# BASF

> BASF is a VC fund backing Energy, Electronics and Renewable Energy. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ludwigshafen Am Rhein-oggersheim, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Feb 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/basf
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BASF
- Website: http://www.basf.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/basf

BASF is a VC fund in Ludwigshafen Am Rhein-oggersheim focused on Energy and Electronics. BASF operates as a chemical company worldwide. The company conducts its operations through six business segments, including chemicals, plastics, performance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. Chemicals segment, the company offers products for customers in the chemical, electronic, construction, textile,automotive, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries; and provides other BASF segments with chemicals for the production of higher-value products. The company's portfolio ranges from basic chemicals, glues and electronic chemicals for the semiconductor and flat panel display industry, to solvents and plasticizers, as well as starting materials for detergents, plastics, textile fibers, paints, coatings and pharmaceuticals. The Chemicals segment consists of the Inorganics, Petrochemicals and Intermediates divisions. Inorganics: The company's basic products are ammonia, methanol, sodium hydroxide, chlorine, as well as sulfuric and nitric acid. It serves electronic chemicals market in Asia and Europe. Petrochemicals division, the petrochemicals division offers a range of products, such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, and benzene are produced in steam crackers from naphtha or natural gas. In further processing stages, the company produces alcohols, solvents and plasticizers for the chemicals and plastics industries. Alkylene oxides and glycols are starting materials for the detergents, automotive, packaging and textile industries. Intermediates: With its 600 products, the company's Intermediates division develops, produces, and markets a range of intermediates of all producers worldwide.Performance Polymers, the company offers performance polymers, such as engineering plastics, polyamide and polyamide intermediates, as well as foams and specialty plastics for various applications. Polyurethanes: The company offers Polyurethanes, such as basic products, customer-specific systems and specialties for automotive, construction and furniture industries, as well as household appliances. Performance Products The Performance Products segment consists of the Acrylics & Dispersions, Care Chemicals and Performance Chemicals divisions.The company's product lines include amines, diols, polyalcohols, acids and specialties. They serve as starting materials for products such as coatings, plastics, pharmaceuticals, textile fibers, crop protection products, as well as detergents and cleaners. Plastics segment The Plastics segment offers a range of products, system solutions and services. The company offers engineering plastics for the automotive and electric industries, as well as for use in household appliances, sport and leisure. The company's styrenic foams are used as insulating materials in the construction industry and in the packaging industry. The company's polyurethanes are versatile: as soft foams, they are to be found in car seats and mattresses, and as rigid foams they serve as insulation in refrigerators. This segment produces plastics. The Performance Polymers and Polyurethanes divisions offer its customers energy-efficient products, system solutions and services. The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, electric/electronics, textile, packaging and construction industries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 3 | 25% |
| Electronics | 3 | 25% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 25% |
| CleanTech | 2 | 17% |
| B2C | 1 | 8% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Grant | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Series D | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Brazil | 2 | 17% |
| Canada | 2 | 17% |
| Germany | 2 | 17% |
| China | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cinthia González | HR Director BASF Spain and Portugal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cinthia-gonz%C3%A1lez |
| Dirk Elvermann | President Corporate Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dirk-elvermann |
| Henrik Fälsch | Data Monetization Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/henrik-falsch |
| Marcelo Lu | SVP Care Chemicals North America, BASF Corporation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcelo-lu |
| Michael Heinz | Chairman & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-heinz-2 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LanzaTech | LanzaTech is turning our global carbon crisis into a feedstock opportunity with the potential to displace 30% of crude oil use today and reduce global CO2 emissions by 10%. By recycling carbon from industrial off-gases; syngas generated from any biomass resource (e.g. municipal solid waste (MSW), organic industrial waste, agricultural waste); andreformed biogas, LanzaTech can reduce emissions and make new products for a circular carbon economy.LanzaTech’s carbon recycling technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source like a steel mill or a landfill site, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, pollution is converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals! Imagine a day when your plane is powered by recycled GHG emissions, when your yoga pants started life as pollution from a steel mill. This future is possible using LanzaTech technology. | $185M | Post-IPO Equity | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| EAVISION | EAVision is a smart agricultural robotics company that uses computer vision for autonomous crop protection. Its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) combine AI visual recognition and precision spraying to allow farmers to protect their produce even in challenging geographical environments. | $30M | Series C | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Genecis | Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into biodegradable plastics and other high-value materials. It converts organic waste into PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoate), a biodegradable, compostable, and non-toxic polymer that can be tuned to replace a wide variety of traditional plastics. PHA can beused for single-use plastics, clothing and textiles, automotive interiors, medical tools and products, and food contact applications. | $7K | Grant | Jan 30, 2019 |  |
