Moving forwards: Creating the future together.

Kärcher New Venture is the perfect partner for scaling your start-up and seizing new opportunities on the global cleaning market.

Die Zukunft gemeinsam gestalten

Kärcher New Venture

Kärcher New Venture brings people, ideas, business opportunities and capital together. As a strategic partner and investor, we enable innovative, dynamic founders to further develop their start-up and to shape the cleaning industry of the future in partnership with us. Do you have a future-oriented business idea? Then the best thing you can do is get in touch with us as soon as possible.

How can we help you to get ahead?

Ideen verbinden

Connecting ideas

We connect the speed and flexibility of a start-up to the expertise, global network and infrastructure of an experienced corporate group.

Menschen verbinden

Connecting people

With our expert knowledge, we can help you well beyond the financial possibilities.

Business verbinden

Connecting business

We are not only an investor, but also a customer – and therefore the gateway to the global market for cleaning solutions.

Kapital verbinden

Connecting capital

We provide venture capital for start-ups who want to take the next step with us.

What topics do we focus on?

We support new companies and teams with a pioneering product-, material- or service-based solution for future challenges within the cleaning sector. This may be new cleaning methods, digital cleaning solutions, software and hardware or sustainable business models.

Smarte Reinigung

Smart cleaning

We look for intelligent new solutions to make cleaning in all areas more efficient – from private households to office buildings and right through to municipal cleaning.

Robotik und Automatisierung

Robotics and automation

We believe in interaction between humans and machines. By deliberately increasing automation, e.g. using robots, we are driving our sector forwards not just day by day but consistently too.

Neue Reinigungsmethoden

New cleaning methods

We focus on much more than conventional dirt removal. We are looking for alternative ways on how to clean our environment and avoid dirt being generated.

Neue Geschäftsmodelle

New business models

Using platforms, online sales channels and resource-saving sharing and rental models, we want to sustainably change the cleaning sector.

What do we look for?

We invest in innovative technologies and business models which have the potential to facilitate and expand our future cleaning business.

Invest strategy

Which start-ups are growing with us?

INVESTMENTS

Homebell

Homebell

Development of a digital platform for craftsman services.

InOrbit

InOrbit

Provider of a cloud based robot mangement platform.

Mitte

Mitte

Newcomer to the market for water filtration and mineralisation devices for private users.

Skyline Robotics

Skyline Robotics

Innovative robotics platform for the automated cleaning of high-rise buildings.

ZanCompute

ZanCompute

Provider of an AI-based analytics platform for building management.

Contorion

Contorion

Online shop for professional tools.

COOPERATIONS

​We bridge the gap between start-ups and the Kärcher group and help to find suitable partners to foster our internal digitization. We currently support 15+ partnerships with start-ups in various departments including purchasing, production, HR and marketing and always seek for new solutions.

Cooperations

Our partners

Our team

Florian Schöbinger

Florian Schöbinger (US)

Gabriele Straßburger

Gabriele Straßburger (Europe)

Our sites

Winnenden

Winnenden / Stuttgart | Germany

Head Office
Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG
Alfred-Kärcher-Strasse 28–40
71364 Winnenden
Germany

Berlin

Berlin | Germany

Zoi TechCon GmbH
Boxhagener Str. 78
10245 Berlin
Germany

Sunnyvale USA

Sunnyvale | USA

Kärcher New Venture Office
Plug and Play Tech Center
440 North Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
USA

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