Getting ahead: shaping the future together.

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

Kärcher New Ventures

Kärcher New Ventures brings together people, ideas, business opportunities and capital. As a strategic partner and investor, we enable innovative, dynamic business founders to further develop their start-up and to shape the cleaning industry of the future together with us. Do you have a forward-looking 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?

Connecting ideas

We connect the speed and flexibility of a start-up with the expertise, the global network and the infrastructure of a well-established group of companies.

Connecting people

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

Connecting business

We are not only an investor, but a client too – representing the gateway to a global market for cleaning solutions.

Connecting capital

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

START-UP INVESTMENTS

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 might be new cleaning methods, digital cleaning solutions, software and hardware or even sustainable business models.

Smart cleaning

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

Artificial intelligence, robotics and automation

We believe in interplay between humans and machines. By utilising artificial intelligence, automation or robotics and integrating them into Kärcher solutions, we are consistently driving our industry forward.

New cleaning methods

We are about so much more than conventional dirt removal. We look for alternative ways in which we can clean our environment and avoid dirt being generated in the first place.

New business models

Using platforms, online sales channels and resource-conserving sharing and rental models, we want to permanently 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.

Which start-ups are growing with us?

InOrbit

Provider of a cloud-based platform for the management of robots.

mysoda

Sustainable sparkling water makers, beverage syrups and CO₂ cylinders for domestic use.

Peanut Robotics

Cleaning robots that can mop and scrub in 3D applications.

Route

Software platform for cleaning service providers to optimise internal processes and increase sales. Marketplace for cleaning service providers for outsourcing to subcontractors.

Skyline Robotics

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

Tulu

App-based rental platform for the hourly hire of household and entertainment products within residential buildings.

ZanCompute

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

Homebell

Developing a digital platform for services offered by tradespeople.

Contorion

Online shop for professional tools.

Kärcher: winner of the European CVC Award!

We are delighted to announce that Kärcher New Ventures is the proud winner of the first annual European Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Awards in the "Manufacturing/Chemicals/Materials" category. We received the coveted trophy at the Wolves Summit 2024. This award recognises our efforts in contributing to the development of the cleaning industry together with our portfolio start-ups and to the development of new technologies, business models and markets.

Venture Clienting

What topics do we focus on?

We bridge the gap between start-ups and the Kärcher Group and help to find suitable partners to change our internal processes effectively, enrich our products and open up new business models. Every year, we implement more than 15 pilot projects with start-ups in various departments, including Purchasing, Production, HR and Sales, and are always looking for new solutions.