Vogel Ventures

Vogel Ventures GmbH is the dedicated corporate venture capital and minority-stake investment arm of Vogel Communications Group (VCG), the Würzburg-headquartered German specialist B2B information and communications publisher founded over 130 years ago. Vogel Ventures was established in 2013 as a 100% subsidiary of VCG, with operating headquarters in Berlin and corporate registration in Würzburg, and is led by CEO Matthias Bauer. The fund pursues a strategic CVC mandate that leverages VCG's deep industry footprint in machinery, automation, chemical processing, construction, electrical engineering, logistics, healthcare and pharma, legal and IT publishing, and intentionally targets technology businesses whose products serve customers in those exact verticals. Investment sectors include B2B analytics and data science, market research and marketing intelligence, HR tech, e-commerce and digital marketplaces, publishing and media tech, vertical SaaS and laboratory automation, all positioned to benefit from VCG's reach into specialist industrial customer audiences. Tickets are sized between approximately EUR 100K and EUR 1M, deployed alongside complementary external venture partners that supplement the small two-person internal team, generally as a co-investor. Across approximately 26 disclosed investments and 6 to 15 active portfolio companies, named names include B2B expert-network Atheneum, talent-matching SaaS Cobrainer, Berlin-based B2B data-science platform Contiamo, women's media company Edition F, smart-services scheduling platform Shore, and laboratory ELN platform Labforward, Vogel's most recent reported exit on the October 2025 acquisition by Xavo. By aligning its capital with VCG's specialist industrial audiences, Vogel Ventures backs B2B technology serving machinery, chemicals, healthcare and adjacent industries.