The second quarter of the year comes to a close, but not before we share some exciting updates with you in our latest newsletter! Jump over to Medium to learn about the latest portfolio and team news, including a new Quantum deal we've been working on (tba) and... 💚 atmio's €5.1m seed round to reduce methane emissions and tackle one of today's biggest climate challenges. Welcome to the squad, Marius Krüger and Matthias Schmittmann! 🦸 €11.3m Series A for our portfolio company Hero led by Valar Ventures LLC. The team is looking for a Head of Product to play a pivotal role in designing and implementing the product strategy, working closely with the executive team and Roland Jais-Nielsen. Let us know if you know someone, who could be great in this role! (Link to the JD in the comments) 🤖 coboworx' €11.4m round to develop the world's leading industrial automation platform. Congrats Olaf Gehrels, Ralf Zeisberger and team! Also, we've put together a second big update of our DeepTech Investors Europe List, introducing growth funds and the “Notable Deals” category. cc Georg Stockinger Pablo K. Find all links in the comments! cc Federico Wengi Christian Buchenau Charlotte Baumhauer
SquareOne Venture Capital
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We invest in early-stage B2B tech founders solving complex problems in vast markets
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SquareOne is a venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in B2B technology. Typically the first institutional investor on the cap table, SquareOne provides a unique first-customers-guarantee to all its portfolio companies, acting as an entrepreneurial sparring partner and hands-on supporter from day one. With its network of leading executives, tech entrepreneurs, and investors, SquareOne builds the foundation for large and profitable category leaders in B2B software and deep tech businesses across Europe and counts companies like Stripe, Pipedrive, Carbon One, and Wandelbots as part of its portfolio. The Berlin-based VC, formerly known as Paua Ventures, was founded in 2010.
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Calling all #Munich founders and our extended network: we still have a few seats left for our event on global success principles for B2B startups in Munich this Wednesday! Join me and Christian Buchenau from SquareOne Venture Capital will talk about company building for B2B SaaS and DeepTech businesses looking to scale globally. As two funds with similar investment philosophies and decades of experience in early-stage investing, we look forward to sharing our key learnings with you and making some new connections. Registration is still open: https://lu.ma/7dqipp25 We’ll enjoy a few drinks afterwards, finishing just in time for the European championship semi-finals! 🙌 A big thanks goes to our friends from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for hosting us in their Munich space. Feel free to share this with your network. See you there! cc: David Peterson Gergo Kalcsics
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🚀 BIG NEWS: Continuum AI is now in public preview! Try out encrypted prompts with the 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 #𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 🔒 GenAI and LLMs like ChatGPT have immense potential to increase productivity and innovation but face data privacy and security hurdles, especially in regulated sectors and organizations with sensitive data. Continuum is the perfect enabler for using these services while ensuring data security. Powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, confidential VMs, advanced sandboxing, and leading AI inference services, Continuum guarantees fully confidential prompts and responses, at all times. Ready to explore? Try it now at https://lnkd.in/ePSk-igy! The preview features the Mistral AI 7B model, with #Llama 3 70B coming soon. Thanks to NVIDIA for bringing #confidentialcomputing to GPUs and working with us Emily Sakata, Laura M., Vidhya Krishnan, Julio C. Tapia! Want more details? Check out the full blog post: https://lnkd.in/emC2jxye
Continuum: The first confidential LLM platform to revolutionize secure, privacy-preserving AI with NVIDIA H100 GPUs
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Saving harmful emissions equivalent to 160 return flights from Germany to the Maldives by fixing just one leakage? 🤯 YES, with atmio! We’re excited to announce our latest investment in Hamburg-based atmio and its unique technological solution to reduce methane emissions and make a big impact on climate change. 🌎💚 Methane is THE overlooked climate polluter next to CO2. atmio is building the operating platform to detect and reduce leaking methane emissions within the energy sector, which accounts for ~20% of global methane emissions. These leakages occur primarily from natural gas escaping along the entire value chain in the oil and gas industry. Being forced to comply with the upcoming EU regulation, oil and gas operators need solutions to detect, repair, and report methane leakages. “Methane emissions are responsible for about 30% of global warming. We believe in atmio’s unique combination of hardware and software to address this urgent problem – and the timing is just right: With the new regulation, natural gas companies are obliged to measure, monitor and report their methane emissions according to the highest standards, and to take action to reduce them. atmio’s solution delivers immediate results for an entire industry”, says Charlotte Baumhauer. Congratulations to Matthias Schmittmann, Marius Krüger, and the entire team at atmio. We are excited to back you on this €5.1m seed round together with Notion Capital and look forward to supporting you on this important mission.
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Big day for our portfolio company Hero which raised €11.3m led by Valar Ventures LLC! A huge shout-out and congrats to Roland Jais-Nielsen and the entire team. We have been fortunate to back HERO as its first large institutional investor alongside Motive Ventures and now renewed our support together with Valar. The next chapter of the company is all about international expansion and evolving the product offering into a holistic platform for working capital optimization. The need for such an offering is high in HERO’s target segment: small and medium-sized merchants across Europe. What has been HERO’s superpower along the way is a unique obsession with customer satisfaction and an extremely high speed of execution and product development. They’re now in the pole position to become the leading financial partner for SMEs in Europe. As one of their early supporters, we look forward to continuing working with this stellar team and entering the next growth phase to serve even more SMEs and merchants, bridging the funding gap and reimagining the financial landscape for SMEs across Europe. There are more exciting announcements to come in the next few weeks, so stay tuned! Read more on https://lnkd.in/dWgbvmq8 James Fitzgerald Harsh Govil SquareOne Venture Capital Nicolas MILLOT Paul Bourdon 🚀 Joey Rogues 🌍 Giff Carter Andrew McCormack
Hero wants to save the day for companies facing a working capital crunch | TechCrunch
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Hinterland of Things 2024, it was a blast! Last week, Christian had the pleasure of hosting a panel on startup-corporate collaborations through VC investment together with Fabian Kracht and Christoph (Kiko) Berner, a topic very close to the SquareOne DNA. Both know from experience that B2B startups and SMEs face enormous challenges when it comes to collaborating, while both are vital for each other to succeed. Thanks for joining us on stage and sharing your learnings with the audience. 🙌 We also visited our portfolio founders, Fabian Gemmecke and Benjamin Reichenecker from PartsCloud, who were on-site with an exhibition booth. Like no other, the Hinterland of Things conference offers startups an opportunity to connect with new customers, as the quality of participants is remarkably high. A big shout-out and congratulations to Founders Foundation gGmbH and, in particular, to Denise Linnenbrügger, Anna-Luisa Korte and Simon Brakhage! 10/10, see you next year. 🚀 #Hinterland24
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Great news from our portfolio: coboworx secures €11.4m to develop the world's leading industrial automation platform! 🤖 With coboworx, SMEs are able to implement robotic automation quickly, without prior robotics expertise, and with limited up-front investment (rent-a-robot!). We’ve been strong believers in coboworx from day one and are looking forward to continuously supporting Olaf Gehrels, Ralf Zeisberger, Jan Quast, Kamil Kunkel, Maksymilian Piatkowski and the entire team on their growth path. It’s not easy to fundraise during these times, so this round speaks for itself. 🦾 A few thoughts on why we invested: The team operates in a vast undigitized market that is desperately looking for an end-to-end solution. SMEs are facing a significant shortage of skilled workers for physically demanding and repetitive tasks in their production processes. Simplicity throughout the entire process - from purchase to deployment, use, and financing - is crucial. By eliminating the barriers that have historically prevented SMEs from adopting advanced automation technologies, coboworx brings robotic automation directly into SME production halls. