Oliver Kranz

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Startup Mentor | Aerospace & Aviation

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 Germany
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Angel Investor
Jul 2025
We are redefining industrial image processing by leveraging synthetic data to create tailored datasets and applications for a wide range of inspection tasks. Our technology overcomes the limitations of traditional AI and enables manufacturing companies to achieve top-tier product quality.
Angel Investor
Mar 2025
Gauss ML provides an intelligent copilot that helps you efficiently find the ideal parameter for your industrial machines. Getting the most out of your machines is no easy task. An expert operator can easily turn a handful of knobs to improve a machine’s performance but will struggle to build a mental model of the complex effects between the many parameters of several machines. Dont operate your expensive machinery at 80% performance. Well help you get the most out of your machines.
Angel Investor and Mentor
Dec 2024
Skycharge is more than just a drone charging station manufacturer. Our expertise lies in designing, building, and managing versatile VTOL charging stations and technologies for commercial clients and government entities. Our drone charging technology leads the industry in terms of weight, power, reliability, and seamless operation. Our cross-platform charging stations are BVLOS-certified, compatible with any drone, and designed to automate critical operations seamlessly. With a dual focus on commercial and defense, were dedicated to advancing resilient drone charging and automation, for critical operations. Public and private sector clients rely on Skycharges adaptable charging solutions for diverse purposes such as inspections, security, logistics, and defense operations. Backed by a top-tier team and nearly a decade of experience in drones, robotics, and industrial equipment, Skycharge delivers a proven technology stack and a track record of excellence in building charging technology and charging stations for the VTOL industry.
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
Bearcover supports nursing home staff at night with routine checks and supervision duties. Our robots operate on corridors and perform basic health and movement checks on residents — without entering their rooms. Staff can then prioritise physical care based on real-time needs.
Shareholder
Nov 2024
Berlin Angel Fund is a brand of BACB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, the venture capital partner of Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (BACB). We combine the structure and financial possibilities of a venture capital fund with direct access to the support, network and know-how of far more than 100 active Business Angels from across Germany. Following the metaphore of the 2 wings of a Business Angel, we always invest our own money and offer ongoing personal guidance. This includes: - active support from first money in to scaling of the business - personally involved Business Angels with skin in the game - direct access to hands on experience and know-how in (almost) all business sectors - some of the most experienced Business Angels and industry experts - ticket sizes up to 200.000€ as lead- and co-investor over multiple financing-rounds - vast network in the Berlin and German start-up ecosystem. Our shareholders are members of BACB e.V. with whom we are closely cooperating to generate our dealflow. Our personal experience as (serial-)founders, entrepreneurs and/or senior managers enables us to interact with founder teams on eye-level and to guide less experienced Business Angels towards more successful start-up investments.
Investor and Mentor
Dec 2023
Mitigant is the first Continuous Security Verification platform built for cloud native infrastructures. We aim to democratize security and resiliency for cloud native infrastructure given that most security approaches do not effectively thwart the evolving cloud attacks. Resilience is a fundamental requirement for addressing these security challenges. Therefore, Mitigant tackles these challenges by leveraging security chaos engineering; a novel approach that enables a balanced breed of security and resiliency.
Experience · 9 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (1)
2026
Mentor
Jan 2026
The Founder Institute is the worlds premier pre-seed startup accelerator. Too many aspiring entrepreneurs never start, and too many pre-seed businesses fail, because they lack expert feedback and proper focus during the earliest stages. In the Founder Institute, you can build a company alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that are invested in your success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped our alumni raise over $800M. Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 180 cities and 65 countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs. The Founder Institute was founded in 2009 by Adeo Ressi and Jonathan Greechan. It is operated out of Palo Alto, California.
2025
Angel Investor
Jul 2025
We are redefining industrial image processing by leveraging synthetic data to create tailored datasets and applications for a wide range of inspection tasks. Our technology overcomes the limitations of traditional AI and enables manufacturing companies to achieve top-tier product quality.
Angel Investor
Mar 2025
Gauss ML provides an intelligent copilot that helps you efficiently find the ideal parameter for your industrial machines. Getting the most out of your machines is no easy task. An expert operator can easily turn a handful of knobs to improve a machine’s performance but will struggle to build a mental model of the complex effects between the many parameters of several machines. Dont operate your expensive machinery at 80% performance. Well help you get the most out of your machines.
2024
Angel Investor and Mentor
Dec 2024
Skycharge is more than just a drone charging station manufacturer. Our expertise lies in designing, building, and managing versatile VTOL charging stations and technologies for commercial clients and government entities. Our drone charging technology leads the industry in terms of weight, power, reliability, and seamless operation. Our cross-platform charging stations are BVLOS-certified, compatible with any drone, and designed to automate critical operations seamlessly. With a dual focus on commercial and defense, were dedicated to advancing resilient drone charging and automation, for critical operations. Public and private sector clients rely on Skycharges adaptable charging solutions for diverse purposes such as inspections, security, logistics, and defense operations. Backed by a top-tier team and nearly a decade of experience in drones, robotics, and industrial equipment, Skycharge delivers a proven technology stack and a track record of excellence in building charging technology and charging stations for the VTOL industry.
Angel Investor
Nov 2024
Bearcover supports nursing home staff at night with routine checks and supervision duties. Our robots operate on corridors and perform basic health and movement checks on residents — without entering their rooms. Staff can then prioritise physical care based on real-time needs.
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