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We are thrilled to announce that Littlelunch will be acquired by Wessanen. The organic soup startup was our first-ever food investment, and we’ve had a very exciting and eventful 5-year-journey with them. In the past 5 years, the startup has gone from 40,000 euros to revenues in the double-digit millions per year. They’re available for sale in over 15.000 stores across Germany and have won several prices. Now, the startup is ready for the next step, and with Allos Hofmanufaktur, it has a strong partner by its side. We are excited about what the future will bring and proud to be part of this success story. 🚀

We are thrilled to welcome und Investor Baillie Gifford on board of our Lilium journey.

We're proud to welcome Baillie Gifford as a new investor, extending our latest funding round to more than $275m. They have a remarkable track record of investing in high-impact tech companies like SpaceX, Amazon, Airbnb, Tesla and Spotify and we're excited to work with them.

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Rewatch the with UnternehmerTUM GmbH and our junior partner Niklas on building market leaders 🙌

U Talk #3: Building market leaders, from MVP to EXIT What strides do successful innovators take to turn an idea from concept into growth company – and ultimately exit? Join the ride with UnternehmerTUM MakerSpa...

Join us at the UnternehmerTUM GmbH today at 4pm with MakerSpace and AIR UP with a short video message from our CEO Frank Thelen and a panel with one of our Junior Partners Niklas Hebborn. https://forum.unternehmertum.de/utalk/

In the new episode of deutsche-startups.de, YFood Founder Benjamin Kremer talks about luck and ex*****on and about their expension plans for YFood. We are very happy to support such a great team! congratulations!

Benjamin Kremer (YFood) über Glück und Ex*****on - deutsche-startups.de Das Food-Startup YFood peilt in diesem Jahr einen "mittleren zweistelligen Millionenumsatz" an. Zudem steht die Expansion ins Ausland an. Zuletzt investierten Felix Capital, Fonterra, Five Seasons Ventures und New Ground Ventures 15 Millionen Euro in YFood.

BIG NEWS from our Food Portfolio: YFood just raised 15M€ in their series B, which makes them not only the fastest growing startup out of 7 seasons of but also one of the fastest growing startups of Europe. Congratulations, great work!

YFood gulps down $16M to build out its meal-in-a-bottle and snack bar business – TechCrunch As people move into months of sheltering in place, many are doubling down on cooking at home. But not everyone is always happy about it. Today, a company that makes products that can help them bypass at least some of that effort but still eat nutritiously is announcing a fundraising to continue gro....

Lilium just released a video of a full test flight from take off to landing. It's incredible how far our shared vision of Urban Air Mobility is becoming a reality. Congratulations to the entire team, you have done an extraordinary job this year!

Watch a complete Lilium Jet test flight - Lilium This film shows a complete test flight, performed on 1st October 2019 as part of our first phase of testing with the Lilium Jet. The flight, which lasts approximately three minutes, formed part of our controllability tests and looked specifically at how the aircraft performs during banked turns in t...

If you want to find out more about our investment , check out the new LinkedIn article of our
Frank Thelen(in German) or https://freigeist.com/focus/

Freigeist Capital fokussiert sich auf Technologie Einer der Hauptgründe für meinen DHDL-Ausstieg war die strategische Neuorientierung von Freigeist. Über sechs Jahre haben wir mit viel Herzblut unsere Food-Family aufgebaut, die hervorragend wächst und eine starke Entwicklung vor sich hat.

Woohoo 🚚🧠 🛣️ Smartlane GmbH joins the Freigeist family!
We’re really excited to work with Florian, Mathias and Monja on their revolutionary AI-powered transport optimization software! Smartlane replaces manual excel-sheet juggling with automated transport mining and -optimization. The future of transport logistics planning: https://smartlane.de

Smartlane Transport Intelligence |

We are proud to present the newest member of our food-tech family AIR UP.
Together with Ralf Dümmel, we invested in a magical water bottle that turns pure water into tasty flavors just by the use of your sense of smell. Try for yourself and choose between different flavors like apple 🍎 or peach 🍑
Our Freigeist Team is genuinely convinced of this healthy product you can now find on every desk at our office 😋 (article only in german)

Wunderflasche air up: Wir haben gemeinsam mit Ralf Dümmel investiert Ralf und ich haben uns in der Höhle der Löwen kennen gelernt. Wir haben einen sehr unterschiedlichen Kleidungsstil, verschiedene Ansätze im Aufbau von Unternehmen und deren Vermarktung.

