Build with us at Bertelsmann Investments

We are a team of founders, operators, and investors – and we’re proud to be partners with visionary entrepreneurs.

How we work

Four strong principles guide our global teams in what they do every day — we hold these principles dear to our heart.

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Encourage people to think and act like entrepreneurs.

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Create a safe environment so that everyone can speak to achieve the best outcome.

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Be true to yourself. It’s ok to make mistakes. Be fast and iterate.

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You never win alone. It’s the team that makes all the difference.

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Your Path

Our global team of colleagues at BI has a significant degree of entrepreneurial freedom to drive their own projects – fully in line with our mission Empowering Entrepreneurs.

Annabelle Long

Managing Partner BAI

At the age of 35 she was given the responsibility to entrepreneurially build up Bertelsmann Asia Investments (BAI) for Bertelsmann, an entirely new VC fund in China. Since then, she has built BAI into one of the leading local VC investors with €1bn+ AUM and has been recognized as one of Asia's leading investors by the Midas List in 2024.

Jonas Thiemann

Co-CEO Applike

Jonas co-founded Applike in 2015 inside Bertelsmann, together with Carlo Szelinsky. Under his leadership, Applike has grown into one of the world's leading mobile AdTech platforms — offering services in mobile user acquisition, gaming, and ad monetization from its Hamburg headquarters. Today, the founder-led group is on track to reach $1 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the most successful company incubations in Europe.

Peter Koop

CEO cormeo

Peter started as a system operator in one of Bertelsmann's data centers and later became a Manager in the Pharma solutions team of Bertelsmann's Arvato Systems unit. Pitching the Bertelsmann Executive Board to acquire the German pharma asset Rote Liste in 2021 and build a pharma tech SaaS platform around it, he has since gone on to entrepreneurially develop cormeo into a global growth platform as part of the Bertelsmann Next program via a buy-and-build strategy.

Hear from our CEO

Our CEO Carsten talks about his journey and BI’s guiding principles on the Bertelsmann Business Podcast.

Creativity and entrepreneurship are the core values that drive our work. Bertelsmann has always been that home of entrepreneurs who, equipped with freedom and resources, drive exceptional outcomes.

Carsten Coesfeld

Member of the Executive Board Bertelsmann and CEO Bertelsmann Investments

Fostering diverse perspectives

We are convinced that a diverse range of perspectives is the path to shared success – that is why we cooperate with various partners.

Empowering international talents

2hearts

2heartscommunity.com

2hearts is a diverse community of people with immigration backgrounds in Europe's tech industry. They provide mentorship for young talent, help overcome cultural challenges and support members in succeeding in tech professions.

Empowering female talents

Mom Hunting

As a diversity recruiting platform, Mom Hunting has set itself the task of actively shaping a more work-life balance-friendly environment in which moms can fully develop their potential. Mission Mom Hunting aims to give every woman – including those with children – the opportunity to shape their own career path. For successful work-life balance in management! As a "mission starter" at Mom Hunting, we have set ourselves the goal of strengthening and empowering more female talents.

Now it’s on you: Kickstart your career

Shape the future of Bertelsmann Investments.

Mobile Ad Tech

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Applike logo

Founded in 2015 by Jonas Thiemann and Carlo Szelinsky with the publishing house Gruner + Jahr, Applike has become the leading app growth platform. The global Applike Group creates companies that deliver unique products and business solutions to app publishers. Currently, Applike comprises of five companies that function independently but draw from each other’s technologies and expertise. Together, the companies offer a suite of experiences in rewarded ads, in-app-video-advertising and more.

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adjoe logo

Adjoe is a leading advertising and monetization platform that ensures advertisers, publishers, and brands reach their app’s reach and revenue goals. By harnessing the power of rewarded engagement and premium targeting, adjoe generates higher ad revenues than any other solution while creating a meaningful engagement loop for users.

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justDice logo

justDice

JustDice is a mobile app development company developing the world’s best rewarded mobile gaming apps. With over 20+ apps enjoyed by 300+ million players worldwide, justDice is revolutionising the play-and-earn genre.

