# Stefan Lemcke

> Stefan Lemcke is a seed investor at Ankerkraut (Hamburg) backing Food and Beverage and Eyewear. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ankerkraut](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankerkraut)
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-lemcke-340a1865/

Stefan Lemcke is a seed investor at Ankerkraut in Hamburg focused on Food and Beverage and Eyewear. Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 2 | 29% |
| Eyewear | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |
| Women's | 1 | 14% |
| Software | 1 | 14% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 43% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Manti Manti | Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Wholey | The Berlin-based start-up Wholey develops innovative, plant-based breakfast products of the highest organic quality, without refined sugar and additives - fair, ecological, and delicious. Started in 2016 with smoothie mixes for the catering industry, the range now includes smoothie bowls, granolas, nut creams, and porridges.The products areavailable in supermarkets in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, and the UK, as well as through food service and the company's own online shop. | $6.4M | Seed | Mar 04, 2023 |  |
| Ink& | Ink& aims at promoting tattoo artists and styles by providing art prints, clothing, and stickers. Their tattoo artists use needles and various colored inks to draw or sketch a specific design on a client's skin. It takes considerable effort because a tattoo artist must sit for long hours to create a design based on the client'sspecifications. |  | Seed | Dec 16, 2022 |  |
| repath | Repath Identifies and manages climate risks with SaaS solution. The platform for climate risk and adaptation is a location-specific, user-friendly, fully functional automated SaaS solution that would allow the company to forecast the future physical climate risks, comprehend the particulars vulnerabilities of the assets, as well as the necessarymeasures of adaptation to mitigate the identified dangers. Its customers can access the translated climate data into easy-to-understand aggregated results via repath´s platform or via API. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| Heatle | Heatle is an induction-based immersion heater device that may heat water, baby milk, mulled wine, and other liquids directly in the vessel to the necessary temperature in an energy-saving method for a clean, healthy, and sustainable lifestyle and planet. | $3M | Seed | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Dr. Vivien Karl | Dr. Vivien Karl is an intimate care company. Dr. Vivien Karl provides science based products for effective and safe intimate care. Their products include cream for moisturizing and caring for the intimate area. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |
| Kynda | Kynda produces vegan foods and mycelium using accessible biotechnology for meat alternatives. They provide services for agri food companies, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, and biotech companies. | $2M | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [better ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-ventures-9d06) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Summiteer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/summiteer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Auxxo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxxo) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Feast Ventrues](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/feast-ventrues) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ignore Gravity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignore-gravity) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nucleus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k16-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ankerkraut

VC Fund · Hamburg, Germany

Ankerkraut produce high-quality spices and spice mixtures without flavor enhancers and flavors.

4 contacts available at Ankerkraut.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anne Lemcke | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-lemcke-4314 |
| Anne Lemcke | Co-Founder & Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-lemcke |
| Stefan Lemcke | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-lemcke-4b20 |
| Stefan Lemcke | Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stefan-lemcke |

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## FAQ

### What does Stefan Lemcke invest in?

Stefan Lemcke invests primarily in Food and Beverage, Eyewear and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Stefan Lemcke's check size?

Stefan Lemcke typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.4M at Seed and $1.1M–$1.3M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stefan Lemcke participates in.

### When did Stefan Lemcke last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Stefan Lemcke closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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