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Sector Strategies

SECTOR STRATEGIES

With the incorporation of dedicated sector strategies, we have successfully expanded our position within the venture capital investment landscape. Each of our sector strategies serves a specific purpose and enables us to effectively promote our startups. Redstone strives to assemble valuable industry knowledge within the respective investment field.

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Redstone Social Impact

 

Redstone Social Impact is a EUR 50m early-stage VC fund investing in startups that actively address society’s biggest challenges through innovation. Redstone Social Impact invests in early-stage (Seed and Series A) startups developing solutions to society’s biggest social challenges. The core of the investment strategy is rooted deeply in the five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and three core verticals: HealthTech, Living, and EdTech. The focus is on solutions that have the potential to improve the well-being of individuals and address social challenges to shape equal opportunities, advance our society, and lay the foundation for the generations to come. Redstone Social Impact firmly believes innovation is key to overcoming our time’s most pressing social problems. Entrepreneurs providing solutions to these problems will generate attractive financial returns for investors while advancing our society and laying the foundation for generations to come.

50 M
Strategy
Volume
€500K- 1.5 M
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Size

Actively Investing

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Redstone Built World

 

Redstone Built World was created to support entrepreneurs with the ambition to make the built sector a better place, from decarbonizing the sector to facilitating access to the opaque asset class. The focus of this sector strategy is on tech companies that solve the most significant shortcomings of the industry, which, in light of recent geopolitical tensions, have surfaced clearer than ever. Over the past years, Redstone has built an exceptional track record, combining its proprietary data platform with deep industry expertise across ten funds. Being early backers of stellar companies in the segment, such as PlanRadar, Redstone Built World, is a testament to Redstone’s continued conviction towards tech companies in the built environment.

50 M
Strategy
Volume
€300K- 3 M
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Size

Actively Investing

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Future Industry Ventures by Redstone & SBI

 

Building European Champions – SBI and Redstone have established a pan-European venture capital fund with the mission to provide capital to high-tech Industry 4.0 technology companies. Europe is the world’s most active innovation hub enabling the digitization of industrial systems, yet the high-growth, high-tech companies behind the trend struggle to find smart capital to commercialize or scale their technology. Future Industry Ventures targets European industrial technologies as a way to seek higher financial returns and positive impact contribution. The fund is operated by Redstone and SBI Holding Inc., a Japanese financial conglomerate and world-leading investment group with unparalleled expertise, specialized in digital and innovative investment verticals.

Redstone Digital GmbH is acting in the context of investment brokerage of financial instruments pursuant to Section 2 (2) No. 3 of the German Securities Institutions Act (“WpIG”) as a contractually tied agent pursuant to Section 3 (2) WpIG exclusively for the account and under the liability of AHP Capital Management GmbH, Weissfrauenstrasse 12-16, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, (“AHP”). In accordance with the legal requirements, AHP is obliged to inform its clients of the following information about “AHP Capital Management GmbH and its investment services: MiFID Information.

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Strategy
Volume
€500k- 2 M
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

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VR Ventures

 

Redstone’s partnership with Berliner Volksbank Ventures began in 2014 and led us to co-initiating the Future of FinTech & B2B SaaS Sector Strategy. This fund focuses on the best startups in the sectors of financial services (FinTech), real estate (PropTech), and adjoining digital business solutions for SMEs. We invest in outstanding solutions and teams throughout Europe from the late seeding phase. While our core management team is still the same, many further institutional investors have joined our new fund. With the financial experience of Volksbanken and the VC expertise of Redstone, we can provide our portfolio companies with optimal and targeted support.

70 M
Strategy
Volume
€500K- 2 M
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

Bridge to Growth

 

Redstone Venture Debt opens up a world of opportunity for senior debt investment. In Europe’s and especially Germany’s underserved venture debt market, Bridge to Growth provides, on the one hand, a unique offering for institutional investors and, on the other hand, a non-dilutive financing opportunity for young, fast-growing companies. The fund fills a funding gap for startups needing bridge, growth, and pre-IPO capital, when equity gets too expensive and traditional debt is not available yet.

75 M
Strategy
Volume
€1- 5 M
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

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MA Ventures

 

MA Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund of the Migros Aare cooperative, powered by Redstone, invests and accompanies young companies with innovative business models and technologies in the retail, last mile logistics, prop tech and health sectors in the implementation of their growth strategy. The portfolio companies of MA Ventures actively shape digital change by breaking up traditional processes and improving them sustainably. In addition to the business idea, MA Ventures invests in founding personalities who realize their vision with passion and assertiveness. Stability and partnership at eye level are in the foreground.

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Strategy
Volume
€500K- 1.5 M
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Size

Actively investing

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SwissHealth Ventures

 

The Swiss health insurance company CSS runs Digital Health in partnership with Redstone, whose goal is to set new standards in the field of digital health by investing in innovative start-ups and trendsetting technologies. Under the umbrella of CSS, SwissHealth Ventures AG forms its own company, whose investment activities are planned and controlled by the insurance group with Redstone. The company’s investment focus is on advancing concepts in the areas of prevention, recovery, care, and special treatment and on further developing and expanding innovative start-ups with a focus on telemedicine, early detection diagnostics, and digital tools for the chronically ill. Digital Health positions itself with relevant expertise in the areas of healthcare and venture capital investment as a professional investor for ambitious start-ups and thus sets the course for the high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare of the future.

46 M
Strategy
Volume
€500K- 3.7 M
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

Nordic Seed 1

 

North Karelia Growth Fund invests in recently established and young companies from the region, particularly in the sectors of digitalization, forest and bioeconomy, photonics, travel and creative industries, and material sciences. First closing of the fund is EUR 6m, consisting of investments by the City of Joensuu (Finland), Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment private investors, and Redstone. Typical investment during the first round is EUR 25-150k in equity, including follow-on investments up to 500k. The fund is managed by Redstone partners Oskari Lehtonen and Kaj Hagros.

6 M
Strategy
Volume
€25- 150 K
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

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Nordic Seed 2

 

South-Savo Startup Fund invests in recently incorporated and seed-stage startups with operations in the region without sector limitations. The first closing of the fund is EUR 3.5m, and it consists of investments by the Cities of Mikkeli, Savonlinna and Pieksämäki – in Finland, Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment, private investors, and Redstone. The typical investment is EUR 25-150k in equity, with the potential for follow-on investments up to 350k in total. The fund is managed by Redstone partners Oskari Lehtonen and Kaj Hagros.

3.5 M
Strategy
Volume
€25- 150 K
Ticket
Size

Actively investing

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Redstone – Family Office Schwarzwälder Bote

 

Schwarzwälder Bote GmbH & Co. KG is a family holding company based in Oberndorf am Neckar. The company holds stakes in media companies, manages real estate assets, and holds investments in various companies, including Venture Capital. The cooperation between Redstone and the Family Office of Schwarzwälder Bote started in 2019. Together with Redstone, the experienced managers of the company invest in data-driven companies. This data-driven approach connects both companies in their values and is only one of many reasons for a well-structured and innovative collaboration.

In the partnership, both parties benefit. Redstone is managing the Venture Capital direct investments for the Family Office of Schwarzwälder Bote as part of the total investment amount. Redstone supports the family office with sophisticated Venture Capital expertise and years of deal-making experience. with its many years of expertise, the family office of the Schwarzwälder Boten can follow an agnostic investment approach and has already been able to promote profitable startups. Investments such as that of the ambitious LegalTech company RightNow have already been recorded.

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Strategy
Volume
€500K- 1 M
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Size

Actively investing

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