Tobias Schimmelpfennig

Investment Director at IBB Ventures | Early-Stage Venture Capital | Berlin

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024
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Board Member
Nov 2024
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, ARC solves the hardest problems for SMEs, including the ones they didnt know they had, with AI.
Board Member
Jan 2022
fyrfeed combines in-house developed artificial intelligence, editing and strategy to position experts and companies as thought leaders - and at the same time supports you in optimizing your employer branding. With minimal time investment for you and a flexible subscription model.
Investor
Dec 2021
Powering the next generation of AI applications with advanced and high-performant vector similarity search technology. Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine. It deploys as an API service providing a search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more. Make the most of your Unstructured Data!
Investor
Dec 2021
We make feedback & performance management finally fair, easy & perfectly integrated into your workflow. With continuous and actionable 360° feedback. That lives right where you actually work - in your company chat. No friction, no hassle. Quick, easy & fair. A daily dose of micro-feedback, automatically debiased and calibrated. As anonymous as you want it to be. Paired with individual development recommendations, available at all times with a push of a button. We’re just like an additional team member for you: We take care of everything regarding feedback and people development that takes up a lot of time and effort. So that you can finally concentrate on what’s really important: Having good and action-oriented conversations with each other - whenever they make sense, and not just once or twice a year. Interested? Visit our website at uplftd.com to get in touch for a demo! Legal Notice & Privacy Statement: https://www.uplftd.com/en/imprint/social/
Board Observer
May 2021
Remerge an independent mobile advertising company that helps some of the world’s leading apps across key verticals like gaming, e-commerce and on demand delivery to grow their business through scalable, high-performing programmatic advertising. We specialize in retargeting but are expanding our platform to offer privacy-compliant User Acquisition as well. We developed a proprietary incrementality measurement solution to assess the real impact of our client’s marketing spend. Website: www.remerge.io Twitter: www.twitter.com/remergeio Facebook: www.facebook.com/remerge.io Get in touch: www.remerge.io/get-in-touch
Board Member
May 2021
CareerFoundry is the online school for your career change into tech. Well take you from beginner to job-ready in as little as 5 months, and help you build a career you love. With mentorship from active industry experts, the flexibility to fit your studies around your schedule, and 1:1 career coaching, our programs provide everything you need to make the change into tech. Follow in the footsteps of 5,000 graduates and set out on your journey to a rewarding career in tech today.
Board Observer
Jan 2021
Ninox is the easiest way to automate your business: The low-code platform for all SME business processes. We empower teams to digitize business processes with few clicks. Platform as a service Startup. 100K App Downloads. #1 Business App for Mac and iOS in 50+ Countries. SaaS Business Model.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Cayas document management software automates workflows and lets you smoothly collaborate on everything else. Bye bye paperwork, hello proper work.
Board Observer
Apr 2017
Spotler DACH (former CrossEngage) helps companies build long-lasting, valuable customer relationships. We do that with offering and delivering user-friendly software making sure your marketing communications with your target audience is hassle-free (ohne Ärger), always relevant and hyper personalised. With its unique Customer Data and Prediction Platform brands can easily identify, prioritize, and activate customer audiences. Leveraging AI and predictive CRM, the SaaS solution determines the monetary impact and urgency of reaching out to customers. This yields better and more relevant customer experiences and increases customer lifetime value and ROI. Of course, the platform collects and unifies first-party data from all sources. Hence, every marketer can determine relevant audiences through the unique power of our customer prediction platform. With built-in audience management and customer journeys, campaigns can be targeted to the most valuable customers and data can be activated for engaging cross-channel customer journeys. Spotler DACH delivers a wide range of Spotler marketing SaaS solutions, such as website personalisation and recommendations, pop-ups, e-mail newsletters and automations. Of course, all directly integrated into the customer data platform for a seamless experience for both our customers as their target audiences. A team of experts supports customers in realising a customer-centric approach from onboarding to growth to ensure the success of every one of our customers. To meet rising consumers’ privacy and legal expectations, Spotler DACH fulfills the highest security and privacy standards. The software vendor hosts all data in the European Union and works with renowned security and privacy experts. With 30 employees in Berlin and Hamburg, Spotler DACH serves industry-leading companies such as Deutsche Bahn, Peek & Cloppenburg, Porta and Shop Apotheke.
Experience · 11 entries
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Investments (9)
Board (7)
2025
Investment Director
Oct 2025
B# ("Be Sharp") backs visionary teams building transformative Deep Tech companies.
2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, ARC solves the hardest problems for SMEs, including the ones they didnt know they had, with AI.
2022
Senior Investment Manager
Feb 2022
IBB Ventures (www.ibbventures.de) has been providing venture capital to innovative Berlin-based companies since 1997 and has established itself as the market leader in early stage financing. The funds are primarily used for development and market launch of innovative products or services as well as for business concepts from creative industries. In addition to the two VC funds for technology and creative companies with a volume of EUR 90 million, an impact VC fund with a volume of EUR 30 million has been in the investment phase since 2022. All VC funds are financed by the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), managed by the State of Berlin.
Board Member
Jan 2022
fyrfeed combines in-house developed artificial intelligence, editing and strategy to position experts and companies as thought leaders - and at the same time supports you in optimizing your employer branding. With minimal time investment for you and a flexible subscription model.
2021
Investor
Dec 2021
Powering the next generation of AI applications with advanced and high-performant vector similarity search technology. Qdrant is an open-source vector search engine. It deploys as an API service providing a search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more. Make the most of your Unstructured Data!
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