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Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Impact startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Impact companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Impact Germany investments
Louis Pfitzner	4
Kai Hansen	4
Ralf Dummel	4
David Balensiefen	4
Andreas Brenner	3
Felix Jahn	3
Christian Vollmann	3
Philipp Kloeckner	3
Andy Booke	3
Lawrence Leuschner	3
Kristofer Fichtner	3
Christoph Behn	3
Benedikt Franke	3
Gabor Cselle	3
Alfred Luger	2
Volker Rofalski	2
Fabian Strüngmann	2
Stefan Gross-Selbeck	2
Anna Alex	2
Nikolaus D. Bayer	2
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz	2
Lucas von Fürstenberg	2
Beate Rosenthal	2
Wilfried Gillrath	2
Peter Mertens	2
Torge Thönnessen	2
Leopold König	2
Mark Miller	2
Prince Maximilian	2
Maximilian Odendahl	2
Christoph Ostermann	2
Philipp Andernach	2
Alf Arnold	2
Michael Brehm	2
Judith Williams	2
Friedrich A. Neuman	2
Dr. Gregor Heinrich	2
Karim Tabet Jalbout	2
Lukasz Gadowski	2
Martin Weber	2
Lea-Sophie Cramer	2
Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck	2
Matthias Ernst	2
Stephan Rohr	2
Brigitte Mohn	1
Patrick Pichette	1
Jonathan Teklu	1
Jochen Engert	1
Maximilian Bock	1
Charlie Songhurst	1

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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.

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.

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

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.

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.

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.

David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX

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.

Andreas Brenner

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andy Booke

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.

Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.

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.

Kristofer Fichtner is a serial entrepreneur and business Angel with a strong focus on the energy industry, property tech and craft tech.

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.

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.

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.

Benedikt Franke is the co-founder of Helpling.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.

Alfred Luger

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Learning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Ada Growth — Ada Growth is on a mission to put a mentor in every woman's pocket. We combine AI with microlearning to provide professional growth and development tools for women in the workplace and help companies attract, retain, and grow female talent. Download the Ada App today!The Ada App is a microlearning app that provides 2 minute short formvideos, miniquizzes, action items, and summaries that lead to long-term behavioral changes in the workplace. It also contains a digital mentor that can provide dynamic coaching in the spirit of the Ada App library of content, so that Ada App users have access to casual lessons when they have a few minutes a day as well as immediate feedback for any upcoming situation.Ada Growth serves the B2B enterprise and SME space primarily to companies with over 400 employees. We sell a professional growth / EdTech / L&D solution to HR, Employee Training and DEI administrators. We are vertical agnostic and provide a growth experience for both white collar and blue collar workers. Most EdTech solutions tend to flow to the corporate office layer of an enterprise, where this is a saturation of resources available. Many of our users have not been given professional growth tools purposefully built for them before or made flexible for their lifestyle, unlocking value for both the employee as well as the employer.We are the first enterprise-ready professional EdTech solution built specifically for women.
123-Transporter — Transporter mieten ab nur 45€ Volle 24h | Unlimitierte KM | digitale Vignette inkl. Einfach. Flächendeckend. Kundenzentriert: https://de.trustpilot.com/review/123-transporter.at

Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.
Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Fabian Strüngmann

Investment focus

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.

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.

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.

In 2012 Anna together with her co-founder Julia launched OUTFITTERY with the vision to create a shopping experience for men that is convenient, fun and inspiring. Today, OUTFITTERY serves individual outfits to over 600k men in eight countries and Anna is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Europe. In 2016, she was voted amongst Europe’s“Inspiring Fifty”, the 50 most inspirational women in tech. Prior to OUTFITTERY Anna lead the IT of the Swiss group buying platform DeinDeal in Zurich. She studied economic sociology in Freiburg and Paris.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
kolum.earth — EU companies importing cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity or hydrogen from non-EU countries can use the kolum.earth software solution to create their Carbon Boder Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) reporting, measure carbon emissions attached to their imports, and communicate with their non-EU suppliers to become fully CBAM-compliant.
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.

Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

limbiq.com — limbiq is a centralized software platform designed to help businesses achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time updates, even on the SKU level, across all modes of transport. Our customers enjoy productivity gains of 60% or more, and cost savings of 40-60% due to lower safety stock levels and reduced process-related costs. With limbiq, you can collaborate seamlessly with all your partners along the supply chain and be automatically alerted when schedules change. Schedule a free personalized demo to see how limbiq can work for you and your team.
Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
Kumpan Electric — Kumpan electric (e-bility GmbH) is a manufacturer of E-Scooters and offers e-mobility solutions and portable energy storage systems– made inEurope! Kumpan electric develops, produces, and sells stylish electric vehicles (20-120 km/h) and energy storage systems for end consumers, fleets, and sharing companies (B2C, B2B).
Hintbox — Whistleblower-System, Hinweisgebersystem, SaaS

Lucas von Fürstenberg serves as head of the Freiherr von Fürstenberg'sche Forstverwaltung forest administration based in Sauerland.

Investment focus

Organic, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Beate Rosenthal

Investment focus

Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.

Wilfried Gillrath served as CEO of the LichtBlick Group.

Investment focus

Marketing, Recycling, Wind Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
Wildplastic — The first trash bag that actually cleans up the planet
Recycle hero — Recycle hero is a sustainable pickup-service for recyclable waste.

Peter Mertens

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.

Torge Thönnessen is the Co-founder and CEO at Custom Cells.

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.

Leopold König is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Customcells. He was a Research Fellow at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology.

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.

MARK MILLER is a co-founder and partner at LearnLaunch. Miller is a lifelong entrepreneur since winning the business plan competition at Cornell University and building one of the earliest first education publishing subscription businesses. As a result of his own company exits and leading the sale of two companies he advised, Miller founded andserves as Managing Partner of Good Harbor Partners (GHP). GHP provides strategy consulting, outsourced corporate development and advisory M&A services to some of the top companies in the education marketplace.Miller has co-founded, built and/or served as Executive Chairman or CEO for leading publishing, technology and community companies. Many of these companies have had successful exits, including CollegiateLink, TakeNote, The Daily Jolt and The Custom Publishing Group.Miller was tapped by a set of leading University CIOs to commercialize CUPID and developed the first SaaS based on-demand publishing platform. NetPaper oﬀered a new model for creation and consumption of textbook, journal and scholarly monograph content.Miller is a Cornellian and he currently serves on the The Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. He was also was recognized for his contributions at Cornell and was tapped and serves as a member of the Quill and Dagger Honorary Society.

Investment focus

EdTech, Recycling, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Edu101 — 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.

HSH Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein is the Chairman of LGT.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Tutoring
Seed, Series C, Series D
Germany, India

Portfolio highlights

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.

Maximilian Odendahl - CEO & Co-Founder @ Silexica

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.
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.

Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.

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.

Philipp Andernach - Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer @ Service Partner ONE

Investment focus

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.

Alf Arnold is a member of Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg.

Investment focus

Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.

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.

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.

Judith Williams

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PÁPYDO — PÁPYDO produces sustainable and primarily wood-free products.
Womatics — Womatics produces pregnancy and breastfeeding easing products.
Chiengora — Chiengora produces clothing made from dog wool.

Friedrich A. Neuman studied Business & Economics in St. Gallen, Switzerland. After his studies he moved to Berlin to start his first company. Later he led business development at Glispa. In 2012, Friedrich joined Rocket Internet and co-founded Dropgifts, a social gifting platform active in 25 countries with 120 people. Together with MariusSchulze, Friedrich is the founder and CEO of Run a Shop and founding partner of MAKERS. At MAKERS, Friedrich is responsible for Finance and Operations.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Battery, Organic
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

elvah — elvah provides flat rates for charging the electric car by fixing a monthly fee.
Cling Systems — Connecting the battery ecosystem to ensure batteries are reused, repurposed and recycled.
Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.

Dr. Gregor Heinrich is a CTO at creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft. He attended Leipzig University.

Investment focus

Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.

Karim Jalbout, based in London, leads the Digital and eCommerce segments of Egon Zehnder’s Technology and Communications Practice in Europe. Karim also leads the firm’s Chief Marketing Officers Practice in the UK. He is a trusted advisor to private equity, family-owned businesses, and start-ups at the C-suite and board levels. Karim has servedclients across hospitality, travel, publishing, financial services, telecommunications, pure play, and retail. He has deep experience in emerging markets, particularly India.Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Karim was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he drove early investment in the Android platform. Previously, Karim gained more than a decade of FMCG experience with Diageo. He started his career working in Brand Management for Guinness in Canada, then moved to London as Brand Controller Guinness and Malta Guinness for the Africa region. Karim subsequently led Baileys in the UK market and was Marketing Director for Guinness in Europe, including Ukraine and Russia. Karim earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada and completed the Executive Education program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been a key speaker at the Digital Innovation Summit as well as for Endeavour (a global entrepreneur network) and LIFE (an international non-profit organization for Lebanese Executives in Finance).

