# Chris Hitchen

> Chris Hitchen is a seed investor at Holidu (Munich) backing Software and SaaS. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Holidu](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holidu)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hitchen
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/hit_ch
- Website: https://x.com/hit_ch

Chris Hitchen is a seed investor at Holidu in Munich focused on Software and SaaS. Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$6M |
| Pre-Seed | $584k–$3.5M |
| Series A | $3.1M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 29% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |
| Apps | 4 | 10% |
| Internet | 4 | 10% |

89 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 24% |
| Series A | 9 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 15 | 36% |
| Australia | 6 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 10% |
| United States | 3 | 7% |
| France | 2 | 5% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hippos Exoskeleton | Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries. | $642K | Pre-Seed | Nov 19, 2024 |  |
| tozero | Tozero builds a lithium-ion battery recycling machine to recover critical materials, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite. The company aims to accelerate decarbonization efforts through innovative recycling technologies. | $11.7M | Seed | Nov 12, 2024 |  |
| Upstock | Manage wholesale orders with a simple app. | $2.1M | Seed | Feb 07, 2024 |  |
| Eden Brew | Eden Brew is a food and beverage company providing a range of animal-free and precision-fermented milk and dairy products. | $15.4M | Series A | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Number 8 bio | Number 8 bio objective is to decarbonize agriculture while feeding the world's rising population. This can be accomplished by harnessing the power of trillions of carbon-hungry bacteria that feed on harmful greenhouse gases and turn them into profitable animal feeds. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Cakewalk | Cakewalk is the easiest Identity & Access Management. Cakewalk exists to enable fast-moving companies to regain control over the software they use. Made for IT & Security teams. And the actual users of software: your employees. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Sizable energy | Sizable Energy addresses the critical need for secure, affordable, and sustainable energy storage. Sizable Energy patented technology and straightforward design extends pumped hydro deployment to any offshore location with a depth of at least a few hundred meters. By leveraging a novel, modular, and easily deployable method, we utilize thegravitational potential of a solution 20% heavier than seawater, like saturated sea salt brine, within seawater. |  | Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| tozero | Tozero builds a lithium-ion battery recycling machine to recover critical materials, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite. The company aims to accelerate decarbonization efforts through innovative recycling technologies. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| Buildxact | Buildxact is an online estimating and job management software platform for builders and trades. | $13.1M | Series A | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Molecule.one | Molecule One is an information technology based bio company. Their m1 platform spans the preclinical pipeline to maximize chemistry. Molecule One integrates artificial intelligence into a suite of tools to assist bench chemists, data scientists, and computational chemists. | $4.6M | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Possible Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/possible-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Senovo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/senovo) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Venture Stars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-stars) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [HOWZAT Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howzat-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Holidu

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.

5 contacts available at Holidu.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Hitchen | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-hitchen |
| Alexander Stimpfle | Head of Finance | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-stimpfle |
| Johannes Siebers | CEO and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johannes-siebers |
| Kai Grolik | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kai-grolik |
| Michael Siebers | CTO and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-siebers |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Hitchen invest in?

Chris Hitchen invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Hitchen's check size?

Chris Hitchen typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$6M at Seed, $584k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $3.1M–$15M 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 Chris Hitchen participates in.

### When did Chris Hitchen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Hitchen closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 42 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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