Dr. Johannes Rüberg, EMBA

Johannes is passionate about accompanying entrepreneurs, start-ups and (corporate) VCs on their growth trajectory, helping them to innovate and disrupt industries.

• Engagements

  Projects and transactions in which Johannes has recently provided advice:

  • Aachen-based deeptech Accure Battery Technologies on its Series Seed led by Capnamic and 42cap, its $8M Series A as well as the following €7.2M financing round led by Blue Bear and HSBC Asset Management;
  • Baden-Württemberg based medtech Aesculap on its venture investment in neuroloop, one of the largest university spin-outs in the medtech sector in Germany ever and neuroloop on various financing rounds as well as on its major partnership with Merck KGaA;
  • Alstin Capital on leading the €15M Series A of Hesse-based ANCLA Logistik;
  • Düsseldorf-based fintech auxmoney on its €150M growth financing round led by Centerbridge;
  • Coatue on various investments, including on co-leading the $900M Series E of German fintech N26; leading the $44M Series A, the $290M Series B and co-leading the $1B Series C of Berlin-based Gorillas Technologies together with DAX company Delivery Hero;
  • Berlin-based SaaS scaleup Contentful on its $80M Series E with lead investor Sapphire as well as on the preceding Series D and Series C;
  • Energy Impact Partners on various investments, including on leading the $330M Series C of Berlin-based Grover and (together with GIC) on leading the €100M Series C of German cleantech Zolar;
  • Munich-based radiology AI start-up Floy on raising €3.4M from 10x Founders, xdeck, SB21 and several angel investors as well as on its €5.4M Series Seed led by HV Capital;
  • Singapore state fund GIC on various investments, including on co-leading the €190M Series B of H2 Green Steel and on its investment into the $500M financing round of EcoVadis;
  • Berlin-based gaming startup GRID eSports on its $10M Series A;
  • Haniel on various investments, including on its investments into the $200M Series D of Berlin-based vertical farming scale-up Infarm, into the €30M Series B and $84M Series C of Dresden-based robotics start-up Wandelbots and (together with b2venture, Eurazeo and eCAPITAL) into the €215M financing round of 1Komma5° that has turned it into a unicorn;
  • Headline on participating in the €122 million Series D financing of Chemnitz-based Staffbase;
  • Berlin-based healthcare start-up Kenbi on various financing rounds including its €23.5M Series A led by Endeavor;
  • Berlin-based Service4Charger on closing its $10M Series A with bp ventures and Energie 360° as investors;
  • Aachen-based sustainable energy start-up Voltfang on its €5M Series Seed with various investors including Pirate Impact;
  • U.S. listed gaming scale-up Skillz on a $50M growth investment in and partnership with Hamburg-based Exit Games, developer of the Photon synchronous multiplayer gaming technology;
  • NRW.BANK on the sale of its portfolio company Frontastic to Munich-based ecommerce unicorn commercetools;
  • Chinese furniture producer KUKA Home on the acquisition of German luxury furniture producer Rolf Benz;
  • German energy company STEAG on the sale of STEAG Power Minerals to EP Power Europe;
  • Luxempart as well as the other shareholders on the sale of Austrian education provider eduPRO Group to Swiss-German investor Invision.