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Kapa Ventures

Investment, strategy and process expertise for the technologies of the future.

KAPA represents the combination of technology and business, based on the extensive experience of both of KAPA's partners in founding and managing successful IT businesses.

We support businesses through consulting and investment partnerships. Our work focuses on efficient process design and support for building lean, successful structures. Our mission is to turn innovators into successful entrepreneurs — we're not looking for a quick exit, but for long-term success.

By identifying growth potential together with our portfolio companies at an early stage, we make sure the direction is right, and that everyone keeps learning from experience and keeps improving.

Over many years we have worked in our own businesses with domestic and international investors. That's why we know exactly what founders expect and hope for from investors. We know the highs and lows they experience in their day-to-day work. Being an investor is, to us, an entrepreneurial activity — so we work from entrepreneur to entrepreneur.

“We don't invest because it's fashionable, but because it's our profession. We've never stopped being entrepreneurs.”

Gerhard Pail

“We have the patience and the experience to develop founders into entrepreneurs.”

Frank Kappe
>100 m €
Invested from own funds or through partners
>20
Companies
>20%
Return on investment per year

Countries we have been or are active in

ATDESGPUS FRGBCHCA

Who we are

Behind Kapa are Frank Kappe and Gerhard Pail. As long-standing partners, we know how to combine our strengths and experience to pave the way to success for our portfolio companies.

Frank Kappe

Frank Kappe

  • Partner, Kapa Ventures
  • Innovation authority and internet pioneer
  • Operated one of the first worldwide email servers
  • Founder and longstanding CTO of Hyperwave AG
  • Serial entrepreneur
  • Dean and Professor at Graz University of Technology
  • Several C-level positions in AT, DE, UK, US, SGP, CH, FR, CA
Gerhard Pail

Gerhard Pail

  • Partner, Kapa Ventures
  • Expert in transforming technology companies into businesses
  • Co-founder and CFO/COO of Hyperwave AG
  • Co-founder and CEO of Know-Center GmbH
  • Serial entrepreneur
  • Has worked with/for ARC, Joanneum Research, and Graz University of Technology
  • Several C-level positions in AT, DE, UK, US, SGP, CH, FR, CA

Portfolio

A selection from our portfolio of companies we have (co-)founded and/or financed:

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