Lars Godzik

Founding Partner Ginkgo / now Eraneos in Germany, Singapore and US; Founding Partner 5i Ventures

๐Ÿ“ Germany๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 10 investments๐Ÿ“… 17 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested Mar 2025
VC๐ŸŒ Germany
10
Total investments
4
Early stage
4
Mid stage
2
Late stage
17y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor
Mar 2025
Kyberlifes technology arm holds the first open marketplace in Asia with an easy-to-use platform that hosts healthcare vendors, life-science companies & manufacturers globally. Kyberlife also has a distribution arm that facilitates licensed distribution of life-science/pharmaceutical/medical products, Instruments, equipment to the SEA region. Our vision is to provide for the millions of researchers in Asia, SEA & Australasia to shop for their life-science products, instruments and collaterals through E-commerce, no matter the age generation or the time of day. We streamline individual medical product catalogues into a diverse marketplace that would play host to Authenticated Products & Services.
mid stageBiotechnology
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2025
๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ. JUNE is the operational infrastructure for legal proceedings at scale. Wherever similar cases arrive by the thousand in parallel, JUNE runs the entire proceeding: from intake review through correspondence to enforcement. Separate mandates and teams work side by side on one shared platform. Manual review drops by up to 80 percent, cases move up to 60 percent faster, with full transparency over every single matter. Lufthansa, British Airways, easyJet, Meta, Schufa and Deloitte Legal already run JUNE across their highest-volume proceedings. ๐—๐—จ๐—ก๐—˜. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ. Legal notice: https://www.june.tech/legalnotice Privacy: https://www.june.tech/dataprivacy
Investor
Feb 2025
Get it done, with AI. AiSentr empowers businesses to scale effortlessly and boost operational efficiency with the power of generative AI - no coding required. Think of us as the team member that handles all the grunt work so your people can focus on what actually matters.
Investor
Sep 2024
FoX-i is a boutique fintech company active in the Foreign Exchange sector. We develop systematic trading strategies which we deliver through customized trading algorithms to the financial industry like Propietary Trading Firms, Hedge Funds and Family Offices. The quantitative trading systems are created based on technical analysis and we apply a wide range of techniques to assess markets, including the study of repetitive chart-patterns, mathematical calculations to determine the speed and momentum of a move, as well as statistical tools to identify extreme conditions. A natural progression is to extend these ideas into fully automated trading systems. FoX-i offers its clients the opportunity to participate and profit from above mentioned trading-capacities and expertise.
Investor
Sep 2024
Kruncher transforms how venture capital and private equity firms operate by combining smart CRM functionality with deep AI-driven analysis. From screening opportunities to tracking portfolio companies, Kruncher ingests pitch decks, financials, fund knowledge and integrates with 20+ external sources to automate workflows and generate insights with 95%+ accuracy. Trusted by over 100 investment firms, Kruncher helps investors close deals faster, spot growth signals earlier, and focus their time on winning the best opportunities โ€” all without the pain of manual data entry.
Investor
Jun 2024
Rently represents the evolution of rental property management, empowering landlords and real estate sales professionals to better manage their rental properties while efficiently handling tenant queries and requests. Through real-time data insights and unrivalled technology, Rently is committed to driving efficiency and convenience and establishing trust within the rental property ecosystem. Rently enables end-to-end support for the property rental process, from property listing and tenant acquisition, to contract negotiation, signing and managing tenancy support requests. Operational processes can now be completed faster and more economically. Through integration with national digital IDs like SingPass, Rently is able to ensure convenient and secure rental transactions.
Investor
May 2024
Hello Health is building Emerging Asiaโ€™s leading Digital Health Ecosystem, empowering millions of people to live healthier and happier lives. With over 36m unique monthly users, 93% organic/direct traffic, 14m social media followers and over 100,000 pieces of medically reviewed, relevant and engaging content in 8 local languages, Hello Health is the clear leader in health & wellness content development to drive consumer & patient engagement. We partner our clients, across 8 markets, with innovative solutions to their business and digital marketing challenges by connecting them with our highly engaged audiences, at meaningful points in their health & wellness journey, to drive audience engagement, participation and conversion. Our client partners, including the largest brands in global consumer health, pharma, healthcare providers and insurance in Asia, trust Hello Health for Sponsored content, Lead generation, Precision Media, Data insights and Market research, and Marketing services, including HCP programs. Hello Healthโ€™s โ€˜4C Strategyโ€™ (Content, Community, Care, Commerce) will see us provide end to end digital health journeys for our users by enabling deeper user engagement (Communities), facilitating doctor-patient bookings (Care) and launching digital pharmacies (Commerce). Since we launched in 2015 we have expanded to lead 9 markets in Asia: Hello Bacsi - Vietnam Hello Sehat - Indonesia Hello Doktor - Malaysia Hello Khunmor - Thailand Hello Krupet - Cambodia Hello Yishi - Taiwan Hello Doctor - Philippines Hello Jiankang - Singapore
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2024
GoUpscale is a sales enablement platform built for wealth and asset management, helping teams create engaging content, empower the front office and give leaders the insights they need to grow. While other industries have built modern strategies around it, many wealth and asset management companies are still relying on outdated, inefficient tools. The result is that sales teams are weighed down by brochures, PDFs and reports that clients ignore, and even relationship managers avoid using. This slows sales cycles, weakens engagement and eats into margins. At GoUpscale, we put sales enablement at the heart of wealth managers growth. โœ… Marketing and research teams produce compelling, client-ready materials that are 20x more engaging. โœ… Sales and relationship managers can activate and share content instantly, boosting conversion by 220% within three months. โœ… Real-time analytics and smart insights replace manual reporting and scale sales activity by 9x. At GoUpscale we believe in giving wealth managers the confidence, clarity and tools that make selling easier and smarter.
