# Federal Government of Germany

> Federal Government of Germany is a VC fund backing Energy and Electronics. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/presse--und-informationsamt-der-bundesregierung
- Website: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bundesregierung/

Federal Government of Germany is a VC fund in Berlin focused on Energy and Electronics. Germany is a democratic, federal parliamentary republic, where federal legislative power is vested in the Bundestag (the parliament of Germany) and the Bundesrat (the representative body of the Länder, Germany's regional states).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $963k–$318M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 2 | 18% |
| Electronics | 2 | 18% |
| B2C | 1 | 9% |
| Water | 1 | 9% |
| Sensor | 1 | 9% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 9 | 82% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Post-IPO Equity | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 45% |
| United States | 2 | 18% |
| Austria | 1 | 9% |
| Namibia | 1 | 9% |
| Philippines | 1 | 9% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alice Steinbrück | Bundeskanzleramt G7/G20 Sherpa-Stab; Senior Expert, Labour Market Policy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alice-steinbruck |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Asian Development Bank | Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution that provides developing nations with loans, advice, policy dialogue, technical assistance, and equity investments, and grants for a broad range of development activities. It partners with member governments, independent specialists, and other financial institutions todeliver projects that create economic and development impact. In addition, its triple-A credit rating helps clients mobilize funds for development. It raises funds through bond issues on the world’s capital markets.The institution is focused on making improvements on areas such as agriculture and food security; education; energy; environment, climate change, and disaster risk management; finance sector development; gender and development; governance and public management; health; information and communications technology; regional cooperation and integration; social development and poverty; transport; urban development; and water.ADB is also a knowledge institution that spreads information through regional fora; a growing online presence; social media channels; and the publication of specialized papers, periodicals, and books.Asian Development Bank is headquartered in Manila, Philippines with 29 resident missions across the Asia and Pacific region, and 3 representative offices in Washington, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. | $6.5M | Grant | May 06, 2026 | https://www.adb.org/ |
| MicroHarvest | MicroHarvest is an early-stage startup in Hamburg, Germany. The company is on a mission to produce better, healthier and tastier protein, produced sustainably using the power of microorganisms. Its proprietary and scalable technology allows producing nutritional biomass from fast-growing bacteria, with potential applications across the wholeprotein value chain. With that, MicroHarvest contributes to a world where everyone has access to nutritious food through a fair and resilient food system. | $6.5M | Grant | Feb 12, 2026 | https://microharvest.com |
| BP p.l.c. | BP p.l.c. is an integrated oil and gas company. The Company owns an interest in OJSC Oil Company Rosneft (Rosneft), an oil and gas company. The Company's segments include Upstream, Downstream, Rosneft, and Other businesses and corporate. They deliver heat, light and mobility products and services to people all around the world in ways thatwill help to drive the transition to a lower carbon future. |  | Grant | Jul 16, 2024 | https://www.bp.com |
| Black Semiconductor | Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology. | $247.3M | Grant | Jun 12, 2024 | https://blacksemiconductor.de/ |
| ams OSRAM Group | ams OSRAM, they create a global leader in optical solutions by providing international industrial capacity in sensor and light technologies at the transformative edge. They add intelligence to light and passion to innovation, enriching their lives. They continuously advance their technologies in sensing, illumination, and visualization, whiledrawing on a century of experience and the ability to serve the full value chain – from emitters to sensors and software. | $317.7M | Grant | Sep 25, 2023 | https://x.com/amsOSRAM |
| SunHydrogen | SunHydrogen is the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water. | $3.1M | Grant | Jun 20, 2023 | https://sunhydrogen.com/ |
| delphai | Our market intelligence software allows users to make sense of their company’s strengths and expand their business through intuitive big data analytics. Explore innovation ecosystems, discover emerging technologies, or profile individual companies to scout for new partners. Whether it’s competitive intelligence, investment planning, R&Droadmapping, or business expansion, delphai allows you to generate the insights you need to make the next move. | $962.8K | Grant | Jun 06, 2023 | https://www.delphai.com/ |
| NamPower | NamPower is the national power utility of Namibia and specializes in the generation and transmission of electricity. | $22.6M | Grant | Dec 24, 2021 | https://www.nampower.com.na/ |
| Claims Conference | The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), a nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Tel Aviv and Berlin secures material compensation for Holocaust survivors around the world. Founded in 1951 by representatives of 23 major international Jewish organizations, the Claims Conference negotiates for anddisburses funds to individuals and organizations and seeks the return of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust | $13.5M | Grant | Mar 24, 2021 | http://www.claimscon.org |
| Lufthansa | Deutsche Lufthansa AG is an airline with operations all over the world. It operates its core business of passenger transport through Lufthansa Passage Airlines (incl. Lufthansa Regional), Austrian Airlines, SWISS, and Germanwings and through affiliates Brussels Airlines and SunExpress. Its other business fields are logistics, engineering, cateringand IT services. Deutsche Lufthansa AG has the management and supervisory structures typical for companies in Germany. The Executive Board is responsible for managing the Company and defining its strategic direction. In doing so, the aim is to increase Company value sustainably. The Supervisory Board appoints, advises and supervises the Executive Board. Deutsche Lufthansa AG is the parent company and the largest single operating company in the Lufthansa Group. The individual business segments are run as separate Group companies, with the exception of the Lufthansa Passenger Airlines. They have their own profit and operating responsibility and are monitored by their respective supervisory boards, in which members of Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s Executive Board are also represented. | $9.9B | Post-IPO Equity | May 21, 2020 | https://www.lufthansa.com |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [KfW](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kfw) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Federal Government of Germany invest in?

Federal Government of Germany invests primarily in Energy, Electronics and B2C startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Federal Government of Germany's check size?

Federal Government of Germany typically joins rounds of $963k–$318M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Federal Government of Germany participates in.

### How do I contact Federal Government of Germany?

Public channels for Federal Government of Germany include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. 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 Federal Government of Germany?

The team at Federal Government of Germany includes Alice Steinbrück (Bundeskanzleramt G7/G20 Sherpa-Stab; Senior Expert, Labour Market Policy). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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