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Leonhard Ventures
Leonhard Ventures is a consulting firm based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in corporate venturing and advisory services for family-owned businesses. They facilitate collaborations between startups and medium-sized enterprises.
Overview
What Leonhard Ventures does
What Leonhard Ventures is
Leonhard Ventures is a consulting firm based in Potsdam, Germany, specializing in corporate venturing and advisory services for family-owned businesses. They facilitate collaborations between startups and medium-sized enterprises.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Other
- Founded
- Founded in 1998
- Approximate age
- About 28 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 16, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
Leonhard Ventures as a community
Community overview
Leonhard Ventures is a consulting firm based in Potsdam, Germany, founded in 1998. The organization specializes in corporate venturing, providing advisory services to medium-sized family businesses in their corporate venturing activities and facilitating collaborations with startups both domestically and internationally.
Community focus
Leonhard Ventures focuses on advising family-owned businesses in their corporate venturing efforts and assisting startups in identifying suitable family businesses for capital participation, joint ventures, and reference applications. They have extensive experience in capital procurement and connecting companies with investors.
Membership
- Pricing models
- fixed-tuition
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Benefits
- network-access
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- Europe
Community activity
- Annual events
- 56
Events and activity
Leonhard Ventures has developed several initiatives, including the Deutsche Präsenzbörse event series, which has been conducted 56 times since 1998, the European Venture Market launched in 2004, ExpoFin, a trade fair for medium-sized financing introduced in November 2007, and specialized initiatives like World Resource Ventures and WaterVent focusing on environmental and water technologies respectively.
Common questions
What to know about Leonhard Ventures
Upseed classifies Leonhard Ventures under the Other organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 16, 2026
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