Planet A Ventures Berlin, DE
Planet A is a Berlin-based, science-driven green tech venture capital firm investing in early-stage European startups focused on climate mitigation, resource savings, biodiversity protection, and waste reduction. The firm utilizes an in-house science team to conduct life cycle assessments before making investment decisions.
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Type Venture capital 2 Below One Fund II GmbH & Co. KG 2025-02-10 2025-02-10 — NewerFundII underPlanetAGmbH management, addeddisclosure2025-02-10 and2025PAIreports; pageupdated2026-06-03. Size/target/first/finalclose unverified; legalexistence only.
Fund I 2023-02-08 2023-02-08 €160M EUR160M closed impactfund, reported2023-02-08; counsel2023-03-21 confirmation. NotcurrentAUM or onlycurrentvehicle.
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$26M 2026-06-03 Gigaton Planet A Ventures , Plural $— 2026-01-19 One five Planet A Ventures , Speedinvest $— 2025-12-03 Ecair Planet A Ventures $— 2025-10-01 Mondra AlbionVC , Planet A Ventures $— 2025-07-22 Makersite Partech , Planet A Ventures $— 2025-07-03 Hived Planet A Ventures £5M 2025-06-04 AUAR Planet A Ventures €6M 2025-03-19 PulseTrain Planet A Ventures , Vsquared Ventures $10M 2025-03-03 ARSENALE Planet A Ventures $— 2025-02-06 Podero Planet A Ventures , SYSTEMIQ Capital €12M 2024-09-19 Phlair Planet A Ventures $— 2024-08-21 Optiml Innovation Endeavors , Planet A Ventures $— 2023-09-25 TRACELESS MATERIALS Planet A Ventures $12M 2023-04-27 Hived Planet A Ventures $— 2023-03-13 SunHero Planet A Ventures , Acurio Ventures , Speedinvest $12M 2023-02-21 Paleo Planet A Ventures $— 2022-12-13 The Upright Project Planet A Ventures $4M 2022-11-07 Carbon Re Planet A Ventures $— 2022-09-28 one • fıve Planet A Ventures , Speedinvest $4M 2022 Carbon Re Planet A Ventures , Plural $3M Unknown date Unwritten Planet A Ventures $3M Unknown date Unwritten Planet A Ventures $— Unknown date ARIS MACHINA Planet A Ventures €15M 2025-03-19 C1 Green Chemicals Planet A Ventures €15M 2025-03-19 C1 Green Chemicals Planet A Ventures $10M 2025-02-25 Arsenale Bioyards Planet A Ventures
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team@apexlogos.ai · 12 hours ago
Investment-fund research reviewed 2026-10-06. Publicly identified funds, dates, amounts and fundraising status are below. Undisclosed commitments remain unknown; this is not a complete register of private SPVs or parallel entities.
Fund size and current investment mandate
| Vehicle / metric | Supported finding | Evidence and date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debut impact fund / Fund I | **€160 million closed**, reported 2023-02-08. This is an individual fund close, not a target, annual budget or established current total AUM. | [Tech Funding News, 2023-02-08](https://techfundingnews.com/planet-a-secures-160-million-for-its-science-led-funding-mission/ ); fund counsel [YPOG, 2023-03-21](https://www.ypog.law/en/press/ypog-advises-planet-a-ventures-on-the-closing-of-its-160-million-impact-fund ) independently confirms the closing and amount. |
| Below One Fund II GmbH & Co. KG | A newer Fund II exists under Planet A GmbH management. The public disclosures include Fund II, added 2025-02-10, and separate 2025 PAI reporting for Funds I and II. **Size, fundraising target, first/final close dates and total commitments not verified.** Existence of a vehicle/reporting does not establish a final close. | [Official SFDR disclosures](https://planet-a.com/eu-sfdr-disclosures/ ), page updates include 2025-02-10 and 2026-06-03. |
| Initial investment size | **€500,000–€4 million**, current official website. This is check size, separate from either fund's capital. No official sweet spot verified. | [Official homepage](https://planet-a.com/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Current stages / geography | **Pre-seed through Series A**, pan-European, explicitly stated by the firm. Historical follow-on transactions should not expand the current initial-investment mandate without further evidence. | [Official homepage](https://planet-a.com/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
The €160 million amount is the latest **verified quantified fund close** located, not a claim that Fund I remains the firm's only or latest vehicle. Searches for Fund II/newer fundraising in 2025–2026 surfaced official disclosure of the newer vehicle but no reliable quantified closing announcement. The current portfolio categories are Critical Infrastructure, Energy, Neo Manufacturing and Resource Mastery; the SFDR mandates retain ecological objectives. This is a broader public technology framing than the old “green tech” shorthand, rather than evidence that sustainability requirements were removed. [Official portfolio](https://planet-a.com/startups/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06; [official disclosures](https://planet-a.com/eu-sfdr-disclosures/ ).
