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Top 50 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 CleanTech VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in December 2024

Investor	CleanTech Germany investments
MIG Capital	8
468 Capital	6
Speedinvest	5
Cherry Ventures	4
Picus Capital	4
Santo Venture Capital	4
Greenfield	3
Counteract	3
Vsquared Ventures	3
SFO	3
Planet A Ventures	3
J12	3
EWE AG	2
Adjacent	2
BayBG Venture Capital	2
KFW DEG	2
NRW.BANK	2
kopa ventures	2
Tiny VC	2
WENVEST Capital	2
High Rise Ventures	2
Union Square Ventures	2
BonVenture	2
PT1	2
Hevella Capital	2
Vattenfall	2
10x Founders	2
Carbon Removal Partners	2
Übermorgen Ventures	2
Angel Invest	2
Magnetic Capital	2
World Fund	2
Norrsken VC	2
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	2
seed + speed Ventures	2
Santo Holding	2
better ventures	2
Tiny VC	2
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	2
CapitalT	2
Energie360°	2
SeedCapital Dortmund	2
D11Z.Ventures	1
Tribe Investments GmbH & Co. KG	1
Venture Stars	1
Bosch Ventures	1
Berlin Angel Fund	1
Porsche Ventures	1
Seven Seven Six	1
Unruly Capital	1

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Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

DinMo — Discover the all-in-one data platform which makes it easy to collect, enrich, segment, and activate your customer data in all your business platform. Get started now for free; no credit card required.
OneLot — Grow your dealership with car loans and digital tools in the Philippines
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

OASYS NOW — The new Standard for Securely Storing and Exchanging Genomic Data. Unlock global data silos and monetize your data pool through OASYS NOW secure enclaves.
Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.

Santo Venture Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and which operates as a subsidiary of ATHOS Service Gmbh.

Investment focus

Energy, Clinical Trials, Environmental Engineering
Series A, Series B, Series D
Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
Temedica — Temedica is a Munich, Germany-based digital health company with the mission to put the patient into the center of healthcare. To this end, the company offers solutions both for patients and for other stakeholders in the healthcare universe. Temedica’s two platforms, Temedica-Apps and Permea, enable customer-tailored solutions to advancepersonalized healthcare. To best support patients with complex, chronic conditions, the company develops state-of-the-art digital patient companions. These apps help patients with personalized guidance and navigate them through the healthcare system considering their individual needs. Temedica is also an expert in compiling, structuring and analyzing real world data. Its B2B-directed data analytics platform Permea is designed to enable unique insights along the whole healthcare value chain and patient journey.
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.

We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Gibraltar

Portfolio highlights

Centrifuge — Centrifuge is an open, decentralized operating system to connect the global financial supply chain. It allows participants to transact on a global network while maintaining ownership of their data, including their validated company details, their reputation, business relationships, and subsequent transactions. The company's team built multiplecompanies together over the last 18 years and they still enjoy working as a group. Together, they created software that transacts billions of dollars each day and is used by 97 out of the Fortune 100. With the help of their world-class investors, advisors, partners, and team they started Centrifuge to go on building real software, solving real business problems.
Goodcarbon — Goodcarbon offers access to existing and emerging natural climate solutions projects and related carbon streams across soil and forest.
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

Carbon removal innovation through research, development and early stage investment

Investment focus

Natural Resources, Environmental Engineering, Building Material
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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.
Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Product Design
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Xavveo — Imaging RADAR enabled by Xavveo's Silicon Photonics Technology
Quantune — Quantune is a deep tech startup in optics and photonics technology. It develops laser spectrometer for continuous and non-invasive health monitoring.
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics — We are scientists, doctors, techies and humanity lovers, with the mission of building neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders.

SFO is an entrepreneur from the start-up environment and medium-sized companies. SFO offers complementary expertise, reliable capital, and an effective network.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

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.
ProteinDistillery — ProteinDistillery: The Future of Sustainable Protein Production. We transform industrial side-streams into functional protein ingredients.

Planet A supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems. We're building the economy our planet needs.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

44.01 — We offer a permanent CO2 storage solution using the natural power of mineralisation
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.
Wildplastic — The first trash bag that actually cleans up the planet

J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, Germany, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Ayora — Transform your firm's realisation and lockup by giving your fee earners P&L management superpowers
Jeff — Jeff is a personalized loan broker that matches borrowers and lenders through alternative data. Jeff's mission is to help the unbanked to access financial services. In the absence of credit history and bank transactions, Jeff gathers alternative data from sources like smartphones, social media, behavioral patterns, geolocation, and other typesof digital footprint.Jeff then puts this information to good use and find ways on how alternative data points can prove creditworthiness and build trust, building new ways of accessing financing and evolving an alternative credit score.The company was founded in 2019 and is located in Riga, Latvia.
DataCrunch.io — DataCrunch is a cloud service provider which facilitates utilization and integration of state of the art AI/ML models

