Niko Marcel Waesche

25+ years in European venture capital | Pioneer of the media for equity investment model | Focus on longevity, agetech and sustainability

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 13 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026
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Angel Investor
Mar 2024
The Customer Success Management tool that aims to maximize customer retention and profitability by bringing the customer back to the center of attention. We help B2B SaaS businesses to stop focusing on hunting the prospect and starting to optimize the existing relationships that they have and increase their CLV.
Investor
Dec 2022
Fy! is on a mission to help everyone feel great about their home.
late stageRetail
Investor
May 2022
Recommend premium content like free content. We automate content referral between friends and from brands. We make it easy for anyone to share subscription content boosting customer acqusition and engagement metrics vs paid acqusition marketing. We are low code and GDPR compliant. Envoy is backed by institutional investors Pareto Holdings, Axel Springer Group and German Media Pool. Our promise: -Uplift share of organic growth vs. paid marketing investments -Improving overall customer lifetime value and experience -Driving more qualified leads and increasing advocacy within the subscriber base -Generating incremental revenue with direct impact on monetisation and reach -Augmenting transparency of data and (AB testing) audience insight -Leveraging business intelligence on sharing behaviour
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Apr 2022
In an effort to address growing shortages in the elderly care markets, martas self-service platform allows families and caregivers to find and connect with their optimal counterparts. Supported by a data-driven approach to matching, the platform brings more transparency and fairness to a market traditionally dominated by inefficient and expensive intermediaries. We believe that everyone has the right to receive adequate care and to age in dignity. We also fight to empower caregivers and to ensure they can provide their invaluable services in fair working conditions and for adequate compensation. We care deeply about providing the best possible experience to all involved parties.
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May 2021
Sanity Group, a Berlin based cannabis company, is dedicated to the medicinal and health use of cannabinoids. Sanitys operations span from medicinal cannabis to consumer health and tech. We believe that everyone deserves to live a healthy life and therefore develop and distribute innovative, cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals and wellbeing products to patients and customers around Europe. We are looking for partners with cultivation facilities around the world, that would like to expand their European footprint. You can reach our Imprint (EN) here: https://sanitygroup.com/imprint/ DE: Über diesen Link erreichen Sie unser Impressum: https://sanitygroup.com/de/impressum/ Our Careerpage: https://career.sanitygroup.com
Investor
2021
Grover is the global leader in technology rentals, enabling people and empowering businesses to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them. Founded in 2015 by Michael Cassau, Grover’s mission is to make exceptional technology more accessible, because technology is a basic human right. With Grover and Grover Business, subscribers and companies get access to a wide range of tech products, including smartphones, laptops and smartwatches on a flexible, monthly rental basis. Once a product rental period has ended, Grover’s service allows its users to return the product free of charge. They can also decide to extend the product rental length or exchange the product for something else. Grover Business even takes care of the tech procurement and management process so that companies can stay focused on growth. Rentals are available in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Spain at GROVER.COM, as well as in Germany through Grover’s online and offline partner network, including Europe’s leading electronics retail group, MediaMarktSaturn. Grover is a pioneer in the circular economy: Its business model of renting out and refurbishing tech products contributes to devices being used more frequently and for a longer period. This increases the potential to avoid e-waste. To date, Grover has circulated more than 1.2 million devices in total. With total funding of around €1.4 billion to date and over 400 employees, Grover is one of the fastest-growing scaleups in Europe. www.grover.com
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Jul 2020
ABOUT WELLSTER HEALTHTECH Established in 2018 in Munich by Dr. Manuel Nothelfer and Nico Hribernik, Wellster is dedicated to expanding access to effective medical treatments. Overcoming the challenges of Germanys regulated market, this healthtech stands out as a scalable solution. VISION AND GROWTH The vision driving Wellster is to create the largest and most compassionate healthcare company in Europe. This vision underscores Wellsters commitment to patient care and healthcare innovation. DIGITAL HEALTH ECOSYSTEM Wellster Healthtech is a vital component of the digital health ecosystem, seamlessly integrating health portals like golighter.de (medicinal weight loss, nutritional advice), gospring.de (mens health), mysummer.de (womens health), myspring.com (hair loss), and easy-testen.de (medical self-tests). IMPACT AND REACH Serving as a primary point of contact for everyday health concerns, Wellsters telemedicine services have already assisted over 2 million individuals. INVESTOR CONFIDENCE Backed by prominent investors such as HV Capital, Dermapharm AG, Mangrove Capital Partners, and Sevenventures, Wellster Healthtech is making strides in revolutionizing healthcare. Explore more about Wellsters innovative solutions at https://www.wellsterhealth.com.
Investor
Jun 2019
Unsere Mission: die Lebensqualität von Patienten mit innovativen natürlichen Arzneimitteln nachhaltig zu steigern. Dafür kombinieren wir hochmoderne Forschungsmethoden und unser Forschungsnetzwerk mit dem Bewährten, was große Naturforscher in den letzten Jahrhunderten in der Naturheilkunde hervorgebracht haben.
