Innoport GmbH is a venture capital firm based in Hamburg, Germany, that invests in early-stage technology startups. The company provides financial support and strategic guidance to innovative companies, helping them to grow and scale their operations.

Innoport is the venture capital unit of the Schulte Group (https://www.schultegroup.com/) that identifies investment opportunities in startups from the global maritime, logistics, and other related industries and equips entrepreneurs with smart capital. The Innoport team works globally to build up a diversified investment portfolio of innovative and high potential early-stage startups across Asia and Europe while supporting Schulte Group business units in their technological transformation. They work with founders from the discovery stage up to successful exit, promoting the portfolio companies to a wider network within the Schulte Group. 

For further information, please visit https://innoport.vc/.

Bernhard Schulte INNOPORT

We are thrilled to welcome Antonis Malaxianakis, Stavros Kokkinis, Iain Barnett, Christina Kaskoura and Alexandros Papageorgiou as well as the entire Harbor Lab team to the Innoport portfolio with their €6.1 million seed round.

⛴️ Habor Lab is developing an innovative e-disbursements platform for the maritime industry which is geared towards innovative ship owners, managers, operators as well as agents. The team is embarking on a larger mission to transform current procedures and provide transparency to all stakeholders dealing with port expenses. 

We are impressed that the team has already been able to close a significant amount of customers, from smaller owners and operators to large, listed companies...and is growing fast. 🚀 

At Innoport we look forward to support Harbor Lab on their journey to disrupt a crucial part of vessel operations. 

We are excited to team up with  VentureFriends, Speedinvest, TecPier, theDOCK, Motion Ventures, The Signal Group, Christopher Eilers and more in this round.

You can find out more about Harbor Lab here 👉 https://www.harborlab.com

And Mike Butcher MBE covered the round in today's TechCrunch 👇  
 
#harborlab #maritime #portagent #schulteGroup #venturecapital #innoport #startups

The CII and EU ETS will be massive challenges for the maritime sector. At Innoport we see huge business potential in the management of both decarbonization regulations. Therefore, we are happy to announce our latest investment in zero44. They are tackling this complex new regulatory environment by building an innovative software that solves the associated commercial challenges. 

zero44’s software bundle consists of a CII-tool and an EU ETS trading & compliance package. The CII-tool enables commercial teams to assess the impact of a chartering decision on the CII-rating with a smart voyage calculator. With the EU ETS trading & compliance package, zero44 will offer the essential tools to efficiently manage the upcoming compliance challenges from trading the EU’s carbon credits (EU Allowances). 

We believe that zero44 is going to play an important role in allowing smaller and medium-sized companies to comply with CII and EU ETS. While the very large market players can make use of existing organisational structures to decrease their financial and compliance burden, small and medium-sized players will depend on smart all-in-one solutions like zero44.  

Great to have you on board, Friederike Hesse and Nils Obermann! We could not be happier to be part of this incredible journey and look forward to decarbonizing the maritime industry with you. 

#zero44 #maritime #CII #software #EUETS #investment #commercialmanagement #disruptingshipping #SchulteGroup #venturecapital #innoport #corporateventurcapital #innoport #preseedstage #startups

We are happy to announce our new investment into Intugine - Logistics through Innovation.
 
Intugine has developed a multimodal supply chain visibility platform focusing on solutions for emerging markets. Given the frequent supply chain disruptions of the day, businesses are more dependent than ever on better visibility.
 
Intugine helps businesses to predict ETAs and efficiently track their shipments across Full Truck Loads, Partial Truck Loads, Ocean and Rail transportation. With their technology platform, it is possible to unlock end-to-end visibility, thereby reducing operational costs and improving margins.
Their solution enables companies to reduce excess inventories significantly and increase their top line due to more on-time deliveries, thereby preventing loss of sales.
 
Today, Intugine tracks over 10 million shipments on their platform for 75+ global customers across the chemical, automotive, building materials, consumer durables, FMCG, retail and e-commerce industries.
 
