# Haniel

> Haniel is a VC fund in Duisburg backing Software and Machine Learning. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Duisburg, Germany
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/franz-haniel-&-cie--gmbh/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/haniel_news
- Website: http://www.haniel.de
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haniel.fhc

Haniel is a VC fund in Duisburg focused on Software and Machine Learning. Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH is a German family equity company based in Duisburg-Ruhrort since its foundation in 1756. From there, the holding company, which is 100 percent family-owned, creates a diversified portfolio. It pursues a unique investment strategy as a value developer that combines a consistent alignment with sustainability criteriawith a clear performance orientation.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5.9M–$218M |
| Series B | $23M–$273M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 20% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 20% |
| Apps | 1 | 10% |
| AgTech | 1 | 10% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 40% |
| Series B | 3 | 30% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 10% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hendrikus Derksen | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hendrikus-p-c-derksen |
| Florian Funck | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florian-funck |
| Jan Willem Noot | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-willem-noot |
| Marion Oswald | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marion-oswald |
| Thomas Schmidt | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-schmidt-904c |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sdui | Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market. | $22.9M | Series B | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| ecoworks | Ecoworks specializes in climate-neutral renovations and modernizations for apartment buildings. The company uses industrial pre-fabrication, digital processes, and highly efficient energy systems to modernize multi-family houses with up to four floors within a few weeks. | $44.7M | Series A | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| 1Komma5° | 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. | $272.9M | Series B | Jun 23, 2023 |  |
| Sdui | Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market. | $19.8M | Series A | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Aerones | We are building heavy lifting drones which can lift up to 200kg (440lbp). We have version which is flying on batteries for rescue and delivery purposes and tethered solution for industrial cleaning and firefighting. | $31.9M | Series A | Dec 27, 2022 |  |
| 1Komma5° | 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 |  |
| Happybrush | Happybrush reinvented the toothbrush and successfully placed it in competition to the incumbents. The powerful sonic technology paired with a high-performance battery revolutionises the way customers brush their teeth. | $4.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Sdui | Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market. | $5.9M | Series A | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Infarm | Infarm builds and distributes efficient vertical farms throughout cities. Infarm combines efficient vertical farms with IoT technologies and Machine Learning, to offer an alternative food system that is resilient, transparent, and affordable. The company distributes its smart modular farms throughout the urban environment to grow fresh produce forthe city’s inhabitants. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | $170M | Series C | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| Wandelbots | Wandelbots is a robotic software company based in Dresden, Germany. With its no-code solution Wandelbots Teaching and the unified Wandelbots Developer Platform, the company enables the programming free and uniform operation of robots. Through Wandelbots Teaching, working with different types of robots from a large scale of brands becomeseffortless, and everyone can teach robots after a brief training. In this way, Wandelbots provides that robot programming is no longer the preserve of experts and carries out the automation process up to 20 times faster and ten times more cost effectively. This advanced technology has been implemented in robots from Universal Robots and Yaskawa and in the manufacturing operations of, among others, VW, Bayer, and Fraunhofer. The fast-growing company continues building new partnerships with OT system integrators in Germany, Europe, and the USA.Among others, the German Start-up Award and the Sachsen Gründerpreis have been awarded to Wandelbots, which has grown from a start-up to an internationally recognized company with over 170 employees in a brief time. Since its foundation in 2017, the company has raised a total of $123 million in funding from investors such as Insight Partners, Microsoft, and Next47 for further investments in products and platforms. Moreover, the company keeps expanding into new markets. | $30M | Series B | Jun 16, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Haniel invest in?

Haniel invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Haniel's check size?

Haniel typically joins rounds of $5.9M–$218M at Series A and $23M–$273M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Haniel participates in.

### How do I contact Haniel?

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### Who are the partners at Haniel?

The team at Haniel includes Hendrikus Derksen (Chief Financial Officer), Florian Funck (Chief Financial Officer) and Jan Willem Noot (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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