# Top 50 Organic Food Startup Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## True Growth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies. ## Graphit NeoTaste - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ellmau, Tirol, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, B2B Graphit NeoTaste is an family investment office. ## Feast Ventrues - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Pet Feast Ventures is a early-stage venture capital investor aiming to back founders in delivering their mission to create a new nutrition epitome. Founded in 2022, the Munich-based micro fund is dedicated purely towards the Food & Agriculture supply system. ## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors. ## Felix Wolf - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Web Apps, Blockchain Felix Wolf ## Norbert Lemken - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Norbert Lemken ## Tobias Fezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Tobias Fezer ## Michael Cortelletti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Michael Cortelletti ## Tijen Onaran - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women ## Shio Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery Shio Capital Venture Investments in Businesses that Change the World ## Jakob Fricke - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Jakob Fricke - Co-Founder @ Picpack ## IT-Farm - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Medical IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises. ## Jörg Kattner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Jörg Kattner ## better ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, E-Commerce At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better. ## Sustainable Food Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant ## Arman Anatürk - Type: Angel - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness Arman Anatürk is Co-Founder @ FoodHack. ## Wolfgang Mauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Wolfgang Mauer ## Dennis Aogo - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer. ## Tengelmann Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Electronics, Laser Tengelmann Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on empowering the next generation of consumer centric B2C/ B2B entrepreneurs ## Moritz Heininger - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Blockchain Advising and investing in (pre)seed startups around the world – focusing on go-to-market, B2B sales, internationalization, and company culture.Investments include Keen4Greens (keen4greens.com), HEAT (heat.io), Biovox (biovox.systems), Clearpool (clearpool.finance)I am currently building DiscoEat/ DIDIT. With DIDIT, we are digitizing theway guests pay at restaurants. Within 15 seconds, guests can split and pay their bill, tip, leave a Google review and their email address. DIDIT is 100% customizable to the brand of the restaurant.Career Path: - Consultant - Bain & Company. - Managing Director DACH - Tink Labs/ handy/ hi.com (B2B hospitality tech). - COO - Anchanto.com - Asia's leading eCommerce selling & logistics tech platform. - ManagingDirector - foodpanda (Delivery Hero, formerly Rocket Internet) in Hong Kong and JakartaPersonal: - Fun things I love: Traveling, Reading, Podcasts, Crossfit, Wake Surfing, Dogs - Businesses I love: Food Tech, Restaurant Tech, web3, platform companies - Tasks I love: Company building, Culture building, Organizational development, B2B Sales ## Roger Hassan - Type: Angel - Location: Ilford, Redbridge, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Grocery, Medical Roger Hassan is the Founding Partner at Shorea Ventures. ## Ralf Dummel - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design 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. ## Gil Horsky - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Food Processing Gil Horsky is the Founding Partner of FLORA Ventures (www.floravc.com) a new early-stage VC fund that is identifying, backing and partnering with the best purpose-led entrepreneurs redefining the $8T AgriFood & Sustainability industries, to make food that is good for people, and kind to the planet. The fund’s investment thesis is focused onthe intersection of the AgriFood industry with Planetary & Human Health, all underpinned by deep-tech. Gil was previously part of the SnackFutures founding team, the ventures (CVC) & innovation hub from Mondelēz, and led the company’s venture capital investments in capabilities: foodtech, R&D, sustainability, e-commerce and supply chain.Among others, SnackFutures invested in Hu Kitchen (later acquired), Torr FoodTech, Celleste Bio and others.Throughout his career, Gil had the privilege to work in a variety of commercial roles on some of the most iconic global food brands: Milka, Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Toblerone, Cadbury, Oreo, Tropicana & Nestle Purina. Gil Horsky leveraged strong business & consumer insights to identify, develop and launch over $800 of new food products, FoodTech technologies and businesses around the world. His professional career has taken him around the world gaining strong international experience in both developing & emerging markets.Gil Horsky is a regular contributor to leading industry journals and a speaker in leading international conferences about the topics of FoodTech, innovation and new ventures.But most importantly, Gil Horsky enjoys working, leading and learning from others and wants to make a positive impact! ## blueworld.group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, SaaS Entrepreneurship. Ingenious. Smart. Responsible. blueworld.group combines the three core components of entrepreneurship: founding, investing and developing. blueworld.group acts as an investor and idea generator for both early-stage and established companies in a wide range of industries. blueworld.group works hand in hand with pioneeringcompanies, their managers and employees to create outstanding performance as well as genuine and sustainable value. Always with the aim of harmonizing progress and sustainability in all dimensions. ## Joyance Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness Joyance Partners invests in companies that, through science and tech, cultivate joy to improve how we live, focusing on the health and consumer sectors from Pre-Seed to Series A. ## Mey Capital Matrix - Type: VC Fund - Location: München, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology The MEY Capital Matrix GmbH is a company which helps to reduce healthcare cost and provides personalized medicines. ## Moritz Baier-Lentz - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Gaming, Software, Online Games Moritz is a senior partner and the head of gaming & interactive media at Lightspeed, a globally leading VC firm with 13 offices, $43 billion in assets, and over 200 exits across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In 2023 and 2024, founders selected Lightspeed as the #1 lead investor in the gaming industry.Moritz hosts the annual CEO Forum at GDC,the world's leading