TRUMPF Venture

TRUMPF is a high-technology company based in Ditzingen, Germany, specializing in production solutions across the machine tool, laser, and electronics sectors. The company is recognized as a global leader in flexible sheet metal processing and industrial lasers, providing a diverse range of machinery, including laser cutting, welding systems, and punching machines. In addition to its manufacturing capabilities, TRUMPF promotes digital connectivity in the manufacturing industry through consulting, software solutions, and platforms. To foster innovation, TRUMPF operates a corporate venture capital arm, TRUMPF Venture, which invests in early-stage startups in technology, photonics, manufacturing, and sustainability sectors. This venture capital initiative aims to identify disruptive technologies and support startups that align strategically with TRUMPF's core business, offering them access to its extensive network and expertise. As an independent, family-owned company, TRUMPF emphasizes long-term thinking and a commitment to continuous innovation.

Lars Grünert

CFO, Managing Director

Kraft Ph.D., Dieter

Managing Director

Jens Ortgiese

Principal

Heinz-Jürgen Prokop

CEO for Machine Tools (CEO MT), Managing Director

Christian Trumpf

Founder

22 past transactions

nyris

Venture Round in 2023
Text-based search is a source of costly friction—especially for companies that manage products, component parts or other items that are essential to customer, supplier or employee. nyris is a visual search platform that gives people a more natural way to find what they are looking for. With nyris, companies of all industries realize financial value while improving how people find, discover and get things done. Up and running in minutes, only nyris’ technology is designed and engineered to handle any search challenge. Based in Berlin and Dusseldorf, nyris serves leading companies across Retail & E-Commerce; Industrial & Manufacturing; Media & Entertainment; and Financial Services. nyris serves customers in more than 50 countries and representing every continent. Led by respected technology industry veterans, nyris investors include eCapital, IKEA and Axel Springer.

Sensibel

Series A in 2022
Sensibel commercializes ultra-high-sensitivity MEMS microphones based on an optical MEMS technology.

Scrona

Series A in 2022
Scrona is all about simplifying micro- and nanotechnology, from the consumer- and industry-perspective. We offer solutions for convenient microscopic visualization and develop an ink-jet related printing technology that will revolutionize micro- and nanofabrication.

Kiutra

Venture Round in 2021
At kiutra, our mission is to provide our research and industry customers with easy-to-use, turn-key cryostats that give them the time to focus on their work rather than on their cryostats. We facilitate low-temperature investigations of material samples and accelerate the development and testing of quantum hardware and related electronics by means of fast-cooling tools and innovative sample exchange mechanisms. Our cooling platforms offer continuous sub-Kelvin cooling independent of liquid cooling media, notably independent of rare and costly helium-3. This is essential to provide cryogenic temperatures in a simple, compact, and cost-efficient way, and a prerequisite for the application of quantum electronics, such used for quantum computing, quantum communications and quantum sensing at an industrial scale.

Peers Solutions

Seed Round in 2021
Peers Solutions is a software developer specializing in staff development and learning software. The company's platform provides employees with learning opportunities via individualized learning paths powered by artificial intelligence and collected from third-party sources, allowing businesses to teach their personnel in accordance with their goals, timeframe, and budget.

Ascend Elements

Venture Round in 2021
Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydroprocess recycling and direct recycling, which take old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients have the maximum return on assets to economically drive recycling and low-cost battery materials.

3YOURMIND

Series A in 2021
3YOURMIND offers Enterprise Software to automate additive manufacturing processes and workflows for leading companies and 3D print services. Their product suite standardizes every aspect of the AM supply chain from analyzing historical part data to efficient order management to optimal production scheduling. The software is laying the foundation for Agile Manufacturing. With digital workflows, our software standardizes and evaluates AM data, automates the business processes associated with distributed manufacturing and optimizes production execution and quality assurance. These are the tools that enable data-driven production decisions and are building a foundation for automated Agile Manufacturing. The Agile PLM manages AM product innovation processes to build a digital inventory full of AM-ready parts and production data. Our Agile ERP bring speed, accuracy and automation to how additive manufacturing orders and tracking are processed in your organization. Intelligent software like our Agile MES is needed to increase transparency and speed up the information flow for the additive manufacturing production floor. Our team of experts for AM Services guides and supports our customers at every step of the AM workflow, from idea generation to CAD modeling to the execution of their additive manufacturing project. Customers who have already successfully integrated 3YOURMIND products into AM production include GKN, DB Schenker, Postnord, EOS, and other undisclosed enterprise companies.

