# Jan Sessenhausen

> Jan Sessenhausen is a seed investor at Cusp Capital (Bonn) backing Information Technology and SaaS. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cusp Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cusp-capital)
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/jansessenhausen/en
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jsessenhausen
- Website: https://x.com/jsessenhausen

Jan Sessenhausen is a seed investor at Cusp Capital in Bonn focused on Information Technology and SaaS. Jan is the General Partner at Cusp Capital, primarily focused on investing in enterprise software, including data-related technologies, cloud, and open source.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 2 | 67% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Open Source | 1 | 33% |
| Developer Platform | 1 | 33% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 67% |
| Sweden | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Restate | Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await. | $7M | Seed | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| CarbonCloud | CarbonCloud is a SaaS company building digital infrastructure for calculating and communicating climate footprints for food and other consumables. The platform enables non-experts to perform detailed climate footprint assessments (life-cycle assessments) of their products at a fraction of the time and cost required for alternative solutions, whilemaintaning state of the art precison. This opens up for full-portfolio footprint assessments on a global scale. Network archetechture in the platform ensures improved assessments over time and an unpresidented tool for collaboration with suppliers, all the way down to agriculture. Data propagates op the value chain and incentives for climate improvements propagate the other downwards. All climate footprints on the platform are comparable with each other in a unique way that unlocks marketing potential in the shape of quanitative on-pack labels that conveys the climate performance of specific products, that can be used to differentiate products between competitors. CarbonCloud has, together with prominent customers such as Oatly, changed the landscape for climate labels towards something more and more expected to be found on pack for consumables. The platform and its labels make climate footprint transparence and performance become a driver for business.The company is a research spinn-off from Chalmers University of Technology, where prominient climate researchers teamed up with experts on SaaS and UX development. The company vision is to help the world take informed action to mitigate climate change, and this will be done by providing state-of-the art science and data in the hands of every decision maker along the complex value chains for food and other consumables, all the way from the farm to the end consumer. | $8M | Series A | Feb 17, 2023 |  |
| Immerok | Immerok is on a mission to provide the best experience for building, running, and supporting Apache Flink in the cloud so that developers can keep their companies on the forefront of innovation. Founded in 2022, Immerok is a distributed team of Apache Flink experts, backed by leading investors and IT industry executives. | $17M | Seed | Oct 03, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Essence VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essence-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cortical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cortical-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maki.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maki-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cusp Capital

VC Fund · Essen, Germany

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in fast-growing technology companies on the cusp of redefining their markets. The Cusp Capital team members are long-time contributors to the technology ecosystem. Over the last fifteen years, they have invested more than €600m in companies such asZalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Scalable Capital, data Artisans, Personio, and SoSafe.

5 contacts available at Cusp Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Winter | General Partner - Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-winter |
| Dr. Carolin Althoff | Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dr-carolin-althoff |
| Jan Sessenhausen | General Partner - Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jan-sessenhausen |
| Johannes Behringer | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/johannes-behringer |
| Matthias Müller | General Partner - Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthias-mller |

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## FAQ

### What does Jan Sessenhausen invest in?

Jan Sessenhausen invests primarily in Information Technology, SaaS and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 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 Sessenhausen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jan Sessenhausen closed in Jun 2024. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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