# Innovationsstarter Fonds

> Innovationsstarter Fonds is a VC fund backing Software, Biotechnology and Sustainability. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Innovationsstarter Fonds is a VC fund focused on Software and Biotechnology. Innovationsstarter Fonds supports Hamburg's young innovative enterprises in their research and development efforts.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 27% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 18% |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 64% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holy Technologies | Holy Technologies’ ambition is to make composite manufacturing autonomous. From prototyping to serial production, the company helps manufacturers build radically better lightweight components, fast and at scale.Lightweight components are essential to reduce fuel use, boost range, and improve efficiency across industries. Yet the materials thatmake this possible, composites, remain slow and costly to produce, often relying on manual labor. Holy Technologies solves this with an end-to-end, software-driven workflow. Powered by AI and robotics, it covers design, production, and recycling while providing a competitive alternative to overseas production and enabling sovereign, reliable manufacturing in Europe.Since 2022, Holy Technologies has built a fully operational pilot line, secured offtake agreements for thousands of components, and partnered with leading OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in automotive, motorsports, industrial tools, and orthopedics. Its technology addresses around 80% of parts in the 105 billion USD composite market and accelerates the wider adoption of composites across industries. | $5M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| ai-omatic solutions | ai-omatic is a deep-tech startup that offers a cloud-based software solution in the field of predictive maintenance that evaluates and visualizes sensor data from machines. ai-omatic's product is a digital maintenance assistant that detects unfavorable machine behavior before it becomes a problem. As a result, unplanned machine downtime can beavoided, maintenance effort can be reduced and plant availability can be increased. Due to the high scalability of the algorithm, the solution can be used for a wide range of use cases and industries. | $2.2M | Seed | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| COLIPI | For climate protection, we valorize CO2 to oils, through a unique proprietary biotechnological approach.With industry's lowest CO2 footprint, our decarbonized oils enable corporates reaching Net Zero Goals (GHG scope 3).The currently developed biotechnological platform is robust. As carbon source it uses industrial off gas directlycontaining O2, CO2 & others or organic industrial side streams. Our oils are chemically equivalent to vegetable oils. They consist of triglyceride with the bulk of fatty acids being palmitic acid (C16:0), stearic acid (C18:0), oleic acid (C18:1), & linoleic acid (C18:2) whereat the profile is modifiable. | $2M | Seed | Jan 04, 2024 |  |
| Bluu Seafood | Bluu Seafood they provide services for food products in seafood made from fish cells, healthier, and more sustainably | $17.5M | Series A | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Flexvelop | Flexvelop is a fintech transforming the way businesses finance essential business equipment. "Flexing" is an innovative combination of leasing, renting and bank-financing terms offering a kind of Hardware-as-a-Service solution. Embedded as a payment solution, partnered manufacturers, vendors and brands are actively offering"Flexing" to their b2b customers for financing new business equipment right at the point of sale and in online shops. Flexvelop is operating in the verticals of office-it, hospitality equipment, medical devices or fitness equipment throughout Germany. Well-known manufacturers like Lenovo, WMF, or LaMarzocco are using Flexing openly or as a white-label solution. SMB customers flex equipment to grow flexibly without the usual investment risk – saving liquidity, tax and a clean balance sheet. Flexvelop is using its patented in-house financing technology, promoting a more sustainable circular economy in the same time. Flexing becomes the new standard for business equipment procurement for SMBs throughout Germany, Europe and beyond. | $3.2M | Seed | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Resourcify | Resourcify is on a mission to enable a zero-waste future!!! Through the digitisation of daily operations, our recycling platform enables all businesses to manage, track, and improve their recycling while having less administration, and saving up to 40% of the costs compared to conventional waste management.Resourcify is trusted by thousands ofthe most leading companies & organisations around the globe including : Cargill, McDonalds, Hornbach, Johnson & Johnson, Edeka, Frankfurt Airport, UK Bonn, and more! Our award-winning recycling platform improves the approach to sustainability as a best practice and enhances the recycling processes to reduce waste. | $5.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 22, 2022 |  |
| SideCaps | SideCaps involves bundling the liquidity and content of small caps on a block trading platform for private and institutional investors | $2.1M | Seed | Aug 19, 2021 |  |
| Adtriba | Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimizationsuggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| Lignopure GmbH | In Lignopure we produce natural degradable biopolymers from non-food sources. Our Lignopure product is the best-of-its-kind lignin, with proven non cytotoxicity and added functionality. No other lignin in the market can offer the safety of Lignopure and the tailored properties achieved through our protected technology. From the raw materialproduction, we are able to deliver tailored lignin for different applications; these include particles for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food supplements. Additionally, our biobased prototypes include insulating materials, biobased polyurethane foams, aerogels and filaments for 3D printing. | $2.7M | Seed | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Comydo | Comydo is extremely flexible on the part of the logistics service providers as well as on the delivery systems. Shipments of all major delivery services can be received without the need for a separate note when ordering. Online shopping remains relaxed even if you do not know who is going to do the shopping afterwards. Many delivery systems areaimed at tenants in multi-family houses. They can be easily installed on the front door and allow the safe deposit of packages. Unfortunately, the courier has been locked out and stood in front of the locked front door. With Comydo this does not happen anymore. We turn parcels into keys. |  | Seed | May 24, 2019 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [4Tree Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4tree-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ananda Impact Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ananda-ventures-gmbh-social-venture-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anyon Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anyon-holding-gmbh) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aschendorff NEXT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aschendorff-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Dr.Oetker](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-oetker) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Innovationsstarter Fonds invest in?

Innovationsstarter Fonds invests primarily in Software, Biotechnology and Sustainability startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown 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.

### When did Innovationsstarter Fonds last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Innovationsstarter Fonds closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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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