Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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MIG Capital
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, France, Austria | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, Health Care, Software | $1.7M–$60M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $411k–$33M |
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468 Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Germany, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$42M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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6 | United States, Singapore, Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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Santo Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, Denmark, Finland | Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Medical | $2.5M–$131M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.1M–$44M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $563k–$34M |
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $790k–$31M |
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Magnetic Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Apps, FinTech | $1.2M–$35M |
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Carbon Removal Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Environmental Consulting, Agriculture, AgTech | $1M–$53M |
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SFO
VC Fund
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet | $1.6M–$16M |
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Karim Tabet Jalbout
Angel
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3 | Germany | Seed, Series A | Battery, CleanTech, Recycling | $3.5M–$8.6M |
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Tiny VC
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $750k–$27M |
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J12
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, Norway, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $974k–$30M |
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Planet A Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability | $900k–$37M |
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Fraunhofer Venture
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, France, Latvia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, CleanTech, 3D Technology | $100k–$12M |
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Übermorgen Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Switzerland, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Energy, Software, SaaS | $300k–$12M |
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Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $4.2M–$124M |
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Counteract
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Environmental Engineering, CleanTech, Sustainability | $1.5M–$27M |
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Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company
VC Fund
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3 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $750k–$37M |
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence | $893k–$156M |
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Greenfield
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency | $1.2M–$15M |
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Expedite Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Czech Republic, Poland | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Graphic Design | $660k–$4.8M |
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Kai Hansen
Angel
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, Italy | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $841k–$60M |
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $209k–$36M |
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WENVEST Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.2M–$23M |
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AENU
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Renewable Energy, Software, CleanTech | |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Internet | |
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BONVENTURE
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Estonia | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, SaaS | $980k–$19M |
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10x Founders
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $620k–$53M |
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BayBG Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Italy, United States | Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $732k–$21M |
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PT1
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Real Estate, Information Technology | $1.1M–$18M |
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Italy, Spain | Series A, Series B, Seed | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | $1.1M–$27M |
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Santo Holding
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria | Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Energy, Medical | $7.7M–$10M |
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Peter Mertens
Angel
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2 | Germany, Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Automotive, CleanTech | $414k–$4.9M |
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better ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Software, Manufacturing | $1.1M–$6.9M |
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CapitalT
VC Fund
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2 | The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden | Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $585k–$11M |
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Leopold König
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Battery, CleanTech, Recycling | $3.5M–$5.7M |
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Philipp Kloeckner
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Banking | $3.3M–$7.4M |
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SeedCapital Dortmund
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Manufacturing | $994k–$3.3M |
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Angel Invest
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Balderton Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Series B, Series C | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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kopa ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Energy Management, Solar | $1.1M–$219M |
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High Rise Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Real Estate, Software, SaaS | $247k–$2.9M |
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Matthias Ernst
Angel
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2 | Germany | Pre-Seed | CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy | $1.2M–$2.5M |
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Vattenfall
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Sweden, Switzerland | Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy | $3.8M–$14M |
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Energie360°
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Energy Storage, Software | $1.6M–$26M |
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Union Square Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $1.7M–$45M |
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Singular
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $3M–$60M |
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EWE AG
VC Fund
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2 | Germany | Series A | Solar, Energy, CleanTech | |
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MIG Capital is one of the leading German VC Investors. We invest in European Deep Tech and Life Sciences from early to late stage (Seed, Series A, and beyond). We use investments to shape a better tomorrow, today. Our team currently manages 17 MIG public venture capital funds regulated by BaFin, the German financial markets authority. These fundsoperate with more than EUR 1.2 billion capital committed by >60,000 private investors across Germany and Austria.Today, our portfolio consists of 30 companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Series A $1.9M–$40M; Series B $1.7M–$60M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.6M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- NcodiN — The High Performance Computing (HPC) and ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI) era requires unprecedented computing capabilities. With this in view, industry is heading towards zettascale supercomputers, based on >100k processing units. Chiplets-based disaggregated processors and memory-centric computing architectures are taking over and require an ever more intensive communication between dies. Thus, today interconnect bottleneck is the main
- GlassPoint Solar — GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.
