Aper Ventures
VC Fund
Warszawa, Poland
Aper Ventures is a VC fund in Warszawa focused on Software and Manufacturing. The fund supports deeptech and hardware startups that demonstrate proven competitive advantages and significant global potential. It was founded in 2014 as 100 million Meta Ventures, investing in more than 20 entities in its area of operations. As of 2019, it operates primarily under Aper Ventures. The value of its assets under management is approximately PLN 130 million, of which the fund has invested PLN 50 million since 2019 alone. Aper Venture is based in Warsaw, Poland.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
- Fund size:
- $34M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Aper Ventures invests in
Stages Aper Ventures invests in
Countries Aper Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $152k–$4.8M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (18%)
- Manufacturing 6 (18%)
- Information Technology 4 (12%)
- Hardware 3 (9%)
- Consulting 3 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 25 (76%)
- Series A 3 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (9%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (3%)
Country
- Poland 25 (76%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jacek Blonski
Managing Partner & Founder
|
Managing Partner & Founder | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Bartosz Składzień
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Michał Lechowski
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Piotr Slawski
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maas Loop is a producing recycling equipment startup and don’t let good garbage go to waste By providing waste reduction equipment and enable retailers and HoReCa to manage garbage smarter. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| We democratize lighting by making a OLED technology affordable. Despite it's paper-thin design and recyclability, OLED has failed to see a larger market adaptation outside of displays, due to high production costs. Inuru hast set it's sails to change that. We use printing technology to manufacture lighting on demand, reducingmanufacturing cost by up to 95%. This allows to bring light and displays into places it has not been before. We deliver it in the form of low cost OLED labels to customers like CATTIER, COCA COLA and DISPLATE and soon will launch product in the field of Clothing and Medical Applications. We own a fully automated OLED manufacturing line Germany. | $10M / Series A / Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| United Robots is a technology company operating in the robotics and artificial intelligence industry. | Seed / Aug 30, 2023 | ||
| KSM Vision is an optical system for automated quality control in the industry. They offer services for managing and developing mechatronics and optical R&D. They provide products for the healthcare industry. | $2.1M / Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | ||
| AP-TECH provides IT solutions, software development, system integration, and IT consulting services. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Maas Loop is a producing recycling equipment startup and don’t let good garbage go to waste By providing waste reduction equipment and enable retailers and HoReCa to manage garbage smarter. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Apeiron Synthesis develops catalysts, with a broad application in pharmaceuticals, flavors, and fragrances and the production of polymers and rubber. They develop a broad portfolio of patented and patent-pending catalysts that can satisfy nearly any process using metathesis which is used to deliver process-specific catalysts and also to providevalue to its clients across the whole research and development, implementation, and production process. | $4.8M / Seed / Dec 21, 2022 | ||
| Innovative software and IoT products for marine reef industry | $3M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | ||
| The Batteries was founded in 2015 by a group of engineers and managers, having over 15 years of experience in designing and manufacturing of thin-film production equipment and manufacturing processes. The major area of company's expertise is engineering of vacuum-based equipment and in-line technological processes, capable of providing highquality, high productivity rate and cost-efficiency of thin-film manufacturing processes. | $8.1M / Series A / Jun 09, 2022 | ||
| Surge Cloud is a consulting company providing services designed to optimize sales costs using modern technology. It operates in the area of Digital Transformation and Trademetry. It leads the strategic cooperation (among others) with Orange Group with which it carries out four implementation projects. Its clients are leading FMCG, Fashion andAutomotive manufacturers. It has been operating on the market in its current form since January 2017.Surge Cloud uses original technologies based on Internet of Things and Machine Learning Algorithms, draw upon this provides services of automatic monitoring of customers behaviour, interest rate exposure, staff effectiveness and resources localization. These services deliver data that allows lowering costs of exposition maintenance, warehousing and logistic | $1.4M / Series A / Apr 08, 2020 | ||
| See all 33 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Aper Ventures invest in?
Aper Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Aper Ventures invest in?
Aper Ventures typically joins rounds of $152k–$4.8M at Seed and $1.4M–$10M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Aper Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Aper Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Aper Ventures?
The team at Aper Ventures includes Jacek Blonski (Managing Partner & Founder), Bartosz Składzień (Managing Partner) and Michał Lechowski (Investment Associate). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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