Sympasis Innovation Capital

What Sympasis Innovation Capital does

Sympasis Innovation Capital is described in available sources as a Germany-based venture capital firm that preferred to invest in companies. The firm is headquartered in Ettlingen, Germany, and operates with a 1–10 employee footprint led by two managing partners, Frank Kresse and Alfred Pikl. The brief, formulaic description and the absence of any additional thematic, sector, stage, or geographic investment criteria suggest a small, generalist boutique vehicle rather than a thesis-driven platform fund.

No operating web presence exists for the firm: the sympasis.com domain resolves to a Checkdomain parking page indicating the domain is registered to a Checkdomain customer but under construction, with no corporate, fund, portfolio, team, or contact content. No fund name, vintage, size, committed capital, or LP composition is disclosed in the input data, and the company description uses past tense ("was a venture capital firm"). No portfolio companies, investments, exits, co-investors, limited partners, accelerators, or strategic partnerships are documented. No regulatory registrations, advisory credentials, or licensing jurisdictions are listed, and the management team record contains only the two named managing partners with no further bios, prior funds, or track record.

From an investment-intelligence standpoint, the entity is effectively data-negative: there is no information on revenue model, fee structure, carry terms, AUM, investment cadence, sector focus, or deployment history. The combined signals — parked domain, past-tense descriptor, absence of any portfolio or fund disclosure, and minimal team record — point to either a pre-launch entity that never activated a fund, a wound-down vehicle, or an inactive record. Any analytical conclusions about capacity, strategy, or trajectory are constrained accordingly.

Name

Sympasis Innovation Capital

Website

https://sympasis.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Sympasis Innovation Capital is a small Ettlingen, Germany-based venture capital firm that invested in companies, led by managing partners Frank Kresse and Alfred Pikl, with no documented fund vehicles, portfolio, or active operations in available data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYFSANAHAI

Corporate Innovation & Technology Scouting Units (with investment mandate)

Financial & Insurance/Private Equity & Venture Capital/Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)

Keywords

• Venture capital
• Startup investing
• Early-stage funding
• Innovation capital
• Private equity

Headquarters

HQ city

Ettlingen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Sympasis Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in companies, with a preference for innovative and growth-oriented businesses. The firm is based in Ettlingen, Germany, and operates with a small team of managing partners who source, evaluate, and fund investment opportunities in target companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Venture Capital Investment

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Target Partners: Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm (historically a small partnership-style fund). Comparable in operating mode to a micro/early-stage German VC investing in technology companies.
• Capnamic Ventures: Cologne-based early-stage venture capital firm (formerly a partnership-style micro VC) with a small team investing in European technology companies. Closest in size and operating model among active German venture capital firms.
• UCL Ventures: Early-stage venture capital firm investing in deep-tech and software companies. Comparable as a small, partnership-style venture capital platform investing in companies — a similar operating shape to what Sympasis Innovation Capital was.

Broad incumbents

• Earlybird Venture Capital: One of the largest German venture capital firms (Earlybird, founded in Munich/Berlin). Comparable as a DACH-headquartered venture capital investor backing technology companies at early- and growth-stage, and the most relevant local benchmark for what a functional German VC platform looks like.
• High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF): Bonn-based seed-stage venture capital fund backed by the German federal government and corporates. Comparable as a German venture capital provider, particularly for an innovation-oriented mandate.
• HV Capital: Cologne-based venture and growth investor (formerly Holtzbrinck Ventures). Comparable as a German venture capital firm investing across stages and sectors in technology companies, and one of the closest operating-model comparables for a small DACH VC.
• Speedinvest: Vienna-based early-stage venture capital firm with a sector-focused fund structure. Comparable as a DACH-anchored venture capital investor deploying thematic capital into technology companies.

Regional players

• Salvia GmbH: A Heilbronn-region-based corporate venture arm / innovation investor. Comparable in geographic location (Baden-Württemberg) and innovation-focused investment mandate, although it operates as part of a larger corporate.
• MBG Mittelständische Beteiligungsgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg: Baden-Württemberg state-backed investment company that finances SMEs and innovation-stage companies. Comparable in regional focus (Ettlingen / Baden-Württemberg) and as a capital provider to innovation-oriented companies, though structured as a public investment entity.

Emerging players

• Companisto: Berlin-based venture capital and crowd-investing platform. Comparable as a German-headquartered venture capital provider backing innovation-oriented companies, with a less traditional LP/GP structure.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights2 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments2 records

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