Gerald Schönbucher

CEO Kaufland e-commerce (Kaufland.de) | Vorstand Kaufland Stiftung (Schwarz Gruppe) | WHU | BBUG

📍 Cologne Bonn Region, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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May 2024
CyberDesk is the identity centric data security platform to adaptively control who can perform what actions with what data. Covering both your human and non-human identities, our dynamic access control engine helps to minimize data exposure while ensuring that the right identities get the right access at the right time. Leading international organizations choose CyberDesk to protect their hybrid, multi-cloud environments and mitigate their liability risks from regulations such as DORA and NIS2. CyberDesk is headquartered in Munich, Germany. To learn more please visit us at www.cyberdesk.app.
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Aug 2023
Medical Wellness Studio ☁️ Massage Treatments | Revitalisation | Therapy
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Jul 2023
Ivy is a default global, default instant financial infrastructure on a mission to move money at internet speed. Sending money across the globe should be as seamless as sending an email, yet today, businesses still face high fees and T+2 settlement times. It’s time for a change. As 60+ countries roll out real-time payment rails and stablecoins emerge as regulated interoperability assets, Ivy acts as the connective API layer between these systems. We enable businesses to send and receive global real-time bank payments, without cards, wallets, or correspondent banks. By making local payment schemes interoperable, Ivy accelerates settlement, cuts costs, and simplifies payments. With offices in Berlin, Munich, London, and Helsinki, Ivy powers global businesses and has secured $30 million in funding from leading fintech investors, including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Creandum.
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Jul 2023
Augustus (formerly known as Ivy) has received OCC conditional approval to charter the first clearing bank for the AI era. This approval has been driven by our core thesis: the dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand - but distribution is broken. The existing clearing model runs on legacy correspondents that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans, and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the AI era: an autonomous clearing bank, purpose-built around programmable money and stablecoins. Always open. Made for machines. At the speed of compute.
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Oct 2022
www.greenlyte.tech GCT operates a low energy DAC approach to capture CO2 while generating hydrogen as a byproduct. The process consists of 3 main process steps. Absorption in a liquid, precipitation and desorption through alkaline electrolysis. The technology is based on 15 years of research with relevant patent applications filed and working prototypes. The company was founded as a university spin-out by 2 serial entrepreneurs and an experienced DAC researcher. Join us: https://greenlyte-carbon-technologies-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/
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Sep 2022
Compliance, completed 🌠 We dream of a world in which businesses are always compliant, but never have to think about it. To achieve this, we have developed the Digital Compliance Office (DCO), your all-in-one solution for all things compliance. Implement compliance standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001 and TISAX reliably and save yourself hundreds of hours worth of effort. https://www.secjur.com/en/privacy-policy
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May 2021
mammaly ist eines der führenden digitalen Pet Health Start-ups in Deutschland. Wir arbeiten mit viel Energie (und Herzblut) daran, den europäischen Kategorieführer für innovative, wissenschaftlich fundierte und ganzheitliche Ernährungskonzepte für Haustiere aufzubauen. Bei mammaly entwickeln wir smarte Produkte und teilen unser Wissen, um den häufigsten Gesundheitsproblemen unserer Vierbeiner den Kampf anzusagen. Das ist unsere Mission: Wir wollen die Art und Weise, wie wir unsere Haustiere ernähren, verändern - für immer.
early stageManufacturing
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Apr 2021
Lumiform was founded three years ago by the brothers, Philip and Lukas Blasberg, with the vision to build the leading deskless worker OS that could help businesses digitize, speed up and automate workflows for frontline teams, getting rid of pen and paper. Thanks to our easy-to-use app, Lumiform is used by businesses all over the world to streamline processes such as hygiene documentation in restaurants, safety walks on construction sites, vehicle inspections in logistic companies, or risk assessments in production plants, just to name a few. You can digitize any check sheets and documentation, with also analytics and reporting all in one place. The app can be used in the so that technicians, engineers and many others can complete on site documentation and submit everything via iPad, smartphones or any mobile device. Over 20,000 organizations in 188 different countries have performed over 1 million inspections in the last year, by trusting Lumiform to help them improve the operational excellence of their business. Our team of Lumi’s believe in our vision and execute on our purpose to support these businesses. Our mission is also to positively impact the environment by helping to reduce the amount of paper needed to carry out audits and inspections. The quality level of products, services or machines drastically increases, which also helps increase customer satisfaction. With Lumiform, deviations from safety and quality standards are quickly revealed and resolved. Lumiforms mobile and desktop app can be used for any industry and for business of all sizes. 98% of our customers say that they have more control over their operations. The app is a customizable checklist maker, while we keep adding useful content to our existing library of 10,000 landing pages and 12,000 ready-made templates, which will help to fulfill the needs and wishes of our customers and deliver on what matters most to them. See what our customers say about us on Capterra.
