German VC Companies to Mobilize EUR 15 Billion
25 of Germany’s leading venture capital investors are joining together to raise an unprecedented amount of money for start-ups in the country.
Jun 08, 2026
The companies participating in the initiative, called the German Venture & Growth Forum, include such names as Earlybird, HV Capital, B2venture and Vsquared Ventures. The amount of funding targeted is somewhat less than double the amount (EUR 8.4 billion) invested in German start-ups last year.
A major element in the Forum is a so-called playbook, which will show institutional investors various ways to put their money into venture capital. The aim is for Germany to have a similar degree of autonomy to the Unites States in this area.
At present, some 41 percent of EUR-100-million-plus financing rounds for European start-ups comes from the US, with a nearly identical number originating in Europe, including the home countries of fledgling companies. Germany’s economic development bank, the KfW, estimates that 34 percent of the investment funding for German start-ups currently comes from the US.
At present only 0.15 percent of German GDP is invested in venture capital, compared to 0.8 percent in the US, according to VC advocacy organization Invest Europe.