We look forward to working with you Mrinal Rai, Harshit Shrivastava and Ayush Agrawal!

#Intugine #tracking #software #investment #Innoport #SchulteGroup #venturecapital #corporateventurcapital #innoport #preseriesa #startups #innovation #technology #supplychain #logistics #bernhardschulteinnoport

We are delighted to announce our next investment and welcome Bigyellowfish to our portfolio!
  
Despite the challenging life seafarers have onboard vessels around the world, their well-being often does not get the attention it should. In addition, crew welfare and mental health has a high correlation with the performance and safety of ship’s operations. However, well-being of seafarers is currently not managed proactively with actual data and workplace engagement dynamics, but only reactively, when it is usually too late. Bigyellowfish is on a mission to change that.  

Following the approach “Your frontline affects your bottom line”, Bigyellowfish has developed a platform for workplace well-being, mental health and e-learning. Their core product is a seafarer mobile app that enables users to: 

-Reflect on and record their own feelings 
-Track and monitor sleep quality 
-Engage in well-being activities to improve their state of mind and sleep quality 
-Get psychological support to overcome challenges, such as harassment or bullying 
-Access general and company-specific training modules via short bursts of gamified reinforced learning

The collected data is then evaluated with analytics tools and easy-to-use dashboards on shore. This empowers ship owners and managers to proactively engage with seafarers on these topics, monitor the overall mental health status onboard of vessels and provide crew with direct support. 
 
Bigyellowfish will therefore play an important role in supporting the well-being of seafarers, and thus to improve safety and productivity by anticipating problems before they occur.  

We look forward to working with and supporting the Bigyellowfish team, and as well as to helping boost the well-being of seafarers. Great to have you on board Kunal Pancholi and Soma Sundar Gollakota!
 
#Bigyellowfish #venturecapital #Innoport #mentalhealth #wellbeing #crewmanagement #innovation #engagement #corporateventurecapital #SchulteGroup #startups #seafarersatisfaction #renewableenergy #investment #shipowners

We are delighted to announce our investment in pFIBRE, a GreenTech startup that developed a sustainable and biodegradable alternative to plastic. It is our pleasure to support the founders Prak Kodali and Dinaz Zenobia Stutterheim, alongside our co-investor SEEDS Capital. 
 
pFibre’s first products are plant-based films, which can be processed into green packaging solutions for a variety of industries, such as FMCG and F&B. The films are marine biodegradable and home-compostable, which ensures that they dissolve in water or on landfills after seconds, days or months (depending on customer requirements). For us, this will ultimately improve the waste management on our ships, as packaging waste can be dissolved and disposed of in an environmentally friendly way.
 
pFibre will play an important role in replacing conventional single-use plastic and thereby supports the Schulte Group’s mission to protect the world’s oceans, rivers, and beaches from man-made obstructions such as plastic, pollution, energy consumption and waste. We are very happy to be part of this journey, and we look forward to creating a healthier planet with you!
 
#venturecapital #innoport #innovation #pFibre #SchulteGroup #startups #greentech #investment

We are delighted to announce our investment in ANNEA alongside Faber . Great to have you on board Dr. Maik D. Reder and Marcel Frenzel as well as the rest of the team!
 
ANNEA provides the next generation of predictive maintenance and underperformance detection for renewable energy assets.  The company will play an important role in maximising energy production and making green energy more affordable.
 
We could not be happier to be part of this incredible journey. Looking forward to accelerating the energy transition with you!
#renewables #greenenergy #renewableenergy #predictivemaintenance #windenergy #solarenergy

Huge congrats 👏 to Edouard Gouin and Clément Ouizille, and the entire Convelio team on closing their impressive Series B round of $35 million.

From all of us at Bernhard Schulte INNOPORT, kudos to the entire team; we are excited to be part of your journey and for all that is still to come.

#convelio #innoport #schultegroup

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