| Bulky | Bulky is an online tool that allows liquid chemical shippers and tanker truck carriers to instantly match their bulk freight loads for transport. Bulky partners currently include the largest chemical company in the world and some of the largest bulk transportation companies in North America. Bulky began as an idea between BASF and Trimac on howto best bring new marketplace technologies to the liquid bulk industry. Bulky is now being adopted by many industry leaders as a freight fulfillment solution.Bulky was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. | $1M | Seed | Oct 23, 2018 |  |
| ESS | ESS is a provider of long-duration energy storage solutions ideally suited for C&I, utility, microgrid, and off-grid applications. Since their founding in 2011, ESS has been focused on laying the groundwork for a future powered by clean and reliable energy.With a team that boasts decades of experience in distributed power generation andenergy storage technologies, ESS has developed an extremely cost-effective energy management system that combines a safe, abundant and non-toxic iron-electrolyte with their patented flow cell design. This combination of high performance with low cost means that ESS’s technology is ideally suited for applications that range in size from retail energy management to utility-scale renewables integration. | $13M | Series B | Dec 12, 2017 |  |
| Heliatek | As the technology leader in organic photovoltaics, Heliatek develops, produces and distributes industrial-grade organic PV solar solutions for virtually any building surface (horizontal, vertical, curved, rigid, and flexible). Heliatek stands for energy solutions designed for various traditional and never been possible before applications based onits unique features – it is ultra-light, flexible and truly green. HeliaSol® is a ready-to-use solution, ideal for retrofitting on existing building structures. HeliaFilm® is tailor-made solar film for companies in the building and construction material industry, to integrate into their façade or roof system products. Heliatek currently employs about 160 people at the Dresden and Ulm locations in Germany.The Free State of Saxony, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European Union funded research and development, as well as the installation of the production technology. | $16.5M | Series D | Oct 12, 2017 |  |
| Heliatek | As the technology leader in organic photovoltaics, Heliatek develops, produces and distributes industrial-grade organic PV solar solutions for virtually any building surface (horizontal, vertical, curved, rigid, and flexible). Heliatek stands for energy solutions designed for various traditional and never been possible before applications based onits unique features – it is ultra-light, flexible and truly green. HeliaSol® is a ready-to-use solution, ideal for retrofitting on existing building structures. HeliaFilm® is tailor-made solar film for companies in the building and construction material industry, to integrate into their façade or roof system products. Heliatek currently employs about 160 people at the Dresden and Ulm locations in Germany.The Free State of Saxony, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the European Union funded research and development, as well as the installation of the production technology. | $46.1M | Series D | Sep 21, 2016 |  |
| Certbest | CertBest is a startup of simulated collaborators, a completely different way of studying for vestibular, enem, Technology .... where the generated content (and consumed) occurs by the users themselves, combining the efforts in an environment where each collaborator enhanced by gamification adds content and curation to generate data to fosterdiscussion and learning through that collaboration. The central idea is that the universe of Internet users can provide information more accurate or more didactic than experts, and that the whole is able to self-correct, that is, a large number of people is able to correct each other's mistakes and the results will be on the whole with more quality than the responses of an individual or a small group. |  | Seed | Jan 10, 2015 |  |
| Work 4 Land | Work 4 Land |  | Seed | Jan 10, 2015 |  |
| predict.io | It is hard to engage app users. Timing is everything. Sending a push in the wrong moment gets you uninstalled. Using smartphone sensors to understand user context is difficult. The company gives developers an SDK that provides user context. The SDK is installed within minutes. It only consumes 0.2% battery per hour. It shows higher accuracy thanOS embedded Activity APIs. And it works across platforms iOS, Android, Phonegap.Once activated predict.io constantly reads the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). The data is pre-processed directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized predict.io fires a "callback"​. The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback"​.Once activated we constantly read the sensors (accelerometer, barometer, gyroscope, etc.). We pre-process the data directly on the device. When a pattern is recognized we fire a "callback". The developer can trigger any activity within our outside of his app based on our "callback". | $549K | Seed | Jul 07, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does BASF invest in?

BASF invests primarily in Energy, Electronics and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact BASF?

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### Who are the partners at BASF?

The team at BASF includes Cinthia González (HR Director BASF Spain and Portugal), Dirk Elvermann (President Corporate Finance) and Henrik Fälsch (Data Monetization Manager), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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