# Stefan Lemcke

> Stefan Lemcke is a pre-seed investor at Ankerkraut backing Food and Beverage and Organic Food. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ankerkraut](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankerkraut)
- Location: Palma, Spain
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-lemcke-340a1865

Stefan Lemcke is a pre-seed investor at Ankerkraut in Palma focused on Food and Beverage and Organic Food. Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $544k–$6.4M |
| Angel | $117k–$234k |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 38% |
| Organic Food | 4 | 31% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 23% |
| GreenTech | 2 | 15% |
| Health Care | 2 | 15% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Angel | 2 | 15% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 9 | 69% |
| Austria | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## 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 |  |
| ingarden | ingarden empowers everyone to become their healthiest, most vibrant selves. By reconnecting people with their food source and providing them with the freedom to grow at home, ingarden provides a delicious and environmentally conscious way to grow fresh superfoods. We’re a global team with a shared passion for nutrition, sustainability, andsuperfoods. With our patented cutting-edge hydroponic technology, packaged in a design award winning smart garden, growers are provided with easy access to nature’s most nourishing foods. ingarden is proud to be certified organic with no GMOs, pesticides, or plastic waste. Together, we’re growing for a better you. | $543.7K | Seed | May 15, 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 |  |
| ecoLocked | ecoLocked is turning buildings into carbon sinks! We convert captured carbon from local biomass residues into functional, carbon-negative construction materials. Our products permanently store CO2 in the built environment, reduce the need for fossil raw materials, and deliver targeted functionalities such as thermal insulation, durability, orcuring time reduction.  Thereby, we combine carbon storage and utilization and create a self-sustaining CDR business case | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 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 |  |
| BIOVOX | Bioplastics |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Kynda | Keen 4 Greens offers a wide range of vegan products. Founded in 2019, Keen 4 Greens is based in Hamburg, Germany. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [better ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-ventures-9d06) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Auxxo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/auxxo) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Summiteer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/summiteer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FoodLabs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atlantic-food-lab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Counteract](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/counteract) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Feast Ventrues](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/feast-ventrues) — 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, Organic Food and Manufacturing startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 $544k–$6.4M at Seed, $117k–$234k at Angel and $1.1M–$2M 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 13 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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