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Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Germany in December 2024

Investor	Manufacturing Germany investments
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	42
Bayern Kapital	28
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen	17
UVC Partners	16
bmp Ventures	13
MIG Capital	12
AM Ventures	10
eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS	10
Project A Ventures	9
Matterwave Ventures	8
coparion	8
Cherry Ventures	7
FTTF	7
BayBG Venture Capital	7
b2venture	7
KfW	6
First Momentum Ventures	6
Born2Grow	6
EnBW New Ventures	6
Atlantic Labs	6
APEX Ventures	6
NRW.BANK	6
Future Energy Ventures	5
European Investment Bank	5
Cavalry Ventures	5
Fluxunit - Osram Ventures	5
Futury Capital	5
Earlybird Venture Capital	5
EXIST	5
Saarbruecker 21	5
L-Bank	5
IFB Innovationsstarter	5
Brandenburg Kapital	5
Onsight Ventures	5
La Famiglia	5
BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen	4
TEV Ventures	4
IT-Farm	4
SFO	4
Possible Ventures	4
Khosla Ventures	4
TRUMPF Venture	4
Vito Ventures	4
BlueYard Capital	4
better ventures	4
Visionaries Club	4
EQT Ventures	4
Santo Venture Capital	4
Capnamic Ventures	4
BayStartUP	4

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The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IonKraft — IonKraft can provide better performance at a lower cost while maintaining recyclability, they also promote material reduction and reuse and are commercializing the technology with funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Sedivention — Sedivention is a medical technology startup that enables a one-time, interventional, and minimally invasive therapy for obesity. The company is developing a cryo catheter that ablates the gastric branches of the vagus nerve within minutes. As a one-time, minimally invasive procedure, the procedure can be performed in an outpatient setting, similarto a gastroscopy.
SRTD Biotech — SRTD Biotech is an RNA-based biotechnology company that focuses on oncology, infectious, and genetic disorders.

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

ExoMatter — ExoMatter is a digital materials development startup. They employ artificial intelligence algorithms to find better and more sustainable materials for their application. Their customized platform contains all material data in one location. They use scientific data on materials to develop enhanced and environmentally friendly materials. Theirmaterials research platform generates a customized list of materials for each client's application.
OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

In.hub — in.hub is a specialist in condition monitoring of machines, processes, and products, offering digitalisation options in the industrial environment. It connects legacy and modern systems, creates condition monitoring systems, and generates information for optimal planning and control.
Peeriot — Peeriot is a B2B software high-tech startup with a breakthrough in IoT. Peeriot offers a low-code software suite that simplifies IoT data sharing by tenfold.
Zenesis — Zenesis intends to change the way engineering planning processes are carried out.

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Reverion — Reverion offers electrical efficiencies for both power generation and energy storage. Reverion was foun ded in 2022 and was headquartered in Bayern, Germany.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Livil — Livil provides a toolkit for designing and delivering flexible employee benefits, including lifestyle, dental, and vision plans.
RAYDIAX — We are Raydiax.Interventional only.Our goal is to reinvent computer tomography that is focussed on treatment.
XenoPatch GmbH — First-ever portable device for pain management, seamlessly combines heat, cold and vibration treatment with an intuitive smartphone app.

Zusammen gestalten wir die Unternehmen von morgen.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Inbolt — InBolt has developed the world’s smallest and most efficient 3D camera tracking system. Their first product is a hardware module / device that an operator can plug onto all manual tools such as a drill, a screwdriver or a torque wrench. Once on the tool, it guides the operator, validates the completion of a task in real time and registers allthe completion parameters.
SciRhom — SciRhom GmbH is a biotech company that translates science into the preclinical and early clinical development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of life-threatening autoimmune diseases. Based on longstanding academic research and a well-established network of experts, SciRhom was founded in 2016 through a collaboration between academicand industry scientists with profound experience in antibody development.
Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

We back trailblazing entrepreneurs who transform the world with industrial 3D printing.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Mechanical Engineering
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Vectoflow — Vectoflow is an innovative company developing fluid-dynamic metrology devices for fluid flow and dynamics measurement. It offers standardized and customized flow measurement technology that measures the static and total pressure, velocity, and angle of attack of a flow. These products are used in motorsport, aviation, turbine machine development,and research sectors.
Fortius Metals — Fortius Metals is an innovative metal 3D printing company. Fortius Metals provides patented high performance wire consumables for advanced manufacturing including welding, joining and 3D printing
Conflux Technology — Conflux Technology is a new generation of heat exchangers made by metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).

