Picus Capital

Founded in Munich, Germany in 2015, Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. It works closely with daring founders to build successful global companies across various sectors including financial services, HR, energy & climate, healthcare, logistics & mobility, real estate & construction, crypto & web3, deeptech, and e-commerce. Picus invests in pre-seed, seed, and series A ventures, aiming to become the closest partner of its portfolio companies by supporting strategic decisions and operative challenges throughout their lifecycle.

Joséphine Allolio

Investor

Christoph Baumeister

Scout

Santiago Beck

Venture Partner

Pierre Bourdon

Investor

Grace Cole

Investor

Philipp Emig

Investor

Max Ewerth

Investor

Gerry Giacomán Colyer

Venture Partner

Robin Godenrath

Managing Director

Jagesh Golwala

Venture Partner

Robert Hammond

Investor

Carina Harding

Investor

Bastian Hasslinger

Investor

Kolja Heck

Investor

Oliver Heinrich

Partner

Jeremias Heinrich

Investor

Patrick Hermann

Investor

Philipp Herzog

Investor

Lorenz Kammer

Investor

Roberto Kern

Investor

Moritz Kittler

Investor

Leonard Klüpfel

Investor

Fernandina Ko

Investor

Cristina Koehn

Partner

Alessandro Kopp

Vice President

Alexander Kremer

Partner

Li Chen

Investor

Tony Liu

Investor

Jose Tomas Lizana

Venture Partner

Marc Maurer

Investor

Finn Meier

Venture Partner

David Mirzazadeh

Investor

Grace Missakian

Investor, Americas

Alice Morath

Investor

Raphael Mukomilow

Partner

Lukas Möller

Venture Partner

Nina Neumann

Investor

Daniel Niklas

Senior Vice President, Americas

Dominik Nowak

Investor

Mikko Preuss

Investor

Wendy Qian

Investor

Florian Reichert

Managing Partner

Julian Roeoes

Partner

Alex Rohregger

Investor

Susana Rojas

Investor

Emil Schaefer

Investor

Sebastian Schaefer

Vice President

Daniel Schläger

Investor

Niclas Schmidt

Investor

Maximilian Albert Schmidt

Investor

Melanie Schwendimann

Investor

Sebastian Schäfer

Partner

Patrick Sonnleitner

Investor

Manuel Stollwitzer

Investor

Abhijay Thacker

Investor

Kilian Thalhammer

Partner

Shantel Tse

Venture Partner

Hannes Verschueren

Investor

Francis Wang

Investor

Christian K. Wanzek

Venture Partner

Philipp Wieschalka

Investor

Alexander Worbs

Investor

Luis Zarate

Vice President

Philipp Zinnenlauf

Investor

August von Oppenheim

Investor

Past deals in Fraud Detection

Hawk

Series C in 2025
HAWK:AI GmbH is a fintech company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing a money laundering detection and investigation platform that leverages machine-learning techniques to assist financial institutions in combating financial crime. HAWK:AI supports the end-to-end financial crime compliance process, encompassing transaction monitoring, investigation, filing, and maintaining audit trails. By focusing on effective information sharing, the platform enhances the capabilities of anti-money laundering and fraud surveillance teams within banks, payment companies, and fintech organizations, ultimately improving their efficiency and effectiveness in addressing financial corruption.

Baselayer

Seed Round in 2024
Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud for financial institutions. It offers services such as KYB, fraud detection, onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring, and workflow automation, empowering over 1,900 institutions to build trust with businesses.

Baselayer

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud for financial institutions. It offers services such as KYB, fraud detection, onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring, and workflow automation, empowering over 1,900 institutions to build trust with businesses.

Hawk

Series B in 2023
HAWK:AI GmbH is a fintech company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing a money laundering detection and investigation platform that leverages machine-learning techniques to assist financial institutions in combating financial crime. HAWK:AI supports the end-to-end financial crime compliance process, encompassing transaction monitoring, investigation, filing, and maintaining audit trails. By focusing on effective information sharing, the platform enhances the capabilities of anti-money laundering and fraud surveillance teams within banks, payment companies, and fintech organizations, ultimately improving their efficiency and effectiveness in addressing financial corruption.

Legiti

Venture Round in 2022
Legiti is an antifraud startup specializing in transactional fraud prevention, particularly for e-commerce businesses. The company offers a sophisticated anti-fraud platform designed to secure credit card payments by employing a data-centric approach. This includes a scalable, highly available infrastructure and adaptive machine learning models that help identify and mitigate fraud effectively. Legiti's primary objective is to maximize retained revenue for its clients by balancing the reduction of chargebacks with increased conversion rates, tailored to various business models. Through its automated processes and advanced technology, Legiti enables e-commerce businesses to operate efficiently within a secure network, thereby enhancing data privacy and overall transaction integrity.

Hawk

Series A in 2021
HAWK:AI GmbH is a fintech company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing a money laundering detection and investigation platform that leverages machine-learning techniques to assist financial institutions in combating financial crime. HAWK:AI supports the end-to-end financial crime compliance process, encompassing transaction monitoring, investigation, filing, and maintaining audit trails. By focusing on effective information sharing, the platform enhances the capabilities of anti-money laundering and fraud surveillance teams within banks, payment companies, and fintech organizations, ultimately improving their efficiency and effectiveness in addressing financial corruption.

Hawk

Seed Round in 2020
HAWK:AI GmbH is a fintech company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2018. The company specializes in providing a money laundering detection and investigation platform that leverages machine-learning techniques to assist financial institutions in combating financial crime. HAWK:AI supports the end-to-end financial crime compliance process, encompassing transaction monitoring, investigation, filing, and maintaining audit trails. By focusing on effective information sharing, the platform enhances the capabilities of anti-money laundering and fraud surveillance teams within banks, payment companies, and fintech organizations, ultimately improving their efficiency and effectiveness in addressing financial corruption.
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