Rethink Ventures
VC Fund
Munich, Germany
Rethink Ventures is a new venture capital firm exclusively focused on investing in a sustainable future of transportation. With the velocity of technologically driven change and the urgent need to decarbonize we are on the cusp of fantastic new opportunities. We are backed by leading institutional investors, corporates and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to back founders that rethink the way we transport people & goods and have true impact in the industry.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
- Fund size:
- $53M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Rethink Ventures invests in
Stages Rethink Ventures invests in
Countries Rethink Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$4.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $2.2M–$4.3M
- Series A
- $4.5M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (23%)
- Logistics 5 (16%)
- Transportation 5 (16%)
- Data Integration 3 (10%)
- SaaS 2 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (61%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (13%)
- Series A 4 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (3%)
Country
- Germany 11 (35%)
- The Netherlands 2 (6%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Austria 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jens-Philipp Klein
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Matthias Schanze
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRYTE is a matchmaking platform that find, optimise, and operate your tailored e-truck charging network. | $4.1M / Seed / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cota Robotics deploys general-purpose robots in retail stores through a Robot-as-a-Service model, integrating with existing environments without requiring changes to store layouts or infrastructure. The company automates shelf replenishment, inbound handling, and order picking using human-in-the-loop teleoperation, with autonomy increasing asdeployment data trains its models. | $2.2M / Pre-Seed / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Good2Know is an automotive data platform that consolidates fragmented vehicle information from registries, insurers, inspections, service records, and manufacturers. The company provides a centralized data aggregation and AI-driven normalization layer that creates a structured lifecycle profile for each vehicle. Its APIs deliver cleaned, verified,and enriched data directly into software used by dealerships, marketplaces, insurers, and automotive finance providers. Good2Know enables faster and more informed pricing decisions, supports risk assessment, and reduces disputes by exposing a transparent view of vehicle history. Its tools are designed for integration into existing enterprise workflows through real-time data access and configurable data packages. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 17, 2026 | ||
| EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand. | $4.5M / Series A / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Eccasion operates as an online marketplace that specializes in ex‑lease electric vehicles, sourcing them from closed trade auctions on behalf of customers. | $3.7M / Seed / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools. | $5.8M / Series A / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Driveblocks provides a modular software platform for automated and self-driving commercial vehicles. The founding team has extensive experience developing algorithms for automatic driving. | $4.2M / Seed / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Rail-Flow provides purchase and tender management, rail offer management, intermodal transportation management, intermodal capacity brokers, transport management, and automatic order entry. Their customers contact them through phone, email, and online applications. | $14.6M / Series A / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Battery infrastructure for electrified depots and industrial hubs. | $4.3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 20, 2025 | ||
| Hyperdrives is a deep-tech engineering company that specializes in super-efficient, highly power-dense, and yet low-cost electric drive systems. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2025 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Rethink Ventures invest in?
Rethink Ventures invests primarily in Software, Logistics and Transportation startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rethink Ventures invest in?
Rethink Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$4.1M at Seed, $2.2M–$4.3M at Pre-Seed and $4.5M–$15M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rethink Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rethink Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Rethink Ventures?
The team at Rethink Ventures includes Jens-Philipp Klein (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Matthias Schanze (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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