KIZOO provides mentoring, seed and early stage financing in SaaS, Internet & Mobile Services with a growing focus on Rejuvenation Biotech. Apart from our financial resources, we are happy to share our longtime experience in development, marketing and product management.
Early Stage FinancingWe are looking for committed entrepreneurial teams with a clear focus to build high growth products. If you are looking for financing please feel free to send a presentation or anything else you think might be appropriate to highlight your venture to ventures@kizoo.com
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MentoringA bit more early? We are happy to work with a few selected teams prior to financing on their case to develop a plan forward regarding market, product, organization and financing strategy. Take your chances to win us as a mentor and apply here
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Rejuvenation Biotech
As part of Michael Greve's Forever Healthy Initiative we directly support the creation of startups turning research on molecular and cellular repair of the root causes of aging into therapies for human application.
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AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company applying technology relating to cell immortality and regenerative biology, to aging and age-related diseases. The company has three initial areas of product development: pluripotent stem cell-derived brown adipocytes; vascular progenitors; and induced Tissue Regeneration. Initial planned indications for these products are Type II diabetes, cardiac ischemia, and cancer respectively.
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When a cell reaches it's end of life or becomes damaged beyond repair it is supposed to either kill itself or signal the immune system to remove it. Unfortunately every so often this mechanism fails, the cell stays around indefinitely and starts poisoning it's environment. Over time we accumulate more and more of these harmful, death resistant senescent cells.
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss among people over the age of 50. AMD is thought to be caused by aggregation of A2E a toxic, non-degradable cellular waste product in our eye's retina cells. Lysoclear is a molecular repair therapy based on the targeted delivery of exogenous A2E degrading enzymes to our retina cells to eliminate A2E, treat AMD and restore vision.
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CellAge is aiming to increase human healthspan and reduce the incidence of age-related diseases by helping the human body destroy senescenct cells. The team is focusing on a novel approach for this challenge by developing synthetic promoters for senescence cell detection and removal.
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SAAS, Internet & Mobile
Being part of the German internet right from the beginning, founding and growing several major internet companies ourselves, multiple exits and taking one of them public has been an incredible journey for us. Now we are even more excited to support and mentor some of our country's most promising start-ups.
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Staffbase closes the intranet gap for non-desk workers. It is a ready-to-go SaaS solution to extend reach of internal communications to employees working outside the office, a group representing more than 2/3 of the global workforce.
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Mambu enables any financial institution to easily deliver state-of-the-art banking through its software-as-a-servcie cloud solution. Agile, flexible and open, Mambu eliminates the complexities typically associated with core banking software, at a fraction of the cost.
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Babbel has made learning languages fun, easy and accessible to everyone. The market-leading app consists of high-quality courses available for iOS, Android, on the desktop and Apple Watch. Currently, Babbel offers 14 learning languages (Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Indonesian, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Russian).
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Shyftplan is an online shift-planning service which SMEs can use to organize and communicate with their employees. Company administrators can quickly and easily create the payroll for all employees. Shyftplan, in comparison to a tax accountant, is about 70% cheaper for generating payrolls. |
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Prescreen is an e-recruiting solution that enables organizations to optimize their recruiting process. The system helps HR departments in the advertising of Job vacancies, the search and recruitment process, as well as the interview and assessment of candidates. Exit to Xing in 2017. |
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Suitepad is a new communication channel that brings hotels and their guests closer together, renders the guests’ experience even morecomfortable, and yields additional financial value for hotels.
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Tamyca is Germany's first and leading peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace, connecting car owners whose vehicles are sitting idle for most hours of the day with people who need a car.
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MegaZebra is developer and publisher of Social Games. Its platform allows users of social networks to play online games against their friends. Millions of games are being played by its users.
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REVL is a new kind of action camera, a better camera. One that allows you to enjoy the moment, knowing your footage will look great and you can spend less time editing and more time having fun.
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Management
Michael Greve
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Michael and his brother Matthias are probably two of the most successful founders in the German-speaking Internet industry.
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Matthias Hornberger
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Matthias is CFO of Kizoo. He has been part of the senior management team since the IPO of the AG in 2000.
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Frank Schüler
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Frank is Managing Director of Kizoo. He has had top positions within the company for more than 15 years.
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