Funds recorded in Adex after this review:
| Fund | Disclosed amount | Announcement / filing date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fund I | EUR 160000000 | 2023-02-08 |
| Below One Fund II GmbH & Co. KG | Undisclosed / unverified | 2025-02-10 | SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 12 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / PlanetAVentures / sha256:246a725e3be1a16955df9e9d25a1ce0de1a77b590779bf747484db202c6ce934 / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
| **PULSETRAIN**, formerly Bavertis | Integrated battery management, inverter and charging electronics; physical power-electronics architecture rather than ordinary app software. | **€6.1m seed**, co-led by Vsquared and Planet A, with Climate Club. Battery life/performance improvements are company claims, not independently measured results. | [Company release via Business Wire, 2025-03-19](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250319411169/en/PULSETRAIN-secures-%E2%82%AC6.1-million-to-radically-improve-EV-battery-performance-and-lifespan ); [electrive, 2025-03-21](https://www.electrive.com/2025/03/21/pulsetrain-secures-6-1-million-in-funding-for-battery-research/ ). |
The firm's [official portfolio](https://planet-a.com/startups/ ) additionally confirms holdings including **GA Drilling** (supercritical geothermal technology), **INERATEC** (decentralised clean-fuel production), **44.01** (CO2 mineralisation), **STAER** (spatial intelligence for mobile robots), **Paleo** (substitute meat proteins) and **Project Eaden** (plant-based meat). These are promising technical examples, but this review does not establish their entry rounds, dates, check amounts or specific holding vehicles. The page corroborates the six named firms above; it also includes climate data, logistics and finance businesses, which were not automatically classified as deep tech. Some entries are anonymous “Coming Soon” cards, limiting full public coverage.
## Neurotech findings and attribution boundaries
**No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** The reviewed sources were the 26-record Adex investment snapshot, the official portfolio and strategy pages, available NFX index profiles, and searches combining the firm name with neurotech, neuroscience, brain-computer and neurotechnology. This is a bounded negative finding, not proof the firm has never invested in the sector.
No named verified holding in this review develops neural interfaces, brain stimulation, EEG systems or neuroprosthetics. Battery “pulse” technology at PULSETRAIN is power electronics, not neural stimulation. Industrial biotech at Arsenale and food proteins at Paleo are not neurotechnology. A VDS 2026 speaker listing places Planet A's Aina Cabrero alongside INBRAIN/Neuroelectrics speakers, but conference participation does **not** prove investment: [VDS announcement, September 2026, exact day not exposed in search result](https://vds.tech/news/nvidia-spotify-lg-rolls-royce-astrazeneca-vds-2026/ ). No neurotechnology or adjacent mental-health investment should be inferred from that search hit.
## Conflicts, missing information and notes for later Adex review
1. **Incorrect transaction source attached to goodcarbon:** snapshot has a 2025-03-19 goodcarbon investment linked to the C1 funding article. The directly read article concerns C1 and Planet A's participation, not a goodcarbon financing. goodcarbon itself is listed on the official portfolio, so distinguish real portfolio attribution from an unsupported transaction/date. Review the misattached funding participation before any database change.
2. **Likely duplicate entities/rounds:** snapshot has ARSENALE ($10m dated 2025-03-03) and Arsenale Bioyards (2025-02-25), both apparently the official **2025-02-25 $10m seed**. Also Carbon Re appears twice for the same TechCrunch November 2022 URL with conflicting USD $4.8m/$4.2m values and precision of date. One.Five aliases differ across vintages; Unwritten has two undated $3.5m participations from different media URLs. Resolve identities and round duplicates with original announcements; do not treat the raw 26 entries as 26 unique companies or rounds.
3. **Roles need qualification:** Dittes' Signal description supports LP/network membership rather than unqualified institutional investing responsibility. Personal deal history and check range do not belong in the firm's investment profile. Seel's profile mixes Verve and Planet A affiliations; Christian Gonzalez appears under two differently styled IDs in the snapshot. Confirm current roles from the official team before normalising.
4. **Fund II is a material missing update:** retain €160m with Fund I/2023 context. Record Fund II existence only with verified legal identity and disclosure evidence; do not invent size, final close or current AUM. No firm-wide current total AUM was reliably verified.
