# Fly Ventures

> Fly Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 122 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 122
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fly-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/flyvc
- Website: http://www.fly.vc

Fly Ventures is a first check VC for technical founders solving hard problems.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Fly Ventures. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Fly Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/fly-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.5M–$4M |
| Series A | $5.7M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 21% |
| Software | 25 | 20% |
| Machine Learning | 12 | 10% |
| SaaS | 8 | 7% |
| Internet | 8 | 7% |

104 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 46 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 28 | 23% |
| Series A | 18 | 15% |
| Series B | 2 | 2% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 20 | 16% |
| Germany | 17 | 14% |
| United States | 12 | 10% |
| France | 8 | 7% |
| Estonia | 2 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gabriel Matuschka | Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gabriel-matuschka |
| Fredrik Bergenlid | Partner and CTO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fredrik-bergenlid |
| Matt Wichrowski | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matt-wichrowski |
| Steven Tran | Operating Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-tran |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reimagine Robotics | Reimagine Robotics is a robotics engineering company focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-robot interaction. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Orbital Industries | From sustainable fuels, to carbon capture, to harmful chemical removal from the environment, Orbital Materials develops and commercialises technologies that keep earth our home forever. At the core of our company is a foundation model for atoms, built by world experts in generative AI and large language models. | $49.7M | Series B | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Tangent Robotics | The hardest unsolved problem in robotics isn't perception or locomotion, it's dexterity. Tangent Robotics develops the technology that gives machines the ability to manipulate and interact with the physical world the way human hands do. Our work integrates hardware, tactile sensing, and AI into a single system, unlocking autonomy on tasksthat were previously out of reach for traditional robotics. |  | Seed | May 19, 2026 |  |
| Cirql One | Cirql One makes enterprise SAP data AI-ready — governed, structured, and ready for business reasoning. Most enterprises already have the data they need for AI: it’s simply locked in siloed systems, bad data quality, and manual processes. Cirql One transforms your SAP data into a foundation for automation, analytics, and innovation. | $5.8M | Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| xmemory | xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| xmemory | xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2026 |  |
| zymtrace | AI Infrastructure optimization platform. Zymtrace profiles GPU & CPU workloads with zero instrumentation to cut costs and boost performance | $8.5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| GitGuardian | GitGuardian provides a platform for detecting and managing sensitive digital credentials and machine identities within software development environments. The company’s solutions scan source code repositories, cloud infrastructure configurations, and other development tools to identify exposed secrets such as API keys, security tokens, andcertificates that could be inadvertently committed. Its offerings include internal monitoring tools that help organizations observe secrets within private codebases and public monitoring capabilities to uncover leaks that occur in publicly accessible repositories. GitGuardian also supports governance over non‑human identities by maintaining inventories of machine accounts and associated credentials while offering contextual insights and workflows to assist security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential risks. The platform integrates with a variety of developer and security tools to bring visibility into hidden credentials across a technology stack and to support collaborative remediation activities. GitGuardian delivers automated detection paired with incident tracking features that assist in classifying exposures and guiding corrective actions throughout the software development lifecycle. The company’s technology targets security, DevOps, and compliance functions that aim to strengthen credential hygiene and reduce chances of unauthorized access within organizational systems. | $50M | Series C | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Unikraft | The lightweight virtualization company. | $6M | Seed | Oct 10, 2025 |  |
| Poke & Wiggle | Solving the data and go-to-market problem of robotic foundation models. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 122 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Fly Ventures invest in?

Fly Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 122 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 Fly Ventures's check size?

Fly Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8.5M at Seed, $1.5M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $5.7M–$20M 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 Fly Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Fly Ventures?

Public channels for Fly 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 Fly Ventures?

The team at Fly Ventures includes Gabriel Matuschka (Partner), Fredrik Bergenlid (Partner and CTO) and Matt Wichrowski (Partner). 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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