eCAPITAL is a venture capital investor that provides early to growth stage funding to technology and deep tech companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Series A, Funding Round, Series B
Germany, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Exein — Exein provides the most advanced IoT security solution to protect your devices and containers. Protect your IoT devices in real time and at scale.
BeeOLED — BeeOLED’s technology enables OLED displays with significantly improved efficiency, brightness and operational stability at lower overall costs due to a less complex device structure.
Dryad Networks — Overview of Dryad, providing ultra-early fire detection as well as forest growth and health monitoring.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Pactum — Pactum autonomous negotiations help companies unlock hidden value. Our AI negotiates non-strategic supplier contracts on a massive scale.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

Matterwave Ventures invests in early-stage industrial hardware and software companies, empowering them to become global leaders. The company's solutions are those that will influence how value will be created in industry in the future. Matterwave Ventures, as sector-neutral investors, is on the lookout for ground-breaking hardware and softwaresolutions, including materials, components, systems, and software. With a sincere interest in their products, extensive market knowledge, solid connections in the industry, and unmatched investment expertise in the field, Matterwave Ventures supports the companies in its portfolio.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, France, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Ventory — Ventory is an affordable, intuitive, and easy-to-use platform that gives field professionals full visibility and real-time control over remote inventory.
Akhetonics — Creating the first all-optical RISC Processor
Innatera — Innatera is a Dutch nanotech company and an offspring of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
Protembis — ProtEmbo is designed to be a simple and reliable solution for one of the most feared complications during TAVR.The advent of transcatheter treatments for valvular heart disease has been a major revolution in the care of patients with disabilities or intercurrent illnesses that precluded undergoing stressful open cardiac surgical procedures.Nonetheless, in spite of ongoing improvements in TAVR procedures and outcomes, the occurrence of cerebrovascular events represents a significant morbidity of TAVR.Protembis was founded based on the vision to reduce the risk of cerebrovascular events, thereby improving outcomes and making TAVR even safer – especially in light of TAVR shifting to younger and lower-risk patients. The ProtEmbo System is an adjunctive device used during TAVR and removed following completion of valve implantation. The ProtEmbo is an intra-aortic filter device that is designed to deflect embolic material arising during TAVR away from the cerebral circulation.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

OASYS NOW — The new Standard for Securely Storing and Exchanging Genomic Data. Unlock global data silos and monetize your data pool through OASYS NOW secure enclaves.
Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.
The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.

Deep Tech Start-Ups without a proven use case have hard times raising capital in early stages. We help to overcome this financing gap.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AVES Reality — Geospatial data turned into 3D worlds
Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
volytica diagnostics — Our battery monitoring software reduces operational risks from e-mobility to energy storage and enhances battery life.

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

DcubeD — Accelerate your space exploration through durable and affordable Release Actuators, Solar Arrays, and Deployables from DCUBED.
Parkstory — Parkstory offers fully automated parking solutions that are supported by artificial intelligence.
StoryBox — StoryBox provides a Software as a Service solution for businesses to create, share and structure video content to make it searchable. With the system, companies can create and organize smartphone-based videos for any application scenario. Using the app, videos can be created and shared by every employee using templates. The app suggests picturesettings and scene lengths automatically and offers an automated creation which includes corporate design. The content can be stored in the DSGVO-compliant StoryBox cloud and can be accessed, filtered and analyzed from anywhere. Customers include Iveco, Erste Group, Evonik, Alten, and KTM.

B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Marvel Fusion — Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant.

