# STIHL Ventures

> STIHL Ventures is a VC fund in Waiblingen backing SaaS and Solar. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Waiblingen, Germany
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stihl-digital-gmbh
- Website: https://stihldigital.com/

STIHL Ventures is a VC fund in Waiblingen focused on SaaS and Solar. Investment Focus: We invest from late seed to series B, with sweet spot series A. We prefer to syndicate with existing or new investors and we can take the lead as necessary.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6.3M |
| Series A | $3.8M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Solar | 1 | 11% |
| Sensor | 1 | 11% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |
| Forestry | 1 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 11% |
| Secondary Market | 1 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 33% |
| Denmark | 1 | 11% |
| Estonia | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Köberlein | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-k%C3%B6berlein |
| Benjamin Junghans | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-junghans |
| Ronald Hotz | Partnering Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ronald-hotz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fairown | Fairown is a combined system of credit and buyback. We give your customers more choice and remove the hassle of getting rid of the products they no longer need. Responsible consumption and production goals from the UN Sustainable Development Goals list. | $6.3M | Seed | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Dryad Networks | Dryad Networks develops environmental monitoring solutions that focus on ultra-early wildfire detection and forest health assessment. The company provides a wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN, supporting distributed mesh deployments for large-scale monitoring. Its products include wildfire sensors, mesh and border gateways, and a cloud-basedanalytics platform that delivers real-time alerts and actionable insights. The system tracks environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, gas levels, and tree growth, enabling forest owners and authorities to respond quickly to potential hazards. Dryad’s technology integrates with third-party sensors and applications, extending its data collection and analysis capabilities. Beyond forest management, the platform has potential applications for monitoring air, water, and agricultural ecosystems. | $6.1M | Convertible Note | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Spotta | Spotta is a provider of smart pest systems. Spotta commercialized Bed Pod, its first product which monitors bed bugs in hotels and other multi-room accommodation offerings. | $3.8M | Series A | Dec 15, 2023 |  |
| Dryad Networks | Dryad Networks develops environmental monitoring solutions that focus on ultra-early wildfire detection and forest health assessment. The company provides a wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN, supporting distributed mesh deployments for large-scale monitoring. Its products include wildfire sensors, mesh and border gateways, and a cloud-basedanalytics platform that delivers real-time alerts and actionable insights. The system tracks environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, gas levels, and tree growth, enabling forest owners and authorities to respond quickly to potential hazards. Dryad’s technology integrates with third-party sensors and applications, extending its data collection and analysis capabilities. Beyond forest management, the platform has potential applications for monitoring air, water, and agricultural ecosystems. | $10.5M | Series A | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| TinyMobileRobots | TinyMobileRobots specialises in high-precision, reliable outdoor robots that perform marking and stake out. |  | Secondary Market | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| Fairown | Fairown is a combined system of credit and buyback. We give your customers more choice and remove the hassle of getting rid of the products they no longer need. Responsible consumption and production goals from the UN Sustainable Development Goals list. | $4.5M | Seed | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| FlyNex | Based in Leipzig, Hamburg, and San Francisco, FlyNex is the leading solution provider for commercial drone projects. With its software solution, FlyNex covers the entire commercial area of application for unmanned aerial systems. The business solution, FlyNex Enterprise Suite, enables companies in the construction, energy, and real estate sectorsto plan drone missions, collect image and survey data, and then evaluate the data in their own or 3rd-party analysis applications.With its solution to seamlessly integrate drones into their processes, companies reduce costs for inspection by up to 90% while increasing safety for personal and reducing time from planning to a final evaluation of gathered information.FlyNex provides its FlyNex Enterprise Suite for renowned partners in construction, real estate, energy, and aviation, such as EnviaM, LEAG, Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS), or Goldbeck. Moreover, FlyNex