- Oversubscribed seven-figure pre-seed financing round of the previously bootstrapped
B2B fintech startup - Led by D11Z. Ventures, with participation from Bayern Kapital and renowned business
angels from the fintech, software and private equity sectors, including Kai Hesselmann,
co-founder of DealCircle - Capital for growth, expansion of the company analysis platform, team building and
market expansion.
Munich, 03.12.2024 – The Munich-based B2B fintech startup StrategyBridgeAI has
successfully closed an oversubscribed seven-figure pre-seed financing round. The round was
led by D11Z. Ventures with participation from Bayern Kapital and renowned business angels
from the fintech, software and private equity sectors, including Kai Hesselmann, Co-Founder
of DealCircle. With the new capital, StrategyBridgeAI plans to accelerate product development
and further expand its market presence. The goal is to revolutionize business analysis in the
corporate finance industry and set new standards for efficiency and precision.
Innovation for an industry in transition.
StrategyBridgeAI was founded in 2022 by investment banking, asset management and big tech
professionals who know first-hand the challenges of business analysis. Current processes are
often inefficient, manual and error-prone, resulting in high costs, delays and subjective
decisions.
StrategyBridgeAI’s platform solves these problems by using state-of-the-art AI and financial
mathematical models that automate data analysis in a robust and transparent way. This
enables finance professionals to make well-founded decisions faster, more precisely and more
systematically.
Deniz Schütz, CEO & Co-Founder of StrategyBridgeAI: „Business analysis today requires far
more than just financial expertise. ‘Without data, you are just another person with an opinion.’
Our software brings structure and transparency to the flood of public data, saves valuable time
and makes it usable for the individual company – and lifts the corporate finance industry into a
new era in which financial experts also become data experts.”
Expansion of the company analysis platform and market reach
StrategyBridgeAI has increased its recurring customer base fivefold in the last 12 months and
acquired numerous new customers from the M&A, private equity, audit and corporate banking
markets. In addition to establishing itself in the transaction business, the company plans to expand its collaboration with banks and auditing firms in particular in 2025 in order to open up
further areas of application.
„We see the use of AI gaining momentum in our industry every day and want to equip even more
professionals with precise tools that simplify complex analyses and support informed
decisions“, says Louis Flach, Co-Founder and COO/CFO.
With the new capital, StrategyBridgeAI will drive the scaling of the business analytics platform,
develop new features and significantly expand its market reach – bringing it one step closer to
its vision of becoming the new market standard for business analytics in the corporate finance
industry.
Patrick Schmitt, Principal at D11Z. Ventures: “StrategyBridgeAI has the potential to
fundamentally change the way business analysis is conducted. By combining AI with a deep
understanding of industry needs, the team is creating a previously underrepresented and
visualized foundation for their clients to make data-driven decisions. We are proud to support
Deniz & Louis’ vision as lead investor.”
Kai Hesselmann, Co-Founder at DealCircle: „StrategyBridgeAI is an impressive platform that
shows how technology can revolutionize traditional processes. In an industry characterized by
manual workflows and inefficiencies, StrategyBridgeAI provides much needed progress. I am
convinced that this solution will permanently change the way business analysis is conducted,
setting new standards for accuracy and efficiency. “
Press contact
Deniz Schütz
Co-Founder & CEO
deniz.schütz@strategybridge.ai
+49 152 51095326
Louis Flach
Co-Founder & COO/CFO
louis.flach@strategybridge.ai
+49 176 34317137
About StrategyBridgeAI
StrategyBridgeAI was founded in Munich in 2022 and enables automated, data-driven analyses
for companies of all sizes and industries worldwide. Users include M&A and strategy
consultants, private equity investors, auditors and commercial banks. By using state-of-theart AI and financial mathematical models, StrategyBridgeAI enables increased efficiency,
standardization of complex processes and deeper insights for informed decisions. Further
information can be found at http://www.strategybridge.ai
About D11Z. Ventures
D11Z. Ventures is a dynamic early-stage investor specializing in digital and AI startups in
Germany and Europe. As a single family office VC, D11Z. Ventures pursues the vision of shaping
the digital future as a leading European investor in the fields of AI, IoT and SaaS. With
experience, expertise and agility, D11Z. Ventures promotes digital transformation and has
valuable connections to technology SMEs and global market leaders. The focus is on finding
founders with visionary ideas to sustainably shape the digital future. True to the motto
“Shaping Tomorrow, Today”, D11Z. Ventures is already turning visionary ideas into reality today.
Further information can be found at https://d11z.com/
About Bayern Kapital
Bayern Kapital GmbH, based in Landshut, Germany, is the venture/growth capital company of
the Free State of Bavaria. It supports innovative high-tech and deep-tech companies in Bavaria
through various growth phases, from seed to later stage, with equity capital of between EUR
0.25 and 25 million. Bayern Kapital closes gaps in the VC sector in proven consortium
constellations with private investors.
Bayern Kapital manages specialised investment funds with a volume of around EUR 700 million.
Since it was founded in 1995, the wholly owned subsidiary of LfA Förderbank Bayern has
invested over EUR 500 million of its own equity capital in more than 320 start-ups and scaleups from sectors such as life sciences, software & IT, materials & new materials,
nanotechnology and environmental technology. This has created over 10,000 permanent jobs
in sustainable companies in Bavaria. The active portfolio currently comprises almost 100
companies.
Examples of numerous pioneering success stories that Bayern Kapital has supported from an
early stage include EOS (now the world’s leading technology provider in industrial 3D printing
of metals and plastics), Proglove, Fazua, SimScale, Scompler, egym, Parcellab, Cobrainer,
Quantum Systems, Casavi, Riskmethods, Tubulis, Catalym, Immunic, Sirion, tado and among
others. Further information at https://bayernkapital.de/
