Publishing · Sport · Agentic Media

Content with substance.
Technology with conviction.

Closelook Venture GmbH is a digital media company. We operate closelook.net for financial publishing, the Akte Bundesliga network covering 22 German clubs, and are developing Prism — an agentic media platform for data-driven, editorially curated content.

closelook.net → Akte Bundesliga → Prism →
Our Brands

What we build and operate

Financial Publishing
Closelook · C+
closelook.net
Market intelligence and investment analysis for experienced investors, family offices and institutional readers. Three tiers: C+ Intelligence, C+ Premier, C+ Exclusive. Core themes: AI infrastructure, semiconductors, global thematic portfolios and the weekly Weekly Signal — a 7-dimensional market regime framework.
Weekly Signal · Reference Portfolios · Skin in the game
Newsletter · Longform
Closelook Substack
closelooknet.substack.com
Free and paid content on markets, sport and culture. Home of the Worldplay series — cinematic sports narratives on players, clubs and defining events. Over 7,000 LinkedIn subscribers. Human voice. No AI prose.
Worldplay · Closelook@Longevity · Market Commentary
Sport Content Network
Akte Bundesliga
aktebundesliga.net
22 club dossiers as independent digital brands — from aktebvb.com as the flagship to all 18 Bundesliga clubs. Each site combines historical dossiers, live betting markets (Pinnacle), Oracle forecasts and automated match intelligence content via a proprietary odds API backend.
aktebvb.com · 22 Club Sites · Live Odds via Pinnacle · Sportmonks
In Development
Prism
Agentic Media Platform →
Prism is our infrastructure in development for AI-assisted, editorially curated content. Agentic pipelines replace manual production steps — without compromising the editorial quality and brand voice that define Closelook and Akte Bundesliga.
Early Development Stage · Launch tba
Sport Content Network

Akte Bundesliga — 22 Club Brands

The Akte series grew out of the book of the same name (Udo Muras · Carsten Germann · Thomas Look) and is now a growing digital network of independent club websites with live data, forecasting mechanics and automatically generated match intelligence content.

Live
In Progress
BVBBayernGladbachSchalkeHamburgSt. PauliStuttgartWerder BremenBayer LeverkusenEintracht Frankfurt1. FC KölnHertha BSCRB LeipzigUnion BerlinFreiburgWolfsburgMönchengladbachHoffenheimAugsburgMainz 05BochumHeidenheim
aktebvb.com — Flagship of the Series Live Betting Markets · Oracle Forecasts · Match Intelligence · Auto-Text Engine
aktebvb.com →
Platform in Development

Prism — Agentic Media

Prism Agentic Media Platform
Early Stage

Prism is the technical answer to a structural question in digital publishing: how does a small team produce scalable content that doesn't sound like AI — while still capturing the efficiency gains AI makes possible?

The concept behind Prism: agentic pipelines handle research, data aggregation, structuring and first-draft generation. Editorial curation and brand voice remain human. The result is a hybrid system that enables higher output without lowering the quality standards that define Closelook and Akte Bundesliga.

Prism will first be deployed internally across closelook.net and the Akte series, then positioned as a platform for external media companies and content businesses.

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Agentic Pipelines
Automated research, data aggregation and content structuring — no manual handoffs between steps.
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Editorial Control
Brand voice, tone and editorial judgement stay human — AI accelerates, it does not replace.
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Live Data Integration
Real-time feeds from markets, sports results and primary sources as input for automated content.
Newsletter & Longform

Our Substack Publications

Financial Markets
Closelook Markets
Weekly Signal, market commentary and analysis for C+ subscribers. Three-layer distribution: LinkedIn → Substack → closelook.net.
Go to Substack →
Sport · Culture
Worldplay
Cinematic sports narratives — players (tragic arcs), clubs (rise & fall), events (25 biggest World Cup scandals). Free. 7,100+ LinkedIn subscribers.
Read Worldplay →
Health & Longevity
Closelook@Longevity
Anti-ageing and preventive medicine. Curated by a specialist physician in preventive medicine. Weekend section of the Closelook ecosystem.
Go to Substack →
Contact

Get in touch

Company
Closelook Venture GmbH
Walter-Kollo-Str. 24
14513 Teltow, Germany
Managing Director
Thomas Look
LinkedIn →
Email
[email protected]