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Dr. Friedrich Droste

Head of Strategy, Digitalization & Business Dev. Bitburger Group

📍 Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2024
VC🌍 Germany
15
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6
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5
Mid stage
2
Late stage
10y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Feb 2024
https://www.pacificobiolabs.com/
Board Member
Apr 2023
MicroHarvest Delivers Better Protein: Sustainable. Nutritious. Scalable. Protein is essential for a healthy diet, but with global demand expected to increase 50% by 2050, current sourcing methods are already harming the planet and often fail to provide truly nutritious food. At MicroHarvest, we are pioneering better protein production through natural fermentation. We produce high-quality protein in just 24 hours—faster than any other method. Like brewing beer or making yogurt, we use microorganisms, nature’s most efficient protein factories, to create tasty, healthy, and sustainable protein at scale. Independent of soil quality or climate, our process runs 24/7 anywhere in the world, requiring only a fraction of the water and land while cutting CO₂ emissions by over 95%. MicroHarvest is addressing today’s demand for highly nutritious food while building a resilient food system for the future. Together, we are HUNGRY FOR THE BETTER. 🚀 Hamburg & Lisbon Join us, we are hiring!
Board Member
Mar 2023
At HOLY our vision is to become the most loved soft drink brand of the 21st century. Traditionally, soft drinks fall into two categories: popular brands that are tasty but unhealthy, whereas those with a strong health focus usually lack great taste. At HOLY, we break the status quo. With our product lines HOLY Energy®, Iced Tea®, Hydration®, and Milkshake®, you get great taste with a clear conscience. Zero sugar. Zero bullsh*t. Since launching HOLY from our living room in 2021, we have built a loyal customer base of 2 Million+ across Europe and scaled profitably to more than €150m+ in sales, with a category-leading 4.6-star rating on Trustpilot and reviews.io. And that’s just the beginning: Backed by the world’s leading consumer investors, our team of 150+ aims to disrupt the soft drink industry while creating a product and brand consumers truly love. To join us in this mission and lets discuss how we can build a global consumer rocket ship together! 🚀
Board Member
Nov 2022
Infinite Roots® We are Infinite Roots®—a biotech company using fermentation and fungi to create the next generation of sustainable alternative proteins. We believe in a food system that provides accessible, tasty, and nutritious food for everyone while preserving our planet. We are a team of 60 people, from 25 different countries, speaking 15 different languages. To solve global issues, you need minds from around the world! Follow us and watch fungi and food-tech transform the food system!
Board Member
2021
Sanity Group, a Berlin based cannabis company, is dedicated to the medicinal and health use of cannabinoids. Sanitys operations span from medicinal cannabis to consumer health and tech. We believe that everyone deserves to live a healthy life and therefore develop and distribute innovative, cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals and wellbeing products to patients and customers around Europe. We are looking for partners with cultivation facilities around the world, that would like to expand their European footprint. You can reach our Imprint (EN) here: https://sanitygroup.com/imprint/ DE: Über diesen Link erreichen Sie unser Impressum: https://sanitygroup.com/de/impressum/ Our Careerpage: https://career.sanitygroup.com
Board Member
2021
We’re big on flavour, amazing nutrition and low impact on the environment. You may not have thought that M.LK made from yellow split peas and oats could pack so much goodness – but they can! Our M.LK packs in way more protein and calcium than regular plant milk, plus split peas have a tiny carbon footprint so are super sustainable too. We are available in more than 5,00 stores and in 12 different countries across the UK, EU and Asia. We’ve got a load of super exciting plans for taking our MIGHTY M.LK to the next level, never forgetting our ultimate goal to produce the tastiest, healthiest and most sustainable M.LK we can.
Board Member
2020
Project A is a leading European early-stage investor with €1.2b AUM, championing ambitious tech founders from idea to scale. We provide pre-seed and seed capital to firms shaping Europes future across key themes including Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio features category leaders such as Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz, and Quantum Systems. In addition, our founder-led Studio actively partners with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics, and Enapi to shape and validate bold ideas from day zero.
