Deal Update: 42CAP, Keen Venture Partners, Dutch Founders Fund, amberra, NRW.BANK, Haufe Group Ventures, Ventech and JUPUS

YPOG advised 42CAP, Keen Venture Partners, Dutch Founders Fund, amberra, NRW.BANK, Haufe Group Ventures and Ventech on financing transactions, as well as legal tech startup JUPUS on its Series A financing round. The transactions advised on include Deepslate’s EUR 7.7 million seed financing round, fintech mika’s EUR 6 million seed financing, syte’s EUR 9 million Series A financing round, AI security startup Kontext’s USD 4 million financing, security startup Arcos’s EUR 5.5 million seed financing and AI startup amber’s EUR 7 million Series A financing round. JUPUS raised EUR 13 million in its Series A financing round. The transactions span a range of technology-driven sectors, from speech processing and AI-powered accounting to property analytics, AI security and legal tech.

YPOG advises 42CAP on EUR 7.7 million seed financing of speech AI startup Deepslate 

Berlin, October 2, 2026 – YPOG advised 42CAP as lead investor in Deepslate’s EUR 7.7m seed financing round. Further investors include Alstin Capital, existing investor SIVentures and several business angels. 

Deepslate is a Berlin-based speech AI company. It develops its own speech-to-speech models, which process spoken language directly and generate speech output without an intermediate text conversion. The technology is focused in particular on European languages and is hosted in Germany. According to the company, insurers, contact centers and platforms are already using the technology. 

Deepslate intends to use the capital to expand its European data program, particularly by adding training data on German names, addresses and dialects. It also plans to expand its model training, sales and marketing activities and scale its production infrastructure to accommodate growing call volumes. 

Team

Dr. Frederik Gärtner (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin 
Dr. Ferdinand Cadmus (Transactions), Associated Partner, Berlin/Hamburg 
Matthias Treude (IP/IT/Data Protection), Senior Associate, Hamburg 
Dr. Jannik Zerbst (Funds), Senior Associate, Berlin 
Dr. Sarah Sostak (Transactions), Associate, Berlin  

YPOG advises Keen Venture Partners and Dutch Founders Fund on EUR 6 million seed financing of fintech mika 

Berlin, October 1, 2026 – YPOG advised Keen Venture Partners and Dutch Founders Fund on mika’s seed financing round. The Berlin-based fintech raised EUR 6 million in the round, which was led by Smedvig Ventures. Other investors include Wecken & Cie., entrepreneurs Dennis Bemmann and Michael Brehm, limango founder Johannes Ditterich, and Martina Pfeifer of encourageventures.

Mika is developing an AI-native offering for accounting and tax processes. The startup primarily serves small German limited liability companies (GmbHs and UGs), providing services including ongoing bookkeeping, VAT advance returns, annual financial statements, and tax returns. At the heart of its offering is an AI-native general ledger that combines different AI models with proprietary rules and expertise, depending on the task. Trained accountants review the results and handle cases that require additional human support.

The funding will support mika’s further growth and expansion of its AI system. 

Team

Dr. Frederik Gärtner (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin  
Sjard Seeger (Transactions), Senior Associate, Berlin  

YPOG advises amberra and NRW.BANK on EUR 9 million Series A financing round of proptech startup syte  

Berlin, September 25, 2026 – YPOG advised amberra and NRW.BANK on syte GmbH’s EUR 9 million Series A financing round. The round was led by amberra, the venturing studio of the Cooperative Financial Group Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken. NRW.BANK participated as a new investor through its venture capital fund NRW.Venture. Existing investors, including companies of the Schwarz Group, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), vent.io and Vantage Value, also participated in the round. 

syte is a proptech startup founded in Münster in 2021 that develops an AI-based platform for analysing plots of land and real estate. The platform combines various geospatial, real estate and land data with analyses generated by the company’s proprietary AI. This enables project developers, banks, brokers, planners and companies in the housing sector to assess development potential, applicable legal requirements and the economic viability of construction or renovation projects at an early stage. According to the company, syte’s platform covers more than 62 million plots of land in Germany and is used by more than 200 customers. 

With the new capital, syte intends to advance the technological development of its platform and prepare its expansion into additional European markets. The focus is on further automating the early planning stages of construction and real estate projects, from assessing development potential and reviewing planning and building law to analysing economic viability. In the long term, syte aims to digitally map the entire process preceding the actual construction of a property. 

