DZ BANK
VC Fund
Frankfurt, Germany
DZ BANK is a VC fund in Frankfurt focused on Financial Services and Solar. DZ BANK AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Frankfurt am Main, is acting as central bank, corporate bank and parent holding company of the DZ BANK Group.Their objective is to offer relevant products, exemplary services and efficient processes - and thereby develop themselves into a leading financial services group.As a central bank theyserve as the subsidiary partner of about 850 local cooperative banks. They conceive, develop and provide products and services aimed at every relevant customer segment for the primary banks to market, and provide them with liquidity balancing and reliable refinancing management services.As an internationally oriented corporate bank they serve SME customers directly and provide them with the full range of Corporate Finance products to fund both operations and investments. In Investment Banking, they are specialised in Fixed Income and private-customer-focused securities services. They put the exceptional placing power of the integrated cooperative financial services sector to work at the interface between the capital markets and the custody account institutions. Their International division provides a worldwide hub for the primary banks and their customers.As a holding they coordinate the efforts of the cooperative sector's comprehensive range of specialised services in order to achieve synergies and grow market potentials for the benefit of their local cooperative banks. Among others Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, R+V Versicherung, Union Investment, DZ HYP and VR SmartFinanz belong to the DZ BANK Group.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries DZ BANK invests in
Stages DZ BANK invests in
Countries DZ BANK invests in
Contacts
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Cornelius Riese
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Udo Milkau
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Uwe Fröhlich
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2 more contacts available
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 3 (21%)
- Solar 2 (14%)
- Banking 2 (14%)
- Finance 2 (14%)
- Payments 2 (14%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 8 (57%)
- Post-IPO Debt 3 (21%)
- Funding Round 1 (7%)
Country
- Germany 5 (36%)
- United States 2 (14%)
- India 1 (7%)
- Turkey 1 (7%)
- Nigeria 1 (7%)
Team
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Cornelius Riese
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Co-Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Udo Milkau
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Uwe Fröhlich
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Co-Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Hugo Boss
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The HUGO BOSS Group is one of the leading companies in the premium and luxury segment of the apparel market. The Group focuses on the development and marketing of premium fashion and accessories for men and women. Headquartered in Metzingen, the Company generated with almost 12,500 employees net sales of EUR 2.4 billion in fiscal year 2013, makingit one of the most profitable listed apparel manufacturers in the world. The brand world of HUGO BOSS comprises the collections of BOSS, BOSS Orange, BOSS Green and HUGO. The brands cover a comprehensive product range encompassing classic to modern apparel, elegant eveningwear and sportswear, shoes, leather accessories as well as licensed fragrances, eyewear, watches, children’s fashion, home textiles and mobile accessories. HUGO BOSS leverages targeted marketing measures to raise the appeal of its brands. Apart from above-the-line marketing instruments such as print and out-of-home media, the relevant target groups are increasingly reached using digital channels. In light of the expansion of the Group’s own retail business, the importance of point-of-sale marketing is also mounting. Sports sponsorship campaigns focus on premium sports such as Formula 1, golf or sailing that ideally convey brand values such as dynamism, perfection and precision. In its art sponsorship activities, the Group underscores the common ground that art and fashion share with respect to design, aesthetics and creativity. The Company emphasizes these attributes further with high-profile fashion events in the world’s fashion capitals that raise the desirability and acceptance of the Group’s brands among key target groups, while adding emotional appeal to the HUGO BOSS brand world.HUGO BOSS produces a substantial share of its classical clothing range like prototypes, sample pieces, individual orders and especially its “Made to Measure” suits in-house in Metzingen. Further company owned production facilities are located in Turkey (Izmir), Poland (Radom), Italy (Morrovalle), and the USA (Cleveland). These manufacturing plants produce in particular the HUGO BOSS core product, the suits, and womenswear collection pieces as well as a broad spectrum of accessories and bags. By using its own production facilities, the Company can secure crucial know-how, while enabling development activities to be closely geared to subsequent industrial manufacturing.In addition, for selective product groups, HUGO BOSS conducts business with trusted partners worldwide who provide long-lasting expertise of textile processing and modern technologies. These partners not only meet the Company’s high quality standards but comply with internationally recognized labor and social standards. To ensure the compliance of these standards regular audits are conducted by both the Company’s own auditors and external, experienced service partners. In the past HUGO BOSS AG has often been confronted by vague statements regarding its history. Hugo Ferdinand Boss established his workshop in 1924, as a consequence of which his company operated during the Third Reich and the Second World War. During this period the factory employed 140 forced laborers (the majority of them women) and 40 French prisoners of war. When the Group became aware of this fact, it made a contribution to the international fund set up to compensate former forced laborers. Out of respect to everyone involved, the Group has published this new study with the aim of adding clarity and objectivity to the discussion. It also wishes to express its profound regret to those who suffered harm or hardship at the factory run by Hugo Ferdinand Boss under National Socialist rule. | $705M / Post-IPO Debt / Dec 16, 2025 | |