Investor
Dec 2023
Eye-Able unites all essential tools and functions for digital accessibility in one powerful platform. After a quick setup โ€“ with no installation required โ€“ organizations can: test accessibility, empower teams, fix issues, document compliance and monitor progress. Eye-Able enables equal participation in the digital world for everyone. Companies benefit from a broader user base, stronger customer relationships and better conversion rates. The platform helps organizations proactively detect and remove digital barriers โ€“ creating exceptional user experiences and measurable business impact.
Investor
Apr 2009
4G Wine Estate produces and markets the first luxury wine from South Africa. Our maiden vintage 2010 of โ€œG.โ€ was introduced to the global market of fine wines in November 2011. Committed to uncompromised quality, this โ€žFirst Growth of the Capeโ€ sets a milestone in the 350 year-history of winemaking in the Country. The latest vintage surpassed several 100-point rated wines in blind tastings. Our company operates internationally, with its South African office in Cape Town and the head office, finance and marketing functions based in our holding company in Pfรคffikon SZ near Zรผrich, Switzerland. Our customers are located in Europe, Asia, the US and Africa; our products cater to the needs of global wine aficionados and the top restaurants worldwide.
early stageWineries
Experience ยท 16 entries
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Investments (10)
Board (2)
2025
Investor
Mar 2025
Kyberlifes technology arm holds the first open marketplace in Asia with an easy-to-use platform that hosts healthcare vendors, life-science companies & manufacturers globally. Kyberlife also has a distribution arm that facilitates licensed distribution of life-science/pharmaceutical/medical products, Instruments, equipment to the SEA region. Our vision is to provide for the millions of researchers in Asia, SEA & Australasia to shop for their life-science products, instruments and collaterals through E-commerce, no matter the age generation or the time of day. We streamline individual medical product catalogues into a diverse marketplace that would play host to Authenticated Products & Services.
mid stageBiotechnology
Investor and Board Member
Mar 2025
๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ. JUNE is the operational infrastructure for legal proceedings at scale. Wherever similar cases arrive by the thousand in parallel, JUNE runs the entire proceeding: from intake review through correspondence to enforcement. Separate mandates and teams work side by side on one shared platform. Manual review drops by up to 80 percent, cases move up to 60 percent faster, with full transparency over every single matter. Lufthansa, British Airways, easyJet, Meta, Schufa and Deloitte Legal already run JUNE across their highest-volume proceedings. ๐—๐—จ๐—ก๐—˜. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฒ. Legal notice: https://www.june.tech/legalnotice Privacy: https://www.june.tech/dataprivacy
Investor
Feb 2025
Get it done, with AI. AiSentr empowers businesses to scale effortlessly and boost operational efficiency with the power of generative AI - no coding required. Think of us as the team member that handles all the grunt work so your people can focus on what actually matters.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
FoX-i is a boutique fintech company active in the Foreign Exchange sector. We develop systematic trading strategies which we deliver through customized trading algorithms to the financial industry like Propietary Trading Firms, Hedge Funds and Family Offices. The quantitative trading systems are created based on technical analysis and we apply a wide range of techniques to assess markets, including the study of repetitive chart-patterns, mathematical calculations to determine the speed and momentum of a move, as well as statistical tools to identify extreme conditions. A natural progression is to extend these ideas into fully automated trading systems. FoX-i offers its clients the opportunity to participate and profit from above mentioned trading-capacities and expertise.
Investor
Sep 2024
Kruncher transforms how venture capital and private equity firms operate by combining smart CRM functionality with deep AI-driven analysis. From screening opportunities to tracking portfolio companies, Kruncher ingests pitch decks, financials, fund knowledge and integrates with 20+ external sources to automate workflows and generate insights with 95%+ accuracy. Trusted by over 100 investment firms, Kruncher helps investors close deals faster, spot growth signals earlier, and focus their time on winning the best opportunities โ€” all without the pain of manual data entry.
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