Michael Bassler

Founder & Investor 🚀

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 26 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 Germany20+ investments
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Investor | Growth Stage
2026
The world’s leading prediction market platform, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen. From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis. Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company building a generalized input/output platform for the brain. Our work has the potential to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs and fundamentally transform how humans interact with the world. Our core technology is an implantable brain-computer interface with ultra-thin, flexible electrode threads placed precisely by a surgical robot, enabling high-bandwidth, bidirectional interaction with neural signals. We’ve received multiple FDA Breakthrough Device designations and are conducting clinical trials around the world. Trial participants are exploring how our implant could enhance their daily lives — controlling digital devices like computers and smartphones, operating physical devices like robotic arms and wheelchairs, and translating thought directly into speech and text. Developing brain-computer interfaces is an interdisciplinary challenge, and we’re looking for exceptional talent across engineering, science, and operations. Explore opportunities to contribute to our mission at neuralink.com/careers.
Founding Investor
2025
Move2Health steht für patientenzentrierte Physiotherapie, die auf den neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen basiert und individuell auf die Bedürfnisse jedes Patienten abgestimmt ist. Unser Ziel: Gesundheit und Lebensqualität nachhaltig verbessern – durch aktive Beteiligung, maßgeschneiderte Therapien und einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz.
early stagePhysicians
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
The Circus Group (XETRA: CA1) is the leading AI robotics company, specialising in the translation of the fine art of cooking into full autonomy. On its mission to fuel humanity, Circus provides global access to balanced nutrition, for everyone, anytime. The company developed the world’s first commercially viable food production robot, Circus Autonomy One.
Investor | Seed
2025
Mit Startup Insider entsteht ein neues Branchenportal für die Startup-Szene in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Hier findet man Nachrichten aus allen Regionen und Industrien sowie eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Akteure und Events der deutschsprachigen Startup-Welt. Die Mission von Startup Insider ist es, Startups auf ihrem Weg zum Erfolg zu unterstützen. Wir helfen Startups und Grownups beim Knüpfen von Kontakten zu Investoren und Kunden, bei der Suche nach neuen Mitarbeitern oder durch mediale Sichtbarkeit auf Events oder Online, in Print oder Newslettern.
Founding Investor | CEO
2024
Wir installieren Dein modernes Energiesystem-> •Wärmepumpe • PV • Wallbox • Energiemanagement
Investor | Growth Stage
2024
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Founding Investor
2023
Introducing The Plooshies, a digital Brand reviving childhood memories while emphasizing interactive storytelling, community involvement and gaming as its core pillars.
Investor
2023
Jungle Hotel & Amazonas Tours in Iquitos - Peru
Shareholder & Advisor (We buy & build E-commerce Brands)
2023
Amazing Brands is a technology-driven e-commerce company that buys, grows and operates Amazon businesses. We focus on profitable Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) brands with outstanding organic ranking, positive customer reviews and a proven track record of minimum 12 month in high-growth niches. Our goal is to build a diversified portfolio of Amazon FBA brands to become the next leading direct to consumer brand. We are a young and dynamic team from Cologne and we have multiple years of founding experience in tech and e-commerce. As Amazon FBA Sellers ourselves we truly understand the challenges of the Amazon ecosystem and needs of Sellers. Sellers stand at the core of our business. That is why we created the Amazing Brands Family, a knowledge network for Amazon Sellers to improve the overall Amazon ecosystem. And we strive exclusively for fair deals and are always at eye level with you as a Seller. 🤝 Happy to get in touch with you!
mid stageManufacturing
Founding Investor & Advisory Board
2023
Jobflow wurde Anfang 2023 gegründet und ist die am schnellsten wachsende App für Azubi-Stellen. Wir haben die Jobflow-App gemeinsam mit über 100 Schüler:innen entwickelt und damit die benutzerfreundlichste App für Schüler:innen auf Ausbildungssuche gebaut. Doch bevor es mit der Ausbildungssuche losgeht, steht vor allem die berufliche Orientierung im Fokus. Denn wir wissen, dass 81 %* der Schüler:innen Schwierigkeiten haben, sich beruflich zu orientieren. Deshalb sorgt unser KI-gestützter Ausbildungsberater dafür, dass Schüler:innen genau den Ausbildungsplatz finden, der zu ihren individuellen Stärken und Interessen passt. Zudem haben wir über 500 Kurzvideos produziert, in denen ehemalige Azubis und Influencer:innen, die die jeweilige Ausbildung selbst gemacht haben, realistische Einblicke in den Ausbildungsalltag geben. Darüber hinaus erstellen wir auch Videos im TikTok-Style für unsere Kunden und haben als Marktführer in diesem Bereich bereits in vielen Branchen – von Großkonzernen bis zum Mittelstand – Erfolge feiern können. Um auch die Unternehmensperspektive einzubeziehen, haben wir 30 Personaler in unsere Produktentwicklung integriert. So haben wir einen Prozess zur Vorqualifizierung von Bewerber:innen entwickelt, der garantiert, dass nur passende Talente die Stelle erreichen. Das spart den Unternehmen nicht nur Zeit, sondern auch den Aufwand, Absagen an ungeeignete Kandidat:innen zu verschicken. Und vor allem wird sichergestellt, dass Ausbildungsstellen vollständig und kosteneffizient besetzt werden. Ein weiteres Highlight für unsere Kunden: Unsere Bewerbergarantie mit einer Mindestanzahl an Bewerbungen und die Garantie, dass schulische sowie sprachliche Anforderungen immer erfüllt sind. Falls dich Jobflow interessiert und du gerne mit uns zusammenarbeiten möchtest, freuen wir uns, wenn du einen kostenlosen Beratungstermin mit uns vereinbarst! *Bertelsmannstudie 2024
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2026
Investor | Growth Stage
2026
The world’s leading prediction market platform, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen. From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis. Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.
2025
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
Were an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
Investor | Growth Stage
2025
Neuralink is a neurotechnology company building a generalized input/output platform for the brain. Our work has the potential to restore autonomy to those with unmet medical needs and fundamentally transform how humans interact with the world. Our core technology is an implantable brain-computer interface with ultra-thin, flexible electrode threads placed precisely by a surgical robot, enabling high-bandwidth, bidirectional interaction with neural signals. We’ve received multiple FDA Breakthrough Device designations and are conducting clinical trials around the world. Trial participants are exploring how our implant could enhance their daily lives — controlling digital devices like computers and smartphones, operating physical devices like robotic arms and wheelchairs, and translating thought directly into speech and text. Developing brain-computer interfaces is an interdisciplinary challenge, and we’re looking for exceptional talent across engineering, science, and operations. Explore opportunities to contribute to our mission at neuralink.com/careers.
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