Qivalis
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Qivalis is a financial technology company designed for payments, settlements, and financial services. | Dec 01, 2025 | |
Adani Green Energy
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Adani Green Energy is a renewable energy company that develops, builds, operates, and maintains solar and wind farm projects.AGEL is part of the Adani Group’s promise to provide a better, cleaner, and greener future for India. Driven by the Group’s philosophy of ‘Growth with Goodness’, the Company develops, builds, owns, operates, and maintainsutility-scale grid-connected solar and wind farm projects. The electricity generated is supplied to central and state government entities and government-backed corporations. | $250M / Post-IPO Debt / Oct 06, 2025 | |
Gerald Group
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Gerald Group is a metal trading company that specializes in the sale of nonferrous, ferrous, and precious metals, as well as related concentrates and raw materials.Additionally, Gerald Group provides commodity trading and product development services. It also offers merchant banking services, including project financing, lending, metal leasingand consigning, and marketing strategy and inventory management advisory. Gerald Group caters to the metal producing, refining, smelting, fabrication, and banking sectors. It has a strategic partnership with Pengxin International Mining Company. | $700M / Debt Financing / Sep 18, 2025 | |
Ronesans Holding
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Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services. | $1.3B / Debt Financing / Apr 16, 2025 | |
Siemens
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Siemens is a tech company whose technology empowers customers to transform the industries that form the backbone of economies: industry, transportation, buildings and grids. As a leading technology company it partners with other companies, industries and innovators to combine the real and the digital worlds. | $332.4M / Post-IPO Debt / Sep 04, 2024 | |
KfW
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KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the Länder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation. | $55.4M / Debt Financing / Aug 29, 2024 | |
DekaBank
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DekaBank is the Wertpapierhaus of the German savings banks and, together with its subsidiaries, forms the Deka Group. With total customer assets totalling approximately € 220 billion as at december 2014 and around four million managed securities accounts, the Deka Group ranks among Germany’s major securities service providers. It ensures access toa wide range of investment products and services for retail and institutional investors. DekaBank's roots date back to the year 1918, when Deutsche Girozentrale (DGZ) was founded. Deka as an investment company was founded in 1956; DGZ and Deka joined forces to create DekaBank in 1999. The Bank owes its success to its staff's experience and commitment, and its firm foundations: DekaBank is firmly anchored within the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. Being a part of the world's largest financial combine means they can each do what they do best, with DekaBank creating funds centrally and savings banks serving customers locally. This combine principle is also reinforced by our ownership structure: The savings banks are sole owners of DekaBank. | $5.4M / Debt Financing / Jul 01, 2024 | |
Indorama Fertilizers
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Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe | $1.3B / Debt Financing / Mar 28, 2024 | |
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Gerald Group
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Gerald Group is a metal trading company that specializes in the sale of nonferrous, ferrous, and precious metals, as well as related concentrates and raw materials.Additionally, Gerald Group provides commodity trading and product development services. It also offers merchant banking services, including project financing, lending, metal leasingand consigning, and marketing strategy and inventory management advisory. Gerald Group caters to the metal producing, refining, smelting, fabrication, and banking sectors. It has a strategic partnership with Pengxin International Mining Company. | $185M / Debt Financing / Jan 11, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
Bank of China
3 deals together
DekaBank
3 deals together
Rabobank
3 deals together
Arab Bank (Switzerland)
2 deals together
Banco do Brasil
2 deals together
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
2 deals together
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What does DZ BANK invest in?
DZ BANK invests primarily in Financial Services, Solar and Banking startups, most often at Debt Financing and Post-IPO Debt stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at DZ BANK includes Cornelius Riese (Co-Chief Executive Officer), Udo Milkau (Director) and Uwe Fröhlich (Co-Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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