Karim Menn

Investing into European VCs

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024
VC🌍 Germany
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Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2024
At Terra One, we are pioneers in driving Europes transition to climate neutrality through cutting-edge battery storage solutions. By developing and operating large-scale energy storage systems, we stabilise the power grid and drive renewable energy integration, making clean energy available and affordable anytime. With expertise in project development, asset management, and energy trading, we develop and operate grid-scale storage projects. Our algorithmic power trading platform uses a unique machine-learning architecture to operate our batteries autonomously. In partnership with communities, landowners, and grid operators, Terra One is redefining energy infrastructure and driving progress toward a greener future.
Board Member
Jun 2023
SQUAKE is the all-in-one carbon management platform: - Accurate CO₂ Calculations: 20+ methodologies, for any travel activity - Automated CO₂ Reduction and/or Compensation: 150+ curated carbon projects, such as Direct Air Capture or Sustainable Aviation Fuel; - CO₂ Reporting: complete, aggregated and synced with your BI tool; - CO₂ at POS: integrate anywhere, on- or offline. Available via API or no-code. SQUAKE is third-party verified and holds an ISO 27001 certification for excellent information security management.
Investor
Jun 2022
beatvest is creating a brighter financial future for everyone by making investing simple. We empower people to built long-term wealth with confidence. beatvest intertwines education with investing in order to provide a personalised, do-it-yourself investment experience that supports people in building long-term wealth 🚀
Senior Manager Strategy & Investments, Prokurist
Apr 2022
Invest. Build. Connect. We are neosfer - early-stage investor and innovation unit of the Commerzbank Group. Under the vision "Driving transformation by connecting people, technology and capital", we offer financial service providers and their customers access to digital and sustainable innovations - on the one hand through investments in early-stage start-ups (invest) and on the other hand through our own developments (build). We believe in the added value of collaborating with our network partners to identify and offer the best possible solutions (connect). For us, technology is not an end in itself, but always a tool to achieve the goal. In our three business areas (invest, build, connect), the topic of sustainability is deeply rooted alongside digitalization: we consciously invest in start-ups that offer solutions for sustainable transformation, look at future technologies, evaluate their impact and bring the FinTech and sustainability scene together through our formats. Our projects include the IMPACT FESTIVAL, Europes largest B2B event for sustainable innovations, and the IMPACT SOLUTIONS platform. With Lissi, we also spun off our first own venture in 2023. You want to get a personal impression of it? Then just drop by our monthly event series "Between the Towers": always on the first Tuesday evening of the month! Or subscribe to our monthly newsletter here on LinkedIn!
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2022
DABBEL AI has developed a building automation software that achieves annual energy savings of 10 - 38 kWh/m², reducing energy costs and CO2 emissions and meeting the increasing demand for energy efficient buildings and certifications. The solution can be implemented in commercial buildings worldwide within a week without additional hardware. There are no upfront costs and the first results are reported within 4 weeks. The technology sits on top of existing Building Management Systems (BMS), transforming static control of BMS into highly demand-based, proactive control without additional hardware. The software is based on an advanced method of Model Predictive Control (MPC) and continuously optimises Heating, Ventilation, and Air conditioning (HVAC) systems. DABBEL AI is a global product that is used in 7 countries and managing 1.6 million square meters under control. Learn more about our happy clients and results on our website! www.dabbel.eu
Board Member
Apr 2022
21strategies is a leading company for context-aware Enterprise AI. Our mission is to transform how organizations make strategic and tactical decisions under uncertainty. To aim at our mission, we build and operate analytical engines to train AI-powered machines which perform similarly good or better than humans when performing tasks for the supply chain, capital markets and national security.
Experience · 13 entries
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Board (4)
2025
Principal
Mar 2025
Deutschland, Europe, Wunderland. Together we are taking the first step in finding a rhythm that unites us as a continent – pulsating, dynamic, unstoppable. This rhythm is the digital heartbeat of Wunderland. And this is where a Europe is being created that can rely on itself and its strength and will assert itself globally as a driver of digital innovation. re:imagine European VC Fund of Funds
2024
Venture Scout
May 2024
SevenVentures is a leading corporate venture capital firm that accelerates growth of B2C companies with media investments and operational support. SevenVentures is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE and acts as the group’s investment unit. We operate a flexible investment model based on media for equity and media convertibles. Our portfolio partners receive TV advertising time, individually tailored campaigns on our platforms and other services in return for company shares. A more than 15 year track-record in the industry underlines we significantly contribute to increasing revenues and enterprise value of the startups and scaleups we work with.
Investor & Board Observer
Apr 2024
At Terra One, we are pioneers in driving Europes transition to climate neutrality through cutting-edge battery storage solutions. By developing and operating large-scale energy storage systems, we stabilise the power grid and drive renewable energy integration, making clean energy available and affordable anytime. With expertise in project development, asset management, and energy trading, we develop and operate grid-scale storage projects. Our algorithmic power trading platform uses a unique machine-learning architecture to operate our batteries autonomously. In partnership with communities, landowners, and grid operators, Terra One is redefining energy infrastructure and driving progress toward a greener future.
2023
Board Member
Jun 2023
SQUAKE is the all-in-one carbon management platform: - Accurate CO₂ Calculations: 20+ methodologies, for any travel activity - Automated CO₂ Reduction and/or Compensation: 150+ curated carbon projects, such as Direct Air Capture or Sustainable Aviation Fuel; - CO₂ Reporting: complete, aggregated and synced with your BI tool; - CO₂ at POS: integrate anywhere, on- or offline. Available via API or no-code. SQUAKE is third-party verified and holds an ISO 27001 certification for excellent information security management.
2022
Investor
Jun 2022
beatvest is creating a brighter financial future for everyone by making investing simple. We empower people to built long-term wealth with confidence. beatvest intertwines education with investing in order to provide a personalised, do-it-yourself investment experience that supports people in building long-term wealth 🚀
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