# Styx Urban Investments

> Styx Urban Investments is a VC fund in Mannheim backing Real Estate and Retail. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mannheim, Germany
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 54%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/styx-urban-investments/
- Website: https://www.styx.city/

Styx Urban Investments is a VC fund in Mannheim focused on Real Estate and Retail. Styx Urban Investemnts is startup investor with a proprietary testing environment the Styx Living Lab. We invests in early stage startups in the fields of proptech & urban communities.Styx is not merely a financial investor. Our Styx Living Lab offers the ideal full access testing environment for the most exciting ideas in the field.Moreover, our deep industry experience rooted within the investor network offers co-development opportunities and a rich sales pipeline. Given the advantage of early validation we are confident to invest at an extremely early stage.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $560k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Real Estate | 4 | 31% |
| Retail | 2 | 15% |
| FinTech | 2 | 15% |
| Software | 2 | 15% |
| Marketing | 2 | 15% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 8 | 62% |
| Israel | 1 | 8% |
| Norway | 1 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HomeTruth | HomeTruth is a platform that provides a complete and clear data of home, adding value to the decisions of customers. |  | Seed | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Ei Solutions | Ei Solutions revolutionize the management of sustainability risks for real estate companies. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 20, 2024 |  |
| Enzo | Enzo is a Heidelberg based InsurTech startup offering modern and smart insurance coverage for homeowners. Instead of just reacting to claims, Enzo takes a proactive customer-focused approach to prevent damages from happening at all. Thus, Enzo is leading a paradigm shift in a €100+ billion market that has barely improved customer experience forover 100 years. Our Goal is to become Europe's smartest homeowners insurance. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2024 |  |
| Nestflow | NestEgg helps homeowners become financially free by trading their home equity for debt-free income. Our innovative equity-release model offers a fair, efficient way for millions of European elderly to tap their built-up housing wealth, while offering investors a unique asset class of owner-occupied real estate. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| vreed | vreed provides "a digital tool for analyzing and planning real estate renovations" to banks. Banks, building societies, and financing brokers are the intended audience. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 20, 2023 |  |
| Enzo | Enzo is a Heidelberg based InsurTech startup offering modern and smart insurance coverage for homeowners. Instead of just reacting to claims, Enzo takes a proactive customer-focused approach to prevent damages from happening at all. Thus, Enzo is leading a paradigm shift in a €100+ billion market that has barely improved customer experience forover 100 years. Our Goal is to become Europe's smartest homeowners insurance. |  | Pre-Seed | May 03, 2022 |  |
| Bakerix | Bakerix.de is a B2B marketplace that connects local bakeries and further producers of fresh food with corporate clients such as contract caterers, hotel chains, and healthcare facilities across Germany. Its purpose is to simplify the procurement of fresh bakery products for businesses with multiple locations by offering a centralized platform thatensures streamlined ordering, unified invoicing, and consistent quality standards. | $851.6K | Seed | Feb 15, 2022 |  |
| Brickspaces | _blaenk enables brands to showcase their products connected to their online shop. They offer services that include pop-up stores, consulting, cooperation with agencies, brands, and retail real estate. |  | Seed | Aug 05, 2021 |  |
| _blaenk | _blaenk is the leading Omnichannel RetailTech startup in Europe (EU Retail Innovation Award 2020). With _blaenk os (omnichannel system) the company connects brick-and-mortar and digital commerce in a revolutionary way for brands and consumers. With the data-driven and flexible approach brands can simply execute retail campaigns in digital andstationary storefronts on demand, generating awareness, consumer data and sales. _blaenk has been featured in Press such as Forbes, Handelsblatt and many more. | $560K | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| SoliDrip | SoliDrip develops a groundbreaking new technology that grants plants the control of irrigation. Our solution is an autonomous irrigation system, designed to support gardens at any scale, outdoor and indoor. Our system always provides the optimal amount of water for each plant and automatically adjusts to any environmental changes. Our technologysaves a substantial amount of clean water, prevents water runoff damages, and dramatically reduces gardens' maintenance cost. The SoliDrip system is easy to install, needs no maintenance nor electricity. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jun 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [2bX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2bx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bane Nor Eiendom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bane-nor-eiendom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BitStone Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitstone-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [PWS Eiendom](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pws-eiendom) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Spike Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spike-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Styx Urban Investments invest in?

Styx Urban Investments invests primarily in Real Estate, Retail and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-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 Styx Urban Investments's check size?

Styx Urban Investments typically joins rounds of $560k–$2.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Styx Urban Investments participates in.

### When did Styx Urban Investments last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Styx Urban Investments closed in Nov 2025. 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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