yabeo launches the "Emerging Tech Fund" for the topics of AI and cybersecurity

The Munich-based early-stage investment company yabeo is expanding its portfolio with the "Emerging Tech Fund" with a target size of 50 million euros. Heinrich Zetlmayer, experienced blockchain investor, joins the team as General Partner.

Munich - The Munich-based early-stage investment company yabeo has launched a new investment platform called "Emerging Tech Fund", which focuses on forward-looking topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity and cloud computing. The fund plans to offer pre-seed and seed financing of up to 500,000 euros per start-up and has a target size of 50 million euros. New to the team is Heinrich Zetlmayer, an experienced blockchain investor and former co-CEO of the esports platform ESL.

It can be assumed that emerging tech topics will lead to leaps in productivity and innovation across all industries. With the Closed End Emerging Tech Fund, we are now offering additional investment opportunities.

Gerrit Seidel, General Partner and Managing Director of yabeo

The "Emerging Tech Fund" differs from yabeo's previous funds in that it is structured as a Closed End Fund (CEF) for the first time. This step enables yabeo to offer a broader range of investment products tailored to the needs of family offices and institutional investors in the alternative assets sector.

With Heinrich Zetlmayer and his team, we have gained additional expertise in the future-oriented areas of AI, blockchain and cybersecurity.

Matthias Sohler, founder and General Partner of yabeo

With the introduction of Heinrich Zetlmayer, the yabeo team has gained an expert in the fields of artificial intelligence and blockchain. Zetlmayer has an impressive career in which he was not only instrumental in the development and sale of the world's largest independent e-sports league ESL, but also served as Vice President of IBM and General Partner at Blockchain Valley Ventures. The latter will now be integrated into the yabeo company as part of a transaction.

I am delighted to expand yabeo's approach as the new General Partner. We want to identify promising start-ups in the artificial intelligence, blockchain and cybersecurity segments.

Heinrich Zetlmayer, General Partner at yabeo

yabeo has previously invested in companies such as Solaris (FinTech), Cera Care (HealthTech/Care) and Clark (InsureTech) and now manages a total of 300 million euros in assets under management (AuM) across all platforms. With this expansion of the portfolio, yabeo is well positioned to invest in the technologies of the future and continue its growth.