KfW gives impetus to economic, social and ecological development worldwide. As a promotional bank under the ownership of the Federal Republic and the LÃ¤nder (federal states), it offers support to encourage sustainable improvement in economic, social, ecological living and business conditions, among others in the areas of small and medium-sizedenterprise, entrepreneurialship, environmental protection, housing, infrastructure, education finance, project and export finance, and development cooperation.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, India, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Uniper — Uniper is an international energy company with about 11,000 employees. They combine a balanced portfolio of technologically advanced large-scale assets with outstanding technical and commercial expertise. Uniper is a German energy company based in Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed by the separation of E.ON's fossil fuel assetsinto a separate company that began operating on 1 January 2016.
Vectoflow — Vectoflow is an innovative company developing fluid-dynamic metrology devices for fluid flow and dynamics measurement. It offers standardized and customized flow measurement technology that measures the static and total pressure, velocity, and angle of attack of a flow. These products are used in motorsport, aviation, turbine machine development,and research sectors.
Electrochaea — Electrochaea is commercializing a disruptive, scalable technology to convert electric power into methane, the principal component of natural gas. Using CO2 as a feedstock gas, power can be efficiently converted to renewable natural gas for power storage, for transportation fuels, or for transmission via a natural gas network. The company licensedtechnology from the University of Chicago and is led by the Nidus Partners, a St. Louis investment group specializing in renewable energy. Mich Hein, a Nidus Managing Partner, serves as CEO.Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Their proprietary process converts low-cost and stranded electricity and carbon dioxide into pipeline-grade renewable gas for direct injection into the existing natural gas grid, a conversion process known as “power-to-gas”.

Pre-Seed B2B Tech VC - Engineers at heart, investors by choice

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
Dive — Discover SPH fluid simulation software accessible on the cloud and on a browser from anywhere. No hardware, no maintenance - just engineering.
InSpacePropulsion Technologies — ISPTech is a Spin-Off of the Institute of Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It offers non-toxic, green propulsion solutions

Born2Grow is a german venture fund focusing on early stage investments. They invest up to 500k€ in innovative business models. They are based in Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg. Born2Grow focus on investments lies within the MedTech, BioTech, FinTech area as well as some other online industries

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Semorai — Semorai - Engineering AI
Doinstruct — Doinstruct offers mobile training solution for frontline workers.
traplinked — Digitale Fallensysteme - Endlich wissen, was los ist! Mit den traplinked Sensormodulen JERRY und TOM erhalten Sie in Echtzeit ein digitales Abbild Ihrer Kontrollpunkte.

We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.

Investment focus

Software, Energy Management, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Austria, France

Portfolio highlights

Sunhat — Sunhat empowers sustainability teams to deliver audit-ready responses for customer questionnaires, reporting checklists and ESG ratings.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures. <br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Mago — Mago is an AI-native, fully controllable tool revolutionizing video production through style transfer. We empower creators to transform and stylize any video - from live-action to 3D animations - into any aesthetic, seamlessly blending cutting-edge AI with human creativity from concept to final cut.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

APEX Ventures is a deep-tech and medical-focused venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
TriLite Technologies — The world's smallest projection displays from TriLite take laser beam scanning technology to the next level, for augmented vision as light as the eyewear of today.

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – in fulfilling its tasks, notably in the fields of structural, economic, social and housing policy. NRW.BANK pools the promotion and development programmes of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the FederalRepublic of Germany and the European Union and combines them with its own equity and debt products and advisory services. It offers the full range of financial products in three areas “Economy”, “Housing”, and “Infrastructure/Municipalities”. NRW.BANK operates in a competitively neutral manner as a partner of banks and savings banks.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GEMESYS — Gemesys creates a chip that functions similarly to the human brain in order to overcome processing constraints and empower AI with the hardware it needs to complete its destiny
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital fund that brings together corporate partners and world-class start-ups to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures invests in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape.From its operational hubsin Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investments and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities.Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital investment and collaboration platform of E.ON, one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks and energy-related infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Reev — Reev provides a transparent and automated charging platform for the management and control of charging infrastructure for electric cars.
Hololight — Unleash the potential of XR! Holo-Light is your immersive technology expert for scaling XR use cases, enhancing XR apps, and streamlining engineering workflows.
Prisma Photonics — Prisma Photonics helps utility operators to keep critical infrastructure running using existing optical fiber.