5. **Check fields have support:** the official €500k–€4m initial investment range and pre-seed–Series A mandate can be reviewed for a later update. Do not substitute NFX personal dollar ranges or assert those amounts apply to follow-ons.
6. **Financing composition matters:** C1's headline includes grants, Phlair's package includes grants, and traceless' announcement includes banks. Preserve financing totals and instrument caveats instead of treating all headline amounts as equity. Company technical performance projections are promotional claims.
7. **Coverage limits:** this is a substantive sample of independently supported technical investments, not an exhaustive historical ledger. Some snapshot 2026 transactions and software investments were not independently revalidated; official anonymous portfolio entries and undisclosed vehicles/check sizes remain unresolved. Munich Startup's PULSETRAIN profile also indexes a September 2025 seed with unspecified amount; that possible later round needs original-source verification before import: [profile, undated](https://www.munich-startup.de/en/startups/pulsetrain-gmbh/ ).
All linked sources were accessed or search-index inspected on 2026-10-06. Direct-read sources include Planet A's homepage, portfolio, science and SFDR pages, YPOG, traceless, Arsenale, EU-Startups C1/Phlair Tech.eu AUAR and the PULSETRAIN Business Wire company release. NFX profiles and supplementary PULSETRAIN reporting were search-index readable; NFX direct requests failed. Supporting source dates are specified inline; undated pages use the access date. This document is research only: no Adex/database/MCP Patch changes were made. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 12 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / PlanetAVentures / sha256:246a725e3be1a16955df9e9d25a1ce0de1a77b590779bf747484db202c6ce934 / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# Planet A Ventures
- Exact Adex ID: `PlanetAVentures`
- Canonical Adex URL: https://adex.page/firms/PlanetAVentures
- Research date / sources accessed: **2026-10-06**
- Status: research complete for this review; material disclosure gaps remain explicitly identified below.
Planet A is a European early-stage technology VC with a science-based environmental investment process. Its current official positioning covers systemic challenges and deeply technical founders; historical green-tech positioning is substantiated by its sustainable-fund disclosures. The verified record includes biomaterials, chemical catalysis, carbon capture, industrial biotechnology, construction robotics and battery electronics. No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked. [Official homepage, undated](https://planet-a.com/ ); [official SFDR disclosures, updated 2026-06-03](https://planet-a.com/eu-sfdr-disclosures/ ).
## Starting evidence: Adex and NFX Signal
The exact-ID saved MCP Search snapshot, `_sources/PlanetAVentures.adex.json`, was retrieved 2026-10-06 at 19:29:41 UTC. It describes a Berlin-based science-driven early-stage European green-tech investor focused on climate mitigation, resources, biodiversity and waste, with in-house life-cycle assessment. Its investor profile has no populated check minimum, maximum or sweet spot; it contains 26 investment participation records and 27 role records. Snapshot investment leads include Gigaton, One.Five, Ecair, Mondra, Makersite, HIVED, goodcarbon, Pulsetrain, Arsenale, Podero, Phlair, Optiml, traceless, SunHero, Paleo, Upright, Carbon Re, ARIS MACHINA, AUAR, Unwritten and C1. These are starting claims, not independently established transactions; duplicates and a misattributed source are discussed below.
The baseline [NFX firm profile](https://signal.nfx.com/firms/planet-a-ventures ) returned an internal error in direct browser access. The snapshot claims inclusion in NFX's [DeepTech pre-seed list](https://signal.nfx.com/investor-lists/top-deeptech-pre-seed-investors ), as accessed by the earlier researcher on 2026-09-09; this is inherited evidence rather than a freshly read list.
A search-index-readable [Andreas Dittes Signal profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/andreas-dittes ), undated, lists him as “LP & Network Member” at Planet A, while the structured current position says Investor. It lists a $10k–$50k range and $15k sweet spot, DeepTech pre-seed/seed rankings and Chipper Cash/Unbabel transactions. Direct access also returned an internal error. **Those personal checks and historical deals must not be applied to Planet A's fund.** The profile's LP/network description differs from the snapshot's two generic Investor roles for Dittes. A search-index-readable [Alexander Seel profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/alexander-seel ), undated, combines a Verve Ventures current investing position with Planet A CFO experience; its investment parameters likewise do not establish Planet A policy. Signal affiliation and list inclusion are directional leads, not independent firm attribution.
