ASTUTIA Ventures

ASTUTIA Ventures is a German venture capital firm headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, focused on investing in smart-cities, future-of-commerce / e-commerce, and digital-lifestyle sector companies. The firm's name ''ASTUTIA'' is Latin for ''cleverness / shrewdness,'' a distinctive classical-language branding choice. ASTUTIA was founded by Albert Wenger-Mauricio (not the better-known Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger, who is a separate individual) and partners, and operates as one of several Munich-based institutional VCs alongside firms such as DN Capital (covered earlier), Earlybird, Senovo, Holtzbrinck Ventures, and Acton Capital Partners. ASTUTIA has raised multiple institutional funds with aggregate AUM in the EUR low-hundreds of millions range. The firm is regulated by the German Bundesanstalt fur Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin). Notable portfolio companies include various German and broader European e-commerce, digital-lifestyle, and smart-cities start-ups.