Team

Dr. Martin Schaper (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin 
Dr. Tim Walter (Transactions), Senior Associate, Cologne 
Laura Franke (Transactions), Senior Project Lawyer, Cologne 
Dr. Johannes Janning (Transactions), Partner, Cologne 
Paul Harenberg (Transactions), Associate, Cologne 
Janic Kaba Salcedas (Transactions), Associate, Cologne 
Konstantina Nathanail (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin 
Charlotte Petrasch (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin  

YPOG advises 42CAP on USD 4 million financing of AI security startup Kontext 

Berlin, September 24, 2026 – YPOG advised 42CAP on its investment in Kontext as part of its USD 4 million financing round. 42CAP led the round. Other investors include a16z CSX and HTGF. 

Kontext develops a platform that secures AI agents at runtime. Its software sits between agents and the tools and systems they use, assessing activity in real time based on the agent’s identity, requested action, target resource and assigned task. This enables companies to understand how their agents behave and define which actions they are permitted to take.  

Kontext will use the funding to expand its engineering team and further develop its platform. The company aims to help organizations deploy AI agents with greater control and visibility.

Team

Dr. Frederik Gärtner (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin 
Dr. Sarah Sostak (Transactions), Associate, Berlin 
Sjard Seeger (Co-Lead, Transactions), Senior Associate, Berlin 
Dr. Lutz Schreiber (IP/IT/Data Protection), Partner, Hamburg 
Dr. Lea Ossmann-Magiera (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin   

YPOG advises Haufe Group Ventures on EUR 5.5 million seed financing of security startup Arcos  

Hamburg, September 24, 2026 – YPOG advised Haufe Group Ventures on its participation in Arcos’ EUR 5.5 million seed financing. In addition to Haufe Group Ventures, the financing round was joined by High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapital, Pact and Robin Capital, as well as several business angels. 

Arcos develops and operates an integrated security infrastructure. Its platform processes signals from different sensors, assesses security incidents and centrally manages their operational handling. The Munich based startup initially targets operators of critical infrastructure. 

Arcos plans to use the capital to expand its team in Germany and further develop its platform. The company also plans to expand its business with operators of critical infrastructure before entering additional European markets. 

Team

Dr. Adrian Haase (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Hamburg 
Dr. Gerrit Breetholt (Transactions), Associate, Hamburg   

YPOG advises Ventech and NRW.BANK on EUR 7 million Series A financing round for AI startup amber 

Aachen, August 20, 2026 – YPOG advised Ventech and NRW.BANK on their investment in a Series A financing round for Aachen based AI startup amber. The EUR 7 million financing round was led by the existing investor Ventech and NRW.Venture, the venture capital fund of NRW.BANK. 

amber develops an AI platform for small and medium sized enterprises. The platform links and structures corporate knowledge from emails, documents, cloud applications and other internal systems. The platform is based on a proprietary AI Data Layer that places corporate data in a business context and supports the use of generative AI for knowledge intensive business processes. 

amber plans to use the new capital to expand into Europe and to develop its locations in Aachen, Cologne and Tirana. The company will also continue to develop its proprietary AI Data Layer. Its aim is to evolve the platform from a user-controlled assistant into a business AI that understands business processes and increasingly performs tasks independently across various corporate systems. 

Team

Dr. Johannes Janning (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Cologne 
Nina Ahlert (Transactions), Senior Associate, Cologne 
Janic Salcedas (Transactions), Associate, Cologne 
Laura Franke (Transactions), Senior Project Lawyer, Cologne 
Dr. Lea Ossmann-Magiera (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin/Hamburg 
Charlotte Petrasch (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin 
Anna Eickmeier (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associated Partner, Berlin  

YPOG advises Legal Tech startup JUPUS on its EUR 13 million Series A financing round  

Cologne, 26 June 2026 – YPOG has advised the Legal Tech startup JUPUS on a Series A financing round with a total volume of EUR 13 million. The round was led by Semapa Next, with participation from further investors including NRW.BANK, Acton Capital and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF).  

JUPUS is a Cologne-based Legal Tech startup that develops an AI-driven secretarial solution specifically for law firms. The platform acts as an “AI Legal Secretary” and enables legally trained, fully automated and GDPR-compliant communication as well as the processing of client matters across the entire workflow within a law firm. Founded in 2022, the company primarily targets law firms that aim to digitalise and scale their business processes.  

The new funds from the financing round will primarily be used to further develop and scale the company’s technology platform and products. In addition, JUPUS plans to strengthen its market presence in Germany and, in the medium term, drive its expansion into other European markets. The company also intends to grow its teams in technology, product and customer success to meet the increasing demand from law firms of all sizes.  

Team

Dr. Martin Schaper (Co-Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin  
Dr. Johannes Janning (Transactions), Partner, Cologne 
Dr. Tim Walter (Co-Lead, Transactions), Senior Associate, Cologne