Tiburon

What is Tiburon?

Tiburon is a Munich-based venture capital (VC) firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments, with a focus on the digital sector. They pride themselves on investing in exceptional founders based on qualitative factors such as strong team-market fit, capital efficiency, high trustworthiness, significant skin in the game, and potential synergies with their existing portfolio. Tiburon's areas of expertise include company building & internationalization, B2B Software as a Service (SaaS), ecommerce, FinTech, PropTech, meta platforms, media, mobile, and communities.

They aim to provide more than capital by acting as sparring partners to entrepreneurs, offering access to a robust network, marketing expertise, continuous strategic advice, and significant synergies.

With over 20 years of venture investing and more than 150 startup investments, Tiburon, led by Daniel Wild, aims to be the preferred and trusted partner for founders along their entrepreneurial journey. Some of their notable investments include trivago, XING, and Local Hero, demonstrating their commitment to supporting startups in achieving success. Founded in 2001, Tiburon is driven to become the leading European-American early-stage investment boutique and to dive deep with startups where great opportunities wait.

Their investment range is typically between €60,000 and €250,000, and they are passionate about working intensely with their startups, not just providing financial support but also serving as a trusted advisor and partner in the background.

What they say:

We invest in exceptional founders on the basis of qualitative factors such as a strong team-market-fit (more than one founder with an “unfair” advantage in the market/industry), capital efficiency, high trustworthiness, significant skin in the game and potential synergies with our existing portfolio. Our areas of expertise are company building & internationalization, B2B SaaS, ecommerce, FinTech, PropTech, meta platforms, media, mobile and communities.