European Investment Bank (EIB) provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily in the European Union.The company offers project loans for the public and private sectors; loans to banks and other intermediaries; structured finance products; guarantees and securitization instruments for senior and subordinated debts; project bonds;equity and fund investment products such as infrastructure equity and debt funds, and environmental funds; and venture capital funds and security packages for funds.The company also offers microfinance; risk sharing finance for research, development, and innovation projects; finance and technical expertise for sustainable energy projects; infrastructure project advisory services; support for urban development projects; guarantees for transport infrastructure; and funding for public-private partnerships and small- and medium-sized enterprises.EIB serves the transportation, global loans, energy, industry, health, education, water, sewerage, infrastructure, services, telecommunications, agriculture, and fisheries sectors.European Investment Bank was founded in 1958 and is based in Luxembourg.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
France, Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BURN — The future of clean cooking
GEWOBA — GEWOBA is a real estate company that manages and provides a diverse portfolio of rental real estate apartments and properties.
Acea — Acea operates in six business segments. The water segment collects, purchases, transports and distributes drinking water, and manages the sewerage system and the purification of wastewaters. The company serves 9 million residents served in Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria, Molise and Campania; The energy segment manages the transmission and distributesroughly 9 TWh of electricity, public lighting; commercial and trading segment activities include energy management, sale of electricity and gas, energy efficiency for domestic customers. The company is targeting growth in electricity generation from renewable (photovoltaic) sources and in electric mobility, with a view to effectively contributing more and more to the energy transition and decarbonisation. The environment segment provides laboratory, research and related consultancy services on the environment and control functions within the water cycle; engineering services and overseas operations providing water services in Latin America.

Cavalry is an early-stage venture capital investor focused on European technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
Companion.energy — Software to manage industrial energy flexibility in the age of renewables.

Looking for venture capital? We are the Munich based corporate VC arm of ams OSRAM and invest in startups in photonics, opto-electronic and sensing.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, 3D Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Recogni — Discover Recogni's innovative solutions for AI inference computing, offering unprecedented performance, scalability, and sustainability. Explore our cutting-edge technology designed for diverse markets including automotive and intelligent autonomy.
Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
iThera Medical — Explore optoacoustic imaging technology for non-invasive in vivo visualization and quantification of disease-related tissue biomarkers.

We are looking for the newcomers, the architects of the future, the movers & shakers.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Threedy — Accelerating digital transformation with scalable 3D apps.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Particula — At Particula, we're at the forefront of the digital asset ecosystem. We've launched the first rating and data platform for tokenized real-world assets, focusing on alternative investments.

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mona AI — MONA AI is an automation software designed for the human resources services sector, aimed at streamlining HR processes and improving efficiency through artificial intelligence-driven solutions
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

EXIST is a support programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). This programme aims at improving the entrepreneurial environment at universities and research institutes. It also aims at increasing the number and success of technology and knowledge based business start-ups. The BMWi supports university graduates,scientists as well as students to this end in preparing their technology and knowledge based start-ups. EXIST also promotes a lively and lasting entrepreneurial culture at public and private universities.The EXIST programme comprises three schemes: EXIST Culture of Entrepreneurship supports universities in formulating and implementing a comprehensive and sustained university-wide strategy for increasing entrepreneurial culture and spirit.EXIST Business Start-up Grant supports students, graduates and scientists in preparing innovative technology and knowledge based start-up projects.EXIST Transfer of Research funds both the resource development necessary to prove the technical feasibility of start-up ideas based on research and the preparation necessary to launch a business.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed
Germany, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DocVox — meeting recording, meeting video recording, meeting notes, meeting protocol, conference video recording, meeting transcript, video transcript, task management for meetings, time management for meetings, live video recording, conference recording, meeting audio translator
eversyn — eversyn has produced nucleotide sugars using a novel synthesis method that makes them more affordable and large-scale available than ever before. Building on that, we are engineering biocatalysts to produce human milk oligosaccharides and tailor the glycosylation of therapeutic proteins.
inContAlert — inContAlert is a deep tech start-up disrupting the field of incontinence. The technology of inContAlert helps people with bladder dysfunction to monitor the filling level of their urinary bladder.inContAlert, therefore, developed an mHealth device, which collects and analyzes data with the help of deep learning algorithms. The information is thendisplayed on an app and sends an alert to incontinence patients when a predefined filling level is reached. inContAlert thereby minimizes the risk of an uncontrolled loss of urine or the harmful distension of the bladder. With the help of inContAlert, incontinence patients can go back to normal and live a carefree life.