Board Member
2020
The idea for Just Spices was born in Germany in 2014. It supplies numerous spice blends through its own e-retail offering, third-party online marketplaces and an increasing presence in traditional offline food retail sectors. Just Spices inspires a growing consumer base in its home market Germany and additionally in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, UK and the U.S. to refine their own dishes and become creative in the kitchen. The company now inspires more than 1.8 million followers on its social media channels like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. On TikTok, Just Spices regularly achieves several million views on its videos. With more than 180 employees, Just Spices continues to make good on its vision of attracting more people to cook better, healthier meals. Above all, Just Spices means passion, high-quality products with no additives. But the most important principle is to make delicious food even more delicious, getting as many people as possible to cook with joy and pride. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok and and become a fan on Facebook. 💪
Board Member
2019
Jeder Kauf eine gute Tat. share stands for #SocialImpactFirst: we make it as easy as possible for people to do good, because every purchase of a share product supports impact projects worldwide. Thanks to this model, every second lives are impacted with share!
Board Member
2019
Visionaries Club is a leading European early-stage venture capital fund with offices in London and Berlin, investing across Europe through its Seed, Early Growth and Visionaries Tomorrow funds. Visionaries’ community of LPs unites Europe’s leading unicorn founders with a huge network of family business entrepreneurs, who are looking to digitise traditional industries. This includes founders of successful technology companies UiPath, Miro, Wolt, Flixbus, Supercell, Zalando, Mollie, Spotify, Personio, Adyen, HelloFresh and Skype alongside industrial giants such as Swarovski, Miele, Mittal, Haniel, Stihl, Siemens as well as sporting entrepreneurs like Mario Goetze and Nico Rosberg. With its unique network and B2B investment focus, Visionaries is bridging the information asymmetry of “whats possible” in the technology startup space and “what is actually needed” in the industrial space by partnering with the next generation of software superstars. Visionaries Club has ~€600m AuM and counts Lovable, Personio, Miro, Pigment, Tacto, Tandem Health, Choco and Xentral among its portfolio companies.
Board Member
2019
As a young and dynamic team, we have made it our mission to revolutionise your break catering at the workplace. With first-class service and smart refrigerators, we offer you the opportunity to quickly and easily enjoy wholesome meals, fresh sandwiches, healthy snacks and cool drinks - around the clock. We take care of the installation, maintenance and filling of the refrigerators and also take care of the billing for you. Your favourite food and drinks are available at any time and can be taken out of the fridge in seconds. Our service is thus individually tailored to your needs.
early stageFood & Beverages
Board Member
2019
We inspire consumers to live healthier, more sustainable lives by drinking more water. waterdrop® is a global company dedicated to changing the way people hydrate. Our innovative, tasty, sugar-free hydration cubes are made from natural fruit and plant extracts, providing a unique flavor experience wherever you are, whenever you want. Daily hydration, made simple.
Board Member
2018
FoodLabs is a globally active Early Stage VC investor and venture studio, assisting the bold in building iconic companies committed to planetary and human health. Founded in 2016 by Christophe F. Maire, FoodLabs has built and invested in more than 80 early-stage companies, including the most seminal, fastest-growing European startups such as Infinite Roots, Formo, Meatable, and Klim. In the FoodLabs Studio, the team identifies new opportunities to tackle the biggest challenges of our time, along with the most daring entrepreneurs and scientists who have what it takes to empower the transformation. Based in Berlin and supporting entrepreneurs globally, FoodLabs is focusing on solutions across consumer, food supply chains and infrastructure, health, agriculture, livestock farming, climate, and synthetic biology. 🚀Join us in building a better tomorrow: https://jobs.atlanticlabsfoodlabsplatform.com
Board Member
2018
The first of its kind smart water system that both purifies and mineralizes your water. At Mitte Labs, we have assembled a diverse and skillful team of engineers, chemists, nutritionists, and wellness experts to combine rigorous scientific research with cues from mother nature to build innovative and sustainable solutions to real-world problems. We believe this approach to product development allows us to find more creative ways to bring hydration to more people and improve lives through better water. Our team comprises of experts, challengers, risk-takers, and curious minds who have compassion for the world around them. Together, we represent more than 28 different nationalities, committed to one overarching core value: to make everything, in whatever way it can be, better than before.
