Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant
Our portfolio company Axelera AI secured a €61.6 million grant to develop Titania, a scalable AI inference chiplet for HPC and edge computing. The funding is supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and member states as part of the DARE Project.This new funding follows the successful close of an oversubscribed $68 million Series B financing round, bringing the…
We are excited to announce our investment in Eindhoven-based PHOTON IP as part of the €4.75 million seed funding round!
With this financing, the team will accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of their breakthrough technology and bring their first products to market. Read more
Nederlandse koplopers in deeptech herdefiniëren chip- en AI-industrie
In het recente artikel van Het Financieele Dagblad worden twee baanbrekende bedrijven uitgelicht die de toekomst van chiptechnologie vormgeven: SMART Photonics en Axelera AI. Als grootste aandeelhouder in deze bedrijven zijn wij trots om onderdeel te kunnen zijn van hun groeireis. Lees verder
Thrilled to see Tom Van Mulken and the Microsure team making history with the world’s first robot-assisted supermicrosurgery
Tom’s pioneering research sparked the creation of Microsure, a spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology and Maastricht UMC+, and a portfolio company of Innovation Industries. Their MUSA robots are revolutionizing plastic, neuro, and eye surgeries. Read more
Battolyser Systems closes a €30 million Series A funding round
Battolyser Systems, the manufacturer of the world’s only electrolyser with battery functionality that enables the lowest cost green hydrogen, has raised €30 million in Series A funding from Global Cleantech Capital, Innovation Industries, and Invest-NL. Read more [Source: battolysersystems.com]
Our portfolio company Carbyon closed a €15.3 million Series A investment round
Carbyon has developed an innovative, patented technology to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Their ‘fast swing’ technology increases CO2 capacity and thereby significantly drives down unit, energy and project costs – all critical criteria to facilitate large scale deployment. Read more
Nearfield Instruments is well on its way to become a large, global player in the semiconductor industry
We are excited to announce that our portfolio company Nearfield Instruments has successfully closed a €135 million Series-C funding round; the 2nd largest capital raise in the semicon fab equipment market in the EU/US in the past 5 years! Read more
We were the first investor in Nearfield Instruments together with Samsung
We were the first investor in Nearfield Instruments together with Samsung, and the company is now well on its way to become a large & global player in the semiconductor industry. Nearfield delivers breakthrough metrology solutions that can measure 3D nanostructures during microchip manufacturing. This technology works non-destructively, and is key to improve yield in the manufacturing process of semiconductor chips….
Axelera AI raised Europe’s largest Series B financing round in the fabless semiconductor industry, at $68 million
It is Axelera AI’s ambition to become the European NVIDIA. With a $100M business pipeline and strong customer demand, its innovative approach to AI chips is increasingly being validated. Read more
Harm de Vries haalt 500 miljoen op voor investeringen in deeptech: ‘Er is nog veel meer geld nodig’
Deeptech-investeerder Innovation Industries heeft maar liefst 500 miljoen opgehaald voor zijn derde fonds, dat zich richt op deeptech-startups en -scaleups in de Benelux en Duitsland. ‘We houden ervan om unieke technologie vroeg bij de hoorns te vatten.’ Lees verder: Lees verder [Bron: mtsprout.nl]