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Top 30 CleanTech Angel Investors in Germany

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Cleantech startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 CleanTech Angel Investors in Germany

Investor	CleanTech Germany investments
Matthias Ernst	2
Peter Mertens	2
Kai Hansen	2
Philipp Kloeckner	2
Karim Tabet Jalbout	1
Torge Thönnessen	1
Ralf Dummel	1
Tobias Wittich	1
Tim Bode	1
Julian Teicke	1
Suman Rewari	1
Bryant Chou	1
Christoph Behn	1
Cristina Stenbeck	1
Patrick Pichette	1
Lutz Kettner	1
Tim Schumacher	1
Leopold König	1
Alexandre Berriche	1
Maximilian Odendahl	1
Jia Hong Shaw	1
Per Liljenqvist	1
Ron Hillmann	1
Tobias Schuett	1
Kai Klapdor	1
Markus Völker	1
Maximilian Both	1
Jan Bohl	1
Anna Alex	1
Lawrence Leuschner	1

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Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.

Peter Mertens

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Karim Jalbout, based in London, leads the Digital and eCommerce segments of Egon Zehnder’s Technology and Communications Practice in Europe. Karim also leads the firm’s Chief Marketing Officers Practice in the UK. He is a trusted advisor to private equity, family-owned businesses, and start-ups at the C-suite and board levels. Karim has servedclients across hospitality, travel, publishing, financial services, telecommunications, pure play, and retail. He has deep experience in emerging markets, particularly India.Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Karim was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he drove early investment in the Android platform. Previously, Karim gained more than a decade of FMCG experience with Diageo. He started his career working in Brand Management for Guinness in Canada, then moved to London as Brand Controller Guinness and Malta Guinness for the Africa region. Karim subsequently led Baileys in the UK market and was Marketing Director for Guinness in Europe, including Ukraine and Russia. Karim earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada and completed the Executive Education program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been a key speaker at the Digital Innovation Summit as well as for Endeavour (a global entrepreneur network) and LIFE (an international non-profit organization for Lebanese Executives in Finance).

Investment focus

Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Torge Thönnessen is the Co-founder and CEO at Custom Cells.

Investment focus

Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

Founded The Place Berlin, great ecosystem and hottest co-working space for startups in Berlin. Before worked at PWC in Zurich. Leverages experience and powerful community network.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

WAANDA — Africa and Europe are linked historically to each other. It's now time to create a new sustainable trade approach between Africa and Europe. Our brand and platform WAANDA connects small/medium, authentic suppliers from Africa to independent retailers in Europe.
Avocargo — Avocargo facilitates end-users and companies to access shared electric cargo bikes.
Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Tim Bode

Investment focus

CleanTech, Marketplace, Clean Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cycle — Cycle was founded with the mission of building innovative ultrafast laser technology for science and industry that excels through performance and reliability in application.A versatile team, backed with decades of expertise in laser technology and system integration, works closely together with applicants to plan and install solutions foractive environments. Cycle's team offers comprehensive consulting, service and support to realize the best match for your requirements.
METALSALE — Metalsale builds a digital trading platform that allows non-ferrous metal scrap to be traded easily, lucratively and safely. They are a team with many years of experience in recycling and technology companies and know the problems that need to be solved.

Julian Teicke has 4 current jobs including Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman at handly, Co-Founder and CEO at wefox, and Founder at EMPAUA. Additionally, Julian Teicke has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & COO at DeinDeal. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, Restaurants, Human Resources
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
dao — We use modern technology to revolutionize residential property management

Suman Rewari

Investment focus

Women's, Wellness, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Femna Health — Femna Health offers virtual access to diagnostics and therapeutic solutions for women's health.

Bryant Chou - Co-Founder @ Webflow

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vaayu — Software that helps online retailers track and cut carbon.
Canvas — Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL.
Powder — Sales copilot for wealth advisors

Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.

Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Germany, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Mobai — Provider of attack detection, image manipulation detection and authentication. Strong and successful research team on biometrics.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.

Lutz Kettner leads the design and engineering efforts for the material definition language and the Iray renderer from the NVIDIA advanced rendering center. He has been working on leading software products in advanced rendering, language design, API design, and geometry for 20 years. Lutz is known for his influential work on the open sourceComputational Geometry Algorithms Library. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and led a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany. He has also served on the International Organization for Standardization and European Computer Manufacturers Association. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Investment focus

CleanTech
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

jumingo — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Leopold König is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Customcells. He was a Research Fellow at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology.

Investment focus

Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.

Maximilian Odendahl - CEO & Co-Founder @ Silexica

Investment focus

Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.

Jia Hong Shaw

Investment focus

CleanTech
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Per Liljenqvist

Investment focus

CleanTech, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Carbonstack — Carbonstack uses emissions offsets to accelerate the transition to CO2 neutrality.

Ron Hillmann is a Co-Founder, Investor, and Principal C-Level at allmyhomes. Ron previously worked at Peak Ace AG as a Board Member. He attended Technische Universität Berlin, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

TopCheck — TopCheck.com.ng is a platform for comparing financial services like insurance, credit cards or loans. It was founded in January 2015 and is headquartered in Lagos.
Wegatech — They plan renewable energy technology for you. As a standalone solution or in the system. For the professional installation, they work closely with selected craft companies. Thereby they bundle competencies in consulting, planning and execution.
ePilot Mobility — The corporate benefit program for a sustainable future. Employers pay for their employees. These use electric cars

Tobias Schuett is the CEO at DZ-4.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

CEO

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

Markus Völker

Investment focus

CleanTech
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Maximilian Both is the Founder and Managing Director at Rabot Charge. Maximilian Both attended Tu Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationallyrenowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years.Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, GreenTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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Labforward — Labforward is building the laboratory of the future. We are creating the operating system of the lab by connecting data, devices, and researchers.
Hawa Dawa — Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems. Karim Tarraf, Matthew Fullerton, Yvonne Rusche, Jannai Falschberger, and Birgit Fullerton founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.

In 2012 Anna together with her co-founder Julia launched OUTFITTERY with the vision to create a shopping experience for men that is convenient, fun and inspiring. Today, OUTFITTERY serves individual outfits to over 600k men in eight countries and Anna is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Europe. In 2016, she was voted amongst Europe’s“Inspiring Fifty”, the 50 most inspirational women in tech. Prior to OUTFITTERY Anna lead the IT of the Swiss group buying platform DeinDeal in Zurich. She studied economic sociology in Freiburg and Paris.

Investment focus

Wellness, CleanTech, Veterinary
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.

Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.

Investment focus

Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
Bosque Foods — Kinoko Labs develops the next generation of meat substitutes, starting with whole-cut meat items made from fungal mycelium produced organically. Headquartered in New York.

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