- Zadient Technologies — Zadient produces semiconductor manufacturing materials that are critical for the entire silicon carbide (SiC) value chain
Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 674
- Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
468 Capital is an investment firm that focuses on identifying and managing opportunities in various markets. The firm employs a systematic approach to investment analysis and portfolio management. It collaborates with a range of partners to support its investment strategies. The company serves industries including technology, healthcare, andrenewable energy.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 229
- Round size: Seed $2.3M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.8M; Series A $9M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $400M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Relixir — Relixir is AI Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) assistant that maps, monitors and improves AI search rankings.
- Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
- ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2382
- Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- myluigi.ai — Luigi is an AI-Powered Full-Stack Game Growth-as-a-Service platform designed to help mobile game studios scale user acquisition, engagement and lifetime value without adding headcount. Its dual-engine architecture automates and operates everything from ad campaign creation and real-time creative optimization to personalized in-game offers and LTVforecasting—delivered through a single, easy-to-integrate and unified dashboard. With a flexible per-title pricing model and powerful machine-learning insights, Luigi empowers mid-sized and indie developers to reduce CPI, boost retention and chart a clear path toward sustainable growth and seven-figure ARR.
- RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
Santo Venture Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and which operates as a subsidiary of ATHOS Service Gmbh.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$131M; Venture - Series Unknown $5.6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
Portfolio highlights
- IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
- Liva Healthcare — Liva Healthcare offers evidence-based digital health coaching to manage and prevent chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Our personalized programs combine digital tools and human support to drive sustainable lifestyle changes. Trusted by NHS and global partners.
- Siam Digital Lending — Over a million Thais have visited Siam Digital Lending's (SDL) award-winning application to apply for personal loans in Thailand. SDL is an agentic-AI first lender using AI to power lending decisions in minutes. The company is committed to reducing borrowing costs and hurdles for underbanked people in Thailand. They are fully licensed withboth personal loan and nano loan licenses under the supervision of the central Bank of Thailand.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$14M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$44M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $500M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
- Spiich Labs — AI for revenue teams that win on relationships. The agentic sales platform that eliminates CRM admin: your CRM updates itself after every call, you get daily meeting briefs, and follow-ups write themselves. Save 9+ hours weekly.
- Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 452
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$11M; Pre-Seed $563k–$4.5M; Series A $3.9M–$34M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
- Lightbase — An always up-to-date view of your entire IT ecosystem for faster decisions and confident transformation at scale
- Spot My Energy — The uptake of PV, EVs, home storage, and heat pumps leads to a gigantic need for digital and intelligent metering and for the integration of millions of...
High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 771
- Round size: Seed $790k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $841k–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$31M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
- BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
- CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.6M; Series A $16M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mabyduck — Mabyduck makes it easy to evaluate AI generated content.
- Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
- Tytan Technologies — TYTAN Technologies builds autonomous interceptors engineered for the realities of modern drone warfare.
Specialists in carbon removal investments
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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Agriculture, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $2.8M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.7M; Series A $11M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
- Everest Carbon — Everest Carbon Inc. develops breakthrough measurement technology for robust quantification of carbon dioxide removal through Enhanced Weathering.
- Cotierra — Biochar made from agricultural residues in the tropics can become a gamechanger for farmers and climate change mitigation
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Browse database — It's Free!SFO is a venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs with a focus on cleantech, foodtech, mobility, digital transformation, and automation. We provide capital as well as strategic guidance and access to a robust network of industry experts, investors, and partners. SFO is dedicated to fostering sustainable growth by combining entrepreneurialexpertise with reliable equity financing, offering long-term support without fixed investment timelines.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$16M; Series A $3.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is turning buildings into carbon sinks! We convert captured carbon from local biomass residues into functional, carbon-negative construction materials. Our products permanently store CO2 in the built environment, reduce the need for fossil raw materials, and deliver targeted functionalities such as thermal insulation, durability, orcuring time reduction. Thereby, we combine carbon storage and utilization and create a self-sustaining CDR business case
- yummy — Multichannel Convenience Food
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).
