GENIUS Venture Capital

GENIUS Venture Capital is established on the initiative of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is a subsidiary of Technologie- und Gewerbezentrum e.V. Schwerin/Wismar. They fund innovation-driven technology companies in their startup or early growth stage. To date, GENIUS together with several private investors spent a total of around 70 million euros on financing 25 companies. They are currently managing two venture capital funds on behalf of the Ministry of Economics, Employment and Health of the State Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Uwe Bräuer

Managing Director and Founder

Rüdiger Fink

Investment Manager

Ivonne Jarschke-Kron

Investment Manager

Martin Schwarz

Investment Manager

13 past transactions

Innocent Meat

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Innocent Meat enables food processors to break the reliance on animal agriculture by providing an automated, end-to-end clean meat production system.

SonoBeacon

Series A in 2020
SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform.

Evertracker

Seed Round in 2020
Evertracker provides the first Neutral and Smart Control Tower for Global Supply Chains that enables manufacturers and producers to get end-to-end visibility and predictability of their global supply chains. The platform provides the transparency on an item level, which enables our users to not only know where their shipments are but what parts will be delayed or have issues. Thus they can plan their production more reliably.

SonoBeacon

Seed Round in 2019
SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform.

SonoBeacon

Seed Round in 2018
SonoBeacon is an integrated software, hardware and platform solution provider. SonoBeacon's services enable companies to communicate directly with end users by delivering content to an end user's mobile device through ultrasound-based technology and interaction with a SonoBeacon-powered platform.

WOOM

Seed Round in 2017
WOOM is AI for Reproductive Health. Our vision is women’s health, empowering users to make the right decisions about their reproductive health. 17 to 25% of couples experience a challenge with fertility. Both female founders faced it and why they left Google and eBay to launch WOOM. WOOM is an easy, unique and personal experience. Besides the personal recommendations, WOOM calculates daily chances of pregnancy, cycles calendar; and users receive support through an engaged community and a fertility services platform. Our first product is trying to conceive and we are moving into other women's health stage.

E-PATROL north

Venture Round in 2016
E-PATROL north GmbH provides digital asset management and custom software development services in Germany and internationally. The company offers planning, consulting, implementation, ongoing support, digital media management, and project participation services; NVE NORTHBIT Visual Estate, a solution for management and marketing of real estate on the basis of maps; ServiceMe, a Web-based ticketing system for companies; and Java eSales system, a customizable and java-based solution to integrate into various Websites and ERP or ERP systems. E-PATROL north GmbH was formerly known as Northbit GmbH. E-PATROL north GmbH was founded in 2002 and is based in Rostock, Germany.

PipesBox

Venture Round in 2015
PipesBox is develops and distributes software and hardware for smart homes. It offers naon marketplace; naon bow; and naon IoT app designer. It also offers cloud service, front end, embedded, radio technologies, smart home, rest and micro service architecture, and machine learning and pattern recognition.

Microstim

Venture Round in 2013
Microstim GmbH develops a tissue and function maintaining implantable myostimulator designed to assist the heart. Particular strengths of Microstim GmbH are the microcontroller acquisition and processing of data, control of cardiac and muscle stimulator impulses, and wireless “in-body“-communication. At the national business plan contest “Science4Life“ in 2008, Microstim GmbH was one of ten winners in the concept phase category.

Microstim

Venture Round in 2011
Microstim GmbH develops a tissue and function maintaining implantable myostimulator designed to assist the heart. Particular strengths of Microstim GmbH are the microcontroller acquisition and processing of data, control of cardiac and muscle stimulator impulses, and wireless “in-body“-communication. At the national business plan contest “Science4Life“ in 2008, Microstim GmbH was one of ten winners in the concept phase category.

New Enerday

Venture Round in 2011
New Enerday is developing electricity generators based on fuel cells. They use high-temperature fuel cells (SOFC – solid oxide fuel cell). This type of fuel cell can be used to generate electrical energy directly from fossil fuels such as natural gas, LPG or diesel, as well as renewables such as bioethanol or biogas. new enerday’s compact, efficient energy modules can be used for a variety of applications. They can be found as off-grid electricity generators anywhere there is a demand for a reliable and environmentally-compatible power supply, such as in yachts, motorhomes or holiday houses in remote regions with no connection to the grid.

Cytocentrics

Venture Round in 2008
Cytocentrics is a biotechnology company applying its ion channel expertise to support the pharmaceutical industry in the drug discovery process. Their products are designed to simplify and optimize laboratory productivity. They want to make the drug discovery process more efficient and cost effective while focusing on quality and reliability.
PRIMACYT Cell Culture Technology is specialized for in-vitro-technologies. Its products include hepatocyte cultures as biosensors for pharmacological-toxicological assays to monitor the influence of drugs and other xenobiotics on the metabolism; human hepatocyte maintenance medium for the cultivation of human hepatocytes; and human and animal microsomes for in vitro analysis of cytochrome P450 activities.
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