Joerg Landsch

Venture Capital | Board German PE & VC Association | Harvard Business School | University St. Gallen Head Central Corporate Venture Capital Deutsche Bank, Board member German PE & VC Assosiation

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026
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Investor (Series D)
May 2026
Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning. We have built the most comprehensive platform with unrivalled uptime and scalability for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence with the greatest accuracy. The depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.
Investor
Nov 2024
Aleph Alpha delivers cutting-edge AI innovation from research to deployment. Our full-stack solution, PhariaAI, enables enterprises and public institutions to build sovereign, secure, and trustworthy applications – without compromising control.
Investor (Series B) and Board observer
Aug 2024
Akeyless is transforming the landscape of identity security by delivering the world’s first Unified Secrets & Machine Identity Platform, tackling the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches—compromised identities and secrets. Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless provides a cloud-native SaaS solution that simplifies and strengthens how modern enterprises protect their credentials, secrets, and machine identities across all environments. Backed by leading cybersecurity investors and financial institutions like JVP, Team8, and NGP Capital, Akeyless integrates Vaultless Secrets Management, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Secure Remote Access (Next Gen Privileged Access Management), and Encryption Key Management into one cohesive platform. Our unified approach enables businesses to securely manage the lifecycle of all their secrets and machine identities while maintaining robust, scalable security in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As the only platform of its kind, Akeyless ensures companies can safeguard their most critical assets from emerging threats. Learn how we’re leading the charge in modernizing identity security.
Board Member
Jul 2024
⚡️ Der BVK Bundesverband Beteiligungskapital ist die Stimme und das Gesicht der Beteiligungsbranche in Deutschland. 🚀Als BVK beziehen wir Stellung gegenüber Politik und Medien, um die Bedeutung von Beteiligungskapital für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu unterstreichen. Wir setzen uns für bessere steuerliche Rahmenbedingungen und einen leichteren Zugang zu Beteiligungskapital ein, damit noch mehr Unternehmen in Deutschland von Beteiligungskapital profitieren können. Wir beobachten und analysieren den Markt kontinuierlich und reagieren auf Veränderungen. Wir fördern den Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen unseren Mitgliedern, damit die Beteiligungsbranche in Deutschland enger zusammenwächst. 🤝Dem Vorstand des BVK gehören neben Ulrike Hinrichs neun ehrenamtliche Mitglieder an, die die einzelnen Fachbereiche des BVK repräsentieren und im Beteiligungsmarkt tätig sind. Sprecher des Vorstandes ist Dr. Ingo Krocke, CEO, Managing Partner, AUCTUS Capital Partners AG. Darüber hinaus verfügt der BVK über einen juristischen Beirat, dessen Mitglieder renommierte Rechtsanwälte aus den Bereichen Kapitalmarkt und Steuern sind. Die Beiräte stehen dem BVK beratend zur Seite. 🇬🇧 English Version The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) is the voice and face of the private equity and venture capital industry in Germany. We are committed to the German private equity industry. We strive for better tax and legal conditions and easier access to private equity. We take a firm stance towards politics and the media to emphasise the importance of private equity for the German economy. We observe the market and analyse its developments. We promote the exchange of experience among our members. Our association has 300 members. Almost 200 of them are private equity firms investing in German companies. We also represent around 100 associate members, renowned legal professionals specialising in financial markets and taxation. These advisors support and advise BVK.
Series A investor and Board observer (alternate)
Sep 2023
Binalyze is an innovator in Investigation and Response Automation. With evidence collected, our Timeline, Triage, and Drone features help you to collaborate and complete incident response investigations quickly and dramatically reduce dwell time. AIR saves you time, reduces cybersecurity operational costs, and helps you prevent the financial and reputational losses associated with cyber attacks.
Investor (pre-seed)
Aug 2023
Kodex AI streamlines compliance workflows with Agentic Compliance, leveraging specialized Generative AI Agents to identify relevant regulatory updates, analyze requirements, and initiate implementation seamlessly. With Kodex AI large banks and Fintech use AI agents to complete regulatory tasks 95% faster.
