Matterwave Ventures

That’s a wrap on Slush 2025! 🙌 As usual, Helsinki did not disappoint. Our colleagues Benedikt Kronberger and Silviu Apostu had three days packed with meetings, great side events, and the unique energy that only Slush can deliver. Thank you to everyone who joined our breakfast with aws Gründungsfonds , Bloomhaus Ventures AG , and Spicehaus. What a way to start Day 1! See you next year, Helsinki! ❄️

Today we are proud to announce Matterwave Ventures' investment in Infinite Orbits, a leader in the emerging field of in-orbit servicing, headquartered in Toulouse. The company is announcing today €40 million in funding to become Europe’s leading provider in its market segment with participation from the EIC Fund (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), Matterwave Ventures, Wind, Balnord, IRDI Capital Investissement, and Newfund. What drew us to the company was their pragmatic focus on serving commercially relevant satellite operator use cases in GEO orbits - where few, if any, startups ever ventured. Their services encompass space situational awareness, bring in use and lifetime extension, and in the future will extend to servicing the emerging space manufacturing economy, debris management and beyond. The dual use applicability of IO's capabilities bodes well for the inclusion of Infinite Orbits' servicers into Europe’s growing sovereign space defence infrastructures. We look forward to working with the talented team around Adel Haddoud on building Europe’s in-orbit servicing champion! #NewSpace #Deeptech #InOrbitServicing   Ines Kolmsee Christian Reitberger Benedikt Kronberger Robert Gallenberger Silviu Apostu Ute Theel Lorenzo De Angeli Eduardo Martinez Mariño Barbara Christen Bruno Bernard Mia Brzakovic

Some startup awards are more special than others 🏆🔴 Our portfolio company LiveEO has been honored with three prestigious Red Dot Design Awards, recognizing excellence in innovation and human-centered technology! LiveEO’s solutions harness satellite data and intuitive design to help infrastructure and sustainability leaders manage risk, monitor assets, and meet regulatory challenges. The awarded products include: 🔴 Treeline (Apps category): Delivers actionable vegetation insights to help utilities prevent outages and wildfires. 🔴 SurfaceScout (Digital Solutions): Enables remote monitoring for oil & gas operators while proactively detecting pipeline risks. 🔴TradeAware (Interface & User Experience Design): Provides automated, satellite-based compliance checks to support companies with EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requirements. Congratulations to the entire LiveEO team for this milestone, reflecting their commitment to powerful design, seamless collaboration, and an incredible technology underneath for Earth Observation! #DeepTech #EarthObservation #RedDot #DesignExcellence

It’s that time of the year again — Helsinki, here we come. ❄️ Our colleagues Benedikt Kronberger and Silviu Apostu are gearing up for three days of non-stop meetings & events, coffee-fueled conversations, and the unique kind of chaos only Slush can deliver. We are also excited to be hosting a booked-out breakfast just before the action starts on Day 1 with our friends at aws Gründungsfonds, Bloomhaus Ventures AG, and Spicehaus. 🙌🏼 DM us or drop a note to grab a coffee with us - our calendars are melting faster than Helsinki snow after Slush. 🙃 #Slush2025 #MatterwaveVentures #DeepTech

🚀 Equal1 x ESA: Pioneering Quantum-Powered Earth Observation 🌍💡 We're thrilled to celebrate a milestone in space-tech innovation: European Space Agency - ESA has selected Equal1 to deploy its Bell‑1 hybrid quantum computer at the ESA Phi‑Lab under the Quantum Computing for Earth Observation (QC4EO) initiative, part of the FutureEO programme 🔍 Why it matters Earth Observation missions generate massive, complex datasets - for climate modeling, disaster monitoring, SAR processing, satellite constellations, and more. Classical HPC systems are being pushed to their limits. The Bell‑1, a 6‑qubit silicon spin‑qubit CPU designed for seamless integration into existing HPC frameworks, offers hybrid quantum‑classical acceleration specifically crafted for these challenges. 🤝 Shared vision & collaboration Equal1 CEO Jason Lynch emphasizes the alignment of their mission with ESA’s: “Our Bell-1 quantum computer, designed for seamless integration into existing HPC environments, is perfectly suited to augment ESA’s capabilities." Simonetta Cheli of ESA highlights this as a transformative moment: “paving the way for hosting the first quantum computer at ESA”. Join us in celebrating this landmark step toward a quantum-enabled future for Earth Observation! 👏 #QuantumComputing #EarthObservation #ESA #FutureEO