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- Industry: Battery, CleanTech, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$8.6M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 129
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.3M; Series A $9.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
- Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
- Massive Dynamic — Deploy specialized AI agents for paid media operations (analysis, bidding, reporting, creative workflows and more) while your experts stay in control.
J12 is a thesis-driven venture capital firm partnering early with technical founders across Europe to build category-defining data and AI companies across infrastructure, tooling, and domain-specific applications
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $974k–$4.1M; Series A $7M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Camphouse — Camphouse unifies media planning, budgets, activation and reporting in one platform, so advertisers and agencies plan with clarity and control.
- Volve — Volve turns tender and contract documents into a structured baseline, helping construction teams catch risk, run compliance checks, and win better bids with AI.
- IPercept — At IPercept we provide AI-based, hardware-enabled software solutions and services that can best be described as the fitness tracker for complex industrial machines. At the push of a button, you can learn about a machines’ health, down to micrometer changes for each critical component. You can get insights into what maintenance activities you shouldapply and when. You can monitor how the machines are operated, how to optimize their utilization and much more. All of this is achieved through a plug-n-play installation - for old machines as well as new. All securely provided without requiring access to any machine controllers or IT-systems. These services reduce maintenance costs, downtime and increase productivity - a solid ROI for our customers. In 5 years, most complex industrial machinery sold in the world will be supported by our technology.
Planet A Ventures is a greentech venture fund looking to support European solutions for a sustainable future. Planet A Ventures has an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to determine a startup's impact. Their scientists have the authority to veto investments if the impact is not significant and quantifiable. Planet AVentures invests in European green tech start-ups that are making a significant positive impact on the environment while also building scalable businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $900k–$5.3M; Series A $12M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $190M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Optiml — Optiml develops software that supports real estate decarbonization and energy transition planning. The company provides a digital platform that models building portfolios, evaluates renovation pathways, and assesses financial and carbon impacts of retrofit strategies. Its tools integrate technical, economic, and regulatory data to help assetmanagers prioritize investments and align with climate targets. Optiml also enables scenario analysis, tracking of emissions performance, and reporting capabilities that support sustainability decision-making. The company serves property owners, investors, and financial institutions seeking structured analysis for decarbonization planning and capital allocation.
- Gigaton — Carbon Re is a climate tech company using cutting-edge AI solutions to decarbonize cement and steel. Get in touch with us today!
- One.Five — Grow your strategic edge with AI-generated solutions that deliver the ultimate packaging performance, affordability & sustainability
Fraunhofer Venture acts as a partner of founders, start-up companies, Fraunhofer institutes and investors. By offering access to Fraunhofer technologies, infrastructure and know-how with more than 4,500 patent classes, it provides young companies with the opportunity of a faster and better establishment of their products on the markets.
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- Industry: Energy, CleanTech, 3D Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, Latvia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Series A $6.9M–$10M; Series B $4.9M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Threedy — Unlock the power of real-time 3D data. Accelerate workflows, optimize operations, and scale effortlessly with instant3Dhub.
- Dioxycle — Dioxycle is develop electrolyser solutions for carbon dioxide emissions.
- PerioTrap Pharmaceuticals GmbH — PerioTrap is an early stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to eradicate the root cause of periodontitis
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$5.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$4.1M; Series A $2.5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ecair — Ecair provides software for indoor air quality and energy management. The platform aggregates data from connected sensors to track pollutants, CO2, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter in real time. Dashboards, alerts, and APIs support building operations, facility managers, and ESG teams. Algorithms estimate exposure, flag ventilationissues, and suggest HVAC adjustments to balance comfort, health, and energy use. Reporting tools support certifications and compliance, and data exports integrate with BMS, CMMS, and data warehouses. Services include device provisioning, calibration management, and analytics consulting for multi-site portfolios.
