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 Lending

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.

Clara

Venture Round in 2024
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

Clara

Series B in 2023
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

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.

Arch

Seed Round in 2023
Arch is a financial technology company that provides credit to asset owners through a liquid platform that manages all crypto assets in one place. The platform offers instant loans secured by crypto assets and non-fungible tokens, with over-collateralization and custody to prevent rehypothecation. It enables real-time asset tracking and aims to offer an efficient way to borrow against crypto and NFT holdings while consolidating asset management on a single interface.

BHub

Series A in 2022
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

Stride Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Stride Labs operates a multichain liquid staking platform that unlocks liquidity for staked assets. By staking across supported networks, users continue to earn staking rewards while minting tradable stTokens that can be exchanged for the underlying assets and redeemed to reclaim original tokens. The platform enables additional yield through lending, liquidity provision, and other DeFi activities, with user-selectable risk tolerance and tools to monitor and analyze blockchain protocols. It focuses on Cosmos-based assets, providing access to accumulated rewards and passive yield from staking, and facilitating participation in decentralized finance without locking up capital.

Buildd

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Buildd develops Banking-as-a-Service software that enables developers to create and launch financial products using embedded finance APIs. It handles compliance, security, partnerships, risk management, and front-end services like onboarding and disbursals.

Xepelin

Series B in 2022
Xepelin is a financial technology company focused on transforming business finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America. It offers a comprehensive suite of digital financial services, including short-term and long-term loans, capital credits, and accounts payable financing, all accessible through its online platform. By automating financial management and enhancing access to liquidity via smart accounts, Xepelin aims to provide economic freedom for its clients. The company also emphasizes the importance of advanced financial indicators and risk assessments to streamline decision-making within the broader business ecosystem. With a workforce of over 500 employees, Xepelin is positioned to lead a new era in finance, supported by notable investors in the industry.

Kamino

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kamino is a comprehensive financial management platform tailored for medium-sized businesses in Brazil. It offers embedded B2B payments, real-time data access, and a rigorous approval system for secure payment processing. By automating accounts payable and reconciliation, Kamino has significantly saved businesses time and improved operational efficiency.

Selina Finance

Series B in 2022
Selina Finance offers innovative financing solutions for consumers and businesses, focusing on property investors and businesses seeking flexible credit facilities. Incorporated in London in 2019, the company combines expertise in real estate, finance, and technology to provide next-generation financial products tailored to modern customer needs.

BHub

Series A in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

Clara

Series B in 2021
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

Billie

Series C in 2021
Billie GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, is a fintech startup focused on reinventing working capital management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company offers innovative lending products, including pre-financing of invoices and online factoring services. Billie's platform leverages big data analytics and digitalized processes to provide instant financing at the point-of-sale and streamline invoice factoring, helping SMEs manage their outgoing invoices efficiently without hidden fees or excessive paperwork. Additionally, Billie assists B2B online merchants in securing better payment terms through a pay-after-delivery product.

BHub

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BHub is a leading financial back-office solution for SMEs in Latin America. Its AI-powered platform streamlines finance and administrative tasks, offering full outsourcing capabilities for accounts payable/receivable, accounting, taxes, payroll, and other processes. This enables clients to reduce time, costs, and labor associated with these functions.

MODIFI

Venture Round in 2021
Founded in 2018, MODIFI operates an online platform facilitating global trade financing for small and medium-sized enterprises. It offers liquidity, flexibility, and cash flow management tools to simplify cross-border B2B transactions, enabling businesses to optimize working capital and expand internationally.

Basic Home Loan

Series A in 2021
Basic Enterprises Pvt Ltd operates a technology-driven platform aimed at automating the home loan process for middle and low-income households in India. Established in 2020 and based in Gurugram, the company offers a range of services that include access to multiple lenders, tracking of applications and approvals, loan sanctions, and disbursements. The platform also features an earnings tracker and eligibility calculators to assist users in navigating the home loan process. Additionally, Basic Enterprises provides integrated customer relationship management tools for home loan agents, facilitating a more efficient service delivery. By leveraging an asset-light agent network, the company aims to expedite loan disbursements and enhance the overall experience for families seeking home loans, making the process faster, simpler, and more accessible.

Clara

Series A in 2021
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

Clara

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.

Xepelin

Seed Round in 2021
Xepelin is a financial technology company focused on transforming business finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America. It offers a comprehensive suite of digital financial services, including short-term and long-term loans, capital credits, and accounts payable financing, all accessible through its online platform. By automating financial management and enhancing access to liquidity via smart accounts, Xepelin aims to provide economic freedom for its clients. The company also emphasizes the importance of advanced financial indicators and risk assessments to streamline decision-making within the broader business ecosystem. With a workforce of over 500 employees, Xepelin is positioned to lead a new era in finance, supported by notable investors in the industry.