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.

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
MILES — MILES is an independent carsharing and modern mobility. They believe in the energy and the pulse of cities and how they inspire them. MILES is your wingman on your trip through urbanity, guiding you to its hidden treasures and cool spots, which make your city so worth living. Their passion for the new and unexplored drives them in their vision tomake urban life better. Driving with no time pressure, no limits and no specific car brand.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Recycling, Food Processing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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]

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jan-Hendrik Goldbeck

Investment focus

GreenTech, Marketplace, Construction
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Schüttflix — Schüttflix is a digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel.
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.

Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.

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.

Founder & Co-CEO @ TWAICE.

Investment focus

Software, GreenTech, Recycling
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

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

Dr. Mohn has been CEO of the German Stroke Foundation in Guetersloh since 2000. She has been heading the health program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung since 2001 and has been a board member of this foundation since 2005. Dr. Mohn is a member of the supervisory board of the Bertelsmann AG and of the Rhoen-Kinikum AG, a member of the BertelsmannVerwaltungsgesellschaft mbh, and a member of the advisory board of MediClin AG.Dr. Mohn worked as a consultant with McKinsey and with Pixelpark, she was with the American publishing company Bantam Doubleday Dell and worked as an editor for the Muenster Chamber of Commerce and for the Institute of World Economics. Dr. Mohn earned a Ph. d. in Politics, Art History and German, a Master of Philosophy and she attained an MBA.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Fitness
Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
Rainfall — Rainfall is a privacy-preserving intelligence platform that uses Edge-AI and Web3 technology to unlock the economic value from your data.

Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).

Investment focus

Software, Science/Engineering, AI
Seed, Series B, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unlikely AI — Unlikely AI is a talented group that is approaching artificial intelligence from a daring, fresh angle.
Vay — Vay is a Berlin-based deep technology company that is on track to launch the first driverless, safety-certified, commercial fleet on European public streets. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
made of air GmbH — Made of Air is a carbon-negative materials company. They take low-value wood waste and transform it into high-value, carbon-negative thermoplastics. These thermoplastics can be formed with all traditional heat-forming methods and used for a wide variety of applications, turning manufactured goods into engineered carbon sinks.

Jonathan Teklu is the Venture Partner at CREANDUM. Jonathan Teklu attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Real Estate
Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

klarx — klarx is the leading platform for construction equipment rental in Europe, enabling the energy transition currently underway. klarx is revolutionizing the way machines are rented and used, which in turn is enabling the massive expansion of solar energy in Germany. So far, klarx has served over 6.800 customers and has operated more than 330k rentaldays. Through the vast network of 4.900 supplier stations and our logistic centres, we can ensure that machines are travelling less than 50km to the construction site and are always used with the highest utilization rates. After successfully building up the klarxManager software and network business, klarx has launched two logistic centres in Europe and plans to open another 9 logistic centres across Europe within the next three years. klarx has already raised over 23.7 Mio. € from investors like Target Global, Lukasz Gadowski, the Flixbus founders and the B&C Holding.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

Software, IT, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Israel

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.
Lyntics — Lyntics offer solution that enables companies to democratize data knowledge.
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.

Maximilian’s CV has many facets. He started as a physicist at Cambridge University in 2008. He later worked as a materials researcher in construction before founding Madanyu and Netwookie, two Tech4Good companies focused on emerging markets. To date, he has supported over 60 startups as a mentor and board member. Through his work, he has built astrong international investment and expert network with focus on England, France, and USA. As an investment manager in the hardware team, his focus is on nano- and quantum technology, materials and environmental research as well as Industry 4.0 and Future of Work.

Investment focus

Other, Design, Hardware
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

UNOWN — Unown is a service and SaaS provider for the fashion industry. Our goal is to revolutionize the way we buy & sell clothing and thereby save 100,000 tons of CO2e every year. We believe that through our leasing, subscription and pre-loved services, we can use resources smarter and create higher value per asset.We enable brands to secure theirshare in the growing secondary markets. They lease out their assets through our revenue share model and get access to deep usage data. We enable customers to experience fashion with a completely new mindset. Our service allows them to rotate their wardrobe while maintaining an efficient and conscious lifestyle.
Crocus Labs — Crocus Labs is developing smart LED technology for horticulture.

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Investment focus

Software, IT, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses
TILT — Your favourite brands, with your favourite people
iLoF - Intelligent Lab on Fiber — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development

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