Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Germany (June 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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8 | Germany, France, Austria | Series A, Series B | Biotechnology, Health Care, Therapeutics | $1.6M–$54M |
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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–$40M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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6 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $549k–$38M |
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Cherry Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $2M–$110M |
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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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Santo Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, Denmark, Finland | Series A, Series B, Series D | Health Care, Apps, Energy | $2.5M–$140M |
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Picus Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $549k–$33M |
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Greenfield
VC Fund
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3 | United States, France, Gibraltar | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Software, Information Technology | $1.2M–$15M |
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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, AgTech | $1.5M–$19M |
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SFO
VC Fund
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3 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet | $2M–$16M |
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Norrsken VC
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, Food and Beverage | $1.1M–$56M |
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J12
VC Fund
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3 | Sweden, Germany, Norway | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $420k–$65M |
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Übermorgen Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, Switzerland, Finland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Energy, Renewable Energy | $344k–$12M |
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Vsquared Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductor, Manufacturing | $4.2M–$74M |
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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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Planet A Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Germany, United Kingdom, Italy | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability | $3.5M–$37M |
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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 | $796k–$60M |
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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, Information Technology | $750k–$170M |
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Torge Thönnessen
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Battery, CleanTech, Manufacturing | $3.9M–$5.7M |
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Carbon Removal Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Environmental Consulting, Service Industry, 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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Maximilian Odendahl
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany | Seed, Series A | Battery, Software, CleanTech | $3.6M–$13M |
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Leopold König
Angel
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Battery, CleanTech, Manufacturing | $3.9M–$5.7M |
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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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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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Vattenfall
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Sweden, Switzerland | Series A, Seed | CleanTech, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy | $3.8M–$5M |
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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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SeedCapital Dortmund
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Consulting, Manufacturing | $994k–$3.3M |
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Philipp Kloeckner
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Banking, FinTech | $3.3M–$8M |
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Adjacent
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Information Technology | $2M–$23M |
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Singular
VC Fund
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2 | France, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $2.7M–$60M |
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Peter Mertens
Angel
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2 | Germany, Israel | Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel | Software, Automotive, CleanTech | $411k–$4.7M |
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10x Founders
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$60M |
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Santo Holding
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria | Series B, Series C | Biotechnology, Energy, Medical | |
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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 | $428k–$23M |
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Hevella Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Canada, Austria | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $2.2M–$7.4M |
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KFW DEG
VC Fund
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2 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Grant | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $100k–$570M |
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $994k–$40M |
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World Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Series A, Seed, Series B | Energy, Chemical, Biotechnology | $4.5M–$66M |
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Energie360°
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Series A, Seed | Energy, Energy Storage, Software | $1.6M–$9.5M |
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Union Square Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $2M–$40M |
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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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better ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce | $1.1M–$5.8M |
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eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing | $2.7M–$35M |
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High Rise Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed | Real Estate, Software, Big Data | $247k–$3M |
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EWE AG
VC Fund
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2 | Germany | Series A | Solar, Energy, CleanTech | |
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Karim Tabet Jalbout
Angel
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2 | Germany | Seed | Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering | |
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NRW.BANK
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Series B | Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology | $219k–$71M |
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$20M |
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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, Therapeutics
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, France, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$40M; Series B $1.6M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M 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
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: 196
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $11M–$40M
- 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.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- hello again — hello again is a software that offers digital loyalty solutions. Their service includes customer relationships, customer loyalty management, software engineering, loyalty club, communication, customer acquisition, sales promotion, and insights.
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, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 528
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M 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!
- MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
- Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
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, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 262
- Round size: Seed $2M–$14M; Series A $7M–$44M; Series B $14M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Sphinx — AI compliance analysts for banks and fintechs.
- Bits Technology — Bits Technology connects data sources & orchestrates workflows for financial tech services.
We are a global technology investor, sponsoring true progress.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$17M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.6M; Series A $16M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.
- Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.
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, Apps, Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Series D
- Geography: Germany, Denmark, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$140M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% 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.
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: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 341
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$11M; Pre-Seed $549k–$4.5M; Series A $3.7M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $140M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Solarize — Solarize provides SaaS for energy production, distribution and billing for commercial microgrids.
- D2X Group — Trade digital asset options and futures on the EU-regulated market infrastructure for institutions.
- Lightbase — Plan, align, and ship complex projects faster. Lightbase maps your architecture across services and hands agents the full context to make safe, coordinated changes.
