Alexandra Prucmeier

Alexandra Ellen Prüßmeier is Managing Partner at Cygnet Ventures GmbH, a Frankfurt-based early-stage venture investor founded in 2017. Cygnet describes itself as a principal investor that invests its own money, supports portfolio companies with advice, coordinates a network of advisors and business partners, and helps attract suitable third-party investors where useful.

Before Cygnet, Prüßmeier built a career in finance. Cygnet’s team biography says she completed a degree in economics and then spent more than 15 years in advisory and investment banking, including roles at BHF-Bank and Frankfurt Trust. She was part of the Neuer Markt IPO team and later advanced to a director role responsible for stock trading and supervising institutional clients.

She also has direct operating experience: Cygnet states that she ran a real estate agency before returning to venture investing as co-founder of VC Seven Miles Capital. Since mid-2017, she has been a Managing Partner at Cygnet Ventures. The Cygnet imprint lists Alexandra Ellen Prüßmeier as Managing Director of Cygnet Ventures GmbH.

• Cygnet’s core stage focus is “co-founding pre-seed and seed investment.”
• The firm invests in sectors “marked by high growth” and “driven by digital transformation.”
• Cygnet’s stated digital-business filters include a digital transformation game plan, a recurring revenue model, and trend-setting B2B technologies.
• Cygnet’s LinkedIn profile states that its investment themes are digital transformation, collaboration, future of work, and IoT.
• The firm’s sector focus is enterprise software, FinTech, AdTech, LegalTech, and related B2B services with strong technology-based positioning.
• Cygnet says it is predominantly active in Germany and the wider DACH region.
• Cygnet’s operating model is active: it supports companies with advice, brings in advisors, executives, business partners, and co-investors, and helps portfolio companies secure funding.