Venture Stars

Check Size
€500K – €1.5M
Outreach
Warm Intro Preferred

Investment Focus

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Germany
Europe

Inferred Thesis

Auto-generated from public data. Not the firm's stated position.

Venture Stars appears to focus on early-stage European consumer and enterprise companies, with a disclosed check size of €0.5M, €1.5M at pre-seed and seed stages. Recent portfolio companies suggest interest in mobility, nutrition, and lifestyle sectors, indicating a broad consumer-oriented investment strategy.

Generated 2 Oct 2026 from disclosed sectors, stages, and portfolio companies. Firms can update this by emailing [email protected].

How to Pitch Venture Stars

Warm Intro Needed
Venture Stars mostly invests through warm intros. Check the co-investors and portfolio founders below for a path in before sending a cold email.

Who To Contact

Florian Calmbach
Managing Partner
Martin Junker
Managing Partner
Source

YC Portfolio Overlap

Venture Stars backed 1 Y Combinator company.

Cyberdesk
Cyberdesk

Self learning computer use agent for developers

Summer 2025
B2B

Portfolio Highlights

Blue Activity
CyberDesk
AlphaPet
DaphOS
Freshflow
Finoa
Finanzguru
Holidu
Otark

Team

Auto-detected from Venture Stars's website.

Florian Calmbach
Managing Partner

Co-founder of netzathleten media and certified business coach with angel investing experience.

Checked Oct 2026
Martin Junker
Managing Partner

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of netzathleten media, acquired by RTL media group.

Checked Oct 2026
Raphael Budday
Principal

Investment professional with 8+ years VC experience from SevenAccelerator and Grazia Equity.

Checked Oct 2026
Stefan Pfannmoller
Founding Partner

Olympic canoe slalom athlete and co-founder of netzathleten media, now advising AlphaPet Ventures.

Checked Oct 2026

Focus and check size from the firm's website. Website reachable as of Oct 2026.

Ready to Reach Venture Stars?

A fit check scores your pitch against their thesis, stage and ticket. An email draft uses their real deals and thesis, not a template.