Investor
Oct 2018
Seniovo ist ein Unternehmen der HORNBACH-Gruppe mit Spezialisierung auf barrierenreduzierende Lösungen. Die Verbesserung der häuslichen Mobilität für Menschen mit besonderen Bedürfnissen steht bei uns im Vordergrund. Unsere Hauptdienstleistungen umfassen den Umbau von Badezimmern. Dabei agieren wir im bewohnten Bestand und beantragen bei Bedarf für unsere Kunden Pflegekassenzuschüsse und Umbaugenehmigungen beim Vermieter. Diese Services bieten wir auch für andere Wohnumfeldverbesserungen an, z.B. für andere Handwerksunternehmen, damit für die Zielgruppe notwendige Umbauten mit einer höheren Wahrscheinlichkeit umsetzbar sind. Seniovo ist ein digital aufgestelltes Unternehmen, welches neue Standards in der Branche setzt.
early stageConstruction
Angel Investor
2017
DeepL is a global communications platform powered by Language AI. Since 2017, we’ve been on a mission to break down language barriers. Our human-sounding translations and intelligent writing suggestions are designed with enterprise security in mind. Today, they enable over 200,000 businesses to transform communications, reach new markets, and improve productivity. And, empower millions of individuals around the world to make sense of the world and express their ideas. Join us in exploring the possibilities of Language AI!
Investor
2016
The ABOUT YOU Group (ABOUT YOU Holding SE, ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG and its fully consolidated subsidiaries) is an internationally active e-commerce group with two strategic business units: The online fashion store ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG forms the Group’s business-to-consumer business. With more than 45 million monthly active users, ABOUT YOU is one of Europe's largest online retailers for fashion and lifestyle and the leading provider of a personalized shopping experience on the smartphone. In the multi-award-winning ABOUT YOU app and on aboutyou.com, customers find versatile inspiration and an assortment of over 600,000 items from around 3,800 brands. The Group's business-to-business activities are largely operated by SCAYLE GmbH. SCAYLE offers a modern, cloud-based enterprise shop system that enables brands and retailers to scale their digital business quickly and flexibly as well as to adapt to increasing customer needs. Over 140 online stores are powered by SCAYLE's technology. Leading brands and retailers such as DEICHMANN, FC Bayern, Fielmann, DEPOT, or Marc O'Polo choose the SCAYLE Commerce technology as a license model. For further information, please visit: corporate.aboutyou.de/en. Legal notice Responsible for editorial content: ABOUT YOU Group (ABOUT YOU Holding SE, ABOUT YOU SE & Co. KG) Domstrasse 10 20095 Hamburg Germany Phone: +49 40 638 569 – 0 E-mail: info@aboutyou.de www.corporate.aboutyou.de Local court: Amtsgericht Hamburg Registration number: HRB 170972 Management Board: Tarek Müller, Hannes Wiese, Sebastian Betz Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Sebastian Klauke VAT ID No.: DE341641169 Tax No.: 27/240/02458
Investor
2016
CLARK is one of the largest global InsurTechs. To protect the world of our customers, we built an insurance expert that fits in their pockets to make sure they are fully covered throughout the different stages of their lives. We offer a mobile app where customers can manage their insurance needs in the most convenient way. International investors like Allianz X, Portage, White Star Capital and Yabeo and Tencent support us. Roughly 30 brands are bundled under the umbrella of CLARK, providing a great insurance experience to more than 2 million customers. Our team is composed of more than 700 employees across offices in Frankfurt (headquarter), Berlin, Saarbrücken, Bristol, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and Zurich.
early stageInsurance
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Angel Investor
Mar 2024
The Customer Success Management tool that aims to maximize customer retention and profitability by bringing the customer back to the center of attention. We help B2B SaaS businesses to stop focusing on hunting the prospect and starting to optimize the existing relationships that they have and increase their CLV.
2022
Investor
Dec 2022
Fy! is on a mission to help everyone feel great about their home.
late stageRetail
Investor
May 2022
Recommend premium content like free content. We automate content referral between friends and from brands. We make it easy for anyone to share subscription content boosting customer acqusition and engagement metrics vs paid acqusition marketing. We are low code and GDPR compliant. Envoy is backed by institutional investors Pareto Holdings, Axel Springer Group and German Media Pool. Our promise: -Uplift share of organic growth vs. paid marketing investments -Improving overall customer lifetime value and experience -Driving more qualified leads and increasing advocacy within the subscriber base -Generating incremental revenue with direct impact on monetisation and reach -Augmenting transparency of data and (AB testing) audience insight -Leveraging business intelligence on sharing behaviour
Investor
Apr 2022
In an effort to address growing shortages in the elderly care markets, martas self-service platform allows families and caregivers to find and connect with their optimal counterparts. Supported by a data-driven approach to matching, the platform brings more transparency and fairness to a market traditionally dominated by inefficient and expensive intermediaries. We believe that everyone has the right to receive adequate care and to age in dignity. We also fight to empower caregivers and to ensure they can provide their invaluable services in fair working conditions and for adequate compensation. We care deeply about providing the best possible experience to all involved parties.
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