Rapid Pioneers is a Berlin venture studio and investor. Since 2011 we have built 11 companies ourselves and backed 32 more.
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Every company since 2011, one dot each, oldest first. Hover one.
Great companies begin where the map runs out. Getting there first takes instinct. Building from there takes speed, taste and execution.
We do both jobs. We build from zero and we back founders early, bringing capital, talent and the pattern recognition that comes from having done it ourselves.
We move as fast as the pioneers we back.
Products people reach for again. We look for real margin and genuine repeat, in categories where people spend more of their attention and money. The best consumer companies earn a place in someone's routine, and once they do, everything else gets easier.
Whole industries still run on legacy software, paper, phone calls and spreadsheets. We invest in founders rebuilding those industries from the inside, with their own technology and AI doing the work. We look for companies that deliver outcomes people have provided by hand for decades.
43 companies: 11 built in-house, 32 backed from early on.
IPOs, exits and rounds from the companies we built and backed.