Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 Energy Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
| Investor | Energy Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Ralf Dummel | 4 |
| Gabor Cselle | 3 |
| David Balensiefen | 3 |
| Peter Mertens | 3 |
| Kristofer Fichtner | 3 |
| Andreas Brenner | 3 |
| Lawrence Leuschner | 3 |
| Andy Booke | 3 |
| Felix Jahn | 3 |
| Judith Williams | 2 |
| Michael Brehm | 2 |
| Dr. Gregor Heinrich | 2 |
| Mark Miller | 2 |
| Wilfried Gillrath | 2 |
| Louis Pfitzner | 2 |
| Christoph Ostermann | 2 |
| Nikolaus D. Bayer | 2 |
| Philipp Kloeckner | 2 |
| Alf Arnold | 2 |
| Lukasz Gadowski | 2 |
| Matthias Ernst | 2 |
| Christoph Behn | 2 |
| ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz | 2 |
| Beate Rosenthal | 2 |
| Friedrich A. Neuman | 2 |
| Matthias Hilpert | 2 |
| Kai Hansen | 2 |
| Arno Gerken | 1 |
| Erik Range | 1 |
| Marc Stilke | 1 |
| Christian Reber | 1 |
| Patrick Pichette | 1 |
| Albert Wenger | 1 |
| Georg Kofler | 1 |
| Robin Kroll | 1 |
| Stefano Bernardi | 1 |
| Lukas Speiser | 1 |
| Joachim Drees | 1 |
| Carsten Gropp | 1 |
| Patric Fassbender | 1 |
| Thomas Glatte | 1 |
| Manu Gupta | 1 |
| Young Sohn | 1 |
| Daniel W Dippold | 1 |
| Cristina Stenbeck | 1 |
| Tobias Schuett | 1 |
| Jens Begemann | 1 |
| Jonas Rieke | 1 |
| Tom O'Keefe | 1 |
| Bryant Chou | 1 |
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Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
- KITCHBO — KITCHBO baking mat. We eagerly anticipated your responses and feedback and were overjoyed that your enthusiasm for our project was shared. It undoubtedly benefited from having a few treats to sample that matched the product. And because the KITCHBO baking mat made everything so incredibly crispy and crunchy, we could practically hear the lionsfrolicking and knew we had done everything correctly.
- TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- gridX — Combine powerful IoT and cloud infrastructure with flexible modules to build customized and cost-efficient digital energy solutions through XENON.
- Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
- Voltfang — Optimieren Sie die Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit Ihres Unternehmens mithilfe unseres Second-Life-Batteriespeichers, aus E-Autobatterien.
David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX
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- Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Voltfang — Optimieren Sie die Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit Ihres Unternehmens mithilfe unseres Second-Life-Batteriespeichers, aus E-Autobatterien.
- 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.
Peter Mertens
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- 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.
Kristofer Fichtner is a serial entrepreneur and business Angel with a strong focus on the energy industry, property tech and craft tech.
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- Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Predium — Predium is the software platform for real estate owners to measure, manage and communicate their ESG performance.
- Vermietet.de — Vermietet.de is an association of Berlin entrepreneurs and investors whose vision is to make real estate ownership simple and intelligent. They know from their own experience how complex the management of a property can be - and have therefore founded rented.de.
Andreas Brenner
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- B2B, Timber, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
- Timber Base — We digitize one of the oldest industries of mankind: The Timber Industry. We change the way timber is traded all over the world: fast, easy and transparent.
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
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.
- 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.
Andreas Booke - Managing Director and Founder @ gridX
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- Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Voltfang — Optimieren Sie die Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit Ihres Unternehmens mithilfe unseres Second-Life-Batteriespeichers, aus E-Autobatterien.
- 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.
Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Kursinsel — We empower children to discover their interests and pursue their passions from the comfort of their homes. Providing access to a large variety of interactive online courses from drawing, dancing, science to Minecraft and many more.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Judith Williams
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- Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- PÁPYDO — PÁPYDO produces sustainable and primarily wood-free products.
- Womatics — Womatics produces pregnancy and breastfeeding easing products.
- Chiengora — Chiengora produces clothing made from dog wool.
Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and starting an investment company, Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000’s, he was Executive Director andInvestor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing, but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style, as well as their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.
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- Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
- charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
- Atheneum — Powered by a network of 800,000 experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.
Dr. Gregor Heinrich is a CTO at creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft. He attended Leipzig University.
