Visionaries Club

Founding Partners Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok lead all investment decisions. Both previously worked together at La Famiglia VC before launching Visionaries Club in 2019. In mid-2024, the firm promoted the first new Partners from within, signalling a gradual expansion of the investment committee beyond the founders.

The firm's LP base is predominantly a curated group of over 100 family-owned industrial businesses, many from Germany's Mittelstand. These families generally built their wealth in manufacturing, logistics, or engineering. This LP composition is central to the firm's identity: the backers are intended to serve as potential pilot customers for portfolio companies.

Visionaries Club operates two vehicles: one dedicated to pre-seed and seed B2B technology rounds, and a second growth-stage fund that writes larger follow-on checks. The 2022-vintage Fund II included a separate €50 million co-investment vehicle reserved for later-stage follow-ons, giving the firm capacity to back winners through multiple rounds.

The firm focuses on technology companies that improve or replace processes inside industrial supply chains — enterprise software, logistics platforms, fintech tools for trade, and factory-floor automation. Founders are expected to show a path to working with traditional industrial customers, and the firm's LP network provides a natural early adopter base for testing those claims.

The structural difference is the LP composition. Most Berlin peers raise from institutional limited partners or fund-of-funds. Visionaries Club's capital comes primarily from operating industrial families, making a commercial pilot with a major German manufacturer available to a seed-stage startup — an asset a purely financial venture firm cannot easily replicate.

The firm has not published a formal exclusions list, but its mandate is deliberately narrow: B2B technology that applies to industrial and supply-chain contexts. Consumer apps, hardware-heavy deep tech outside factory settings, and pure biotech do not appear in its publicly disclosed deal flow. The restraint is explicit — the firm defines itself by what its LP base can meaningfully evaluate and deploy.

Both Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok were part of La Famiglia VC before founding Visionaries Club in 2019. La Famiglia, based in Munich, also raises capital from family-owned industrial conglomerates and was an early backer of companies like Helsing and Personio. Visionaries Club shares a similar LP-engagement philosophy but operates independently out of Berlin.