Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Germany in October 2023
| Investor | CleanTech Germany investments |
|---|---|
| MIG Capital | 8 |
| 468 Capital | 5 |
| Santo Venture Capital | 4 |
| Cherry Ventures | 4 |
| J12 | 3 |
| Picus Capital | 3 |
| Speedinvest | 3 |
| BayBG Venture Capital | 2 |
| NRW.BANK | 2 |
| Counteract | 2 |
| KFW DEG | 2 |
| CapitalT | 2 |
| SFO | 2 |
| High Rise Ventures | 2 |
| High-Tech Grunderfonds | 2 |
| Matthias Ernst | 2 |
| SeedCapital Dortmund | 2 |
| better ventures | 2 |
| Vattenfall | 2 |
| seed + speed Ventures | 2 |
| kopa ventures | 2 |
| Peter Mertens | 2 |
| Vsquared Ventures | 2 |
| Philipp Kloeckner | 2 |
| Kai Hansen | 2 |
| Planet A Ventures | 2 |
| Santo Holding | 2 |
| EWE AG | 2 |
| Greenfield | 2 |
| eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS | 2 |
| WENVEST Capital | 2 |
| Union Square Ventures | 1 |
| Lawrence Leuschner | 1 |
| Draper University Ventures | 1 |
| Stefano Bernardi | 1 |
| Leopold König | 1 |
| Neuhaus Partners | 1 |
| Energie360° | 1 |
| Kai Klapdor | 1 |
| Moritz Poewe | 1 |
| Aksel Lund Svindal | 1 |
| Julian Teicke | 1 |
| Per Liljenqvist | 1 |
| Maximilian Both | 1 |
| Magnetic | 1 |
| Christoph Behn | 1 |
| World Fund | 1 |
| Karim Tabet Jalbout | 1 |
| Maximilian Odendahl | 1 |
| Tobias Schuett | 1 |
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, Austria, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AMSilk — AMSilk produces and distributes high-quality silk biopolymers for use in textile products, medical devices, and cosmetics.
- mbiomics — mbiomics is a biotechnology company.
- Look Up Space — Lookup space is the next global leader for space safety, security and sustainability
468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
- Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Santo Venture Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and which operates as a subsidiary of ATHOS Service Gmbh.
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- Energy, Clinical Trials, Environmental Engineering
- Series A, Series B, Series D
- Germany, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers
- Temedica — Temedica is a Munich, Germany-based digital health company with the mission to put the patient into the center of healthcare. To this end, the company offers solutions both for patients and for other stakeholders in the healthcare universe. Temedica’s two platforms, Temedica-Apps and Permea, enable customer-tailored solutions to advancepersonalized healthcare. To best support patients with complex, chronic conditions, the company develops state-of-the-art digital patient companions. These apps help patients with personalized guidance and navigate them through the healthcare system considering their individual needs. Temedica is also an expert in compiling, structuring and analyzing real world data. Its B2B-directed data analytics platform Permea is designed to enable unique insights along the whole healthcare value chain and patient journey.
- Efficient Energy — Efficient Energy GmbH is an innovative manufacturer and system supplier of environmentally friendly refrigeration technology, based in Feldkirchen near Munich, Germany. The company developed the Bluezero-technology, which uses water as a refrigerant and and thereby entirely avoids fluorinated refrigerants (HFCs). Efficient Energy helps itscustomers overcome the increasing regulatory challenges of refrigeration technology, and offers them long-term, sustainable solutions with its eChiller model range. The eChiller chilled water units are ideally suited for process cooling, machine cooling and the cooling of technical equipment and data centres and provide cooling capacities from 35 kW to 120 kW, depending on the model. With its outstanding cost efficiency and low CO2 footprint, companies benefit on many fronts. The pioneering technology has also been noticed by politics and the media, and has received multiple awards for the eChiller. These include among others the European Business Award for the Environment 2018/2019 from the European Comission and the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in 2020.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Buycycle — Buycycle is an online market place that offers pre-owned bikes. Buycycle is headquartered in Munich, Bayern and was founded in 2021.