Energy Utility

Investment focus

Solar, Energy, CleanTech
Series A, Funding Round
Germany

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.

exploring the adjacent

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a low-stimulation app for kids 2-7 filled with Montessori-inspired digital toys that offer a calmer way to learn through screen time play.
Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
Parkstory — Parkstory offers fully automated parking solutions that are supported by artificial intelligence.
StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
India, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

Khan Bank — Khan Bank is a universal bank and a customer of FMO.
AXIAN — AXIAN is a pan-African group that specializes in real estate, telecom, financial services, energy, and innovation.
CreditAccess Grameen — CreditAccess Grameen provides micro financial products and services for women from rural poor and low income households in India. It offers microcredit loans for income generation, family welfare, emergency, and home improvement, as well as micro insurance services covering life insurance, health insurance, and national pension scheme.CreditAccess Grameen also provides non-financial services, such as enterprise development, financial literacy promotion, basic health/nutrition education, basic medical services, special medical services for women and children, and training for women and women's rights/gender issues education. Vinatha M. Reddy founded Grameen Koota Financial Services in 1999. It became CreditAccess Grameen in January 2018, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

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.

Investment focus

Energy Management, Software, Solar
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Daato — One platform for all your key ESG reporting frameworks. Simple, efficient, and compliant.
Pluvion — Pluvion provides innovative AI-powered solutions for water management. Explore our technology for efficient extraneous water detection and learn how we're shaping the future of water management.
Tomorrow — Tomorrow combines mobile banking with sustainability. Open your sustainable account in minutes & start protecting the climate right away.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
USA cash app account — If you want to know more or have any queries, just knock us here– 24 Hours Reply/Contact Email: smmsellshop@gmail.com Telegram: @smmsellshop Skype: smmsellshop
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

WENVEST Capital is a private investment firm and emerged to become an entrepreneurial minded Venture Capital investor for Growth. Visit us and read more

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

mybacs — mybacs is a DTC, research-driven, Biotechnology company specialized in the human microbiome. Our goal is to revolutionize the market around intestinal healthcare and thus make a decisive contribution to the daily well-being of our customers. Our team of pharmaceutical scientists and physicians is focused on the development of innovative andhighly-dosed synbiotic supplements. These are aligned by our singular formulations from specifically selected probiotic cultures, prebiotics as well as minerals and vitamins tailored to the individual needs of our customers.
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

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.

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

SuppCo — SuppCo helps people find health supplements, manage supplement routines, and track their health.
Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.

BonVenture is the first investment company in the German-speaking region that focuses on the social impact of companies. Since 2003, they have offered investors the opportunity to allocate social venture capital to social enterprises through their funds. As partner of social entrepreneurs, they strengthen them with capital, know-how and contactsand provide guidance in setting up and growing their organization. This is how they promote the development and establishment of social innovations at scale.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

project bcause — project bcause is a digital platform where individuals can fund good projects in a flexible and collaborative manner, ranging from donations to investments. project bcause is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and was founded in 2021.
Fairown — Fairown is a fintech company helping banks, brands, and retailers offer products as a service. Unlike BNPL solutions, we provide a unique payment platform, which allows environmentally conscious businesses to offer products for monthly subscriptions, and manage product renewal cycles.
Vivira — Vivira Health Lab focuses on making physical rehab programs available to everyone.

PropTech1 Ventures - the leading independent venture capital fund focused on PropTech and ConstructionTech in Europe

Investment focus

Real Estate, SaaS, Construction
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland

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."
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
Climate X — Climate X combines climate science and econometrics to deliver precise climate risk data without any black boxes.

Hevella Capital is a principal investment firm.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

aidhere — Sidekick Health Germany develops digital health applications for the holistic treatment of diseases.
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.

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

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, CleanTech
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Germany, Sweden, Switzerland

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.

Cutting-edge venture capital firm supporting the early-stage entrepreneurs building global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
Beyond Presence — Human cloning company

Carbon Removal Partners is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, Manufacturing, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Everest Carbon — Everest Carbon Inc. develops breakthrough measurement technology for robust quantification of carbon dioxide removal through Enhanced Weathering.
Cotierra — Biochar made from agricultural residues in the tropics can become a gamechanger for farmers and climate change mitigation

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.
Companion.energy — Software to manage industrial energy flexibility in the age of renewables.
Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

cognee inc — cognee helps you create a GraphRAG and supports Vector Stores, Graph stores, and various LLM providers
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Synthera AI — Synthetic Data for Financial Markets using Generative AI

We are a global technology investor, sponsoring true progress.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Canada, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
SKROL — SKROL is a US-focused B2B Industrial technology startup modernizing the global economy by helping retiring business owners sell their businesses at scale.
Pluto.markets — Invester uden minimumskurtage

European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.

