# Daniel Schulte-Hillen

> Daniel Schulte-Hillen is a seed investor at SDAC Ventures (Berlin) backing Blockchain and Sports. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SDAC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bldrs)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielschuhi/
- Website: https://x.com/DanielSchuHi

Daniel Schulte-Hillen is a seed investor at SDAC Ventures in Berlin focused on Blockchain and Sports. Founding GP @SDAC Ventures. Formerly product @N26 and @Taxfix, strategy @HEC, org theory @ZeppelinUni and Ethereum @ETHBerlin.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$3.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 2 | 22% |
| Sports | 1 | 11% |
| Battery | 1 | 11% |
| Medical | 1 | 11% |
| Education | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 44% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 22% |
| Austria | 1 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flinn | Our vision is to make high-quality health products accessible for everyone. We will achieve this by enabling creators of health products to build and operate high-quality products with 10x efficiency. We are putting our initial focus on automating compliance and regulatory tasks for medical device manufacturers. Our product offering includesAI-enabled automation of major parts of the data collection, aggregation, evaluation, and reporting for post-market surveillance activities. | $6.7M | Seed | Sep 30, 2024 |  |
| Cardino | Cardino operates and develops a C2B digital platform for buying and selling secondhand electric vehicles | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Tromero | Tromero powers the next generation of secure, democratic, and decentralized machine learning applications by fusing classical proof-of-work consensus with ML. | $2M | Seed | Jul 18, 2023 |  |
| Knowunity | Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app. | $9.6M | Series A | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Senken | Senken is the world's first on-chain carbon credit exchange based on verified climate projects. Senken is a climate finance portal to the regenerative economy. | $7.5M | Seed | Jan 26, 2023 |  |
| Shuttle | The fastest backend development experience ever. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Flinn | Our vision is to make high-quality health products accessible for everyone. We will achieve this by enabling creators of health products to build and operate high-quality products with 10x efficiency. We are putting our initial focus on automating compliance and regulatory tasks for medical device manufacturers. Our product offering includesAI-enabled automation of major parts of the data collection, aggregation, evaluation, and reporting for post-market surveillance activities. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| FANtium | FANtium is the platform for FANs to support athletes they support, interact with them, and share their real-world achievement. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Oct 11, 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 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Inclimo Climate Tech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inclimo-climate-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SquareOne Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/squarone-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [w3.fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/w3-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Asymmetric Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/asymmetric-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SDAC Ventures

VC Fund



2 contacts available at SDAC Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Schulte-Hillen | Founding GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-schulte-hillen |
| Simon Leicht | Founding GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-leicht |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Schulte-Hillen invest in?

Daniel Schulte-Hillen invests primarily in Blockchain, Sports and Battery startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Daniel Schulte-Hillen's check size?

Daniel Schulte-Hillen typically joins rounds of $2M–$7.5M at Seed and $1.1M–$3.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Daniel Schulte-Hillen participates in.

### When did Daniel Schulte-Hillen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Schulte-Hillen closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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