Maschmeyer Group

Carsten Maschmeyer, born 1959 in Bremen, founds and owns the group. He built AWD into Europe's largest independent financial advisory before selling it to Swiss Life in 2007, and he sits on the investor panel of the German television series Die Hoehle der Loewen; Forbes put his net worth at $2 billion in 2026. He entered financial services at OVB Vermoegensberatung in 1982, running its Lower Saxony division and about 3,000 people before leaving in 1987.

Marc Schroeder co-founded and leads Maschmeyer Group Ventures from San Francisco, having previously served as head of global sales for the Maschmeyer Group; he is the named executive officer on MGV Fund II's 2026 Form D. Alexander Koelpin is managing director of seed + speed Ventures in Berlin, which runs the group's pre-seed and seed B2B software activity.

The Maschmeyer Group is the holding structure for Carsten Maschmeyer's investment vehicles rather than a single fund family, and it does not publish individual fund sizes. Its capital base traces to AWD, the financial advisory group Maschmeyer founded in 1988, which listed on the MDAX in 2000, operated in 11 countries with roughly 11,000 employees, and administered EUR 15 billion for two million clients before Swiss Life acquired it in 2007 for CHF 1.9 billion. The group now reports five active funds across the United States and Europe and roughly 150 startup investments, run from offices in Munich, Berlin, Hanover and San Francisco.

ALSTIN Capital handles late-seed and Series A rounds in European B2B software, writing EUR 2 million to 8 million initial checks across fintech, insurtech, regtech, cyber security and climate tech. Maschmeyer launched seed + speed Ventures in 2016 in Berlin for pre-seed and seed B2B software. Maschmeyer Group Ventures followed in 2017 in San Francisco, extending the platform into the Americas and Israel; its second fund, MGV Fund II, L.P., filed a Form D in March 2026.