2023年3月7日,

投资团队在Matterwave企业2023年3月7日总部位于慕尼黑Matterwave企业今天宣布€75首先的一个新的€150基金支持欧洲工业deeptech初创企业。Matterwave的投资者包括欧洲投资基金,LfA拜仁和北威州银行以及工业企业、基金会和家庭办公室。这笔钱将用来支持20 - 25公司,最初的票大小范围达€1,和€10米在后续轮(大约一半的基金将预留给后继课程)。Matterwave是多面手风投公司的一部分btov合作伙伴(以支持DeepL和总结),原名btov工业技术之前去年重塑。去年基金是€100汽车在2019年推出。该基金表示,这是首次投资于工业deeptech在欧洲,而不仅仅是在一个国家。感兴趣的领域企业自动化生产的未来资源效率Matterwave尤其渴望回到创业公司在资源效率——包括技术如碳捕获和风电场优化——这个最新的基金。2022年6月,该基金雇佣了一个新伙伴,伊内斯Kolmsee,引进专业的制造业和能源产业(她以前在钢铁企业担任高级职位,德国公用事业公司)。Kolmsee特别希望看到球在一个领域是工业热捕捉。Matterwave创始合伙人的基督教Reitberger董事会Orcan能源——来自工厂的热量转化为可持续的能源——Kolmsee说有很多更多的应用程序对热捕捉技术,她“发现非常有趣”。 Reitberger adds that part of the reason for focusing on resource efficiency with this new fund is down to the maturing climate tech investment landscape. “We have been waiting for co-investors to join the party,” he explains. “These are sometimes more capital-intensive experiments and we need to be able to syndicate these deals and follow-on finance them. That is now possible with the emergence of new climate tech funds.” A different context Reitberger says that a wider effort from European policymakers to provide capital for strategic deeptech — part of the continent’s drive for so-called tech sovereignty — helped with the fundraising process this time around. “We were pretty exotic in our last fund generation,” he says. “There’s been a realisation that Europe really needs to get its act together to regain technology sovereignty — in every sector from semiconductors to clean energy.” Matterwave is one of a select number of VC firms staffed by investors with genuine technical know-how, with the majority of the eight-strong team holding degrees in areas like engineering or physics. Reitberger — who has a PhD in physics from the University of Vienna and worked at the CERN research laboratory — also says that many generalist VCs have historically stayed away from deeptech due to the long-term timescales involved in scaling these businesses. “Deeptech is not like generic B2B SaaS, because success is not linear,” he argues. “It’s not like you immediately acquire customers and then scale them. In our businesses there’s a much longer slog to get the product ready and it can be six or seven years where zero revenue happens.” That said, Reitberger believes that there’s still a huge opportunity to be realised in modernising Europe’s industrial sector — that he claims makes up around half of the region’s GDP — as it comes under increasing pressure from rivals in the US and China. “Europe has this fantastic industrial base which we need to defend — it is under severe threat,” he says, “That is where we come in, we find and nurture those technologies that can help European industry thrive.” Tim Smith is senior reporter at Sifted. He tweets from @timmpsmith Related Articles 1