Matterwave Ventures

Matterwave Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2021. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage industrial hardware and software companies, aiming to foster innovation and help these companies become global leaders. Matterwave Ventures seeks groundbreaking solutions across various sectors, including materials, components, systems, and software, with a particular interest in business products, services, information technology, the Internet of Things, manufacturing, SaaS, TMT, and wellness. The firm combines extensive market knowledge and strong industry connections with a genuine interest in its portfolio companies to provide support and guidance as they navigate their growth trajectories.

Lorenzo Angeli

Principal

Silviu Apostu

Principal

Bruno Bernard

Venture Partner

Robert Gallenberger

Partner

Ines Kolmsee

Partner

Benedikt Kronberger

Partner

Christian Reitberger

Partner

28 past transactions

Tvarit

Series A in 2023
Tvarit GmbH, founded in 2009 and based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specializes in developing AI solutions tailored for the manufacturing sector. The company focuses on process optimization and scrap reduction, particularly in metal factories, utilizing a hybrid model that integrates AI with physics and chemistry-based simulations. This approach helps minimize false alarms, allowing clients to derive actionable insights from their data. Tvarit also offers a comprehensive AI platform that enables data scientists to analyze manufacturing data and create custom use-cases. Additionally, the company provides services in data extraction, IT systems integration, and data preparation, positioning itself as a key player in advancing smart manufacturing and digital transformation.

LiveEO

Series B in 2022
LiveEO GmbH is a Berlin-based company specializing in real-time earth observation applications. Founded in 2017, it leverages satellite imagery and geolocation services to provide infrastructure monitoring solutions for sectors such as railway, electricity, and pipelines. By analyzing environmental factors like vegetation growth, height changes, and external interactions, LiveEO enables operators to proactively manage risks and reduce operational expenses. The company's innovative approach supports long-term observations and short-term analyses, offering valuable insights for maintaining infrastructure integrity.

LynxCare

Series A in 2022
LynxCare, Inc. is an AI-powered data platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in collecting and analyzing both structured and unstructured data from various sources to deliver actionable insights for medical professionals in hospitals and clinics. LynxCare's platform aggregates clinical data and patient-reported outcomes, providing custom tools that enhance clinical efficiency and improve the quality of care. By enabling healthcare practitioners to mine their legacy data and access real-time information, LynxCare aims to improve healthcare outcomes and tailor patient care effectively.

Tvarit

Seed Round in 2022
Tvarit GmbH, founded in 2009 and based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, specializes in developing AI solutions tailored for the manufacturing sector. The company focuses on process optimization and scrap reduction, particularly in metal factories, utilizing a hybrid model that integrates AI with physics and chemistry-based simulations. This approach helps minimize false alarms, allowing clients to derive actionable insights from their data. Tvarit also offers a comprehensive AI platform that enables data scientists to analyze manufacturing data and create custom use-cases. Additionally, the company provides services in data extraction, IT systems integration, and data preparation, positioning itself as a key player in advancing smart manufacturing and digital transformation.

Ninox

Venture Round in 2022
Ninox Software GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing no-code business applications that empower teams to automate backoffice workflows without requiring programming expertise. The platform offers a variety of templates for functions such as customer relationship management, invoicing, project planning, and data synchronization, enabling over 2,800 companies across diverse industries to digitize their business processes efficiently. Ninox distinguishes itself in the rapidly growing market for no- and low-code application platforms by providing an intuitive onboarding experience akin to modern productivity apps while maintaining the flexibility of application creation. This approach facilitates broader adoption of its tools, allowing users to build fully-functional databases and improve productivity significantly.

SoterAI

Series A in 2022
Soter Analytics has developed the Soter Spine, a combination of wearable sensors and powerful analytics to predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace. Using machine learning and network effects from thousands of connected workers, the Soter Spine gets even smarter with time and will outperform current ergonomic standards. Soter will become the new standard in musculoskeletal injury prevention.

