# Kai Hansen

> Kai Hansen is a seed investor in Berlin backing Software, E-Commerce and FinTech. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansenkai/en
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kai.hansen.9

Kai Hansen is a seed investor in Berlin focused on Software and E-Commerce. business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.9M |
| Pre-Seed | $796k–$37M |
| Series A | $3M–$60M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 6 | 15% |
| FinTech | 5 | 13% |
| Financial Services | 5 | 13% |
| Internet | 3 | 8% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 33% |
| Series A | 11 | 28% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 17 | 44% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Poland | 1 | 3% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Karri | Karri is a modern, data-enabled walkie-talkie for kids aged 4-10, which offers a screen-free device for children and easy to use smartphone apps for parents. Children can send a message by simply pushing the button on their Karri. Parents can receive and send messages back via your app and see where they are via GPS tracking. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | May 22, 2024 |  |
| Cylib | Cylib provides technology for recycling lithium-ion batteries into usable raw materials, turning battery waste and production scrap into materials like lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, and manganese for reuse in battery and industrial supply chains. Their proprietary process focuses on the holistic recovery of all battery components, utilizingwater-based methods to minimize chemical use and reduce environmental impact. Cylib operates an integrated end-to-end recycling workflow that includes discharge, material separation, and refinement for reintegration into manufacturing processes. The company’s approach supports circular material flows and aims to strengthen supply chains for battery producers and related industrial partners. | $59.9M | Series A | May 15, 2024 |  |
| Nesnězeno | Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date. |  | Series A | Jan 10, 2024 |  |
| autarc | We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| qomodo | Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value. | $36.9M | Pre-Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Munch | Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price. |  | Series A | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Cylib | Cylib provides technology for recycling lithium-ion batteries into usable raw materials, turning battery waste and production scrap into materials like lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, and manganese for reuse in battery and industrial supply chains. Their proprietary process focuses on the holistic recovery of all battery components, utilizingwater-based methods to minimize chemical use and reduce environmental impact. Cylib operates an integrated end-to-end recycling workflow that includes discharge, material separation, and refinement for reintegration into manufacturing processes. The company’s approach supports circular material flows and aims to strengthen supply chains for battery producers and related industrial partners. | $8.6M | Seed | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| Surfboard | Surfboard provides scheduling and building workforce management through customer service software. | $4.9M | Seed | Nov 21, 2022 |  |
| Cylib | Cylib provides technology for recycling lithium-ion batteries into usable raw materials, turning battery waste and production scrap into materials like lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, and manganese for reuse in battery and industrial supply chains. Their proprietary process focuses on the holistic recovery of all battery components, utilizingwater-based methods to minimize chemical use and reduce environmental impact. Cylib operates an integrated end-to-end recycling workflow that includes discharge, material separation, and refinement for reintegration into manufacturing processes. The company’s approach supports circular material flows and aims to strengthen supply chains for battery producers and related industrial partners. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 14, 2022 |  |
| Lumiform | Lumiform is a specialized software for frontline teams to run inspections, audits and checklists at scale across distributed operations. Customers are mid-size and large companies such as multi-site retailers, restaurant chains, logistics fleets, warehouse operators, construction businesses and manufacturers with several plants. They all face thesame challenge: keeping standards consistently high across teams no manager can oversee in person. Lumiform lets teams build digital forms around their standards, capture data on mobile even offline, and resolve identified issues fast. Data turns into instant audit-proof reports and in-depth analytics. It's powerful enough to map the most complex requirements, yet simple to adopt in days. With Lumiform, organizations achieve measurable. improvements in quality, safety and efficiency. Companies like EDEKA, AmRest, Virgin Media and even testing, inspection and certification bodies rely on Lumiform. Rated 4.6 on G2, Lumiform is built in Europe, offering full data sovereignty and GDPR compliance. | $6.8M | Series A | Jun 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

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- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Rheingau Founders](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rheingau-founders) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Piton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/piton-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Coelius Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coelius-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KAYA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaya-8ed9) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Kai Hansen invest in?

Kai Hansen invests primarily in Software, E-Commerce and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kai Hansen's check size?

Kai Hansen typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.9M at Seed, $796k–$37M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$60M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kai Hansen participates in.

### When did Kai Hansen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kai Hansen closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 39 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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