Join Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Led by Managing Partners Tobias Schirmer, Jan Borgstädt and Sebastian von Ribbentrop, Join identifies and invests in European startups that demonstrate product-market fit in technologies such as AI, IoT, Machine Learning, 5G and analytics for an increasingly digitized enterprise sector. Learn more at www.join.capital
Location: Germany, Berlin
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2015
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 17
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 02.03.2026 | ISPTech | isptech.space | $8.6M | - |
| 03.02.2026 | enclaive | enclaive.io | $4.79M | Germany |
| 17.09.2025 | Kreios Spa... | kreiosspace.com | $11.85M | Spain |
| 26.05.2023 | NEWTWEN | newtwen.com | $8.65M | Italy, Ven... |
| - | Flexciton | flexciton.com | $23.94M | United Kin... |
| - | Valispace | valispace.com | $3.56M | Portugal, ... |
| - | CodeShip (... | codeship.com | $8.5M | United Sta... |
| - | Circuit Mi... | circuitmind.io | - | United Kin... |
| - | Codacy | codacy.com | $29.21M | United Sta... |
| - | Proxyclick | proxyclick.com | $19M | Belgium, B... |
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Persons 5
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Tobias P. | Schirmer | Founding P... | linkedin.c... | - | t****s@joi... | - |
| - | Sebastian | von Ribben... | Founding P... | linkedin.c... | - | s*******n@... | - |
| - | Luisa | K. | Analyst | linkedin.c... | - | l***a@join... | - |
| - | August | von Joest | Chairman o... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@einst... | - |
| - | Jan | Borgstädt | Founding P... | linkedin.c... | - | j*n@join.c... | - |
Mentions in press and media 33
| Date | Title | Description |
| 09.03.2026 | Europe's Double Play: Regulating Tech, Funding Defence | Europe takes bold steps. It asserts regulatory power over global tech giants. Meta Platforms now allows AI rivals on WhatsApp. This move staves off EU antitrust action. It ensures market competition. Simultaneously, Europe dramatically boos... |
| 08.03.2026 | Spain's PLD Space Fuels Europe's Space Future with Major Investment | PLD Space secured a critical €180 million Series C funding. Mitsubishi Electric led the investment. Key Spanish government funds also backed the venture. This capital propels PLD Space towards commercial launch operations. It scales MIURA 5... |
| 06.03.2026 | PLD Space raises €180M, EIF makes largest defence investment yet, and February funding rebounds | 💸. This week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Alongside the week’s top funding rounds, we’ve highlighted the most imp... |
| 04.03.2026 | EIF makes largest defence investment yet with €50M backing for Join Capital | The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the EIB Group, today announced a €50 million commitment to Join Capital’s third fund as Europe moves from defence spending announcements to rebuilding industrial capability. The commitment is the ... |
| 02.03.2026 | European Tech Accelerates: Billions Flow into DeepTech, Climate Solutions, and Strategic Acquisitions | European tech surged with significant investments and strategic mergers. DeepTech firm ISPTech secured €5.5M for advanced space propulsion, focusing on non-toxic, agile in-orbit mobility. GovTech startup Ark Climate raised €2.1M to empower ... |
| 27.02.2026 | ISPTech secures €5.5M seed to improve in-orbit mobility | InSpacePropulsion Technologies (ISPTech), a German space tech company developing propulsion systems designed to enable fast and agile in-orbit manoeuvring, has raised €5.5 million to advance deployment of its non-toxic propulsion technologi... |
| 03.02.2026 | enclaive closes €4.1M round focused on multi-cloud confidential computing | enclaive, a German cybersecurity company specialising in confidential computing, has raised €4.1 million in seed funding, with the round co-led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund and supported by Auriga Cyber Ventures. Ris... |
| 04.12.2025 | Hypercritical raises £2M to modernise software engineering for heavy industry | London-based Hypercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its foundation model and expand its engineering team. The round was led by Join Capital, with participation from Octopus Ventures, Tiny Superc... |
| 18.09.2025 | Announcing the First Round of Speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026! | We are thrilled to unveil the first round of speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026. The two-day event will take place 21–22 April 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, bringing together leading voices in Europe’s tech ecosy... |
| 17.09.2025 | Spain’s Kreios Space secures €8 million to bring satellites closer to Earth and strengthen European strategic autonomy | Kreios Space, a Spanish SpaceTech startup headquartered in Vigo, has secured €8 million in what marks the largest European investment to date in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite technology. The Seed round was led by the NATO Innovation... |