Of 37 screened DACH candidates, 8 fit a €1–3m venture-debt ticket now — led by Reformer Club, Bakery Bakery, Filu and ONESTO
Asked (summary)
Find companies in the DACH region for a venture-debt fund — D2C businesses or businesses with a repeatable location set-up motion (like lap coffee, Rex or Newsoul). The fund writes only €1–3m debt tickets, so the companies also cannot be too large.
A targeted web scan (17 September 2026) surfaced 37 private, operating businesses headquartered in Germany, Austria or Switzerland that are D2C or run a repeatable location-rollout model. This is a sourcing screen, not credit underwriting: 8 candidates look best-fit for a €1–3m ticket now, 15 need validation, and 14 are likely too large, too small, controlled, or single-venue. HEROSAN was excluded before scoring because a listed parent holds a majority stake.
Ticket fit vs evidence of traction
Each dot is one screened company. Ticket fit: how meaningful a €1–3m debt tranche looks given disclosed size and plans. Evidence: disclosed commercial traction, sites, financing. Both are qualitative editorial scores (0–100) from the source rows. Hover or tap a dot for details.
Best fit now (8)Watch / validate (15)Too large, too small or low-priority (14)◆ = location rollout ● = D2C
Bakery Bakery is the strongest debt profile on evidence: 9 stores, 100+ employees, approaching CHF 10m revenue and profitable, targeting 30 stores by 2030 — store fit-out capex is a natural €1–3m use. archyde.com
Reformer Club raised a $2.0m seed in August 2026 to grow from 5 to 50 studios by end-2029 — a small equity base where a €1–3m fit-out facility is highly meaningful. trysignalbase.com
Vet rollouts Filu (~9 German urban markets, $5.5m seed) and Rex (9 practices, expanding into major German cities) both fit equipment-and-build-out debt, but Rex discloses no financing at all — the key diligence gap. startupintros.com · boersen-zeitung.de
The HOLY beverage cluster (about €170m 2025 revenue, 160 employees) and PadelCity (€20m Series A; Compagnie des Alpes at 33.9%) sit outside the mandate — too large or effectively controlled. techinberlin.com · sgieurope.com
All 37 screened candidates
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Method: 37 rows from a targeted live web scan on 17 Sep 2026 of private, operating DACH companies with a D2C or repeatable location-rollout model; one row per normalized company; sources span many independent hosts (company profiles, databases, LinkedIn, press) and require primary-source confirmation before outreach. Ticket-fit and evidence scores are qualitative editorial judgements from disclosed facts only; “not disclosed” marks a diligence gap, never an estimate. Currencies as reported, not converted. HEROSAN excluded (majority-owned by a listed parent). Sourcing screen only — not credit underwriting.