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Technology is nothing … without being connected to a valuable ecosystem that helps overcome the challenges of deep-tech. Let’s start with some history. In 2013 Guus Frericks founded HighTechXL with the following mission: building the best deep-tech venture-builder and ecosystem in Northwestern Europe. Deep-tech ventures obviously need substantial funding to survive the "valley of death." But in order to avoid the common pitfalls and accelerate the time to market, ventures must be connected to a world-class ecosystem. HighTechXL has been very successful because of its Founding Partners (ASML, Philips, BOM, TNO and High Tech Campus Eindhoven) and its broader network of research institutes, 400+ industry experts, advisors and mentors. Fast forward ... In 2022, Guus and the Founding Partners took the initiative to create DeepTechXL as a necessary next step to strengthen the Dutch deep-tech ecosystem. DeepTechXL leverages unique skills and the networks of leading tech corporates, knowledge institutes and regional and national impact investors. DeepTechXL provides companies access to highly qualified resources, technologies, licenses, supply chain partners and co-investors.

At Matter, we’re committed to taking the “hard” out of HardTech. Beyond capital and advice, we bring execution heft and strategic leverage. Through years of experience as hands-on investors, founders, and operational executives, we know how to substantially accelerate the process of bringing HardTech innovation to scale. We get customers to our startups early; to shortcut product-market fit. We build business models to scale sustainably from day one. And we’ve built a collection of strategic LPs - the same companies that enabled the fabless model for semiconductors, the rise of cloud computing, and more - to be a diversified manufacturing and technology scale-up supply chain for our startups.

We use our domain expertise, network, and prior experiences to help our founders scale commercialization, product, and engineering. Post-science project investing We recognize that starting and building a company is hard. Startups by definition are outliers being built by unique collections of humans. We utilize our deep domain expertise to uniquely understand the problems of companies in the categories we care about. Pairing this with our experience working with deep technology, allows us to provide leverage in taking a company from pre, to post-commercialization and building engineering teams across both research and production-level eng.

We believe experiences designed around the human voice will fundamentally improve the way people use technology. We are honored to work with founders who are trailblazers in their fields and to help them navigate Amazon and innovate with Alexa. How we Support Companies Beyond the capital we can provide, the founders in our portfolio value our help to facilitate introductions, navigate Amazon, and identify opportunities. Value-added investor: The Alexa Fund provides up to $200M in investment to fuel voice technology innovation. Innovation: Opportunities to improve your product with Amazon. Support: Dedicated portfolio development managers helping you navigate Amazon, AWS, and Alexa teams. Industry Leadership: Introductions to product leaders at Amazon. Product Insights: Opportunities to learn about closed betas for new APIs, devices, and features. PR and Marketing Opportunities: Potential opportunities for enhanced marketing and PR support timed with investments and product milestones.

Unser Fokus liegt auf jungen Unternehmen, deren technologiefokusierte und skalierbare Produkte in der Markteintrittsphase stehen. Als Partner auf Augenhöhe unterstützten wir ambitionierte Gründer-Teams bei Wachstum und Internationalisierung. Frisches Kapital sowie die bedarfsorientierte wirtschaftliche Beratung in Kooperation mit dem Inkubator tech2b eröffnet Hightech-Startups aus der Region Perspektiven. WO INVESTIERT DER HIGHTECHFONDS?Der OÖ HightechFonds investiert Eigenkapital in regionale, technologisch orientierte Startups. Wir investieren in der Markteintrittsphase, wenn ein "Prototyp" entwickelt ist und erste Kundenumsätze realisiert wurden. Unser Portfolio ist offen für zukunftsweisende, skalier​bare Hardware- und Software-Produkte engagierter Gründer-Teams. WAS ZEICHNET DEN HIGHTECHFONDS AUS?Wir sind für unsere Startups immer da, wenn wir tatsächlich gebraucht werden – aber mischen uns normalerweise nicht ins operative Geschäft ein. Wir stellen uns an die Seite der Gründer und bilden die Brücke zwischen regionalen Business Angels und nationalen und internationalen VC-Fonds. Unser öffentlicher Auftrag lenkt unseren Fokus auf nachhaltiges Wachstum. Das Netzwerk unserer Gesellschafter nutzen wir auch für unsere Beteiligungen.

We look for companies in Italy and selectively abroad. 5 KEY SECTORS Founded in 2016, today Indaco Venture Partners SGR is the largest independent Italian venture capital asset management company, with a strong specialization in companies that innovate in electronics, robotics and new materials, medtech, biotech – pharma and digital. EXPERIENCE The investment team managers have an extensive experience in venture investing in Italy and abroad and have executed a high number of successful exits, including IPOs and transactions with corporate partners.