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Matterwave Ventures

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Matterwave Ventures is a European VC backing hardware and software companies in the Industrial Tech space, empowering them to become global leaders. Our expertise in this space is unmatched. We’ve been investors in this sector for two decades, bringing determination, grit, and experience to the board rooms. Our academic training and hands-on practical industry experience help us to fully understand technologies and open doors.

Matterwave has backed companies ranging from component, module and systems hardware companies with embedded software to application and infrastructure software suppliers for industrial verticals. Our technology focus lies in Frontier Technologies, Industrial Automation & Digitalization and in Energy, Resource Efficiency and Industrial Decarbonization. Investments out of our current portfolio of 35 companies include EFFECT Photonics, bigrep, Dyemansion, Synfioo/P44, Ninox, Sensolus, Threedy, Innatera, LiveEO, fruitcore Robotics, Equal1 and Codasip.

Initial investments range from EUR 1-4m and we can increase our total investment to EUR 10m over the life cycle of a company.

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