# Tobias Seikel

> Tobias Seikel is a seed investor at Planet A Ventures (Hamburg) backing Chemical and Biotechnology. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Planet A Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/planet-a-ventures)
- Location: Hamburg, Germany
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2022
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasseikel
- Website: https://www.planet-a.com

Tobias Seikel is a senior investment professional with extensive experience in Venture Capital and building startups in the DACH region. He is Co-founder and General Partner at Planet A, believing that it is indispensable to address climate change as well as other pressing environmental issues of our time.Previously, Tobias acted as ManagingPartner at Hamburg based early-stage investor and company builder Hanse Ventures, where he was responsible for the operational management (including the HR activities as well as the trainee program), the business development and the overall project management with the portfolio firms.Prior to joining Hanse Ventures in its early days in 2011, Tobias worked almost 10 years in publishing. He began his working career as a trainee at Bertelsmann (Gruner+Jahr), moved on to work as the Executive Assistant to the President & CEO of Gruner+Jahr International, before he established the company's magazine business as Managing Director in Croatia and was then appointed Deputy Managing Director of a Bertelsmann (Gruner+Jahr International) joint venture with Finnish Sanoma Group and Austrian Styria Media Group operating throughout Eastern Europe. Moving back to Germany after more than three years, as Publishing Director of one of Germany’s leading news magazines, stern, and Publishing Director of Europe’s leading art magazine, Art, he was responsible for the magazines’ development and strategic direction from 2008 until 2011.Apart from his Planet A-related activities, Tobias is a regular mentor and supports several corporations with their advanced training programs or portfolio patronage respectively, such as Google (juror), HMS Hamburg Media School (lecturer) and Next Media Accelerator (mentor). Furthermore, he acts as a business angel in several startups and as a regular speaker at industry events.Tobias holds a degree of German Diplomkaufmann, a Diplôme de Grande École as well as a Master of Science from ESCP Europe and speaks several languages.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chemical | 1 | 50% |
| Biotechnology | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |
| Renewable Energy | 1 | 50% |
| Advanced Materials | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| INERATEC | INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products. | $22.6M | Series A | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| traceless materials | traceless materials is offering a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics and bioplastics. With our first-of-a-kind biomaterial it’s our mission to contribute to solving global plastic pollution.Our innovative technology filed for patent allows to use food production residues to produce materials that are compostable under naturalcomposting conditions. While bio-based, our materials don’t compete with food nor cause land-use-change, don’t need hazardous additives or solvents and have up to 95% lower CO2 emissions. Our materials are neither chemically modified nor synthetically polymerized, therefore they will not fall under the EU Single Use Plastic Directive. Follow us on our journey, and become a part of the solution, not the pollution! |  | Seed | May 03, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [b.value AG](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-value-ag) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Extantia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/extantia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FO Holding](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fo-holding) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Engie](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gdf-suez) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MPC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mpc-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Planet A Ventures

VC Fund · Hamburg, Germany

Planet A Ventures is a greentech venture fund looking to support European solutions for a sustainable future. Planet A Ventures has an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to determine a startup's impact. Their scientists have the authority to veto investments if the impact is not significant and quantifiable. Planet AVentures invests in European green tech start-ups that are making a significant positive impact on the environment while also building scalable businesses.

4 contacts available at Planet A Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fridtjof Detzner | Co-Founder / General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fridtjof-detzner |
| Lena Thiede | Co-Founder/ Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lena-thiede |
| Nick de la Forge | Co-Founder / General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-de-la-forge |
| Tobias Seikel | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tobias-seikel |

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## FAQ

### What does Tobias Seikel invest in?

Tobias Seikel invests primarily in Chemical, Biotechnology and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Tobias Seikel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tobias Seikel closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 2 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?

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