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

The L-Bank is committed to ensuring a high-performing economy, a high quality of life and a secure future. For individuals who want to gainfully employ their strengths or need support to develop them. For businesses that create jobs through their commitment and for communities seeking to improve the quality of their inhabitants' lives. Inshort: for Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Taiwan, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

VCG.AI — VCG.AI uses AI & Big Data to provide targeted circular resource use solutions to manufacturing companies
UV — UV Energy is a company that operates in the clean energy, manufacturing, power grid, renewable energy, and solar sectors. The company focuses on the creation of a global network of solar utilities. They are known for their rapid deployment of large photovoltaic (PV) capacities, which are based on mass production techniques. UV Energy is alsoinvolved in the creation of what they describe as the world's most rapidly built virtual solar power plant. Their work is reshaping the conversation around energy, promoting solar power as a pathway to a greener future.
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.

The IFB Innovationsstarter is an innovation funding and investment company of the City of Hamburg providing grants and investments.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

3D Spark — Profitability and Sustainability Aligned using 3D Spark's Platform - Empowering Manufacturing with Insights and Efficiency!
Tomorrow — Tomorrow combines mobile banking with sustainability. Open your sustainable account in minutes & start protecting the climate right away.
Neuralfinity — Neuralfinity provides computer AI services. They generalise machine learning models by utilising an ML API as a service.

With a track record of over 20 years in venture capital and experience from more than 200 investments in numerous companies BFB Brandenburg Kapital GmbH (BFB) is the most active equity investor in Brandenburg. BFB invests in fast-growing technology-orientated companies throughout the whole life-cycle. Target sectors are ICT/Digital Economy,Life Science, MedTech, Proptech, Industrial Applications. BFB invests in companies based in or with facilities in Brandenburg. The current VC fund is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) an Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg (ILB).

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mateo — Mateo is the omni-channel customer experience powerhouse that empowers local brands and businesses to drive growth through a digital customer lifecycle management. From acquiring new leads, converting them into customers and extending those relationships - all in one platform.
family.cards — Family.cards provides elders with barrier-free access to digital solutions and all the tools they need to manage their circumstances.
Sphingotec GmbH — Improving patient outcomes with innovative diagnostics for critical care: Actionable insights in real-time

Pan-european early-stage deep-tech VC

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Industrial Manufacturing, 3D Printing
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Sweden, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.
Synthara Technologies — Synthara is a Zurich-based artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides system-level solutions for businesses to enhance their products or services with smart features. The company portable and wearable gadgets such as virtual reality headsets, small wireless monitoring cameras, sensor networks, have limited smart features because computingpowerful algorithms cannot be run on them. Synthara IPs provide server-class performance with an extremely low energy requirement for neural networks (10 TOPs/Watt).

We are an early-stage venture capital fund backing the best tech entrepreneurs across Europe and the US

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NaroIQ — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen mbH operates as an investment arm of Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
Otark GmbH — Otark GmbH specializes in digitalizing green energy trading and is setting new standards in the industry. With a clear focus on neutrality and transparency, Otark is making trading in renewable energy more accessible. The company offers a fully digitalized platform that seamlessly integrates procurement and billing processes. As a result, Otarkenables straightforward and efficient processing of green energy transactions for every company, from industrial groups to SMEs.Otark aims to accelerate the energy transition by making it easier for its customers to access green electricity and simplify the management of their energy contracts through state-of-the-art digital solutions. Otark stands for innovation, neutrality, and reliability.
DataSpark — DataSpark provides advanced analytics and intelligent automation services.

