# H2020-SME-Instrument program

> H2020-SME-Instrument program is a VC fund in Brussels backing Mining and Battery. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2020
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

H2020-SME-Instrument program is a VC fund in Brussels focused on Mining and Battery. H2020-SME-Instrument program

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining | 1 | 25% |
| Battery | 1 | 25% |
| Mineral | 1 | 25% |
| Hospital | 1 | 25% |
| Robotics | 1 | 25% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 2 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 1 | 25% |
| France | 1 | 25% |
| Germany | 1 | 25% |
| Portugal | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Minespider | Minespider is a Digital Product Passport and Battery Passport platform that helps organizations build transparent, compliant, and data-driven supply chains. It brings supply chain traceability, evidence-backed chain of custody, permissioned data sharing, AI-assisted document extraction, material lifecycle event tracking, and audit-readyverification together in a single solution, so companies can collect, manage, verify, and exchange supply chain data across complex value chains. Built for batteries, mining & metals, and circular supply chains, Minespider uses API integrations and interoperable data exchange to streamline supplier engagement, strengthen traceability, and support Digital Product/Battery Passport initiatives. With flexible deployment options and ISO-certified information security, organizations can prepare for EU Battery Regulation requirements ahead of the 18 February 2027 Digital Battery Passport deadline, while keeping full control over sensitive business information with permissioned access. | $3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2020 |  |
| BRAINCITIES | BRAINCITIES LAB is a French-based software editor leveraging Semantic Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep-learning, Natural Language processing to build dynamical knowledge bases augmenting traditional HRMS like SAP SuccessFactors, Talentsoft, SAGE, Oracle Taleo with AI. With our cloud-based HCM platform, PICENTRIQ, we provide the most effective wayfor companies to identify promising candidates, reach their diversity hiring goals, retain top performers, identify and engage rare talents. BRAINCITIES AI-Powered Human Capital Development software enables enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. the 360° HCM has been developed by top researchers and engineers out of CERN, Geodis, France Telecom and other leading research and development institutions. With clients in 5 countries, BRAINCITIES support the transformation of industries such as automotive, banking and energy by helping organizations and cities adapt theirs human capital and inhabitants to the ongoing digital revolution.For more information, visit www.braincities.com | $205K | Grant | Aug 01, 2019 |  |
| Ledmotive | Ledmotive manufactures spectrally tunable LED light engines that have applications across multiple industries. The company's optical systems deliver white light or any visible spectrum through modulation of the 10 LED-channels, each centered at a different wavelength with a depth of 12 bits and also come with software allowing for precisecontrol of each LED channel, providing businesses, individuals and corporate clients with a light source with full spectral flexibility and unprecedented accuracy that reproduces perfect daylight. | $2.1M |  | Dec 14, 2018 |  |
| Delox | Delox is a spin-off of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL), whose goals consist in the design, development, and production of a vast portfolio of automatic biodecontamination robots. Target applications include the sterilization of medical devices in hospitals, health centers and field hospitals (for humanitarian missions,catastrophe situations, and war zones); room biodecontamination in hospitals, pharma, food industry and space; and laboratory equipment biodecontamination. |  | Grant | Jul 01, 2018 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avançsa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avancsa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EIT Health](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eit-health) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [European Commission](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-commission) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ESA Business Applications](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-space-agency) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NEOTEC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/neotec) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Portugal 2020](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portugal-2020) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does H2020-SME-Instrument program invest in?

H2020-SME-Instrument program invests primarily in Mining, Battery and Mineral startups, most often at Grant and Funding Round stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did H2020-SME-Instrument program last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for H2020-SME-Instrument program closed in Apr 2020. Shizune tracks 4 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?

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