SaaS & devtools startups in Berlin
Contentful and Camunda, the n8n automation platform, and a devtools and workflow layer with data names like Y42 and deepset.
32 companies building in SaaS & devtools here.
Conversational-AI platform automating customer-service contact centres via voice/chat AI agents. Founded 2017; became a Berlin AI unicorn on the back of large 2024–2025 rounds. A leading European enterprise-...
Contentful — Sascha Konietzke & Paolo Negri
** Founded 2013 in Berlin, Contentful pioneered the API-first "headless" content management system (CMS) that decouples content from presentation. Raised a $175M Series F (2021) led by Tiger Global at a ~$3B...
Camunda — Jakob Freund & Bernd Rücker
** Founded 2008 in Berlin (originally a BPM consultancy), Camunda is a leading open-source process orchestration and automation platform. Raised an €82M/$100M Series B (2021) led by Insight Partners with Hig...
Signavio — Gero Decker (& HPI co-founders)
** Founded 2009 by Hasso Plattner Institute (Potsdam) alumni, Signavio built business-process-modeling and process-mining software. Acquired by SAP in March 2021 for ~€950M and embedded into RISE with SAP as...
Pitch — Christian Reber (& team)
** Founded 2018 by serial Berlin founder Christian Reber (previously Wunderlist), Pitch builds collaborative presentation software. Raised $130M+ from Index, Lakestar and Tiger Global at a $600M valuation (2...
Zenjob — Fritz Trott, Cihan Aksakal & Frederik Fahning
** Founded 2015 in Berlin, Zenjob is a digital/automated staffing marketplace matching students and flexible workers to shifts in logistics, retail, hospitality and events. Raised a $50M Series D (2022); ~$1...
Y42 — Hung Dang
** Founded 2020 in Berlin, Y42 is a fully managed "DataOps Cloud" for building production data pipelines on top of Google BigQuery or Snowflake, targeting non-coders and data teams. Raised a $31M Series A (2...
Rasa — Alexander Weidauer & Alan Nichol
** Founded 2016, Rasa is the leading open-source framework for building conversational/generative-AI assistants for enterprises. Raised a $30M Series C (Feb 2024) co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Venture...
Zeotap — Daniel Heer, Projjol Banerjea & Stephan Schwebe
** Founded 2014 in Berlin, Zeotap is a privacy-first Customer Data Platform (CDP) and customer-identity platform. Raised ~$117M total across 11 rounds (investors incl. SingTel Innov8, Liberty Global Ventures...
Adjust — Paul Müller & Manuel Kniep
** Founded 2012 in Berlin, Adjust is a global mobile-app measurement, attribution and marketing-analytics platform serving 50,000+ apps (Tencent, Rakuten, SoundCloud). Acquired by AppLovin in 2021 in a deal ...
Uberall — David Federhen & Florian Hübner
** Founded 2013 in Berlin, Uberall is a full-suite location-marketing and "Near Me" analytics SaaS platform (listings, reviews, local search). Raised $115M (2021) led by Bregal Milestone at ~$500M valuation,...
Productsup — Johannis Hatt (& co-founders)
** Founded 2010, Berlin-HQ'd Productsup is a product-content / product-information and feed-management platform (P2C — product-to-consumer) distributing product data across thousands of retail, marketplace a...
AMBOSS — Madjid Salimi, Nawid Salimi, Benedikt Hochkirchen & Sievert Weiss
** Founded 2012 in Berlin, AMBOSS is a SaaS medical-knowledge and clinical-decision-support platform (interactive library + question bank) for students and clinicians. Closed a €240M round (KIRKBI, M&G, Ligh...
Kenjo — David Padilla, Mathis Buchi & Julian Teicke
** Founded 2017 in Berlin, Kenjo is an all-in-one HR software platform for SMEs and frontline/deskless workforces (onboarding, time tracking, performance, payroll). Raised €8.8M (2023); positions as a leadin...
n8n — Jan Oberhauser
** Founded 2019 in Berlin (solo founder), n8n is a "fair-code" workflow-automation and AI-orchestration platform for technical teams. Explosive 2025: €55M/$60M Series B (Mar 2025, Highland Europe) then a $18...
