Schumpeter Ventures

Schumpeter Ventures is a Frankfurt am Main, Germany-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019. The firm is headquartered in Frankfurt's financial district at Bockenheimer Landstrasse 22, and invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across fintech, insurtech, and cybersecurity, with a geographic focus on Germany, Switzerland, and Israel. The investment philosophy rests on four pillars: backing ecosystems with strong synergies, active engagement in portfolio companies' corporate development beyond capital, deep domain and technological expertise, and integration into a dense network of operator and institutional co-investors. The partnership is led by Managing Partner Udo Broskamp, who brings more than 20 years of international strategy consulting experience at Boston Consulting Group and Roland Berger as well as management roles at financial institutions across five continents, joined by Partners Markus Meinhold, Vinzenz von Eickstedt, and Mattheus Kuhn, with Daniel Gresch serving as Venture Partner and Birger Hechmann as Investment Manager. The fund targets information technology, B2B software, financial services, and security across its investment mandate. Across approximately 15 disclosed portfolio investments, named companies include MYVI Group, Qundo, FineTrade, Paladyn, and AIR. Schumpeter Ventures' positioning within the Frankfurt financial hub enables the firm to leverage deep relationships with European banking, insurance, and regulatory stakeholders — a meaningful advantage when backing fintech and insurtech founders who must navigate complex financial-services compliance pathways. The firm's hands-on approach is designed to help early-stage founders in these regulated sectors move from concept through product-market fit with active support on corporate development, go-to-market strategy, and follow-on fundraising.