💫 Big news - Today, we are launching our new visual identity! The new look reflects the incredible journey we have embarked on since our start in 2018 and the momentum we want to generate for our founders, our LPs, our community, and the ecosystem as a whole. It perfectly embodies our dedication to technical founders and our core essence as engineers turned investors. A huge shoutout to everyone who contributed to bringing this vision to life, particularly the phenomenal team at Embacy (shoutout to Andrew Kravtsov and Anastasia Starodubtseva) and Sam Pak for the logo animation and launch video. 🤟 Don't forget to check out our new website. #FirstMomentum #BrandRefresh #VisualIdentity #VCNews
First Momentum Ventures
Wagniskapital- und Private-Equity-Auftraggeber
Dedicated Pre-Seed VC for B2B Tech and Deep Tech founders. We are engineers at heart and investors by choice.
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We are engineers at heart and investors by choice. We are a VC fund for Pre-Seed companies mainly looking into B2B, Industrial Tech, and Deep Tech startups. We have made over 40 investments in the last years, of which over 75% raised follow-on rounds with international top VCs. We invest between €200k and €1m as a "First Check" investor and collaborate with Angels and other VCs as Co- & Follow-On Investors.
- Website
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http://firstmomentum.vc
Externer Link zu First Momentum Ventures
- Branche
- Wagniskapital- und Private-Equity-Auftraggeber
- Größe
- 2–10 Beschäftigte
- Hauptsitz
- Remote
- Art
- Privatunternehmen
- Gegründet
- 2018
- Spezialgebiete
- Venture Capital, Pre-Seed Funding, Fundraising, Deep Tech, Machine Learning, B2B, Scientist Founders, Industry Tech und SaaS
Orte
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Primär
Remote, DE
Beschäftigte von First Momentum Ventures
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Rico Chandra
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Ulli Hoffmann
Freelance SAP technical consultant, Founder at Metalance, Founder at INIDFAB, Mentor at First Momentum Ventures
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Joern Menninger 🎙️
CEO at Startuprad.io | Europe's leading B2B podcast in Startups and Technology
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Dr. Alexander Stage
Interim Manager | Venture Partner | Angel Investor | Tech and Data Advisor | PhD Computer Science
Updates
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🔥 Clueless about how to commercialize your research? Join our online workshop on 💸 Commercializing Your Product 💸 with Daniel W. Dippold (Founder & CEO of EWOR) on August 12 (7 pm) 👇 #FirstMomentum #CluelessNoMore #deeptech #b2b #Hardware #Hardwarestartups #ScientistFounders #spinoff #spinout #scientists
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Greetings to our newest Venture Scouts 👋 Our Scouts play a crucial role in supporting First Momentum Ventures by identifying innovative (deep) tech startups and assisting our founders in building successful companies. 🪐 George Galloway contributes to the Sustainable Industrial Revolution as a Consultant at Accenture in Amsterdam. 🪐 Joav Isay is Chief of Staff at Certif-ID International GmbH and is pursuing his studies at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. 🪐 Mathis L., an Economics student with a focus on Finance, has gained valuable experience at EY and the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF). 🪐 William Brandt, currently studying at the Hasso Plattner Institute, also works as a software engineer at SAP. The idea of discovering Europe's emerging startup talents excites you and you're eager to gain hands-on experience in venture capital? 👨💻 Join us as a Venture Scout: 2ly.link/1vk2M #firstmomentum #venturecapital #venturescouts #phd #founders #students #studentjobs #startupjobs #deeptech
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📡 How Advanced is the Tech Stack of a Hardware Startup at Each Funding Stage? 📡 Assessing technological maturity helps investors understand the risk associated with a technology. Lower tech maturity indicates higher risk and longer development timelines, while higher maturity suggests reduced risk and closer proximity to market readiness. So, for our Deep Tech Hardware Napkin, we were keen to understand what tech levels we would find across all fundraising stages. To enhance coherence and simplify data entry, we defined our own tech maturity levels instead of using the Technology Readiness Level framework. 📝 Concept Stage At the Concept Stage, the concept exists only on paper, e.g. a research paper. To our surprise, around a third of all Pre-Seed companies, but only 5 % of Seed and no Series A or B companies are at this stage. Many Pre-Seed startups launch without a lab demo, i.e. without tangible prototypes. 🧪 Lab Demonstrator A small-scale lab-based prototype is the most common maturity stage of Seed (47%) and Series A (38%) companies, but it’s also frequent in Pre-Seed (31%). 🧑✈️ Pilot / POC Similarly, across all fundraising stages, the Industrial Pilot or Proof-of-Concept is widely found (Pre-Seed: 42%, Seed: 44%, Series A: 33%, Series B: 43%). Startups that raise a successful round can demonstrate a product that meets customer demands in a real-world industrial setting, including certain limitations (e.g. systems with limited efficiency or output). Pilots or POCs are a way of de-risking both the commercial and technical sides without generating massive revenues. 🏭 Advanced While at the Seed stage, a few hardware startups already have a full product ready to be deployed at scale and subject to continuous improvement (4%), their number increases continuously through the following rounds (Series A: 29%, Series B: 57%). Dive deeper into the topic and discover how technology levels affect the round size and valuations in our report 👇 https://2ly.link/1ypjn #deeptechnapkin #firstmomentum #deeptech #technology #tlr #technologyreadiness
