Norbert Sommer

Strategy, Corporate Finance and M&A | Venture Advisor and Investor

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
VC🌍 Germany
10
Total investments
3
Early stage
3
Mid stage
1
Late stage
11y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor/Advisor
Jan 2023
At CARE we are revolutionizing access to your healthspan. We empower individuals to lead their fullest and longest lives. Through personalized, doctor-driven health assessments we guide and empower you with actionable plans. We unlock critical insights for our consumers to help significantly improve the quality of their daily lives and delay the impact of aging. We leverage scientific advancements, proprietary AI and on-going in-person coaching. With the CARE App we empower the planning and tracking of your CARE Score to achieve your goals. With CARE, healthspan is in your hands.
Investor and Operator
2023
FAIR VC - Next-Gen venture capital. We are a dynamic early-stage venture capital firm and company builder, dedicated to supporting ambitious founders with a passion for innovation and disruption. Our mission is to provide fair, flexible and founder-friendly funding, coupled with unparalleled mentorship and resources, to help turn groundbreaking ideas into successful businesses. From founders for founders.
Investor/Advisor
2023
A few large and expensive rental companies have for a long time dominated the car rental industry. At Oscar, we believe this needs to change! Oscar is a fast-growing, innovative car rental platform, where we match partners and customers to find the best rental in their local area. We always strive to have a location near any customer, no matter where the customer might be situated. Furthermore, we believe that pricing should be affordable and fair. By doing so, we can give the customer the best experience possible when renting a car. Today Oscar has over 500+ locations.
Investor/Advisor
2023
Linearity, is designed to help you bring your ideas to life. Whether youre a marketing pro or a design enthusiast, you can now create sleek marketing assets with Linearity Curve and then transform them into professional marketing motion graphics with Linearity Move. It all started in 2017 when we introduced Linearity Curve (formally Vectornator) to the world with the goal of making professional digital design accessible to everyone. Over the years our features expanded and our functionalities multiplied, transforming what started as a simple solution into a versatile software that now caters to design teams of all levels. Today, with a focus on offering AI-powered and collaborative tools for creating marketing visual assets and the imminent launch of Linearity Move, a groundbreaking motion graphics software that allows anyone to create animated content quickly and easily, Linearity aims to empower marketing professionals, graphic designers, illustrators, and animators to unlock their creative potential. Recognizing the lack of modern collaboration features in traditional marketing design tools, Linearity Curves platform empowers marketing teams to work seamlessly together. Real-time collaboration, commenting, proprietary cloud storage and advanced design features will be coming soon and enable marketers to breathe life into their creative ideas, fostering efficient workflows and unleashing their storytelling potential. The company has also just launched its game-changing motion graphics software, Linearity Move, in a completely new take on the way motion marketing assets are created. With its user-friendly interface, Linearity Move enables marketing teams to effortlessly transform their designs into animations within seconds.
late stageGraphic Design
Investor/Advisor
2023
Aerones is an innovative company that has developed robotic technology for wind turbine blade maintenance services, such as: • Conductivity measurements and trouble-shooting; • Drainage hole cleaning; • External inspection of the wind turbine blades; • Internal inspection of the blades; • Blade & Tower cleaning; • Coating application on the leading edges; • Leading-edge repair. The technology in use is controlled remotely. In addition, it is compact and easily transportable. Aerones is the first company in the world to provide the services using robotic technology: the maintenance process does not require technicians to work in dangerous heights, and thus is much safer, more efficient, and the downtime of the turbines is decreased significantly.
Investor/Advisor
2023
buycycle. is the marketplace for the cycling community. We make buying and selling used bikes as safe, quick and easy as it gets by providing users with the smoothest possible experience. Complete with a carefully curated offer of premium used road bikes, gravel bikes, mountain bikes - secure payments, insured shipping and full protection for buyers and sellers alike.
Global Strategy (Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and Investments)
Jun 2021
​JOKR is a global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. JOKR makes the shopping experience smarter, faster and more enjoyable, all while returning an extremely valuable asset back to the consumer: their time. JOKR delivers orders within a few minutes of purchase and offers a smooth, frictionless and nearly instant experience. This includes all sorts of products such as supermarket and convenience products, pharmaceuticals and exclusive local products that are not available in regular supermarkets – basically anything people use frequently and need in an instant, with a strong focus on groceries. JOKR is committed to sustainability by creating a more relevant and hassle-free shopping experience to limit people from overfilling their fridges and wasting food. The company is backed by some of the world’s most well-known and successful investors, including Activant Capital, Balderton, Greycroft, G-Squared, HV Capital, Kaszek, Mirae Asset, Monashees, Moving Capital, Tiger Global, joined by some top entrepreneurs in the on-demand delivery and retail space. JOKR currently has operations across the United States and Latin America. To learn more about JOKR visit www.jokr.com. The JOKR instant delivery platform is available in the App Store and on Google Play.
early stageRetail
Global Strategy (Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and Investments)
Jul 2018
As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action, and adapt. No matter where you’re from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.
