Georg Runge

Founder & CEO Xydra Labs | Building Frontier Ai Solutions | Banking + Insurance + Health Tech + Gov Tech | Angel Investor | web3 since 2014 | Speaker | Node Operator | Instigator

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
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Investor (Series D)
2020
AtaiBeckley is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform patient outcomes by developing effective, rapid-acting and convenient mental health treatments.
Investor (Public Markets)
2017
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripples vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and 
six continents.
Investor (Public Markets)
2017
Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration. Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation. To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper. This page is managed and operated by members of the Ethereum Foundation.
Investor (Public Markets)
2014
Bitcoin is an open source peer to peer electronic cash system. Because the code is open source, the idea is public domain and the name, symbol and concept is all considered a public good, it has functioned fully for 14+ years without a centralized entity baby sitting its existence. Bitcoin is not only an open source software project, a new digital asset within its own class, a peer to peer computational system, the largest computer network on earth, but it is also the bedrock of a new government, a new form of society & the foundation for a modern civilization. Our company was formed to further that mission, that goal and that purpose of Bitcoin, without anyone permission or approval, to use the Bitcoin brand, name and technology, to fulfil the potentiality of Bitcoin. By creating the tools, products & services in the original vision of the Satoshi Client, we provide the essential parts of Bitcoin to the public, to institutions and the world at large. Bitcoin Wallets Bitcoin Nodes Bitcoin Miners operated & owned by our benevolent dictator Morgan Rockwell @Nodefather
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2025
Venture Scout
Nov 2025
Project A is a leading European early-stage investor with €1.2b AUM, championing ambitious tech founders from idea to scale. We provide pre-seed and seed capital to firms shaping Europes future across key themes including Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio features category leaders such as Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz, and Quantum Systems. In addition, our founder-led Studio actively partners with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics, and Enapi to shape and validate bold ideas from day zero.
CEO & Co-Founder
Feb 2025
Xydra Labs builds production grade agentic AI for financial services, health care and other regulated industries. Fully self hosted. Auditable by design. Self learning. Humans always in the loop.
2024
Founder & CEO
2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
2023
Venture Partner
Sep 2023
We believe that a new internet with token-based economies will emerge through digital ownership. As a next generation investment house we empower builders to work on meaningful projects from application to infrastructure. We invest with two funds: 1. w3.fund is fully committed to support great founders on building world-changing applications. 2. w3.wave is our fully regulatory-compliant liquid fund, offering venture-like returns with flexibility. We’re part of the w3 ecosystem: • w3.ventures: Content & Community Driven VC • w3.wave: Navigating Liquid Crypto Markets • w3.hub: Berlin’s Home of Web3 • w3.vision: Community-Owned Media Network • w3.labs: Adopting Digital Assets
Co-Founder & CEO
2023
HyperPG, a brand born from the synergy between HyperCycle and Penguin Group, blending their identities into one fruitful collaboration. HyperPG is a dedicated service that connects hardware providers with consumers in the AI computation economy. In partnership with Penguin Group, HyperPG enables individuals and organisations to transform their hardware into revenue-generating High Performance Computing (HPC) centres. It’s clear that AI is here to stay, and with it comes a substantial demand for computational power, energy, and resources. HyperPG was specifically designed to address these challenges. It will provide a platform that will optimise hardware use, and facilitate the provision of HyPC tokens and node licences, key elements necessary for efficient AI computation within the HyperCycle ecosystem. HyperPG’s solution will offer flexibility to switch between suppliers and pools. Moreover, it will enable the scaling of node operations without any hardware constraints.
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