Apex Ventures is a deep tech fund headquartered in Vienna. Their home markets are the German-speaking DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). They’re happy to lead investment rounds into companies from these countries and co-invest in companies from elsewhere in Europe.
Invest in country: Poland
Voima Ventures funds research-based deep technology. Pharmaceutical technology is interesting, drug development is not. Content (e.g. game) development is also not interesting, but related technology is.
They collaborate closely with universities and innovation service providers, for example universities’ internal innovation services.
They prefer to co-invest or lead. They seek a board seat when investing. In early stages they prefer to be actively involved in the management of the company.
OpenOcean invests into digital data-intensive solutions with significant indications of ability to sell and scale. B2B is a big plus, other business models are possible with very strong traction.
They have invested in open source solutions such as MySQL, MariaDB and RapidMiner. Other areas of especial interest include AI/ML, application-driven infrastructure and development tools, marketing technology, and automation and recommendation engines.
They look for cases that have a ready product + early revenue, a proven product-market fit. Typically they like to see companies already have €50k MRR (€500k/year recurring revenue).
They require a board seat as a condition of investing. They’re often the lead investor of a round.