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Last week, TechCrunch covered the launch of our Deep Tech Hardware Napkin. 🙌 “Benchmarks are particularly helpful to first-time founders or those without a big network in startups and VC. This is especially true in deep tech, where many entrepreneurs come from a research background. ‘They don’t know what’s a wrong decision or a good one, because they don’t have data on it; they are not in entrepreneurial circles, they don’t have 10 to 15 friends who have started companies before,’ general partner David Meiborg told TechCrunch.” Check out the whole article in the comments. 👇 Thanks, Anna Heim and TechCrunch, for the great coverage. #deeptechnapkin #firstmomentum #deeptech #techcrunch
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⚙️ What do founding teams of hardware startups at Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A look like? ⚙️ Examining the data from more than 100 fundraising rounds, we see unsurprisingly an emphasis on the technical expertise within the founding team. Investors are mainly betting on founders who can continuously create new IP. But what about industry expertise or commercial co-founders? Some team stats from our recently published Deep Tech Hardware Napkin: 🎓 Most hardware startups are founded by PhDs with extensive R&D experience (81% at Pre-Seed, 84% at Seed, 76% at Series A) 🎯 Stellar teams usually have a very technical CEO who displays a high level of commercial savviness (62% at Pre-Seed, 56% at Seed, 67% at Series A) 🏭 The minority of startup teams that raised money from VCs have in-depth previous experience in the industry they are operating in (27% at Pre-Seed, 35% at Seed, 29% at Series A) 🔥 Serial founders are rare among hardware founders (8% at Pre-Seed, 11% at Seed, 10% at Series A) Read more in our report: https://2ly.link/1ypjn #firstmomentum #deeptech #deeptechnapkin
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📣 We are opening one of our private community events again to a small number of external persons! For tomorrow's Industry Briefing on ⚡️ Modernising the Grid: Hardware Innovations for the Energy Transition ⚡️, we welcome Chloe Coates from Zero Carbon Capital. 👉 We're giving away 3 seats for this webinar, which will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. Register through the LinkedIn form, and we will let you know by this afternoon if you are in! #DeepTech #EnergyIndustry #Innovation #Webinar #FirstMomentum #Networking #zerocarboncapital
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📣 The Deep Tech Hardware Napkin is out! 🤖 💸 Founders and investors alike wonder what it takes to build a successful hardware company. Until now! Inspired by Point Nine 's famous SaaS Napkin (shoutout to Christoph Janz), the Deep Tech Hardware Napkin provides a clear, data-driven guide to the milestones for each stage, from Pre-Seed to Series B. Read the full report here: bit.ly/3zMnhjm We have collected and analyzed over 100 data points on fundraising rounds from more than 30 VCs across Europe, and the Napkin is its essence. A heartfelt thanks to all the VCs who contributed the data and to Dealroom.co, which provided us with data to cross-check our findings! TechCrunch coverage in the comments 👇 A big 🙏 to Verve Ventures Possible Ventures Extantia Vsquared Ventures Intel Ignite Übermorgen Ventures Speedinvest Nucleus Capital Earlybird Venture Capital Seedcamp Kindred Capital VC Founderful Project A Voima Ventures Supernova Invest IQ Capital World Fund VIGO Ventures Atomico LEA Partners Elaia Matterwave Ventures Seraphim Space Saxovent Creator Fund Freigeist Unruly Capital Runa Capital Positron Ventures XAnge Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company APEX Ventures 7percent Ventures #firstmomentum #deeptech #deeptechnapkin #saasnapkin
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🪐 Join First Momentum Ventures as our new VC Investment Intern! 🪐 Do you have a passion for startups and Venture Capital? First Momentum Ventures, one of Germany's most renowned pre-seed and Deep Tech investors is looking for a new VC Investment Intern to join our team starting in autumn. This opportunity is available either in Munich or remotely for at least 6 months. Any of you interested, or do you know someone? 👉 Apply here: 2ly.link/1wFgV We're looking for people with… 🦸♀️ A strong academic background 🦸♀️ Practical experience in startups 🦸♀️ Exceptional analytical skills 🦸♀️ Fluency in German and English 🦸♀️ Passion for the startup industry You'll… ⭐️ Source exciting startups ⭐️ Conduct screening calls with startup founders ⭐️ Assist our team in due diligence ⭐️ Participate in Investment Committee meetings ⭐️ Support portfolio activities Join us for hands-on experience, remote work with occasional team gatherings, and inclusion in our team retreats and social events. Apply now to shape the future of venture capital in Europe with us! #FirstMomentum #VCInternship #vcjobs #VentureCapital
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A cozy 👋 to our newest Venture Scouts, Thoralf Leisten and J. David Reyes! Thoralf is in his last semester of Industrial Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and has already gained some consulting experience at McKinsey & Company and corporate experience at AUDI AG. Originally from Colombia, David is in the third semester of his Management and Technology Master's at the Technical University of Munich. He gained experience in data roles during his studies at startup Wemolo and is part of TUM.ai, an AI-focused student initiative at TUM. Thoralf and David are great examples of our powerful Venture Scout community. They support First Momentum in sourcing (deep) tech startups and helping founders build successful companies, and give Scouts the opportunity to learn hands-on about venture capital. If uncovering Europe's upcoming startup gems and delving deep into Venture Capital excites you, consider joining us as a Venture Scout. The link to apply is in the comments! 👨💻🚀 #firstmomentum #venturecapital #venturescouts #phd #founders #students #studentjobs #startupjobs #startupcommunity #startup