- Verna — Verna is a business using geospatial data science to address the climate and nature crises.We help landowners, investors, and policymakers to use land in ways that draw down carbon, enhance biodiversity and generate sustainable returns – e.g. through woodland creation, habitat creation and enhancement, and regenerative agriculture.Verna wasestablished in Borehamwood, Hertford.
- Hyperion Robotics — We are accelerating the transition to sustainable and automated construction with Concrete 3D Printing.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $4.2M–$19M; Series A $15M–$63M; Series B $30M–$124M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $230M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- AlphaLum — Holographic-optic combiners and ultra-low-power interferometric laser sensors enabling all-day wearable AR and intelligent systems at scale.
- StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
- Lace Lithography — Lace is building the patterning technology that will power the next 100 years of semiconductor manufacturing.
Carbon removal innovation through research, development and early stage investment
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- Industry: Environmental Engineering, CleanTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$2M; Series A $7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $42M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Seqana — Seqana provides the scientific foundation for measuring soil health with a focus on soil organic carbon (SOC). Our advanced, satellite-based solutions help clients navigate evolving standards and measure their SOC sequestration. We work with teams at every step of their journey to build scientifically robust MRV at scale, improving the resilience of soils globally.
- PyroCCS — PyroCCS is a vertically integrated industrial biochar and pyrolysis platform converting biomass into biochar, metallurgical biocarbon, activated carbon, bio-oil, and verified carbon removal credits.
- CREW Carbon — CREW provides wastewater treatment facilities with a process intensification solution that improves performance, lowers costs, and permanently removes greenhouse gasses.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.5M; Series A $7M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Build — The AI-native operating partner for the built world. Build pairs agentic AI with CRE domain experts to accelerate commercial real estate development from concept to completion.
- Honest Mobile — It's time for mobile done right. Explore SIM-only plans that include bills that go down, support in seconds and a shrinking carbon footprint as standard. One of the UK's top-rated mobile networks.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 108
- Round size: Seed $893k–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$56M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$156M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $346M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
- Verse — Define & achieve your financial and emissions reduction goals with Aria, a software platform that helps companies buy and manage clean power.
- Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$5.3M; Series A $6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $11M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BitcoinOS — BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem.
- NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
- Semantic Layer — Semantic Layer improves incentive alignment in dApps, enabling MEV internationalization and sequencing sovereignty.
We are a Business Angel group of CTOs and CPOs. We support tech founders hands-on with our know-how and capital.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Graphic Design
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Czech Republic, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $660k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agree.com — The fastest path from contract-to-cash that connects contracts, invoices, payments, and billing; all-in-one.
- YGO.AI — YGO enables travel companies to grow faster and run leaner by turning existing platforms into fully AI-powered booking ecosystems.
- ZukunftMoor — ZukunftMoor is a service company that establishes profitable paludiculture to accelerate the rewetting of drained bogs. They promote the re-wetting of drained peatlands at scale by demonstrating the economic viability of agriculture on wet peatlands ("Paludiculture").
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $841k–$37M; Series A $3M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Karri — Karri Messenger is a data and GPS enabled screen-free device enabling communication between you and your kids, and them and their friends.
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 138
- Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $209k–$2.1M; Series A $2.4M–$36M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $163M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- syte — syte simplifies real estate decisions with AI-based software. Founded in 2021 and based in Münster, Germany, the company analyzes land and buildings in real time and makes complex real estate analyses easily accessible. The syte platform offers digital twins by intelligently linking various types of data, including cadastral and LiDAR data, aerialand satellite images, and market data. The database enables informed statements to be made about development opportunities, renovation potential, energy requirements, economic efficiency, and subsidy options.Project developers, real estate agents, and banks use syte for valuations, planning, and consulting. This includes evaluating locations, reviewing investment decisions, analyzing portfolios with regard to renovation needs, and identifying subsidies. Instead of time-consuming individual research or external expert opinions, the platform enables a reliable initial assessment.The team of over 30 people led by founders Matthias Zühlke and David Nellessen serves over 200 customers – from local real estate agencies to banks with thousands of properties. syte has received multiple awards for its innovative software, including the German AI Award 2023 and the PropTech of the Year Award 2025.