Cusp Capital is a venture capital firm focused on European software and technology. The fund invests in early-stage companies on the cusp of redefining their industries by channeling new socioeconomic and technological paradigms.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rebike Mobility — rebike1 purchases new E-Bikes from Top manufactures and brands like Winora/Haibike, Husqvarna, Flyer, KTM, Orbea. After renting the E-Bikes to businesses and consumers, the fully refurbished E-Bikes are sold with a 2 yr. warranty on rebike1. rebike1 also purchases used stock of E-Bikes from rental stations and retailers and sell them fullyrefurbished to consumers. In Oberstdorf, a Top tourist location south of Munich, rebike1 operates the largest E-Bike rental station in the area. Under the brand ebike1verleih, the rental business is expanding within tourist areas in partnership with local bike-shops. rebike1 GmbH was founded 2018 and has 18 employees today.
Blickfeld — Discover the world's first smart LiDAR solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with powerful software to digitalize whole industries!
Planted Foods — Planted is an ETH Spinoff that uses cutting-edge technology to turn four natural ingredients into plant-based meat that mimics the taste, texture, and mouthfeel of traditional animal meat. It takes only the best raw materials from plants and creates that tasty, nutritious, high-protein, and juicy planted that the customers love.It was founded in2019 and is headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm which specializes in seed, start-up, and early stage companies. It primarily invests in mobile, big-data, connected car, IoT, OTT service, Helth care, Bio Tech and other IT industries. The firm actively invests in SF bay area and Japan, as well as other geometries including Asia and Europe. We support portfoliocompanies, especially on the partnership with Japanese enterprises.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Japan, Germany

Portfolio highlights

EMobi — EMoBi is a transportation company that provides freight transport, and electric vehicle services with reservation facilities.
EV Motors Japan — EV Motors Japan provides sales and services for commercial vehicles in the automotive industry.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb (fka Agilius) is the only place where you can buy a condo/apartment building master policy online in less than 3 minutes at a fraction of the cost! Instant, free, no hassle quotes, online everything and up to 40% savings. With all that we're bringing simplicity and transparency to the real estate insurance space for condoassociations (HOAs), building owners, property managers, and developers everywhere. This is what we do. This is all we do.

SFO is an entrepreneur from the start-up environment and medium-sized companies. SFO offers complementary expertise, reliable capital, and an effective network.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, B2C, Pet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Younikat — VEGDOG - vegan dog food is the first 100% vegetable and gluten-free complete feed for dogs, which was developed in a one-year development phase in cooperation with specialist veterinarians and specialist laboratories due to a feed allergy in our dog Nelson.
ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
ProteinDistillery — ProteinDistillery: The Future of Sustainable Protein Production. We transform industrial side-streams into functional protein ingredients.

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.
HyperHeat — HyperHeat is a climate tech startup, that develops a breakthrough solution for zero-carbon industrial heat at very high temperatures.
Hippos Exoskeleton — Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries.

Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Moonvalley — The imagination research company building ML video and image models that captivate.
Vitara Biomedical — Vitara Biomedical has developed a therapeutic platform to support premature infants. Vitara Biomedical's platform was inspired by natural physiological processes to transform neonatal care.
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture investsglobally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

nyris — Our custom search engines make it easy for people to find products, spare parts, and components for industry and eCommerce
Quside — Our QRNGs let innovators build advanced solutions for cybersecurity and computation.
iThera Medical — Explore optoacoustic imaging technology for non-invasive in vivo visualization and quantification of disease-related tissue biomarkers.

Die Digitalisierung stellt uns vor neue Herausforderungen, denen wir mutig begegnen. Mit VC/O gestalten wir die Zukunft mit und investieren in sie.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet of Things
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
Wirepas — Wireless mesh connectivity for industrial IoT. Proven, ultra-reliable and scalable. Lowest total cost of ownership. The best mesh for IoT.
CrateDB — CrateDB is the leading open-source, distributed SQL database, empowering customers to turn data into business value

BlueYard backs founders building the interconnected elements that can become the fabric of our future.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

At better ventures we invest in early-stage founders who aim to change our world for the better.

Investment focus

Software, Environmental Consulting, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

TRAIT — TRAIT Running Coach app for your iphone or ipad tablet.
Lichtwart — Lichtwart is a startup that creates a cloud control platform for efficiently controlling and maintaining lighting systems.
PL BioScience — Animal-free cell culture supplements derived from human platelets. Supporting cell expansion and maintenance from research to therapy.

Visionaries Club is a leading European early stage VC backed by Europe's most successful digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. We strongly believe that leveraging our entrepreneurial investors' authentic knowledge and access is the best support we can provide to entrepreneurs in their Seed and Early Growth stage to help themtake their companies to the next level.Visionaries Club is divided into two funds:A € 150m seed stage fund leveraging its unicorn and digital founder LP base for very early and exclusive access to the most promising entrepreneurs across Europe.A €200m Early Growth fund leveraging especially the fund's industrial family business LP network is intended to support the most promising European B2B companies in their early growth stage from Series B onwards with global reach and scale.The firm was founded in 2019 by Robert Lacher and Sebastian Pollok and has offices in Berlin and London

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
11x — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Ameba — The AI-powered supply chain management tool that instantly upgrades your operations to be more efficient, agile and sustainable. The layer of intelligence that sits on top of your existing production workflows.