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, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, France, Gibraltar
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$8M; Pre-Seed $1.2M–$5.5M; Series A $6M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arcium — The first parallelized confidential computing network.
- Celo — Celo is global payments infrastructure that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone
- Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network
Carbon removal innovation through research, development and early stage investment
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- Industry: Environmental Engineering, CleanTech, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$2M; Series A $7M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $46M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
- CREW Carbon — CREW provides wastewater treatment facilities with a process intensification solution that improves performance, lowers costs, and permanently removes greenhouse gasses.
- BX — Bx is a climate-tech company, we help food brands remove emissions in their food supply chain. We do this with our innovative data-backed reward system, where proceeds from food sales goes directly to growers for regenerating soils and removing carbon from food production.
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: 9
- Round size: Seed $2M–$16M; Series A $3.8M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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 your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
- yummy — Multichannel Convenience Food
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $4.2M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $340M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- juli — juli helps you manage your chronic condition using artificial intelligence. We first learn everything that's unique about you. Then we guide you to improve your daily life.
- Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
- Endra —
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, Germany, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.7M; Pre-Seed $420k–$1.7M; Series A $7M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- VALIDIO — Real-time data validation and data quality monitoring for modern data teams. Abstracting complexity away from data engineering.
- CURE: One app, all things health — CURE connects local pharmacies with customers throughout its platform and delivers healthcare-related goods directly to the consumer.
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$6.2M; Pre-Seed $344k–$4.2M; Series A $2.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
- 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.
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
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
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $4.2M–$13M; Series A $15M–$74M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
- Synthara — Synthara is a Swiss semiconductor startup revolutionizing the compute performance of embedded chips by orders of magnitude. We are working on a new breed of energy-efficient computational AI chips that are hand-crafted for smart sensor applications such as hearing aids, wearables, biomedical monitoring, and AR/VR. Our flagship product,ComputeRAM, is a drop-in replacement for conventional SRAM that performs complex calculations directly in memory. This drastically reduces CPU workload, boosting system performance and delivering exceptional efficiency, especially for AI workloads. With ComputeRAM, we help chipmakers and device manufacturers lower costs, shorten time to market, and unlock new opportunities for innovation.
- 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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- 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 $1.5M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3M; Series A $9.8M–$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 — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising
Planet A supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems. We're building the economy our planet needs.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$12M; Series A $12M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Optiml — OPTIML is an end to end software platform harnessing the power of optimization to generate intelligent low cost and low carbon investment strategies for existing buildings. Real estate owners and consultants benefit from the novel data driven approaches scaled from the asset to portfolio level with increased productivity and accuracy for multi yearplanning. OPTIML is a GmbH, LLC headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. OPTIML leverages over four years of cutting edge engineering, sustainability, and policy research at ETH Zurich with multiple PhDs on the technology.With OPTIML asset, long term strategies to 2050 can be developed for any unique building asset considering all aspects of renovations for asset and construction management. Minimal data input is required but the models can be leveraged with maximum customizability. Scaled to any number of buildings, OPTIML portfolio develops portfolio budgetary and CO2 pathways considering asset level granularity with minimal planning cost.
- INERATEC — INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products.
- Carbon Re — Carbon Re is a climate tech company using cutting-edge AI solutions to decarbonize cement and steel. Get in touch with us today!
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: 38
- Round size: Seed $1M–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $796k–$38M; Series A $3M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- 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.
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: 169
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $750k–$3.2M; Series A $7M–$170M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
- YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
Torge Thönnessen is the Co-founder and CEO at Custom Cells.
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- Industry: Battery, CleanTech, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$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.
Specialists in carbon removal investments
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- Industry: Environmental Consulting, Service Industry, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tset — Tset is a software company that develops a SaaS enterprise solution for product cost and CO2 emission estimation.
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
Maximilian Odendahl - CEO & Co-Founder @ Silexica
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- Industry: Battery, Software, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SpAItial — SpAItial is a novel artificial intelligence paradigm that can create and reason about the physics and appearance of both imagined and real-world surroundings.
- 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.
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
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, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.9M–$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.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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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.
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.
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, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Series A $3.8M–$5M
- 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.
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–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.4M; 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.
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: Software, Consulting, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $994k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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."
- pickshare — pickshare is a logistics platform for large retailers and brands.
- Volterion — Volterion was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT.Right from the start, they put their energy into the development of the stack – the energy converter of a redox flow battery and thus the basis for an efficient system.After extensive development work, they now produce their stacks using a unique manufacturingprocess that they are constantly improving.On this basis, they also develop innovative energy systems such as the powerRFB. A scalable battery in a compact housing that meets the highest industrial demands and is used in many different applications.Sascha Berthold, Thomas Gebauer and Thorsten Seipp are the founders of the company and have been involved in the development of Volterion technology. Together with Kees van de Kerk they form the management today.Volterion has received many awards for its technology and business model, including the ACHEMA Energy Founders Award, the TU Startup Award, the KUER Growing Business Award and the Best Pitches Award.
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, Banking, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $3.3M–$8M
- 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.
- Trade Machines FI GmbH — TradeMachines understands how difficult it is to trust in used machinery. They work with trustful industrial auctioneers and renowned machinery traders to ensure you receive the best connection between the two. Industrial auctions are a popular possibility to find great bargains when it comes to used machinery. In these industrial auctionspotential buyers find used equipment of companies who became insolvent or who decided to get rid of a selection of their machines. But industrial auctions are not the only way how to find the right used machines for cheap prices. Machinery traders list their offers on TradeMachines as well. As a result of the extensive offer of used machines, it is much easier and less time consuming to the find right offer.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $2M–$8.5M; Series A $6M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- Superwall — Superwall is a software company that specializes in paywall infrastructure for mobile applications.
- RevenueCat — RevenueCat handles the pain points of in-app subscriptions, so you can get back to building your app.
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: France, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$10M; Series A $11M–$40M; Series B $29M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Papier — Papier offers customizable stationery such as wedding cards, notebooks, planners, and notecards. Founded in London in 2015, Papier's aim is to inspire people to connect with each other in a more thoughtful way and more often. As digital messages proliferate in their lives, receiving something beautifully made through the letterbox isappreciated now more than ever before - Papier makes this simple and easy to do.At their core, is a love of art and design, words, and of course, paper. Their carefully curated collection of designs, married with quality printing and premium paper, stands us apart from other online card and invitation sites.
- Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
- Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.
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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–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $411k–$1.3M
- 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.
Cutting-edge venture capital firm supporting the early-stage entrepreneurs building global businesses.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $6.9M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Freeform — Freeform simplifies metal printing at any scale for all industries. Parts as a service to help you go from idea to production in days.
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:Series B, Series C
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- 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.
- SuppreMol — SuppreMol is a privately held biotechnology company that pioneers a novel approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases which could lead to the cure of these disorders instead of merely treating their symptoms.
- 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.
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: 117
- Round size: Series A $428k–$23M; Series B $732k–$21M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
Portfolio highlights
- EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
- IDnow — IDnow provides advanced machine-learning technology for its Identity-as-a-Service platform that can verify identities in real time. The company's solutions guarantee legal security throughout Europe and the highest level of data security. The company provides a legally secure solution without additional hardware in the area of videoidentification of customers and electronic signatures.The company's offer is directed at all business customers who would like to provide customer identification and contract conclusion online, such as banks, telecommunications companies, Fintechs, etc. Its customer portfolio includes renowned firms such as Commerzbank, UBS, Sixt neuwagen, Telefónica, and N26.IDnow was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.
- DRACOON GmbH — Every company faces the challenge of storing, managing and sharing data digitally and securely. With our highly secure and platform-independent enterprise file service, we offer our customers maximum flexibility - and at the same time a 100% GDPR-compliant solution. This gives the world back its sovereignty over its data. Our solution DRACOON isthe market leader in the field of enterprise filesharing in the German-speaking area. We live, act and develop according to the principle "Privacy by Design". Our service has already been named as a "Leader" by independent top analysts such as ISG. But also various certificates and seals such as ISO27001 and EuroPriSe rattest DRACOON’s highest security standards. With our service we integrate ourselves deeply into the company processes and thus deliver a maximum protected cocoon for your data - and every connected application. These companies already trust DRACOON: KfW, Rossmann, Helios Kliniken, Rödl & Partner, ElringKlinger, EbnerStolz, DATEV, Nürnberger Versicherung, Thyssen Steel, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison, Bechtle and many more.
Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Canada, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$7.4M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
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- HelloBetter — HelloBetter (hellobetter.de) was founded in 2015 under the name GET.ON Institut für Online Gesundheitstrainings GmbH (geton-institut.de) by internationally renowned research psychologists, and in close partnership with one of the largest public health care insurance companies in Germany (BARMER). HelloBetter is a pioneer in the field of e-mentalhealth and a leading provider of online mental health courses. Its work has a strong scientific basis – the courses were developed, evaluated, and implemented in a practice setting, and their effectiveness has been proven in 33 randomized controlled trials according to the highest standards of scientific practice. HelloBetter offers the widest range of evidence-based online mental health courses worldwide, with 11 digital courses covering 8 problem areas (stress, depression, insomnia, depression in the case of chronic illness, chronic pain, alcohol consumption, excessive worry, and panic and anxiety).In October 2021, the digital therapeutic 'HelloBetter Stress and Burnout' has been permanently approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a Digital Health Application (DiGA) and thus is available by prescription free of charge for more than 50 million adults. It is the world’s first and so far only prescription digital therapeutic for the treatment of burnout symptoms.Through diverse cooperations with national and international research groups (including FAU Erlangen, University of Ulm, VU Amsterdam, and Harvard University) HelloBetter finds practical applications for the latest research innovations. Our products and our team have been awarded numerous national and international prizes. These include the Novartis & Sandoz/Hexal Digital Health Prize 2018, the Comenius Award of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Association, and the Good Practice in Mental Health & Wellbeing seal of approval as part of the EU Compass 2018, which recognises high-quality mental health initiatives in Europe in order to guide health care providers to effective and proven services.
- ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Debt Financing $10M–$570M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
- IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
- Fourth Partner Energy — Top renewable energy company in India offering solar, wind, and hybrid solutions for commercial & industrial sectors.
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
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 557
- Round size: Seed $994k–$7.4M; Series A $3M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- QphoX — QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
- Zimory — Founded in 2007, Zimory provides carrier-grade cloud infrastructure management software that allows service providers, enterprises and cloud brokers to fully leverage the power and elasticity of cloud computing. Zimory’s intelligent Cloud Suite simplifies, automates and expedites the creation, launch and management of all types of cloudenvironments – whether public, private, virtual private or hybrid. Zimory software is also a key enabler of cloud marketplaces for enterprise services, applications and infrastructure. Headquartered in Berlin, Zimory has development centers in Erfurt, Germany and Minsk, Belarus, a subsidiary office in New York City and is expanding its expertise and presence globally.
- BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.
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- Industry: Energy, Chemical, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $4.5M–$10M; Series A $13M–$66M; Series B $20M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- aedifion — Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
- Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
- Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
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- Industry: Energy, Energy Storage, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$8M; Series A $1.6M–$9.5M
- 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, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 414
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $3.2M–$24M; Series B $5.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Veniam — Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.
- 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.
- Mundi — Mundi provides financial, trade development, strategy, freight and reinventing international trade services.
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: 43
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$7.4M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.4M; Series A $2.1M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gendo — Gendo is a browser based platform that provides beautiful CGI. It accelerates design image production 100x with AI and ML, eliminating technical hurdles for designers using innovative browser-based tools."
- ecoworks — Ecoworks uses industrial pre-fabrication, digital processes, and highly efficient energy systems to modernize multi-family houses with up to four floors within a few weeks.
- Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 44
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
- SKYSEED — Mit Drohnen und Saatpellets
- 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.
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
- Geography: Germany, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$14M; Series B $3.1M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cleafy — A new era for online fraud management: Cleafy combines in real-time all the most advanced fraud detection technologies in one fraud management solution.
- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
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, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $274k–$3M; Pre-Seed $247k–$318k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
- Hum Systems — Hum Systems offer all-in-one products that are designed with IoT.
- 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.
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.
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, Chemical Engineering
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
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: Information Technology, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Seed $219k–$7.7M; Series A $3.8M–$33M; Series B $3.8M–$71M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Emergence Therapeutics — Emergence Therapeutics is a European biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADC) to treat high-need cancers. Its lead program combines a highly specific antibody with optimized linker and payload technology to target Nectin-4 – an important target for a broad range of cancers which has been clinically validated as anADC target by enfortumab vedotin, now approved for the treatment of urothelial cancers by the US Food and Drug Administration. Emergence is also actively exploring opportunities to develop further first- or best-in-class ADCs driven by therapeutic need.
Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $603k–$3.9M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
- Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.
- OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
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