# Aster Capital

> Aster Capital is a VC fund in France backing Automotive, Sensor and Battery. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: France, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Aster Capital is a VC fund in France focused on Automotive and Sensor. VC fund

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.5M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automotive | 2 | 40% |
| Sensor | 1 | 20% |
| Battery | 1 | 20% |
| Delivery | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 40% |
| Kenya | 1 | 20% |
| France | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hadean | Hadean are a venture backed tech startup providing the most simple and secure platform for cloud native development. Intuitive and developer friendly, the Hadean Platform provides a friction free route to a cloud-native infrastructure. It lets you write applications once and deploy anywhere, taking care of setup, configuration, scaling, securityand more.Hadean have developed two flagship applications. Aether Engine provides distributed load balancing for agent-based simulations, while Muxer is a network model that utilises distributed edge networks. The result is spatial simulations of unparalleled size and complexity, where thousands of concurrent users can join and interact. Hadean have found traction in gaming, healthcare, virtual events and defence with industry leading companies such as Microsoft, Minecraft and CAE. | $30M | Series A | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| Warehousing1 | Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency. | $10.9M | Series A | Apr 07, 2022 |  |
| Eatron Technologies | Eatron Technologies is a rapidly growing technology start-up head-quartered in Warwick (UK) with a strong R&D centre in Istanbul (Turkey). Eatron develops and offers licenses for its unique software components to OEMs and Tier-1s worldwide who need production-ready automotive-grade software solutions in their journey to electrification andautonomy for any kind of vehicle. Founded by automotive industry veterans in 2018, the company has received over €2M of seed funding to date from ACT Venture Partners and Hirschvogel Ventures. Eatron currently has customer engagements in 3 continents. The company offers a unique platform to OEMs and Tier-1s who can license software components they need from Eatron for their autonomy and e-mobility applications. Unlike many other offerings, Eatron’s software components are designed from the ground-up in strict conformance to automotive software standards, which make them suitable for serial production programs. Eatron’s offerings include full-stack battery management software (BMSTAR®) featuring AI powered functions and diagnostics to support faster and dependable transition to e-mobility. It also provides a reference hardware specification which can be manufactured by its partners. In a related vertical, Eatron offers an L2+ ADAS software platform (L2STAR®), which includes AI powered features like automated lane-change and valet parking. The company believes L2+ ADAS will be the main growth driver in consumer cars for the foreseeable future (as opposed to full autonomy which is still years from mass adoption). | $11M | Series A | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Otoqi | Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals. | $7.1M | Series A | Jul 15, 2021 |  |
| PayGo Energy | Globally, three billion people cook with biomass. The use of open fires and inefficient cookstoves with fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene causes serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionately affect underserved communities. PayGo Energy is a revolutionary cookstove solution and distribution system that enables consumersto access clean and efficient fuel at a price point that is within their daily energy budget. | $3.5M | Series A | Aug 29, 2018 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aster-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [2050](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2050) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [2050 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2050-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Base10 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/base10-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Aster Capital invest in?

Aster Capital invests primarily in Automotive, Sensor and Battery startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aster Capital's check size?

Aster Capital typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$30M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aster Capital participates in.

### When did Aster Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aster Capital closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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