# Urania Ventures

> Urania Ventures is a VC fund backing Biotechnology and Telecommunications. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/67212776/admin/
- Website: http://www.urania.vc 

Urania Ventures is a French-German private investment company with a global portfolio. As an evergreen fund, Urania is committed for the long term to back scientific breakthrough technology founders who strive to serve humanity for the better. The investment focus is space technology, sustainable aero, and robotics. Urania believes in science as acritical driver for innovation and the responsibility to invest in courageous leaders early.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 40% |
| Telecommunications | 2 | 40% |
| CRM | 1 | 20% |
| Solar | 1 | 20% |
| AgTech | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 40% |
| India | 1 | 20% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hélène Huby | Founder & Chairman | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-huby |
| Maru Winnacker | Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maru-winnacker |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HelicitySpace | ​HelicitySpace develops critical propulsion and power technology necessary for enabling humanity's expansion into the solar system. Its Helicity Drive technology is a scalable pulsed fusion concept - from fusion-augmented electric propulsion to fully ignited reactors --based on magnetic reconnection, plasma plectonemes, and peristalticmagnetic compression. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $5M | Seed | Dec 11, 2023 |  |
| Lovely Day Foods | Lovely Day Foods is a European food biotech company creating the next generation of foods for a kinder future of our planet. Perfeggt, the company's product brand, launched its first generation of egg replacers based on pea protein for food service. Together with more than 50 partners, the company replaced over one million chicken eggs withdishes such as Perfeggt scrambled, omelets, quiches, pancakes and waffles that were served in hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, canteens and events across Germany and Austria. In 2023, Perfeggt was named #20 out of 50 most popular startup brands in Germany based on a survey by Jung von Matt with 48.000 participants. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| INTERSTELLAR LAB | Interstellar Lab is a biotech company founded in 2018 that develops, manufactures and operates advanced bio-farming platforms to help its customer produce the cleanest plant-based ingredients. Its bio-farming technology combines automated farms (Biopods), AI and bioscience with a unique data-driven approach. Its considerably accelerates plantgrowth while optimizing plant molecular composition. Interstellar Lab provides sustainable plant-based ingredient solutions to large health, beauty and F&B companies. Its bio-farming technology has also convinced NASA and ESA, which contracted with the company to adapt the system for space deployment. The company counts 45 engineers, scientists and researchers located between its flagship 65,000SF BioPod Facility and Plant Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine (France), its SpaceLab at NASA KSC Florida (USA) and its Business Hub in San Francisco (USA). | $5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2022 |  |
| Astrome Technologies | Satellite Internet and Telecom Backhaul Company | $3.4M | Convertible Note | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| ClearSpace | ClearSpace is a spin-off of EPFL and was founded in early 2018 to lead the development of sustainable in-orbit services in the tracks of the EPFL CleanSpace One (CSO) mission. ClearSpace develops on-orbit technologies and provides services for non-functional satellites in orbit. ClearSpace has signed a service contract with ESA to lead the firstmission to remove a Space Debris autonomously called ClearSpace-1. | $4.3M | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Urania Ventures invest in?

Urania Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Telecommunications and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Urania Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Urania Ventures?

The team at Urania Ventures includes Hélène Huby (Founder & Chairman) and Maru Winnacker (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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