Tech Companies in Germany

adjoe

Hamburg-based adtech company operating the world's #1 rewarded advertising offerwall (Playtime/Arcade) for mobile app monetization and user acquisition. Powered by AI and first-party data, processing ~6B API requests daily across 700M+ unique users. Part of the applike group, backed by Bertelsmann.

Alteos

Berlin-based embedded-insurance InsurTech and 100% AXA Konzern subsidiary. Provides insurance-as-a-service APIs and white-label products (bike/e-bike, electronics, optical, warranty extensions) integrated at POS for >1,500 partner businesses across Europe.

Amazon.com, Inc.

The world's largest online retailer and leading cloud infrastructure provider (AWS, ~31% global market share), operating across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, AI/ML, advertising, logistics, healthcare, and consumer electronics. Processing ~$830 billion in GMV annually with 1.57 million+ employees across 40+ countries, Amazon connects hundreds of millions of customers with millions of sellers through its marketplace platform, while AWS powers over 90% of Fortune 100 companies.

arculus

Munich-based modular-production and AMR (autonomous mobile robot) software/hardware company, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jungheinrich AG since Q4 2021. Provides the arculee AMR line, Modular Production platform, Warehouse goods-to-person software and Fleet Manager — branded 'A Jungheinrich Engineering Powerhouse.'

Ashby

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining ATS, CRM, sourcing, scheduling, and advanced analytics. Serves fast-growing tech companies.

AUTO1 Group SE

Europe's leading digital automotive platform for buying, selling, and financing used cars across 30+ countries. Operates three brands: wirkaufendeinauto.de (C2B car purchasing with 725+ drop-off locations), AUTO1.com (B2B wholesale marketplace with 60,000+ partner dealers), and Autohero (B2C online retail with home delivery). Founded in Berlin in 2012, the company processed 842,271 vehicles and generated €8.17 billion in revenue in FY 2025.

Babbel

Babbel is a language-learning subscription service combining linguist-crafted lessons with a live-class marketplace, serving over 16 million subscriptions across 14 languages.

Bigpoint

Hamburg-based online-game publisher and one of Germany's oldest free-to-play browser/MMO studios. Owned by Chinese publisher Youzu Interactive since 2016; operates long-running live-service titles (Drakensang Online, DarkOrbit, Farmerama, Seafight, Battlestar Galactica Online) and now also publishes mobile and Steam ports.

Bitpanda

Bitpanda is a European fintech platform for investing in crypto, stocks, ETFs, precious metals, and commodities. Berlin serves as a major talent hub.

Capmo

Munich-based vertical SaaS for construction project management; D-A-CH market leader for digital construction-site documentation, defect management, plans, and AI-assisted workflow automation. Targets mid-market construction companies, architects, and general contractors.

Celonis

Celonis is the leader in process mining technology, helping enterprises uncover and fix inefficiencies in their business processes using AI-driven insights over SAP, Salesforce, and other system data.

CHECK24

CHECK24 is Germany's largest online comparison platform, covering insurance, energy, telecom, finance, travel, and e-commerce verticals with its own in-house product and engineering teams.

Choco

AI-powered food supply chain platform that digitizes ordering between restaurants and food suppliers, processing over 1 million monthly orders across 30,000+ distributors to eliminate the 40% of global food production lost to waste.

Contentful

The leading composable content platform (headless CMS) that unlocks digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences. API-first architecture serves content via REST and GraphQL APIs for any digital channel. Trusted by 4,200+ organizations including ~30% of the Fortune 500, the platform powers brands like IKEA, Spotify, and KFC across 7 offices worldwide with ~800 employees from 70+ nations.

Crytek

Frankfurt-based AAA game studio and developer of the proprietary CryENGINE. After the February 2025 layoffs (15% of ~400 staff), the company put the next Crysis game on hold and refocused exclusively on Hunt: Showdown 1896 (live-service shooter, which crossed 10M players in fall 2025) and CryENGINE licensing. In January 2026 industry veteran Hannes Seifert (ex-Rockstar/Deep Silver/IO Interactive/Riot) joined founder Avni Yerli as Co-CEO to lead game production and publishing.

Datadog

Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring and security platform for infrastructure, applications, logs, and user experience. Unified observability for dev, ops, security, and business teams.

DeepL

DeepL builds neural machine translation and AI writing tools that outperform mainstream competitors on European languages, used by 100,000+ companies and governments.

