2023年3月7日,

投資團隊在Matterwave企業2023年3月7日總部位於慕尼黑Matterwave企業今天宣布€75首先的一個新的€150基金支持歐洲工業deeptech初創企業。Matterwave的投資者包括歐洲投資基金,LfA拜仁和北威州銀行以及工業企業、基金會和家庭辦公室。這筆錢將用來支持20 - 25公司,最初的票大小範圍達€1,和€10米在後續輪(大約一半的基金將預留給後繼課程)。Matterwave是多麵手風投公司的一部分btov合作夥伴(以支持DeepL和總結),原名btov工業技術之前去年重塑。去年基金是€100汽車在2019年推出。該基金表示,這是首次投資於工業deeptech在歐洲,而不僅僅是在一個國家。感興趣的領域企業自動化生產的未來資源效率Matterwave尤其渴望回到創業公司在資源效率——包括技術如碳捕獲和風電場優化——這個最新的基金。2022年6月,該基金雇傭了一個新夥伴,伊內斯Kolmsee,引進專業的製造業和能源產業(她以前在鋼鐵企業擔任高級職位,德國公用事業公司)。Kolmsee特別希望看到球在一個領域是工業熱捕捉。Matterwave創始合夥人的基督教Reitberger董事會Orcan能源——來自工廠的熱量轉化為可持續的能源——Kolmsee說有很多更多的應用程序對熱捕捉技術,她“發現非常有趣”。 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