Tailored financing for your startup

From a yes to money in the account usually takes days rather than weeks, because onboarding, signing and payment run in one flow and there is no notary appointment per investor. The exact time depends on how fast your investors onboard.

No. With Beel you raise capital using virtual shares (participation rights) – fully digital and without a notary appointment. Later transfers also happen without a notary, because your commercial register entry stays untouched. Issuing them only requires a one-time, unanimous shareholder resolution during onboarding.

A classic GmbH investment incurs notary and legal fees per investor and per round that quickly run into four figures. With Beel these notary costs disappear entirely: the legally sound contract templates are included, and you only pay the fee for your platform plan.

A participating subordinated loan is a loan in which the investor shares in the profit instead of receiving fixed interest and is served on a subordinated basis in the event of insolvency. Virtual shares (participation rights) go further: they put the holder on an equal economic footing with the shareholders — sharing in liquidation proceeds, exit proceeds and dividends exactly like a shareholder — and are digitally tradable.

As long as you don't advertise your offer publicly, you can approach up to 149 investors – or raise up to €12 million from any number of investors – via a Private Offer without a securities prospectus. If you want to advertise publicly, the Public Fundraise Add-on applies, with the corresponding prospectus-law limits. For this you need a key information document, for which we also provide a template.

By giving investors virtual shares instead of real GmbH shares – this way no new entry is made in the commercial register and your cap table stays clear, even with many small investors. Existing small stakes held as real company shares can be swapped into participation rights via a cap-table cleanup before a VC comes on board.

Your company shares remain unchanged. Beel issues virtual shares (participation rights) that are represented – i.e. tokenized – on the Ethereum blockchain. This makes them digitally manageable and, if you enable it, transferable, without touching your shareholder structure.

Tokenization means that an asset – for example a stake in a company – is represented as a digital token on a blockchain. The token represents the rights to that asset and makes it digitally transferable and manageable. Beel uses this to make virtual shares tradable in a legally secure way and without a notary.

In private equity tokenization, stakes in non-listed companies are represented as digital tokens. This lowers entry barriers, makes shares easier to transfer, and creates liquidity in an otherwise illiquid asset class. This is exactly what Beel enables for German and Austrian startups – through virtual shares and its own secondary market.

Any operationally active GmbH or UG based in Germany or Austria. This applies not only to startups but to companies of any size that want to raise capital digitally and without a notary.

There are two ways. Without public advertising, it runs via a Private Offer: you can either raise any amount as long as you stay below 149 investors, or raise up to €12 million from any number of investors. As soon as you want to advertise your offer publicly, the Public Fundraise Add-on applies, letting you raise up to €8 million.

Yes. The virtual shares (participation rights) were developed together with leading law firms, and the smart contracts are audited regularly.