Your early-stage investor and startup accelerator from Walldorf
We catapult your B2B high-tech startup into the fast lane in the early phase - with our support in fundraising, sales and all other challenges that you encounter along the way. As a StartupBW pre-seed support partner and long-standing accelerator, we know and understand the startup business and can help you where you need us: as a co-investor, early-stage investor and, above all, as a sparring partner.
Want to take the leap to the next level? Send us your pitch deck and off you go!
Our success is the success of our start-ups!
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of our portfolio startups have completed a seed round
our startups have raised in investment since 2019
Companies as potential customers for our portfolio start-ups
What start-ups say about us
We are very grateful for the support and, of course, for the regular events and the strong network.
Sven Kruse - SenseING
SenseING develops energy-efficient all-in-one sensor solutions for environmental detection. Its focus markets are the fully automated monitoring of cold chains in the food and healthcare industries and asset tracking solutions for the construction industry.
We were able to call day and night and get answers to the most urgent and important questions.
Franz Seubert - AIPERIA (formerly PlannerAI)
AIPERIA is pursuing the vision of halving food waste in the next five years. The AI platform supports food suppliers in planning their deliveries and creates a transparent goods availability process for retailers.
innoWerft was always there for us and had our backs.
Daniel Hofmann - Actinate
Actinate is developing a white-labelled app for fitness studios for their teams and members. The modular system allows Actinate to distribute the app to fitness equipment manufacturers and also offer the app to companies for their company sports programmes.
No matter what is currently pending, innoWerft provides practical and fast help.
Ingmar Wolff - heliopas.ai
heliopas.ai provides farmers and agricultural market participants with important field information. The AI uses freely available satellite images to provide high-resolution data on soil moisture and irrigation requirements. This helps to save resources and increase yields.
innowerft gave us a lot of support in the form of workshops and the provision of the network was very helpful.
Niklas Kleinhans - scitlab
With its "DocCape - AI Automated Pseudonymisation" software, scitlab digitises GDPR-compliant documents, recognises personal data, replaces it with pseudonyms and exports structure-preserving information without loss of context.
innowerft has actively supported us since our foundation.
Anna Loerzer - Lemontaps
Lemontaps is a sustainable and smart all-in-one digital business card solution that allows customers to share, capture, analyse & manage contact details, links & documents, saving paper and time.
Our venture manager is a great support, especially through intros to investors and business partners.
Dr Julia Reichert & Katharina Jung - Onuava
Through fertility benefits and family building benefits, Onuava supports companies in accompanying their employees on the path to their dream child, thereby promoting employee health, talent retention and diversity.
innoWerft helped us a lot with the initial financing and acquiring new customers.
Stephan Grabaum - Volcanicblue
Volcanicblue offers a software solution including a mobile app for digitising the entire inventory.
innoWerft offers a very cool network of investors, customers and knowledge in the area of sales and B2B sales.
David Winker - Kreatory
Kreatory offers companies a data-driven ad manager for influencer content. The start-up automates manual processes and makes influencer marketing simple, secure, measurable and transparent.
We are very grateful for the support and, of course, for the regular events and the strong network.
Sven Kruse - SenseING
SenseING develops energy-efficient all-in-one sensor solutions for environmental detection. Its focus markets are the fully automated monitoring of cold chains in the food and healthcare industries and asset tracking solutions for the construction industry.
We were able to call day and night and get answers to the most urgent and important questions.
Franz Seubert - AIPERIA (formerly PlanerAI)
AIPERIA is pursuing the vision of halving food waste in the next five years. The AI platform supports food suppliers in planning their deliveries and creates a transparent goods availability process for retailers.
innoWerft was always there for us and had our backs.
Daniel Hofmann - Actinate
Actinate is developing a white-labelled app for fitness studios for their teams and members. The modular system allows Actinate to distribute the app to fitness equipment manufacturers and also offer the app to companies for their company sports programmes.
No matter what is currently pending, innoWerft provides practical and fast help.
