Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Germany (November 2026)

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• 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

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• 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 — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.

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• NOVUS GmbH — Discover the NOVUS One: a lightweight electric motorcycle combining progressive design, carbon-fibre engineering, urban range, and distinctive performance.
• Pally — Pally is an AI personal assistant you text. Use it on iMessage, Android RCS, or Telegram for email, calendar, reminders, research, and errands.
• FirstWork — Applied AI for frontline enterprises. Forward-deployed AI agents that automate workforce operations inside your existing systems.

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• Praktiki — Praktiki is the AI platform for medical education: expert-led, case-based 5-minute modules HCPs love, built in hours and measured for behaviour change.
• ReportsAI — ReportsAI is an impact operating system that automates data collection and reporting for NGOs and industry to ensure audit-ready compliance.
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• 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.
• Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
• BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.

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• RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
• Spiich Labs — AI for revenue teams that win on relationships. Spiich preps your meetings, updates your CRM and drafts follow-ups. Reps save 9+ hours every week.
• Integral — Bookkeeping, financial statements, and payroll all from one source

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• 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.

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• 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...

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• 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.

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• 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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• Karri — Karri Messenger is a data and GPS enabled screen-free device enabling communication between you and your kids, and them and their friends.
• 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.
• Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

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• 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 — We turn market information into positions.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
• Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
• Sava Technology — SAVA is reinventing health monitoring with a novel biosensing platform enabling real-time, affordable, and painless molecular monitoring.

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• Nunos — NUNOS develops biological treatment technology that processes cattle slurry and digestion residues on farms into a thin, low-odor liquid fertilizer with plant-available nutrients. The company offers fully automated, stand-alone treatment systems that integrate into existing farm infrastructure and continuously process daily manure volumes. Its process stabilizes nutrients in chemically stable forms to support precise, demand-based fertilization and long-term storage with reduced nutrient losses. The resulting fertilizer can be used in open-field agriculture, greenhouses, ornamental plant cultivation, and soilless growing systems. NUNOS originates from space research as a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center and adapts closed-loop nutrient recycling concepts to agricultural applications. The company also applies its technology to recycle nitrogenous wastewater in closed habitats such as lunar or martian stations.
• OMMM — OMMM Operations Management Solutions is a software house that specializes in the digitization and automation of industrial planning.
• Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.

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• 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.

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• Agree.com — Agree turns every signed contract into billing, recognized revenue and books that close, in one system built for finance teams.
• YGO.AI — Richer, more accurate content for every hotel you sell, created automatically and ready for AI assistants.
• 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").

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• 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

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• Camphouse — Camphouse unifies media planning, budgets, activation and reporting in one platform, so advertisers and agencies plan with clarity and control.
• Volve — AI for construction tendering: contract review, quantity take-off, scope review, bid development and offer comparison. Every finding traced to source.
• 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.

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• 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

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• Threedy — Unlock the power of real-time 3D data. Accelerate workflows, optimize operations, and scale effortlessly with instant3Dhub.
• Cellbox Solutions — Cellbox Solutions is a young technology company that focuses on innovative logistic solutions for the global BioMed industry.
• PerioTrap Pharmaceuticals GmbH — PerioTrap is an early stage biopharmaceutical company that aims to eradicate the root cause of periodontitis

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• MuRay — MuRay develops non-destructive 3D inspection technology powered by an artificial muon beam that is generated on demand via a compact laser-plasma accelerator. The startup's value proposition centers on replacing slow cosmic muon tracking with an active, rapid accelerator platform that yields 100x deeper material penetration than conventional X-rays. Its technology enables high-resolution, internal structural analysis of massive, high-density elements across industrial aerospace, automated security, and medical imaging applications.
• Vessla — Vessla is the agentic OS for property operations, where agents and people run work together across the portfolio.
• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• ScyAI — ScyAI twins your assets and your coverage and shows exactly where they diverge.
• Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling and awarding bids.
• TUAL Technology — The TUAL PowerUp Charger is a high-power CCS charger for electric vehicles with battery-integrated architecture.

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• 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.
• hexafarms — This is meta description
• Stride Health Group — Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Solytic — PV monitoring software for your entire solar portfolio: hardware-independent, with alarms, analytics and reports. Cut monitoring costs, increase yield.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 — Independent guides to how brands use blockchain: NFT case studies, phygital authentication, tokenized loyalty and EU digital product passports, explained without hype.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• Portola — Portola develops the Tolan app, an AI companion that features animated alien personalities for conversational support. The platform matches users with a personalized virtual friend through a personality interview, then evolves that relationship via memory and daily reflection, helping users feel more grounded amid modern pressures. Tolan engages invoice-based chat and can analyze images, enabling natural, context-aware interactions.
• MACHENTA — Machenta develops artificial intelligence and robotics software focused on instant learning for robots. The company builds systems that enable robotic platforms to learn manipulation and control tasks rapidly, reducing the need for extensive manual programming or long training cycles. Its software is used to help automated machines adapt to diverse environments and handle complex physical interaction workflows. Machenta operates in robotics and AI software as well as broader information technology services and experimental research on natural sciences and engineering. Its work targets organizations that deploy or develop robotic systems and require advanced learning capabilities integrated into their hardware and infrastructure.
• Mana Battery — sodium battery electrolyte platform and high-energy cell designs

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• 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.

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• Alice — Alice is reinventing health insurance in Brazil. It created a new end-to-end healthcare system based on (i) tech and data, (ii) world-class proprietary primary care, and (iii) value-based agreements with health providers, delivering personalized, data-driven longitudinal care, improving clinical outcomes, with an astonishing experience at lowercosts.
• Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
• Nefer Menya — Nefer Menya is a joint venture between Infinity Power and HAU Energy B.V.

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• 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.