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Top 45 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Renewable energy startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Renewable energy companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Germany in November 2024

Investor	Renewable Energy Germany investments
Andy Booke	3
Gabor Cselle	3
David Balensiefen	3
Philipp Kloeckner	3
Lukasz Gadowski	2
Lucas von Fürstenberg	2
Anna Alex	1
Florian Bennhold	1
Julius Göllner	1
Martin Herrmann	1
Kintxo Cortés	1
Moritz Poewe	1
Lothar Stein	1
Christoph Ostermann	1
Johannes Sass	1
Jochen Engert	1
Frank Thelen	1
Manu Gupta	1
Kai Klapdor	1
Patrick Andrae	1
Ralf Christian	1
Michael Suer	1
Dieter Ammer	1
Alexandre Berriche	1
Matthias Ernst	1
Carsten Gropp	1
Stefan Müller	1
Peter Mertens	1
Alexander Rittweger	1
Tim Bode	1
Robin Kroll	1
MARKUS W. VOIGT	1
Ingo Hoff	1
Friedrich A. Neuman	1
Tobias Schuett	1
Jonathan Teklu	1
Arndt Neuhaus	1
Jochen Berger	1
Emma Tracey	1
Daniel Krauss	1
Ulrich Blessing	1
Per Liljenqvist	1
Maximilian Both	1
Julian Teicke	1
Andre Schwammlein	1

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Andy Booke

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.
Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.

Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome
Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.

David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Sustainability, SaaS
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
Heimladen — Heimladen is a renewable energy source that drives human mobility. They offer a platform that acts as a real estate partner, controls the charging infrastructure, and takes care of project planning while keeping costs low, and enabling tenants.
Greenflash — Greenflash places a premium on quality, efficiency, and client happiness. We collaborate with world-class partners to deliver you high-quality components and cutting-edge technologies. Our customized energy solutions are tailored to your specific needs and circumstances in order to get the best potential outcome for you.

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Montamo — Montamo trains lateral entrants with standardized methods. We rely on both our on-site academy and our digital learning software.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
bunch — bunch is the operating system (OS) for private market investing, handling digital entity creation, seamless investor onboarding and portfolio management. The company's platform focuses on saving time, money and mental energy by eliminating legacy intermediaries, overwhelming regulatory complexity, and low-tech administration.Operating acrosslegal structures, asset classes and jurisdictions allows bunch to fully unlock private markets for everyone, enabling businesses and investors to make private markets easy, cost-efficient and fast.

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Software
Series A, Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
MILES — MILES is an independent carsharing and modern mobility. They believe in the energy and the pulse of cities and how they inspire them. MILES is your wingman on your trip through urbanity, guiding you to its hidden treasures and cool spots, which make your city so worth living. Their passion for the new and unexplored drives them in their vision tomake urban life better. Driving with no time pressure, no limits and no specific car brand.

Lucas von Fürstenberg serves as head of the Freiherr von Fürstenberg'sche Forstverwaltung forest administration based in Sauerland.

Investment focus

Organic, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

autarkize — autarkize scales a market-ready system technology with which a high-quality gas made of methane and hydrogen is extracted decentrally from residues.
Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.

In 2012 Anna together with her co-founder Julia launched OUTFITTERY with the vision to create a shopping experience for men that is convenient, fun and inspiring. Today, OUTFITTERY serves individual outfits to over 600k men in eight countries and Anna is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Europe. In 2016, she was voted amongst Europe’s“Inspiring Fifty”, the 50 most inspirational women in tech. Prior to OUTFITTERY Anna lead the IT of the Swiss group buying platform DeinDeal in Zurich. She studied economic sociology in Freiburg and Paris.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

finres — Finres empowers decision-making for climate resilience, leveraging machine learning to enhance agricultural sustainability and adaptation strategies.
kolum.earth — EU companies importing cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity or hydrogen from non-EU countries can use the kolum.earth software solution to create their Carbon Boder Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) reporting, measure carbon emissions attached to their imports, and communicate with their non-EU suppliers to become fully CBAM-compliant.
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

Florian Bennhold

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.

Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kurabu — KURABU verbindet nahtlos eine umfangreiche Verwaltungssoftware mit einer modernen Vereinsapp. Starte jetzt kostenlos & unverbindlich!
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.

Martin Herrmann

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

Kintxo Cortés is the Head of Expansion at Gigs.com

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Moritz areas of responsibility involve strategic consulting to portfolio companies in particular when related to BI and IT structural topics as well as deal flow management. He is a constant sparring partner to CTOs of the portfolio companies providing guidance in IT processes. He supports companies in HR efforts by filling the pipeline andinterviewing candidates.Moritz is a former CTO of a nightlife and community platform in Germany.

Investment focus

Software, CMS, Content Creators
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native Headless CMS powering mission-critical applications. Streamline content workflows, iterate faster and deliver to any destination of choice using our content APIs.
Detectify — Detectify's external attack surface management tool - assess, prioritize, remediate continuously growing external attack surfaces.

Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power

Investment focus

Information Technology, Energy, Railroad
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Germany

Portfolio highlights

KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
SINN Power — SINN Power develops innovative wave energy technology to supply people worldwide with clean and reliable energy from ocean waves.

Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.

Investment focus

Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Numbat — Numbat is a clean-tech company from Kempten (Allgäu). The competence lies in the development and production, as well as the operation of High-Power charging solutions with integrated battery storage system. The goal is to establish Europe's densest High-Power charging infrastructure to support e-mobility and its challenges. The battery storagereduces electricity costs and eases the burden on grids, while the integrated fast charging station allows customers/visitors/employees to fully charge their electric vehicles within 15 minutes. Depending on the location, the Numbats can be provided free of charge in a platform model. With its patented climate protection technology and multi-lifecycle approach, the Numbat is the most sustainable solutions on the market.
ESFORIN SE — ESFORIN SE is a fully digital energy company, offering modularly integrable energy solutions – for both, power and gas.
Efficient Energy Technology — Efficient Energy Technology makes renewable energy simple, safe, and dependable for everyone. Efficient Energy Technology develops a small power plant consisting of photovoltaic and storage for complete self-installation.

Johannes Sass - Shareholder @ Bluenini

Investment focus

Organic, Software, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Along — Join our waitlist and try it first!
Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Shipping
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.

Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Build.One — Build.One is an end-to-end application development platform that allows to build mission-critical and legacy-free business applications without any limits, using a combination of No-Code, Low-Code and Pro-Code.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Manu is the founder of Blue Lion Global VC, and was previously a founding member and Partner of Lakestar VC (>$1.4bn). He splits time between San Francisco and London.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Vetic — Vetic is a network of cutting-edge clinics with an emphasis on providing comprehensive pet health care.
Sunhero — Sunhero delivers custom-built solar panel solutions. Sunhero offers consumers a hassle-free method of installing customised photovoltaic solar systems on their homes, be that either purchasing outright or renting for a 20 year period.

CEO

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster.

Investment focus

InsurTech, Insurance, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.

Ralf Christian has more than 28 years of experience in various roles at Siemens, an international leader in electronics. Prior to taking on his current role as CEO of the Energy Management Division, Ralf served as CEO in several other business units at Siemens, including Low and Medium Voltage Distribution, High Voltage Transmission and Smart PowerDistribution, and was previously general manager of several other departments. He received a Master of Science and Business Administration from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Investment focus

Battery, Energy Storage, Renewable Energy
Angel, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Voltfang — We integrate used electric car batteries into a battery storage system and thus build up a decentralized storage network.

Partner

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.

Dieter Ammer is the CEO and chairman of the management board of Nordzucker GmbH, Brauerei Beck & Co., and Tchibo Holding AG.

Investment focus

Logistics, Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Eternal Power — Eternal Power is a globally integrated mass production of green hydrogen and derivatives such as sustainable fuels.

Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Gladia.io — 1 stop shop AI API hub for developers
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.

Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.

Partner

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.

Stefan Müller

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

Peter Mertens

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.

Alexander Rittweger is a Board Member & Lead Investo at ALOHA. He attended University of Mannheim.

Investment focus

iOS, E-Commerce, Business Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Bangladesh, United States, Greece

Portfolio highlights

Arogga — Arogga App is the first Bangladeshi app that brought healthcare system to your doorstep. Easy and efficient. With a click of a button, upload your prescription and we will ensure safe delivery of your medicine at earliest possible time.
GoZayaan — Welcome to GoZayaan, the ultimate online platform for next generation traveling! We aim to put you in charge of your travel plan. Your dream trip is just a few clicks away, with GoZayaan!
Frequenz — Frequenz empowers developers with innovative tools to orchestrate Decentralized Energy Resources (DERs) efficiently. Join us revolutionizing the way the world manages power.

Tim Bode

Investment focus

CleanTech, Marketplace, Clean Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cycle — Cycle was founded with the mission of building innovative ultrafast laser technology for science and industry that excels through performance and reliability in application.A versatile team, backed with decades of expertise in laser technology and system integration, works closely together with applicants to plan and install solutions foractive environments. Cycle's team offers comprehensive consulting, service and support to realize the best match for your requirements.
METALSALE — Metalsale builds a digital trading platform that allows non-ferrous metal scrap to be traded easily, lucratively and safely. They are a team with many years of experience in recycling and technology companies and know the problems that need to be solved.

Robin Kroll is the Co-Founder and CEO of IMOGENT GmbH. He previously worked at blackprint Booster GmbH as an Accelerator Program. Robin Kroll attended Paderborn University.

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.

MARKUS W. VOIGT is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Aream company.

