Samuel Beyer

partner @ general catalyst

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
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Investor & Board
Sep 2025
Afori is an AI platform built specifically for insurance brokers, designed to automate back-office and administrative tasks, starting with the highest frequented tool - the email inbox. Afori AI understands insurance processes, transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows, and frees brokers to focus on customer relationships and growth. Seamlessly integrated into Outlook, Afori is pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.
early stageInsurance
Investor & Board Observer
Jul 2024
Climate Intelligence for Construction - We track and reduce the environmental impact of construction materials ("embodied carbon" in buildings). The Emidat EPD tool enables AI-powered generation and distribution of environmental product declarations (EPDs), making environmental impact fast and cheap for building material manufacturers. With Emidat, material manufacturers: - Reduce cost and time for generating EPDs by over 70% - One license - unlimited EPDs through our third party verified tool - Save time on data collection and text writing based on our AI The Emidat database consists of environmental data on over 150k construction products and can be accessed via API and UI.
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2023
Were building the future of fund infrastructure, enabling access to a multibillion euro market. Because, in the end: Money Matters.
Investor & Board Member
May 2023
Our mission is to overcome the talent supply shortage in the trades to empower the green energy transition in Europe. With over 3 million talented workers missing to empower the green energy transition incl. solar and heat pump installations, wall insulations, critical construction and building services, the opportunity to bring new talent into the trades has never been bigger. At smalt, we hire and train future trade workers in our hybrid bootcamps and provide high quality installation services to B2B customers. Smalt’s workers are skilled and empowered with best-in-class technology to deliver the highest quality installation support to our partner companies.
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2023
Gear up your teams to do the best work of their lives. Join forces with external service providers to deliver best-in-class services and equipment to your organization and manage assets and costs in one central place. Book a free demo to unlock your teams full potential: https://equipme.io/en/ressources/book-a-demo/
Investor & Board Observer
Jan 2023
The EthonAI Manufacturing Analytics System is a powerful software suite to achieve operational excellence at scale. Our products are used by world-leading manufacturers and have already proven to reduce production waste by up to 50% while increasing job satisfaction of factory workers. We aim for nothing less than setting a new gold standard for AI in manufacturing. To learn more about EthonAI, visit www.ethon.ai.
Investor & Board Observer
Dec 2022
Fides is taking Corporate Governance to the 21st century! ⚖️ We are making it easier for companies to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different entities and boards in various jurisdictions. 📅 Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in all entities and committees. 📝 Orchestrate, execute and document resolutions, approvals and meetings. 🔗 Create a revision-proof audit trail of any duty fulfilled and decision made. We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them. Our customers include big corporates, family-owned businesses and PE and VC funds. Any company that has lots of subsidiaries to manage will feel massive value added from implementing Fides. Dont hesitate and let us help you make your life easier. Book a demo today! Privacy Policy: https://www.fides.technology/privacypolicy?hsLang=en
Investor
Sep 2022
Energy leaders are ready to deliver flexibility, but outdated systems and a complex market slow progress. Fever removes those barriers. Its unified platform connects, qualifies, optimises, and monetises assets in real time—unlocking quick wins that are reliable, compliant, and scalable. The outcome: services customers trust and adopt, new recurring revenues, and a stronger position as a modern, resilient utility. As competitors move quickly, reputation and revenues are at risk. Fever helps utilities step confidently ahead—accelerating their role in the energy transition.
Board Observer
Mar 2022
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.
Early Stage Investor
Jan 2022
La Famiglia is a European seed and growth-stage venture capital fund investing in technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. We are backed by a selection of world-leading entrepreneurs from various industries that provide precious early market access, impactful partnerships, and deep expertise for our portfolio companies. More than a regular venture fund, La Famiglia serves as a trusted access platform creating unique relationships between the old and the new world, enabling real differentiated leverage on capital. Our business angels and entrepreneurs work hard alongside our founders to bring in operational knowledge. Our industry leaders and magnates from the „old economy“ bring in powerful global reach, capital, and scale. We bring in a whiff of "old money" related values, experience, and global reach in addition to our business angels and entrepreneurs from the "digital world". Now part of General Catalyst.
VC & Media Investments
2020
SevenVentures is a leading corporate venture capital firm that accelerates growth of B2C companies with media investments and operational support. SevenVentures is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and acts as the group’s investment unit. We operate a flexible investment model based on media for equity and media convertibles. Our portfolio partners receive TV advertising time, individually tailored campaigns on our platforms and other services in return for company shares. A more than 15 year track-record in the industry underlines we significantly contribute to increasing revenues and enterprise value of the startups and scaleups we work with.
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2025
Investor & Board
Sep 2025
Afori is an AI platform built specifically for insurance brokers, designed to automate back-office and administrative tasks, starting with the highest frequented tool - the email inbox. Afori AI understands insurance processes, transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows, and frees brokers to focus on customer relationships and growth. Seamlessly integrated into Outlook, Afori is pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.
early stageInsurance
2024
Investor & Board Observer
Jul 2024
Climate Intelligence for Construction - We track and reduce the environmental impact of construction materials ("embodied carbon" in buildings). The Emidat EPD tool enables AI-powered generation and distribution of environmental product declarations (EPDs), making environmental impact fast and cheap for building material manufacturers. With Emidat, material manufacturers: - Reduce cost and time for generating EPDs by over 70% - One license - unlimited EPDs through our third party verified tool - Save time on data collection and text writing based on our AI The Emidat database consists of environmental data on over 150k construction products and can be accessed via API and UI.
Investor
2024
We partner with the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs to drive resilience and applied AI. We support founders with a long-term view who challenge the status quo, partnering with them from seed to growth stage and beyond. With offices in the US, Europe, and India, we have supported the growth of 800+ businesses, including Airbnb, Anduril, Anthropic, Applied Intuition, Commure, Glean, Gusto, Helsing, Hubspot, Kayak, Livongo, Mistral, Ramp, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, Sword, and Zepto. For more information, visit: www.generalcatalyst.com.
2023
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2023
Were building the future of fund infrastructure, enabling access to a multibillion euro market. Because, in the end: Money Matters.
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