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Top 50 Infrastructure Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024

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

Top 50 Infrastructure Startup Investors in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Infrastructure Germany investments
Earlybird Venture Capital	4
Ananda Impact Ventures	2
ParaFi Capital	2
Helen Ventures	2
Road Capital	2
SALT Fund	2
Pantera Capital	2
Standard Crypto	2
Airtree Ventures	2
Kraynos Capital	2
Vireo Ventures	1
Mouro Capital	1
Mulana Capital	1
Wika	1
better ventures	1
SaaSgarage	1
BayBG Venture Capital	1
Joachim Schneider	1
Stefan Lemcke	1
Mitsubishi Corporation	1
The BraWo Capital Group	1
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen	1
Distributed Capital Partners	1
MobilityFund	1
Hack VC	1
Global Brain Corporation	1
Anne Lemcke	1
Covestro	1
Michala Rudorfer	1
Blockarm Capital	1
GovTech GmbH	1
GSR	1
Galaxy Digital	1
AP Ventures	1
Wintermute	1
Robert Brevelle	1
Nucleus Capital	1
Sebastian Mertens	1
SCB 10X	1
Next47	1
Vopak	1
WENVEST Capital	1
Thomas Glatte	1
KDDI Open Innovation Fund	1
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	1
Nucleus Capital	1
Paul Schwarzenholz	1
Next Big Thing	1
KR1	1
Lin Gong Deutschmann	1

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Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
Picus Security — The Complete Security Control Validation Platform | Stay proactive by validating your security controls with attack scenarios, empower your Red, Purple, Blue teams.

ParaFi Capital is an alternative investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parfin — Parfin is a modular platform for secure digital asset custody, trading and management | We are connecting traditional and digital finance
Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Meridian — Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.

Helen Ventures invests in the most innovative and transformative startups in the energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonisation, and digital solutions space. We accelerate the growth of early and growth stage companies by developing world class solutions in collaboration with our customers and industry experts. Helen Ventures is thecorporate venture capital arm of Helen Ltd., an energy company making the possibilities of a new energy era accessible to all.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, SaaS, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Finland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
Nobile Group — Nobile is an energy sharing hub platform, directly connecting the producers and suppliers of renewable energy

Road Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, China, Germany

Portfolio highlights

GEODNET — The Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) is a decentralized network of Space Weather mining stations that report the real-time influence of the Sun’s solar winds on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. This data is commonly used to accurately correct GNSS (GPS and other navigation satellite) signals to providecentimeter level positioning accuracy and improve absolute time accuracy to nano-second level. Traditional applications for these data services include Automotive/Autonomous Navigation, Agriculture/Construction Vehicle Machine Control, Earthquake/Geohazard Monitoring, and traditional Land Survey. Blockchain applications include decentralized Mapping, Metaverse Digital Twins, Location-Aware Smart Contracts, and Proof-of-Location and Time. GEOD is the native utility token that is used for: Fees for providing GEODNET data streams and services. Rewards to Space Weather Miners. Used for governance votes to determine how network resources are allocated. Gas for future native GEODNET blockchain location/time proofs.
M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Stride Labs — A protocol for multichain liquid staking in the Cosmos ecosystem

SALT Fund is an investment fund.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Blockchain, Biopharma
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Switzerland, China

Portfolio highlights

Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Fission Labs — Fission Labs democratize access to VC investing by creating a global, liquid, on-chain marketplace.

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GAMEE — Join Mocaverse Season in Arc8 for Moca-themed Beasties and exclusive tournaments. Earn Realm Points and delve into the exciting world of gaming and digital collectibles.
Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.

Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm with elite company-building experience and deep-rooted expertise in crypto.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Farcaster — A protocol for building sufficiently decentralized social networks
Axiom — Axiom enables smart contracts to securely compute over Ethereum's whole history, including transactions and receipts. Developers can send on-chain queries to Axiom, which are automatically completed with ZK-verified responses delivered back to the developer's smart contract.

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

Kraynos Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services
Seed

Portfolio highlights

Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Fission Labs — Fission Labs democratize access to VC investing by creating a global, liquid, on-chain marketplace.

We believe that electrification and digitalization are the backbone of decarbonization and green transformation. Vireo Ventures is a seed- and pre-seed-stage VC. We invest in European tech start-ups that drive electrification. As Vireo we take the long-term view and support our portfolio companies wherever possible.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, France, Poland

Portfolio highlights

encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!
Lichtwart — Lichtwart is a startup that creates a cloud control platform for efficiently controlling and maintaining lighting systems.
ZeroMission — ZeroMission is a technology focused provider of integrated data for intelligent fleet electrification planning, operations and reporting.

Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Remofirst — All-in-one platform to hire anyone from anywhere with one click. Same-day onboarding. Available in 150+ countries
Skyflow — Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in.

Early Stage Web3 Venture Investing (Cypto infrastructure, Metaverse, Defi)

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Internet of Things
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
MetaGravity — MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup located in London that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. They're on a quest to build the next generation of live, breathing digital worlds that will entice gamers and keep them fulfilledand engaged for decades. They are leveraging their significant knowledge in massive-scale processing and engine technologies to create the technical foundation for the Metaverse, a decentralized digital world. MetaGravity is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2021.

Wika is a industrial automation company located in Klingenberg.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Real Estate
Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

METR — METR builds a universal IoT infrastructure for buildings which enables connected use cases for the housing industry. From energy efficiency, to predictive maintenance, building control to submetering: their hardware platform offers multi-utility applications and integrates third-party services into one platform for the tenement building of thefuture.
Loriot — LORIOT is a Swiss start-up in the field of Internet of Things, founded in 2015. Their core product today is software for scalable, distributed, resilient operation of LoRaWAN networks and end-to-end applications, which they offer under a variety of business models.Due to their unique positioning in the LoRa ecosystem as both software provider andnetwork operator, they are in direct contact with LoRa hardware producers and integrate many of their solutions directly with their services.The collaboration allows us to offer not only network software, but a complete end-to-end solution for a real-world IoT application, including gateway and sensor hardware.Their typical customers are small and medium enterprises in the Internet of Things business, cities, municipalities and wireless network operators.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

SaaSgarage, the pre-Seed Angel Fund for SaaS startups where first external money complements passionate value add advising and mentoring.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SMAHO — Manufacturer agnostic, cloud-based connected device control platform for iOS, Android, Alexa and Google Assistant
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
consalio — consalio enables customers to gain transparency over ongoing consulting activities and costs in the company.

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Joachim Schneider - Vice-Chair @ EDSO for Smart Grids

Investment focus

Software, GreenTech, Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Eyewear, Organic Food
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations asits diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Logistics
Funding Round, Corporate Round, Series A
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Enechain — enechain provides liquidity in Japan’s energy market by brokering OTC transactions of energy.
Finnforel — Sustainable Fish Farming. Pure, healthy and ecological rainbow trout for the sake of ecosystems, ocean, your health and for the planet.
Cyto-Facto — Cyto-Facto is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures CAR-T cell therapies and mesenchymal stem cell products.

The BraWo Capital Group gives companies scope for their growth and corporate goals through various financing options.

Investment focus

SaaS, Drones, Internet
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

METR — METR builds a universal IoT infrastructure for buildings which enables connected use cases for the housing industry. From energy efficiency, to predictive maintenance, building control to submetering: their hardware platform offers multi-utility applications and integrates third-party services into one platform for the tenement building of thefuture.
Horando — Horando is your online e-commerce for high-class luxury wristwatches offering exclusive brands such as Audemars Piguet, Rolex, Breitling, Hublot, IWC, Omega, Panerai, Tag Heuer, Tudor oder Ulysse Nardin. Horando is an official brand concessionaire and authorized dealer of the brands Alpina, Bell & Ross, Frederique Constant Geneve and U-BOATItalo Fontana.Each watch being offered Horando at has a guarantee of originality. For each watch you naturally receive the international manufacturer warranty, the original packaging and all associated documents and certificates.
starcopter — Starcopter has a robust flight system that is efficient, battery-friendly, and able to withstand the high expectations of seasoned pilots in the high-performance sector. a huge undertaking. And the amazing potential for a revolution in every field. What we proposed was: A work tool that is unparalleled globally that is adaptable and highly durable.

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
Zenesis — Zenesis intends to change the way engineering planning processes are carried out.

Distributed Capital Partners manages a portfolio of early-stage blockchain and distributed software companies, and protocol tokens.

Investment focus

Internet, Infrastructure, Information Technology
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.

Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable mobility by backing the best founders in European mobility start-ups. We invest in disruptive mobility start-ups with ambitious founders from Seed to Series A and onwards. Our experienced team includes entrepreneurs from Europe and Silicon Valley who partner with our companies as they scale to become global transportation leaders.

Investment focus

Software, Logistics, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
PIONIX — open source software as a service for charging stations / e-mobility
FlowFox — Automated Container Releases, Container Drop-off Changes, Container Reuses and C/H Instructions.

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Coframe — Transform your website with AI-driven optimization and personalization that boosts engagement and conversions. Coframe automates growth 24/7.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Glow Labs — Solar farms on the Glow network are paid with GLW tokens for electricity output and stablecoins for carbon credits. According to the business, their incentive model prioritizes incentives for solar farms with the greatest environmental benefit, focusing on places where clean energy can best balance high carbon emissions.