Throwback to our Portfolio Day two weeks ago! We are still buzzing over the energy in the room - and we have the video to prove it 🤩 Thank you to everyone who joined and made it special. And a special thanks to the Matterwave team for making it all possible! 🙌 Barbara Christen Ute Theel Ines Kolmsee Silviu Apostu Robert Gallenberger Christian Reitberger Benedikt Kronberger Eduardo Martinez Mariño Lorenzo De Angeli Noah Matthias Keller Bruno Bernard Julian Riebartsch Mia Brzakovic

Congratulations to Janik Jaskolski, Philipp Cimiano and the entire team at our portfolio company Semalytix on raising a EUR 5.7m funding round led by Holland Capital, with strong participation from existing investors including us at Matterwave Ventures. 🚀🚀🚀 Semalytix is a leading provider of an #AgenticAI platform for the #PharmaceuticalIndustry, faciliating pharmaceutical patient intelligence. While the #LifeScience industry currently generates a substantial part of the world's overall data, much of it is unstructured and remains often underutilized. Semalytix's advanced AI-powered analytics technology, so-called #PatientGPT, is designed to address this challenge. The team has expanded its data foundation from 100 million public social sources to include 33 million medical publications and 400,000+ clinical trial outcomes. Based on this massive data foundation the company created #AgenticAI #agents tailored to support specific #Pharma roles with crucial patient experience outcomes at every stage of modern drug development. The new funds will be used to accelerate Semalytix's growth trajectory and further enhance its #AI platform's capabilities. Congratulations particularly also to Christian Schütz and Andreas Suchanek as well as everyone else involved to make this transaction possible! Philipp Cimiano Janik Jaskolski Andreas Suchanek Christian Schütz Holland Capital Ines Kolmsee Christian Reitberger Robert Gallenberger Eduardo Martinez Mariño Lorenzo De Angeli Ute Theel Barbara Christen #AgenticAI #PatientGPT #Pharma #LifeSciences #RealWorldEvidence #PatientIntelligence #PatientCentrism

Exciting news from the DyeMansion team: they've acquired fellow Munich company ASM | Additive Surfaces! 🚀 What started as a sales partnership in 2024 has evolved into a full acquisition, bringing ASM's VX1 entry-level vapor smoothing system into the DyeMansion family. The strategic logic is clear: DyeMansion now offers the complete range from entry to industrial-scale vapor smoothing, with VX1's sustainable, PFAS-free technology serving 50+ customers globally. ASM Co-Founder Philipp Ziegler (now Global Product & Market Manager VX1 at DyeMansion): "With its strong market position and global sales network, DyeMansion is the ideal home for our technology." Congratulations to Felix Ewald, Philipp Kramer and the entire DyeMansion team! 👏 #DeepTech #AdditiveManufacturing #3DPrinting

Last week, we brought together our founders, investors, and industry leaders for our annual Matterwave Ventures Portfolio Day - a celebration of the remarkable companies building Europe's industrial future. The event centered on this year's rallying cry: "Act now! It matters." Gernot Wagner delivered a powerful keynote titled The Green Growth Mindset, our portfolio founders showcased their innovations, and panel discussions sparked important conversations about European competitiveness and reindustrialization. The energy throughout the day - and well into the evening - reminded us why we do this work. Watching our portfolio companies present their progress, seeing connections form between founders and potential partners, and feeling the collective determination in the room reinforced our conviction: Europe's industrial leadership can be rebuilt, and the momentum is building. To everyone who joined us: thank you for investing your time and energy! Your presence made the event the highlight of our year. To our portfolio companies: your dedication to solving hard problems continues to inspire us. We're proud to back you as you scale to become global leaders. We remain as committed as ever to backing the future of European industry. The momentum is building. Let’s keep acting. Ines Kolmsee Robert Gallenberger Ute Theel Christian Reitberger Benedikt Kronberger Silviu Apostu Lorenzo De Angeli Eduardo Martinez Mariño Barbara Christen Bruno Bernard Noah Matthias Keller Julian Riebartsch #DeepTech #VentureCapital #EuropeanInnovation #IndustrialTech

VC investments are partnerships for time. Our aim is helping our companies accelerate the dreaded technology diffusion curve, achieving global impact of the innovation that we backed at the start. Ikerian's acquisition by EssilorLuxottica is a perfect example of how adoption boosting can work. Thank you, Carlos Ciller, for sharing the lessons learnt along your turbulent journey at our Matterwave Ventures porfolio day morning workshop - you made an inspiring case for how entrepreneurial perserverance and careful strategic planning pay off for founders, investors, strategic partners - and millions of patients who will benefit!