# Bauwens Digital

> Bauwens Digital is a VC fund in Cologne backing Hotel and Energy. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauwens/
- Website: https://www.bauwens.de/en/bauwens-digital
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bauwens.gruppe/

Bauwens Digital is a VC fund in Cologne focused on Hotel and Energy. Bauwens Digital invests in cutting-edge business projects in all areas of real estate.The company's investments are targeted toward entrepreneurs and innovative startups whose outstanding ideas and clear market focus have already proven successful in managing project phases. Together with top-notch entrepreneurs and experienced partners, weare looking to tap into and pursue new digital business fields, from the initial growth stage to sustained success.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hotel | 1 | 13% |
| Energy | 1 | 13% |
| Travel | 1 | 13% |
| Tourism | 1 | 13% |
| PropTech | 1 | 13% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Jacobi | Managing Partner | 0 | — |
| Patrick Adenauer | Managing Partner | 1 | — |
| Paul Bauwens-Adenauer | Managing Partner & Founder | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Empact | Empact plan, finance, build, and operate decentralized energy supply systems, consistently relying on the use of renewable energies. | $115.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| aedifion | Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems. | $19.7M | Series B | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| SCALARA | SCALARA supports property managers in their day-to-day business with legally compliant, technically sound and intuitive software that is perfectly tailored to their needs and leaves out everything that is not important. | $3.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 13, 2025 |  |
| Reneo | Reneo is the leading end-to-end asset transformation- and decarbonization platform for residential real estate in Germany. Using proprietary software technology to identify and realize the ecological and economic potential of stranded assets. | $46.9M |  | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| aedifion | Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems. | $13M | Series A | Jan 27, 2023 |  |
| Limehome | Limehome is a hospitality startup that combines the quality standard of a hotel with the coziness and comfort of an apartment. They offer nightly stays for a weekend away as well as discounted monthly rates for longer project stays or business trips (subject to availability). The company digital entry system allows its guests to enter their suiteanytime after 4pm and the guest receive their personal access codes via SMS and e-mail on the arrival day.Limehome automates all conventional processes of hotel business from pricing, booking, check-in, cleaning, customer service to invoicing. It also offers guests a completely digitized journey with large, stylish suites featuring Scandinavian design, which would be extremely expensive in common three- to four-star hotels.Limehome was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Bayern, Germany. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 23, 2021 |  |
| Reneo | Reneo is the leading end-to-end asset transformation- and decarbonization platform for residential real estate in Germany. Using proprietary software technology to identify and realize the ecological and economic potential of stranded assets. | $15.1M | Series A | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| UBIRCH | UBIRCH is a developer of a cyber-sec technology that seals data at the source and makes it verifiable for everyone, using Blockchain-Technology. This is done by implementing a light client that can run on very constrained environments, but is able to handle all cryptography that is needed to create blockchain-style measurments that are signed andchained. The client is also available on a standard SIM-Card. On the cloud backend incoming data is verified against the public key of the sensor and then forwarded to the client IT, which can run inbound verification against the Ubirch API again. |  |  | Apr 25, 2019 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BitStone Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitstone-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [BeyondBuild](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beyondbuild) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- Hopp Family Office — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Bauwens Digital invest in?

Bauwens Digital invests primarily in Hotel, Energy and Travel startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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 Bauwens Digital?

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### Who are the partners at Bauwens Digital?

The team at Bauwens Digital includes Alexander Jacobi (Managing Partner), Patrick Adenauer (Managing Partner) and Paul Bauwens-Adenauer (Managing Partner & Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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