Growth Capital Investor
2015
Established in 2010, HPE Growth is a leading sector specialist pan-European private equity firm focused on early-mid growth capital investments in technology companies throughout Europe with assets under management in excess of EUR 600 million. HPE invests in high-growth software and internet-enabled businesses that have shaken off the risks associated with early, venture-type investments and have an option to leverage their proven technology and the status of a (local) champion. By bringing in additional equity and active support, HPE acts as a catalyst to expansion and enables portfolio companies to execute on their vision of securing market leadership. Typically, HPE aims to deploy about EUR 10 to 40 million in equity per transaction for a meaningful minority or majority position. Portfolio investments include companies such as PPRO, Tiqets, eGym, Uberall and WeTransfer. HPE’s team has diverse backgrounds with international experience in Investing (General Atlantic, TPG), Finance (Morgan Stanley, ING) and Operations (Walt Disney, Shell) and a global network supported through its regional offices in Amsterdam (HQ), Düsseldorf and San Francisco.
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Investments (10)
2025
Finance, M&A
2025
We are the worlds first generation property management company to use cutting-edge technology to create a new, pleasant customer experience. Leaving more time for things that matter to people.
2023
Investor/Advisor
Jan 2023
At CARE we are revolutionizing access to your healthspan. We empower individuals to lead their fullest and longest lives. Through personalized, doctor-driven health assessments we guide and empower you with actionable plans. We unlock critical insights for our consumers to help significantly improve the quality of their daily lives and delay the impact of aging. We leverage scientific advancements, proprietary AI and on-going in-person coaching. With the CARE App we empower the planning and tracking of your CARE Score to achieve your goals. With CARE, healthspan is in your hands.
Investor and Operator
2023
FAIR VC - Next-Gen venture capital. We are a dynamic early-stage venture capital firm and company builder, dedicated to supporting ambitious founders with a passion for innovation and disruption. Our mission is to provide fair, flexible and founder-friendly funding, coupled with unparalleled mentorship and resources, to help turn groundbreaking ideas into successful businesses. From founders for founders.
Investor/Advisor
2023
A few large and expensive rental companies have for a long time dominated the car rental industry. At Oscar, we believe this needs to change! Oscar is a fast-growing, innovative car rental platform, where we match partners and customers to find the best rental in their local area. We always strive to have a location near any customer, no matter where the customer might be situated. Furthermore, we believe that pricing should be affordable and fair. By doing so, we can give the customer the best experience possible when renting a car. Today Oscar has over 500+ locations.
Investor/Advisor
2023
Linearity, is designed to help you bring your ideas to life. Whether youre a marketing pro or a design enthusiast, you can now create sleek marketing assets with Linearity Curve and then transform them into professional marketing motion graphics with Linearity Move. It all started in 2017 when we introduced Linearity Curve (formally Vectornator) to the world with the goal of making professional digital design accessible to everyone. Over the years our features expanded and our functionalities multiplied, transforming what started as a simple solution into a versatile software that now caters to design teams of all levels. Today, with a focus on offering AI-powered and collaborative tools for creating marketing visual assets and the imminent launch of Linearity Move, a groundbreaking motion graphics software that allows anyone to create animated content quickly and easily, Linearity aims to empower marketing professionals, graphic designers, illustrators, and animators to unlock their creative potential. Recognizing the lack of modern collaboration features in traditional marketing design tools, Linearity Curves platform empowers marketing teams to work seamlessly together. Real-time collaboration, commenting, proprietary cloud storage and advanced design features will be coming soon and enable marketers to breathe life into their creative ideas, fostering efficient workflows and unleashing their storytelling potential. The company has also just launched its game-changing motion graphics software, Linearity Move, in a completely new take on the way motion marketing assets are created. With its user-friendly interface, Linearity Move enables marketing teams to effortlessly transform their designs into animations within seconds.
late stageGraphic Design
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