyum (HK) LtdEst. 2018
Julian ArtopéSingaporeSignal score65
PLPlanetlyEst. 2019
Anna AlexGermanySignal score62
REreceeveEst. 2019
Paul JozefakGermanySignal score59
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Global footprint
Workforce by country
7
countries with
team presence
team presence
🇩🇪 Germany96.2%
🇪🇸 Spain1.1%
🏳️ Benin0.5%
🇮🇳 India0.5%
🇺🇸 United States0.5%
Web traffic by country
610K
monthly visits
across markets
across markets
🇩🇪 Germany88.7%
🇻🇳 Vietnam2.6%
🇫🇷 France1.3%
🇷🇴 Romania0.9%
🇦🇹 Austria0.9%
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about smava on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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