- HOLOGATE — HOLOGATE is the market leading virtual reality and immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications.
- Narval — Securely use your digital assets with web3-native policy controls over any key storage & custody model
J12 Ventures invests early in innovative companies in the Nordics.
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- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Sweden, Germany, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- MVision AI — MVision develops technology that improves the treatment of various types of cancer by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company has been built on the idea to be an impactful organisation by bringing AI assisted diagnosis and treatment to whoever needs it, especially in developing countries. This dramatically improves treatmentoutcome and saves money.The founding team consists of AI PhD’s, data platform architects and physicists with experience from companies such as Varian Medical Systems and GE healthcare.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
- Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
- Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
- memtime — memtime shows you everything you worked on during the day. Each program is recorded so that you can quickly remember. Add-on available for any software. | memtime
- ChargeOne — The complete charging solution for your e-mobility.
- SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.
NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.
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- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- bNear — bNear is the digital space for all distributed- & hybrid teams - Safe and convenient in Microsoft Teams!
- Companyon Analytics — Companyon Analytics provides data security, cloud infrastructure, information technology, technical solutions, and consultancy services.
- Refined Laser Systems — Refined Laser Systems is a dynamic biophotonics company.It specialises in creating innovative laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology.
Carbon removal innovation through research, development and early stage investment
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- Natural Resources, Environmental Engineering, Building Material
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Adaptavate — Our purpose is to help the construction industry adapt to change, by mainstreaming the production, manufacturing and availability of world leading low carbon building materials.
- Concrete4Change — Concrete4Change (C4C) is a R&D company that is developing a ground-breaking technology to utilise and permanently mineralise CO2 in concrete. C4C technology won a wide range of awards including the United Nations (UN) most innovative Net-Zero technology Climate Challenge Cup at COP26 in Glasgow, Royal Academy of Engineering and UN SDG. C4C ispartly owned by two of the largest concrete manufacturers in the World (Siam Cement Group and Goldbeck GmBH). C4C is running several projects in partnership with the University of Nottingham, University of Sheffield & University of Warwick (total project value of £4 million for 2023-2024).
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.
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- Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
- India, Kenya, Nigeria
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- Etana — PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana) is an emerging producer of high-quality, affordable and innovative biopharmaceuticals to treat a range of metabolic, autoimmune and other major life-threatening diseases, including cancer. Nathan Tirtana. Legend Capital. UOB Venture Management. Innovent Bio
- BUA Cement — BUA Cement Plc is engaged in the production and marketing of cement under the brand name “BUA Cement”. Presently the company produces CEM II type of cement in accordance with the Nigerian Industrial Standards. BUA Cement is ideal for all construction purposes in Nigeria. Its unique quality makes it the cement of choice for block-making, plasteringand concrete works. Its high early strength, rapid setting and low heat of hydration are all distinct features that characterize our high quality production process.
- Stima — Premium electric motorcycles and battery swapping technologies to better serve moto-taxi and delivery riders in Africa - Starting in Kenya
CapitalT is a venture capital fund investing in tech companies in climate tech, future of work, education, and web3/the new social. They help exceptional teams develop groundbreaking ideas to grow better, scale faster, and change across their industries.
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- Software, Information Technology, EdTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Seenons — Heb je bedrijfsafval, vervoer of verwerk je afval? Ontdek ons platform - een totaaloplossing voor duurzaam afvalbeheer.
- CUR8 — Even if we do everything else right on reducing emissions, the world still needs to remove up to 220 Gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050
- Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
SFO is an entrepreneur from the start-up environment and medium-sized companies. SFO offers complementary expertise, reliable capital, and an effective network.
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- B2C, Pet, CleanTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
High Rise Ventures is a Prop Tech company builder. We help early stage tech start-ups with a great team and a convincing technology to strive in the B2B space.
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- Real Estate, Software, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Austria
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- Wowflow — Wowflow is a mobile-first collaboration and workflow for facility maintenance teams.
- Hum Systems — Hum Systems offer all-in-one products that are designed with IoT.
- Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) is a seed investor that finances high-potential, tech-driven startups. With EUR 895.5 million in total investment volume across three funds and an international network of partners, HTGF has already helped forge more than 500 startups since 2005. Driven by their expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion, its teamof experienced investment managers and startup experts help guide the development of young companies. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech startups in a range of sectors, including software, media, internet, hardware, automation, health care, chemistry, and life sciences.To date, external investors have injected over EUR 2 billion into the HTGF portfolio via about 1,400 follow-on financing rounds. HTGF has also successfully sold interests in more than 100 companies. Investors in this public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Energy, the KfW Banking Group, and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., as well as the companies ALTANA, BASF, BAYER, B.Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Robert Bosch, BÜFA, CEWE, Deutsche Post DHL, Dräger, Drillisch AG, EVONIK, EWE AG, FOND OF Haniel, Hettich, Knauf, Körber, LANXESS, media + more venture Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, PHOENIX CONTACT, Postbank, QIAGEN, RWE Generation SE, SAP, Schufa, Schwarz Gruppe, STIHL, Thüga, Vector Informatik, WACKER and Wilh. Werhahn KG.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
- Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
- traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.
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- 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.
SeedCapital Dortmund GmbH & Co. KG is the right partner. They participate in innovative, technology-oriented companies in the start-up or early stage companies. And yet retain independence. Because when they are holding "only" partner on time. Together they participate in the appreciation and therefore the success of company.
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- Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ShopCo Technologies — Shop uses Artificial Intelligence to empower online shopping experience for customers. It is a universal shopping cart browser extension that keeps all the items of its users across the web in one spot. Stores can be registered online and without any hassle. It helps its users browse through a wide range of online stores and checkout from one spot.The company gives ability to connect to all its users existing retailer accounts. It also secures data with encryption methods and two-step verifications. Shop is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Jay Habib.
- pickshare — pickshare is a logistics platform for large retailers and brands.
- Volterion — Volterion was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT.Right from the start, they put their energy into the development of the stack – the energy converter of a redox flow battery and thus the basis for an efficient system.After extensive development work, they now produce their stacks using a unique manufacturingprocess that they are constantly improving.On this basis, they also develop innovative energy systems such as the powerRFB. A scalable battery in a compact housing that meets the highest industrial demands and is used in many different applications.Sascha Berthold, Thomas Gebauer and Thorsten Seipp are the founders of the company and have been involved in the development of Volterion technology. Together with Kees van de Kerk they form the management today.Volterion has received many awards for its technology and business model, including the ACHEMA Energy Founders Award, the TU Startup Award, the KUER Growing Business Award and the Best Pitches Award.
At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.
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- Software, Environmental Consulting, Advanced Materials
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Logistikbude — Logistikbude is a web-based software to automate the load carrier management. It is independent of load carrier types and addresses both the tracking of own load carriers and the management of exchange processes in open pools.
- Dr. Vivien Karl — Dr. Vivien Karl relies on a cream for moisturizing care against vulva dryness.
- MAGNOTHERM — Next generation cooling - zero GWP, no toxicity, no explosivity
Vattenfall is a leading European energy company and right now we are working towards fossil free living within one generation. Read more about us here
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- Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, CleanTech
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Germany, Sweden, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- tink — They founded tink because they want to get everyone excited about Connected Home products. They focus on products that are easy to install, attractively priced and offer real added value for the customer. Example 1: In the past, an alarm system cost several thousand euros, today there is a smart security system at tink starting at 150 euros.Example 2: Thanks to smart solutions, your heating automatically shuts off when you open a window or leave home. So you can save up to 30% heating costs.So far, a comparison and advisory platform lacking navigation through the jungle of new products and applications was missing. With tink they have created exactly this platform. tink is your cross-brand contact for your Connected Home and helps you to make your home smart.
- Northvolt — Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy. It provides electrification and renewable energy storage designed for lithium-ion battery plant to produce batteries for electric vehicles. Northvolt's product is an environment-friendly batterymanufactured with minimal carbon footprint and with recycling technology without compromising with important eco-systems, enabling the auto industry to replace fossil fuels with electricity in an efficient manner. The company aims to establish a supply of sustainable battery cells and systems.In 2016, Paolo Cerruti and Peter Carlsson headquartered the company in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.
