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+++ #DealMonitor +++ IndustrialTech Almetra receives 16.3 million euros +++ AI startup Zelara receives 3 million +++ DeepTech Wakeline collects 2.1 million +++ SportsTech CoTrainer receives 1 million +++ Financial injection for GovTech lingomatch +++
In the #DealMonitor For June 26th we’ll take a look at the most important, exciting and interesting investments and exits of the day in the DACH region. All deals from the previous days are available in a large and clear format #DealMonitor Archives.
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INVESTMENTS
Almetra
+++ The investor blisce/ (Paris, New York), NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline and Critical Ventures as well as business angels are investing 16.3 million euros (Series A) in Almetra, formerly known as Deltia. The Berlin startup, founded by Maximilian Fischer and Silviu Homoceanu as well as Merantix, wants to establish itself as an “AI platform for the manufacturing industry”. Companies such as Bosch, Siemens Energy and ABB are already using the platform. The fresh capital “is intended to drive the further development of the platform, the expansion into the USA and the expansion of Almetra into the central data and automation platform for production.” NAP, Merantix, Robin Capital, Combination and business angels such as Nico Peters, Willi Tscheschner, Max Viessmann and Walter Kortschak previously invested 4.5 million euros in the company. blisce/ now holds 11.7% of Almetra. More about Almetra
Zelara
+++ Now official! The Berlin seed capital investor NAP (formerly known as Cavalry Ventures), the Berlin financier Heartfelt and the Berlin early-stage investor Angel Invest are investing – as reported – 3 million euros in Zelara. The Berlin startup, founded in 2025 by Stagelink founder Nikolas Schriefer and Björn Heckel, most recently Vice President of Engineering at HelloFresh, wants to establish itself as an “AI-supported system for tailored communication”. The experienced team explains the concept: “In a uniform learning cycle, the system creates brand-compliant messages for each individual customer, decides on the appropriate variant and the optimal time for each shipment and learns from every interaction.” NAP now holds around 21% of the company. More about Zelara
Wakeline
+++ The Aachen investor TechVision Fonds (TVF) and the Cologne financier neoteq ventures are investing 2.1 million euros in Wakeline. The Düsseldorf-based DeepTech startup, founded in 2025 by Tim Gülke, Jan Böggering, Simon Sprünker and Merten Tiedemann, develops AI systems “that learn on the fly instead of just being based on historical data.” The fresh capital will flow into the “further development of the platform, the intensification of the go-to-market and the further development of the team”. More about Wakeline
Co-Trainer
+++ kicker ventures, the investment business of Olympia-Verlag, Comvest Digital, superangels and business angels such as Markan Karajica, Teamgeist Capital (Georg Bader and Christian Böhm), Sebastian Weil, Timo Skrzypski and professional soccer player Maximilian Arnold are investing 1 million euros in CoTrainer. The Cologne-based SportsTech, founded in 2022 by André Werres, Dyke Lambertz and Claudius Ludwig, positions itself as an “app that relieves volunteer trainers and amateur clubs of administrative work”. kicker ventures now holds around 7% of CoTrainer parent Fussballetics. Among other things, the team wants to use the fresh capital to “advance product development”. More about CoTrainer
lingomatch
+++ The two business angels Jürgen Schmidt and Alexander Beck, who sold their intralogistics software startup iX-tech to HelloFresh in 2022, are investing an undisclosed sum in lingomatch. The GovTech startup from Saarbrücken, founded in 2025 by Florian Crosbie, is a digital interpreting platform for qualified language mediation in the context of authorities. “Suitable, certified interpreters are made available at short notice via the platform and connected via video/audio if necessary – exactly when it is urgent,” explains the startup. More about lingomatch
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