# Heraeus

> Heraeus is a VC fund in Hanau backing Manufacturing and Biotechnology. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hanau, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heraeus
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/heraeus
- Website: https://www.heraeus.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeraeusGroup/

Heraeus is a VC fund in Hanau focused on Manufacturing and Biotechnology. Heraeus, the technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is an international family-owned company formed in 1851. With expertise, a focus on innovations, operational excellence and an entrepreneurial leadership, they strive to continuously improve the businesses of their customers around the world.They create high-quality solutions fortheir customers and strengthen their long-term competitiveness by combining material expertise with technological know-how. Their ideas are focused on important issues such as the environment, energy, health, mobility and industrial applications. Their portfolio ranges from components to coordinated material systems which are used in a wide variety of industries, including the steel, electronics, chemical, automotive and telecommunications industries.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4.4M–$8.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 50% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 25% |
| Therapeutics | 2 | 17% |
| Solar | 1 | 8% |
| Energy | 1 | 8% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Corporate Round | 3 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 2 | 17% |
| China | 1 | 8% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| Finland | 1 | 8% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andreas Schmidhuber | Head of Global HR IT | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreas-schmidhuber |
| David Kissel | Sr. Program Manager - Special Technology Products | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-kissel |
| Gregg Berube | Director of Innovations Americas | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gregg-berube |
| Hideto Yamauchi | President & Representative Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hideto-yamauchi-2cc0 |
| Philipp Walter | Senior Vice President New Business Development | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-walter-49eb |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Holosolis | Holosolis contributes to the EU’s goal of local PV module production and curbing global warming. We will build the largest photovoltaic panel factory in Europe. | $254.8M |  | Nov 18, 2025 |  |
| CSMH | Compound Semiconductor (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd. is an advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology based joint venture company invested from the Korea, China and Singapore, registered in the city of Xiamen, China. We have equipped with advanced semiconductor manufacturing tools including MPCVD, MOCVD, LPCVD, HVPE and high temperature PVDto produce high quality Diamond wafer and AlN template on various substrate including Si, sapphire, and polished diamond. Our mission is to be the most advanced compound semiconductor company in the global market, contributing to the related technology development. We have strong R&D team and actively collaborate with best research group around the world. Currently, we are providing the thermal grade polycrystalline diamond, which can be used as an effective heat sink aims to solve the heat issue in temperature sensitive device, such as power devices, lasers and avalanche photodiodes etc. We also provides wafer scale polished diamond with sub-nanometer RMS surface roughness, which might be suitable for the integration of GaN, GaO and AlN epilayers and devices on Diamond via direct bonding or heteoepitaxy. |  | Corporate Round | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Tsubame BHB | Tsubame intends to commercialize on-site ammonia production using an electride catalyst in a small-scale plant. It utilizes a unique technology to solve survival issues related to environmental and food problems and to realize a sustainable society. | $35.3M | Series C | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Tsubame BHB | Tsubame intends to commercialize on-site ammonia production using an electride catalyst in a small-scale plant. It utilizes a unique technology to solve survival issues related to environmental and food problems and to realize a sustainable society. | $35.3M | Series C | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Holosolis | Holosolis contributes to the EU’s goal of local PV module production and curbing global warming. We will build the largest photovoltaic panel factory in Europe. |  | Corporate Round | Oct 23, 2023 |  |
| aiXscale Photonics | aiXscale Photonics provides unique ultra-high precision optical glass interposer solutions for the building of transceiver optical subassemblies and co-packaged optics that are dependable, low loss, and cost-effective. We meet the demands of today's and tomorrow's high-volume data and telecommunications applications. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 08, 2023 |  |
| Smart Steel Technologies | SMART STEEL TECHNOLOGIES - THE LEADER FOR AI IN STEEL Smart Steel Technologies supports the steel industry in the transformation towards intelligent AI-base production. SST delivers AI software products that improve quality, optimize energy demand and ensure accurate management of CO2 efficiency.Leading steel manufacturers both in Germany andabroad successfully use SST software 24/7 in production. Applications range from the production of high-quality automotive exposed steel grades to maximizing efficiency in the construction steel sector.SST achieves a permanent performance increase of 5-10% per process stage in 24/7 use. Across stages, this results in a significantly higher potential.At the same time, SST accompanies the steel manufacturer from the integration of the software to the complete achievement of the optimization goals with a high service level. For this, SST relies on its well-coordinated team of outstanding metallurgists, process experts and AI specialists. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 14, 2023 |  |