- Solytic — Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics.
Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
- happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
- Tokenize.it — Tokenize.it are developing non-custodial token-based fundraising methods.
kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.
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- Energy Management, Solar, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
- Carbonfuture — At Carbonfuture, we build trust throughout the carbon removal journey with our rigorous, data-driven approach, ensuring unmatched quality and reliability of carbon removal.
- Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
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- Software, Automotive, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Israel
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- 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.
Vsquared Ventures invests in early-stage deep-tech companies that are tackling society's most pressing challenges, with a focus on quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI/ML, new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. It is committed to a partnership and will go to any length to help accelerate and scale vision,unlocking all seemingly impossible possibilities.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Germany, United States, Spain
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- Dynelectro — Dynelectro offers a unique method extending life expectancy of solid oxide electrolysis (SOE) from two years up to ten years. Dynamic control is deployed to offset intermittent power within green fuel production. We have proprietary technologies which can unlock significant potential to reduce the cost of green hydrogen. We design and manufacture a novel method to produce green hydrogen using commercially available hardware.
- NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
- Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.
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.
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- Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Lhotse — Lhotse helps you optimize the costs you're not looking at by taking the hassle out of indirect spend. The next gen procurement & sourcing system.
- Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
- 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.
Kai Hansen is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany, and Founding Partner of Rheingau Founders.He studied business administration with focus on entrepreneurship and marketing at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (Germany), Auckland and Buenos Aires.During his last year at university Kai founded his firststartup, sportme, a social community for athletes, with Philipp Hartmann and Dr. Tobias Johann in March 2007, before going on to create Rheingau Founders together. Since then Kai has been actively involved in founding and developing 20 more startups.As Founder & Managing Director, Kai was recently responsible for the success of Lieferando, a European delivery service startup which was acquired by the market leader Takeaway.com in 2014 for more than US$100mn. With Lieferando Kai build a fast growing, multinational marketplace in a highly competitive environment and learned what it takes to make a startup successful. At Rheingau Founders, Kai is responsible for new ideas and business model development. With his extensive operational knowledge he also provides the portfolio companies with hands-on advice and strategic guidance, especially with developing efficient processes and operations.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, France
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- Lumiform — Lumiform is an easy-to-use & powerful inspection & audit software. The Lumiform mobile app is available on all devices, iOS & Android - Start FOR FREE now.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
Planet A supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems. We're building the economy our planet needs.
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- Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Solar
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Finland, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Paleo — Paleo creates animal-free and GMO-free ingredients for plant-based meat and fish alternatives. They enhance taste, aroma, color and nutritional value.
- The Upright Project — Upright enables smarter decision-making for investors, companies and governments by quantifying the net impact of companies.
Santo Holding is a Zurich-based investment firm funding biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and healthcare companies.
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- Biotechnology, Energy, Medical
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- AFFiRiS — AFFiRiS AG, a Vienna, Austria-based developer of tailor-made peptide vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and several other conditions.
- SuppreMol — SuppreMol is a privately held biotechnology company that pioneers a novel approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases which could lead to the cure of these disorders instead of merely treating their symptoms.
- Efficient Energy — Efficient Energy GmbH is an innovative manufacturer and system supplier of environmentally friendly refrigeration technology, based in Feldkirchen near Munich, Germany. The company developed the Bluezero-technology, which uses water as a refrigerant and and thereby entirely avoids fluorinated refrigerants (HFCs). Efficient Energy helps itscustomers overcome the increasing regulatory challenges of refrigeration technology, and offers them long-term, sustainable solutions with its eChiller model range. The eChiller chilled water units are ideally suited for process cooling, machine cooling and the cooling of technical equipment and data centres and provide cooling capacities from 35 kW to 120 kW, depending on the model. With its outstanding cost efficiency and low CO2 footprint, companies benefit on many fronts. The pioneering technology has also been noticed by politics and the media, and has received multiple awards for the eChiller. These include among others the European Business Award for the Environment 2018/2019 from the European Comission and the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in 2020.