Ingmar Wolff - heliopas.ai
heliopas.ai provides farmers and agricultural market participants with important field information. The AI uses freely available satellite images to provide high-resolution data on soil moisture and irrigation requirements. This helps to save resources and increase yields.
innowerft gave us a lot of support in the form of workshops and the provision of the network was very helpful.
Niklas Kleinhans - scitlab
With its "DocCape - AI Automated Pseudonymisation" software, scitlab digitises GDPR-compliant documents, recognises personal data, replaces it with pseudonyms and exports structure-preserving information without loss of context.
innowerft has actively supported us since our foundation.
Anna Loerzer - Lemontaps
Lemontaps is a sustainable and smart all-in-one digital business card solution that allows customers to share, capture, analyse & manage contact details, links & documents, saving paper and time.
Our venture manager is a great support, especially through intros to investors and business partners.
Dr Julia Reichert & Katharina Jung - Onuava
Through fertility benefits and family building benefits, Onuava supports companies in accompanying their employees on the path to their dream child, thereby promoting employee health, talent retention and diversity.
innoWerft helped us a lot with the initial financing and acquiring new customers.
Stephan Grabaum - Volcanicblue
Volcanicblue offers a software solution including a mobile app for digitising the entire inventory.
innoWerft offers a very cool network of investors, customers and knowledge in the area of sales and B2B sales.
David Winker - Kreatory
Kreatory offers companies a data-driven ad manager for influencer content. The start-up automates manual processes and makes influencer marketing simple, secure, measurable and transparent.
How we support you
Our Investment
With our investment, you not only receive a convertible loan of up to €50k, but also our unconditional support.
With our venture model, we focus on the most important challenges of early-stage start-ups and work with you to find the right approach for your start-up. As a result, you too will soon achieve product-market fit and, with our network, we will support you in convincing your first customers and investors for your first financing rounds.


Startup BW Pre-Seed
Startup BW Pre-Seed is a funding programme of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in cooperation with L-Bank, which helps startups in very early development phases with financing.
innoWerft is an accredited BW pre-seed partner. This means that we advise you during the application process and support you until the end of the contract period.
We can also support you as a co-investor - if your start-up is a good fit for us.
Up2B Accelerator
Up2B is a merger of three start-up initiatives: next Mannheim, the Heidelberg Technology Park and innoWerft.
Together, we have developed accelerator programs in which we work intensively with you to further develop your start-up in the shortest possible time - completely free of charge.


AI Accelerator
Welcome to the AI Accelerator, a pioneering cooperation between CampusFounders, the IPAI Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence and innoWerft. Our aim is to provide AI start-ups with the best possible support on their journey from idea development to growth. We offer a wide range of programs for start-ups at every stage of development.
How we support you
Our Investment
With our investment, you not only receive a convertible loan of up to €50k, but also our unconditional support.
With our venture model, we focus on the most important challenges of early-stage start-ups and work with you to find the right approach for your start-up. As a result, you too will soon achieve product-market fit and, with our network, we will support you in convincing your first customers and investors for your first financing rounds.
Startup BW Pre-Seed
Startup BW Pre-Seed is a funding programme of the state of Baden-Württemberg, in cooperation with L-Bank, which helps startups in very early development phases with financing.
innoWerft is an accredited BW pre-seed partner. This means that we advise you during the application process and support you until the end of the contract period.
We can also support you as a co-investor - if your start-up is a good fit for us.
Up2B Accelerator
Up2B is a merger of three start-up initiatives: next Mannheim, the Heidelberg Technology Park and innoWerft.
Together, we have developed accelerator programs in which we work intensively with you to further develop your start-up in the shortest possible time - completely free of charge.
AI Accelerator
Welcome to the AI Accelerator, a pioneering cooperation between CampusFounders, the IPAI Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence and innoWerft. Our aim is to provide AI start-ups with the best possible support on their journey from idea development to growth. We offer a wide range of programs for start-ups at every stage of development.