- Nunos — NUNOS develops biological treatment systems that convert livestock slurry into liquid fertilizer and recycle nitrogenous wastewater.
- OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
WENVEST CAPITAL is a Munich-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on B2B software.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.4M; Series A $2.4M–$17M; Series B $9.1M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circula — Designed with European tax standards in mind, the mobile and web app support your individualized expense invoicing process in real time, helping to create a seamless and straightforward experience for road warriors, accountants and managers alike.
- LawX — LawX is a legal technology company providing solutions to streamline legal processes and improve efficiency for law firms.
- Penzilla — At Penzilla, we believe it's time to make corporate pension provision the way it really should be - simple. That's why we offer a solution that helps everyone get the maximum benefit from corporate pension options. Most importantly, we enable every employer to achieve true corporate social responsibility with 100% compliance and everyemployee to receive a fair pension. This is how corporate pension provision works with Penzilla: Let's "Simply Provision" together.
AENU is an evergreen impact fund that focuses on stage-agnostic long-term investments in climate-tech and social impact companies.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Software, CleanTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
- Beagle Systems — Beagle Systems GmbH offers on-demand drone images. With our long-range drones we can offer services quickly with up to 75x higher resolution than commercially available satellite data.
IBB Ventures is for all those who make a difference and create a sustainable future. We invest public funds as venture capital and, together with Berlin startups, help to promote our capital as a business location.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- AnyTax — AnyTax modernises and automates the tax process by creating infrastructure for automated tax solutions that are directly integrated with financial platforms.
- Lumoview Building Analytics — Lumoview digitizes buildings in 2 seconds per room with a device that can be used by everyone. The data is then analyzed highly automated in the cloud. The connected online platform empowers building owners to take action and improve their buildings and reduce CO2 emissions.
- dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
BONVENTURE empowers impact-driven founders and impact investors across DACH with capital, expertise, and a strong network for true impact and return.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $980k–$11M; Series A $5.1M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $55M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- BIOWEG — Founded in Germany in 2019, Bioweg is a purpose-driven company, matches BioInnOvation to business problems. Their research combine biotechnology, material science, and molecular simulation learning to develop and sell B2B advanced sustainable and bio-based high-performance ingredients. Their ingredients are 100% animal-free, globally scalable, andsustainably manufactured with green chemistry. The company partners with results-driven, forward-thinking companies and consumer brands with global reach in cosmetics, personal care, agricultural technology, and food/beverage sectors. Bioweg's innovative zero-waste circular process uses food industry waste as feedstock to produce bio-based microbeads, rheology modifiers and hydrocolloids that are completely free of microplastics and comply with the new ECHA regulation.
- Resourcify — Resourcify is on a mission to enable a zero-waste future!!! Through the digitisation of daily operations, our recycling platform enables all businesses to manage, track, and improve their recycling while having less administration, and saving up to 40% of the costs compared to conventional waste management.Resourcify is trusted by thousands ofthe most leading companies & organisations around the globe including : Cargill, McDonalds, Hornbach, Johnson & Johnson, Edeka, Frankfurt Airport, UK Bonn, and more! Our award-winning recycling platform improves the approach to sustainability as a best practice and enhances the recycling processes to reduce waste.
- Vivira — Vivira Health Lab focuses on making physical rehab programs available to everyone.
Cutting-edge venture capital firm supporting the early-stage entrepreneurs building global businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 94
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $620k–$5M; Series A $6.7M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $168M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Logicc — Logicc provides business solutions for various industries. It specializes in software development, automation, and data-driven technologies.
