World Fund
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
World Fund is a European Climate Tech VC fund investing in startups that contribute to solving the climate crisis. It focuses on the key emitting sectors Energy, Food & Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings, and Transport. World Fund aims to fill two significant investment gaps for climate tech: when tech goes from lab to market and when itleaves the pilot stage to scale. World Fund will invest from Seed to Series B stage.World Fund was established by Daria Saharova, Danijel Višević, Craig Douglas, Christian Kroll, and Tim Schumacher.
- Total investments:
- 38
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 74%
- Fund size:
- $326M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries World Fund invests in
Stages World Fund invests in
Countries World Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$13M
- Series A
- $10M–$63M
- Series B
- $20M–$64M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 4 (11%)
- Chemical 3 (8%)
- Biotechnology 3 (8%)
- Sustainability 3 (8%)
- Battery 2 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 11 (29%)
- Seed 8 (21%)
- Series B 3 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (5%)
- Series C 1 (3%)
Country
- Germany 9 (24%)
- United Kingdom 6 (16%)
- France 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- Finland 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Craig Douglas
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Daniel Valenzuela
Head of IR & Impact
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Head of IR & Impact | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Danijel Visevic
General Partner and Co-Founder
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General Partner and Co-Founder | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Daria Saharova
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Jan Schierle
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Quantum Diamonds
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QuantumDiamonds (QD) is a novel equipment vendor from Germany which builds magnetic field imaging systems based on quantum sensors for the semiconductor industry. Spun out of the Technical University of Munich in 2022 and headquartered in Munich, QD develops and manufactures non-destructive inspection and metrology systems used to find electricaldefects inside the most advanced chips.QD's technology uses nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, atomic-scale defects in a diamond lattice that act as quantum sensors for magnetic fields. By measuring the magnetic fields generated by current flow, the system reconstructs current pathways inside multi-layer 2.5D and 3D chip architectures and localizes defects with micrometer precision and precise depth resolution. Crucially, the system operates non-destructively and at ambient conditions (no vacuum, no cryogenics), avoiding the slow, destructive layer-by-layer delayering that conventional failure analysis requires.The flagship product, the QDm.1 (Quantum Diamond Microscope), is the world's first integrated quantum sensing tool commercially available for chip testing. It enables open and short detection in advanced semiconductors and advanced packaging at high speed, localizing opens (currently the leading yield-killing electrical failure) as intuitive spots on an image to accelerate root-cause analysis.QD's customers are semiconductor foundries and fabs, IDMs, OSATs, and failure analysis labs. Nine of the world's ten largest chipmakers are engaged with the company, with systems deployed across Europe, the United States, and Asia. QD's product roadmap progresses from InLab defect localization (in production today) to InFab defect metrology (est. 2027) and InLine wafer mapping (est. 2028+), targeting 100% in-line quality control. The company has raised over $100M to date, is backed by World Fund, IQ Capital, Earlybird, Bayern Kapital, and others, and is investing €152M to build the world's first production facility for quantum-based semiconductor inspection in Munich, supported under the European Chips Act. QD employs 50+ people across 18 nationalities, with 30% PhDs and 17 patents.Keywords: Semiconductor Inspection, Failure Analysis, Quantum Sensing, Magnetic Field Imaging, Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers, Advanced Packaging, Non-Destructive Testing, Defect Metrology, Yield Improvement, Chip Manufacturing. | $17.1M / Series A / Jul 08, 2026 | |
Freshflow
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Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste. | $10M / Series A / Jun 03, 2026 | |
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Freshflow
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Freshflow is harnessing AI to build the food supply chain technology of the future and tackle global food waste. | $10M / Series A / Jun 03, 2026 | |
Lithosquare
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Lithosquare is a mining company that specializes in the extraction of non-ferrous metal ores. | $25M / Seed / May 05, 2026 | |
Barocal
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Barocal is a Zero-carbon refrigeration pioneer. | $10M / Seed / May 04, 2026 | |
Hyperscale Power
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Hyperscale Power is a startup company that creates solid-state transformers (SSTs) to take the place of the heavy, iron-core magnetic transformers that have historically been utilized in the electrical grid. | $5.8M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | |
Anaphite
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Anaphite is a manufacturer of electrodes by replacing energy-intensive wet processes with scalable, low-carbon dry-coating technology. | $931.2K / Series A / Dec 09, 2025 | |
Nitricity
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We make plant-based, climate-smart fertilizer. For the good of our farmers and the planet. | $64M / Series B / Sep 10, 2025 | |
NetZeroNitrogen
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We are developing a highly disruptive alternative product for the $200 billion synthetic fertilizer market, thereby helping farmers worldwide to achieve same or better yields for less cost, less effort and less damage to the farm and its environment. | $6.7M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | |
Enerkii
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Enerkii offers comprehensive and holistic energy solutions that cover the entire spectrum of sustainable energy needs. | Pre-Seed / Jul 16, 2025 | |
| See all 38 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does World Fund invest in?
World Fund invests primarily in Energy, Chemical and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is World Fund's check size?
World Fund typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$13M at Seed, $10M–$63M at Series A and $20M–$64M 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 World Fund participates in.
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Who are the partners at World Fund?
The team at World Fund includes Craig Douglas (Founding Partner), Daniel Valenzuela (Head of IR & Impact) and Danijel Visevic (General Partner and Co-Founder), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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