# Michael Kleindl

> Michael Kleindl is a seed investor at Collateral Good backing E-Commerce and Food and Beverage. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Collateral Good](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collateral-good-ventures)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkleindl
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/michael_kleindl
- Website: http://www.bluehorizon.com

Michael Kleindl is a seed investor at Collateral Good in Zürich focused on E-Commerce and Food and Beverage. Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $274k–$6.5M |
| Series A | $1.1M–$18M |
| Series B | $4M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 21% |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 21% |
| Internet | 3 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 13% |
| Fashion | 2 | 8% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 38% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 6 | 25% |
| Mexico | 4 | 17% |
| Germany | 4 | 17% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 8% |
| Japan | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Climatex | Climatex offers climate risk analytics and patented textile separation technologies. | $4.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 20, 2026 |  |
| Synflux | Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website. | $1.7M |  | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Nfinite Nanotechnology | Nfinite Nanotechnology is an advanced material company that enables breakthrough innovations to redefine how we live, use, and create using open-air atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology. Nfinite makes functional nanomaterials that accelerate the development and commercialization of transformative technologies for a sustainable future, such assustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics. They have created a rapid open-air nanocoating system that produces large-area, high-quality, ultrathin films at up to 100x the speed of conventional ALD at a lower cost. | $6.5M | Seed | May 14, 2024 |  |
| sykell | sykell developing scalable and sustainable packaging and pooling solutions for retail, gastronomy and catering industry. | $5M | Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Planted Foods | Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. | $18.2M | Series A | Mar 08, 2021 |  |
| Heartbest Foods | Food-tech company focused on creating a healthier and more sustainable food system through plant-based dairy alternatives. | $2M | Series A | Jun 18, 2020 |  |
| LoveRaw | LoveRaw is an innovative vegan confectionery firm.LoveRaw is fierce, vibrant and we believe in 100% transparency. They don't do processed or complicated. We strip everything back, be natural, remain innovative & always honest, thats what LoveRaw is all about. | $1.6M | Series A | Jan 09, 2020 |  |
| Tipa | Tipa has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment.Ranging from simpleone-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties. | $25M | Series C | Sep 09, 2019 |  |
| ComparaGuru | Coru is a financial gym platform enabling financial wellness, starting in Mexico. By employing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Coru enables a financial coach for everyone. | $7M | Series A | Jun 21, 2017 |  |
| PIPPA&JEAN | PIPPA&JEAN is a social selling community that empowers women to lead self-determined lives. PIPPA&JEAN Style Coaches showcase jewellery, accessories and other lifestyle products at exclusive Style Partys and in their personalised Online Boutiques. PIPPA&JEAN takes care of everything else - from training, sourcing, storage, and invoicingto delivery. It is their vision is to encourage more than 100,000 woman to become successfully independent entrepreneurs and to fulfill their dreams. In doing so, they proudly uphold their company values based on "Initiative", "Quality" and a "Do Good" attitude. | $4.4M | Series C | Oct 22, 2015 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vorwerk Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vorwerk-direct-selling-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3i Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3i-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Argonautic Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argonautic-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Circular Economy Nature Positive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circular-economy-nature-positive) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Credit Karma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/credit-karma) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Collateral Good

VC Fund · Pfäffikon, Switzerland

Collateral Good Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm founded in 2022 by molecular and cell biologist Dr Regina Hecker and serial entrepreneur and investor Michael Kleindl. The founders and team of Collateral Good Ventures feel responsible for contributing with their means (human and capital) to help the world eat better andmitigate climate change.Collateral Good Ventures is dedicated to collaborating and supporting visionary business leaders who are ambitious and focused on how their business can be a positive force for stakeholders, communities and nature as a whole, companies that do “collateral good”, i.e. providing for their stakeholders while intrinsically contributing to social and environmental impact. Each opportunity has to have the potential to generate significant returns on capital and impact.The underlying mission of the managed funds is to support and promote a positive, measurable social and global environmental impact alongside a significant financial return. The main focus areas are plant-based and novel ingredients, cellular agriculture (clean meat), food waste, food as medicine, personal nutrition and sustainable packaging.The firm has committed that all strategies follow Art 9 under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

2 contacts available at Collateral Good.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mariana Gonzalez | Co-Founder & Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mariana-gonzalez-121c |
| Michael Kleindl | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-kleindl |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Kleindl invest in?

Michael Kleindl invests primarily in E-Commerce, Food and Beverage and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Michael Kleindl's check size?

Michael Kleindl typically joins rounds of $274k–$6.5M at Seed, $1.1M–$18M at Series A and $4M–$10M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Michael Kleindl participates in.

### When did Michael Kleindl last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Kleindl closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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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