Delivery Hero SE

The world's leading local delivery platform, operating in approximately 70 countries with 40,000+ employees. Processing €48.8 billion in GMV annually, the company connects 500,000+ restaurant and retail partners with customers across four continents through regional brands including Talabat, Foodpanda, Glovo, PedidosYa, Foodora, and others.

Ecosia

Berlin steward-owned, B-Corp certified search engine that uses ad-revenue surplus to plant trees and fund climate projects worldwide. In April 2026 surpassed 250 million trees planted; now expanding from tree planting into broader landscape regeneration, climate-tech investing, and (with Qwant) the European search index Staan.

enmacc

Munich-based OTC energy and environmental-commodities trading platform — Europe's largest market venue for bilateral OTC trades. In Feb 2026 announced a strategic partnership with Trading Technologies (TT) integrating enmacc's 'alpha' agentic trading offering with TT's execution suite. Network spans 2,000+ traders from 660+ member companies (utilities, industrial corporates, trading houses).

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks is a cloud-driven networking company providing enterprise Wi-Fi, switching, SD-WAN, and network management. Munich and Berlin are European locations.

Fashion Cloud

Hamburg-based B2B SaaS platform that connects fashion, footwear, and sports brands with retailers for content/data exchange, digital pre-orders, and re-orders. As of 2025-2026 serves 20,000+ retailers and 600+ brands across Europe, positioned as the leading wholesale collaboration platform for the industry.

FINN

FINN is a Munich-based car subscription platform offering all-inclusive, flexible monthly subscriptions as an alternative to buying or leasing. Insurance, maintenance, registration, and taxes included.

Flink

Europe's leading quick-commerce platform delivering ~3,000 grocery products from dark-store micro-warehouses to customers' doors in approximately 30 minutes via e-bikes. Operating ~160 hubs across Germany and the Netherlands, reaching 22.5 million people. The sole surviving scaled quick-commerce operator in Europe after the exits of Gorillas and Getir, Flink confirmed company-wide EBITDA profitability in March 2026.

Flix

Flix (parent of FlixBus and FlixTrain) is a European mobility provider running long-distance bus and train networks across 40+ countries under asset-light, tech-first operations.

Forto

Forto is a digital freight forwarder offering end-to-end visibility and execution for container ocean, air, and land logistics between Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

GetYourGuide

The world's leading online marketplace for booking travel experiences — tours, attractions, excursions, and activities. Operating in 170+ countries with 18,000+ destinations, connecting 50,000+ supply partners with travelers via web and mobile apps in 22 languages and 40 currencies. Processing €4B+ in GMV annually with €1B+ in revenue (FY2025), the first experiences platform to reach this milestone. Over 200 million cumulative tickets sold since founding.

GitLab

GitLab is an all-remote company providing a single DevSecOps platform for the complete software development lifecycle — planning, source code, CI/CD, security testing, and monitoring.

Hawk

Munich-based AI-powered AML, transaction monitoring, screening and fraud-prevention SaaS for banks, fintechs, neobanks, payment companies, and crypto platforms. In Jan 2026 launched Analytics Studio for AI-driven fraud/AML; uses explainable ML to cut false positives. Rebranded from HAWK:AI.

HelloFresh

HelloFresh SE is the world's leading meal kit company, delivering pre-portioned ingredients and recipes to customers in 18 countries. Founded in Berlin in 2011, it is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Helsing

Helsing is a pan-European defence AI company building real-time battlefield awareness and autonomy software that fuses sensor data into a sovereign operating system for democratic nations.

Holoplot

Berlin-based pro-audio company that develops the Matrix Array — proprietary hardware combining Wave Field Synthesis with audio beamforming for spatial sound. Acquired by Sphere Entertainment in May 2024, it powers Sphere Las Vegas's Immersive Sound and continues operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary serving live entertainment, venues, conferences, and transport.

Hornetsecurity GmbH

A leading global provider of next-generation cloud-based security, compliance, backup, and security awareness solutions, now a Proofpoint company. Hornetsecurity's flagship product, 365 Total Protection, is the most comprehensive cloud security suite for Microsoft 365, serving 125,000+ customers across 120+ countries through 12,000+ MSP and channel partners. The company processes 72 billion emails annually and operates 11 redundant secured data centers worldwide.

iteratec GmbH

Employee-owned German IT consulting and custom software development company with ~500 permanent staff and over 1,000 completed projects. Specializing in digital transformation, AI & data analytics, cloud services, and cybersecurity, iteratec serves DAX corporations and mid-sized enterprises across automotive, finance, energy, logistics, and public sector industries. Founded in 1996, the company pioneered agile practices in Germany and is transitioning to full employee ownership via a cooperative (Genossenschaft) model through iteratec nurdemteam eG.