- Qorelo — Qorelo is a tech company that provides agentic AI software designed to accelerate ERP transformations. Qorelo's software automates and structures deliverables across the SAP Activate methodology.
- Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
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Browse database — It's Free!Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, Italy, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$6.4M; Series B $732k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CONXAI — AI that understands construction
- SPiNE — SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage.
- TalentRocket — Talent Rocket is a job search engine that enables its users to find jobs with a suitable work environment for them. Job seekers can select their preferred company culture, follow their favorite companies, and start career conversations with employers. Talent Rocket was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
PropTech1 Ventures - the leading independent venture capital fund focused on PropTech and ConstructionTech in Europe
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- Industry: Software, Real Estate, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $2.6M–$7.4M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$2.4M; Series A $2.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- ScyAI — Risk intelligence that thinks with you.
- Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling bids and checking contracts.
- TUAL Technology — The TUAL PowerUp Charger is a high-power CCS charger for electric vehicles with battery-integrated architecture.
eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Italy, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 125
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Series A $2.8M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $99M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Credoxys — Credoxys develops organic electronic materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, and sensors. Its portfolio includes dopants and transport materials designed to influence charge transport, optical transmission, power consumption, and energy generation in organic electronic devices. The company also develops materials forscale-up and customer-specific applications.
- Dawnguard — AI-native platform for fast cloud design and implementation.
- QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
Santo Holding is a Zurich-based investment firm funding biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and healthcare companies.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Energy, Medical
- Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Series B, Series C
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $7.7M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 4SC — 4SC discovers and develops targeted, small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases in indications with high unmet medical needs. These drugs are intended to provide innovative treatment options that are more tolerable and efficacious, and provide a better quality of life.
- AFFiRiS — AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions.
- Efficient Energy — Efficient Energy GmbH is an innovative manufacturer and system supplier of environmentally friendly refrigeration technology, based in Feldkirchen near Munich, Germany. The company developed the Bluezero-technology, which uses water as a refrigerant and and thereby entirely avoids fluorinated refrigerants (HFCs). Efficient Energy helps itscustomers overcome the increasing regulatory challenges of refrigeration technology, and offers them long-term, sustainable solutions with its eChiller model range. The eChiller chilled water units are ideally suited for process cooling, machine cooling and the cooling of technical equipment and data centres and provide cooling capacities from 35 kW to 120 kW, depending on the model. With its outstanding cost efficiency and low CO2 footprint, companies benefit on many fronts. The pioneering technology has also been noticed by politics and the media, and has received multiple awards for the eChiller. These include among others the European Business Award for the Environment 2018/2019 from the European Comission and the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in 2020.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, CleanTech
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $414k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Leegle — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Manufacturing
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Porelio — Porelio is an environmental technology that provides purification technologies for water and industrial chemicals.
- Enzo — Enzo is a Heidelberg based InsurTech startup offering modern and smart insurance coverage for homeowners. Instead of just reacting to claims, Enzo takes a proactive customer-focused approach to prevent damages from happening at all. Thus, Enzo is leading a paradigm shift in a €100+ billion market that has barely improved customer experience forover 100 years. Our Goal is to become Europe's smartest homeowners insurance.
- Cotierra — Biochar made from agricultural residues in the tropics can become a gamechanger for farmers and climate change mitigation
CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $585k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $58M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Xylo — Xylo offers higher quality processes with full officer oversight, reducing planning uncertainty and boosting UK housing delivery.
- Overstory — Overstory combines AI and advanced satellite imagery to help electric utilities pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. With Overstory's vegetation intelligence, transmission and distribution operators can make smarter decisions about the vegetation around their power corridors, optimizing resources and improvingoperational efficiency. This helps prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
- New Dawn Bio — New Dawn Bio is a biotechnology research firm that specializes in wood production.
