Matterwave Ventures

We are continuing our series of blog posts on recent investments, this time putting the spotlight on Ventory and its innovative field inventory management solution. Read more below 👇 on why we invested. #InventoryManagement #SupplyChainVisibility #Logistics #SupplyChain #SaaS #OperationalExcellence #IndustrialTech Lorenzo De Angeli Carlotta Ficorella Victor Szabo Silviu Apostu Benedikt Kronberger Robert Gallenberger Ines Kolmsee Christian Reitberger Ute Theel Eduardo Martinez Mariño Barbara Christen Bruno Bernard Julian Riebartsch Vishal Punamiya Ana Peršić André Huynen Holger Schmitt

🌟 Matterwave Portfolio Day 2024 🌟 Last week, we brought together our portfolio companies, investors, and industry leaders for this year’s Matterwave Ventures Portfolio Day under the motto of European Industrial Momentum. It was a chance to showcase the incredible work our portfolio companies are doing in European deep tech, climate tech, and industrial tech. We could feel the sense of optimism and determination in the room and we're thankful to everyone that joined us. Here’s a look at what made the day stand out: 🚀 Innovative portfolio presentations showcasing pioneering technologies and real-world industrial solutions. 🎤 Panel discussion on “The Future of European VC”, with insightful contributions from Karl Lamprecht (CEO of ZEISS Group), Nadya Petrova, CFA (European Investment Fund (EIF)), Dr. Bryan Scheler (BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt), and Daniela Weber-Rey (Board Fnac Darty, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)), moderated by Ines Kolmsee. 💡 Hands-on workshop led by pricing expert Maciej Kraus (lecturer at Stanford University), offering practical strategies and lively exchanges between founders. 🏢 Networking and evening drinks with panoramic views of the Werksviertel, providing an ideal backdrop for connecting and exchanging ideas. A big thank you to the entrepreneurs, investors, and ecosystem partners that made the day a success! We’re excited to sustain the momentum and keep backing the future of European industry. 🚀. #deeptech #industrialtech #climatetech #europeanvc cc Christian Reitberger Benedikt Kronberger Robert Gallenberger Bruno Bernard Silviu Apostu Lorenzo De Angeli Victor Szabo Carlotta Ficorella Eduardo Martinez Mariño Tom Degen Barbara Christen Julian Riebartsch

🚨🩺👁️ We are thrilled to announce our portfolio company Ikerian's (formerly Retinai) first close of a USD 8M Series B funding led by Sanoptis, with continued support from our existing co-investors including THINC Ventures (Topcon Healthcare), Zürcher Kantonalbank, and Verve Ventures. This funding will accelerate the development and commercialization of RetinAI Discovery®️ and Discovery CONNECT™️, enabling seamless data connectivity and AI-driven insights in ophthalmology, optometry and beyond. Through the partnership with Sanoptis, Ikerian is bringing cutting-edge AI solutions to over hundreds of clinics across Europe, enhancing patient care and data workflows in the clinic. And the journey doesn’t stop here! Through the Ikerian platform, the team is expanding their capabilities into new therapeutic areas, including neurodegenerative disorders and rare diseases, leveraging real-world evidence (RWE) and AI to support better decision-making in healthcare. Congrats to Carlos Ciller, Stefanos Apostolopoulos, Sandro De Zanet and team on this great achievement!

If you're heading to the wonderful city of Dresden this week to attend HTVD | HIGHTECH VENTURE DAYS, please connect with our colleague Lorenzo De Angeli. Matterwave Ventures is a long term participant and proud sponsor of HTVD and wishes everybody involved a great conference! (Next week we're hoping to see many of you in Munich for our annual Matterwave Ventures portfolio day 🙌)