Investment focus

CRM, iOS, Apps
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
Phonedeck — Phonedeck integrates mobile and video calling inside Salesforce. It is the first CTI solution for smartphones that makes it possible to remote control and track calls under the ‘real’ mobile number using regular carrier minutes. Phonedeck helps enterprises to manage and optimize business processes. The results are a large costs saving due tomobilizing sales teams and increasing the productivity.Phonedeck is Alcatel-Lucent and ISV Salesforce partner. In 2012 Phonedeck’s founder Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fitzek was awarded with the Vodafone Innovation Prize. Alcatel-Lucent awarded Phonedeck during its Munich Hackathon in June 2014 as Innovative Leader in IMS. In January 2015 Phonedeck has won Disruptive Innovator 2015 award at Enterprise Mobility Management Forum.Phonedeck´s supporters are business angels, the IBB bank of Berlin and the venture capital fund Atlantic Internet.

Ingo Hoff

Investment focus

Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Agriportance — Agriportance is a digital platform that connects biomethane producers and mineral oil companies.

Friedrich A. Neuman studied Business & Economics in St. Gallen, Switzerland. After his studies he moved to Berlin to start his first company. Later he led business development at Glispa. In 2012, Friedrich joined Rocket Internet and co-founded Dropgifts, a social gifting platform active in 25 countries with 120 people. Together with MariusSchulze, Friedrich is the founder and CEO of Run a Shop and founding partner of MAKERS. At MAKERS, Friedrich is responsible for Finance and Operations.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Battery, Organic
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

elvah — elvah provides flat rates for charging the electric car by fixing a monthly fee.
Cling Systems — Connecting the battery ecosystem to ensure batteries are reused, repurposed and recycled.
Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.

Tobias Schuett is the CEO at DZ-4.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Vamo — Vamo specializes in heat pumps and provides proficient guidance and planning, as well as rapid and easy installation.

Jonathan Teklu is the Venture Partner at CREANDUM. Jonathan Teklu attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Solar, Rental, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

klarx — klarx is the leading platform for construction equipment rental in Europe, enabling the energy transition currently underway. klarx is revolutionizing the way machines are rented and used, which in turn is enabling the massive expansion of solar energy in Germany. So far, klarx has served over 6.800 customers and has operated more than 330k rentaldays. Through the vast network of 4.900 supplier stations and our logistic centres, we can ensure that machines are travelling less than 50km to the construction site and are always used with the highest utilization rates. After successfully building up the klarxManager software and network business, klarx has launched two logistic centres in Europe and plans to open another 9 logistic centres across Europe within the next three years. klarx has already raised over 23.7 Mio. € from investors like Target Global, Lukasz Gadowski, the Flixbus founders and the B&C Holding.
Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.

Arndt Neuhaus

Investment focus

Solar, Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.

Jochen Berger

Investment focus

SaaS, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

awamo — awamo offers a mobile, biometric core banking system (SaaS) to microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. It is affordable, easy-to-use, and platform independent.Using this platform 300+ institutions serving 450,000+ consumers are being connected. Going forward, they will be able to additionally sell partner products & services,generating additional revenue and fostering local economic growth. The market awamo serves accounts for more than 600m individuals in sub-Saharan Africa – only considering awamo’s core services. In awamo's target markets, there are already more than 16,000 MFIs operational with more than 210,000 staff serving 53m+ consumers. Besides, the microfinance sector grows at >10% p.a. and Africa’s population is about to more than double to 2.4bn people until 2050. Currently, Awamo serves 300+ institutions with 450,000+ consumers in Uganda and Kenya. Month-over-month more than 150,000+ transactions are being processed, moving more than 7m EUR through the platform.
Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.

Emma Tracey is a co-founder of Honeypot.

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, Computer
Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
MARCLEY — MARCLEY provides a system that enables multi-family building apartment owners to utilize solar energy on their roofs without any financial commitment or additional effort. The generated green power is sold at a cheaper cost than the local basic utility.
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
simpleclub — simpleclub - the most popular digital learning platform in Germany with over 1 million users per month.Loved by both students and parents, simpleclub makes it easy for students and learners to understand anything related to any subject at school by investing less time and therefore reducing stress. At simpleclub we are all creators. We have builta product that millions of people already use and are falling in love with. Check out our app for Apple and Android.We are on a mission to disrupt the traditional school-based learning system by creating a learning experience personalised to every student. Created in 2015 by back then students, Alexander Giesecke and Nicolai Schork, simpleclub has grown to over 1M users and going. In 2020, simpleclub secured a seed round from HV Capital (formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures) to accelerate growth.

Ulrich Blessing

Investment focus

Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

autarkize — autarkize scales a market-ready system technology with which a high-quality gas made of methane and hydrogen is extracted decentrally from residues.

Per Liljenqvist

Investment focus

CleanTech, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Carbonstack — Carbonstack uses emissions offsets to accelerate the transition to CO2 neutrality.

Maximilian Both is the Founder and Managing Director at Rabot Charge. Maximilian Both attended Tu Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.

Julian Teicke has 4 current jobs including Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman at handly, Co-Founder and CEO at wefox, and Founder at EMPAUA. Additionally, Julian Teicke has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & COO at DeinDeal. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

Investment focus

Software, InsurTech, Insurance
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
dao — We use modern technology to revolutionize residential property management

Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.

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