# TRUMPF Venture

> TRUMPF Venture is a VC fund in Ditzingen backing Manufacturing and Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ditzingen, Germany
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 44%
- Fund size: $47M
- Last fund: Sep 2016
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trumpf-venture
- Website: http://www.trumpf.com/s/venture

TRUMPF Venture is a VC fund in Ditzingen focused on Manufacturing and Software. The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture investsglobally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem. The requirements for a potential investment are a strategic fit, a high innovation leverage and differentiation in business model or technology, an experienced management team and risk adequate financial returns.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.2M–$3.4M |
| Series A | $4.1M–$12M |
| Series B | $4.3M–$70M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 9 | 28% |
| Software | 7 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 9% |
| Medical | 2 | 6% |

49 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 31% |
| Series B | 5 | 16% |
| Seed | 4 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 6 | 19% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 13% |
| United States | 3 | 9% |
| Norway | 2 | 6% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ulrich Kruse | Investment Manager | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulrich-kruse |
| Dieter Kraft | Managing Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dieter-kraft |
| Jens Ortgiese | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jens-ortgiese |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sensibel | Sensibel commercializes ultra-high-sensitivity MEMS microphones based on an optical MEMS technology. | $7.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 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 |  |
| Quside | Quside is a Barcelona-based startup that designs and manufactures innovative quantum components for any connected device. Using their proprietary quantum random number generation technology, they are enabling the next generation of encryption solutions. | $11M | Series A | Jul 04, 2023 |  |
| nyris | Text-based search is a source of costly friction—especially for companies that manage products, component parts or other items that are essential to customer, supplier or employee. nyris is a visual search platform that gives people a more natural way to find what they are looking for. With nyris, companies of all industries realize financial valuewhile improving how people find, discover and get things done. Up and running in minutes, only nyris’ technology is designed and engineered to handle any search challenge. Based in Berlin and Dusseldorf, nyris serves leading companies across Retail & E-Commerce; Industrial & Manufacturing; Media & Entertainment; and Financial Services. nyris serves customers in more than 50 countries and representing every continent. Led by respected technology industry veterans, nyris investors include eCapital, IKEA and Axel Springer. | $10.9M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 30, 2023 |  |
| iThera Medical | iThera Medical offers access to innovative technology and know-how in photonic molecular imaging. The company was founded in 2010, as a spin-off from the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, the German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU). Together, they pursue the further development of proprietary MSOT technology for use in preclinical andclinical applications. | $14.3M |  | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| iThera Medical | iThera Medical offers access to innovative technology and know-how in photonic molecular imaging. The company was founded in 2010, as a spin-off from the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, the German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU). Together, they pursue the further development of proprietary MSOT technology for use in preclinical andclinical applications. | $13.8M | Series D | Dec 21, 2022 |  |
| Resistell AG | Resistell is a antibiotic resistance test. | $9.2M | Series B | Dec 19, 2022 |  |
| Quside | Quside is a Barcelona-based startup that designs and manufactures innovative quantum components for any connected device. Using their proprietary quantum random number generation technology, they are enabling the next generation of encryption solutions. |  | Series A | Nov 30, 2022 |  |
| Ascend Elements | Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydro process recycling and direct recycling that takes old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients to have maximum return on assets to economically driverecycling and low-cost battery materials.The company was founded in 2015. | $200M | Series C | Oct 26, 2022 |  |
| Tunable | Tunable is a technology company developing and delivering multi-gas analyzers based on micro and nanotechnology. The analyzers can measure multiple gases simultaneously, are highly sensitive, small, robust, and can be adapted to a wide range of applications. Typically, their solutions are used in environmental surveillance, emissions, Processimprovements, and Hazardous control. Tunable mission is to make a gas analyzer with a sensitivity that outperforms nature. | $6.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does TRUMPF Venture invest in?

TRUMPF Venture invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TRUMPF Venture's check size?

TRUMPF Venture typically joins rounds of $2.2M–$3.4M at Seed, $4.1M–$12M at Series A and $4.3M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds TRUMPF Venture participates in.

### How do I contact TRUMPF Venture?

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### Who are the partners at TRUMPF Venture?

The team at TRUMPF Venture includes Ulrich Kruse (Investment Manager), Dieter Kraft (Managing Director) and Jens Ortgiese (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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