# UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators

> UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://funding.unternehmertum.de/

UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B deep-tech startups.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.1M–$29M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.8M–$4.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 33% |
| Renewable Energy | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 17% |
| Energy Storage | 2 | 17% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 8 | 67% |
| France | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SE3 Labs | SE3 Labs creates Spatial AI tools to improve real-time awareness in defense, construction, and smart systems. | $6.3M | Seed | Jun 26, 2026 |  |
| encosa | encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns. | $29.1M | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Litherm Technologies | Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology. | $7.6M | Seed | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| Sitegeist | Sitegeist Robotics develops autonomous, modular construction robots to automate dangerous tasks like hydrodemolition, sandblasting, and drilling, boosting productivity and addressing labor shortages.Sitegeist Robotics primarily serves the construction industry, focusing on infrastructure renovation and building site operations. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| CertHub | The smartest and most user-friendly solution for MedTech compliance. CertHub re-invented MDR / IVDR compliance for enabling faster innovation without painful paper-work. | $7.3M | Seed | Jan 06, 2026 |  |
| 36ZERO Vision | FotoNow is an AI-powered visual inspection system developed to identify and solve a wide range of manufacturing quality issues. It offers a fully automated error tracking and identification for optimized manufacturing agility and quality, factory throughput, and capital spending. | $4.2M |  | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| useblocks | useblocks GmbH provides Engineering-as-Code tools that connect requirements, code, tests, and documentation for developer-centric traceability. Offerings include open-source Sphinx extensions such as sphinx-needs for managing requirements, specifications, and test cases, along with the ubCode editor extension currently in open beta. Toolingintegrates into existing repositories and build pipelines so artifacts and evidence stay versioned alongside source code. Features generate trace graphs, matrices, and reports to support audits and standards compliance in safety-related development. Consulting, training, and support services assist teams in adopting documentation-as-code workflows and scaling them across projects. Principles like free and open-source software, keep it simple, and don't repeat yourself shape product design and community contributions. |  | Seed | May 29, 2025 |  |
| Alteva | Alteva develops battery cells for the decarbonisation of the global transport sector, and focus on high-energy density battery cells with high safety profiles specifically designed for the aviation and heavy-duty transport sectors. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jan 20, 2025 |  |
| SE3 Labs | SE3 Labs creates Spatial AI tools to improve real-time awareness in defense, construction, and smart systems. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 14, 2024 |  |
| encosa | encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators invest in?

UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Renewable Energy and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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 UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators's check size?

UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators typically joins rounds of $5.1M–$29M at Seed and $1.8M–$4.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators participates in.

### When did UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 12 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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