Two million euros in seed funding for Skyseed

The start-up uses drones to plant forest areas. The start-up also convinced Wi Venture and the business angel club Better Ventures.

Skyseed has completed a seed financing round of two million euros. The round was led by Wi Venture. The business angel club Better Ventures also participated in the round, including Christoph Behn, Franz Viegener, Nicolas Peters and Gwendolyn Schröter. Rivus Capital, Katja Ruhnke and Conny Hörl from CK Venture, Michael Hetzer, Frederik Pfisterer from Solarize, Benjamin Minack from Ressourcenmangel and the forest owners Lucas von Fürstenberg and Gabriel von dem Bussche invested in the start-up.

Ole Seidenberg, Simon Wind and Dominik Wind founded Skyseed in Berlin in 2021. The start-up specializes in sowing seeds in forests with the help of drones. Seeds can also be sown in a targeted manner on areas that are difficult to access, such as steep slopes. Skyseed packs the seeds into pellets that protect them from predators and drought and help them to germinate better. The company also works with forest owners to analyze which plants and trees are suitable for the climatic conditions in the respective region and can nevertheless withstand climate change. In this way, the company aims to help with reforestation and keep the forest healthy in the long term. "With our offer, we want to provide an economically and ecologically sensible supplement to conventional reforestation with seedlings," says Skyseed founder Ole Seidenberg. "We are particularly pleased that we have been able to attract experienced entrepreneurs as investors who understand the complexity of the underlying natural processes and recognize the long-term impact of our start-up."

Skyseed intends to use the capital from the financing round to expand its drone and software team and refine its technical processes. The company also plans to scale up the production of its seed pellets. Skyseed aims to plant areas of up to 500 hectares in the next sowing season.