# BASF Venture Capital

> BASF Venture Capital is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Biotechnology. See 94 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ludwigshafen, Germany
- Total investments: 94
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Fund size: $265M
- Last fund: Mar 2001
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/basf
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BASF
- Website: http://www.basf.de
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BASF

BASF Venture Capital is a VC fund in Ludwigshafen focused on Manufacturing and Biotechnology. BASF Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of BASF Group. They invest worldwide in promising young enterprises relevant to BASF’s current and future business fields and also in funds. Besides innovations in the fields of chemistry, new materials and sustainability, their areas of focus include digitization and new business models.They support their portfolio companies through selective interactions with the global research, partnership and customer networks of the BASF Group. They are headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany and have offices in San Francisco, Boston, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and Tel Aviv.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$22M |
| Series B | $5.7M–$27M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 18 | 19% |
| Biotechnology | 16 | 17% |
| Electronics | 10 | 11% |
| Nanotechnology | 9 | 10% |
| Energy | 8 | 9% |

84 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 23 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 21 | 22% |
| Series A | 19 | 20% |
| Series C | 11 | 12% |
| Seed | 4 | 4% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 31 | 33% |
| Germany | 7 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| China | 4 | 4% |
| India | 3 | 3% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Nettersheim | Investment Manager | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-michael-nettersheim |
| Carla Seidel | Senior Vice President Material Physics, Analytics & Formulation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carla-seidel |
| Christoph Koehler | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-koehler |
| Claus Hackmann | Investment Manager | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/claus-hackmann |
| Han Qin | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/han-qin |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| P2 Science | P2 Science a venture-backed, renewable specialty chemicals company, co-founded by Yale scientists, a chemical industry CEO and Elm Street Ventures, an early-stage venture fund. P2 Science has developed a unique process technology for converting renewable feedstocks—including vegetable oils—into high-value, specialty chemicals. These includeflavor, fragrance and cosmetics ingredients. Many of their products are today available only from petrochemical sources. Among the first products to be produced by P2 are vegetable-derived, cost-effective versions of current petrochemical fragrance ingredients. Major users and formulators of specialty chemicals have a strong interest in substituting renewable for petrochemical ingredients. Patrick Foley, a Yale graduate of the PhD program in Environmental Engineering, is P2′s Chief Scientific Officer. Neil Burns, an executive with 20+ years experience in the specialty chemical industry, is the company’s CEO. P2 has a laboratory in New Haven, CT to support this technology’s development and commercialization, as well as partnerships with major companies at a number of points along the supply chain. | $23M |  | May 26, 2026 |  |
| pH7 | pH7 is a cleantech firm that develops and implements methods for the sustainable extraction and refining of strategic metals, which are required for the transition to renewable energy. This pilot project will offer the industry a solution for the sustainable extraction of Platinum Group Metals from secondary and primary resources using green,biodegradable, and recyclable solvents rather than smelting methodologies. | $25.6M | Series B | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| DePoly | DePoly is a chemical recycling company that converts post-consumer PET plastic and polyester textiles back into their main raw components at room temperature, without the need to pre-wash, pre-sort, or separate out other plastics. The raw material can then be sold back to the industry so that new virgin-quality plastic items can be made, creating atruly circular plastic economy. | $23M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 |  |
| ACT-ion Battery Technologies | ACT-ion Battery Technologies is a manufacturing company that offers cathode active materials for lithium batteries. | $7.5M | Seed | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Phomera | Guangyu Technology is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the R&D and industrialization of photonic crystal metamaterials. | $13.8M | Series A | Apr 29, 2024 |  |
| Traive | Traive is an ag-fintech that unlocks credit to farmers by connecting them to lenders and providing ML-based credit risk assessment and monitoring. Traive brings farmers state-of-the-art technology to offer a novel and fair credit risk assessment, opening the door for affordable funding for their businesses. For lenders, Traive provides adifferentiated analysis applied over alternative farming and individual data, while allowing access to a much larger and diversified portfolio of borrowers. | $20M | Series B | Feb 02, 2024 |  |
| Grão Direto | The agriculture that has so much technology inside the gate and gives lessons of modernity to Brazil and to the world can also be so technological and modern in the commercialization of its products!The Grão Direto forms a web between buyers and producers of grains connected in a much more intelligent way.Through technology, they can interactdigitally and much faster and more efficiently. This is either for spot, future or barter trading. Grão Direto was created with the necessary flexibility to support all the chain's profiles: cooperatives, tradings, traditional brokers, feed factories, warehouses, traders and much more.The platform generates market intelligence gains for producers and buyers to make better decisions, as well as more agility in processes associated with marketing (logistics, contract management, financial products and more). |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 02, 2024 |  |
| DePoly | DePoly is a chemical recycling company that converts post-consumer PET plastic and polyester textiles back into their main raw components at room temperature, without the need to pre-wash, pre-sort, or separate out other plastics. The raw material can then be sold back to the industry so that new virgin-quality plastic items can be made, creating atruly circular plastic economy. | $13.8M | Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Ecorobotix | ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs. | $51.7M | Series B | May 09, 2023 |  |
| pH7 | pH7 is a cleantech firm that develops and implements methods for the sustainable extraction and refining of strategic metals, which are required for the transition to renewable energy. This pilot project will offer the industry a solution for the sustainable extraction of Platinum Group Metals from secondary and primary resources using green,biodegradable, and recyclable solvents rather than smelting methodologies. | $16M | Series A | Mar 27, 2023 |  |

10 of 94 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BASF Venture Capital invest in?

BASF Venture Capital invests primarily in Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Electronics startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 94 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BASF Venture Capital's check size?

BASF Venture Capital typically joins rounds of $3M–$22M at Series A and $5.7M–$27M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BASF Venture Capital participates in.

### How do I contact BASF Venture Capital?

Public channels for BASF Venture Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BASF Venture Capital?

The team at BASF Venture Capital includes Michael Nettersheim (Investment Manager), Carla Seidel (Senior Vice President Material Physics, Analytics & Formulation) and Christoph Koehler (Chief Financial Officer), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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