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Urskive Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft
Urskive Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft was established in Berlin as the dedicated investment office for a single family, with Mathias Mudra and Christian...
Urskive Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft
Urskive Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft was established in Berlin as the dedicated investment office for a single family, with Mathias Mudra and Christian Speidel serving as Managing Directors. The office is intentionally structured to separate family governance from investment execution, preserving wealth across generations while maintaining direct oversight of the portfolio. The firm allocates across a deliberately broad range of asset classes: private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources. Within venture, the office writes seed-stage checks, backing companies in ClimateTech, Energy Transition, Mobility, Supply Chain, and HRTech. Co-founder Christian Speidel is also Co-founder of Swobbee GmbH, a Berlin-based battery-swapping network, reflecting the office's closeness to operational climate ventures. The portfolio spans the European continent, with a particular concentration in German innovation ecosystems. Team size is not publicly disclosed, but the office's documented footprint includes direct commercial real estate holdings at Rankestraße 8 in Berlin's Charlottenburg district and a portfolio of financial assets. The office is affiliated with MAMU Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Mathias Mudra's personal holding vehicle. No adjacent philanthropic foundations or club memberships are publicly documented. The structural differentiator is the office's combination of a traditional single-family-office asset-preservation posture with an active, hands-on early-stage investment program. Few German single-family offices publicly disclose this mix of seed-stage direct investing alongside broad asset-class diversification, giving Urskive a mandate profile closer to a hybrid asset owner than a pure conservator.
General information
Firm type
Single Family Office
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Germany
City
Berlin
Corporate office
Berlin, Germany
Principals
Mathias Mudra
Managing Director
Christian Speidel
Managing Director
Sitta von Borcke
Former Managing Director
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Does Urskive operate as a single-family office or does it function like a venture firm?
Urskive is structured as a single-family office, not a fund manager raising external capital. However, its investment behavior mirrors elements of a venture firm — the office writes seed-stage checks into European startups, particularly in climate and industrial technology, alongside managing a broad multi-asset-class portfolio. This hybrid posture is unusual for a German single-family office.
What investment stages does Urskive target for direct deals?
The office targets the seed stage for direct venture investments. This early-stage focus sits within a broader allocation framework that also includes hedge funds, private credit, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources. The combination of seed-stage startup investing with a diversified institutional portfolio defines its capital deployment approach.
Does Urskive maintain any philanthropic or impact-investing structures?
No dedicated philanthropic foundation is publicly documented alongside the family office. However, the office's confirmed sector focuses — ClimateTech, Energy Transition, ESG — and its direct investments in mobility infrastructure suggest a portfolio-level tilt toward sustainability and impact-aligned themes, even if not formally structured as a separate impact or philanthropic vehicle.
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