# Jan Bohl

> Jan Bohl is a seed investor at Ableton (Berlin) backing TV, Video and Internet. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ableton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ableton)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-bohl-496808
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Jan_Bohl
- Website: https://x.com/Jan_Bohl
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jan.bohl

Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationallyrenowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years.Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TV | 1 | 17% |
| Video | 1 | 17% |
| Internet | 1 | 17% |
| Software | 1 | 17% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Honest & Rare | Honest & Rare enables customers to find and buy regional and rare specialty drinks from small beverage producers of beer, spirits, wine, coffee, and soft drinks. Thousands of local drink producers become visible and are able to market their products and themselves through the platform, while customers get access to the full beverage landscape. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| ai-coustics | ai\|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content. | $2.1M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Hawa Dawa | Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems. Karim Tarraf, Matthew Fullerton, Yvonne Rusche, Jannai Falschberger, and Birgit Fullerton founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany. | $2.4M | Series A | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Labforward | Labforward supports laboratory teams on their quest for groundbreaking discoveries and delivering innovative high-quality products. With digital tools for laboratories, it increases productivity and improves efficiency in laboratories. The company's products include the user-friendly electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) Labfolder and theInternet-of-Things (IoT) platform Laboperator. The digital connectivity of laboratories and innovative data management is a focus topic in industry and research. In a fragmented landscape of high-tech equipment and specialized software, Labforward links data silos and helps to eliminate costly and error-prone data transfers. Based on this horizontal connectivity, the software Laboperator enables the remote control and monitoring of laboratory equipment, the integration of LIMS systems, databases and special software as well as the automation of workflows. The Labfolder data platform aggregates both automatically recorded and manually added data and enables the review, sharing, retrieval and validation of data by means of a collaborative ELN. Whether life sciences, chemical synthesis, analytics, quality control or research and development: no matter how specific the field or task of a laboratory may be, the way it works and the requirements for data management have a common core. Labforward focuses on this core. | $8.1M | Series B | Sep 01, 2015 |  |
| Labforward | Labforward supports laboratory teams on their quest for groundbreaking discoveries and delivering innovative high-quality products. With digital tools for laboratories, it increases productivity and improves efficiency in laboratories. The company's products include the user-friendly electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) Labfolder and theInternet-of-Things (IoT) platform Laboperator. The digital connectivity of laboratories and innovative data management is a focus topic in industry and research. In a fragmented landscape of high-tech equipment and specialized software, Labforward links data silos and helps to eliminate costly and error-prone data transfers. Based on this horizontal connectivity, the software Laboperator enables the remote control and monitoring of laboratory equipment, the integration of LIMS systems, databases and special software as well as the automation of workflows. The Labfolder data platform aggregates both automatically recorded and manually added data and enables the review, sharing, retrieval and validation of data by means of a collaborative ELN. Whether life sciences, chemical synthesis, analytics, quality control or research and development: no matter how specific the field or task of a laboratory may be, the way it works and the requirements for data management have a common core. Labforward focuses on this core. |  | Series A | Oct 18, 2013 |  |
| mixd.tv | At mixd.tv they are dedicated to let users find Online Video Data that matters to them. their team of Online Video Data Specialists is working hard on fulfilling their mission to bundle Online Video and surrounding data in one place.they are providing state-of-the-art web services for partners to build business models based on metadata ofhighest quality. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2012 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Atlantic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BayBG Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baybg) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Beuck Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beuck-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Charité Biomedical Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charit%C3%A9-biomedical-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FOV Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fov-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ableton

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Ableton makes software and hardware for creating, producing, and performing music. Ableton's flagship product, Live, has introduced a new approach to making music with computers on stage and in the studio that has attracted several hundred thousand Live worldwide.

5 contacts available at Ableton.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jan Bohl | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-bohl |
| Bernd Roggendorf | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernd-roggendorf |
| Chris Woods | Sales Director; Director of Communications | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-woods-cef6 |
| Gerhard Behles | Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerhard-behles |
| Tony McCall | Managing Director-North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tony-mccall |

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## FAQ

### What does Jan Bohl invest in?

Jan Bohl invests primarily in TV, Video and Internet 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 Jan Bohl last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jan Bohl closed in Jan 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?

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