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Matterwave Ventures

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We empower early-stage hardware and software companies to reshape industrial value chains and become global leaders. We fund companies that create a sustainable, sovereign, and digitalized European industry.

Check Size

$1M - $4M

Stages

Seed, Series A

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Investment Thesis

Matterwave Ventures backs early-stage European hardware and software companies that reshape industrial value chains and become global leaders. They are committed to finding, funding, and empowering entrepreneurs who turn technological advancements into products that fundamentally improve industrial processes. Their role is to provide capital and strategic support to help build category winners that form the backbone of a thriving industrial ecosystem, with deep focus on European technological sovereignty and industrial transformation.

What Sets Them Apart

  • 65+ years of combined investment experience across the team
  • Deep technical expertise spanning mechanical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering, physics, and economics
  • Strong network built over years of industrial deep tech investing
  • Focus on both hardware and software innovation across the full industrial value chain
  • Explicit commitment to European technological sovereignty and resilience
  • Integration of sustainability and climate tech as core investment criteria via SFDR Article 8 compliance
  • Active board participation and hands-on support beyond capital provision
  • Seed and Series A focus with €1-4M initial tickets and reserves for follow-on funding

Portfolio Highlights

AVES Reality

Geospatial Simulation Software

Akhetonics

Deep Tech Photonics

Amplifold

Medtech Diagnostics

Ask for the Moon

Industrial Ai Knowledge Management

BigRep

Additive Manufacturing 3d Printing

Codasip

Semiconductor Eda

Cybus

Industrial Iot Data Integration

DessIA

Industrial Ai Engineering Automation

+ 39 more companies in their portfolio

Investment Team

11 Partners at Matterwave Ventures

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