# 2b AHEAD Ventures

> 2b AHEAD Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology and AgTech. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Leipzig, Germany
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2b-ahead-ventures/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/2baheadventures
- Website: https://www.2bahead-ventures.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/2bAHEADVentures/

2b AHEAD Ventures is an incubator and company builder. It was founded by Sven Gábor Jánszky and his future institute "2b AHEAD ThinkTank". 2b AHEAD Ventures is based in the former Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig-Plagwitz, where the 2b AHEAD parent institute has developed into Europe's largest independent future research institute. Themain difference between 2b AHEAD Ventures and the other start-up incubators in the region? The strict focus on global business models and the direct link to Silicon Valley.They do not finance already existing start-up teams, but they take the concepts for disruptive business model innovations, which the 2b AHEAD Institute develops for its customers anyway, and which in their opinion have the potential to profoundly change industries. They build up their own teams of founders around these ideas and accompany them on their way.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 3 | 30% |
| AgTech | 2 | 20% |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Automotive | 2 | 20% |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 40% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Israel | 1 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Borst | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-borst |
| Sven Gabor Janszky | Co-Founder | 21 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sven-gabor-janszky |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GeneNeer | With our KI™ technology, and our partners, we will enable growers to respond to weather changes and avoid yield loss by timely activation of the relevant traits, such as drought tolerance trait, or cold tolerance trait, in the crops they are growing, when and where they need it. Our current focus is to tackle one of the biggest challenges thatthe world faces today - reduce yield loss caused by drought | $1M | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| LOOFT | LOOFT is the world’s first comfort service company, providing a unique machine learning powered app and FREE companion device. LOOFT makes your comfort easier for the environment by learning over time and optimizing the device. This reduces energy consumption and lowers energy bill costs while maximizing user comfort. Proudly developed using Germanengineering and founded out of a venture builder in Leipzig, Germany and available exclusively in the United States. LOOFT is aiming to increase device performance by just 8% to reduce rolling blackouts that result in increased demand for comfort as the world warms.Overall LOOFT hopes to delight and surprise their customers. |  | Convertible Note | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Machine2Human Solutions | AI solution for the CRM environment to support decision making and problem solving through speech analysis in a customer interaction, as well as automation of documentation processes and knowledge base creation. | $178.1K | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2022 |  |
| Egg'n'up | Egg’n’up is a young and vibrant Food-Tech company, which developing a sustainable alternative egg product using a proprietary plant- based ingredients to get the egg’s unique taste, texture, appearance and functionality properties without compromising on taste and its nutritional values. |  | Seed | Jan 03, 2022 |  |
| X-Therma | X-Therma is a biotechnology firm that is developing a convergent biopreservation platform to advance regenerative medicine. Using convergent biomimetic nanotechnology, the company is addressing unmet legacy needs in biological product storage. This solution can improve critical biomanufacturing processes, safer transport, and long-term biobankingfor advanced cell therapies, IVF, organ transplants, and other rapidly growing regenerative medicine areas. | $13M | Series A | Dec 22, 2021 |  |
| Egg'n'up | Egg’n’up is a young and vibrant Food-Tech company, which developing a sustainable alternative egg product using a proprietary plant- based ingredients to get the egg’s unique taste, texture, appearance and functionality properties without compromising on taste and its nutritional values. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 06, 2021 |  |
| Universal Quantum | Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve. |  | Series A | Sep 03, 2021 |  |
| DaVinci Kitchen | The first robotic chef in the world that creates high class organic pasta dishes in under 3 minutes without human interaction. |  | Seed | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| WechselGott | Automated contract manager app optimising tariffs for household contracts. Constant monitoring of the best offers on the market and support provided for the customers. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |
| Kopernikus Automotive | Kopernikus Automotive is a company that develops systems for self-driving cars. They provide services that include autonomous driving, automotive, self-driving, connected cars, software development, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. |  | Seed | Nov 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2b AHEAD Ventures Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2b-ahead-ventures-fund-01) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [JANSZKY GmbH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janszky-gmbh) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Graphene Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/graphene-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [LOREA AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lorea-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Methuselah Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/methuselah-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Millenium Food-Tech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/millenium-food-tech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does 2b AHEAD Ventures invest in?

2b AHEAD Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, AgTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact 2b AHEAD Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at 2b AHEAD Ventures?

The team at 2b AHEAD Ventures includes David Borst (Managing Director) and Sven Gabor Janszky (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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