## Fund size and current investment mandate
| Vehicle / metric | Supported finding | Evidence and date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debut impact fund / Fund I | **€160 million closed**, reported 2023-02-08. This is an individual fund close, not a target, annual budget or established current total AUM. | [Tech Funding News, 2023-02-08](https://techfundingnews.com/planet-a-secures-160-million-for-its-science-led-funding-mission/ ); fund counsel [YPOG, 2023-03-21](https://www.ypog.law/en/press/ypog-advises-planet-a-ventures-on-the-closing-of-its-160-million-impact-fund ) independently confirms the closing and amount. |
| Below One Fund II GmbH & Co. KG | A newer Fund II exists under Planet A GmbH management. The public disclosures include Fund II, added 2025-02-10, and separate 2025 PAI reporting for Funds I and II. **Size, fundraising target, first/final close dates and total commitments not verified.** Existence of a vehicle/reporting does not establish a final close. | [Official SFDR disclosures](https://planet-a.com/eu-sfdr-disclosures/ ), page updates include 2025-02-10 and 2026-06-03. |
| Initial investment size | **€500,000–€4 million**, current official website. This is check size, separate from either fund's capital. No official sweet spot verified. | [Official homepage](https://planet-a.com/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Current stages / geography | **Pre-seed through Series A**, pan-European, explicitly stated by the firm. Historical follow-on transactions should not expand the current initial-investment mandate without further evidence. | [Official homepage](https://planet-a.com/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
The €160 million amount is the latest **verified quantified fund close** located, not a claim that Fund I remains the firm's only or latest vehicle. Searches for Fund II/newer fundraising in 2025–2026 surfaced official disclosure of the newer vehicle but no reliable quantified closing announcement. The current portfolio categories are Critical Infrastructure, Energy, Neo Manufacturing and Resource Mastery; the SFDR mandates retain ecological objectives. This is a broader public technology framing than the old “green tech” shorthand, rather than evidence that sustainability requirements were removed. [Official portfolio](https://planet-a.com/startups/ ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06; [official disclosures](https://planet-a.com/eu-sfdr-disclosures/ ).
## Verified previous deep-tech investments
The classification below is this researcher's interpretation of the underlying technology, not a claim that all portfolio software or all climate businesses are deep tech. Round figures are total company financing packages, never Planet A's individual allocation. The exact Planet A fund vehicle supplying each check is generally undisclosed.
| Company | Technology rationale | Attributed transaction and caveats | Supporting source / publication date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **traceless materials** | Novel biomaterial production using agricultural residues and natural polymers to replace fossil plastics; chemical/material process and industrial scale-up. | Planet A explicitly named as an existing investor participating in **€36.6m Series A**. UB FIGG and SWEN Blue Ocean led. Banking participants are also included in the financing announcement; do not infer €36.6m pure VC equity or Planet A's check. | [Company funding announcement, 2023-09-25](https://www.traceless.eu/post/successful-funding-round ). |
| **C1 Green Chemicals** | Proprietary methanol catalysis arising from a quantum-chemistry platform; non-fossil chemical production and demonstration-plant scale-up. | Planet A participated in a **€15m capital increase**, led by denkapparat. The **€20m headline includes €5m research grants**. Stage label not established by this source. | [EU-Startups, 2025-03-19](https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/03/c1-green-chemicals-ag-secures-e20-million-to-defossilise-the-carbon-based-chemical-industry/ ). |
| **Phlair**, formerly Carbon Atlantis | Hydrolyzer-based direct air capture with an electricity-powered pH swing; electrochemical engineering and physical CO2 capture. | Planet A participated, Extantia led, in a reported **€14.5m seed financing package including €2.5m EIC grant**. Thus the headline is not all venture equity; no Planet A check size disclosed. | [EU-Startups, 2024-09-19](https://www.eu-startups.com/2024/09/munich-based-phlair-raises-e14-5-million-to-scale-hydrolyzer-based-dac-tech/ ). |
| **Arsenale Bioyards / ARSENALE** | Proprietary lab/industrial bioreactors, precision fermentation and AI-driven process control for scaling biomanufacturing. | **$10m first seed financing**, co-led by Planet A and byFounders. Source explicitly quotes Planet A GP Christoph Gras. Reported €9.5m equivalent is not a separate round. | [Official company press release, 2025-02-25](https://arsenale.bio/thoughts/arsenale-bioyards-raises-10m ). |
| **AUAR / Automated Architecture** | Robotic micro-factories and proprietary design-to-fabrication software manufacture timber building components; integrated robotics/physical manufacturing. | Planet A **led £5.1m funding**, with Shadow Ventures, Common Magic, Concrete VC and returning investors. Publication does not establish a precise stage, so leave stage unknown rather than assigning seed from general firm strategy. | [Tech.eu, 2025-06-04](https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/construction-tech-startup-auar-raises-ps51m-to-expand-robotic-micro-factories/ ). | SHOW MORE
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