9elements Ventures
Building Tomorrow's Innovations together, Today.
We don't just invest capital – we invest in teams, ideas, and the future. With a flexible, collaborative approach and a clear focus on sustainable business and technology models, we support doers, visionaries, and founders in realizing their ideas.
No matter what you need—strategic conceptual knowledge, tech expertise, capital, or access to our network—we will analyze your case and take the next step together.
Sebastian Deutsch
Head of Nerds
Daniel Nierhauve
Head of Business Development
Daniel Hoelzgen
Head of Product Development
Our approach
Together, we will take a look at your idea or the current status of your project. Together, we will figure out which next steps make sense and whether we can be the right partner for you—or someone from our network, from business angels to pre-seed to VC.
With our own expertise, we can provide you with both advisory and operational support and accompany you from the initial sketch to scaling.
End-to-end support – Whenever you need us
- Business Validation
- Concept
- Design
- Implementation
- Presales
- Consulting
9e Portfamily
Across all industries
Whether healthcare, green energy, sports, or completely new markets—let's see where the journey takes us together.
We are a proud founding member of Expedit Ventures, the only CTO angel network in Germany. This partnership broadens our investment spectrum and gives us access to a first-class ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, and innovation leaders.
Best Case
Top of the Class 
From idea to successful exit
At 9elements, we maintain a close relationship with universities. During a workshop on digitalization at the University of Witten/Herdecke, we met Stefan and Daniel – two young students with a clear vision: to revolutionize the internship market.
We were so impressed by the two of them that we kicked off a sparring process together and thoroughly tested the idea.
Out of a hundred ideas, only one remained.
Out of countless revenue streams, initially just one.
We translated this into a well-thought-out customer journey and supported it with exemplary design. With that in hand, the two founders set out and closed their first deals during presales. The first version of meinpraktikum.de quickly gained its first satisfied customers. But during many conversations it became clear:
The market for vocational training placements was even bigger. The focus was quickly adjusted, the domain ausbildung.de secured, and the concept further developed accordingly.
9elements was practically the first investor, helping to turn the vision into a market-ready product. We supported the building of a small team and contributed to many further projects.
The project grew rapidly and was eventually sold to Bertelsmann – for a double-digit million amount. Even after the exit, we stayed on board to continue developing the platform both technically and conceptually, and to support it strategically.
