Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
Landshut, Germany
Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share. The requesting company has to be located in Bavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies. Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.
- Total investments:
- 263
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
- Fund size:
- $29M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Bayern Kapital invests in
Stages Bayern Kapital invests in
Countries Bayern Kapital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$6.3M
- Series A
- $3.9M–$32M
- Series B
- $3.9M–$132M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 54 (21%)
- Health Care 32 (12%)
- SaaS 27 (10%)
- Manufacturing 27 (10%)
- Information Technology 27 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 71 (27%)
- Series A 61 (23%)
- Series B 31 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 22 (8%)
- Funding Round 19 (7%)
Country
- Germany 160 (61%)
- United States 3 (1%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
- Finland 1 (0%)
- Ireland 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bernd Schafberger
Participation Manager
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Participation Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Bernhard Köhler
Senior Investment Manager
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Senior Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Brigitte Linseis
Senior Investment Manager
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Senior Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Doris Eisner
Secretary
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Secretary | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Franz Wocheslander
Senior-Beteiligungsmanager
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Senior-Beteiligungsmanager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 24 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company that builds and operates modern infrastructure protection and alarm management systems. | $6.3M / Seed / Sep 18, 2026 | ||
| HyImpulse develops dedicated sub-orbital and orbital launch services using hybrid propulsion-based launch vehicles. Their SR75 is a single stage sounding rocket using a hybrid rocket engine to deliver institutional and commercial experiments into a micro gravity environment during a suborbital flight. | $57.9M / Series A / Sep 02, 2026 | ||
| QuantumDiamonds (QD) is a novel equipment vendor from Germany which builds magnetic field imaging systems based on quantum sensors for the semiconductor industry. Spun out of the Technical University of Munich in 2022 and headquartered in Munich, QD develops and manufactures non-destructive inspection and metrology systems used to find electricaldefects inside the most advanced chips.QD's technology uses nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, atomic-scale defects in a diamond lattice that act as quantum sensors for magnetic fields. By measuring the magnetic fields generated by current flow, the system reconstructs current pathways inside multi-layer 2.5D and 3D chip architectures and localizes defects with micrometer precision and precise depth resolution. Crucially, the system operates non-destructively and at ambient conditions (no vacuum, no cryogenics), avoiding the slow, destructive layer-by-layer delayering that conventional failure analysis requires.The flagship product, the QDm.1 (Quantum Diamond Microscope), is the world's first integrated quantum sensing tool commercially available for chip testing. It enables open and short detection in advanced semiconductors and advanced packaging at high speed, localizing opens (currently the leading yield-killing electrical failure) as intuitive spots on an image to accelerate root-cause analysis.QD's customers are semiconductor foundries and fabs, IDMs, OSATs, and failure analysis labs. Nine of the world's ten largest chipmakers are engaged with the company, with systems deployed across Europe, the United States, and Asia. QD's product roadmap progresses from InLab defect localization (in production today) to InFab defect metrology (est. 2027) and InLine wafer mapping (est. 2028+), targeting 100% in-line quality control. The company has raised over $100M to date, is backed by World Fund, IQ Capital, Earlybird, Bayern Kapital, and others, and is investing €152M to build the world's first production facility for quantum-based semiconductor inspection in Munich, supported under the European Chips Act. QD employs 50+ people across 18 nationalities, with 30% PhDs and 17 patents.Keywords: Semiconductor Inspection, Failure Analysis, Quantum Sensing, Magnetic Field Imaging, Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers, Advanced Packaging, Non-Destructive Testing, Defect Metrology, Yield Improvement, Chip Manufacturing. | $17.1M / Series A / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| smartbax develop novel multi-targeted, antibacterial compounds with extraordinary potency against multi-drug resistant bacteria and difficult-to-treat biofilms. | Seed / Jun 30, 2026 | ||
| Maple Aviation is a medical logistics startup that specializes in building and operating autonomous drone networks. Their fleet is designed to quickly transport urgent medication, blood vials, and laboratory samples directly between healthcare facilities and hospital windows. By moving critical healthcare supplies through the air, the companybypasses road traffic to significantly speed up diagnostic turnaround times. | $4.6M / Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics. | $33.6M / Series B / May 28, 2026 | ||
| NanoStruct is a biotechnology company that develops nanostructured sensor chips to identify bacteria and pathogens in food. | $3.1M / Seed / May 11, 2026 | ||
| mbiomics is a biotechnology company. | $12M / Series A / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Exergy3 is an energy storage company that increases energy efficiency and reduces carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes. It is a spinout from the University of Edinburgh. | $13.5M / Seed / Apr 21, 2026 | ||
| SPiNE is a startup that provides safe, clean, and inexpensive energy to all end users. It is focused on smart meter rollout and, as a result, digitalization in metering and control of charging infrastructure, heat pumps, and battery storage. | $3.5M / Seed / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| See all 263 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Bayern Kapital invest in?
Bayern Kapital invests primarily in Software, Health Care and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 263 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Bayern Kapital invest in?
Bayern Kapital typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$6.3M at Seed, $3.9M–$32M at Series A and $3.9M–$132M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Bayern Kapital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Bayern Kapital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Bayern Kapital?
The team at Bayern Kapital includes Bernd Schafberger (Participation Manager), Bernhard Köhler (Senior Investment Manager) and Brigitte Linseis (Senior Investment Manager), among 24 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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