justDice

Hamburg-based market leader in play-and-earn / rewarded mobile gaming loyalty programs. Operates 20+ apps with 300M+ players worldwide and has paid out $40-50M+ in rewards. Part of the applike group (Bertelsmann-backed).

justtrack

Hamburg-based mobile measurement, attribution, and marketing automation SaaS for app/game publishers. Provides tracking, real-time attribution, campaign optimization, and automation across the global marketing growth process. Founded in 2022 as part of the applike group; processes 1B+ events/day.

JustWatch

JustWatch is the world's leading streaming search engine, helping users discover where to watch movies and TV shows across 50+ streaming providers in 100+ countries.

Keyrock

Keyrock is a digital asset market maker and liquidity provider using proprietary algorithmic trading technology for digital asset markets.

Kittl

Kittl is an AI-first design platform for creating logos, t-shirt designs, posters, labels, and graphics using AI-powered vector/image generation and professional templates. Formerly Heritage Type.

Klarna Group plc

The world's leading Buy Now, Pay Later platform and AI-powered global payments network, serving 118 million active consumers and 966,000 merchant partners across 26 countries. Processing $127.9 billion in GMV annually (FY 2025), Klarna offers Pay in 4, Pay in 30 Days, Monthly Financing, the Klarna Card, a full-featured shopping app with price comparison and package tracking, Klarna Kosma open banking platform, and an AI-powered customer service assistant. Publicly traded on NYSE (ticker: KLAR) since September 2025.

Kolibri Games

Berlin mobile game studio specialising in idle/incremental games (Idle Miner Tycoon, Idle Bank Tycoon, Idle Restaurant Tycoon). 100% owned subsidiary of Ubisoft since the option exercise completed in 2024; one of Ubisoft's main mobile-idle studios in 2026.

Kombo

Kombo (YC S22) is a unified API for HR and ATS integrations. Connects 100+ HR tools (Personio, BambooHR, Workday, Greenhouse) through a single API, serving 15,000+ companies.

LAP

LAP GmbH Laser Applikationen specializes in laser measurement and projection systems for industrial and medical applications, including radiation therapy patient positioning.

lemon.markets

Berlin-based Brokerage-as-a-Service platform offering API-based infrastructure for digital brokerage and custody (fractional trading, real-time processing, ETFs/stocks/funds). Holds BaFin licenses. Acquired by dwpbank (Germany's central securities-services bank) on 30 Sep 2025; remains an independent subsidiary expanding pan-European multi-asset offerings.

Limehome

Munich-based tech-enabled aparthotel operator running fully digital design-apartments across Europe — contactless check-in, mobile booking, and a proprietary tech stack. In 2025 it secured €75M from Cheyne Capital to scale a pipeline of 3,500+ signed units and operates in 15+ countries as one of Europe's largest design-apartment platforms.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

The world's largest social media conglomerate, operating Facebook (~3.07B MAU), Instagram (~2B MAU), WhatsApp (3B+ MAU), Messenger, and Threads (320M+ MAU), collectively reaching 3.98 billion monthly active people. Generates $201 billion in annual revenue (FY 2025), overwhelmingly from digital advertising. Also builds virtual/mixed reality hardware (Meta Quest), AI-powered smart glasses (Ray-Ban Meta), and leads open-source AI development with PyTorch and Llama large language models. Meta AI assistant surpassed 1 billion monthly active users in 2025.

METRO Markets GmbH

Europe's leading B2B online marketplace for the hotel, restaurant, and catering (HoReCa) industry, connecting 740+ vendors with thousands of professional customers across 6 countries. The platform offers 1+ million products ranging from commercial kitchen equipment to tableware and cleaning supplies.

Mitratech

Mitratech provides enterprise legal management, HR compliance, and governance solutions for corporate legal departments, HR teams, and compliance professionals.

MOIA

Volkswagen Group subsidiary developing on-demand ride-pooling and autonomous mobility services. Operates Europe's largest fully electric ride-pooling fleet in Hamburg and Hanover, and is preparing to launch autonomous ridepooling in Hamburg in 2027 via Project ALIKE using VW ID. Buzz AD vehicles with Mobileye's self-driving stack.

Moonfare

Moonfare democratizes access to private equity and alternative investments, enabling individuals to invest in top-tier PE funds with minimums starting at €50,000.