gathering of gaming CEOs, and is an investor, board member, and advisor to founders who led the creation of multi-billion dollar platforms and technologies. He made early institutional investments in OpenAI, SpaceX, and Palantir—resulting in top-percentile IRR and DPI track records to date.An advocate for world models, Moritz is also a founding member of General Intuition, a research lab that trains spatiotemporal agents on proprietary video game data. The startup raised over $130 million from Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, the largest Seed funding in gaming history.Prior, Moritz was a partner and management team member at VC firm BITKRAFT, where he helped scale assets to $850 million. Before that, Moritz was a top-ranked vice president at Goldman Sachs, where he founded and led the firm’s global gaming practice. During his tenure, he advised clients on over $300 billion in M&A, IPOs, and other transactions. Preceding his finance career, he worked in strategy roles at IBM, McKinsey & Co., and The White House.A lifelong gamer, Moritz spent his teenage years competing in Blizzard’s Diablo II, culminating in a #1 ranking among over 12 million players. The first in his family to graduate high school, he sold the virtual items earned in-game to afford his college tuition—two decades before digital asset trading entered the mainstream.Moritz holds an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford, where he graduated as Arjay Miller Scholar and ERP Scholar (“German Rhodes”), and previously studied machine learning, philosophy, and psychology at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Berlin School of Economics. He was recognized among the “30 Under 30” (Forbes), “40 Under 40” (Capital), and “Young Global Leaders” (World Economic Forum).In his personal time, Moritz is an avid Ironman and ultramarathon athlete, including the 257 km Marathon des Sables and the World Marathon Challenge (7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 consecutive days), and a loving girl dad. ## Anne Lemcke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Personal Health, Bakery Anne Lemcke ## GGF - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Food Processing The Green Generation Fund invests in early stage Food Tech and Green Tech companies that make our lives and diets more sustainable, healthy and ethical. ## FoodHack - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Biotechnology, Consumer Goods FoodHack is a global community of founders and funders, sharing a passion for scaling impact solutions to solve the climate crisis | Get involved today ## Stefan Lemcke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Manufacturing, Bakery, Cosmetics Stefan Lemcke ## Kärcher New Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Winnenden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics Kärcher New Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Alfred Kärcher, the provider of cleaning technology for commercial and private customers. It enables innovative and dynamic to further develop their startups founders and to shape the cleaning industry of the future in partnership with it. It seeks to invest in pioneering product-,material- or service-based solution for future challenges within the cleaning sector. Besides its investment, Kärcher is also actively looking for start-up solutions to be used within the Kärcher group like B2B enterprise software as a venture client. In 2019, the Kärcher group achieved, with its operations in 72 countries, the highest turnover of its history (EUR 2.6 billion). ## Oliver Stahl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Organic Food Oliver Stahl ## Purpose Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B - Focus: Apps, SaaS, EdTech Investing in ambitious founders and for-profit tech startups contributing to solving world challenges. We've built several successful companies and will help to build yours. We invest our own money, 100-1mil EUR per investment. We are part of tech private equity firm Pale Fire Capital. ## DTC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage We invest in exceptional teams and scale direct-to-consumer business models that have the potential to disrupt industries. ## Kağan Sümer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Fashion Kağan Sümer is the CEO and co-founder of Gorillas. ## Joko Winterscheidt - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Textiles, Organic Food, Manufacturing Joko Winterscheidt is Founder at GoButler. ## Startnext - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food and Beverage Startnext is a crowdfunding community for creative and sustainable ideas, projects, and startups. ## Charlotte Weise - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Organic Food, Food and Beverage Charlotte Weise ## Mosel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oberbillig, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Mosel Ventures is an investment firm. ## HEIMATBOOST - Type: VC Fund - Location: Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Medical, Seafood HEIMATBOOST is an investment community from the Steinfurt district. ## Bacb Beteiligungsgesellschaft - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Lighting, Smart Home, Women's Bacb Beteiligungsgesellschaft offers investments to a wide range of companies. ## Wolke Hegenbarth - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Health Care, Organic Food, Food and Beverage Wolke Hegenbarth ## Enjoyventure Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce The EnjoyVenture Management is a private equity company that focuses its investments on the seed and early-stage companies. ## Clear Current Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vero Beach, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food Proprietary deal flow and valuable strategic partners. Focus investments in the plant based food/clean meat space at Seed/Series A level. Social impact with focus on ROI. Initial capital close 2/15/18. Fund I is now closed to new investors. Fund II held first close on 4/15/21 and is open to new investors. ## Zubi Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, FinTech We create innovative impact investment and advisory solutions that incorporate current and future environmental and social opportunities and risks, as we believe these will benefit from a competitive advantage and improved long-term financial prospects. ## Mario Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Mario Gomez ## Brandenburg Kapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB). ## Livian Tech - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Seafood, Organic Food, Food Processing Tech, AR/VR, Health, Food ## PHW Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Visbek, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Agriculture Wir laden Sie ein, unsere Unternehmensgruppe kennen zu lernen - einen Verbund innovativer, zukunfts- orientierter und erfolgreicher Unternehmen. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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