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Series B, Seed
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Argil — Generate social media videos in 2 minutes with your AI Avatar
Pruna AI — Pruna is the AI Optimization Engine - a frictionless solution to help you optimize and compress your ML models for efficient inference.
Biolevate — Accelerating Therapeutic Innovation: AI-Enhanced Workflow Automation

Santo Venture Capital GmbH is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 and which operates as a subsidiary of ATHOS Service Gmbh.

Investment focus

Energy, Clinical Trials, Environmental Engineering
Series A, Series B, Series D
Germany, Finland

Portfolio highlights

IQM Quantum Computers — IQM is the leading European quantum hardware company in superconducting circuits. We build quantum computers.
Temedica — Temedica is a Munich, Germany-based digital health company with the mission to put the patient into the center of healthcare. To this end, the company offers solutions both for patients and for other stakeholders in the healthcare universe. Temedica’s two platforms, Temedica-Apps and Permea, enable customer-tailored solutions to advancepersonalized healthcare. To best support patients with complex, chronic conditions, the company develops state-of-the-art digital patient companions. These apps help patients with personalized guidance and navigate them through the healthcare system considering their individual needs. Temedica is also an expert in compiling, structuring and analyzing real world data. Its B2B-directed data analytics platform Permea is designed to enable unique insights along the whole healthcare value chain and patient journey.
Efficient Energy — Efficient Energy GmbH is an innovative manufacturer and system supplier of environmentally friendly refrigeration technology, based in Feldkirchen near Munich, Germany. The company developed the Bluezero-technology, which uses water as a refrigerant and and thereby entirely avoids fluorinated refrigerants (HFCs). Efficient Energy helps itscustomers overcome the increasing regulatory challenges of refrigeration technology, and offers them long-term, sustainable solutions with its eChiller model range. The eChiller chilled water units are ideally suited for process cooling, machine cooling and the cooling of technical equipment and data centres and provide cooling capacities from 35 kW to 120 kW, depending on the model. With its outstanding cost efficiency and low CO2 footprint, companies benefit on many fronts. The pioneering technology has also been noticed by politics and the media, and has received multiple awards for the eChiller. These include among others the European Business Award for the Environment 2018/2019 from the European Comission and the Red Herring Europe Top 100 in 2020.

Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
Dexory — BotsAndUs is a London-based startup that develops robotics and AI solutions. They combine social sciences with human-centered design and cutting edge engineering and make sure robots seamlessly integrate into day to day life.
Black Semiconductor — Black Semiconductor manufacture microchips with integrated electronic-photonic circuits using graphene technology.

BayStartUP prepares startups for investors talks and provides them with a network of several hundred investors and business angels.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

phelas — Phelas is developing an electricity storage system to use solar and wind power even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing
BOX ID Systems — BOX ID Systems develops and offers an end-to-end location & process mining solution to cost effectively track millions of logistics assets digitally throughout the industrial supply chain across Europe and the World - including site-to-site, on-premises and indoor buildings digital twin of supply chain processes. The system is built on aspecialized analytics software platform, sensorik tracking devices and efficient data-, device- and user-management tools, including functions to support process automation and optimization. Industrial and automotive production customers benefit from making their logistics processes more efficient and cost optimized, with 100% transparency within their critical processes throughout the entire supply chain.
Mr Beam Lasers — Industrial laser cutters are digital tools for cutting and engraving a variety of materials based on a digital design file. Mr Beam Lasers offers a desktop laser cutter with an integrated connected ecosystem. Our target group are small businesses, professional service providers, educational institutions and private customers, who enjoy creative andartistic crafting. Mr Beam reduces the entry barrier for digital, automated labeling, personalization and prototyping to an absolute minimum. Due to child’s play handling, integrated online designs, material shops and service hubs, the mass market gets the opportunity to use this technology which originally was only possible for the industry.

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