Top 50 Climate Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Climate startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Climate Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024
Investor | Climate Germany investments |
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Ralf Dummel | 9 |
Judith Williams | 5 |
Christoph Behn | 5 |
Louis Pfitzner | 4 |
Christian Dahlen | 4 |
David Balensiefen | 4 |
Philipp Kloeckner | 4 |
Kai Hansen | 4 |
Frank Thelen | 4 |
Felix Jahn | 4 |
Christian Vollmann | 4 |
Stefan Gross-Selbeck | 3 |
Michael Brehm | 3 |
Carsten Maschmeyer | 3 |
Mario Götze | 3 |
Kristofer Fichtner | 3 |
Andy Booke | 3 |
Torsten Reil | 3 |
Lawrence Leuschner | 3 |
Benedikt Franke | 3 |
Nico Rosberg | 3 |
Gabor Cselle | 3 |
Andreas Brenner | 3 |
Christoph Ostermann | 2 |
Wolfgang Mauer | 2 |
Torge Thönnessen | 2 |
Peter Mertens | 2 |
Andre Schwammlein | 2 |
Oliver Roskopf | 2 |
Jörg Kattner | 2 |
Matthias Ernst | 2 |
Michael Wax | 2 |
Hanno Renner | 2 |
Michael Cortelletti | 2 |
Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
Tobias Fezer | 2 |
Prince Maximilian | 2 |
Just Beyer | 2 |
Fabian Strüngmann | 2 |
Beate Rosenthal | 2 |
Stefan Lemcke | 2 |
Philipp Andernach | 2 |
Johannes Reck | 2 |
Daniel Krauss | 2 |
Robert Maier | 2 |
Christian Gaiser | 2 |
Lea-Sophie Cramer | 2 |
Lucas von Fürstenberg | 2 |
Stephan Rohr | 2 |
Martin Weber | 2 |
Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
- TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
Judith Williams
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
- Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.
Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Greece, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
- clous — Hybrid automated mechanical engineering
- Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
- comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.
David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability, SaaS
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
- Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.
Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
- Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
- bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- 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.
Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
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Investment focus
- Software, Transportation, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Build.One — Build.One is an end-to-end application development platform that allows to build mission-critical and legacy-free business applications without any limits, using a combination of No-Code, Low-Code and Pro-Code.
- Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.
Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
- Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
As one of Germany’s most accomplished executives in the digital space, Stefan Groß-Selbeck has been successfully building, launching and running digital businesses and platforms for more than 15 years. He is passionate about establishing new markets and businesses and transforming traditional industries with his first-hand experience as anexecutive in highly innovative digital companies. Stefan currently serves as Global Managing Partner of BCG Digital Ventures. In this role, he manages the operation and growth of the company on a global scale, offering his significant expertise to a growing team of innovators across the world in sectors including consumer, mobility and financial services. Prior to DV, Stefan was the CEO of XING AG, Europe’s leading social network for professionals. He held leadership roles at eBay, including his position as the VP and Managing Director of eBay Germany, eBay’s biggest market outside of the U.S. During this time, he grew eBay Germany to over $10B in gross merchandise volume and $1B in revenues. He has also served as Managing Director at ProSieben Digital Media GmbH and Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group GmbH.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, B2B
- Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Seqana — X-Ray-Vision” Monitoring SaaS, for Soil Organic Carbon. To fight climate change, we enable Project Developers and Agri-Food Corporates to measure and understand soil carbon sequestration in an ultra low cost, fast, precise, and affordable way. At planetary scale!
- CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
- GlassDollar — GlassDollar is the go-to enabler of innovation partnering for large- and medium-sized corporations. Our marketplace of startup solutions and our Innovation Project management software help innovation teams to source, manage, and successfully scale impactful startup collaborations within their organizations.
Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call.
i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
- charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
- Atheneum — Powered by a network of 1,000,000+ experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
- JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Mietz — The first fully automized all-in-one renting platform for tenants and landlords.
- Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
- AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Kristofer Fichtner is a serial entrepreneur and business Angel with a strong focus on the energy industry, property tech and craft tech.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
- Vermietet.de — Vermietet.de is an association of Berlin entrepreneurs and investors whose vision is to make real estate ownership simple and intelligent. They know from their own experience how complex the management of a property can be - and have therefore founded rented.de.
Andy Booke
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
- Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
- Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.
Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
- Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.
Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.
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Investment focus
- Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, India
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.
- Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
- Bosque Foods — Kinoko Labs develops the next generation of meat substitutes, starting with whole-cut meat items made from fungal mycelium produced organically. Headquartered in New York.
Benedikt Franke is the co-founder of Helpling.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- trail — Trail offers a straightforward approach to implementing AI Governance, empowering developers and businesses to create reliable AI solutions
- Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
- forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
- ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
- Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.
- 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.
Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator.
Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
Andreas Brenner
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Investment focus
- B2B, Timber, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
- Timber Base — TimberBase, backed by UFP Industries, can leverage relationships with our global network. Our size and scope allow us to offer a high volume of products in various grades, species, and dimensions. Please visit our website to learn more information about us. Get in touch with us.
Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.
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Investment focus
- Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Numbat — Numbat is a clean-tech company from Kempten (Allgäu). The competence lies in the development and production, as well as the operation of High-Power charging solutions with integrated battery storage system. The goal is to establish Europe's densest High-Power charging infrastructure to support e-mobility and its challenges. The battery storagereduces electricity costs and eases the burden on grids, while the integrated fast charging station allows customers/visitors/employees to fully charge their electric vehicles within 15 minutes. Depending on the location, the Numbats can be provided free of charge in a platform model. With its patented climate protection technology and multi-lifecycle approach, the Numbat is the most sustainable solutions on the market.
- ESFORIN SE — ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
- Efficient Energy Technology — Efficient Energy Technology makes renewable energy simple, safe, and dependable for everyone. Efficient Energy Technology develops a small power plant consisting of photovoltaic and storage for complete self-installation.
Wolfgang Mauer
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Investment focus
- Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- eatPlants — eatPlants manufactures products that help everyone cook easily plant-based food.
Torge Thönnessen is the Co-founder and CEO at Custom Cells.
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Investment focus
- Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
- Seed
- Germany
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.
Peter Mertens
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
- DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
- Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Investment focus
- Software, Rental, Payments
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
- Rausgegangen — Rausgegangen is a privately held company that is generating the tips to go out in Cologne, every day.
Jörg Kattner
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Investment focus
- Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- eatPlants — eatPlants manufactures products that help everyone cook easily plant-based food.
Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
- Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
- Responsibly — AI-enabled sustainability due diligence of every supplier. From human rights compliance to decarbonization targets and sustainability reporting; we help you take control of your supply chain.
After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Germany, Sweden, United States
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- Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
- zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
- Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
Michael Cortelletti
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- Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- eatPlants — eatPlants manufactures products that help everyone cook easily plant-based food.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
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- Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
- Asset Reality — Asset Reality manages and realises seized and confiscated assets for public and private sector clients globally.
- StructureFlow — Corporate Structuring has now been visualized. StructureFlow helps leading organizations benefit by mitigating risk and optimize efficiency.
Tobias Fezer
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- Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- eatPlants — eatPlants manufactures products that help everyone cook easily plant-based food.
HSH Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein is the Chairman of LGT.
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- EdTech, FinTech, Tutoring
- Seed, Series C, Series D
- Germany, India
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- LIQID Investments — LIQID is a Berlin-based digital wealth manager focused on affluent private clients. For a fraction of the traditional minimum investment, it offers its clients digital access to investment strategies and opportunities previously available only to high-net-worth and institutional investors. In addition to tailored wealth management from € 100,000,this includes professionally curated portfolios of top quartile private equity, venture capital and real estate funds from € 200,000. For the last three years, the company has been named Germany’s best wealth manager by the country’s leading business monthly, Capital*. As of early July 2021, LIQID manages in excess of € 1.4 billion (US$ 1.7 billion) for its clients. The company is backed by investors including LGT, Toscafund Asset Management, HQ Trust, Project A and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures.*Please find the full Capital test here (Capital Test: Edition 07/21): https://www.capital.de/p/plus/geld-immobilien/vermoegensverwalter--das-perfekte-rezept-30574892.html
- Vedantu — Join the League of Toppers with Vedantu LIVE 1-To-1 online classes for your K12 and competitive exam preparation.
- The Landbanking Group — Invest in a new asset class for regeneration: Nature Equity. The Landbanking Group provides a market infrastructure to transform nature positive outcomes into tradable assets. Support the preservation and restoration of Nature at scale.
