Top 50 CleanTech VC Funds & Investors in Germany (June 2026)

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• NcodiN — The High Performance Computing (HPC) and ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI) era requires unprecedented computing capabilities. With this in view, industry is heading towards zettascale supercomputers, based on >100k processing units. Chiplets-based disaggregated processors and memory-centric computing architectures are taking over and require an ever more intensive communication between dies. Thus, today interconnect bottleneck is the main
• GlassPoint Solar — GlassPoint provides solar steam generators to the oil and gas industry for applications such as Enhanced Oil Recovery. It replaces gas-fired steam generation with solar, GlassPoint can reduce EOR gas consumption by up to 80 percent. The company was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Fremont, California.
• Zadient Technologies — Zadient produces semiconductor manufacturing materials that are critical for the entire silicon carbide (SiC) value chain

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• 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.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
• Liva Healthcare — Liva Healthcare offers evidence-based digital health coaching to manage and prevent chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Our personalized programs combine digital tools and human support to drive sustainable lifestyle changes. Trusted by NHS and global partners.
• Siam Digital Lending — Over a million Thais have visited Siam Digital Lending's (SDL) award-winning application to apply for personal loans in Thailand. SDL is an agentic-AI first lender using AI to power lending decisions in minutes. The company is committed to reducing borrowing costs and hurdles for underbanked people in Thailand. They are fully licensed withboth personal loan and nano loan licenses under the supervision of the central Bank of Thailand.

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• 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.

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• Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
• Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
• Massive Dynamic — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
• ecoLocked — ecoLocked is 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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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 —

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• 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!

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• 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.

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• Smycles — Smycles GmbH is a German software company based in Bochum, specializing in AI-powered tools for assembling and optimizing interdisciplinary teams. Their platform uses natural language processing and creativity-focused AI to match team members based on skills, chemistry, and project needs, emphasizing data privacy with on-premise or German-hostedcloud options. The company develops a technology platform to support team formation for innovation, startups, and research, including workshops and software for rapid team productivity. It targets creative processes, with features like agentic AI for "right people, right timing."
• 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.

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• Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
• 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.
• symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.

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• Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
• Solar Materials — SOLAR MATERIALS developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
• Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.

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• Solytic — Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics.

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• Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
• 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.
• Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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• 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.

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• CEEZER — CEEZER is the digital infrastructure to give companies access to the complex voluntary carbon market. Deliver true climate impact now!
• Everest Carbon — Everest Carbon Inc. develops breakthrough measurement technology for robust quantification of carbon dioxide removal through Enhanced Weathering.
• Cotierra — Biochar made from agricultural residues in the tropics can become a gamechanger for farmers and climate change mitigation

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• trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
• Equitable Earth — Built upon next-generation digital MRV, the Equitable Earth Standard is designed to verify impact on climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
• Minimum — Take control of your organization's carbon accounting and management with granular, robust and auditable emissions data.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• SkillYoga — Get a personal yoga training plan based on your goals and experience. Functional, down-to-earth yoga training: anytime, anywhere. Become a better athlete today!
• Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
• BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.

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• Limatica — Limatica is a BatteryTech/DeepTech startup founded in Chemnitz. Through the founder's deep understanding of battery diagnosis it was possible to develop a novel measurement method to qualify cells in battery production - faster and more cost-efficient than ever before.
• Tomorrow — Sustainable banking. Green Finance. A credit card that is ecological, ethical and uses your money to generate a positive environmental impact. A bank that funds and promotes Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Wind Power and sustainable agriculture.
• Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.

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• 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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• Circula — Designed with European tax standards in mind, the mobile and web app support your individualized expense invoicing process in real time, helping to create a seamless and straightforward experience for road warriors, accountants and managers alike.
• LawX — LawX is a legal technology company providing solutions to streamline legal processes and improve efficiency for law firms.
• Penzilla — At Penzilla, we believe it's time to make corporate pension provision the way it really should be - simple. That's why we offer a solution that helps everyone get the maximum benefit from corporate pension options. Most importantly, we enable every employer to achieve true corporate social responsibility with 100% compliance and everyemployee to receive a fair pension. This is how corporate pension provision works with Penzilla: Let's "Simply Provision" together.

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• Wizenoze — At the heart of the WizeNoze platform is a set of powerful classification algorithms. A smart content editor enables writers and publishers to quickly write and rephrase texts for children, assisted by real-time classification suggestions provided by their algorithms. Developers can easily tap into all the platform's features via an API.Combined with a powerful search engine, the Wizenoze platform provides everything you need to create world-class content for children.
• AI-BOB — AI-BOB helps property developers and architects eliminate building errors, reduce rework, and optimize designs.
• Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
• Brineworks — Industry leading costs through cutting edge electrochemistry, and renewably powered intermittent operation
• Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
• R3 Robotics — Circu Li-ion is a European battery upcycling startup. Our vision is to fight the climate crisis by maximising the lifecycle of each Lithium-ion cell.In 2021, we have embarked on our journey to enable a circular lifecycle to batteries in three steps: the dismantling of batteries, the diagnostic of cells and the reassembly based on reusedcomponents - automated and at scale .We provide our technology to leading players in the space of micromobility, q-commerce & delivery, hardware manufacturing and recycling. Our Machine-as-a-Service solution offers a possibility to give their used batteries a second life through upcycling instead of recycling - saving money and the planet.
• Vivira — Vivira Health Lab focuses on making physical rehab programs available to everyone.

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• Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
• Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
• Searchmetrics — Create powerful content that drives organic growth and revenue.

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• phelas — Phelas is developing an electricity storage system to use solar and wind power even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing
• Plasmion — Plasmion is all about the real time analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) - be it to simplify laboratory analysis or to enable automated industrial sensory systems.
• Mr Beam Lasers — Industrial laser cutters are digital tools for cutting and engraving a variety of materials based on a digital design file. Mr Beam Lasers offers a desktop laser cutter with an integrated connected ecosystem. Our target group are small businesses, professional service providers, educational institutions and private customers, who enjoy creative andartistic crafting. Mr Beam reduces the entry barrier for digital, automated labeling, personalization and prototyping to an absolute minimum. Due to child’s play handling, integrated online designs, material shops and service hubs, the mass market gets the opportunity to use this technology which originally was only possible for the industry.

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• Lerta — Lerta designs an operations platform for entities involved in production, distribution, or trading of electricity or gas. Its platform provides utility companies with digital transformation and new business development. It helps to manage a large number of dispersed power units in the energy production sector. It focuses on measurements,automatization of the decision making process, and improvement of operations efficiency in companies involved in the production, distribution or trading of gas and energy.
• ConnectPoint — ConnectPoint is an IT Solutions Provider and Data Specialist for Manufacturing, Utilities and Energy. They take care of the whole operation data analytics process in an organization: from data collection to advanced analytics. CP brings unique end-to-end solutions to clients through developing the right software, advising on the market solutionsand integration of systems.
• 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.