Daniela Proske, Phd

Investor | Board Member I Entrepreneur

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022
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Board Member
Dec 2022
We are a certified, comprehensive service provider for charging infrastructure. From private wallboxes to public charging parks, we plan and install holistic solutions for our customers. To ensure quality, we offer our customers a proven, centralized management process (including an IT solution) for the operation, maintenance, testing, and cleaning of their charging infrastructure. Our goal is to make a sustainable and significant contribution to the successful transition to electromobility.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Calysta is a world leader in cellular agriculture, creating protein without limits via a patented fermentation platform that uses no arable land, plant or animal products. As the world’s demand for healthy, sustainably produced food continues to grow, Calysta’s family of ingredients – FeedKind, FeedKind Net Zero, and Positive Protein – are ready to meet the challenge. Powered by renewable energy, Calysta’s protein products can preserve biodiversity and contribute to improving the global nexus of water, energy and food security.
Board Member
Jul 2021
ryd is a company operating across Europe in the field of mobile payment. With ryd pay, we operate the largest open B2C network for mobile payment in Europe. Working with our partners Mastercard, BP, Mercedes-Benz and Axa, we are committed to changing the mobility and payment of the future. The ryd ecosystem currently includes refueling, car wash and EV charging — accessible via the app or the infotainment system. Theres no longer any need to visit the service station store. Payments are fast, convenient, and secure. In addition to the ryd app, ryd is available through partner integrations with third-party providers, including navigation system and smartphone app providers, as well as car manufacturers. Founded in Munich in 2014, ryd has been growing steadily and has already launched in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain, with further rollouts planned across other European countries.
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Feb 2020
Mendel is the technology platform hub for Koch Biological Solutions, a global leader in delivering targeted, science-based biological products to improve crop productivity. In 2019, KBIO became part of Plant Response, Inc.
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Dec 2019
MaaS - Better Than Your Own Car   Imagine if all your daily travel needs would be covered, with one simple app, with one simple payment – directly from your mobile. Travel as much as you like with a flat fee, or pay-as-you-go, with buses, trains, taxis, bikes, cars, and more. MaaS provides you with the ultimate way to move around. Our revolutionary mobile app, Whim, liberates people from timetables, fixed routes, parking worries, and the high costs of owning a car. Born out of a need to be spontaneous, it gives people access to a huge variety of transport options. A Whim subscription means true freedom of mobility. www.whimapp.com   Changing the Way You Move   MaaS Global Ltd is bringing into reality the concept of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), by building the world’s first mobility ecosystem. MaaS Global aspires to upgrade the service level of transportation by joining together public and private transportation providers. Collaboration and integration of services will create a seamless and compelling travel experience for everyone, locally and globally.
Board Member
May 2019
FreeWire is an industry leader in battery-integrated ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions solving grid infrastructure constraints by designing and manufacturing scalable clean power, driving the global transition to electrified transportation. FreeWire is a trusted partner to Fortune 100 companies, commercial and utility customers, fleets, retail locations, and gas stations, supporting their entrance into the EV charging market and increasing the availability and reliability of EV charging. Join us in powering the electric revolution.
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May 2019
Zubie is a connected vehicle services company focused on providing consumers and businesses relevant vehicle health, location, and safety information. With a simple plug-in of the Zubie key, users can easily monitor their vehicle data through our Zubie mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Learn more about our low-cost fleet management solution for businesses at http://zubie.com/fleet or our consumer offering at http://zubie.com.
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2025
Managing Partner & CEO ONE L NOVA Partners
Feb 2025
2022
Board Member
Dec 2022
We are a certified, comprehensive service provider for charging infrastructure. From private wallboxes to public charging parks, we plan and install holistic solutions for our customers. To ensure quality, we offer our customers a proven, centralized management process (including an IT solution) for the operation, maintenance, testing, and cleaning of their charging infrastructure. Our goal is to make a sustainable and significant contribution to the successful transition to electromobility.
Board Member
Jul 2022
Fulcrum is a pioneer in making low-carbon, low-cost, transportation fuels from one of our nation’s most abundant resources – household garbage. As a company, we are committed to improving the quality of life in our communities – and that starts with solving a fundamental problem in America: too much garbage. Utilizing trash as a feedstock, Fulcrum is diverting large volumes of waste from local landfills and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 100% compared to traditional petroleum fuel. Fulcrum is making a difference today, and we are leading the way to a clean and sustainable future for America.
Board Member
Jun 2022
Calysta is a world leader in cellular agriculture, creating protein without limits via a patented fermentation platform that uses no arable land, plant or animal products. As the world’s demand for healthy, sustainably produced food continues to grow, Calysta’s family of ingredients – FeedKind, FeedKind Net Zero, and Positive Protein – are ready to meet the challenge. Powered by renewable energy, Calysta’s protein products can preserve biodiversity and contribute to improving the global nexus of water, energy and food security.
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
ryd is a company operating across Europe in the field of mobile payment. With ryd pay, we operate the largest open B2C network for mobile payment in Europe. Working with our partners Mastercard, BP, Mercedes-Benz and Axa, we are committed to changing the mobility and payment of the future. The ryd ecosystem currently includes refueling, car wash and EV charging — accessible via the app or the infotainment system. Theres no longer any need to visit the service station store. Payments are fast, convenient, and secure. In addition to the ryd app, ryd is available through partner integrations with third-party providers, including navigation system and smartphone app providers, as well as car manufacturers. Founded in Munich in 2014, ryd has been growing steadily and has already launched in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain, with further rollouts planned across other European countries.
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