Top 25 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)

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• Extoll — EXTOLL, a leader in high-speed, ultra-low power SerDes and Chiplet connectivity, offers semiconductor IP with the smallest footprints and highest PPA. Serving global ASIC, SoC, and Chiplet markets, our portfolio includes tailored NoC (Network-on-Chip) and Die-to-Die solutions. EXTOLL drives innovation, enabling successful migration into the Chiplet Age.
• BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.
• CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.

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• Sci2sci — sci2sci develops data integration and verification software that turns corporate documentation into traceable code to prevent AI errors and maintain auditable records.
• Ground A — Ground A is a German defense technology startup that develops mobile, software- and laser-based counter-drone systems.
• Arcos — Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company.

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• Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
• Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
• HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.

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• NavierAI — Navier turns a plain-language request and a geometry file into a meshed, solved, and reviewed simulation study, delivered as an inspectable engineering report. Fluids, structures, thermal, multibody, and electromagnetics. Forward-deployed engineers available for scoped engagements.
• Chiral — Next-generation electronics with nanomaterials
• Karavela — Karavela is a company developing a "foundation model" of the human brain using large-scale brain imaging data (like MRI) and AI.

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• Apoha — Stealth stage start-up
• Bindbridge — AI for targeted protein degradation in plants.
• Triple Bio — Triple Bio is a biotech startup focused on improving productivity and sustainability in dairy and beef production using biological and data‑driven technologies.

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• Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
• deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
• Volteras — Volteras: the intelligence layer for OEM-grade connected vehicle data. We partner directly with the world's leading automakers to deliver secure, unified vehicle intelligence.

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• GALVANY — GALVANY is a climate-tech company focused on end-to-end heat pump and energy-management solutions for homes and buildings.
• Plume — Analyze all geospatial, grid, and regulatory constraints simply with natural language. AI-powered site selection for renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
• Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.

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• 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 — From quantum chemistry to drug discovery: QC Ware's Promethium unites molecular simulation and AI to deliver molecular-level insights on GPUs today.
• Hydrogenious Technologies — Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies develops applications for easy, efficient & safe hydrogen transport and storage, using Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC).

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• Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
• Dryad Networks — Overview of Dryad, providing ultra-early fire detection as well as forest growth and health monitoring.
• Fairown — Fairown is a fintech company helping banks, brands, and retailers offer products as a service. Unlike BNPL solutions, we provide a unique payment platform, which allows environmentally conscious businesses to offer products for monthly subscriptions, and manage product renewal cycles.

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• Jedify — Jedify is a technology company that develops a contextual data platform designed to support artificial intelligence systems and enterprise data environments. The company focuses on building a “context graph” that connects structured and unstructured data, business logic, and organizational knowledge into a unified layer that AI systems can use toreason more effectively. Its platform, called Semantic Fusion, is intended to translate fragmented enterprise data from sources such as databases, cloud systems, SaaS tools, and documents into an AI-ready knowledge structure. The platform enables organizations to create connected representations of their business entities, relationships, workflows, and metrics, allowing AI agents and analytics systems to operate with better understanding of context. Instead of relying solely on raw tables or isolated metadata, Jedify builds a semantic model that links data points with real-world business meaning, such as customer definitions, revenue logic, permissions, and operational rules.Jedify also provides tools that allow enterprises to integrate multiple data sources and continuously update their contextual models as new information flows through systems. This enables AI applications to generate insights, answer natural language queries, and support decision-making processes while remaining aligned with internal business definitions and governance rules.
• DataOps — DataOps is a platform and tools that underpin the philosophy of DataOps to enable every company and stakeholder to get better, faster, and higher quality data, with no compromise on governance and data security.
• Hightouch — Hightouch is the fastest way to sync live customer data into the tools your teams rely on. Get started for free, no credit card required.

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• Xycle — The missing piece in solving the plastic waste challenge? Join us in building a more sustainable future! The missing piece in solving the plastic waste problem? Can we come together to build a more sustainable future? CHEMICAL RECYCLING, AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE PUZZLE After years
• 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.

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• Ecair — Ecair provides software for indoor air quality and energy management. The platform aggregates data from connected sensors to track pollutants, CO2, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter in real time. Dashboards, alerts, and APIs support building operations, facility managers, and ESG teams. Algorithms estimate exposure, flag ventilationissues, and suggest HVAC adjustments to balance comfort, health, and energy use. Reporting tools support certifications and compliance, and data exports integrate with BMS, CMMS, and data warehouses. Services include device provisioning, calibration management, and analytics consulting for multi-site portfolios.
• Ark Climate — Ark Climate is a climate-tech company that develops software to support municipal climate protection planning and execution.
• Crosstown H2R — Industrial-grade hydrogen burner technology for decarbonisation. 95% emission reduction, retrofittable design, sub-15ppm NOx compliance.

