# Emerald Technology Ventures

> Emerald Technology Ventures is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Software. See 101 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 101
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $212M
- Last fund: Apr 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emerald-technology-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/emeraldVC
- Website: http://www.emerald-ventures.com/

Emerald Technology Ventures is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Manufacturing and Software. Emerald Technology Ventures specializes in clean technology venture capital. Emerald focuses on the areas of energy, water, and materials. , Emerald manages several venture capital funds and venture capital portfolio mandates.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4M–$14M |
| Series B | $5.6M–$65M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 18 | 18% |
| Software | 12 | 12% |
| Water | 9 | 9% |
| Energy | 9 | 9% |
| Renewable Energy | 9 | 9% |

113 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 24 | 24% |
| Series B | 24 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 23 | 23% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 7 | 7% |
| Series C | 6 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 25 | 25% |
| Germany | 7 | 7% |
| Finland | 6 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 5% |
| Canada | 4 | 4% |

18 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Vaslet | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-vaslet |
| Frank Balas | Investment Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-balas |
| Hans Dellenbach | CFO and Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hans-dellenbach |
| Michal Natora | Industrial IT Specialist & Open Innovation Manager | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michal-natora |
| Simone Riedel Riley | Head of Techfund | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simone-riedel-riley |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alva Industries | Alva Industries specializes in next-generation electric motor technology, producing lightweight, high-torque frameless motors for precision applications. Their patented FiberPrinting process creates ironless, slotless windings with superior copper fill factors, enabling zero cogging, high efficiency, and customizable designs. These motors, brandedas SlimTorq, integrate Halbach rotors for enhanced magnetic flux and target industries like defense, marine propulsion, robotics, and medical devices. | $18.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 02, 2026 |  |
| Alitheon | Alitheon is dedicated to bringing integrity and security to the world through powerful AI and machine vision. It has created FeaturePrint – a system that securely links the physical and digital worlds. The patented FeaturePrint technology uses artificial intelligence and off the shelf cameras to register and subsequently identify even visuallyindistinguishable objects with statistical certainty. This novel capability delivers supply chain intelligence and ensures product authenticity, for producers of industrial parts, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, additively manufactured parts, precious metals, documents, and luxury goods and other high-value assets. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $8M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| SG Enviro | SG Enviro is an environmental services company that provides solutions for industrial waste water management. |  | Series A | May 29, 2026 |  |
| P2 Science | P2 Science a venture-backed, renewable specialty chemicals company, co-founded by Yale scientists, a chemical industry CEO and Elm Street Ventures, an early-stage venture fund. P2 Science has developed a unique process technology for converting renewable feedstocks—including vegetable oils—into high-value, specialty chemicals. These includeflavor, fragrance and cosmetics ingredients. Many of their products are today available only from petrochemical sources. Among the first products to be produced by P2 are vegetable-derived, cost-effective versions of current petrochemical fragrance ingredients. Major users and formulators of specialty chemicals have a strong interest in substituting renewable for petrochemical ingredients. Patrick Foley, a Yale graduate of the PhD program in Environmental Engineering, is P2′s Chief Scientific Officer. Neil Burns, an executive with 20+ years experience in the specialty chemical industry, is the company’s CEO. P2 has a laboratory in New Haven, CT to support this technology’s development and commercialization, as well as partnerships with major companies at a number of points along the supply chain. | $23M |  | May 26, 2026 |  |
| FREDsense | FREDsense manufactures portable testing kits to detect water-borne chemicals and contaminants such as arsenic, iron, manganese, acidity. It monitors water quality through its product called FRED. FRED Sense also builds a custom, field-based solution for the parameters that its clients are interested in monitoring. David Lloyd, Emily Hicks, IainGeorge, Lisa Oberding, and Robert Mayall founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Waterloo in Canada. | $7M | Series A | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Xampla | Xampla creates plant protein material for commercial use. Our next generation material performs like synthetic polymers, but decomposes naturally and fully, without harming the environment. | $14M | Series A | Sep 03, 2025 |  |
| Waterly | Waterly is the onramp for utilities to go digital. Waterly Core is a data management app that replaces the clipboard for daily rounds and automates monthly report generation. With out-of-range notifications and data trending, you can have confidence that you will have fewer violations. Waterly Assets is an asset management app that consolidatesall of your binders and Post-It notes into one dashboard Your staff will be more efficient and you will have less emergency equipment failures. Waterly Core and Assets both allow your staff to house their knowledge and train new staff more quickly. Burn the Clipboard!! | $4M | Series A | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Waterly | Waterly is the onramp for utilities to go digital. Waterly Core is a data management app that replaces the clipboard for daily rounds and automates monthly report generation. With out-of-range notifications and data trending, you can have confidence that you will have fewer violations. Waterly Assets is an asset management app that consolidatesall of your binders and Post-It notes into one dashboard Your staff will be more efficient and you will have less emergency equipment failures. Waterly Core and Assets both allow your staff to house their knowledge and train new staff more quickly. Burn the Clipboard!! | $4M | Series A | Aug 14, 2025 |  |
| Cajo Technologies | Cajo Technologies produces innovative laser marking solutions for all industrial and branding purposes. Cajo Technologies is a forerunner in laser marking software, material knowledge, and controlling the laser beam. Subsequently, the innovation has been further developed to provide comprehensive solutions for traceability and product markings,optimized for industrial production processes.Cajo Technologies was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in Kempele, Finland. |  | Series B | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Vytal | Vytal is a provider of software-enabled reusable packaging solutions to eliminate single-use packaging waste in the food and beverage industry. It offers a reusable container system and container management software to facilitate sustainable takeaway and delivery services, serving restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, canteens, and event organizers. | $15.5M |  | Mar 11, 2025 |  |

10 of 101 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Emerald Technology Ventures invest in?

Emerald Technology Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Water startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 101 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Emerald Technology Ventures's check size?

Emerald Technology Ventures typically joins rounds of $4M–$14M at Series A and $5.6M–$65M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Emerald Technology Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Emerald Technology Ventures?

Public channels for Emerald Technology Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Emerald Technology Ventures?

The team at Emerald Technology Ventures includes Charles Vaslet (Partner), Frank Balas (Investment Director) and Hans Dellenbach (CFO and Partner), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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