MJ

Martin Janicki

Partner at Cavalry Ventures - reach me on anyo.ne/martin

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
VC🌍 Germany
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Board Member / Investor
Jan 2024
Xaver is the operating system for next-generation wealth and pension products. We enable financial institutions and trusted consumer brands to launch, sell and service investment and retirement products through a unified platform. Xaver combines an AI-empowered hybrid sales and servicing engine that increases sales efficiency and enables compliant advisory journeys across digital and advisor-led channels and a fully regulated product and asset management infrastructure through Xaver Asset Management to launch and operate modern investment and pension products. Together, this creates an end-to-end platform for activation, advisory, product infrastructure and lifecycle servicing. The result: partners can launch competitive wealth and pension products faster, scale distribution efficiently and operate them at significantly lower cost.
Board Observer / Investor
Jan 2023
Kinnu is a learning startup based in London.
Board Member / Investor
Jul 2021
VoiceLine is transforming the efficiency of field sales operations through cutting-edge voice collaboration and AI technology. Our mission is to liberate professionals from cumbersome administrative tasks, enabling true freedom and optimal performance every day. We are pioneering in the field of voice and AI, aiming to facilitate knowledge capture in the field and providing a competitive edge in understanding the market dynamics for sales professionals.
Board Member / Investor
May 2020
Scenset is a luxury travel-tech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing personalized itineraries featuring exclusive experiences, vetted guides, and luxury accommodations. Designed by in-house experts and refined through a combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Scenset trips are expertly curated, impeccably executed, and uniquely tailored to clients’ personal preferences. For more information, visit Scenset.com. Download our app here: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/origin-curated-travel/id1539050687
Board Observer / Investor
Jan 2020
Flip is the frontline employee app that brilliant businesses use to reach and rally their people — from the field to the floor, and door-to-door. It instantly connects every employee with relevant news and knowledge, and makes everyday tasks like shift planning and time tracking a breeze. Whether they’re 16 or 60, a burger flipper or a warehouse warrior, in Manchester or in Mumbai; Flip brings everyone together in one space, via an intuitive little app that top brands like Bosch, EDEKA, and MAHLE “can’t live without.”
Board Member / Investor
Dec 2019
Berlin-based startup SPREAD AI is revolutionizing the development, production and operation of complex mechatronic systems for manufacturing companies with its engineering intelligence software. In an era of increasingly connected products, SPREAD AI offers an AI-based 3D twin solution that helps engineers find, understand and apply product information faster. The platform acts as an intelligent integration layer for fragmented product data across systems and departments, making it easily accessible through intuitive apps and AI agents. The value-based SaaS licensing model enables customized solutions with rapid ROI. Customers benefit from up to 50% faster development times, up to 20% cost savings, and higher product quality: a potential savings of billions of dollars. The teams vision is to make smarter use of trillions of product data points and to make European manufacturing companies the global innovation leaders in applied AI.
Board Member / Investor
Aug 2018
Vorsorge ist der beste Weg, sich selbst und Angehörige zu schützen. Aber Vorsorge ist oft auch komplex, intransparent und teuer. Viele Menschen sind deshalb nicht richtig abgesichert: rechtlich, finanziell und wenn etwas passiert. Das wollen wir ändern. Wir helfen Menschen sich rechtzeitig gegen die größten Risiken des Lebens abzusichern, ganz ohne teure Anwälte, lange Anträge, oder zwielichtige Makler.
Board Observer / Investor
Aug 2018
BRYTER is the leading no-code platform to automate expert knowledge. The platform’s intuitive toolbox enables professionals to build, manage and sell interactive applications, without the need for programming skills. BRYTER helps consulting firms, banks, corporates, and public administration across the globe to digitize and scale their services. BRYTER is especially geared towards experts in law, finance, tax and compliance working with complex, conditional and scenario-based content who want to automate recurring and standardizable decision-making processes. For them, BRYTER facilitates digitization and automation within their business. BRYTER operates offices in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Dublin, New York and London. The software supports professionals at international law and accounting firms, as well as corporate departments and the public administration, in the automation of professional decision-making. Amongst its customers are ING, PwC, Deloitte, Baker McKenzie, and Taylor Wessing.
Board Observer / Investor
Jul 2018
Seguros médicos para empresas, individuos y familias. 🟣 Empresa mexicana de salud y tecnología. Conoce nuestro aviso de privacidad aquí: sofiasalud.com/aviso-de-privacidad
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Board Observer / Investor
Jul 2018
At Usercentrics, we believe that user privacy, consent, and preferences should be at the heart of every digital strategy. By leading the way with Privacy-Led Marketing, we empower businesses with the tools they need to build and maintain trust and transparency while respecting user choices. We offer intuitive, customizable consent and preference management solutions for the web, apps, and connected TVs. Trusted by over 500,000 global customers—including Daimler, ING Diba, and Santander—our award-winning, Google-certified platform handles 6.6 billion user consents monthly. With 2.2 million websites and apps relying on our solutions and support from 5,000+ partners, we help brands create deeper connections and change the digital landscape for good. With offices in Munich, Lisbon, Prague, Copenhagen, Odense, and Buenos Aires, we’re dedicated to bringing privacy-led solutions to businesses globally. Join us in reshaping the digital ecosystem and making privacy a fundamental part of your marketing strategy. Visit us at https://usercentrics.com Legal Notice: https://usercentrics.com/legal-notice/ Privacy Policy: https://usercentrics.com/privacy-policy/ Terms and Conditions: https://usercentrics.com/terms-and-conditions/
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2024
Board Member / Investor
Jan 2024
Xaver is the operating system for next-generation wealth and pension products. We enable financial institutions and trusted consumer brands to launch, sell and service investment and retirement products through a unified platform. Xaver combines an AI-empowered hybrid sales and servicing engine that increases sales efficiency and enables compliant advisory journeys across digital and advisor-led channels and a fully regulated product and asset management infrastructure through Xaver Asset Management to launch and operate modern investment and pension products. Together, this creates an end-to-end platform for activation, advisory, product infrastructure and lifecycle servicing. The result: partners can launch competitive wealth and pension products faster, scale distribution efficiently and operate them at significantly lower cost.
2023
Board Observer / Investor
Jan 2023
Kinnu is a learning startup based in London.
2021
Board Member / Investor
Jul 2021
VoiceLine is transforming the efficiency of field sales operations through cutting-edge voice collaboration and AI technology. Our mission is to liberate professionals from cumbersome administrative tasks, enabling true freedom and optimal performance every day. We are pioneering in the field of voice and AI, aiming to facilitate knowledge capture in the field and providing a competitive edge in understanding the market dynamics for sales professionals.
2020
Board Member / Investor
May 2020
Scenset is a luxury travel-tech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in designing personalized itineraries featuring exclusive experiences, vetted guides, and luxury accommodations. Designed by in-house experts and refined through a combination of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Scenset trips are expertly curated, impeccably executed, and uniquely tailored to clients’ personal preferences. For more information, visit Scenset.com. Download our app here: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/origin-curated-travel/id1539050687
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