# Bastian Nominacher

> Bastian Nominacher is a seed investor at Celonis backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Celonis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celonis)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bastian-nominacher-82ba94b8/

Bastian Nominacher is a seed investor at Celonis in Munich focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Co-Founder and Co-CEO Responsible for EMEA & APAC, global operations, finance, HR and the overall direction for Celonis.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$8.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.4M–$2.7M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 54% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 46% |
| SaaS | 5 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 38% |
| B2B | 2 | 15% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 4 | 31% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 23% |
| Series B | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 9 | 69% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| Denmark | 1 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Linexa | Linexa develops cloud-based SaaS for decoding complex shop floor automation—parsing PLC, HMI, SCADA, and MES systems into a unified, searchable model. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 22, 2026 |  |
| Qontext | Qontext is an AI platform that acts as a unified context layer for businesses. It ingests data from tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Google Drive, automatically structuring it into dynamic "Context Vaults"—living knowledge graphs that capture entity relationships and stay updated without manual effort. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Mercura | Mercura streamlines sales quotations for HVAC, electrical, and plumbing distributors, saving time and increasing revenue. | $2.1M | Seed | Dec 29, 2025 |  |
| Datagon AI | Datagon AI is an AI platform that provides software for quality management. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2024 |  |
| Orbem | Orbem is shedding light on the world's toughest challenges by unleashing AI-powered imaging for everything and everyone. This means developing fast, accurate, and accessible imaging solutions that provide access to otherwise unattainable sources of knowledge.Orbem is developing deep tech solutions to sustainably feed the world, improve humanhealth, and maximize human potential.Based on years of scientific research at the interface of AI and imaging technology, Orbem was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich. | $31.9M | Series A | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| DataGuard | DataGuard, the European leader in security and compliance software, is trusted by more than 4,000 organizations across 50+ countries. Its all-in-one platform helps businesses manage security risks, fast-track certifications, and comply effortlessly with industry frameworks including ISO 27001, TISAX®, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, and the European AI Act. Bycombining AI and automated workflows with tailored expert consultancy, DataGuard reduces the time and costs of building robust Information Security and Compliance Management Systems (ISMS & CMS). Founded in 2018, DataGuard has offices in Munich, Berlin, London, Stockholm, and Vienna, a team of 250+ experts, and a growing network of partners. | $60M | Series B | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Vertice | Vertice is a tech-enabled SaaS purchasing solution that helps businesses save on their annual software expenditure. The company enables organizations across various sizes and industries to enhance their oversight and management of software and cloud expenses. Through the use of automation and machine learning, the company ensures definite costsavings for its clients. | $26M | Series A | May 19, 2022 |  |
| Keelvar | With a modern user-friendly design, Keelvar’s sourcing optimization and autonomous sourcing offers easy adoption and enhanced productivity, while supporting large scale deployments for the world's largest enterprises. The products are powered by unique artificial intelligence, designed by our category experts to deliver significant savings andoperational improvements for leading global enterprises. Not limited by size, scale, or complexity – Keelvar powers some of the most demanding global, sourcing teams including Siemens, Microsoft, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and Novartis. | $24M | Series B | May 16, 2022 |  |
| Fullview | Fullview is a B2B platform that builds and sells products to companies to scale the customer support. Fullview enables companies to monitor users' screens instantly, guide them with multiplayer screen control and in-app video calls for faster live support and much more. | $6.5M | Seed | May 10, 2022 |  |
| Pelico | Pelico's Manufacturing Orchestration Platform solves the biggest challenge facing global manufacturers: fragmentation. Disconnected data, siloed teams, and outdated tools are causing delays, increasing costs, and eroding customer trust. Pelico seamlessly connects your supply chain data, maps dependencies and reveals the blockers that matter.Our AI-powered operations anticipate disruptions, simulate responses, and recommend the best course of action — allowing your teams to coordinate before problems escalate. Precision insights provide executives with answers to critical questions needed to deliver to plan and optimize revenue. Pelico empowers operations teams to resolve issues in real time and keep production moving. | $32.4M | Series A | Apr 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [83North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock-partners-israel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [La Famiglia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/la-famiglia) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Serena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/serena-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cherry Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cherry-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Celonis

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments and applications, the Celonis Studio as well as platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manageevery facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions, and automation.

5 contacts available at Celonis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anthony Deighton | Special Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-deighton |
| Alexander Rinke | Co-Founder and Co-CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-rinke |
| Andreas Plieninger | Associate Principal Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-plieninger |
| Bastian Nominacher | Co-CEO / Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bastian-nominacher |
| Benoit Fouilland | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benoit-fouilland |

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## FAQ

### What does Bastian Nominacher invest in?

Bastian Nominacher invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Bastian Nominacher's check size?

Bastian Nominacher typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$8.3M at Seed, $2.4M–$2.7M at Pre-Seed and $2.2M–$32M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bastian Nominacher participates in.

### When did Bastian Nominacher last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Bastian Nominacher closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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