Our Startup Portfolio
We invest in Series A+ startups in Europe. So far, we've invested in 22 startups and realized 5 successful exits.
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3YOURMIND provides software solutions for agile manufacturing, enabling companies to use 3D printing processes in their industrial production and supply chains.
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Marc Umber
E-mail: marc@env.vc
Founded in 2006, ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams who are revolutionising the path towards a sustainable future.
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Holger Wagner
E-mail: holger@env.vc
Vireo Electrification Fund I is an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) under the European Venture Capital Funds (EuVECA) regime. The fund is managed by Vireo Ventures, a European venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in technology companies driving the energy transition through electrification. Vireo Electrification Fund I focusses on seed-stage companies involved in renewable energy production and storage, smart grid solutions, as well as applications spanning e-mobility, real estate, and industrial sectors. Vireo Ventures’ mission is to shape and accelerate the transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
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Melanie Beyersdorf
E-mail: melanie@env.vc
babelforce automates processes in call centers. Through the simple integration of existing systems, customer inquiries can be processed more cost-effectively, more quickly, and in a more targeted manner.
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Holger Wagner
E-mail: holger@env.vc
Deepomatic automates quality control and reporting of field services by analyzing the technician's footage through an AI-based platform.
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Theodor Schulte
E-mail: theodor@env.vc
FLEXECHARGE’s solutions address the operational and energy market needs of CPOs, especially in two critical segments: high-power charging hubs, which face high peak load and grid tariff risks, and depot charging, where energy efficiency and smart scheduling are essential for commercial fleet operations.
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Pascal Beckers
E-mail: pascal@env.vc
Theva produces high-temperature superconductors for the high-performance electricity-based applications of the future.
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Holger Wagner
E-mail: holger@env.vc
Vivacity reduces traffic accidents and emissions in cities. Its sensors collect detailed and anonymous data on transport modes, traffic flows and travel patterns, and analyses this data using to make strategic decisions about optimising the transport network and improving urban infrastructure.
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Theodor Schulte
E-mail: theodor@env.vc
Cleverciti digitizes parking lots. The smart parking end-to-end product provides parking data in real time for parking operators and guides every customer quickly to the free parking space.
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Theodor Schulte
E-mail: theodor@env.vc
Why we've invested in Validaitor
Trend
The energy sector must digitalize its systems while simultaneously ensuring security of supply. AI helps improve process efficiency and optimize energy consumption.
Problem
Companies face significant challenges in ensuring AI compliance and governance. Adhering to regulatory requirements and industry standards involves a great deal of manual effort, as it requires comprehensive model evaluation, risk management, and performance assessment. This process is often time-consuming and resource-intensive, making it difficult for companies to efficiently manage their AI systems.
Solution
Validaitor simplifies the process of ensuring AI compliance and governance by providing pre-configured templates and tools for efficient model evaluation, risk management, and performance assessment. This allows companies to adhere to regulatory requirements and industry standards with less manual effort, making the management of AI systems more streamlined and effective.
About Validaitor
Validaitor is a pioneer in trustworthy AI, ensuring quality and compliance with AI-driven products and services. Its unique all-in-one platform enables companies to govern and test their AI systems and to comply with today's and tomorrow's AI regulations and standards, most notably the EU AI Act.
With this strong investor base, we’d like to accelerate our mission to make AI trustworthy while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Our platform offers a rich set of ready-to-run tests to evaluate AI systems comprehensively, automating these tests to be run every time a new AI model is developed throughout its lifecycle. And this is all integrated with the risk management and the compliance processes. This helps customers across the board to save up to 80% of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for AI certification against the current standards.
About Yunus Bulut
Yunus is the CEO and Co-Founder of Validaitor. With a strong background in AI and technology management, Yunus leads the company based in Karlsruhe, which specializes in trustworthy AI solutions.
Before founding Validaitor, Yunus worked closely with various stakeholders to secure funding and manage intellectual property.
Yunus is committed to revolutionizing AI governance and risk management, ensuring that AI systems are developed and used responsibly and transparently.
LinkedIn Profile Yunus Bulut
Exited
Greenbird enables companies to capture, consolidate and further process data from a wide range of IT systems faster and more efficiently.
Exit in 2023
replex analyzes, optimizes, and visualizes the utilization of data centers and multi-cloud environments. IT infrastructures and cloud solutions can be displayed and allocated according to their source.
Exit in 2021
DZ4 offers solar-as-a-service: a leasing model that includes the solar power system and battery storage and also provides an all-round carefree package.
Exit in 2022
Lumenaza offers a marketplace for green electricity from decentralized assets of private households. In this community, renewable electricity can be marketed and shared locally.
gridscale offers a software platform that provides flexible and secure cloud services and enables any company to market its own cloud services.