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🚀 We are delighted to announce the successful closure of Variolytics' growth financing round, a significant milestone in the company’s mission to decarbonize the wastewater sector. 🚀 The financing round, led by Nordic Alpha Partners (NAP), also includes investments from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds, and Fraunhofer Technology Transfer Fonds (FTTF) Founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Fraunhofer Institute, Variolytics has developed market-leading sensor technology capable of detecting, analyzing, and ultimately reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the wastewater sector. Research shows that wastewater treatment plants emit around 2% of the world’s CO2, comparable to the global aviation industry. In Europe, wastewater treatment accounts for up to 15% of an average municipality’s total emissions, primarily due to nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than CO2. ✅ Variolytics’ innovative solutions provide accurate, real-time measurements of N2O levels using advanced sensor technology and AI. ✅ These insights enable treatment plant professionals to adjust processes, preventing harmful emissions from entering the atmosphere. Historically, such measurements have been both costly and inaccurate, but Variolytics’ EmiCo solution offers operators a comprehensive overview of their emissions while ensuring regulatory compliance. "We are delighted to see how FTTF's investment approach at Variolytics—driving groundbreaking research outcomes and empowering deep-tech entrepreneurs from Fraunhofer—continues to gain traction. By supporting founders in advancing their businesses and securing further funding, we are proud to attract esteemed investors like NAP," said Tobias Schwind, Partner at FTTF. The Variolytics solution, EmiCo lite, aligns with every aspect of NAP’s investment approach,” enabling market adoption by being Better, Cheaper, Simpler to integrate, and Available at scale. Within 12 months of installation, Variolytics’ technology can reduce emissions by up to 50% and energy consumption by up to 20%. We congratulate the entire variolytics team around Dr. Matthias Stier, Johann Barlach, Steffen Görner

🚀 Our portfolio company Mondas GmbH secures € 4.5 million Series A financing with badenova as lead investor! 🚀 We are very pleased to announce the successful Series A financing round of € 4.5 million in equity. 🎉 💡 The lead investor is badenova AG & Co. KG, which is involved as part of a strategic minority stake. Other investors include the Tübingen-based software entrepreneur Martin Konold, the Fraunhofer Technology Transfer Fund (FTTF) and existing business angels and industry experts. This support will further accelerate the marketing of the mondas® data analytics platform for optimising energy systems and heating networks. With badenova, mondas will have an innovative and renowned energy supply company at its side as a strong partner in the future - a clear signal of the importance of the solution and the role of digitalisation in the energy and heating transition, which will have an impact on the entire energy sector. We are also delighted that Andreas Pfaff is joining Mondas as Managing Director. In his new role, he will be responsible in particular for partnerships and customers in the energy supply company environment. Welcome, Andreas! The vision of a climate-friendly energy industry based on renewable energies is thus making further progress! ⚡ #EnergyTransition #SeriesA #SaaS #DataAnalytics #EnergyEfficency

And this time we have good news from Garmisch Partenkirchen ⛰️🐐 ⛷️….   We welcome AVES Reality GmbH with its founders Florian Albert, Matthias Heger & Severin Knebel as member #38 in our FTTF family!   Thumps up to our co-investors Bayern Kapital (first investment of their new “Innovationsfonds EFRE II”), CADFEM (D-A-CH) International AG and Martin Buechs, CFA!   AVES Reality creates 3D digital twins of any place on earth. With its technology, virtual environments containing topography, roads, buildings, and vegetation can be delivered in less than 10 minutes per 1 km²! All these 3D objects are mapped with material attributes (e.g. wood, concrete, metal etc.) and semantic information (e.g. window, tree etc.), which makes the virtual replica extremely valuable for simulation and synthetic AI data generation.   🐔 🍼🌱 FTTF - happy first (institutional) investor 👃🏼🥇🔮 cc & thanks to: Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Jan Sessenhausen, Markus Dutly, Martin Buechs, CFA, Matthias Buchinger