Leopold König is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Customcells. He was a Research Fellow at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology.
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- Industry: Battery, CleanTech, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$5.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
- 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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
- Graswald AI — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.
SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG is the right partner. They participate in innovative, technology-oriented companies in the start-up or early stage companies. And yet retain independence. Because when they are holding "only" partner on time. Together they participate in the appreciation and therefore the success of company.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $994k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Smycles — Smycles GmbH is a German software company based in Bochum, specializing in AI-powered tools for assembling and optimizing interdisciplinary teams. Their platform uses natural language processing and creativity-focused AI to match team members based on skills, chemistry, and project needs, emphasizing data privacy with on-premise or German-hostedcloud options. The company develops a technology platform to support team formation for innovation, startups, and research, including workshops and software for rapid team productivity. It targets creative processes, with features like agentic AI for "right people, right timing."
- vGreens — vGreens is an AgTech Startup developing an AI-driven software to enhance the production process across crops, growing systems, and regions. We enable producers to steer quality, quantity, and timing with precision.
- pickshare — pickshare is a modern logistics concept based on an open platform. They provide services that include last-mile logistics, urban logistics, parcel delivery, sustainable logistics, and city logistics.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
- Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
- Willow Stories — Preserve your legacy and honor loved ones by creating lasting memorials.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
- Depop — Designer. Preloved. Vintage. Streetwear. Sneakers. Whatever your style. Find it on Depop.
- VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.
kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.
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- Industry: Software, Energy Management, Solar
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.5M; Series A $7.1M–$219M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
- Tomorrow — Sustainable banking. Green Finance. A credit card that is ecological, ethical and uses your money to generate a positive environmental impact. A bank that funds and promotes Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power and sustainable agriculture.
- Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
High Rise Ventures is a Prop Tech company builder. We help early stage tech start-ups with a great team and a convincing technology to strive in the B2B space.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $274k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $247k–$318k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
- Cleanbrix — Cleanbrix is reshaping real estate decarbonization by empowering asset owners and managers to make smarter, faster retrofitting decisions. The company is dedicated to providing customers with a comprehensive understanding of the economic, ecological, and risk-related implications of their potential actions, based on any data available for thebuildings in their portfolio.
- Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.
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- Industry: CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company and right now we are working towards fossil free living within one generation. Read more about us here
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- Industry: CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$5M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- tink — They founded tink because they want to get everyone excited about Connected Home products. They focus on products that are easy to install, attractively priced and offer real added value for the customer. Example 1: In the past, an alarm system cost several thousand euros, today there is a smart security system at tink starting at 150 euros.Example 2: Thanks to smart solutions, your heating automatically shuts off when you open a window or leave home. So you can save up to 30% heating costs.So far, a comparison and advisory platform lacking navigation through the jungle of new products and applications was missing. With tink they have created exactly this platform. tink is your cross-brand contact for your Connected Home and helps you to make your home smart.
- Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
- Solytic — Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics.
One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies
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- Industry: Energy, Energy Storage, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$8M; Series A $1.6M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
- Brineworks — Industry leading costs through cutting edge electrochemistry, and renewably powered intermittent operation
- Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 535
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$24M; Series B $6M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.
- Efficient Computer — Efficient Computer is ushering in a new era of computing with our ultra-energy-efficient programmable processors.
- Rune Energy — Rune Energy is a developer of a computation technology intended to monetize underutilized and surplus clean power.
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $3M–$10M; Series A $10M–$40M; Series B $29M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $440M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Tsuga — Tsuga is redefining observability for the modern enterprise. Our mission is to deliver next-generation insights, clarity, and control through innovative observability solutions that empower organizations to understand, optimize, and scale their systems with confidence.
- Restate — From one durable workflow to an entire agent platform: Restate combines execution, state, queues, RPC, flow control, and operations in one low-latency runtime.
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
Energy Utility
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, CleanTech
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Solytic — Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics.
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