Cybus

Series A in 2022
Cybus GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in providing an Internet platform that facilitates the connectivity of industrial machinery and software applications. The company offers its Cybus Connectware, a middleware solution designed for the industrial Internet of Things, enabling manufacturing firms to implement various Smart Factory use cases, including quality management, condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance. Cybus products, such as the CONNECTIVITY REPORT 4.0 and the 4.0 DEMONSTRATOR, provide comprehensive interface analysis and a secure API for direct interaction with prototypes. Additionally, the Cybus Connectbox allows for plug-and-play operation, ensuring that users maintain full control over their production data while benefiting from data-driven services. The company's focus on data sovereignty and secure connectivity positions it as a vital partner for manufacturers and service providers looking to enhance their digital applications and overall operational efficiency.

Headmade Materials

Series A in 2022
Headmade Materials GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Würzburg, Germany, specializes in developing materials and processes for metal 3D printing, specifically through its Cold Metal Fusion technology. The company focuses on the production of serial metal parts, offering services that include part design, small-scale series production, and process consulting. By providing standard and customized feedstocks, Headmade Materials aims to enhance component output and streamline post-processing. Their expertise supports additive-compatible design and reliable production processes, enabling clients to manufacture advanced printed metal parts in a cost-effective manner.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2022
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany, focuses on developing quantum algorithms that predict molecular properties for various industries, including performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The company's innovative approach addresses the lengthy and costly processes involved in product development, which often require numerous synthesis, formulation, and testing steps to meet specific requirements. By leveraging quantum computing, HQS Quantum Simulations aims to enhance simulation capabilities, thereby reducing the time-to-market and overall costs associated with research and development cycles. This advancement promises to provide a deeper understanding of chemical and physical interactions, ultimately facilitating quicker and more efficient product development in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Equal1

Venture Round in 2021
Equal1 Laboratories is accelerating the introduction of useful, cost effective quantum computers within a three-year time horizon. The company has developed a disruptive, scalable and cost-effective quantum computing technology, based on a commercially available silicon semiconductor process. Our solution uses nanometer-scale quantum dots to form qubits on a standard silicon CMOS process. Along with silicon qubits, we have integrated all functions required for a quantum processing unit (QPU) – the brain of the quantum computer – which operates at 3 kelvin with over 10 million transistors. This is the first integrated quantum processing unit of its kind.

Fruitcore Robotics

Series A in 2021
Fruitcore Robotics specializes in the design and development of robotic systems aimed at automating industrial processes. By integrating intelligent software with advanced mechatronics, the company offers optimized robotic solutions for various applications, including workpiece handling, fitting, assembling, screwing, palletizing, stacking, packaging, and workpiece testing. These systems enable manufacturers to enhance operational efficiency while reducing time and costs associated with production tasks.

dessIA

Series A in 2021
Developer of artificial intelligence-augmented engineering software designed to automate engineer's tasks. The company's platform solves engineering problems based on innovative artificial intelligence from a blank sheet to the detailed design of the different components, enabling automotive and mechanical engineers to increase their profit margins and find totally innovative approaches to engineering challenges.

LiveEO

Venture Round in 2021
LiveEO GmbH is a Berlin-based company specializing in real-time earth observation applications. Founded in 2017, it leverages satellite imagery and geolocation services to provide infrastructure monitoring solutions for sectors such as railway, electricity, and pipelines. By analyzing environmental factors like vegetation growth, height changes, and external interactions, LiveEO enables operators to proactively manage risks and reduce operational expenses. The company's innovative approach supports long-term observations and short-term analyses, offering valuable insights for maintaining infrastructure integrity.

Visplore

Seed Round in 2021
Visplore is a developer of visual analysis software that focuses on time-series data across various industries. The company's software is designed to facilitate interactive exploration of large volumes of sensor data, making it easier for clients to gain insights. By simplifying the processes of data exploration and preparation, Visplore enables users to identify correlations, patterns, and trends effectively. The software tools provided by Visplore aim to enhance the understanding of complex data sets, thereby supporting informed decision-making across different sectors.

