Rethink Ventures

Founded in Munich, Germany in 2022, Rethink Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in sustainable transportation. It backs founders innovating in automotive technology, mobility, and logistics to drive decarbonization.

Jens-Philipp Klein

General Partner

Matthias Schanze

General Partner

11 past transactions

Insurevision.ai

Seed Round in 2025
Insurevision.ai provides accident prevention using AI

shipzero

Series A in 2024
Shipzero enables effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in global freight transportation. It offers a data-driven software solution that helps shippers, logistics providers, and carriers manage transport emissions, facilitating their transition to net-zero emissions.

S2data

Seed Round in 2024
S2data is a technology company that specializes in cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) for transport optimization. Its platform automates logistics planning, enabling businesses to reduce operational costs and carbon emissions by up to 30%. The company's solution is designed to be flexible and customizable, helping businesses optimize their entire supply chain and promote sustainable logistics practices.

Deftpower

Seed Round in 2024
Deftpower is an AI-supported SaaS platform for EV charging that provides a white-label solution with API-first development, designed to help mobility service providers, charge point operators, and EV drivers manage charging more efficiently. The platform supports administrators, developers, and drivers, and offers premium charging services with features such as fraud prevention and dynamic charging capabilities. The company aims to reduce operating costs, improve grid stability, and enhance customer experience across charging networks in Europe, enabling operators to streamline administration and developers to build scalable charging applications. By offering a unified, API-driven framework, Deftpower helps optimize charging infrastructure networks and drive smoother, more reliable EV charging experiences for end users.

Driveblocks

Seed Round in 2023
Driveblocks is a technology company that specializes in developing a modular software platform for automated and self-driving commercial vehicles. The founders possess significant experience in creating algorithms for autonomous driving. Driveblocks' software modules facilitate the deployment of sensor data preprocessing, environment model generation, and decision-making for control systems. By providing these capabilities, Driveblocks aims to enhance the operational efficiency and safety of logistics companies, allowing them to achieve better performance while reducing costs.

Logistikbude

Seed Round in 2023
Logistikbude is a web-based software platform designed for efficient load carrier management. It offers a comprehensive solution that is independent of load carrier types, facilitating the tracking of both owned and exchanged load carriers in open pools. The platform employs a scanning application to mark load carriers for easy identification and digitally records related processes, enabling users to manage and monitor exchanges seamlessly. By automating account debits and providing a clear, legal framework for transactions, Logistikbude empowers businesses to optimize their logistics operations, significantly reducing costs while enhancing visibility and control over their transport logistics.

Enabl

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Enabl provides a digital platform and industrial driving system that integrates warehouse systems with a remote interface to schedule and execute material transportation. The platform connects vehicles to drivers and supports remote operation by either a driver or an autonomous system, with on-demand transport services billed by the hour. It offers remote forklift control and tailor-made automation services for customer-specific logistics, delivering holistic systems through agile development methods and consulting to optimize long-haul and goods movements. The company focuses on addressing skilled-labor shortages in logistics by coordinating fleet operations and enabling flexible, scalable automation across warehouses and transport networks.

Rail-Flow

Seed Round in 2023
Rail-Flow is a software provider that offers a platform for purchase and tender management in the rail freight sector. The platform supports freight procurement, tendering, rail offer management, quoting, execution, billing, and purchase tracking, helping clients manage inquiries and offers throughout the supply chain. It also covers intermodal transportation management and intermodal capacity brokerage to optimize transport operations. By integrating procurement and tender workflows, Rail-Flow aims to streamline processes, improve transparency, and reduce costs for freight operators and logistics service providers.

Deftpower

Seed Round in 2023
Deftpower is an AI-supported SaaS platform for EV charging that provides a white-label solution with API-first development, designed to help mobility service providers, charge point operators, and EV drivers manage charging more efficiently. The platform supports administrators, developers, and drivers, and offers premium charging services with features such as fraud prevention and dynamic charging capabilities. The company aims to reduce operating costs, improve grid stability, and enhance customer experience across charging networks in Europe, enabling operators to streamline administration and developers to build scalable charging applications. By offering a unified, API-driven framework, Deftpower helps optimize charging infrastructure networks and drive smoother, more reliable EV charging experiences for end users.

NAVIT

Seed Round in 2023
NAVIT develops mobility solutions for organizations to optimize employee travel while reducing carbon emissions. The company's platform enables setting a mobility budget and purchasing or booking various transportation options, including scooter and car-sharing, bike subscriptions, and public transit, allowing employees to access modern transport modes through a unified interface. The solution aims to help companies manage transportation benefits, lower CO2 footprints, and streamline commuting.

shipzero

Seed Round in 2023
Shipzero enables effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in global freight transportation. It offers a data-driven software solution that helps shippers, logistics providers, and carriers manage transport emissions, facilitating their transition to net-zero emissions.
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