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• ABSORA — ABSORA is pioneering breakthrough materials that outperform existing solutions in silencing noise and vibration.
• Cato AI — Search, analyze and bid on Italian public tenders with AI, automating the manual work for bid offices and sales teams.
• Punto Health — AI-powered digital platform for management of Alzheimer's and other dementias.

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• ScyAI — Risk intelligence that thinks with you.
• Arctis AI — Specialized agents take on your preconstruction team's most time-consuming workflows, from finding the right projects to leveling bids and checking contracts.
• TUAL Technology — The TUAL PowerUp Charger is a high-power CCS charger for electric vehicles with battery-integrated architecture.

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• Ravel — Ravel revolutionizes textile recycling through purification technology, effectively separating and repurposing blended materials. Join us in shaping a circular textile economy.
• Teragen Energy — Teragen Energy develops an energy technology platform based on advanced regenerative solid oxide fuel cells that provide both power generation and energy storage in a single system. The company’s systems generate electricity from external fuels such as natural gas or hydrogen without combustion and can operate in reverse to store power as hydrogen.Teragen designs modular systems that can be scaled from megawatt-scale installations for data centers to deployments for microgrids, renewable projects, and utilities. Its technology is intended to help operators manage variable renewable output, ride through outages, and address daily capacity needs using one device. Teragen focuses on applications including AI and cloud data centers, manufacturing and cold storage facilities, remote communities, and electric grid infrastructure. The platform is positioned to replace separate diesel generators and battery systems by combining fuel-flexible generation and low-cost storage in a compact footprint.
• Immaterial — Facilitating the energy transition with advanced materials.

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• Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
• FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) — Contenda helps repurpose old content into a new engagement. It contextually identifies content's key topics and spins it into the proper format for an audience to discover.
• Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.

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• Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
• Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.
• FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.

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• Occam Industries — Modernising automation for modern conflict environments. Sole European supplier to the Ukrainian front line.
• SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.
• The New Era® of Shopping — The New Era® of Shopping helps merchants make their catalogues discoverable and shoppable inside AI assistants. Key features of the platform include two-way catalog syncing with PIMs/ERPs, SKU-level intelligence to measure AI visibility and ranking of products inside LLM responses, user prompts analysis for trends and volume insights, andautomated content optimization to improve how products rank in conversational answers. The product is already integrated with all major eCommerce platforms like Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Wix, etc, as well as main AI discovery platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity.

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• Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
• Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
• BLOCKCHANCE — BLOCKCHANCE is Germany’s leading blockchain congress and trade fair and connects thought leaders and innovators who are creating inspiring concepts and solutions within blockchain technology space. It introduces Artificial Intelligence as a main topic in the upcoming event.

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• HarvestX — HarvestX manufactures fully automatic robots which contributes to the shortage of agricultural human resources and stable food production
• Ayala — Connect with farmers, suppliers, and buyers in Malaysia's largest agricultural marketplace.
• Thai Union Group — Thai Union Group produces shelf-stable seafood products for a global customer base. The company’s product portfolio includes tuna, shrimp, salmon, sardine and mackerel, cephalopod, bakery, and pet food products. Its brand portfolio includes Sealect, Fisho, Bellottaas, Chicken of the Sea, John West, King Oscar, Petit Navire, Parmentier, Mareblu,and Century.As a company committed to innovation and globally responsible behavior, Thai Union is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). In 2015, Thai Union introduced its SeaChange® sustainability strategy. Thai Union’s on-going work on sustainability issues was recognized in 2018 and 2019 by being ranked number one in the world in the Food Products Industry in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, achieving a 100th percentile ranking for total sustainability score.

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• Kiin Bio — Accelerate drug discovery with Virtual Scientists. Unified platform integrating 100+ specialized tools into one intelligent workflow.
• Asynchronics — Asynchronics is an open-source platform for high-fidelity digital twins, aimed at accelerating spacecraft system development.
• DOJO AI — The only tool you need to grow your Brand.

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• Flexvelop — Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond.
• eleQtron — eleQtron creates and operates quantum computers based on trapped ions, radio frequency control, and Magnetic Gradient Induced Coupling (MAGIC). It also puts forward novel ideas for scalable quantum processors based on RF-controlled trapped ions. eleQtron will run MAGIC quantum computers and provide quantum computing performance on a subscriptionbasis.
• DEALCIRCLE — DealCircle is a digital M&A solution and partner of hundreds of M&A advisors. We support in identifying buyers and addressing the market. This provides investors access to a comprehensive deal flow of relevant projects.

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• atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.

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• Ultralytics — Simpler. Smarter. Further.
• Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
• Graph Therapeutics — Graph Therapeutics - precision immunology

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• TMA. The Hazardous Goods Companion — TMA is the hazardous good companion, helping gas and chemical companies build more resilient and sustainable supply chain. By combining Atex-compliant IOT with machine learning, we help improve the circulation, distribution and rotation of hazardous inventory.