Ascend Elements

Series B in 2021
Ascend Elements manufactures advanced battery materials using valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries. It uses hydroprocess recycling and direct recycling, which take old cathode material down to the atomic level to create new cathode materials. It also helps clients have the maximum return on assets to economically drive recycling and low-cost battery materials.

Lantek

Acquisition in 2021
Lantek is a software company that specializes in providing CAD, CAM, MES, and ERP solutions tailored for manufacturers of sheet metal and structural steel. Its software is designed to enhance the fabrication and design processes for materials such as sheet metal, tubes, and beams. By focusing on technological innovation, Lantek aims to deliver value to customers, employees, and shareholders alike. The company's solutions help manufacturers improve productivity and efficiency in their operations, fostering a more streamlined approach to fabrication. Through the consolidation of a global team, Lantek continues to advance its offerings to meet the evolving needs of the industry.

ammune.ai

Series A in 2021
ammune.ai helps organizations to protect their infrastructure, applications, customers, employees, and partners against the growing risk of API-borne attacks. APIs have become critical for data sharing and applications integration and are therefore an attractive path for malicious attacks that expose organizations to new, continuously evolving threats. With a team of experienced leaders and innovators, ammune.ai revolutionizes the way organizations protect their APIs using its advanced AI-based technology. ammune™, our platform technology, received a Product Leadership Award by Frost & Sullivan for protecting APIs thanks to its novel unsupervised learning AI approach of protecting APIs.

3YOURMIND

Series A in 2020
3YOURMIND offers Enterprise Software to automate additive manufacturing processes and workflows for leading companies and 3D print services. Their product suite standardizes every aspect of the AM supply chain from analyzing historical part data to efficient order management to optimal production scheduling. The software is laying the foundation for Agile Manufacturing. With digital workflows, our software standardizes and evaluates AM data, automates the business processes associated with distributed manufacturing and optimizes production execution and quality assurance. These are the tools that enable data-driven production decisions and are building a foundation for automated Agile Manufacturing. The Agile PLM manages AM product innovation processes to build a digital inventory full of AM-ready parts and production data. Our Agile ERP bring speed, accuracy and automation to how additive manufacturing orders and tracking are processed in your organization. Intelligent software like our Agile MES is needed to increase transparency and speed up the information flow for the additive manufacturing production floor. Our team of experts for AM Services guides and supports our customers at every step of the AM workflow, from idea generation to CAD modeling to the execution of their additive manufacturing project. Customers who have already successfully integrated 3YOURMIND products into AM production include GKN, DB Schenker, Postnord, EOS, and other undisclosed enterprise companies.

CYR3CON

Series A in 2020
CYR3CON predicts cyber-attacks through a suite of solutions using artificial intelligence. CYR3CON's methods leverage multiple sources of data from various online hacker communities to avoid many cyber incidents by quantifying and predicting hacker actions before they launch their attacks. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona.

CYR3CON

Seed Round in 2020
CYR3CON predicts cyber-attacks through a suite of solutions using artificial intelligence. CYR3CON's methods leverage multiple sources of data from various online hacker communities to avoid many cyber incidents by quantifying and predicting hacker actions before they launch their attacks. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona.

GLOphotonics

Corporate Round in 2020
GLOphotonics SAS (or 'GLO'​ for short) is a French company based in Limoges. GLO is set up to commercialize hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) and their functionalised form Photonic Microcells™ (PMC). GLO products are built upon its proprietary and disruptive specialty fiber technology and gas photonics. GLO is extending the capabilities of the HC-PCF and PMC even further by working with laser developers and system integrators, and with CNRS-University of Limoges joint Research Institute XLIM to keep giving its technology a continuous innovative edge.

