# Björn Heinz

> Björn Heinz is a seed investor at Chemovator (San Francisco) backing Fuel and GreenTech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chemovator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chemovator)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2024
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bj%C3%B6rn-heinz-a755273b/

Björn Heinz is a deputy managing director at Chemovator, a BASF's intrapreneurship and business incubation program, and an advisor at SeaAhead. He was previously a board observer at Provivi and board member at P2 Science, Inc. Prior to that, Björn worked at BASF Venture Capital. He started his career at BASF 2009 in formulation research wherehe led projects on tertiary oil recovery. Later he worked on the development and build-up of a production plant for solar cell metallization products.Björn studied chemistry and received his Ph.D. in physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fuel | 1 | 100% |
| GreenTech | 1 | 100% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dynelectro | Dynelectro is a green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels. |  | Seed | Mar 08, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Chemovator

VC Fund · Mannheim, Germany

Chemovator is an incubator of chemistry businesses. It is the business incubator of BASF.

2 contacts available at Chemovator.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Björn Heinz | Deputy Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-heinz |
| Gati Kalim | Head of Venture Portfolio Management | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gati-kalim |

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## FAQ

### What does Björn Heinz invest in?

Björn Heinz invests primarily in Fuel, GreenTech and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Denmark. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Björn Heinz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Björn Heinz closed in Mar 2024. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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