Parloa — Malte Kosub & Stefan Ostwald
** Founded 2018 in Berlin, Parloa builds an AI Agent Management Platform (AMP) for enterprise contact centers (voice + chat customer service). Became Germany's ~28th unicorn with a $120M Series C (2024, Dura...
deepset — Milos Rusic, Malte Pietsch & Timo Möller
** Founded 2018 in Berlin, deepset is an enterprise AI/LLM platform; it authors the popular open-source Haystack framework (RAG, agents) and its commercial deepset AI Platform. Raised a $30M Series B (2023) ...
Spryker — Boris Lokschin, Alexander Graf, Fabian Wesner & Nils Seebach
** Founded 2014 in Berlin, Spryker is an API-first, headless, composable B2B / marketplace / enterprise commerce platform (Gartner/IDC-recognized leader). ~$152M raised (TCV, One Peak, Project A), $500M+ val...
Checkly — Hannes Lenke, Timo Euteneuer & Tim Nolet
** Founded 2018, Checkly is a code-first synthetic-monitoring and reliability platform ("monitoring as code," Playwright + OpenTelemetry) for engineering teams. Raised a $20M Series B (Jul 2024) led by Balde...
BRYTER — Michael Grupp, Micha-Manuel Bues & Michael Hübl
** Founded 2018 in Berlin, BRYTER is a no-code decision-automation platform letting non-technical experts build enterprise apps (compliance, legal, tax, procurement, HR). Raised a €55.6M/$66M Series B (2021)...
Langfuse — Marc Klingen, Max Deichmann & Clemens Rawert
** Founded 2022 (YC W23) by a Berlin-based team, Langfuse is a leading open-source LLM-engineering platform (tracing, evals, prompt management, observability). Raised a $4M seed (Lightspeed, La Famiglia, YC)...
Solaris — Andreas Bittner & Marko Wenthin
** Founded 2015 in Berlin (out of Finleap), Solaris SE is a licensed Banking-as-a-Service / embedded-finance platform offering APIs for banking, cards and lending. Raised a €96M Series F (Mar 2024) led by SB...
Kittl — Nicolas Heymann & Tobias Saul
** Founded 2020 in Berlin, Kittl is a browser-based, AI-first design platform (logos, posters, merch, branding) positioned against Canva and Adobe. Raised a $36M Series B (Jan 2024) led by IVP (~$45M+ total)...
Noxtua (formerly Xayn) — Leif-Nissen Lundbæk & Michael Huth
** Spun from 2017 Oxford/Imperial research (as Xayn), the Berlin company launched Legal AI "Noxtua" in 2024 with law firm CMS — pitched as Europe's first sovereign, GDPR-compliant legal AI. Raised a €80.7M/$...
zenloop — Björn Kolbmüller, Paul Schwarzenholz & Lukasz Lazewski
** Founded 2016 in Berlin, zenloop is a customer-experience-management (NPS/feedback analytics) SaaS platform for mid-sized and large DACH enterprises. Raised €11M+ (Nauta Capital, Piton, signals VC). Acquir...
CoachHub — Matti Niebelschütz & Yannis Niebelschütz
** Founded 2018 in Berlin by brothers Matti & Yannis Niebelschütz, CoachHub is a digital talent-development / professional-coaching SaaS platform (behavioral science based). Raised a $200M Series C (2022) le...
Digital coaching platform (founded 2018 by Matti & Yannis Niebelschütz) delivering scalable, measurable workforce coaching via 3,500+ certified coaches. A flagship Berlin HR-tech / future-of-work scaleup. (A...
Open-source LLM observability and analytics platform (tracing, evals, prompt management) for teams shipping AI products. YC-backed, founded 2022; a fast-rising Berlin AI-developer-tools name.
Fair-code workflow-automation platform blending AI agents with business-process automation; one of Berlin's hottest AI stories. Raised a ~$180M (€154.9M) Series C in Oct 2025 amid explosive open-source growth.
AI 'receptionist' for medical practices — handles inbound calls, appointment booking and admin so clinics reduce no-shows and phone load. Raised ~$6.7M seed (Oct 2025). Berlin health × applied-AI startup.
Investment API / infrastructure letting fintechs and banks embed stock, ETF and crypto investing. Raised ~$104.6M (Dec 2024). Part of Berlin's dense embedded-finance stack alongside Solaris and Trade Republic.
Global-employment / Employer-of-Record HR-tech platform (founded 2020) for compliant international hiring and remote-team management. A leading Berlin HR-tech name in the EOR category.
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