Series A investor and Board observer (alternate)
Dec 2022
Plan A, a Diginex Company, is Europe’s leading provider of corporate carbon accounting and decarbonisation software, enabling companies to turn emissions intelligence into measurable business value Founded in 2017, the company has developed an AI-powered platform that simplifies emissions accounting, target setting, and reduction planning using TÜV methodology and in line with ISO, GHG, SOC2 and SBTi standards. By transforming complex climate data into reliable and actionable insights, Plan A’s cutting-edge solutions, such as Gaia AI, coupled with personalised expert support, help Finance and Sustainability leaders design decarbonisation strategies for both climate impact and financial returns. Plan A counts clients such as Chloé, BMW, Visa and KFC as well as many more businesses among its 1,500 customers. A certified B Corp, in 2022, Plan A achieved Best in the World status for B Corp. In 2025, Plan A was selected as "Best Carbon Accounting" in the World Finance magazine awards.
Investor
Aug 2022
🚀 AI-Powered Test Automation for the Enterprise Synthesized eliminates manual test data bottlenecks, delivering AI-native test infrastructure that enables enterprises to test applications faster, more securely, and at scale. Modern software requires continuous testing, but traditional QA methods are slow, costly, and create compliance risks. Our Agentic AI platform automates test data generation, provisioning, and execution—empowering development and QA teams to accelerate testing cycles while maintaining full regulatory compliance. Why Synthesized? ✔️ AI-Native Test Infrastructure – Fully automated, scalable test data generation across structured and semi-structured enterprise environments. ✔️ Enterprise-Ready – Seamless integration with Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, SAP, Workday, and more. ✔️ Faster Testing, Lower Costs – Customers see 2x faster test cycles, up to 80% cost savings, and complete test coverage. ✔️ Regulatory Compliance – GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA-ready test data that eliminates compliance risks without slowing down innovation. ✔️ Trusted by Industry Leaders – Used by Deutsche Bank, UBS, the European Commission, and global financial institutions. We are defining the future of AI-driven test automation.
Series B investor
Feb 2022
Recognized by the World Economic Forum and Gartner for our contributions to the future of work, SkyHive enables organizations and communities worldwide from Best Buy, the Government of Canada, and Collège La Cité to Unilever and Zinnia transition from jobs to skills, backed by partnerships including Accenture, SAP, and Workday and non-profits Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation (AGF), JobsFirstNYC, and Opportunity@Work. Our products SkyHive Skill Passport, SkyHive Enterprise, SkyHive Platform, and the foundational Human Capital Operating System™ support individuals to upskill and reskill while enabling organizations and communities to hire, manage, and retain people with in-demand skills. Learn more about how to unleash human potential at skyhive.ai. Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. acquired SkyHive on May 22, 2024. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered Workforce Agility platform, allows organizations to identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and 
provide multi-modal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. Learn more at csod.com.
Series B investor
Oct 2021
SeaLights - The Software Quality Intelligence Platform. SeaLights Test Impact Analytics helps Dev & QA teams to reduce End-to-End testing cycle time and costs without compromising quality.
Series A investor and Board observer (alternate)
Oct 2021
TAINA is a Regulatory Technology business with a mission to help financial institutions comply with their regulatory requirements whilst dramatically improving their customers experience, saving costs and reducing risks. TAINAs focus is FATCA and CRS where it delivers the highest return on investment for its clients. Most of our new business comes from referrals from our existing clients, and our clients referrals remain our main source of growth. TAINAs Platform adds value to its clients in some of the following ways:- - over 85% reduction in going back and forth to customers for tax forms; - over 63% reduction in time for customer in getting through their FATCA/CRS journey; - over 75% reduction in time on validating paper tax forms; -over 84% reduction in costs TAINAs FATCA and CRS platform provides seamless online and paper form validation for all types of FATCA and CRS forms with optional Qualified Intermediary logic including double tax treaties and withholding taxes. The online part of the solution provides fantastic customer experience whilst maintaining robust compliance and governance, fitting the existing processes of the financial institution. ------------------------------- TAINAs Automated Tax Form Validators are patent pending in the UK and the US. www.TAINA.tech -------------- TAINA has been voted :- The Best Tax Compliance Solution 2021 The Best Onboarding Vendor 2021 One of the Worlds Most Innovative RegTechs 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. The Most Robust FinTech 2021. --------------------------------------- TAINA is a member of Innovate Finance - a Global Fintech Organisation www.innovatefinance.com/about. TAINA is a member of the Rise by Barclays. ----------------------------------------------- TAINA is growing - join us! We hire all our talent direct, no outsourcing, offshoring or agencies please. For our latest vacancies reach out to Recruitment@taina.tech
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2026
Investor (Series D)
May 2026
Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning. We have built the most comprehensive platform with unrivalled uptime and scalability for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence with the greatest accuracy. The depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
Aleph Alpha delivers cutting-edge AI innovation from research to deployment. Our full-stack solution, PhariaAI, enables enterprises and public institutions to build sovereign, secure, and trustworthy applications – without compromising control.
