# Robert Gallenberger

> Robert Gallenberger is a Series A investor at Matterwave Ventures backing Software. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Matterwave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matterwave-ventures)
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-gallenberger/2/948/68b

Robert Gallenberger is a Series A investor at Matterwave Ventures in Munich focused on Software and Manufacturing. Robert Gallenberger (°1977) joined Gimv’s Cleantech and Technology VC team in Jan 2010. Previously he worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London on Energy and CO2 emission reduction projects. During his MBA at London Business School he gathered PE/VC experience at 3i and DFJ Esprit. He started his career at BMW in Munich, as projectmanager for the production ramp up of the BMW 3series.Robert is board member at Govecs, McPhy and Openbravo. He holds observer positions at Novopolymers and Oree and is involved with Gimv’s holding in PE International.He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University Munich, earned a MSc from Ecole Centrale Paris and an MBA from London Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 11% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 11% |
| Industrial Automation | 2 | 11% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 11% |
| B2B | 1 | 6% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 28% |
| Seed | 3 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 5 | 28% |
| France | 2 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| dessIA | DessIA uses augmented engineering software powered by AI to reduce product development lead time. The company's platform provides bots that help engineers design mechanical systems. The Bots help engineers and architects in the early stages of the development process by swiftly producing thousands of architectures and determining the optimumconfigurations satisfying sustainability and profitability criteria. | $3.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| Ask for the Moon | Save time & secure knowledge across your enterprise. Simply by powering peer-to-peer questions & answers. Ask for the Moon is a Q&A platform that reveals tacit knowledge in you entreprise. With the help of machine learning, the app adapts to each business case. Ask for the moon helps all organisations unlock their knowledge flow.This is how we do it: - Perfect Integration We blend into customers workflows & environments to equip people where they work, when they work & how they work. - Change Management Business case by business case, we iterate to build all the user flows required to spark the right questions at the right place at the right time. - Bespoke AI We use powerful tech & UX, adapted for each business cases, to make asking the right questions to the right colleagues as simple & fast as possible. - ROI We make sure the right answers are reused forever. We measure the time saved for everybody. And we show it a lot ! | $2.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Threedy | Threedy is the provider of instant3Dhub, a platform for high-performance visual computing, which enables data sets of any size to be used across all application and device classes, directly connected with business data and sensors for a variety of applications. | $10.4M | Series A | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| Tvarit | Driving the world towards sustainable and zero-waste manufacturing. | $5.6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2023 |  |
| fruitcore robotics | fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics. | $24.6M | Series B | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| Tvarit | Driving the world towards sustainable and zero-waste manufacturing. | $3M | Seed | May 24, 2022 |  |
| Headmade Materials | Headmade Materials is a provider of the 3D-printing process Cold Metal Fusion (´Metal SLS`) for the serial production of metal parts. | $2.8M | Series A | Dec 23, 2021 |  |
| Headmade Materials | Headmade Materials is a provider of the 3D-printing process Cold Metal Fusion (´Metal SLS`) for the serial production of metal parts. | $2.8M | Series A | Dec 23, 2021 |  |
| fruitcore robotics | fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics. | $19.8M | Series A | Oct 04, 2021 |  |
| fruitcore robotics | fruitcore robotics is a robotic system that leverages intelligent software and innovative mechatronics. | $19.8M | Series A | Oct 04, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [b2venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/btovpartners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Futury Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/futury-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Matterwave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matterwave-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/am-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CNB Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/constantia-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-innovation-council) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Matterwave Ventures

VC Fund · Munich, Germany

Matterwave Ventures invests in early-stage industrial hardware and software companies, empowering them to become global leaders. The company's solutions are those that will influence how value will be created in industry in the future. Matterwave Ventures, as sector-neutral investors, is on the lookout for ground-breaking hardware and softwaresolutions, including materials, components, systems, and software. With a sincere interest in their products, extensive market knowledge, solid connections in the industry, and unmatched investment expertise in the field, Matterwave Ventures supports the companies in its portfolio.

5 contacts available at Matterwave Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benedikt Kronberger | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benedikt-kronberger |
| Christian Reitberger | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-reitberger |
| Robert Gallenberger | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-gallenberger |
| Silviu Apostu | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silviu-apostu |
| Victor Szabo | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/victor-szabo-5af3 |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Gallenberger invest in?

Robert Gallenberger invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and Industrial Automation startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Robert Gallenberger last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Gallenberger closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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