participates in publicly funded federal and European trials for drone integration, medical delivery, and unmanned aerial solutions.Benefits in the construction industry: • Periodic documentation of construction and project progress • 3D reality capture for digitization or digital processing (rebuilding, deconstruction, renaturalization, etc.) • Creation of BIM and digital twinsBenefits for infrastructure inspections: • Inspection of railways, roads, bridges, etc. through aerial data • Mapping of non-digitized structures • Remote inspection: Reduction of personnel and equipment costs • Connectivity to any digital analysis softwareBenefits for the pipeline inspections: • Pre-defined flight routes for automated aerial surveys • AI-supported damage detection with RGB, multispectral, thermal, or ultrasound images • Recordings accurate to the millimeterAUTOMATED INTELLIGENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DECISIONSWE KNOW OUR CUSTOMERSʼ CHALLENGESThey manage a large number of assets. We know the importance of reducing their operating and maintenance costs and times. They need to increase the security and quality of the information flow in a sustainable and scalable way. They need to digitize and automate the data obtained from their assets to predict and avoid failures before they occur and generate significant losses. FlyNex Enterprise Suite has been designed to empower our customers and make their businesses smarter.PLATFORM • digital map-based project planning • compliant capturing operation planning • collaboration and object management platformFLYNEX CONNECT • connecting sensors to the platform • execution of operations in the field • flight automation • automated data transferAI SUPPORTED ANALYTICS • processing data for final results • mapping and 3D visualization, digital twins • AI damage detectionTHE SOLUTION: A PLATFORM CONNECTING PROCESSES END 2 END All-in-One platform for infrastructure inspections. Plan. Collect. Analyze.CURRENTLY SUPPORTED USE CASES* • surveying • digital twin • powerline inspections • construction site documentation • pipeline inspection • bridge inspection • facade inspectionGROWING NUMBER OF ASSETS • roofs • antennas • pipelines • powerlines • roads • forests • buildings • quarries • chimneys • construction sites • bridges • cropsHOW WE DO IT With FlyNex, companies in construction, energy, telecommunications, or real estate can capture and manage data of their infrastructure inspections sustainably, faster, and more cost-effective than with conventional methods. Data is captured centrally in the cloud-based application and is immediately available for processing. With a project management workflow, a dedicated Connect App for drones, and interfaces to analytics applications, companies can handle their entire project management through the FlyNex Platform.WHY FLYNEX IS THE IDEAL PARTNER THE PLATFORM PROCESS OF A POWER LINE INSPECTIONWe connect hardware, software, people, and clients through: • Massive reduction of costs and time (up to 50 %) • Significant increase of productivity • Enhanced and documented shared visual results Our target is the integration of a simple, sustainable overall process with AI-supported evaluation for the fast and cost-effective management of our customers‘ infrastructure | $5.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 08, 2021 |  |
| Dryad Networks | Dryad Networks develops environmental monitoring solutions that focus on ultra-early wildfire detection and forest health assessment. The company provides a wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN, supporting distributed mesh deployments for large-scale monitoring. Its products include wildfire sensors, mesh and border gateways, and a cloud-basedanalytics platform that delivers real-time alerts and actionable insights. The system tracks environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, gas levels, and tree growth, enabling forest owners and authorities to respond quickly to potential hazards. Dryad’s technology integrates with third-party sensors and applications, extending its data collection and analysis capabilities. Beyond forest management, the platform has potential applications for monitoring air, water, and agricultural ecosystems. | $2M | Seed | Oct 06, 2020 |  |
| MemoMeister | MemoMeister organizes your business information in a common, digital construction folder. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2018 |  |

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## FAQ

### What does STIHL Ventures invest in?

STIHL Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Solar and Sensor startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is STIHL Ventures's check size?

STIHL Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.3M at Seed and $3.8M–$10M 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 STIHL Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact STIHL Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at STIHL Ventures?

The team at STIHL Ventures includes Alexander Köberlein (Investment Manager), Benjamin Junghans (Director) and Ronald Hotz (Partnering Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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