Your Questions Answered

We are a Business Angel Club located in Germany - focusing on European Green Tech startup investments.

You can find a list of our Portfolio Companies on our Website.

Our Investment Memo newsletter is free to join. You can apply to become an Investment Partner here.

For investments made through our presented deals, we charge a 5% Investment Fee and a 20% Performance Fee.

Investment Fee

• We charge a one-time 5% fee on each investment
• This fee is added to your investment amount
• It covers platform, operational, and legal costs

Example: For a €10.000 investment, the 5% fee is €500, making the total transfer €10.500.

Performance Fee

• We charge a 20% performance fee (carried interest) on profits from dividends, secondaries, and exits
• This fee aligns our interests with yours, ensuring we support each portfolio startup to our fullest capabilities

Example: If your €10.000 investment grows to €50.000 at exit, the profit is €40.000. Partners in Clime receives €8.000 (20% of profits), and you receive €42.000 (your initial €10.000 plus 80% of profits).

No, we don't charge a membership fee at the moment.

If you decide to invest with us, we'll charge a 5% investment fee on top of the amount you invest and a 20% performance fee (carried interest) on any returns.

If you'd like join Partners in Clime and invest in impact startups with us, please book an introduction call here. We're looking forward to meet you.

We focus on pre-seed or seed opportunities.

Usually, we try to be as early as possible and even like to be first cheque investors.

We aim to send one Investment Memo every 6-10 weeks or 5-8 per year.

We'll only send Memos, when we are really convinced of the deal though. As a result, there will always be some variance in the cadence of new Investment Memos.

We are usually looking for direct impact unit economics (IUE) when evaluating startups in our deal flow.

The IUE ideally represents a singular north star metric that reflects both the startup's economic and ecological progress. When this metric shows positive development, we know the startup is healthy and increasing its impact.

Example: Senera.bio produces cell-based, real milk in bioreactors. One liter of milk produced this way has significant ecological benefits compared to traditional milk production (land use, methane, energy cost, ...). The amount of liters sold also directly correlates with Senera's business success. Our impact unit economic for Senera is therefore liters of milk.

We always try to schedule a joint video call with the founder team so you can get a firsthand impression. We also share a recording of the call afterward for those Investment Partners, that couldn't attend live.

Partners in Clime always has information rights and will receive regular updates from the Startups.

We will compile these information and send you quarterly reports via Mail for all companies you have invested in.

Investments in startups are illiquid, and exits occur only during liquidity events such as when another company purchases the startup.

You will no longer receive Investment Memos and event invites from us. Your investments will stay active, though, and we'll continue to send you regular updates and information about any liquidity events, such as exits.

We structure our deals using Aquaty.capital's legal framework:

You'll get Equity Participation Rights for the your individual investment you've made into a Startup.

Partners in Clime Ventures GmbH – a 100% subsidiary of Partners in Clime GmbH – will become shareholder of the startup company and sign all legal contracts.

You must invest at least EUR 10,000 to join a deal.

There is no annual minimum investment requirement for Investment Partners, allowing you the flexibility to select only the deals that interest you.

There is no maximum for individual tickets. We might limit tickets though, depending on the overall allocation, deal structure and founder preferences.

Yes, you can invest as an individual or with a company you own.

You can choose the entity for every investment on Aquaty during the signing process.

Partners in Clime is a collective of entrepreneurs and investors backing green tech founders with capital, mentoring, and a network that moves mountains.

We write cheques of €100k to €250k including long-term bets open doors to Europe's top VCs for your next round.

We back pre-seed & seed startups across Europe, with a broad green tech thesis and a bias for deep tech.

Pitch your startup through our application — no warm intro needed. We read every submission and get back to you quickly.

We look for verifiable impact potential that is tightly linked to your core product, not bolted on afterwards.