10x.Group

The four managing partners — Felix Haas, Jan Beckers, Andreas Etten, and Robert Wuttke — jointly run the firm. Each brings a track record as a serial founder and operator, with exits including IDnow, Amiando, and DataXu. There is no indication of a separate investment committee beyond the founder group, which makes the decision-making unusually flat and concentrated among the principals.

Deal flow leans heavily on the founders' personal networks across the European and Silicon Valley tech ecosystems. Felix Haas co-founded the Bits & Pretzels founders’ conference and is a Stanford GSB alumnus; Jan Beckers runs the related firm BIT Capital, which co-invests on deals; and the group’s 10x Founders early-stage network acts as a scout layer. That combination of conference access, alumni density, and a dedicated early-stage pipeline creates a sourcing moat distinct from institutional managers.

10x.Group sits between categories. It is not a family office in the single-wealth-source sense, nor a traditional venture firm with blind-pool funds raised from external LPs. The platform splits activity across three vehicles — a direct growth/late-stage arm, the 10x Founders early-stage network, and the FLEX Capital software buyout fund — and deploys capital that includes the partners’ own liquidity. That structure functions like a permanent holding company run by operator-founders.

The firm does both, but through branded rather than third-party vehicles. Direct growth- and late-stage investments are made from the main platform, while early-stage exposure flows through the 10x Founders network and software buyouts are executed via FLEX Capital. This internal fund-of-funds dynamic allows the group to cover the full company lifecycle without writing LP checks to unrelated managers.

The platform covers the full spectrum from seed to pre-IPO and buyout. 10x Founders handles seed and Series A rounds; the direct vehicle targets growth and late-stage rounds such as Series C through F; and FLEX Capital acquires profitable software companies. Portfolio companies including N26 (Series D, 2020), Trade Republic (Series E, 2021), and Isar Aerospace (Series C, 2024) illustrate the stage range.

BIT Capital is an investment firm founded by 10x.Group co-founder Jan Beckers, and the two firms frequently co-invest and share deal flow. BIT Capital operates as a separate legal entity with its own fund products, but the overlapping leadership and investment activity mean the two often appear together on cap tables. The relationship provides additional scale and sourcing without merging the two platforms.

There is no publicly disclosed philanthropic foundation tied to 10x.Group itself. However, the founders are active in the startup ecosystem through the Bits & Pretzels conference and the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups, and Jan Beckers maintains a significant contemporary art collection — all activities that sit outside the core investment platform and signal personal rather than institutional capital allocation to non-financial projects.