# SDAC Ventures

> SDAC Ventures is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

SDAC Ventures is a VC fund focused on Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.8M–$6.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $3.5M–$7.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |
| Compliance | 1 | 13% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 63% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Schulte-Hillen | Founding GP | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-schulte-hillen |
| Simon Leicht | Founding GP | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-leicht |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SE3 Labs | SE3 Labs creates Spatial AI tools to improve real-time awareness in defense, construction, and smart systems. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 26, 2026 |  |
| Tangible | Tangible is a platform to facilitate the structuring, modeling, and management of asset-backed financial transactions. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Allonic | Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines. | $7.2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Bluerails | Bluerails is a fintech firm that has created an on-chain treasury platform to improve cross-border payments and treasury management for businesses, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 02, 2025 |  |
| Hyperdrives | Hyperdrives is a deep-tech engineering company that specializes in super-efficient, highly power-dense, and yet low-cost electric drive systems. | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Crosstown H2R | Crosstown H2R is a product-focused company that was spun out from crosstown power, provides customized H2R® burners for gas turbine decarbonization and NOx reduction. | $3.8M | Seed | Jul 04, 2025 |  |
| Passionfroot | Passionfroot develops creator marketing software that helps businesses discover creators, manage campaigns, process payments, and measure campaign performance. Its platform uses artificial intelligence to support campaign planning, creator matching, outreach, workflow management, analytics, and reporting across social media and content platforms. | $3.8M | Seed | Oct 21, 2024 |  |
| Cakewalk | Cakewalk is the easiest Identity & Access Management. Cakewalk exists to enable fast-moving companies to regain control over the software they use. Made for IT & Security teams. And the actual users of software: your employees. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Prototype Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/remote-first-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Seedcamp](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/seedcamp) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [2100 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2100-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Momentum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-momentum-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [s16vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s16vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Unruly Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unruly-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SDAC Ventures invest in?

SDAC Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is SDAC Ventures's check size?

SDAC Ventures typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$6.3M at Seed and $3.5M–$7.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds SDAC Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact SDAC Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at SDAC Ventures?

The team at SDAC Ventures includes Daniel Schulte-Hillen (Founding GP) and Simon Leicht (Founding GP). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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