Investor (Series B) and Board observer
Aug 2024
Akeyless is transforming the landscape of identity security by delivering the world’s first Unified Secrets & Machine Identity Platform, tackling the #1 cause of cybersecurity breaches—compromised identities and secrets. Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and industry leaders, Akeyless provides a cloud-native SaaS solution that simplifies and strengthens how modern enterprises protect their credentials, secrets, and machine identities across all environments. Backed by leading cybersecurity investors and financial institutions like JVP, Team8, and NGP Capital, Akeyless integrates Vaultless Secrets Management, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Secure Remote Access (Next Gen Privileged Access Management), and Encryption Key Management into one cohesive platform. Our unified approach enables businesses to securely manage the lifecycle of all their secrets and machine identities while maintaining robust, scalable security in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As the only platform of its kind, Akeyless ensures companies can safeguard their most critical assets from emerging threats. Learn how we’re leading the charge in modernizing identity security.
Investor
Jul 2024
Tricentis is a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering. The Tricentis AI-powered, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality. Widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications, Tricentis has been recognized as a leader by major industry analysts, including Forrester, Gartner, and IDC. Tricentis has more than 2,500 customers, including the largest brands in the world, such as McKesson, Accenture, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, and Vodafone.
Board Member
Jul 2024
⚡️ Der BVK Bundesverband Beteiligungskapital ist die Stimme und das Gesicht der Beteiligungsbranche in Deutschland. 🚀Als BVK beziehen wir Stellung gegenüber Politik und Medien, um die Bedeutung von Beteiligungskapital für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu unterstreichen. Wir setzen uns für bessere steuerliche Rahmenbedingungen und einen leichteren Zugang zu Beteiligungskapital ein, damit noch mehr Unternehmen in Deutschland von Beteiligungskapital profitieren können. Wir beobachten und analysieren den Markt kontinuierlich und reagieren auf Veränderungen. Wir fördern den Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen unseren Mitgliedern, damit die Beteiligungsbranche in Deutschland enger zusammenwächst. 🤝Dem Vorstand des BVK gehören neben Ulrike Hinrichs neun ehrenamtliche Mitglieder an, die die einzelnen Fachbereiche des BVK repräsentieren und im Beteiligungsmarkt tätig sind. Sprecher des Vorstandes ist Dr. Ingo Krocke, CEO, Managing Partner, AUCTUS Capital Partners AG. Darüber hinaus verfügt der BVK über einen juristischen Beirat, dessen Mitglieder renommierte Rechtsanwälte aus den Bereichen Kapitalmarkt und Steuern sind. Die Beiräte stehen dem BVK beratend zur Seite. 🇬🇧 English Version The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) is the voice and face of the private equity and venture capital industry in Germany. We are committed to the German private equity industry. We strive for better tax and legal conditions and easier access to private equity. We take a firm stance towards politics and the media to emphasise the importance of private equity for the German economy. We observe the market and analyse its developments. We promote the exchange of experience among our members. Our association has 300 members. Almost 200 of them are private equity firms investing in German companies. We also represent around 100 associate members, renowned legal professionals specialising in financial markets and taxation. These advisors support and advise BVK.
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