Energy Utility
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- Solar, Energy, CleanTech
- Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
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- Solytic — Solytic’s mission is to make photovoltaics easy and profitable for everyone. Our digital platform enables customers to cut costs, increase revenues, and extend lifetimes of their solar installations from day one. We envision the future of solar energy to be fully digitalized with Solytic becoming the go-to platform that enables everyone to takean active role in fighting Climate Change by improving the performance of their photovoltaics.
We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.
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- Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, Gibraltar
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- DRESSX — Don't shop less, shop digital fashion. First multi brand retailer of digital fashion clothing. Shop digital fashion online at DRESSX.COM. Digital fashion clothes from top designer brands and 3D designers.
- Mangrove DAO — Mangrove is an order book-based DEX that solves the problem of fragmented liquidity of DeFi.
- Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network
eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.
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- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Germany, United States, Italy
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- BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
- Build38 — Build38 is a global provider of mobile application protection solutions. Its solution represents a new generation of app-hardening technologies and service that protects apps from known and unknown attacks and opens the market to new digital business models. Build38 protects applications across various industries including automotive, financial,public transport and health care. Build38 is headquartered in Munich with global offices in Barcelona and Singapore. The company is a spin out of Giesecke + Devrient and ranks among the best IT Security startups in Germany. Build38 is an official GARTNER In-App Shielding Market Guide Vendor since 2019 and the first to combine: In-App Shielding + In-App Monitoring + AI-based In-App Reaction.
- QuoIntelligence — Our finished intelligence will significantly reduce your operational risks and allow you to make informed security decisions.
WENVEST Capital is a private investment firm and emerged to become an entrepreneurial minded Venture Capital investor for Growth. Visit us and read more
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- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland
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- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
- anybill — We provide technology and infrastructure to create smart added value for the connected POS of the future. anybill develops technology and software solutions based on the digital receipt to establish a contemporary and environmentally friendly alternative for receipt issuance. The aim is to use the receipt as the first digital touchpoint to thecustomer in stationary retail and to offer further smart and interactive added values. The anybill services can be integrated as white label modules into merchant apps, banking apps or used as a stand-alone solution.
- Penzilla GmbH — Penzilla ist das Betriebssystem der betrieblichen Vorsorge (bAV) mit 100% Compliance, automatisierten Prozessen und voller Transparenz.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- m3ter — We enable software companies to intelligently deploy all usage-based scenarios whether they charge by subscription, consumption, or a hybrid pricing model.
- CarbonChain — We automate your supply chain carbon accounting, so you can tackle climate risks, reduce emissions, and accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.
- Odyssey — Provider of an online platform intended to streamline the development of mini-grids in emerging markets. The company's online platform manages how mini-grid data is analyzed and communicated via software tools, data analytics and marketplaces, enabling mini-grid project developers to connect with investors, suppliers, donors and other marketstakeholders.
Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.
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- Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, India
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- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
- Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
- Bosque Foods — Kinoko Labs develops the next generation of meat substitutes, starting with whole-cut meat items made from fungal mycelium produced organically. Headquartered in New York.
Upon graduation of the Hero Program at Draper University, alumni get a chance to pitch their business ideas for venture capital. Submit your business plan.
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- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Argentina, Germany
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- Juna — STI rates have hit record numbers for six consecutive years but testing and care options are unaffordable and inconvenient for most at-risk populations: Gen Z and the LGBTQ+ community. Juna's telehealth platform offers personalized clinical support, at-home sexual health testing, and medication with insurance coverage. Our payor-centric modelallows for end-to-end clinical support where you need it most.
- LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
- VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Norway
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- Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Leopold König is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Customcells. He was a Research Fellow at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology.
