Agriportance closes seed round

The biomethane start-up wants to digitize its product. The company did not disclose the exact amount.

The biomethane start-up Agriportance has received a seven-figure sum in a seed financing round. The company has not disclosed the exact amount. The round was led by High-Tech-Gründerfonds and other business angels. The founding team intends to use the fresh capital primarily to drive forward the digitalization of their product. The founders also want to expand further into the European market.

Henning Dicks and Thorsten Rohling founded the start-up in Münster in June 2021. They want to create the digital infrastructure that will enable biogas plants to produce the green natural gas alternative biomethane. Dicks is a farmer, Rohling is a software developer. "Biogas producers have always approached us with the same two problems," says Dicks. "On the one hand, the complex greenhouse gas balance and, on the other, many question marks about marketing to customers from the energy industry with offices abroad." Agriportance is therefore focusing on a European biomethane market in which the certification process works digitally. In the long term, the start-up wants to develop a solution for this.