Investment focus

Energy Storage, Hardware, Food Processing
Series A, Seed, Series C
Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Anaphite — A breakthrough nanomaterial
Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
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.

We are a venture capital fund investigating in Start-Ups solving the worlds biggest problems while building massive businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aerleum — Aerleum transforms CO2 into clean fuels and chemicals. Discover our innovative technology and mission to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries for a sustainable future.
juna.ai — AI Agents to Run Your Factory
terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IonKraft — IonKraft can provide better performance at a lower cost while maintaining recyclability, they also promote material reduction and reuse and are commercializing the technology with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Sedivention — Sedivention is a medical technology startup that enables a one-time, interventional, and minimally invasive therapy for obesity. The company is developing a cryo catheter that ablates the gastric branches of the vagus nerve within minutes. As a one-time, minimally invasive procedure, the procedure can be performed in an outpatient setting, similarto a gastroscopy.
SRTD Biotech — SRTD Biotech is an RNA-based biotechnology company that focuses on oncology, infectious, and genetic disorders.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
mogenius — mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, andrepetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.
Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.

Santo Holding is a Zurich-based investment firm funding biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and healthcare companies.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Medical
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

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.

At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.

Investment focus

Software, Environmental Consulting, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TRAIT — TRAIT Running Coach app for your iphone or ipad tablet.
Lichtwart — Lichtwart is a startup that creates a cloud control platform for efficiently controlling and maintaining lighting systems.
PL BioScience — Animal-free cell culture supplements derived from human platelets. Supporting cell expansion and maintenance from research to therapy.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Dryad Networks — Overview of Dryad, providing ultra-early fire detection as well as forest growth and health monitoring.

CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States

Portfolio highlights

RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free.
trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
AirForestry — AirForestry thins forests in a completely new way, namely from the air. #Re-inventing Forestry

One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Storage, Battery
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Planeteers — We capture CO2 in water and unleash the potential of the oceans as the largest carbon sink on our planet.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

ShopCo Technologies — Shop uses Artificial Intelligence to empower online shopping experience for customers. It is a universal shopping cart browser extension that keeps all the items of its users across the web in one spot. Stores can be registered online and without any hassle. It helps its users browse through a wide range of online stores and checkout from one spot.The company gives ability to connect to all its users existing retailer accounts. It also secures data with encryption methods and two-step verifications. Shop is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jay Habib.
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.

We invest in the AI-innovators and visionaries, the doers, the entrepreneurs who are laying the foundations today to actively shape and change the world of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Analytics
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
Pluvion — Pluvion provides innovative AI-powered solutions for water management. Explore our technology for efficient extraneous water detection and learn how we're shaping the future of water management.
become.1 — become.1 is an employee benefits platform that eliminates the complexity of tax regulations for employees.

Energy

Investment focus

Energy, CleanTech, GreenTech
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.

Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Pet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
United States, China, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Claroty — Claroty provides the leading industrial cybersecurity platform to drive visibility, continuity, and resiliency in the industrial economy.
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.
Li Industries — At Li Industries, we are building battery recycling technologies that enable greater automation, competitiveness, and sustainability.

Berlin Angel Fund is a brand of BACB the venture capital partner of Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (BACB).

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Vertama — Vertama GmbH is a specialist for digital communication. Our self-developed platform offers all the possibilities of a functional WebAppEngine that transforms analog workflows into digital processes.
Meloon — Made with Framer
XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.

Porsche Ventures is a global venture capital firm investing in frontier technology to advance the industrial sector.

Investment focus

Automotive, Transportation, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

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.
Chemix — Chemix is using AI to develop breakthrough EV battery technologies.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

Seven Seven Six is an early stage venture capital firm that is built at the intersection of product and people with nearly $1B AUM and a self-built operating system called Cerebro to scale their team, portfolio monitoring & support, and LP relations.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Lolli — Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sendingbitcoin to users' Lolli wallet.Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.
Interlune — Interlune is a lunar resource startup that extracts resources from space to benefit Earth and build an in-space economy. The company is a provider of space resources intended for a clean and sustainable economy on Earth and in space.
Elektra Health — Evidence-based menopause expertise & care because you deserve better

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Consulting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

4QT — Cleantech, Construction, Electrification
Ephos — Manufacturing high-fidelity photonic chips that power the most advanced modular quantum architectures
Volteras — Volteras collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from hundreds of energy devices into a single data model. Volteras Connect enables businesses to use this data to produce new revenue streams, reduce costs, and create new business models. It aspires to be the link between electric vehicles and anything they may come into contact with, fromchargers and house batteries to energy suppliers and mapping software.

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