Marvin Martsch
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- Full Name
- Marvin Martsch
- Title
- Investment Director (previously Investment Manager / Senior Investment Manager)
- Firm
- IBB Ventures (IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH)
- Firm Type
- Venture Capital — regional, public-backed early-stage VC (part of the IBB Group / Investitionsbank Berlin ecosystem); not a private angel
- Investment Stage
- Seed and Series A (early stage)
- Check Size
- ~$100K–$1.5M initial, with a sweet spot around $1.5M (IBB Ventures typically deploys up to ~€4M per company across rounds)
- Target Company Profile
- Berlin-based early-stage startups with a functional prototype or early product and a strong founding team building in hard/technical domains
- Sector Focus
- Currently Industrial Technologies, DeepTech, Hardware, and Energy; earlier ranked as a top investor in E-commerce, Marketplaces, and Consumer Internet
- Geographic Focus
- Berlin, Germany (IBB Ventures invests only in companies with their operational base in Berlin)
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
Background
Marvin Martsch is an investment professional at IBB Ventures, the Berlin-based venture capital arm of the IBB Group that has financed innovative Berlin startups since 1997 and is widely regarded as the market leader in early-stage financing in the city. He is currently listed on the firm's team page as an Investment Director focused on Industrial Technologies, DeepTech, Hardware, and Energy — a progression from earlier roles described across aggregators as Investment Manager and Senior Investment Manager.
He holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering, both from Leibniz Universität Hannover — an academic background consistent with his current focus on hardware- and energy-heavy deep-tech companies.
At IBB Ventures, Martsch sits alongside a team that includes investors such as Clemens Kabel, Robert Kusche, Christian Seegers, Marco Zeller, Daniel Steffen, and Marco Zeller, managing capital across the firm's technology, creative-industries, and impact VC funds. IBB Ventures operates two VC funds for technology and creative companies totaling roughly €90 million, plus a ~€30 million impact VC fund that has been in its investment phase since 2022 — the vehicle most aligned with Martsch's climate- and energy-oriented deals. Earlier in his coverage he was associated with e-commerce, marketplace, and consumer-internet deals before shifting toward industrial and energy tech.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests exclusively in Berlin-based early-stage startups, reflecting IBB Ventures' regional mandate — geography is a hard filter.
- Concentrates on DeepTech, hardware, industrial technology, and energy/climate — capital-intensive, technically hard businesses rather than pure software plays.
- Typical entry at Seed / Series A, with initial checks in the ~$100K–$1.5M range and follow-on capacity through IBB's funds (up to ~€4M per company over time).
- Looks for teams with a working prototype and defensible technology; on the Ucaneo deal he emphasized their "game-changing technology and functional lab-scale prototype."
- In his own words on backing climate hardware: *"Ucaneo's tech is a game-changer—affordable, energy-efficient DAC solutions that turn CO2 into useful products."*
Notable Investments
- Ucaneo — Berlin climate-tech startup (founded 2022) building biomimetic direct-air-capture (DAC) technology; IBB Ventures co-led its €6.75M seed round (September 2024) alongside Energie 360°'s Smart Energy Innovationsfonds, with Grantham Foundation, Nucleus Capital, Carbon Removal Partners, and others participating. Martsch represented IBB on the deal.
- nuventura — Berlin cleantech developing SF6-free, dry-air gas-insulated switchgear for sustainable electricity grids; an IBB Ventures portfolio company associated with Martsch's deep-tech/energy focus.
- babelforce — no-code voice and customer-service automation platform; an IBB Ventures portfolio company linked to Martsch in investor-contact databases.
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