Camelback Mountain Capital will provide venture capital for start-ups in the future
LIP Invest founder Bodo Hollung MRICS will remain loyal to the logistics real estate asset class after his planned departure from LIP in June 2025. With Camelback Mountain Capital GmbH, Hollung will support start-ups in the industry with capital, network, know-how and ideas in the future.
Since its inception in 2022, Camelback has been a pure holding structure for investments within the framework of the LIP Invest business model. In addition to a stake in Avanlog Solar GmbH, a joint venture with AVANTAG Energy S.a.r.l., which in turn belongs to the leading energy group MVV Energie AG, there was also a stake in Avanlog Development GmbH.
With Avanlog Solar, photovoltaic systems with a capacity of around 350,000 MWp have been installed on more than 350,000 square meters of hall space in the last five years. Avanlog Development GmbH was founded a year ago for the development of logistics properties. An existing project was sold at an early stage as part of the acquisition of building rights for capital formation.
After exiting LIP Invest, Camelback founder and managing director Hollung is now focusing on start-ups and young companies and, in addition to capital, is also providing so-called smart money such as mentoring, experience and industry contacts. The first projects are already in the review process. In addition, Hollung also offers its many years of experience to institutional investors in investments in logistics properties.
The logistics industry in Germany has been growing continuously for years, as has global world trade. Despite ever new challenges, with wars in Ukraine and Iran or the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is so important for world trade, there are always attractive business opportunities to become self-employed in the asset class.
“I’m thinking above all of project developers who, for example, want to take the step from the second row to self-employment. But I am also open to start-up ideas around investments in logistics real estate, as a capital placement agent or as a broker in the rental and investment sector. In doing so, I will act just as unbureaucratically as I was helped when LIP Invest was founded. When selecting my investments, the focus is therefore less on perfect business plans, but on the people involved,” says Hollung.
For more information on Camelback Mountain Capital GmbH, please visit www.camelback-capital.com.