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- Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Neuhaus Partners is a recognized venture capital fund and has as a member of the Federal Association of German Equity Investment Companies (BVK) as well as the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) an excellent network in its sector. Neuhaus Partners support growth companies from the sectors IT (hardware, software and services), internet(infrastructure and services), telecommunications (services and technology), laser and photonics, microsystems technology and multimedia with technological know-how, comprehensive consulting and equity capital from founding to IPO and beyond with the objective of continuously creating added value for the companies.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Spain, Israel
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- Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
- Softgarden — Mit der Talent Acquisition Suite von softgarden begeistern und stellen Sie die besten Kandidaten schneller ein. Bewerbermanagement, Arbeitgeber-Reputation, HR Marketing.
- Searchmetrics — As part of Conductor, we help enterprises drive more revenue from search. Learn more about our SEO solutions.
One of Switzerland's largest gas distribution and energy services companies
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- Energy, Energy Storage, Clean Energy
- Funding Round, Series B, Seed
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- Ubiq.ai — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.
- Stabl Energy — Stabl Energy is a developer of a technology that significantly improves battery storage systems.
- ChargeX — ChargeX provides electric car charging solutions. Tobias Wagner, Michael Masnitza, and Johannes Engeln founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.
CEO
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- Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
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.
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- Software, CMS, Content Creators
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Sweden, United States
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- 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 Federated Content Platform. Integrate all your services with our unique content federation approach 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.
Aksel Lund Svindal
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Norway, Germany, United States
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- Megacool — Reduce user acquisition cost with Megacool! Megacool is a mobile SDK for game developers that lets their players capture GIF highlights to share with friends.
- imove — Een abonnement op een auto geeft je dezelfde vrijheid als autobezit. Je kan er in rijden zoveel en zo ver je maar wilt. Bij imove heb je na de minimaal gekozen contractduur de vrijheid om je abonnement op te zeggen wanneer je maar wilt. Je hoeft je geen zorgen te maken over onverwachte kosten of waardeverlies. Die stress is voor ons. Onze abonnementen zijn all-inclusive, met als resultaat: een waanzinnig comfort, exclusief voor jou.
- made of air — Made of Air is a carbon-negative materials company. They take low-value wood waste and transform it into high-value, carbon-negative thermoplastics. These thermoplastics can be formed with all traditional heat-forming methods and used for a wide variety of applications, turning manufactured goods into engineered carbon sinks.
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.
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- Software, Restaurants, Human Resources
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, France
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- 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
Per Liljenqvist
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- CleanTech, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Germany
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- 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.
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- Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
We are a global technology investor. We fund breakthrough companies and technologies, truly sponsoring progress.
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- Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Canada, Singapore
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- Aware — Aware is a mobile app for evaluating health data and for researching chronic diseases.
- Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.
Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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- Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Eyewear
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
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- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
- 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.
European VC backing entrepreneurs who build climate tech that can save at least 100Mt CO2e emissions per year.
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- Hardware, Energy Storage, Energy Efficiency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Aedifion — Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Karim Jalbout, based in London, leads the Digital and eCommerce segments of Egon Zehnder’s Technology and Communications Practice in Europe. Karim also leads the firm’s Chief Marketing Officers Practice in the UK. He is a trusted advisor to private equity, family-owned businesses, and start-ups at the C-suite and board levels. Karim has servedclients across hospitality, travel, publishing, financial services, telecommunications, pure play, and retail. He has deep experience in emerging markets, particularly India.Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Karim was Global Head of Propositions & Sales at Sony Ericsson Mobile, where he drove early investment in the Android platform. Previously, Karim gained more than a decade of FMCG experience with Diageo. He started his career working in Brand Management for Guinness in Canada, then moved to London as Brand Controller Guinness and Malta Guinness for the Africa region. Karim subsequently led Baileys in the UK market and was Marketing Director for Guinness in Europe, including Ukraine and Russia. Karim earned a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada and completed the Executive Education program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been a key speaker at the Digital Innovation Summit as well as for Endeavour (a global entrepreneur network) and LIFE (an international non-profit organization for Lebanese Executives in Finance).
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- Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Maximilian Odendahl - CEO & Co-Founder @ Silexica
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- Battery, CleanTech, Chemical Engineering
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
Tobias Schuett is the CEO at DZ-4.
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- Software, CleanTech, Clean Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
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