Welcome to BASF Venture Capital
We are a corporate venture capital company that invests worldwide both in promising young enterprises relevant to BASF’s current and future business fields and in funds.
Besides innovations in the fields of chemistry, new materials and sustainability, our areas of focus include digitalization and new business models.
As a dynamic venture capital investor, we support our portfolio companies through selective interactions with the global research, partnership and customer networks of the BASF Group.
At a glance
7 Locations:
Ludwigshafen (DEU), San Francisco (USA), Boston (USA), Shanghai (CHN), Tel Aviv (ISR), Sao Paolo (BRA), Mumbai (IND)
Evergreen fund:
€ 225 million
Employees worldwide:
18
Investment focus:
Advanced Materials, AgTech, Digitization/Industry 4.0, new business models
Typical investment state:
Seed to series B
Shanghai, China, and Ludwigshafen, Germany, May 27, 2019 – BASF Venture Capital is investing in the Longwater Advanced Materials Fund. This private equity fund is managed by Longwater Investment, a pioneer growth capital investor in advanced materials and chemistry-related technologies in China. BASF Venture Capital is one of several Limited Partners; other investors include Xiamen C & D, CICC Genesis and Tsinghua Redbud.
Mumbai - 25th April 2019 - Omnivore announced today that BASF Venture Capital has invested in its second venture fund, Omnivore Partners India Fund 2. BASF Venture Capital’s investment was part of the second and final close of Omnivore Partners India Fund 2, which brought the total fund size to USD 97 million. Omnivore had completed a first close of USD 46 million in January 2018.
Ludwigshafen, Germany, April 17, 2019 – BASF Venture Capital is joining a group of prominent investors in the Series A investment round of Zapata Computing, Inc. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zapata is developing both a powerful software platform as well as specific applications for Global 1000 companies to effectively utilize a range of emerging quantum computing hardware. By investing in Zapata, BASF Venture Capital supports BASF’s strategic goal to take advantage of the opportunities that digitalization offers along the entire value chain. Quantum computing will enable BASF experts to very efficiently investigate complex questions and it will further shorten the time it takes to launch new products. Zapata, which was spun-out of Harvard University in 2017, will use the funds raised to expand its scientific team and further develop its software platform to meet growing customer demand. BASF joins a round led by Comcast Ventures and Prelude Ventures, together with new and existing investors including Pitango Ventures, Pillar Venture Capital, and The Engine.
