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In a seed round, Munich-based startup Penzilla raises €3.2 million. The company plans to use the capital to further develop its software for managing occupational pensions and to expand into new markets.

Founder Catherine Leser wants to revolutionize occupational pensions with her 2021-founded startup Penzilla and thus make a societal contribution to closing the pension gap. The software of the company, which she founded together with her husband Christoph, takes over the administrative work for employers related to occupational pensions. Before Penzilla, Catherine Leser worked as a management consultant for CFOs and built service organizations for mid-sized companies and large corporations. Before that, the business graduate worked for a British company in business development and set up and opened the first German office at that time.

The Munich startup Penzilla develops software for the automated management of occupational pension provisions. For its solution, the startup successfully closed a pre-seed funding round in the millions in spring 2023. An interview with the founding team.

The startup Penzilla, founded in 2021, is raising €2.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. Investors include Motive Ventures and Wenvest Capital, among others.