# Arno Zinke

> Arno Zinke is a seed investor at Hexagon (Montréal) backing SaaS and Database. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Hexagon
- Location: Montréal, Canada
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnozinke

Arno Zinke is a seed investor at Hexagon in Montréal focused on SaaS and Database. Arno Zinke - Senior Vice President Software Engineering @ Hexagon

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Database | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Construction | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 1 | 50% |
| Germany | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cognyx | Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2024 |  |
| oculai | Oculai is a solution for camera-based data collection on construction sites. Intelligent computer vision algorithms extract data on resource utilization, construction performance and construction progress from image data. This automates time-consuming documentation and reveals productivity deficits in individual processes at an early stage. Thedata is prepared for the user via an interactive dashboard, or imported into an existing BIM model. The reduced documentation and communication effort and productivity analysis of individual processes result in significant savings potential for construction companies. | $2.7M | Seed | Mar 14, 2023 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Axeleo Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axeleo-sas) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bayern Kapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bayern-kapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bpifrance Digital Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bpifrance-digital-venture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hexagon

VC Fund · Stockholm, Sweden

Hexagon is a global provider of information technology solutions that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial landscapes. Hexagon develops information technology solutions that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial landscapes. In their world, information technology is about extracting insight fromdata. They call this actionable information. Actionable information enables automated processes and aids decision making.Unlike most software companies, they have strong roots in reality capture sensors – sensors that capture geospatial data about a physical environment and sensors that capture quality data about manufactured products.Their solutions deliver intelligent information ecosystems that integrate data feeds, create seamless workflows and make entire systems more efficient. Simply, they connect everything in the system – people, machines or processes – embed intelligence and enable visualisation for smarter interaction with information. Their solutions are optimising the flow of information in some of the world’s most vital industries – from agriculture, manufacturing, construction and energy to public safety, security and defence.Their business is comprised of the following divisions – Agriculture, Geospatial, Geosystems, Manufacturing Intelligence, Mining, Positioning Intelligence, PPM and Safety & Infrastructure. Each is focused on developing technologies for specific applications, but their solutions leverage the power of their entire portfolio.

5 contacts available at Hexagon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arno Zinke | Senior Vice President Software Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arno-zinke |
| Claudio Simao | President | — |
| Jürgen Dold | Executive Vice President ( resign from 01 January 2023) | — |
| Leonardo Fernandes | Solution Design Director, Visualization and Interoperability, PPM Division | — |
| Navaneet Mishra | Vice President & Country Manager | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Arno Zinke invest in?

Arno Zinke invests primarily in SaaS, Database and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Arno Zinke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Arno Zinke closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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