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justtrack logo

justtrack

Justtrack is a marketing automation and attribution platform that allows app and game publishers to optimize and automate their entire mobile app growth strategy – all on one platform.

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Sunday logo

Sunday

Sunday develops and publishes intuitive and engaging mobile games with smart and player-friendly monetisation, connecting millions of players worldwide.

HR Tech

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EMBRACE logo

EMBRACE is a family of brands that offers a range of services, from employer branding to recruiting and employee retention. EMBRACE Family comprises the high-reach platforms such as Ausbildung.de and Milch und Zucker, as well as the milch&zucker agency team. The different brands share a common goal – to make work more human and more optimistic through innovative tech.

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Ausbildung.de logo

Ausbildung.de

Ausbildung.de connects thousands of companies offering vocational training programs with millions of jobseekers. With its strong reach in both online searches and social media, it is Germany’s most relevant online marketplace for apprenticeships.

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Studyflix logo

Studyflix

Studyflix is the largest e-learning community in German-speaking countries. Its free-to-use e-learning content draws millions of young learners, and provides engaging employer branding solutions for companies aiming to attract young talent.

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Vocanto logo

Vocanto leads the market for high-quality e-learning solutions for apprentices. With its broad content offering across all major fields of work and its sophisticated learning software, Vocanto is a powerful and valuable addition to vocational training programs.

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Milch und Zucker logo

Milch und Zucker

Milch und Zucker is a talent acquisition and management agency providing AI-driven and award-winning HR tech tools and software. Its applicant tracking system BeeSite Recruiting and HR marketing strategies are used by private sector businesses like Lufthansa and Commerzbank as well as public organizations at both the state and federal level.

milch&zucker agency

milch&zucker agency is one of the leading AI-driven agencies for employer branding and recruiting. With a holistic and methodologically sound approach, the company develops creative solutions that sustainably strengthen employer brands.

Pharma Tech

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Cormeo logo

cormeo leverages the synergies among four specialized brands to drive innovation in life sciences. Our brands Docuvera, EXTEDO, Rote Liste and medicines.ie facilitate the innovative and compliant exchange of regulated information. Together, they build the trusted bridge between the life science industry, health authorities, healthcare professionals, and patients to improve patient health.

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Docuvera logo

Docuvera

Docuvera is an intelligent SaaS solution that delivers content management efficiencies through core content reuse across the drug development lifecycle. Harnessing the power of AI, Docuvera is a single platform where pharma content teams can author, review, approve, translate, and publish regulated documents by reusing approved, compliant component content. By combining AI-powered automation with the necessary governance, consistency, and control, Docuvera perfectly serves the life sciences regulatory writing space.

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EXTEDO logo

EXTEDO is an internationally leading provider of information management solutions specifically designed for regulatory, quality, and safety processes in the life sciences industry. EXTEDO’s solutions and services enable life sciences organizations and health authorities to achieve effortless compliance throughout the entire medicinal product lifecycle, from development to drug safety.

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Rote Liste logo

Rote Liste

Rote Liste Service GmbH, a trusted institution in German healthcare, enables pharmaceutical companies to publish reliable medicinal product information for healthcare professionals and patients. Furthermore, Rote Liste Service GmbH is a proactive leader in the digital transformation of healthcare professional and patient information, empowering them to make informed decisions with confidence.

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Logo medicines.ie

medicines.ie

medicines.ie contains accurate, up-to-date, regulator-approved information on medicines available in Ireland. The site is designed to be a comprehensive and easily searchable source of medicines information in Ireland. It is widely regarded as an invaluable reference source by healthcare professionals, the National Medicines Information Centre and the Department of Health.

India

LetsTransport

LetsTransport operates a new-age, tech-enabled marketplace for intracity road logistics across India, aiming to combine on-time delivery with last-mile efficiency. Having built a two-sided digital marketplace connecting truckers with large enterprise clients, LetsTransport addresses inefficiencies in the highly fragmented local logistics sector.

Empowering Entrepreneurs

© 2026 Bertelsmann Investments

Empowering Entrepreneurs

© 2026 Bertelsmann Investments

Empowering Entrepreneurs

© 2026 Bertelsmann Investments