| MimiX Biotherapeutics | mimiX Biotherapeutics aims to deliver the next generation biofabrication technology, that will enable tissue manufacturing for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes. mimiX Biotherapeutics will make this vision a reality by providing an ultra-fast biomanufacturing technology capable of creating point-of-care patient-specific biological tissueequivalents for regenerative, personalized, and precision medicine. |  | Seed | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| Forciot | Forciot is a Finnish technology company that was born in December 2015 out of love for engineering challenges and sports. Group of leading wearable researchers from Tampere University of Technology and consumer electronics experts agreed to put their heart and passion into developing together unique innovation that would start a new era in wearablebusiness.They realized that world is lacking wearable technologies that could be part of products that people use every day, everywhere.Today there starts to be an overload of separate measurement gadgets offered for people to be carried around them to measure performance.Their vision is that in the future they do not need to carry separate performance wearable gadgets with us anymore while for example exercising. Instead, the measurement technology will be integrated directly into those sporting products, such as shoes or gloves, that they all are using when training anyway.They decided to start building this new era of wearables. On their view, most product manufacturer companies will also evidently become IOT-product manufacturers in the future. FORCIOT® with innovative solutions that are connected to internet, is the engineering partner for these companies to build the future IOT-products.For their business to business customers, they offer advanced and accurate REAL-TIME force, power, pressure, balance and weight measurement system that will take wearable world to the next level. They provide their customers the capability to utilize force related data that has not been available before. |  | Seed | Jan 30, 2019 |  |
| Forciot | Forciot is a Finnish technology company that was born in December 2015 out of love for engineering challenges and sports. Group of leading wearable researchers from Tampere University of Technology and consumer electronics experts agreed to put their heart and passion into developing together unique innovation that would start a new era in wearablebusiness.They realized that world is lacking wearable technologies that could be part of products that people use every day, everywhere.Today there starts to be an overload of separate measurement gadgets offered for people to be carried around them to measure performance.Their vision is that in the future they do not need to carry separate performance wearable gadgets with us anymore while for example exercising. Instead, the measurement technology will be integrated directly into those sporting products, such as shoes or gloves, that they all are using when training anyway.They decided to start building this new era of wearables. On their view, most product manufacturer companies will also evidently become IOT-product manufacturers in the future. FORCIOT® with innovative solutions that are connected to internet, is the engineering partner for these companies to build the future IOT-products.For their business to business customers, they offer advanced and accurate REAL-TIME force, power, pressure, balance and weight measurement system that will take wearable world to the next level. They provide their customers the capability to utilize force related data that has not been available before. | $4.4M | Series A | Jan 29, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Energy & Environment Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/energy-environment-investment) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Yokogawa Electric Corp.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yokogawa) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Armor SA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armor-sa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Avalon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalon-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Calés Technologie](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cal%C3%A9s-technologie-and-forming) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Heraeus invest in?

Heraeus invests primarily in Manufacturing, Biotechnology and Therapeutics startups, most often at Seed and Corporate Round stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Heraeus's check size?

Heraeus typically joins rounds of $4.4M–$8.5M 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 Heraeus participates in.

### How do I contact Heraeus?

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### Who are the partners at Heraeus?

The team at Heraeus includes Andreas Schmidhuber (Head of Global HR IT), David Kissel (Sr. Program Manager - Special Technology Products) and Gregg Berube (Director of Innovations Americas). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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