LEA Partners

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STAGES

Pre-SeedSeedGrowthBuyout

SECTORS

Software & SaaS

ASSET MIX

Private equityVenture capital

GEOGRAPHY

GermanyAustriaSwitzerland

WHAT IT IS

Private Equity Fund. A fund manager investing limited-partner capital into mature private companies.

• LEA Ventures
  Early-stage arm investing EUR 1-3m in pre-seed to seed B2B tech in DACH since 2017

ABOUT

LEA Partners GmbH is a Karlsruhe technology investor that has backed B2B software companies in the German-speaking region since 2002. In 2018 it closed its first PE fund at EUR 200m against a EUR 100m target, with banks, Versorgungswerke, insurers and entrepreneurial families as investors, investing EUR 10-40m per deal in majority and minority growth and buy-out positions. It runs buy-and-build platforms such as zvoove, ONEQREW, ORCA Group, SYNQONY, NEXOWARE and Little Bird Group, and has exited BELLIN (to Coupa), IDL (to insightsoftware), PROCAD (to Revalize), SEMA (to Bregal Unternehmerkapital) and refyne (to VisualLogix). Its early-stage arm LEA Ventures invests EUR 1-3m from pre-seed to seed.

INVESTMENT THESIS

Entrepreneurial equity partner to founders and management teams of established, fast-growing B2B software companies in DACH, accelerating growth through internationalisation, acquisitions (buy-and-build) and cloud transformation, with majority and minority stakes.

PORTFOLIO (17)

• zvooveNOTABLE
  Software & SaaS
• Chaos Group (Enscape)NOTABLE
  Software & SaaS · since 2020
• AOE
  Software & SaaS · since 2017
• BELLIN
  Fintech · since 2017 · Exited (Coupa Software, 2020)
• PROCAD
  Software & SaaS · since 2018 · Exited (Revalize, 2021)
• IDL
  Fintech · since 2019 · Exited (insightsoftware, 2020)
• Sema
  Software & SaaS · since 2019 · Exited (Bregal Unternehmerkapital, 2022)
• Midoco
  Software & SaaS · since 2019
• ONEQREW
  Software & SaaS
• easybill
  Software & SaaS · since 2024
• SYNQONY
  Software & SaaS · since 2024
• ORCA Group
  Software & SaaS · since 2024
• refyne
  Software & SaaS · since 2023 · Exited (VisualLogix, 2026)
• SEPPmail
  Software & SaaS · since 2025
• TAC
  Software & SaaS · since 2025
• NEXOWARE
  Software & SaaS · since 2025
• little bird group
  Education · since 2026

TEAM

• Sebastian Müller
  Managing Partner (Geschäftsführer) · source
• Christian Roth
  Managing Partner (Geschäftsführer) · source
• Clemens Weidenbach
  Partner (Operations) · source
• Kurt Weise
  Partner · source
• Nils Berger
  Partner · source
• Florian Endres
  Principal · source
• Jan Huber
  Principal · source
• Kilian Mayer
  Principal · source
• Piotr Doniec
  Principal · source
• Joachim Masurek
  Head of IR and Capital Formation · source
• Kerstin Pfleger
  Head of Finance and ESG (Geschäftsführerin) · source
• Daniel Seiler
  Head of Risk and Accounting (Geschäftsführer) · source
• Nicole Kerschl
  Chief People Officer · source
• Cristian Nicoara
  Senior Advisor / Field CTO · source
• Philipp Hertel
  Senior Advisor · source
• Felix Schües
  Investment Manager · source
• Luis Frey
  Investment Manager · source
• Manuel Künzig
  Investment Manager · source
• Paul Storbakken
  Investment Manager · source
• Marius Gottmann
  Value Creation Manager · source
• Davis Tonon
  Associate · source
• Robert Warth
  Associate · source
• Yannick Schmidt
  Associate · source
• Markus Dauber
  Chairman of the Supervisory Board · source

LINKS

• Website
• Official contact page

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