# Alain le Loux

> Alain le Loux is a seed investor at Cottonwood Technology Fund backing Manufacturing. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cottonwood Technology Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cottonwood-technology-fund)
- Location: Enschede, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 70%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alainleloux/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/alainleloux
- Website: https://www.cottonwood.vc

Alain le Loux is a seed investor at Cottonwood Technology Fund in Enschede focused on Manufacturing and Medical Device. Alain le Loux is based out of Enschede and is the General Partner of Cottonwood Technology Fund. Alain previously worked at SciSports as a Investor / Co-founder. Alain le Loux attended the Business School Netherlands. Alain le Loux has been awarded Philips Innovation Award, Young Technology Award 2008.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 20% |
| Medical Device | 2 | 20% |
| Medical | 1 | 10% |
| Printing | 1 | 10% |
| Software | 1 | 10% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Series A | 3 | 30% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series B | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 4 | 40% |
| Germany | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Keiron | Keiron provides fully digital, contactless printing technology that replaces traditional stencil and jet printing technologies. | $23.6M | Series A | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| QT Sense | QT Sense creates quantum sensing tools for real-time cellular research (oxidative stress) and disease detection. | $3.5M | Seed | Feb 03, 2026 |  |
| Keiron | Keiron provides fully digital, contactless printing technology that replaces traditional stencil and jet printing technologies. | $2.7M | Seed | Aug 22, 2025 |  |
| Orange Quantum Systems | Orange Quantum Systems offers quantum software, diagnosis, and system services. | $13.8M | Seed | Jun 17, 2025 |  |
| Sencure | Sencure develops chips that helps measure electrophysiological parameters on the human body in innovative ways. | $4.3M | Series B | Mar 11, 2025 |  |
| Q*Bird | Our mission is to provide quantum networking equipment for the current, and future European quantum internet. Today, we build devices for quantum secured data communications. Tomorrow we will enable general purpose quantum connectivity. | $2.7M | Seed | May 28, 2024 |  |
| SmartNanotubes Technologies | SmartNanotubes Technologies is a start-up company's odor sensor works on the basis of nanotechnology. | $2.7M | Series A | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Sencure | Sencure develops chips that helps measure electrophysiological parameters on the human body in innovative ways. | $1.8M | Seed | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Orange Quantum Systems | Orange Quantum Systems offers quantum software, diagnosis, and system services. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed |  |  |
| Sencure | Sencure develops chips that helps measure electrophysiological parameters on the human body in innovative ways. |  | Series A |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ground State Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qdnl-participations) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [DeepTechXL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deeptechxl) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [InnovationQuarter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-quarter) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [TNO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tno-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [819 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/819-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ATUM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atum-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cottonwood Technology Fund

VC Fund · Santa Fe, United States

Cottonwood Technology Fund is a venture capital firm that focuses on high-tech / deeptech investments. It focuses on investing in patent-based high-tech and hardware startups Sectors: robotics, photonics, optics, nanotech, sensor tech, telecom, automotive, cleantech, green energy, Medtech, chemicals, and advanced materials.The company wasfounded in 2010 and headquartered in New Mexico, United States.

5 contacts available at Cottonwood Technology Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alain le Loux | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alain-le-loux |
| David Blivin | President & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-blivin |
| Alan Abbott | Special Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-abbott-13ef |
| Charles Call | Special Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-call |
| Matthew Ongaro | Junior Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-ongaro |

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## FAQ

### What does Alain le Loux invest in?

Alain le Loux invests primarily in Manufacturing, Medical Device and Medical startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alain le Loux last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alain le Loux closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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