# Planet A Ventures

> Planet A Ventures is a VC fund in Hamburg backing Software and Manufacturing. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 44%
- Last fund: Mar 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/planet-a/
- Website: https://planet-a.com/#contact

Planet A Ventures is a greentech venture fund looking to support European solutions for a sustainable future. Planet A Ventures has an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to determine a startup's impact. Their scientists have the authority to veto investments if the impact is not significant and quantifiable. Planet AVentures invests in European green tech start-ups that are making a significant positive impact on the environment while also building scalable businesses.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $900k–$5.3M |
| Series A | $12M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 13% |
| Sustainability | 4 | 9% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 9% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 9% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 16 | 36% |
| Series A | 12 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 7% |
| Series B | 3 | 7% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 12 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 13% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Belgium | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fridtjof Detzner | Co-Founder / General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fridtjof-detzner |
| Lena Thiede | Co-Founder/ Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lena-thiede |
| Nick de la Forge | Co-Founder / General Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-de-la-forge |
| Tobias Seikel | Co-Founder & General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobias-seikel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gigaton | Gigaton is a climate technology company developing artificial intelligence to decarbonize energy-intensive industries. It intends to use AI technology to reduce carbon emissions by gigatonnes per year. Its emphasis is on energy-intensive industries like cement, steel, and glass, which account for more than 20% of global emissions. Deep learning isused by Carbon Re's Delta Zero platform for industrial decarbonization to enable rapid development and deployment of new low-carbon industrial processes, designs, and materials. | $26M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Optiml | Optiml develops software that supports real estate decarbonization and energy transition planning. The company provides a digital platform that models building portfolios, evaluates renovation pathways, and assesses financial and carbon impacts of retrofit strategies. Its tools integrate technical, economic, and regulatory data to help assetmanagers prioritize investments and align with climate targets. Optiml also enables scenario analysis, tracking of emissions performance, and reporting capabilities that support sustainability decision-making. The company serves property owners, investors, and financial institutions seeking structured analysis for decarbonization planning and capital allocation. | $9.6M | Seed | Feb 17, 2026 |  |
| One.Five | A biotech platform to scale applied material science. | $16.3M | Series A | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Ecair | Ecair provides software for indoor air quality and energy management. The platform aggregates data from connected sensors to track pollutants, CO2, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter in real time. Dashboards, alerts, and APIs support building operations, facility managers, and ESG teams. Algorithms estimate exposure, flag ventilationissues, and suggest HVAC adjustments to balance comfort, health, and energy use. Reporting tools support certifications and compliance, and data exports integrate with BMS, CMMS, and data warehouses. Services include device provisioning, calibration management, and analytics consulting for multi-site portfolios. | $5.8M | Seed | Dec 03, 2025 |  |
| Mondra | Mondra are technology disruptors and innovators, spearheading a movement to unlock the impact of the world’s global supply chains and help companies make changes that will have a real impact for future generations.We are the technology vanguards in the environmental space, bringing facts and data into the limelight, which would have otherwiseremained hidden due to it being unavailable, incomparable and/or outdated. We use innovative ideas such combining satellite data and technology to close data gaps to report the true impact of what the current food supply chain is doing to our environment and the world we live.Without knowledge, facts and data there can be no change. Mondra is now the change at the forefront of bringing Deep Tech, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning together with science, to help lead change to save the environment. | $13.3M | Series A | Oct 23, 2025 |  |
| Makersite | Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem withvertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria.Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data.This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better. | $70.4M | Series B | Jul 22, 2025 |  |
| HIVED | HIVED is a sustainable parcel delivery business for the 21st century. From the middle to final mile, we are revolutionising the post-purchase experience, building solutions that reduce waste and provide unparalleled visibility and insight to shippers and recipients alike. | $42.4M | Series B | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Automated Architecture | Automated Architecture provides the technological infrastructure for a distributed robotic micro-factory network producing sustainable timber housing. | $6.9M |  | Jun 04, 2025 |  |
| Phlair | Carbon Atlantis is producing energy-efficient approach for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal. | $5.7M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| PULSETRAIN | Pulsetrain is the only company with a driving Multilevel demonstrator. Tech that moves, not just talks. AC Multilevel for construction machines. Ultra-high-power DC for next-gen vehicles. Game-changing. Let’s roll. | $6.7M | Seed | Mar 19, 2025 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [KOMPAS VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kompas-fe2f) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [468 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/468-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Extantia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extantia) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Greenfield](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenfield-one) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [GGF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-generation-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Planet A Ventures invest in?

Planet A Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Sustainability startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 45 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Planet A Ventures's check size?

Planet A Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$11M at Seed, $900k–$5.3M at Pre-Seed and $12M–$37M 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 Planet A Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Planet A Ventures?

Public channels for Planet A Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Planet A Ventures?

The team at Planet A Ventures includes Fridtjof Detzner (Co-Founder / General Partner), Lena Thiede (Co-Founder/ Partner) and Nick de la Forge (Co-Founder / General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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