
Lizee
Enabling brands and retailers to launch circular rental services.
Lizee is building a more sustainable retail industry by helping brands adapt their businesses to include a rental service.
The Lizee Rental Lab makes the process simple and hassle free by first optimizing the brands existing eCommerce site for renting. The team then handles the picking, packing, shipping and facilitation of payments for rented products, oversees quality checks for returned products, refurbishing, and more. Lizee does the heavy lifting and retailers reap the financial rewards.
Crate.io
Distributed SQL database for real-time industrial data and IoT applications.

Crate.io
Distributed SQL database for real-time industrial data and IoT applications.
The next wave of big data will be generated by IoT (Internet of Things) devices such as sensors, wearables, and vehicles, generating millions of data points per second.
Crate.io was founded to help companies process this data and establish a standard for database developers with its decentralized SQL database for managing machine data and analyzing it in real time. Making traditional central databases obsolete and allowing companies to store their data on different application services, providing simplicity and scalability.
cylib
Sustainable technology for Li-ion battery recycling, for a true circular economy.

cylib
Sustainable technology for Li-ion battery recycling, for a true circular economy.
cylib aims to secure global raw material demands by recycling Li-ion batteries. This is realized by a proprietary, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly end-to-end process. The holistic cylib-process gives commodities another life by treating used batteries and transforming them into marketable raw materials. With cylib’s process, it is possible to recover all battery components. This also includes Lithium and Graphite among other materials that are currently not recovered from batteries in the EU.
The recycling process was developed over many years of research at RWTH Aachen University and contains all the relevant process steps, like mechanical, thermal and chemical treatments to reach high yields.
drag&bot
Supporting production companies to cost-effectively automate with industrial robots.

drag&bot
Supporting production companies to cost-effectively automate with industrial robots.
drag&bot (acquired by KEBA in 2022) is an intuitive, web-based software platform for easy setup, programming and operation of industrial robots. With its graphical interface no prior robotics skills are needed to step your company into the era of automation. Their solution can be deployed across all relevant, industrial robotic systems and offers a high degree of flexibility, making industrial robots economical even for small production batches.
Ellipsus
Making it easy for anyone to write together.

Ellipsus
Making it easy for anyone to write together.
Ellipsus is helping a new generation of writers create culture together. The writing tool—which combines the best of modern text editors with the granular version control championed by Git—aims to thread collaboration through every stage of writing, editing, and publishing. Founded in late 2022, Ellipsus is currently in private beta testing.
Exactly.ai
Creative design tool for professional artists to utilize AI to scale and market their work.

Exactly.ai
Creative design tool for professional artists to utilize AI to scale and market their work.
Unlike existing Gen AI platforms that aim to bypass human creativity with AI, exactly is purpose-built to allow artists to create and replicate more designs, more quickly, in their own unique style – and maintain full ownership and IP rights over everything they create.
exactly enables artists to build and train their own Gen AI models based on their individual artistic practice and original designs, producing brilliant work at speed without compromise or constraint. Using exactly, artists can enhance their productivity and accomplish more, faster, and hone their craft thanks to the ability to make rapid, limitless iterations on any design. In just a short time since launch, exactly has nurtured a community of more than 30,000 users purely through word-of-mouth and they have ambitious plans to expand the offering further during 2024 and beyond.
Fairlyne
Resale-as-a-Service platform for the travel industry.

Fairlyne
Resale-as-a-Service platform for the travel industry.
Fairlyne is building the world’s 1st resale-as-a-service platform for the travel industry, allowing travel brands to generate incremental revenue and deliver a seamless Resale experience to their customers.
Fernride
Dual-use, human-assisted autonomous trucking for industrial logistics and European defense supply chains.
Fernride
Dual-use, human-assisted autonomous trucking for industrial logistics and European defense supply chains.
Fernride is a Munich-based ground autonomy platform that specializes in human-supervised autonomous trucking for critical infrastructure and defense logistics.
The company retrofits existing vehicles, primarily terminal tractors and trucks, with AI, sensors, and software to automate repetitive cargo movements within industrial yards, container terminals, and manufacturing sites.
Fernride also deploys its certified technology into European defense logistics, leveraging the same platform to enhance mission resilience and reduce human risk in military supply chains.
FinCompare
Helping SMEs find, compare, and close on the right financing solution.

FinCompare
Helping SMEs find, compare, and close on the right financing solution.
FinCompare (acquired by VAD Beteiligungen GmbH in 2021) is a comparison platform for financing options aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking funding starting at 10,000 €.
Via the online platform, businesses can access a wide range of financing options. Companies can independently compare offers from over 200 well-known banks, fintechs, and financial services providers and close on the financing. In addition to the usual corporate loans, FinCompare offers alternative financing solutions such as factoring, and leasing.