Giesecke+Devrient Ventures

What is Giesecke+Devrient Ventures?

Giesecke+Devrient Ventures is an investment fund specializing in the TrustTech sector. They were established in 2018, focusing on early-stage companies whose innovations underpin and secure trust in digital ecosystems.

With a co-investment fund created alongside the European Investment Bank (EIB) and G+D, totaling 50 million euros, the firm is dedicated to fostering growth in European TrustTech startups. The fund operates with a core investment strategy that emphasizes quick transitions, driven by financial returns, while benefitting from the extensive support network of G+D's business units.

G+D Ventures brings a strong backing through the G+D Group and numerous years of venture capital experience within financial and corporate frameworks, leveraging a robust global trust network to facilitate opportunities for portfolio companies.

The TrustTech field expands the traditional concept of cybersecurity, encompassing technologies that encourage trust across infrastructure, identity, regulation, and ethics.

This includes digital infrastructure security, data collaboration, identity verification, regulatory compliance solutions like anti-money laundering and anti-fraud technologies, as well as ethical safeguards against deepfakes and misinformation. G+D Ventures offers investment sizes ranging from 200,000 to 4,000,000 euros, with a sweet spot of about 2,000,000 euros, and specializes in seed and Series A funding rounds, with selective participation in Series B. Their approach combines deep domain knowledge and extensive VC experience to advise startups keenly, also utilizing hands-on involvement as strategic partners.

Their team is equipped with expertise and commitment to support entrepreneurs throughout their startup journey. The portfolio spans a variety of sectors such as AI-driven knowledge management, privacy-preserving video data anonymization, mobile application protection, advanced network analytics, and identity verification solutions, among others.

In addition to investment, G+D Ventures is also committed to ESG principles, integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance factors into their investment decisions.

What they say:

G+D Ventures is active since 2018 and founded by experienced Venture Capitalists. We are a theme-driven investor focusing on growth-oriented companies, whose innovations promote and protect trust in our society.

What we look for: We invest in European TrustTech startups developing solutions for greater security and trust in the digital world – this is what we call “TrustTech”.We focus on early-stage (Seed – Series A) and selectively later-stage (Series B) EU-27 TrustTech startups, investing anywhere between €500k and €3m, with additional allocation for follow-on investments.

How we help: We leverage our deep domain knowledge and decades of VC experience to help our startups make the right decisions to move forward. We draw on G+D’s trust network and our own specialized TrustTech network to connect our startups with the right people.