We work with daring, impact-first founders

We invest in founders with a clear commitment to solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.

Louis Pfitzner, Co-Founder of CleanHub

Our investment focus

We want to drive systemic change - through our investments and our engagement in the impact investing community. We invest in Europe and the US.

Stable and equitable societies

Ecosystems

Climate & energy

Materials and circularity

Climate and energy

We want to foster a net-zero world and innovation in renewable energy. 

Ecosystems

We want to support thriving terrestrial and ocean ecosystems.

Stable and equitable societies

We want to end discrimination, create equal chances, increase social stability, and ensure fair access to critical services for all.  

Our investment focus

We provide patient, long-term capital. We are willing to take technical risks and support deep tech and hardware companies, where typical VCs might turn away.

Pre-Seed

Its never too early to share your idea with us.

Flexible to follow-on

We are longterm focused and are willing to continue to invest for impact.

Seed

We love to help early-stage teams get their ideas off the ground.

Series A

We can support our portfolio companies as they grow.

Flexible to follow-on

We are longterm focused and are willing to continue to invest for impact.

ESG & Impact

We will look at your external impact, meaning how you are contributing to solving an environmental or social challenge with your business model, product or service, and your “internal” footprint in terms of environmental, social and governance issues (ESG).

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Our portfolio

We work with founders who are intrinsically motivated by enacting systemic change.

GOLDBECK expertise

We are backed by the family behind GOLDBECK, a leading player in the European construction industry, and Goldbeck Solar, a company specialized in turnkey construction of large-scale commercial solar installations.

Our portfolio companies enjoy the full power of GOLDBECK's and Goldbeck Solar's expertise, including technical expertise in built environment, materials, and energy systems, as well as technical sparring and potential pilot projects.

The Landbanking Group

Munich, Germany | Founded: 2022

The Landbanking Group incentivize nature regeneration by enabling land stewards to register, monitor, and exchange assets based on a measured uplift in natural capital such as biodiversity, and water and soil quality.

Impact challenge:
Climate change and biodiversity loss

Impact KPIs:
Ha of land restored and preserved, tons of CO2e captured

Co-Investors:
Planet A Ventures, BonVenture, and 4P Capital

Voltfang

Aachen, Germany | Founded: 2020

Voltfang specializes in using end-of-life batteries from electric vehicles as sustainable stationary energy storage for industrial applications. Their main goal is to provide cost-effective and sustainable battery storage to support the energy transition.

Impact challenge:
Energy production based on fossil fuels and waste from discarded electric car batteries

Impact KPIs:
Re-used battery storage capacity in kWh & reduced material footprint in kg/tons, and resulting reduced emissions in CO2e

Co-Investors:
AENU, Proptech1, Helen Ventures, Eviny