Maru Winnacker
Limited Partner at Climentum Capital
Maru Winnacker
Limited Partner at Climentum Capital
Germany
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2021 - Current
Urania Ventures is a French-German private investment company with a global portfolio. As an evergreen fund, Urania is committed for the long term to back scientific breakthrough technology founders who strive to serve humanity for the better. The investment focus is space technology, sustainable aero, and robotics. Urania believes in science as a critical driver for innovation and the responsibility to invest in courageous leaders early.
Founding Partner
2017
Super Group backs visionary and purpose-driven entrepreneurs through growth capital access, strategic advice, and global partnerships.
Venture Partner
2022
Red River West is a growth-stage VC fund that supports the best European Tech companies to win in the US by providing game-changing operating support. RRW benefits from the active sponsorship of Groupe Artémis, which provides 25 years of experience as a professional investor building global leaders (Kering, Gucci, Christie's, etc.). The fund was started by tech entrepreneurs and investors equally distributed between Europe and the US. They all share a track record of scaling local European start-ups into global leaders.
Chairwoman of the Board
2023
Amadeus Apex Technology Fund is a EUR 80m venture capital fund focusing on backing explicitly early-stage deep-tech startups. The fund’s core investment team includes Amadeus’ co-founders Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser, joined by Apex partners Andreas Riegler and Wolfgang Neubert. The goal of the Amadeus Apex Technology Fund is to invest between €1-1.5 million in seed and Series A stage startups with “unique and defendable technology" in the DACH region.
Member of the Board of Advisors
2023
Amadeus Apex Technology Fund is a EUR 80m venture capital fund focusing on backing explicitly early-stage deep-tech startups. The fund’s core investment team includes Amadeus’ co-founders Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser, joined by Apex partners Andreas Riegler and Wolfgang Neubert. The goal of the Amadeus Apex Technology Fund is to invest between €1-1.5 million in seed and Series A stage startups with “unique and defendable technology" in the DACH region.
Chairwoman of the Board
2022
Chemovator is the venture builder of BASF. Chemovator provides a protected space to build commercial ventures from unconventional ideas. The Chemovator venture teams take full ownership of their idea, creatively explore their business, learn fast and pivot outside of corporate boundaries.
Member Of The Board of Advisors
2022 - 2022
Chemovator is the venture builder of BASF. Chemovator provides a protected space to build commercial ventures from unconventional ideas. The Chemovator venture teams take full ownership of their idea, creatively explore their business, learn fast and pivot outside of corporate boundaries.
Limited Partner & Member Of The Board Of Advisors
2022
Climentum Capital invests in European startups that can cut down megatons of CO2 equivalents in a concrete and measurable way. The fund targets late Seed and Series A investments into the six sectors that demonstrate the largest CO2 reduction potential (see investment verticals below). The fund has a double incentives structure, with carry indexed on both CO2 reduction and financial returns. As one of the first venture capital funds with a double carry structure, Climentum is dedicated from day one to evaluate and only invest in companies that hold true carbon reduction potential. With two partners out of five being female (40% female), Climentum is one of the most equal VC organizations in Europe and intends to continue doing everything possible to bridge the gender gap.
Limited Partner (LPAC Member)
2021
AUXXO Female Catalyst Fund is a VC fund co-investing in best female founders in Europe. Building on more nearly 30 years combined investment & operational experience and three years of joint angel investing via Auxxo Beteiligungen, Bettine Schmitz and Dr. Gesa Miczaika launched the Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund. The vision of the fund is to drive equitable representation of women as founders and investors in venture capital.
Investor
2023
Look Up Space is developing a persistent sensing capability and a state-of-the-art data processing platform that will allow us to drastically improve the safety and security of our precious space infrastructures. Millions of satellites are orbiting around Earth, bringing services such as telecommunications, geolocation, meteorology, or climate change observation. Look Up Space’s mission is to protect these vital assets and ensure we can keep our low earth orbits operational. Look Up Space will enable precise surveillance and tracking of previously uncatalogued space debris and objects while reinforcing European strategic autonomy.
Member of the Board of Advisors
2023
Robeauté is developing a small microrobot for novel therapies in hard-to-reach areas of the body. Designed specifically for the brain, at the service of neurosurgeons, the microrobot will be able to freely navigate in other complex regions of the body to perform biopsies, collect precise anatomically localized data and deliver therapies on-site at the correct dosage.
Investor
2022
Robeauté is developing a small microrobot for novel therapies in hard-to-reach areas of the body. Designed specifically for the brain, at the service of neurosurgeons, the microrobot will be able to freely navigate in other complex regions of the body to perform biopsies, collect precise anatomically localized data and deliver therapies on-site at the correct dosage. Robeauté is accompanying a significant shift from robotic surgery to micro robotic surgery for greater precision, better results, and bold new therapies to tackle global diseases affecting more than a billion people worldwide. The microrobot will light a spark in the minds of medical practitioners and scientists worldwide, allowing them to imagine and create more effective treatments to be delivered locally. Robeauté is a multidisciplinary and multicultural team of passionate, skilled, supportive, and creative people at the crossroads of micro-robotics, engineering, and medicine. Robeauté works with phenomenal medical centers and university labs in Europe and the United States.
Investor
2022
deltaVision evolves cryogenic and other advanced fluidic equipments for aerospace & mobility applications into smart & standardized products by mastering: - product family standardization with low adaptation needs and quick lead times - regulation valve technology for continuous pressure and flow variations - health monitoring & predictive maintenance technology on valves - hydrogen & H2 safety compliant valve designs The founding team of deltaVision has 10 years+ experience on aerospace fluidic systems.