early stageFood Production
Founding Investor & Advisor
2016
Als nachhaltig denkendes und agierendes Food-Unternehmen mit City-Standorten in Hamburg, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main, liefert STADTSALAT leckeres und gesundes Essen in erstklassiger Premium-Qualität. Jedes einzelne Produkt – egal, ob Bowl, Salat oder Dessert – ist zu 100 % natürlich und frei von Zusatzstoffen. Viermal im Jahr gibt’s passend zur Jahreszeit ein neues Menü, bei dem sowohl die Regionalität und Saisonalität als auch die Vielfalt der liebevoll ausgewählten Zutaten eine wichtige Rolle spielen. STADTSALAT ist für alle, die Lust auf Essen mit gutem Gewissen haben und sich bewusst ernähren wollen!
early stageRestaurants
Experience · 19 entries
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Investments (15)
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2024
Board Member
Feb 2024
https://www.pacificobiolabs.com/
2023
Board Member
Apr 2023
MicroHarvest Delivers Better Protein: Sustainable. Nutritious. Scalable. Protein is essential for a healthy diet, but with global demand expected to increase 50% by 2050, current sourcing methods are already harming the planet and often fail to provide truly nutritious food. At MicroHarvest, we are pioneering better protein production through natural fermentation. We produce high-quality protein in just 24 hours—faster than any other method. Like brewing beer or making yogurt, we use microorganisms, nature’s most efficient protein factories, to create tasty, healthy, and sustainable protein at scale. Independent of soil quality or climate, our process runs 24/7 anywhere in the world, requiring only a fraction of the water and land while cutting CO₂ emissions by over 95%. MicroHarvest is addressing today’s demand for highly nutritious food while building a resilient food system for the future. Together, we are HUNGRY FOR THE BETTER. 🚀 Hamburg & Lisbon Join us, we are hiring!
Board Member
Mar 2023
At HOLY our vision is to become the most loved soft drink brand of the 21st century. Traditionally, soft drinks fall into two categories: popular brands that are tasty but unhealthy, whereas those with a strong health focus usually lack great taste. At HOLY, we break the status quo. With our product lines HOLY Energy®, Iced Tea®, Hydration®, and Milkshake®, you get great taste with a clear conscience. Zero sugar. Zero bullsh*t. Since launching HOLY from our living room in 2021, we have built a loyal customer base of 2 Million+ across Europe and scaled profitably to more than €150m+ in sales, with a category-leading 4.6-star rating on Trustpilot and reviews.io. And that’s just the beginning: Backed by the world’s leading consumer investors, our team of 150+ aims to disrupt the soft drink industry while creating a product and brand consumers truly love. To join us in this mission and lets discuss how we can build a global consumer rocket ship together! 🚀
2022
Board Member
Nov 2022
Infinite Roots® We are Infinite Roots®—a biotech company using fermentation and fungi to create the next generation of sustainable alternative proteins. We believe in a food system that provides accessible, tasty, and nutritious food for everyone while preserving our planet. We are a team of 60 people, from 25 different countries, speaking 15 different languages. To solve global issues, you need minds from around the world! Follow us and watch fungi and food-tech transform the food system!
2021
Board Member
2021
Sanity Group, a Berlin based cannabis company, is dedicated to the medicinal and health use of cannabinoids. Sanitys operations span from medicinal cannabis to consumer health and tech. We believe that everyone deserves to live a healthy life and therefore develop and distribute innovative, cannabinoid-based pharmaceuticals and wellbeing products to patients and customers around Europe. We are looking for partners with cultivation facilities around the world, that would like to expand their European footprint. You can reach our Imprint (EN) here: https://sanitygroup.com/imprint/ DE: Über diesen Link erreichen Sie unser Impressum: https://sanitygroup.com/de/impressum/ Our Careerpage: https://career.sanitygroup.com
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