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Nov 2019
HomeFeelio is the online platform for holiday property management services. HomeFeelio and its partners provide a seamless holiday property management service whilst maintaining highest quality standards, generating unbeatable returns and offering a convenient administration. As a full service provider in the holiday property management industry, HomeFeelio offers services starting from all kinds of commercialization activities and ending with the local management of the property. HomeFeelio makes the holiday property management industry more transparent, customer friendly and profitable. Find your trusted and end-to-end holiday property manager at HomeFeelio.
early stageReal Estate
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Nov 2019
TestGorilla is a talent discovery platform that helps employers worldwide find and hire top talent based on proven skills. With access to over 2 million pre-vetted, skills-validated candidates, plus science-backed assessments and bias-tested AI evaluation tools, we give employers a fairer, more predictive way to scale hiring and build high-performing teams. Thousands of organizations rely on TestGorilla, united by our mission to put one billion people into their dream roles through skills-based hiring. Tap into the world’s largest skills‑tested talent pool today.
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Nov 2019
Wemolo is shaping the future of digital parking through AI-based licence plate recognition. Our two solutions, monitoring and management, enable the efficient use of parking spaces by optimising utilisation and administration. Since 2019, Wemolo has transformed parking on over 2.000 properties. Every day, more than 200 employees in our six European offices focus on enabling seamless parking.
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Sep 2019
Überblick is the easy solution for internal communication. We offer easy communications, task, and knowledge management in a web version and mobile apps. Our solution was developed with focus on easy usability and especially to support companies with a combination of desk / non-desk workers in their day-to-day operative challenges.
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Aug 2019
Dogo is a mobile app for dog training. We want to make dog training easy, fun, affordable, and social. Our app offers daily training that helps you teach your dog new tricks, skills and spend quality time together. The lessons are tailored to your dogs previous progress and the entire training is supervised by professional trainers that review and comment on the videos you submit. This year Dogo was announced as App of the Day by Apple in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Australia and a few other countries. We are often featured in AppStore.
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Jul 2019
Since 2019, Qualifyze has transformed supplier audits into a strategic advantage for Life Sciences companies. We started by streamlining GxP audits and building the world’s largest audit database, giving companies better access to compliance data. Now, we go beyond audits, leveraging AI-driven insights, predictive compliance oversight, and advanced analytics to help 1,500+ pharma clients track, monitor, and forecast supplier risks in real time. Our cloud-based platform ensures instant access to critical compliance information, making supplier management smarter and more proactive.
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Apr 2019
Autengo provides SaaS solutions for car dealers. We offer two main Products: "Marketing Manager" - post, advertise and sell vehicles on the huge Facebook-Plattform and benefit from the simplicity of creating your own vehicle advertisements with lower cost. "Fahrzeug Manager" ("Vehicle Manager") - manage your vehicles, customers and documents in one software and benefit from a modern design, a lot of saved time and an included marketplace to buy cars for your stock. All our products are connected to mobile.de and Autoscout24, so that car dealers can easily use the automatic upload of there vehicles. As a Facebook-Marketplace-Partner, we are also professionals in online marketing and always willing to support car dealers with various ideas of advertisements for their car dealership.
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CyberDesk is the identity centric data security platform to adaptively control who can perform what actions with what data. Covering both your human and non-human identities, our dynamic access control engine helps to minimize data exposure while ensuring that the right identities get the right access at the right time. Leading international organizations choose CyberDesk to protect their hybrid, multi-cloud environments and mitigate their liability risks from regulations such as DORA and NIS2. CyberDesk is headquartered in Munich, Germany. To learn more please visit us at www.cyberdesk.app.
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Aug 2023
Medical Wellness Studio ☁️ Massage Treatments | Revitalisation | Therapy
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Jul 2023
Ivy is a default global, default instant financial infrastructure on a mission to move money at internet speed. Sending money across the globe should be as seamless as sending an email, yet today, businesses still face high fees and T+2 settlement times. It’s time for a change. As 60+ countries roll out real-time payment rails and stablecoins emerge as regulated interoperability assets, Ivy acts as the connective API layer between these systems. We enable businesses to send and receive global real-time bank payments, without cards, wallets, or correspondent banks. By making local payment schemes interoperable, Ivy accelerates settlement, cuts costs, and simplifies payments. With offices in Berlin, Munich, London, and Helsinki, Ivy powers global businesses and has secured $30 million in funding from leading fintech investors, including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures and Creandum.
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Jul 2023
Augustus (formerly known as Ivy) has received OCC conditional approval to charter the first clearing bank for the AI era. This approval has been driven by our core thesis: the dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand - but distribution is broken. The existing clearing model runs on legacy correspondents that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans, and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the AI era: an autonomous clearing bank, purpose-built around programmable money and stablecoins. Always open. Made for machines. At the speed of compute.
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Oct 2022
www.greenlyte.tech GCT operates a low energy DAC approach to capture CO2 while generating hydrogen as a byproduct. The process consists of 3 main process steps. Absorption in a liquid, precipitation and desorption through alkaline electrolysis. The technology is based on 15 years of research with relevant patent applications filed and working prototypes. The company was founded as a university spin-out by 2 serial entrepreneurs and an experienced DAC researcher. Join us: https://greenlyte-carbon-technologies-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/
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