NNAISENSE

Series B in 2019
NNAISENSE was formed in 2014 in order to build large-scale neural network solutions for industrial process inspection, modeling, and control. The Company is an outgrowth of the internationally renowned Swiss AI institute, IDSIA, which, since the early 90s, has been at the forefront of the key scientific breakthroughs in artificial neural networks, deep learning, reinforcement learning, artificial evolution, and general purpose AI. Over the last five years, we have successfully partnered with major players in diverse industries, including steel and glass production, robotics, additive manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, and renewable energy, to deliver custom solutions that add real value through cutting-edge research and real-world know-how.

Resistell AG

Series A in 2019
Resistell is a antibiotic resistance test.

Peers Solutions

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Peers Solutions is a software developer specializing in staff development and learning software. The company's platform provides employees with learning opportunities via individualized learning paths powered by artificial intelligence and collected from third-party sources, allowing businesses to teach their personnel in accordance with their goals, timeframe, and budget.

Eyeware

Seed Round in 2019
Eyeware is an emerging deep tech provider of head and eye tracking solutions for webcams and 3D cameras. Incorporated in September 2016 in Switzerland, Eyeware began as a research spin-off from EPFL and Idiap Research Institute. Eyeware develops head and eye tracking solutions for computers, smartphones, tablets, cars, simulators, and more. The proprietary computer vision algorithms and machine perception AI technology significantly improve mainstream adoption of head and eye tracking technology. Past iterations involved hardware-based solutions that are too expensive for widespread adoption, or integrated webcam-based solutions that are not reliable. Our platform-independent human perception AI for webcams and 3D cameras bypass the need for specialized hardware. Eyeware provides a path for companies to integrate reliable and cost-effective head and eye tracking technology into consumer applications. Eyeware develops software-only head and eye tracking technology for webcams and 3D sensors to advance natural connections between people and their devices. Our patent-pending computer vision algorithms and machine perception AI enable remote head pose and gaze tracking for consumer device integrations. The platform-independent technology allows real-world interactions, capturing user attention, intention, and interest. Eyeware technology delivers robust, accurate, and efficient eye tracking data that represents the building block for understanding, modeling and replicating natural human behavior with intelligent machines. Our technology is adaptable for integration in a variety of applications with our software development kits. Find out how to start building head and eye tracking-enabled applications.

RSP Systems

Series B in 2018
RSP Systems is developing a non-invasive glucose monitor, GlucoBeam(R), which will ease the lives of people with diabetes world-wide by providing convenient, pain-free glucose monitoring.

3YOURMIND

Series A in 2017
3YOURMIND offers Enterprise Software to automate additive manufacturing processes and workflows for leading companies and 3D print services. Their product suite standardizes every aspect of the AM supply chain from analyzing historical part data to efficient order management to optimal production scheduling. The software is laying the foundation for Agile Manufacturing. With digital workflows, our software standardizes and evaluates AM data, automates the business processes associated with distributed manufacturing and optimizes production execution and quality assurance. These are the tools that enable data-driven production decisions and are building a foundation for automated Agile Manufacturing. The Agile PLM manages AM product innovation processes to build a digital inventory full of AM-ready parts and production data. Our Agile ERP bring speed, accuracy and automation to how additive manufacturing orders and tracking are processed in your organization. Intelligent software like our Agile MES is needed to increase transparency and speed up the information flow for the additive manufacturing production floor. Our team of experts for AM Services guides and supports our customers at every step of the AM workflow, from idea generation to CAD modeling to the execution of their additive manufacturing project. Customers who have already successfully integrated 3YOURMIND products into AM production include GKN, DB Schenker, Postnord, EOS, and other undisclosed enterprise companies.

C-Labs Corporation

Acquisition in 2017
C-Labs provides industrial-grade solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). Get access to your live data from local and remote sensors, services, and devices using your phone, tablet, or other smart device. With our flagship product, the C-DEngine, you get a scalable, secure, and simple-to-use IoT platform for Rapid Application Development that can be tailored to your needs.

XARION Laser Acoustics

Series A in 2016
XARION Laser Acoustics is a provider of unique, laser-based acoustic sensors. The membrane-free optical microphone uses an IP-protected principle of operation: it detects sound based on its ability to change the speed of light. Since no mechanically movable or deformable parts are involved in this approach, the sensor comes with a linear frequency response free from mechanical resonances. The microphone shows an unprecedented frequency bandwidth exceeding state of the art solutions by a factor of ten.
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