# German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space

> German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is a VC fund backing Biotechnology. See 64 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Germany
- Total investments: 64
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 61%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/federal-ministry-of-education-and-research-germany/about/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/bmbf_bund
- Website: https://www.bmbf.de/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bmftr.de/

German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is a VC fund in Bonn focused on Biotechnology and Medical. The German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) funds research programs, promotes in the fields of cutting-edge research, future technologies, innovation and space.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $340k–$4.2M |
| Grant | $294k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 25 | 39% |
| Medical | 16 | 25% |
| Health Care | 15 | 23% |
| Therapeutics | 11 | 17% |
| Pharmaceutical | 11 | 17% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 49 | 77% |
| Seed | 5 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 45 | 70% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| senswork | senswork is an expert in machine vision systems and specializes in optical inspection, industrial image processing and testing equipment manufacturing. Our ready-to-use camera technologies for automation and quality assurance are used every day by our renowned customers in numerous industries. | $273.3K | Grant | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| ChemInnovation | Molecules from Spectra - For a World without UnknownsAs ChemInnovation, we work on innovative & tailored AI-solutions for analytical chemistry. Within our first years as a company, we were able to bring our intelligent software METIS to researchers and partners within renowned chemical companies. Our smart software METIS accelerates theresearch and development of our customers. Therefore, it empowers them to accelerate their research, understand their chemistry and make their products safer. To achieve this, we have developed our own chemically inspired AI models and smart algorithms, which we now use to automatically evaluate complex data. We combine know-how from the chemical and computer science worlds thereby translating results from academia into productive cloud-software. | $649.2K | Grant | Nov 01, 2025 |  |
| Circus Group | At Circus, we believe cooking should be a loved hobby but not a daily necessity. Driven by the mission to fuel people's busy every day we are building a radically more convenient, sustainable, and affordable solution in food delivery. Circus was established in 2021 in Hamburg, Germany. | $2.3M | Grant | Aug 22, 2025 |  |
| Rock Tech Lithium | Rock Tech Lithium Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on the lithium industry. Based in Vancouver and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the Company’s international board of directors provides a truly global presence and offers unique access to capital and projects.The Company holds an interest in theGeorgia Lake lithium project in the Thunder Bay Mining District of Ontario. The Georgia Lake project consists of approximately 80 leases and approximately 20 claims covering approximately 4,590hectares. The project is located in an area underlain by metasediments and metavolcanics of Archaen age. The Georgia Lake pegmatites contain lithium-bearing spodumene. The spodumene-bearing pegmatites of the Georgia Lake area are located approximately 140 kilometers northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. | $291.9K | Grant | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| NYALA | NYALA operates in the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and software industries. The company develops a digital asset management platform. This platform is designed to bring blockchain expertise to the financial industry, with the aim of reducing issuance costs. |  | Grant | May 29, 2025 |  |
| CyberTide | CyberTide is an AI-based Data Leak Prevention Solution | $828.1K | Grant | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| NVision Quantum Technologies | NVision is pioneering a new generation of quantum systems designed to bring quantum computing and quantum sensing out of the lab and into the real world, transforming how diseases are understood, detected, and treated.We engineer and control the quantum properties of organic molecules, integrating molecular design and quantum hardware intoscalable products.Our POLARIS platform uses quantum-based hyperpolarization to enable real-time metabolic MRI with more than 10,000x signal enhancement, supporting non-invasive, early-stage disease detection and treatment monitoring.In 2026, we introduced PIQC (Photonic Integrated Quantum Circuits), a fundamentally new quantum computing architecture that combines molecular qubits with photonic integrated circuits to enable scalable biological modeling and next generation drug discovery.At NVision, we see these technologies converging into a new “compute and validate” paradigm, where quantum systems are used both to design therapies and to measure their biological impact. | $1.5M | Grant | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| Gauss Fusion | Gauss Fusion focuses on the commercialization of magnetic confinement fusion power plants. The company aims to act as the architect of the first industrialized gigawatt-class power plant. Gauss Fusion collaborates with various industries to build fusion power plants, contributing to the clean energy movement. The company is involved in developingfusion materials and strategies to ensure energy security for future generations by establishing fusion power as a safe and clean energy source. | $10.5M | Grant | Dec 10, 2024 |  |
| NetBird | Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 03, 2024 |  |
| NetBird | Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth. |  | Grant | Dec 03, 2024 |  |

10 of 64 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-melinda-gates-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/biomedical-advanced-research-and-development-authority-barda) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bundesministerium-f%C3%BCr-bildung-und-forschung-bmbf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Angels Switzerland (BAS)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-angels-switzerland-bas) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CARB-X](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carb-x) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space invest in?

German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space invests primarily in Biotechnology, Medical and Health Care startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 64 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space's check size?

German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space typically joins rounds of $340k–$4.2M at Seed and $294k–$11M at Grant. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space participates in.

### When did German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 64 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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