# Holger Wagner

> Holger Wagner is a seed investor at EnBW New Ventures (Cologne) backing Security and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EnBW New Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enbw-new-ventures)
- Location: Cologne, Germany
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/howagner/
- Website: https://www.env.vc/

Holger Wagner is a seed investor at EnBW New Ventures in Cologne focused on Security and Software. Holger Wagner - Investment Director @ EnBW New Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Cloud Infrastructure | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| DevOps | 1 | 17% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 4 | 67% |
| Norway | 1 | 17% |
| Belgium | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Validaitor | Validaitor is a pioneer for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI), ensuring quality and compliance in AI-driven products and services. |  | Seed | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| intigriti | intigriti is a crowdsourced security platform where security researchers and companies meet. As an ethical hacking and bug bounty platform we aim to identify and tackle vulnerabilities in a cost efficient way. Our managed platform facilitates online security testing through collaborating with experienced researchers with a strong European focus.Together we can offer an endless stream of creativity that simulates possible threats. | $22.5M | Series B | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Greenbird Integration Technology | Greenbird - a VC backed B2B SaaS - provides Utilihive, the Operating System for the Platformed Digital Utility and Energy Cloud. Utilihive is the Domain specific iPaaS purpose-built for Utilities driving the Digital Transformation and empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial IoT.Greenbird’s Utilihive is in full Productive Operationsfor Utilities serving moire than 65 million Clients in Scandinavia, Germany, UK, Middle East and Far East.Greenbird is recognized as Though Leader with Digital Innovation for the ongoing Energy Revolution.Greenbird is an Enterprise SaaS company offering Utilihive the Smart Utility Hub empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).Utilihive is a Big Data Integration Platform (Domain specific iPaaS) purpose built for Utilities. Utilihive is the “Operating System” for Smart Energy Services and the Energy Cloud. | $5.9M | Series B | Sep 29, 2020 |  |
| gridscale | gridscale is the world’s easiest IaaS solution and depicts the way into the next generation of cloud computing. The highly automated architecture enables gridscale’s B2B and B2C customers to choose between a variety of options with regards to IaaS components (e.g. virtual cloud server, storage, network resources) and complementary PaaScomponents (e.g. loadbalancer, firewall, S3 solutions). gridscale was not only developed for developers by developers, but can also be integrated seamlessly into corporate and system processes. This is especially important in a world in which data complexity and volumes are exponentially rising. Customers can now focus on their core competencies instead of focusing on their cloud infrastructure. | $7.7M | Series A | Mar 13, 2019 |  |
| Replex | Replex is the first governance and cost management platform purpose built for cloud-native and Kubernetes infrastructure. With Replex, IT managers and DevOps teams are able to regain control, transparency, and efficiency across cloud environments with the tools they need to rightsize cluster, pod, and container sizes for optimal utilization,forecast usage, identify trends, manage chargebacks, and plan capacity.Accurately allocate costs to teams, applications, business units and more. Ensure consistent IT governance control by defining and enforcing custom policies incorporating internal conventions and compliance requirements. Dynamically right size your clusters to control costs without compromising reliability or resilience and save up to 30% on cloud costs. | $1.7M | Seed | May 10, 2017 |  |
| ZenMate | ZenMate is a software solution that encrypts its users' internet connection to protect their privacy while browsing. It was launched by ZenGuard in 2013. | $3.2M | Series A | Oct 01, 2014 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ETF Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/etf-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bitdefender](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitdefender) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BLSW Seed and Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blsw-seed-and-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Endeit Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/endeit-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enjoyventure Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enjoyventure-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EnBW New Ventures

VC Fund · Karlsruhe, Germany

ENV supports entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of the corporate investor EnBW. The startups that we invest in engage and scale with EnBW in its transformation towards becoming a sustainable and digital infrastructureoperator.

5 contacts available at EnBW New Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Holger Wagner | Investment Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/holger-wagner |
| Jennifer Diedrichs | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-diedrichs |
| Theo Schulte | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theo-schulte |
| Theo Schulte | Investment Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theo-schulte-f471 |
| Crispin Leick | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crispin-leick |

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## FAQ

### What does Holger Wagner invest in?

Holger Wagner invests primarily in Security, Software and Cloud Infrastructure startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Holger Wagner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Holger Wagner closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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