# Freigeist Capital

> Freigeist Capital is a VC fund in Bonn backing Software and Food and Beverage. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 59%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/freigeistcap/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/freigeist
- Website: https://freigeist.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreigeistCap/

Freigeist Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in early-stage venture investments. It was founded by Marc Sieberger, Frank Thelen, and Alex Koch.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Freigeist Capital. Shizune tracks 3 team members at Freigeist Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/e42-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$3.6M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 24% |
| Food and Beverage | 8 | 20% |
| SaaS | 6 | 15% |
| Apps | 5 | 12% |
| Transportation | 4 | 10% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 28 | 68% |
| Series A | 7 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 2% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 23 | 56% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 5% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Koch | Founder & CTO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-koch |
| Frank Thelen | Founder & CEO | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-thelen |
| Marc Sieberger | Founder & COO | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-sieberger |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BioThrust | BioThrust develops customized gassing solutions for bioreactors. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Collie | Collie is a technology tool that helps monitor health indicators, optimize pasture growth, and assist herd movement. | $3.6M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Akina | Akina focuses on developing software that combines evidence-based therapy using virtual coaching and the world's favorite entertainment. Akina was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| United Manufacturing Hub | UMH is the Open-Source IIoT company. We create the place to be for Industrial IoT engineers by empowering them to scale their industrial IoT infrastructure. We do this by providing our management SaaS, our Open-Source IaaC and our active and fast growing community. |  | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| BioThrust | BioThrust develops customized gassing solutions for bioreactors. |  | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| EnduroSat | EnduroSat designs and engineers spacecraft for business applications and space exploration missions. The company focuses on swarm/constellation satellite applications. EnduroSat builds customized satellites and providing complete support service for full-cycle missions. | $10M | Series A | May 10, 2023 |  |
| PROSION | PROSION Therapeutics is a drug development company with a proprietary platform to adress unmet medical needs (e.g. cancer, diabetes) by unlocking undruggables |  | Seed | May 01, 2022 |  |
| Leko Labs | Leko is a tech-company committed to reinvent the construction process for next generation buildings | $21M | Series A | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| Smartlane | Smartlane is the leading provider of an AI-based SaaS solution for digitizing, automating and optimizing transportation planning. Developed on the basis of years of research, Smartlane Transport Intelligence is a self-learning technology for future-oriented fully autonomous transport planning. General cargo forwarders in particular cansignificantly optimize the management and planning of their transport processes as well as the delivery and collection of goods in local traffic with the help of Smartlane Transport intelligence. Operational costs can be reduced by up to 20%, dispatching efforts by up to 90%, and CO² emissions by up to 21%. Smartlane Transport Intelligence helps transport service providers such as Cargoline and Metro to be prepared for the future. | $5.1M | Series A | Jan 11, 2022 |  |
| Build.One | AKIOMA Software develops solutions for the distribution of complex products that require explanation in order to simplify and accelerate processes. Focal points are the creation of extensive and high-quality offers, product management and the programming-free development of web-based product configurators. All AKIOMA products are available inthe cloud, as hybrid cloud or private cloud as well as on premise. |  | Seed | Oct 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Visionaries Club](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/visionaries-club) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Freigeist Capital invest in?

Freigeist Capital invests primarily in Software, Food and Beverage and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Freigeist Capital's check size?

Freigeist Capital typically joins rounds of $549k–$3.6M at Seed and $4.2M–$21M 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 Freigeist Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Freigeist Capital?

Public channels for Freigeist Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Freigeist Capital?

The team at Freigeist Capital includes Alex Koch (Founder & CTO), Frank Thelen (Founder & CEO) and Marc Sieberger (Founder & COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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