Bernhard Janke

Partner & First Investor

📍 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 34 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
VC🌍 Germany20+ investments
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Jul 2024
Zellerfeld is the only technology company that produces a whole 3D-printed shoe with the push of a button. Through an online platform, every designer in the world will have a chance to sell their shoe designs to anyone who wants to express themselves through customized and personalized 3D-printed shoes. As a team of energetic engineers that develop their printing technologies in-house, we constantly question the status quo to bring overdue change to an undemocratic and unethical footwear industry. With our disruptive approach of 3D printing every shoe out of fully recyclable materials, we regularly excite our currently small group of customers, which range from NBA and Hollywood stars to Elon Musk’s youngest child. Everything we do happens with the long term in mind. Our actions are guided by decisions that will have a lasting impact. Always with awareness for people and planets.
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Apr 2024
Tamarind Bio is a website which allows researchers to use bioinformatics tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use computational tools by simply selecting inputs instead of writing code or setting up a high performance computing environment. Our tools have been used by hundreds of researchers, primarily at academic institutions. We currently focus on tools in structural biology, including protein structure prediction, protein design, and molecular docking.
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Apr 2024
ParcelBio is developing a programmable technology to safely and specifically deliver mRNA to diverse cell types in the body. Our proprietary (nanoparticle-free) technology, which we call ‘STAmP’, stabilizes the mRNA and utilizes an interchangeable, lock-and-key-like targeting mechanism which enables fully customizable mRNA medicines.
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Apr 2024
Velorum Therapeutics is developing a new class of cancer drugs that starve tumors by hijacking cancer metabolism.
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Apr 2024
were building sword art online
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Apr 2024
Yoneda Labs provides software to help chemists optimize reactions. When chemists make a drug or material, we help them figure out the best reaction parameters such as temperature, concentration, and catalyst. We help make chemical manufacturing faster, cheaper, and more environmentally friendly.
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Apr 2024
Relari AI (YC W24) is building the testing and simulation stack for GenAI applications. We are the company behind continuous-eval, an open-source modular evaluation framework with metrics covering text generation, code generation, retrieval, classification, agents, and other LLM use cases. Our cloud platform generates large-scale synthetic data and create human-like auto-evaluators to help AI teams accelerate GenAI product development. We are hiring! Please reach out!
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Aug 2023
Autonomous surgery platform designed to make surgery safer, easier, and more efficient
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Aug 2023
Trayd is a payroll platform designed for commercial real estate subcontractors, featuring a modern workforce management platform, best-in-class time-tracking tools and payroll automation that unlocks Earned Wage Access on every paycheck.
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Aug 2023
Haven lets you adapt open source machine learning models to fit your needs, and run them wherever you want.
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Aug 2023
Pronounced Zee-O-L. We believe that secure software is not only free of known vulnerabilities, it is also built then distributed by trusted entities. Recent supply chain attacks have shown that todays security landscape extends beyond your codebase. It includes your build and deployment systems as well. The supply chain attack vector includes every script, every machine, every human that touched your software. Our mission is to help customers secure their software from code to deploy.
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Aug 2023
Build and Deploy Generative AI Applications with No-Code
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Mar 2023
Passwords and weak two-factor authentication are the leading cause of security breaches. Were on a mission to replace passwords everywhere. We replace traditional login methods like passwords, two-factor codes, and push notifications with more convenient, phishing-resistant methods like Windows Hello, TouchID, FaceID, and YubiKeys. Enjoy the same level of security and convenience across Windows, Mac, Linux, and remote, regardless of your employee’s OS or your existing infrastructure and identity providers. Contact us for a demo at 0pass.com/meet
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Jan 2023
We are building Webflow for the Backend. Fastgen is a low-code API and workflow builder with an integrated Postgres DB. Our drag-and-drop platform allows you to rapidly develop custom APIs and workflows with ease. Our integrated Postgres DB makes it even easier to create, read, update, and delete data in your applications.
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Jul 2024
Zellerfeld is the only technology company that produces a whole 3D-printed shoe with the push of a button. Through an online platform, every designer in the world will have a chance to sell their shoe designs to anyone who wants to express themselves through customized and personalized 3D-printed shoes. As a team of energetic engineers that develop their printing technologies in-house, we constantly question the status quo to bring overdue change to an undemocratic and unethical footwear industry. With our disruptive approach of 3D printing every shoe out of fully recyclable materials, we regularly excite our currently small group of customers, which range from NBA and Hollywood stars to Elon Musk’s youngest child. Everything we do happens with the long term in mind. Our actions are guided by decisions that will have a lasting impact. Always with awareness for people and planets.
Partner @seed
Jun 2024
Cartken is an AI-powered robotics company dedicated to developing technology that automates the transportation of goods both indoors and outdoors. Our autonomous delivery robots are revolutionizing neighborhood food and grocery last-mile, campus delivery, indoor shuttling, and industrial automation. They reduce unnecessary walking, save time, and enhance productivity for both workers and consumers. With a team of former Google engineers, Cartken combines expertise in self-driving cars, AI-powered robotics, and delivery operations to provide the safest and most reliable solutions on the market.
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Apr 2024
Tamarind Bio is a website which allows researchers to use bioinformatics tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use computational tools by simply selecting inputs instead of writing code or setting up a high performance computing environment. Our tools have been used by hundreds of researchers, primarily at academic institutions. We currently focus on tools in structural biology, including protein structure prediction, protein design, and molecular docking.
Investor
Apr 2024
ParcelBio is developing a programmable technology to safely and specifically deliver mRNA to diverse cell types in the body. Our proprietary (nanoparticle-free) technology, which we call ‘STAmP’, stabilizes the mRNA and utilizes an interchangeable, lock-and-key-like targeting mechanism which enables fully customizable mRNA medicines.
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Apr 2024
Velorum Therapeutics is developing a new class of cancer drugs that starve tumors by hijacking cancer metabolism.
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