Alex and Niklas visited the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt today. 🚀🙂

Great news from our Food Family: Ready-to-drink meal startup YFood has just received €4.2 million growth capital from the Food Tech VC Five Season Ventures and the US-VC New Ground Ventures. This makes YFood the fastest growing startup of . Welcome on board and congratulations to Ben, Noel and the entire YFood Team!

Y-Food: Millionen für das Flüssignahrung-Startup aus DHDL In der Fernsehshow „Die Höhle der Löwen“ konnte Y-Food den Investor Frank Thelen mit Flüssignahrung überzeugen.

Yesterday, Alex, Niklas and Nils visited the YESDelft organization at TU Delft, which offers programs for tech startups in the areas of Blockchain, MedTech, Artificial Intelligence, Aviation, CleanTech, Robotics and Complex Technology. We met up with 5 startups and are planning on working together with Yes!Delft in the future.

We love which is why Marcel went to the Let's Cluster Summit in Graz last weekend. Many exciting Deep Tech Startups are emerging at the moment with new technologies like AI and Blockchain evolving and we are very happy about it. 🙂

Yesterday was the first day of . Many of our are there to present their healthy products, so if you are planning to visit the worlds biggest fitness, health and wellness fair, make sure to stop by at their booths.

Egal ob im Alltag oder im Sport, bleibe fokussiert und lass dich von nichts stoppen 🚀

Heute startet die FIBO in Köln - komm vorbei in Halle 4.2, Stand E78c und sieh dir an, was wir spannendes vorbereitet haben! 🏋🏼

Jetzt genießen: https://bit.ly/2VmfBvv

It has been an eventful week for Freigeist, starting out with the Markant fair on Wednesday, where Marcel and Frank visited our food family at their booths.

Lizza beim Markant Handelsforum

Kraftblock was selected "Startup of the week" by Energieloft! Thank you for introducing our energy storage to your community and helping us play a part in the global energy transition!

Energieloft Startup der Woche I Besonders innovative Ideen aus der Startup Datenbank

Lilium won a Financial Times Boldness in Business award last night! We are so proud of our portfolio company and thrilled for what's to come in the near future. If you want to get to know them and their vision of urban air travel, read the article below.

Lilium hopes to soar with launch of electric air taxis German startup aims to rise above what is expected to be a lucrative if crowded market

Stefan and Alex from Ankerkraut came to visit us this week for exciting, new, secret projects 🤫

Stefan und Alex waren gestern bei unserem lieben Frank Thelen in Bonn zu einem kleinen Geheimmeeting 😍

Worum es da wohl ging...? 😳🤔

YFood and Ankerkraut were at the REWE fair today. Very excited to see their products in even more REWE markets, soon!

Xentral is at the E-commerce Berlin today. Stop by their booth and have a chat with them if you are there!

While Frank and Niklas were at the Hinterland of Things, Marc visited our food startups at BIOFACH today. Here are a few impressions from the Pumperlgsund and Littlelunch booths.

Come meet us at Hinterland of Things today! Frank Thelen will be taking his seat at the inspiring tables shortly and we will stop by at the Xentral Booth later on. Did you see Franks Opening Speech this morning?

Yesterday, Kraftblock met Peter Altmaier at Handwerkskammer des Saarlandes for the new initiative of the Bundeswirtschaftsministerium 🎉 Very excited about these changes in the perception of and their importance for the German economy!

Freigeist added a button to help you learn more about them.

We had a great panel discussion "Trends, success factors and financing strategies for energy start-ups" at E-World 2019 in Essen. Thanks to Prof. Klaus Fichter (Borderstep Institut für Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit), Min.Dir. Dr. Michael Henze (Wirtschaft.NRW), Dr. Roland Kirchhof (Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland e.V. (BAND)) and Marc Sieberger (Freigeist).