# GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit

> GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit is a VC fund backing Health Care. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gizgmbh/mycompany/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/giz_gmbh
- Website: https://www.giz.de/en/html/index.html
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gizprofile

GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit is a VC fund in Bonn focused on Health Care and Financial Services. GIZ offers customised solutions to complex challenges. They are an experienced service provider and assist the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation. We offer demand-driven, tailor-made and effective services for sustainable development.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Grant | $5.1k–$182k |
| Pre-Seed | $25k–$350k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 23% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 23% |
| Solar | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 15% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 7 | 54% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Iraq | 2 | 15% |
| Egypt | 2 | 15% |
| Benin | 1 | 8% |
| Ghana | 1 | 8% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sarina Maier | Office-Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sarina-maier |
| Alexandr Iscenco | Trainer and facilitator on the topic of Integrating Ecosystem Services into Development Planning | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-iscenco |
| Andreas Proksch | Director General | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-proksch |
| Björn-Sören Gigler | Head of Data Economy and Blockchain programs | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bj%C3%B6rn-s%C3%B6ren-gigler |
| Marzban Cooper | Senior Advisor, Private Sector & Startup Ecosystem Development (PROMET) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marzban-cooper |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Trenderz | Trenderz is an AI-powered booking and attribution infrastructure for the hospitality and tourism industry. The platform enables restaurants, hotels, and experience providers to convert creator content into trackable bookings, transforming social influence into measurable revenue. Unlike traditional influencer marketing tools focused on awareness,Trenderz operates on a performance-based model. Venues only pay on confirmed reservations generated through creator-driven booking links. By combining AI-powered creator matching, conversion optimization, booking tracking, and payment automation, Trenderz builds the infrastructure layer for social travel. The company operates across Africa and is expanding into the Middle East (GCC), positioning itself at the intersection of creator economy, travel tech, and performance marketing. | $250K | Pre-Seed | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| AppCyclers | AppCyclers is an innovative e-waste management startup that utilizes web technology, data analysis, and community sensitization programs to ensure the safe disposal and management of e-waste. Our flagship product is a web-based platform that digitizes the e-waste collection process by providing an integrated digital marketplace for sourcing andpurchasing recyclable electronic materials.Our mission is to promote a safer and greener environment in Africa. We aim to achieve this by formalizing the e-waste collection process, providing an integrated digital marketplace for sourcing and purchasing recyclable electronic materials, educating local populations, and collaborating with key stakeholders to drive responsible e-waste management.We are currently in the seed round of fundraising. Please feel free to reach out to us at hello@appcyclers.com | $5.1K | Grant | Jan 10, 2025 |  |
| COMESO GmbH | COMESO exists to make healthcare access in Africa fair, transparent, and reliable. We build digital payment infrastructure that allows families both abroad and within their home countries to directly pay for medical services for their loved ones. Our mission is to ensure that every payment sent for health, whether from across the world or acrosstown, reaches hospitals and clinics in full, improving lives and strengthening local health systems.We combine financial technology with community-based healthcare delivery, COMESO enables the domestication of payments from afar, turning everyday financial support into a trusted channel for health access. Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending, empower underserved families, and create a scalable model for inclusive health financing across emerging markets. | $50K | Grant | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Carble | Carble helps coffee brands reduce their carbon footprint by rewarding coffee farmers for the carbon they store in forest canopies in a measurable, scalable and cost-effective way |  | Grant | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Spark Renewables LLP | A renewable engineering company which is specialized in Engineering, Procurement & Commission (EPC) projects across the Indian sub. The company is mainly a specialist in energy management and engineering over solar, wind, hybrid technologies and has been serving industrial and commercial energy users as well as large energy companies since2020. | $61K | Grant | Nov 05, 2022 |  |
| Deevabits Green Energy | Deevabits Green Energy is a for-profit social enterprise headquartered in Kenya that distributes and finances essential products and services to rural customers through a team of commission-based village social entrepreneurs (VSEs). The VSEs form a robust distribution channel for improving energy access to underserved rural areas. At the same time,we finance customers through the pay-as-you-go model which enables the poorest households to own solar lighting products by paying for them in small installments hence removing the barrier for upfront payment. The company's vision is an Africa where everyone has equitable access to basic goods and services. | $182K | Grant | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Ahiyoyo | Ahiyoyo is an innovative e-commerce platform that enables unbanked Africans to shop locally and internationally using their mobile money accounts, with affordable delivery. | $1K | Non-equity Assistance | Oct 17, 2022 |  |
| IoT KIDS | IoT Kids is a leading Iraqi project to teach kids coding, robotics, AI and electronics. The goals are guiding the kids to use the modern technology in the right way, reducing its negative effects and gaining new skills like logical thinking and innovation. | $20K | Grant | Mar 02, 2022 |  |
| Orisdi | Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience. |  | Grant | Oct 12, 2021 |  |
| Forested | Agroforestry Enterprise |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit invest in?

GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit invests primarily in Health Care, Financial Services and Solar startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Iraq. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit's check size?

GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit typically joins rounds of $5.1k–$182k at Grant and $25k–$350k 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 GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit participates in.

### How do I contact GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit?

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### Who are the partners at GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit?

The team at GIZ - Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit includes Sarina Maier (Office-Manager), Alexandr Iscenco (Trainer and facilitator on the topic of Integrating Ecosystem Services into Development Planning) and Andreas Proksch (Director General), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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