Shortcut Ventures

Shortcut Ventures is a German venture capital enterprise created by founders for founders. The main focus of Shortcut Ventures investment strategy is on international startups specializing in the fields of internet, mobile, games, and social media. The company mainly invests in startups that are in the early growth stages. Along with the financial support, firms in the portfolio are also provided with access to founder knowledge and know-how.

Shortcut Ventures is managed by Dirk Freise, Martin Ostermayer, and Thorsten Rehling, entrepreneurs and founders of multiple companies such as blau.de and handy.de. The enterprise’s main investor is the Dutch telecommunications corporation, KPN.

Shortcut Ventures, established in 2012 and headquartered in Europe., specializes in Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed investments across Social Media, Telecommunications, Messaging, Apps, Software, Venture Capital, Finance, B2B, Financial Services, FinTech. The organization boasts a portfolio of 14 investments, with an average round size of $11.8M and 3 successful exits. Their recent investments include Upptalk, Nauta Capital, Bright Capital, SumUp, b2venture. The highest investment round they participated in was $8.6B. Among their most notable exits are Upptalk and Nauta Capital. Explore their portfolio in detail, see who is connected to them, and find their contact information on our platform.