Global Brain Corporation is a venture capital firm that invests in companies from seed or early to pre-IPO startups. Global Brain has invested in 300+ startups from seed/early to pre-IPO startups and achieved 25 IPOs and 61 M&As as a result of providing hands-on support services and resources to its portfolio startups. Global Brain hasmanaged a pure investment fund as well as multiple corporate venture capital funds partnered together with tier 1 public companies of telecom, real estate development, financial service, beverages, agriculture food, logistics, and electronic devices.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Japan, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Poetics — Poetics is an AI startup that develops communication related products concerning language and voice to provide business solutions.
Endophyte — Endophyte specializes in endophytic soil solutions, harnessing beneficial microorganisms to plant growth and agricultural productivity.
Qlay — Qlay is an AI-automated global engineer hiring platform

Anne Lemcke is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ankerkraut. She attended Box Hill Institute.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Eyewear, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Discover Covestro: Leading in high-tech polymers and sustainability for key industries.

Investment focus

Energy, Energy Storage, Location Based Services
Funding Round, Series C, Series D
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

BioBTX — We at BioBTX developed a technology to produce BTX from biomass and plastics. We believe in the future of circular and sustainable BTX.
QC Ware — QC Ware develops hardware-agnostic enterprise software solutions for quantum computers. The company's quantum computing software solves problems in combinatorial optimization and machine learning with efficiency unmatched by traditional HPC solutions.
Hydrogenious Technologies — Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies develops applications for easy, efficient & safe hydrogen transport and storage, using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC).

Michala Rudorfer

Investment focus

Software, B2B, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

APADUA — APADUA is the platform for management and IT consulting firms and their clients in the internet. Market Intelligence - A search engine continuously screens thousands of sources to maintain and expand the database of consulting firms ||| The database contains detailed information on 2,000+ consulting firms with expertise in 30+ industries and 20+services ||| APADUAs smart algorithm matches client need and proven consultant expertise in real timeProject RFP - Project specification made simple ||| Initiate RFPs in under 30 minutes ||| Evaluate proposals and pitch presentations collaborativelyProject Performance Monitor - Measure custom performance indicators ||| Collect feedback from an unlimited number of stakeholders regularily ||| Use results to actively manage project and vendor portfolios
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Lilio — Lilio aids parents in caring for the well-being of their children and provides input on the baby's well-being at any time of day or night.

Fueling the future economy

Investment focus

Computer Vision, Internet of Things, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

NATIX — Make your cameras smart and GDPR compliant
NATIX Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city

Digitization for public administration, venture capitalist and accelerator in the field of GovTech

Investment focus

Smart Cities, Infrastructure
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

ROADIA — Bl1tzR brings AI to road safety for a transition to smart cities. We provide a scalable solution for road-safety and big data traffic analytics.

GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MeshMap — MeshMap is a decentralized 3D map developer focused on creating a decentralized 3D globe map and augmented reality (AR) content network.
Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
Ordzaar — Ordzaar is the operator of a decentralized Bitcoin marketplace where crypto traders can buy, sell, and exchange ordinals.

Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Arch — Access instant credit without selling your crypto or equity stake on the platform with best-in-class security and a regulatory-first approach.
Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.

AP Ventures invests in pioneering technologies and businesses that harness the unique chemical and physical properties of Platinum Group Metals to solve global challenges.AP Ventures is led by a specialist investment team with proven expertise and a successful track record. We offer investors access to high growth technologies that are developingsolutions to solve global issues.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, France, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Airhive — Discover how Airhive's innovative Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology accelerates carbon reduction. Our proven fluidisation process captures 99% of carbon dioxide in less than one-tenth of a second, offering high-quality solutions at lower prices. Learn about our investment, partnership and commercial opportunities.
ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
Immaterial — Facilitating the energy transition with advanced materials.

A leading algorithmic trading firm focused on building liquid and efficient markets in digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Agora — Agora operates as a digital dollar and an asset platform.
Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.

Robert Brevelle is the current CEO of Coulee Capital. He previously worked at Juice-BX as a Founder and CEO. Robert Brevelle attended Cornell University.

Investment focus

Angel Investment, Timber, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Ewellix — Ewellix focuses on automation and new manufacturing processes to provide cost reduction, enhanced product performance, and quality. The company is a global innovator and manufacturer of linear motion and actuation solutions for assembly automation, medical applications, and mobile machinery.
Bon Temps GP — Investment and Asset Management
Yunex Traffic — The mobility sector must become smarter, safer and more sustainable. The good news is that we have reached the next major milestone that will define the course of the future.

Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Izote Biosciences — Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Solution

Sebastian Mertens is the Managing director, Founder, and Chairman of wemakefuture. He previously worked at ASERVMENT as a CEO and Co-Founder.

Investment focus

B2C, Pet, Software
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core

SCB 10X From Experiment to Exponential Growth

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Thailand, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Sahara AI — Sahara AI is the decentralized AI blockchain platform that prioritizes sovereignty and provenance of AI, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for all users. | Join the Collaborative AI Economy Now
Station70 — Station70 provides scalable and resilient disaster recovery solutions.

We're Built For Enterprise Founders. We partner with founders boldly building products that power the world

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Skylo — Never lose coverage again - connect your existing NB-IoT devices directly over both cellular and satellite networks seamlessly
Encord — Discover how the world's leading AI teams use Encord to accelerate the development of the next generation of AI applications.
Harmonic Security — Accelerate secure AI adoption without risking the security and privacy of your data.

Vopak is an independent tank storage company, stores and handles oil products, chemicals, liquefied petroleum and natural gases, biofuels, and vegetable oils worldwide. It owns and operates specialized facilities, including product tanks, jetties, truck loading stations, and pipelines, as well as provides access to road and rail networks.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Database
Seed, Series B, Series C
Finland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aeromon — We provide real-time, easy to understand data on airborne emissions for OGMP 2.0 Level 5 and EN17628 compliant reporting.
Data.world — data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use.data.world is also home to theworld’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact.We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.
Hydrogenious Technologies — Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies develops applications for easy, efficient & safe hydrogen transport and storage, using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC).

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

mybacs — mybacs is a DTC, research-driven, Biotechnology company specialized in the human microbiome. Our goal is to revolutionize the market around intestinal healthcare and thus make a decisive contribution to the daily well-being of our customers. Our team of pharmaceutical scientists and physicians is focused on the development of innovative andhighly-dosed synbiotic supplements. These are aligned by our singular formulations from specifically selected probiotic cultures, prebiotics as well as minerals and vitamins tailored to the individual needs of our customers.
Penzilla GmbH — At Penzilla, we believe it's time to make corporate pension provision the way it really should be - simple. That's why we offer a solution that helps everyone get the maximum benefit from corporate pension options. Most importantly, we enable every employer to achieve true corporate social responsibility with 100% compliance and everyemployee to receive a fair pension. This is how corporate pension provision works with Penzilla: Let's "Simply Provision" together.
Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.

Thomas Glatte

Investment focus

Software, GreenTech, Infrastructure
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

KDDI Open Innovation Fund is a corporate venture capital fund that will support promising startup companies. Total size of the fund is JPY10 billion. This is the first corporate venture capital fund established by KDDI. The fund will be managed by Global Brain Corporation (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO, Yasuhiko Yurimoto),which has a strong track record in the venture capital business. By combining KDDI’s know-how and assets with Global Brain’s investment and management support capabilities, we will work together to accelerate cooperative activities with promising startup companies. Through this fund, as well as "KDDI ∞ Labo," a startup incubation program currently inviting a second round of applications, we will continue to support the growth of the next startup companies.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Internet
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

DataMesh — DataMesh empowers conventional enterprises to adopt intelligent design, accelerate service deployment, and execute cost-effective planning processes by leveraging Digital Twin and Mixed Reality technologies.
THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
Turing — Turing develops and manufactures fully autonomous vehicles.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Supporting purpose-driven founders solving systemic challenges to planetary health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Izote Biosciences — Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Solution

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

Investment focus

Internet, Manufacturing, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Datia — Datia's products automate your sustainability workflows, data collection and reporting. Easily report on the EU Taxonomy, SFDR and more!
Heatle — Heatle engages in the manufacture and supply of an inductive immersion heater that heats liquids in the vessel of your choice.
repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.

Explore our diverse portfolio of highly-scalable deep-tech ventures.

Investment focus

SaaS, Security, Software
Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

METR — METR builds a universal IoT infrastructure for buildings which enables connected use cases for the housing industry. From energy efficiency, to predictive maintenance, building control to submetering: their hardware platform offers multi-utility applications and integrates third-party services into one platform for the tenement building of thefuture.
Enclave Networks — Connect all of your computers, servers, cloud instances and containers across any infrastructure with secure private networks that just work.

KR1 is a publicly listed investment company focussed on the blockchain ecosystem. We invest in early stage projects and blockchain-based digital assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Avail — Avail is the essential modular blockchain base layer for next-generation, trust-minimized applications.
Mode Network — Mode Network is a DeFi blockchain platform that builds new on-chain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications.
Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

Lin-Gong Deutschmann is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Education, GreenTech
Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
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.

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