Investor Relations

Since 2001 some 50 million euros have been invested in developing the SkySails technology. 

Lead investors are the ship financing company Jan Luiken Oltmann Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG based in Leer, the highly respected marine engine supplier Zeppelin Power Systems GmbH & Co. KG and the Dutch Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company Royal DSM N.V..

Besides private investors and family offices, the group of SkySails investors also includes numerous notable shipping companies such as WESSELS Reederei, Briese Schiffahrt, Reederei Jüngerhans, Triton Seatrade and Reederei Opielok. 

At the end of 2010, the Dutch Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company Royal DSM N.V. made an investment in SkySails as part of SkySails' latest round of financing, which was with a total volume of € 15 million the highest CleanTech venture capital investment in Germany of the year.

The development costs has been provided in the form of equity capital or an equity-equivalent by investors and partly through public grants and subsidies. The equity capital raised was partially co-financed with funds from the German Credit Institute for Reconstruction (KfW).