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- Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
MARK MILLER is a co-founder and partner at LearnLaunch. Miller is a lifelong entrepreneur since winning the business plan competition at Cornell University and building one of the earliest first education publishing subscription businesses. As a result of his own company exits and leading the sale of two companies he advised, Miller founded andserves as Managing Partner of Good Harbor Partners (GHP). GHP provides strategy consulting, outsourced corporate development and advisory M&A services to some of the top companies in the education marketplace.Miller has co-founded, built and/or served as Executive Chairman or CEO for leading publishing, technology and community companies. Many of these companies have had successful exits, including CollegiateLink, TakeNote, The Daily Jolt and The Custom Publishing Group.Miller was tapped by a set of leading University CIOs to commercialize CUPID and developed the first SaaS based on-demand publishing platform. NetPaper offered a new model for creation and consumption of textbook, journal and scholarly monograph content.Miller is a Cornellian and he currently serves on the The Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. He was also was recognized for his contributions at Cornell and was tapped and serves as a member of the Quill and Dagger Honorary Society.
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- EdTech, Recycling, E-Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 101 Edu — 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
Wilfried Gillrath served as CEO of the LichtBlick Group.
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- Marketing, Recycling, Wind Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Caeli Wind — Caeli Wind is a cloud-based intelligent platform that identifies wind potential areas and enables marketing.
- Recycle hero — Recycle hero is a sustainable pickup-service for recyclable waste.
Entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS) espcially when it's in the SMB space.
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- B2B, Local, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- halm — Halm is building a modern outdoor homecare brand for consumers.
- Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
- METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.
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- 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 — Photovoltaik mit Speicher zum Einstecken in der Steckdose - Mit deinem Balkonkraftwerk von EET produzierst du eigenen Sonnenstrom.
Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.
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- Education, SaaS, EdTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- limbiq.com — limbiq is a centralized software platform designed to help businesses achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time updates, even on the SKU level, across all modes of transport. Our customers enjoy productivity gains of 60% or more, and cost savings of 40-60% due to lower safety stock levels and reduced process-related costs. With limbiq, you can collaborate seamlessly with all your partners along the supply chain and be automatically alerted when schedules change. Schedule a free personalized demo to see how limbiq can work for you and your team.
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
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.
Alf Arnold is a member of Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg.
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- Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
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.
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- 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 — Carsharing nach Kilometern statt Minuten. MILES Autos und Transporter einfach per App mieten und losfahren!
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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
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- Software, Apps, Ride Sharing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
- Kumpan Electric — Kumpan electric (e-bility GmbH) is a manufacturer of E-Scooters and offers e-mobility solutions and portable energy storage systems– made inEurope! Kumpan electric develops, produces, and sells stylish electric vehicles (20-120 km/h) and energy storage systems for end consumers, fleets, and sharing companies (B2C, B2B).
- Hintbox — Whistleblower-System, Hinweisgebersystem, SaaS
Beate Rosenthal
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- Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Battery, Organic
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- elvah — So geht sorgloses Elektroauto laden.
- 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.
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
- Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
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
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Investment focus
- Other, Sports, Sustainability
- Pre-Seed
Erik Range
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- Gaming, Sustainability, Food/Beverage
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Ocha Ocha — Ocha Ocha primarily offers drinks without sweeteners.
Investment focus
- Real Estate, Energy, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
Co-founder & CEO @ Pitch Team Member @ Advise.me
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- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
General Partner @ Inovia Capital Partner @ McKinsey & Company Founding Partner and Fellow @ Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
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- Software, Science/Engineering, AI
- Seed, Series B, Series A
Managing Partner @ Union Square Ventures Director @ Stacks
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- Software, Internet, Science/Engineering
- Series A, Series B, Series C
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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- Consumer Goods, Commerce/Shopping, Apps
- Angel, Seed
- Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
- KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
- Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.
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.
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- 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.
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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- Software, Other, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Italy, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- 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.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Lukas Speiser is the founder and CEO of Amorana.ch
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- Health Care, Gaming, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Germany, Switzerland
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- Dunatura — Dunatura engages in the manufacture and supply of vitamins and micronutrients.
- Testmate Health — Testmate Health is a medtech startup and award-winning spin-off of University of Geneva (Switzerland). We have developed a smartphone compatible platform test kit that diagnoses any disease with an identifiable DNA or RNA sequence - without the need for a lab, providing results directly at home in minutes. Based on this platform, our firstsolution is the first rapid urine self-test for the four most common sexually transmitted diseases (STD). One million new STDs are diagnosed a day, and yet the best improvements to date still need a lab, with results taking up to 7 days to be ready. Our easy to use all-in-one-kit provides results in minutes, anywhere, at any time, and the result is scannable by a smartphone to enable people to immediately gain access to treatment – if needed. Further test-kits with other diseases are in the pipeline to empower users to skip the waiting room, and take charge of their health from home.
Joachim Drees was born on November 20, 1964 in Düsseldorf.He studied business administration at the University of Stuttgart and did his MBA at Portland State University.Following his degree, he worked at various management consultant firms and the privatization agency (Treuhandanstalt) in Berlin. Drees held managerial positions in the DaimlerTruck Group and at Mercedes-Benz Trucks from 1996 onward, including as Commercial Director of the Gaggenau Transmissions Unit and as Head of Commercial Vehicle Controlling.In 2006, Joachim Drees joined British investment company HgCapital LLP as Partner for Portfolio Management.From 2012 onward, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Drees & Sommer AG with responsibility for Finance & Controlling, M&A, Human Resources, Administration, and Internationalization Support.Joachim Drees has been CEO of MAN SE and of MAN Truck & Bus SE (formerly MAN Truck & Bus AG) since 2015.He is also a member of the Executive Board of TRATON SE.