We are proud to announce another investment in the Matterwave Ventures portfolio that perfectly aligns with our mission to support the future of European industry. Together with French investors Supernova Invest and Orano Ventures, we led a €3 million Seed round for Paris-based Dessia Technologies. 💥 DessIA brings AI and process automation to complex industrial R&D projects to significantly speed up R&D cycles, find more performant designs and relieve engineers from repetitive tasks. We call it EPA (engineering process automation) as an analogy to the highly successful RPA (robotic process automation). Given the impact of R&D results on our modern world we see tremendous growth potential for DessIA‘s EPA. Congratulations Jean-Pierre Roux Pierre-Emmanuel Dumouchel and the whole team at Dessia Technologies! 👏 More details on our blog (link in comments) Robert Gallenberger Bruno Bernard Benedikt Kronberger Ines Kolmsee Christian Reitberger Silviu Apostu Victor Szabo Lorenzo De Angeli Carlotta Ficorella Eduardo Martinez Mariño Ute Theel Barbara Christen #EPA #industrialtech #processautomation

NVIDIA and our portfolio company Equal1 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on advancing quantum computing, focusing on quantum-classical infrastructure for cloud and data center deployments. 🤝 The collaboration combines Equal1’s hybrid silicon classical quantum hardware and UnityQ quantum system with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q software platform to explore new use cases and business models for quantum technology. "We see Nvidia CUDA-Q as a leading hybrid quantum classical software platform, and we are delighted to collaborate with Nvidia as we extend our support for and integration with CUDA-Q," Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1, said. More details in the comments👇🏻 Congratulations to the team at Equal1 for this achievement! #QuantumComputing #DeepTech

Another big shout-out to Matthias Hilpert and Stifterverband for the important and impressive #UNIPRENEURS initiative. Our founding partner Robert Gallenberger had the chance to visit the beautiful city of Dresden last week to speak at the annual gathering, meet many of the #UNIPRENEURS and listen to a very open dialogue between leading professors, entrepreneurs and leaders from universities and politics. It's exactly this powerful mix of academic excellence, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit we as Matterwave Ventures see as a core strength of #Europe. Let's foster it, celebrate it and develop its economic potential to strengthen European industry! Big thank you for hosting the event Prof.Dr. Gerhard Fettweis, Prof.Dr. Frank Buchholz, Prof.Dr. Karl Leo!

Happy to see our portfolio company ecoLocked featured in Handelsblatt. CEO Dr. Mario Schmitt was interviewed on how the company uses #biochar to create carbon-neutral concrete and make a real difference. Very proud to be part of the journey of this amazing company. Lorenzo De Angeli; Benedikt Kronberger; Christian Reitberger; Robert Gallenberger; Silviu Apostu; Victor Szabo; Carlotta Ficorella; Eduardo Martinez Mariño; Micheil Gordon; Stefanie Gerhart

Great to be back in Milan with Lorenzo De Angeli, Ines Kolmsee and Robert Gallenberger from our Matterwave team to co-host "ClimateTech VC Milan" together with our friends of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Excellis. We look forward to seeing our portfolio companies OPTIMUSE and ecoLocked on stage to discuss #sustainability and #decarbonisation investments. Alberto Emprin, Dominik Pezzei, Micheil Gordon, Matteo Romano, Emmanuele Benatti, Fabio Cancarè

🚚📦 We're excited to announce our investment in Ventory, a leader in field and remote #inventorymanagement!   We are proud to have co-led the €1.75M funding round alongside Finindus, and we're excited to welcome delaware BeLux as a participant in the round. This investment will help accelerate product development, expand their talented team, and extend their market presence globally.   Ventory's platform offers full #visibility and control over #fieldinventory, even in the most challenging locations, like moving inventory in vans or forward stocking positions. Trusted by some of the world’s leading enterprises, including DHL Supply Chain or Zebra Technologies, their user-friendly solution is designed to support engineers and operators in #realtime, driving efficiency and #operationalexcellence across various industries.   We're proud to support Ventory’s mission and are excited to partner with such a dedicated and visionary team. A special thanks to Vishal Punamiya and the entire Ventory team for their hard work. We look forward to seeing Ventory continue to innovate and scale.   #InventoryManagement #SupplyChainVisibility #Logistics #SupplyChain #SaaS #Operationalexcellence   Lorenzo De Angeli Carlotta Ficorella Victor Szabo Silviu Apostu Benedikt Kronberger Robert Gallenberger Ines Kolmsee Christian Reitberger Ute Theel Eduardo Martinez Mariño Barbara Christen Bruno Bernard Julian Riebartsch Vishal Punamiya Ana Peršić André Huynen