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ESG software providers Code Gaia and Planted are merging. Under the roof of House of Gaia Holding, a new provider for sustainability management in the mid-market is emerging.

98 percent of B2B website visitors remain anonymous and leave the page without making contact. The Munich startup Webmetic wants to make these visitors visible to companies – completely cookie-free and GDPR-compliant. Anonymous visitors are enriched with relevant company data such as industry, size, or digital presence and thus become real sales opportunities. How Webmetic works exactly and what have been the biggest challenges so far for the company, founded in 2024, is reported by Webmetic founder Yannik Süß in an interview.

Vanessa Theel co-founded Summ AI in 2022 together with Flora Geske and Nicholas Wolf. The AI-based tool translates complex texts into easy language at the click of a button. With the help of the startup, companies can make information quickly, cost-effectively and accessibly available to everyone and thus easily meet regulatory requirements for the accessibility of their communication – particularly with the entry into force of the Accessibility Strengthening Act in 2025. We spoke with Vanessa Theel about her motivation, tips and learnings.

Ecoplanet was founded in 2022 by Maximilian Dekorsy and Henry Keppler. The startup now has a team of 35 people, operates with offices in Munich and Berlin, and has raised a total of six million euros since March 2023. In the first year after product launch, the company achieved seven-figure revenues and continues to grow steadily. We spoke with founder Maximilian Dekorsy.

The Munich-based startup Initics supports companies in communicating with business partners using electronic data exchange. To ensure smooth exchange, the four founders Julian Kowatsch, Sebastian Portera, Stefan Partheymüller, and Anton Zeller developed a software solution.

The Munich startup AwesomeQA wants to improve community management with its AI-powered customer support solution. Founded in 2022 by brothers Alexander and Korbinian Abstreiter, the startup raised 2.5 million euros in a seed financing round in summer 2023. Alexander Abstreiter tells us what else is happening in an interview.

Knowron wants to counter the skilled worker shortage with a digital, AI-controlled assistant for the manufacturing industry. The three founders Fabian Pelzl, Arturo Buitrago Mendez, and Ali Kareem Raja already received initial funding in 2022. In the interview, they explain what sets the app and analysis tool apart from others, how the startup founded in 2020 involved industrial customers in development, and where the founders want to stand in five years.

The Munich startup Usercentrics is a consent management platform. The legaltech company helps other companies with its software solution in “consent management” for data protection. This allows websites and apps to request, manage, and document user consent for data usage in a GDPR-compliant manner. Usercentrics was founded in 2012 and has now received over 21 million euros in venture capital through three funding rounds. Donna Dror, CEO, leads the company from New York and answered our questions.

Following a successful pre-seed round in May last year, Govradar has now secured fresh capital again. The seed financing of one million euros also comes with well-known names: The investor circle includes, among others, former federal minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Finanzcheck founders Andreas Kupke and Moritz Thiele, and managers Wolfgang Reitzle, chairman of the supervisory board at Continental AG, and Burkhard Schwenker, deputy chairman at Atlantikbrücke. With the investment, the Munich startup aims to further expand its platform in terms of content.

Munich-based startup Luminovo has successfully completed another seed round worth 11 million euros. The financing round is led by Chalfen Ventures.