Amathaon Capital Overview
Amathaon Capital, founded in 2020 by Borris Förster, Dr. Tobias Schönhaar, and Saxovent Smart Eco Investments, is a Munich-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage AgTech and AgBioTech investments. The firm focuses on sustainable solutions to address challenges in the upstream food value chain, including areas such as AgBioTech, software, computational agriculture, sensing and IoT, farm robotics, marketplaces and trading platforms, and novel farming systems. Amathaon Capital emphasizes a synergetic portfolio approach, fostering collaboration between portfolio companies to bring scalable, holistic solutions to market and drive innovation in the European AgTech and AgBioTech sectors.
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Amathaon Capital
Investment focus
Invest in
- Baltics
- Nordics
- Western Europe
- Southern Europe
- Central Eastern Europe
Customer types
- B2B
Product type
- Software
- Hardware
- Software-enabled hardware
- Services
- Materials
Industries / verticals
- AgriTech / FoodTech
- BioTech & Life Sciences
Investment role
Lead and follow
Stages
Seed, Series A
First ticket size
€100,000 - €1,500,000
Contact information
Managing Partner at Amathaon Capital | Growing A New Breed
Borris Foerster
How to approach funds like Amathaon Capital
When reaching out to Amathaon Capital, highlight how your solution can integrate with or complement other technologies in the AgTech ecosystem, as they value synergies across their portfolio. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the upstream food value chain and articulate the scalability and sustainability of your technology. Founders should be prepared to discuss not just product-market fit, but also how their innovation can drive systemic change and collaborate with other players in the sector.
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