New financing round for DEALCIRCLE in the million range
As part of a current financing round, heise ventures is joining DEALCIRCLE, a startup specialising in business succession solutions, as a strategic partner. With the participation of existing investors such as the InnoVentureFonds of IFB Innovationsstarter GmbH, the total volume is in the single-digit million range.
Synergies between DEALCIRCLE and heise tipped the scales
The investment is rounded off by industry experts Stefan Eishold, founder and managing partner of private equity investor ARCUS Capital, and Mark Miller, founder and managing partner of M&A boutique Carlsquare. In June 2025, DEALCIRCLE already announced a financing round of around 5 million euros. One focus of the new collaboration is the online marketplace for corporate transactions Deutsche Unternehmerbörse (DUB.de), which was acquired by DEALCIRCLE in mid-2025. While the media company heise has access to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through its marketing platform heise regioconcept, among other things, DUB.de, in combination with DEALCIRCLE's technology and the startup's sales platform for business succession AMBER, provides the infrastructure for organising succession processes.
DEALCIRCLE was founded in 2018 by Kai Hesselmann and Graig Gröbli. The startup's matching software automatically generates a detailed list of potential buyers for company successions. All data is handled in accordance with the highest security standards. Together with the fully automated sales platform AMBER and DUB.de, DEALCIRCLE forms a comprehensive ecosystem for company succession in European SMEs. The DEALCIRCLE Group placed around 4,000 M&A projects in 2025 and aims to market more than 5,000 projects in 2025.
