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    Global Founders Capital

    Berlin, GermanyFounded 2013
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    E-Commerce & MarketplaceFintechSaaSConsumerHealthcareMobility & TransportationClimate & EnergyDefense & SpaceMarketing & AdvertisingEnterprise Software

    Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a Berlin-based venture capital firm and the global venture platform of Rocket Internet, founded in 2013. The firm invests globally across a wide range of sectors at early and growth stages, having backed over 46 unicorns, and previously raised two $1 billion funds before transitioning to deploy Rocket Internet's balance sheet capital.

    Their most common stage is seed (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $19.5M (across 116 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    124

    Fund Size

    $1B

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    1

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    141 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Aseon Labs logoAseon LabsSeed$10MJan 2026
    HeyMarvin logoHeyMarvinUnknown$11MJan 2025
    Simplify logoSimplifySeed$3MFeb 2024
    Bunker logoBunkerSeed$5MJul 2023
    Razor Group logoRazor GroupSeries C$88.4MApr 2023
    Poko logoPokoSeed$4.5MJan 2023
    Welcome logoWelcomeSeries A$29MJan 2023
    Onyx Private logoOnyx PrivateUnknown$4.1MJan 2023
    FitHub logoFitHubSeed—Jan 2023
    Opkit logoOpkitSeed$1MJan 2023
    Silkhaus logoSilkhausSeed$7.8MNov 2022
    Peakflo logoPeakfloSeed$4.1MJul 2022
    Parallelz logoParallelzPre-Seed$3MJun 2022
    Lydian Labs logoLydian LabsUnknown$3MJun 2022
    Zenbase logoZenbaseUnknown$4.1MMay 2022
    HitPay logoHitPaySeries A$15.8MMay 2022
    Astro logoAstroSeries B$60MMay 2022
    ASTRO logoASTROSeries B$60MMay 2022
    Pando logoPandoSeed$6.9MApr 2022
    Boom & Bucket logoBoom & BucketSeed$5.5MMar 2022
    Radish Health logoRadish HealthSeed$4MMar 2022
    AAlaanpaySeed$2.5MMar 2022
    UUpflowySeed$4MFeb 2022
    Truckitin logoTruckitinSeed$13MFeb 2022
    Ostrom logoOstromSeed—Jan 2022
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    Top Co-Investors

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    Index Ventures6 shared
    Pioneer Fund6 shared
    Rebel Fund6 shared
    Hack VC6 shared
    Picus Capital6 shared
    Alven5 shared
    Accel5 shared
    FJ Labs5 shared
    Kaszek5 shared
    Endeavor5 shared
    Techstars5 shared
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    Goodwater Capital5 shared
    i2i Ventures5 shared

    Last updated: 7 September 2026