Just Beyer
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- Funerals, Printing, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
Fabian Strüngmann
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- GreenTech
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- The Landbanking Group — Invest in a new asset class for regeneration: Nature Equity. The Landbanking Group provides a market infrastructure to transform nature positive outcomes into tradable assets. Support the preservation and restoration of Nature at scale.
Beate Rosenthal
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- Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.
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- Food and Beverage, Eyewear, Organic Food
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Wholey — The Berlin-based start-up Wholey develops innovative, plant-based breakfast products of the highest organic quality, without refined sugar and additives - fair, ecological, and delicious. Started in 2016 with smoothie mixes for the catering industry, the range now includes smoothie bowls, granolas, nut creams, and porridges.The products areavailable in supermarkets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, and the UK, as well as through food service and the company's own online shop.
- Ink& — Ink& promotes tattoo artists and styles with the finest art prints, clothing and stickers.
- Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.
Philipp Andernach - Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer @ Service Partner ONE
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- B2B, Recycling, Marketplace
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
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- Software, Internet, Transportation
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- RYDES — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
- Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
- NAVIT — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.
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- Software, Rental, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Israel, United States
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- SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
- Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
- simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.
Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany
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- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.
Christian Gaiser is CEO of Bonial International Group, the global leading network of location-based shopping apps and technology, operating in 11 countries across 4 continents.Having spent time in Silicon Valley in 2008, Christian developed the concept for Bonial due to the entrepreneurial environment he was living in and the amount of flyersand mailers he was accumulating. He thought at that time that there must be a new and different way to reach the consumer that takes the time-honored circular into consideration. The concept was born. In 2008, Christian Gaiser and his team founded kaufDA in Germany, which was quickly honored in 2010 as “the star among location-based services in Germany” by W&V, Germany’s main magazine for communication and promotion. kaufDA has become Germany’s leading network for local retail promotions, initially financed by the venture capital divisions of Deutsche Telekom AG and OTTO Group. In early 2011, kaufDA was acquired by Axel Springer SE, one of Europe’s largest media companies. In just four years, German consumers have used kaufDA to actively open more than 5 billion digital circulars, with kaufDA continuously providing the latest information on more than 247,000 retail outlets in Germany.From Germany, Christian went on to launch the kaufDA concept as Ofertia in Spain, Bonial in France, Lokata in Russia, Guiato in Brazil and Retale in the United States. In 2012, the company was branded as Bonial International Group globally. Since the birth of kaufDA in 2008, Christian and his team have successfully serviced 600 retailers and 12 million consumers. Prior to Bonial, Christian worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs Private Equity in London, at McKinsey & Company in Vienna and Zurich, at the Monitor Group/Ermgassen & Co in London and at SAP Investor Relations in Walldorf. Christian is a graduate of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar and HEC, Montréal.
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- E-Commerce, Mobile, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States
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- SPARETECH — SPARETECH builds the leading availability platform for industrial spare parts
- MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1]
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- Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sustainability
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany
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- eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
- Circus Group — At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Lucas von Fürstenberg serves as head of the Freiherr von Fürstenberg'sche Forstverwaltung forest administration based in Sauerland.
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- Organic, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- autarkize — autarkize scales a market-ready system technology with which a high-quality gas made of methane and hydrogen is extracted decentrally from residues.
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
Founder & Co-CEO @ TWAICE.
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- Software, GreenTech, Recycling
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France
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- einwert — first European hybrid appraiser reimagining real estate valuation as a whole new ESG-compliant value experience. With digital technology that empowers our appraisers and tools that offer unparalleled market transparency & sustainability insights, we help real estate investors to boost smarter and future-oriented real estate decisions.
- Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
- Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Martin Weber is the Founder at One • fıve. He was a Managing Director Marathon Artists LABs at Marathon Artists. He attended the ESCP Business School.
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- Software, Recycling, Food Processing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- Neggst — Neggst develops plant-based whole egg alternative that consists of a white, yolk, and a biodegradable shell. The company has begun pilot projects with several food service providers and is planning on launching at supermarkets.
- Ordinary Seafood — We are a consumer facing food-tech company using the power of plant protein and biotechnology to deliver the next generation of sustainable seafood. Our mission is to bring balance back into our food system by offering delicious and healthy seafood alternatives.
- Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
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