Threedy

Seed Round in 2020
Threedy GmbH, established in 2020 and based in Darmstadt, Germany, specializes in providing the instant3Dhub platform, which supports visualization, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) applications primarily for the automotive, aerospace, and energy sectors. The platform is designed for high-performance visual computing and facilitates the use of large data sets across various applications and devices. It features a 3D streaming architecture, built-in 3D spaces for collaborative context sharing, and a unified application programming interface. By directly integrating with business data and sensors, Threedy enables customers to leverage 3D data models to drive digital innovation, enhance products and services, and optimize business processes, ultimately leading to simplified operations and cost savings.

Innatera

Seed Round in 2020
Innatera Nanosystems B.V. develops microprocessors that mimic the brain’s mechanisms for processing fast information streams from multiple sensors. The company is based in Delft, the Netherlands.

Sensolus

Venture Round in 2020
Sensolus NV designs and develops global positioning system (GPS) trackers that allows to track non-powered assets. It offers turnkey solutions for wireless and low-power context-aware sensing. The company also provides a web based platform, Internet of things (IoT) cloud platform, and application that helps to provide real time information about assets. It serves manufacturing, waste management, cargo transport, transport and logistics, and automotive industry. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Ghent, Belgium.

Semalytix

Series A in 2020
Semalytix’s Pharos is an AI-based real world evidence generation tool that ingests data and breaks it down so you can receive specific information about the disease you’re investigating — zooming into specific target populations and studying nearly any variable you are interested in.

DyeMansion

Series B in 2020
DyeMansion GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in the post-processing and coloring of 3D-printed laser sintered parts. The company provides high-volume finishing systems that streamline the transition from raw 3D-printed components to high-value consumer and industrial products. With a focus on precision coloring and finishing, DyeMansion serves over four hundred clients, including prominent global manufacturers across various sectors such as eyewear, automotive, retail, medical, and sports equipment. The company has established itself as a leader in additive manufacturing finishing systems for polymer parts, collaborating with major industrial 3D printing systems like EOS, HP, 3D Systems, and Prodways. DyeMansion's technology enables the production of items ranging from luxury sunglasses to essential automotive components, ensuring high-quality results tailored to customer specifications.

ToolSense

Seed Round in 2020
ToolSense GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Vienna, Austria, specializes in developing an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform tailored for construction tools manufacturers. Its platform allows these manufacturers to integrate modules that collect, analyze, and compress sensor data locally, enabling better networking of construction machinery and data recording during operation. ToolSense provides comprehensive solutions encompassing hardware, firmware, analytics, cloud services, and front-end interfaces for mobile and cost-sensitive construction and cleaning equipment. The company's innovations help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) enhance customer service, gain insights for research and development, and foster customer loyalty. ToolSense has received multiple accolades, including the Austrian Foreign Trade Award and the ORF Futurezone Award for Best IoT Startup, and is actively involved in various prestigious programs to promote its growth and technological impact.

Headmade Materials

Venture Round in 2020
Headmade Materials GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Würzburg, Germany, specializes in developing materials and processes for metal 3D printing, specifically through its Cold Metal Fusion technology. The company focuses on the production of serial metal parts, offering services that include part design, small-scale series production, and process consulting. By providing standard and customized feedstocks, Headmade Materials aims to enhance component output and streamline post-processing. Their expertise supports additive-compatible design and reliable production processes, enabling clients to manufacture advanced printed metal parts in a cost-effective manner.

LynxCare

Venture Round in 2020
LynxCare, Inc. is an AI-powered data platform founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in collecting and analyzing both structured and unstructured data from various sources to deliver actionable insights for medical professionals in hospitals and clinics. LynxCare's platform aggregates clinical data and patient-reported outcomes, providing custom tools that enhance clinical efficiency and improve the quality of care. By enabling healthcare practitioners to mine their legacy data and access real-time information, LynxCare aims to improve healthcare outcomes and tailor patient care effectively.

