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 digitization 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
6 Locations:
Ludwigshafen (DEU), San Francisco (USA), Boston (USA), Shanghai (CHN), Tel Aviv (ISR), Sao Paolo (BRA)
Evergreen fund:
€ 225 million
Employees worldwide:
16
Investment focus:
Advanced Materials, AgTech, Digitization/Industry 4.0, new business models
Typical investment state:
Seed to series B
San Francisco, California, and Ludwigshafen, Germany, February 20, 2019 – BASF Venture Capital is investing $2 million into Alchemist Accelerator’s fund, allocating at least half towards investments in 3D printing, agtech, material informatics, nutrition and, technology game-changers. This investment supports BASF’s strategy to leverage digital technologies to drive business growth.
Provivi™, an emerging company using pheromones to protect crops from major damaging insects, today announced a $5 million expansion to a $31.5 million Series B, bringing the round total to $36.5 million.
BASF Venture Capital is leading the Series A investment round in Essentium, Inc., an innovative developer of disruptive, industrial additive manufacturing solutions headquartered in College Station, Texas. Materialise is one of the co-investors in the Series A investment round in Essentium, Inc. BASF and Essentium have been working together on advanced fused filament fabrication (FFF) solutions using Essentium’s proprietary FlashFuseTM technology for high mechanical strength in the build direction for extrusion printed parts.