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- Railroad, Logistics, Sustainability
- Seed
- Germany
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- CO2OPT — We help carriers to resolve the dilemma between emission reduction targets and low profit margins by delivering an AI tool which optimizes their tire management. We enable logistics carriers to save fuel costs and CO2 emissions by up to 10% by delivering1. A neutral match making tool that determines the best tire - vehicle match 2. Monthlysubscription pricing models for our services 3. Operational suggestions to increase the tire life cycle incl. Retread 4. CO2 emission reduction certificates that prove the achieved savings 5. Working capital friendly tire mgmt. contracts
- AWAKE Mobility — AWAKE Mobility is a Data Science Startup, that supports bus operators with digital transformation.
Partner
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- Solar, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- 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.
Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.
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- EdTech, Mobile, Soccer
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
- Kursinsel — We empower children to discover their interests and pursue their passions from the comfort of their homes. Providing access to a large variety of interactive online courses from drawing, dancing, science to Minecraft and many more.
- 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.
Thomas Glatte
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- Software, GreenTech, Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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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.
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.
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- Software, Financial, Real Estate
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
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- 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.
Young Sohn is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose passion is building businesses and fostering emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the world for the better. Currently, Sohn serves as Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board of HARMAN. He leads Samsung’s strategy forglobal innovation, investment, and new business creation, and led the company’s $8 billion acquisition of HARMAN. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, Sohn served as CEO of two successful, public Silicon Valley companies and on the boards of Arm, Cadence, Cymer (ASML), and others. Under his leadership as CEO and board member, he took PLX Technologies, Synnex Technologies, and Inphi public. He was also a seed investor in some of the industry’s most innovative companies, including Bitfury, Fungible, Graphcore, and Zoom.Sohn is a leader of the global Tech for Good movement. He helped launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest startup competition for entrepreneurs addressing global challenges. He also serves as a North America board member at MIT Sloan, a senior advisor to the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, a board member at Cadence, and an advisor for the University of California Innovation Council. Sohn holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS from the MIT Sloan School of Management. An avid outdoorsman, Sohn spends his personal time kite surfing, cycling, running, hiking, and competing in triathlons.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Automation
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Germany, Switzerland
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- Revolear — Revolutionize your dealmaking with Revolear, the end-to-end platform for structuring, proposing, negotiating, and approving deals. Designed for Humans. Powered by AI.
- Galileo — The ML Developer Platform for Evaluation, Experimentation, and Observability with Unstructured Data
- Perfect — A personalized talent-finding and engaging experience made for every team.
Daniel W Dippold
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- Software, GreenTech, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
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- Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.
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- Commerce/Shopping, Community/Lifestyle, Clothing/Apparel
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands
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- Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
- H2 Green Steel — H2 Green Steel will be a fully integrated, digitalized and automated greenfield steel plant. By bringing together raw materials, renewable energy, local expertise, and artificial intelligence, we aim to bring emissions down to zero.
- 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.
Tobias Schuett is the CEO at DZ-4.
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- Energy, Software, Sustainability
- 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.
Jens Begemann
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- Software, Other, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
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- Klima — Klima combines the most effective actions an individual can take to fight climate change today.
- Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
Jonas Rieke - Chief Operations Officer @ Personio
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- Software, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Sweden
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- tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
- Rex — Veterinary practices you always wanted
- nilo.health — Workplace mental health care that employees love. High-quality, personalized, on-demand mental health support for your entire workforce
Tom O'Keefe
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- Other, Sustainability, Financial
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- GreenTrade — GreenTrade is a marketplace for nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The company accelerates the funding of new carbon projects by turning long-term purchase agreements into digital tradable assets and making them available for corporate buyers today. We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs, transforming the Voluntary Carbon Market($200B by 2050) by introducing the concept of Future Credits. Through long-term offtake agreements (ERPAs) with project developers, we’re securing future supply rights and turning them into digital assets (NFTs). Buyers are mitigating future price and access risk, while developers are able to secure funding for additional projects. Our mission is to mitigate climate change through realizing 1B TONNES OF CARBON CREDITS BY 2030. Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQehoqCv1Y
Bryant Chou - Co-Founder, CTO @ Webflow
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- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Design
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany
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- Vaayu — Software that helps online retailers track and cut carbon.
- Canvas — Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL.
- Census — Census is the leading reverse ETL tool delivering operational analytics to hundreds of the world's most data-driven companies. Start syncing data with your free account.
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