Ninox

Seed Round in 2019
Ninox Software GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, specializes in developing no-code business applications that empower teams to automate backoffice workflows without requiring programming expertise. The platform offers a variety of templates for functions such as customer relationship management, invoicing, project planning, and data synchronization, enabling over 2,800 companies across diverse industries to digitize their business processes efficiently. Ninox distinguishes itself in the rapidly growing market for no- and low-code application platforms by providing an intuitive onboarding experience akin to modern productivity apps while maintaining the flexibility of application creation. This approach facilitates broader adoption of its tools, allowing users to build fully-functional databases and improve productivity significantly.

HQS Quantum Simulations

Seed Round in 2019
HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany, focuses on developing quantum algorithms that predict molecular properties for various industries, including performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The company's innovative approach addresses the lengthy and costly processes involved in product development, which often require numerous synthesis, formulation, and testing steps to meet specific requirements. By leveraging quantum computing, HQS Quantum Simulations aims to enhance simulation capabilities, thereby reducing the time-to-market and overall costs associated with research and development cycles. This advancement promises to provide a deeper understanding of chemical and physical interactions, ultimately facilitating quicker and more efficient product development in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Retinai

Seed Round in 2019
RetinAI Medical AG, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bern, Switzerland, focuses on developing innovative software tools for the collection, organization, and analysis of eye health data. The company offers products such as OmniViewer, which enables researchers to annotate and structure both 2D and 3D datasets for machine learning and statistical analyses, and Discovery, designed for clinical and pharmaceutical research. RetinAI aims to optimize and simplify workflows in clinics and research environments, enhancing healthcare delivery by leveraging advanced machine learning for automatic image and data analysis. Its proprietary technology significantly improves image quality and facilitates the automatic analysis of medical data for hospitals, private practitioners, pharmaceutical companies, and device manufacturers, achieving performance levels comparable to human analysis.

Synfioo

Series A in 2019
Synfioo GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Potsdam, Germany, specializes in developing software solutions for logistics specialists and transport planners. The company offers an innovative platform that provides real-time transportation monitoring, enabling users to receive immediate updates on setbacks affecting transport plans, such as traffic congestions, security controls, strikes, and adverse weather conditions. By utilizing a big data approach, Synfioo predicts arrival times and analyzes how external factors influence logistics operations. This functionality allows transportation planners to access crucial information seamlessly within their existing workflows, facilitating prompt reactions to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Cybus

Venture Round in 2019
Cybus GmbH, founded in 2015 and based in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in providing an Internet platform that facilitates the connectivity of industrial machinery and software applications. The company offers its Cybus Connectware, a middleware solution designed for the industrial Internet of Things, enabling manufacturing firms to implement various Smart Factory use cases, including quality management, condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance. Cybus products, such as the CONNECTIVITY REPORT 4.0 and the 4.0 DEMONSTRATOR, provide comprehensive interface analysis and a secure API for direct interaction with prototypes. Additionally, the Cybus Connectbox allows for plug-and-play operation, ensuring that users maintain full control over their production data while benefiting from data-driven services. The company's focus on data sovereignty and secure connectivity positions it as a vital partner for manufacturers and service providers looking to enhance their digital applications and overall operational efficiency.

DyeMansion

Series A in 2018
DyeMansion GmbH, founded in 2013 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in the post-processing and coloring of 3D-printed laser sintered parts. The company provides high-volume finishing systems that streamline the transition from raw 3D-printed components to high-value consumer and industrial products. With a focus on precision coloring and finishing, DyeMansion serves over four hundred clients, including prominent global manufacturers across various sectors such as eyewear, automotive, retail, medical, and sports equipment. The company has established itself as a leader in additive manufacturing finishing systems for polymer parts, collaborating with major industrial 3D printing systems like EOS, HP, 3D Systems, and Prodways. DyeMansion's technology enables the production of items ranging from luxury sunglasses to essential automotive components, ensuring high-quality results tailored to customer specifications.
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