Xepelin

Seed Round in 2021
Xepelin is a financial technology company focused on transforming business finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America. It offers a comprehensive suite of digital financial services, including short-term and long-term loans, capital credits, and accounts payable financing, all accessible through its online platform. By automating financial management and enhancing access to liquidity via smart accounts, Xepelin aims to provide economic freedom for its clients. The company also emphasizes the importance of advanced financial indicators and risk assessments to streamline decision-making within the broader business ecosystem. With a workforce of over 500 employees, Xepelin is positioned to lead a new era in finance, supported by notable investors in the industry.

Basic Home Loan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Basic Enterprises Pvt Ltd operates a technology-driven platform aimed at automating the home loan process for middle and low-income households in India. Established in 2020 and based in Gurugram, the company offers a range of services that include access to multiple lenders, tracking of applications and approvals, loan sanctions, and disbursements. The platform also features an earnings tracker and eligibility calculators to assist users in navigating the home loan process. Additionally, Basic Enterprises provides integrated customer relationship management tools for home loan agents, facilitating a more efficient service delivery. By leveraging an asset-light agent network, the company aims to expedite loan disbursements and enhance the overall experience for families seeking home loans, making the process faster, simpler, and more accessible.

Selina Finance

Series A in 2020
Selina Finance offers innovative financing solutions for consumers and businesses, focusing on property investors and businesses seeking flexible credit facilities. Incorporated in London in 2019, the company combines expertise in real estate, finance, and technology to provide next-generation financial products tailored to modern customer needs.

Billie

Series B in 2019
Billie GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, is a fintech startup focused on reinventing working capital management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company offers innovative lending products, including pre-financing of invoices and online factoring services. Billie's platform leverages big data analytics and digitalized processes to provide instant financing at the point-of-sale and streamline invoice factoring, helping SMEs manage their outgoing invoices efficiently without hidden fees or excessive paperwork. Additionally, Billie assists B2B online merchants in securing better payment terms through a pay-after-delivery product.

MODIFI

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2018, MODIFI operates an online platform facilitating global trade financing for small and medium-sized enterprises. It offers liquidity, flexibility, and cash flow management tools to simplify cross-border B2B transactions, enabling businesses to optimize working capital and expand internationally.

MoneyOnClick

Seed Round in 2019
* At MoneyOnClick we are building India’s largest financial services brand for the 500 Mn lower middle income customers in 4000+ small cities (which we term as “India 4”). This customer segment has very little penetration of formal loans, insurance or saving products as existing financial service players see this segment as risky and non profitable . We have created custom lending, insurance and saving products that are tailormade to serve the needs of India4 customers. * To reach these customers at low CAC, we have built a proprietary tech enabled offline-to-online social distribution channel where we have onboarded thousands of financially literate free-lancers such as LIC agents and junior financial sector employees in 1000+ cities. Our fully automated social partner app is available in 8 Indian languages and helps us manage these partners remotely without any physical presence. * The general perception is that this customer segment is highly risky and non lendable. We are happy to share that we have been able to maintain near 0% default rates despite Covid19 . Our proprietary ML based family underwriting where we evaluate the P&L of the family and give a joint liability family loan has helped us maintain these low default rates.

Billie

Series A in 2017
Billie GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, is a fintech startup focused on reinventing working capital management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company offers innovative lending products, including pre-financing of invoices and online factoring services. Billie's platform leverages big data analytics and digitalized processes to provide instant financing at the point-of-sale and streamline invoice factoring, helping SMEs manage their outgoing invoices efficiently without hidden fees or excessive paperwork. Additionally, Billie assists B2B online merchants in securing better payment terms through a pay-after-delivery product.

HashChing

Seed Round in 2017
HashChing is an online marketplace that connects consumers with local mortgage brokers to facilitate access to home loan deals. The company aims to empower individuals by enabling them to share both grievances and positive experiences related to financial products, thereby aiding others in making informed decisions. Through its digital loan platform, HashChing provides a cloud-based service that offers comprehensive information about premium home loan deals and related financial options. This transparency allows customers to navigate their financial choices more effectively and make educated decisions regarding home and business loans.

Billie

Seed Round in 2016
Billie GmbH, founded in 2016 and based in Berlin, Germany, is a fintech startup focused on reinventing working capital management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The company offers innovative lending products, including pre-financing of invoices and online factoring services. Billie's platform leverages big data analytics and digitalized processes to provide instant financing at the point-of-sale and streamline invoice factoring, helping SMEs manage their outgoing invoices efficiently without hidden fees or excessive paperwork. Additionally, Billie assists B2B online merchants in securing better payment terms through a pay-after-delivery product.
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