eCapital
VC Fund
Aventura, United States
eCapital is a VC fund in Aventura focused on Food Processing and Machine Learning. eCapital is committed to supporting small and middle-market companies by accelerating their access to capital. They have been building our resources in the alternative lending category to ensure that they can achieve this overall vision. They are the way through a combination of aggressive organic growth, strategically aligned acquisitions, and theapplication of technology and innovation to optimize the overall customer experience.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries eCapital invests in
Stages eCapital invests in
Countries eCapital invests in
Contacts
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Charles Sheppard
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Darren Cottenden
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David Gladu
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Hussein Yahfoufi
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Marius Silvasan
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Food Processing 2 (22%)
- Machine Learning 2 (22%)
- Food and Beverage 2 (22%)
- Information Technology 2 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (22%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
- Post-IPO Debt 1 (11%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (11%)
Country
- Germany 5 (56%)
- Canada 1 (11%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Charles Sheppard
Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Darren Cottenden
Director
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Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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David Gladu
President, Head of Factoring Group, North America
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President, Head of Factoring Group, North America | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Hussein Yahfoufi
CIO & Head of Strategic Initiatives
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CIO & Head of Strategic Initiatives | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Marius Silvasan
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Cizzle Brands
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Cizzle Brands is a consumer products company that develops better-for-you nutrition and hydration products, including its flagship CWENCH Hydration sports drink and Spoken Nutrition nutraceutical line. The company formulates with athletes, trainers, and performance experts, distributes through retail and digital channels, secures certifiedclean-sport credentials, and supports its operations via working capital financing. | $6.2M / Post-IPO Debt / May 06, 2026 | |
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Cizzle Brands
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Cizzle Brands is a consumer products company that develops better-for-you nutrition and hydration products, including its flagship CWENCH Hydration sports drink and Spoken Nutrition nutraceutical line. The company formulates with athletes, trainers, and performance experts, distributes through retail and digital channels, secures certifiedclean-sport credentials, and supports its operations via working capital financing. | $3.6M / Post-IPO Debt / Aug 20, 2025 | |
Apheris
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apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights. | $20.8M / Series A / Jan 02, 2025 | |
1Komma5°
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1KOMMA5° is a global decarbonisation energy company focusing on intelligent energy solutions and promoting a CO2-neutral lifestyle. They are a ClimateTech startup focused on CO2-neutral energy, heating, and mobility. The company functions at approximately 80 sites across 7 global markets, providing a comprehensive range of smart, integrated energysolutions including photovoltaics, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations. | $156.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 20, 2024 | |
Brighter AI
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At brighter AI, we are on the mission to protect every identity in public. Our leading anonymization solutions for video data are based on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. We were named “Europe’s Hottest AI Startup” by Nvidia and won "The Spark - The German Digital Award" by Handelsblatt & McKinsey. Established in 2017 withinthe automotive industry, we are today serving companies in various sectors and are supported by outstanding investors. | Series A / Jun 30, 2022 | |
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1Komma5°
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1KOMMA5° is a global decarbonisation energy company focusing on intelligent energy solutions and promoting a CO2-neutral lifestyle. They are a ClimateTech startup focused on CO2-neutral energy, heating, and mobility. The company functions at approximately 80 sites across 7 global markets, providing a comprehensive range of smart, integrated energysolutions including photovoltaics, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations. | $219.4M / Apr 11, 2022 | |
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1Komma5°
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1KOMMA5° is a global decarbonisation energy company focusing on intelligent energy solutions and promoting a CO2-neutral lifestyle. They are a ClimateTech startup focused on CO2-neutral energy, heating, and mobility. The company functions at approximately 80 sites across 7 global markets, providing a comprehensive range of smart, integrated energysolutions including photovoltaics, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations. | $217.5M / Series A / Apr 11, 2022 | |
Ferroelectric Memory Company
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FMC is the provider of extremely efficient FeFET memory solutions for non-volatile storage. FeFET is ultra-low-power, high-performance, very dense, and extremely temperature stable. It will scale to transistor sizes ranging from 28nm to 5nm and below. The FMC team has been supported by “EXIST Forschungstransfer”, a program of the Federal Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Energy. The company is based in Dresden, Germany.FMC commercializes a disruptive material innovation that will solve this problem for current and future technology nodes, i.e. eNVM based on ferroelectric hafnium oxide (FE-HfO2). The unexpected physical effect of ferroelectricity in HfO2 allows for the transformation of classical high-k metal-gate (HKMG) transistors into nonvolatile ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFET). In this way, MCUs can easily be scaled from e.g. 65 nm down to 28 nm and beyond enabling tremendous advantages for the overall system: SoC cost reduction of around 80%, per bit write energy reduction by a factor of 1000 and an overall performance gain of the system of around 70% due to the transition to advanced process nodes. Due to the close relation of FeFET and CMOS baseline, there is no roadblock for FMC’s technology to be applied to cutting-edge technology nodes like 22 nm FDSOI, 1X nm FinFET and beyond. | $20M / Series B / Nov 17, 2020 | |
Prolupin
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Prolupin GmbH is a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising. The world-leading expertise on the fractionation of lupines and the application of this in food technology gives the business a strong position in the vegetable protein market. This position is secured by several Fraunhofer patents.The company's business activities focus on developing, producing and marketing vegetable-based, lactose-free milk substitutes from the blue sweet lupine (Lupinus angustifolius). This domestic legume is particularly rich in proteins, undemanding with regard to soil and climate and grows predominantly in Northern Germany (soybean of the north), Poland, Scandinavia, North America and Australia. With the processing technologies developed at Fraunhofer IVV, it is possible to adapt the lupine protein flavor profile in such a way as to achieve a milk-like taste. | May 08, 2018 |
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What does eCapital invest in?
eCapital invests primarily in Food Processing, Machine Learning and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round 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.
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The team at eCapital includes Charles Sheppard (Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer), Darren Cottenden (Director) and David Gladu (President, Head of Factoring Group, North America), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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