Kizoo

Venture Capital · Founded 2000 · Karlsruhe, Germany

#9 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 1% in Benelux

Helps young start-up teams grow

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22 Portfolio companies+40% in 5 years

2 Unicorns

38 Investments

Sep 2025 Last investment

01 · Biggest holdings

Kizoo’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Kizoo still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Kizoo, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation

1 MambuUnicorn · Fintech · Netherlands $5.4B
2 StaffbaseUnicorn · Enterprise Software · Germany $1.1B
3 BabbelEducation · Germany $88M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Kizoo has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Portfolio analysis

Where Kizoo’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 22 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA11
Germany10
Austria1
Netherlands1
South Africa1
Switzerland1
UK1

By sectorCount

Health13
Enterprise Software5
Fintech2
Jobs Recruitment2
Education1
Food1
Gaming1
Marketing1
Telecom1
Transportation1
Travel1

By stage enteredCount

Seed15
Series A5
Series B+1

By growth stageCount

Early Growth17
Breakout Stage5
Late Growth3

03 · Portfolio market map

Inside Kizoo’s portfolio.

The 25 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 22 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

$1.1B

Elevian

Health

$160M

Babbel

Education

$88M

Oisin Biotechnologies

Health

$60M

Elastrin Therapeutics

Health

$50M

Shyftplan

Jobs Recruitment

$48M

Cellvie

Health

$28M

Cyclarity Therapeutics

Health

$40M

Revel Pharmaceuticals

Health

$34M

Reservoir Neuroscience

Health

$16M

Elastrin Therapeutics

Health

Ichor Life Sciences

Health

SuitePad

Travel

$13M

Lysoclear

Health

Antoxerene

Health

$6.0M

CatchApp

Telecom

$2.5M

Hojoki

Food

$2.4M

CellAge

Health

$320K

Mogling Bio

Health

Hipaway

Gaming

Prescreen

Jobs Recruitment

$19M

Advertory

Marketing

Reposito

Fintech

Tamyca

Transportation

04 · Portfolio founders

Where Kizoo’s portfolio founders come from.

39 founders across the 26 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

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