# Top 35 Organic Food Startup Investors in Germany in May 2026 ## Wolfgang Mauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Wolfgang Mauer ## True Growth Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Financial Services True Growth is a Berlin-based group of founders who actively invest into outstanding entrepreneurs. Over the past two decades, we have built several internationally leading companies and sold them to global players. We leverage our operational experience and dedicate a significant amount of time to supporting our portfolio companies. ## better ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Environmental Consulting, Advanced Materials At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better. ## Sustainable Food Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant ## Tijen Onaran - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women ## Arman Anatürk - Type: Angel - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness Arman Anatürk is Co-Founder @ FoodHack. ## Michael Cortelletti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Michael Cortelletti ## Norbert Lemken - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Norbert Lemken ## Jörg Kattner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Jörg Kattner ## Tobias Fezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Tobias Fezer ## Shio Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Grocery Shio Capital Venture Investments in Businesses that Change the World ## Feast Ventrues - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food and Beverage Enabling the new Nutrition Epitome ## Dennis Aogo - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer. ## Moritz Baier-Lentz - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Gaming, Software, Online Games Moritz Baier-Lentz is a Partner and the Head of Gaming at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a globally leading venture capital firm with over $18 billion in capital under management and more than 500 investments across the U.S., Europe, and Asia—including Epic Games, Stability AI, and Snap. As an investor and board director, he helps emerging gamestudios and interactive technology companies with everything from strategy to hiring, sales and marketing, and financing. Moritz loves to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs, many of whom have been leading the creation of games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Apex, Overwatch, Valorant, StarCraft II, and Warcraft III.Moritz is a former professional gamer and #1 ranked player of Diablo II and was recognized among the ‘30 Under 30’ (Forbes) and ‘40 Under 40’ (Capital). He is a founding member of the World Economic Forum's Metaverse Initiative to build equitable, interoperable, and safe virtual worlds. His recent speaking engagements include the World Economic Forum, Forbes, New York Times, Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T., Goldman Sachs, and J.P. Morgan. Moritz holds an M.B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University. ## Ralf Dummel - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design 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. ## Kärcher New Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Winnenden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Property Management Kärcher New Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Alfred Kärcher, the provider of cleaning technology for commercial and private customers. It enables innovative and dynamic to further develop their startups founders and to shape the cleaning industry of the future in partnership with it. It seeks to invest in pioneering product-,material- or service-based solution for future challenges within the cleaning sector. Besides its investment, Kärcher is also actively looking for start-up solutions to be used within the Kärcher group like B2B enterprise software as a venture client. In 2019, the Kärcher group achieved, with its operations in 72 countries, the highest turnover of its history (EUR 2.6 billion). ## Stefan Lemcke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Manufacturing, Bakery, Cosmetics Stefan Lemcke ## Ugur Samut - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Wholesale Ugur Samut - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Gorillas ## Oliver Stahl - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Organic Food Oliver Stahl ## Joko Winterscheidt - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Textiles, Organic Food, Manufacturing Joko Winterscheidt is Founder at GoButler. ## DTC Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage We invest in exceptional teams and scale direct-to-consumer business models that have the potential to disrupt industries. ## Purpose Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B - Focus: Apps, SaaS, EdTech Investing in ambitious founders and for-profit tech startups contributing to solving world challenges. We've built several successful companies and will help to build yours. We invest our own money, 100-1mil EUR per investment. We are part of tech private equity firm Pale Fire Capital. ## Charlotte Weise - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Organic Food, Food and Beverage Charlotte Weise ## Tengelmann Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Children, E-Learning Tengelmann Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on empowering the next generation of consumer-centric B2C/ B2B entrepreneurs. ## Kağan Sümer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Fashion Kağan Sümer is the CEO and co-founder of Gorillas. ## Mario Gomez - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Mobile Mario Gomez ## Moritz Heininger - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Blockchain Advising and investing in (pre)seed startups around the world – focusing on go-to-market, B2B sales, internationalization, and company culture.Investments include Keen4Greens (keen4greens.com), HEAT (heat.io), Biovox (biovox.systems), Clearpool (clearpool.finance)I am currently building DiscoEat/ DIDIT. With DIDIT, we are digitizing theway guests pay at restaurants. Within 15 seconds, guests can split and pay their bill, tip, leave a Google review and their email address. DIDIT is 100% customizable to the brand of the restaurant.Career Path: - Consultant - Bain & Company. - Managing Director DACH - Tink Labs/ handy/ hi.com (B2B hospitality tech). - COO - Anchanto.com - Asia's leading eCommerce selling & logistics tech platform. - ManagingDirector - foodpanda (Delivery Hero, formerly Rocket Internet) in Hong Kong and JakartaPersonal: - Fun things I love: Traveling, Reading, Podcasts, Crossfit, Wake Surfing, Dogs - Businesses I love: Food Tech, Restaurant Tech, web3, platform companies - Tasks I love: Company building, Culture building, Organizational development, B2B Sales ## Green Generation Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology The Green Generation Fund invests in early stage Food Tech and Green Tech companies that make our lives and diets more sustainable, healthy and ethical. ## Dr. Manon Sarah Littek - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, B2C Manon Sarah Littek is the founder of Katjes Greenfood. She is the founding partner of the Green Generation Fund. Manon attended the University of Oxford. ## Startnext - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic Food, Food and Beverage Startnext is a crowdfunding community for creative and sustainable ideas, projects, and startups. ## Felix Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage A Venture Capital Firm for the creative class ## Anne Lemcke - Type: Angel - Location: Jesteburg, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Software Anne Lemcke is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ankerkraut. She attended Box Hill Institute. ## Wolke Hegenbarth - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Health Care, Food and Beverage Wolke Hegenbarth ## Felix Wolf - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Other, Apps, Gaming Felix Wolf ## Mey Capital Matrix - Type: VC Fund - Location: München, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series C - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology The MEY Capital Matrix GmbH is a company which helps to reduce healthcare cost and provides personalized medicines. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co