Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023
| Investor | Sustainability Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Ralf Dummel | 4 |
| David Balensiefen | 3 |
| Lawrence Leuschner | 3 |
| Andreas Brenner | 3 |
| Gabor Cselle | 3 |
| Kristofer Fichtner | 3 |
| Andy Booke | 3 |
| Felix Jahn | 3 |
| Alf Arnold | 2 |
| Dr. Gregor Heinrich | 2 |
| Christoph Behn | 2 |
| Beate Rosenthal | 2 |
| Judith Williams | 2 |
| Matthias Ernst | 2 |
| Christoph Ostermann | 2 |
| Wilfried Gillrath | 2 |
| Lukasz Gadowski | 2 |
| Louis Pfitzner | 2 |
| Philipp Kloeckner | 2 |
| Mark Miller | 2 |
| ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz | 2 |
| Nikolaus D. Bayer | 2 |
| Michael Brehm | 2 |
| Peter Mertens | 2 |
| Kai Hansen | 2 |
| Friedrich A. Neuman | 2 |
| Ingo Hoff | 1 |
| Peter Carlsson | 1 |
| Lothar Stein | 1 |
| Niko Waesche | 1 |
| Lin Gong Deutschmann | 1 |
| Fahri Yardim | 1 |
| Maximilian Both | 1 |
| Johannes Sass | 1 |
| Tom Bird | 1 |
| Joachim Schneider | 1 |
| Tilman Finlay Freundlich | 1 |
| Dr. Matthieu Voss | 1 |
| Stephan Rohr | 1 |
| Bryant Chou | 1 |
| Aksel Lund Svindal | 1 |
| Moritz Poewe | 1 |
| Anna Alex | 1 |
| Elena Lehner | 1 |
| Leopold König | 1 |
| Marc Stöckli | 1 |
| Sebastian Mertens | 1 |
| Torge Thönnessen | 1 |
| Philipp Andernach | 1 |
| Mario Götze | 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ingo Hoff
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- Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Agriportance — Agriportance is a digital platform that connects biomethane producers and mineral oil companies.
CEO and Co-Founder @ Northvolt
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- Other, Sustainability, Gaming
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Mentor @ SINN Power
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- IT, Science/Engineering, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
Niko co-Founded German Media Pool with Aljoscha in 2011. Niko has over fifteen years of media industry experience, for example, as Global Industry Head for Media & Entertainment at GfK and Partner at IBM Global Business Services, leading IBM's European Media & Entertainment Industry practice. Niko also worked in VC and helped set up acorporate accelerator. He has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics as well as other degrees.
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- Other, Software, Apps
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
- 42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
- Debitos — Debitos is Germany’s first online-exchange, on which banks and corporates can actively trade both real estate-secured and unsecured non-performing loans.The platform is available at www.debitos.de and allows sellers to offer claims individually or bundled as a portfolio. More than 290 institutional investors compete with one another and placetheir bids in an online-auction. Through this process, sellers increase transaction prices and transparency. More than 1.300 corporates currently use the exchange to trade dunned invoices, enforceable claims/terminated loans and bankruptcy claims. Since launching the exchange in January 2012, a total volume of over 1 billion Euros has been offered on the exchange. Debitos GmbH is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company’s managing partners are Hajo Engelke and Timur Peters.
Lin-Gong Deutschmann is an angel investor.
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- Software, GreenTech, Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
- 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.
Fahri Ogün Yardım is a German actor and Film Producer.
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- Gaming, Software, Sustainability
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
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
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Johannes Sass - Shareholder @ Bluenini
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- Energy, Software, Sustainability
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Along — Join our waitlist and try it first!
- Planted Green — Planted Green plants mixed forests to compensate for CO2 emissions.
Tom Bird
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- Other, Sustainability, Commerce/Shopping
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- METYCLE — Buying Get access to hundreds of suppliers and thousands of products. Post your purchase request (RFQ) with us and we will find the best material for you. Selling Sell on one of the most active
Joachim Schneider - Vice-Chair @ EDSO for Smart Grids
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- Software, GreenTech, Infrastructure
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
Tilman Finlay-Freundlich is an angel investor.
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- Sustainability
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Recycle hero — Recycle hero is a sustainable pickup-service for recyclable waste.
Dr. Matthieu Voss is a Managing Director at MDW Digital Ventures | Invest | Incubate | Coach.
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- GreenTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
Founder & Co-CEO @ TWAICE.
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- Real Estate, Software, Consumer Goods
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- einwert — first European hybrid appraiser reimagining real estate valuation as a whole new ESG-compliant value experience. With digital technology that empowers our appraisers and tools that offer unparalleled market transparency & sustainability insights, we help real estate investors to boost smarter and future-oriented real estate decisions.
- Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Bryant Chou - Co-Founder, CTO @ Webflow
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- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Design
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Aksel Lund Svindal
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- Transportation, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- Norway, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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 GmbH — 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.
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
Portfolio highlights
- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- Hygraph — Hygraph is the next generation GraphQL-Native 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.
In 2012 Anna together with her co-founder Julia launched OUTFITTERY with the vision to create a shopping experience for men that is convenient, fun and inspiring. Today, OUTFITTERY serves individual outfits to over 600k men in eight countries and Anna is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Europe. In 2016, she was voted amongst Europe’s“Inspiring Fifty”, the 50 most inspirational women in tech. Prior to OUTFITTERY Anna lead the IT of the Swiss group buying platform DeinDeal in Zurich. She studied economic sociology in Freiburg and Paris.
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- Wellness, CleanTech, Veterinary
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
- 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.
Elena Lehner is a project Manager at LINQ management GmbH.
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- GreenTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Faircado — Stop wasting time and money - faircado helps you find the best pre-owned deals for your wallet and the planet.
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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- Energy, Sustainability, Science/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.
Marc O. Stöckli Board Member, Investor, and Business Mentor.
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- Internet, Green Consumer Goods, Supply Chain Management
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
Sebastian Mertens is the Managing director, Founder, and Chairman of wemakefuture. He previously worked at ASERVMENT as a CEO and Co-Founder.
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- B2C, Pet, Software
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- repath — Our mission is to make climate risks visible to companies worldwide in order to enable a resilient and future-proof world.
- HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
Torge Thönnessen is the Co-founder and CEO at Custom Cells.
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- Energy, Sustainability, Science/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.
Philipp Andernach - Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer @ Service Partner ONE
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- Energy, Sustainability
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- baupal — 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.
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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- Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Vivalyx — Vivalyx Omnisol will be a process- and cost-effective one-stop solution for all preservation applications, allowing NMP without the use of blood or human products.
- 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.
- LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
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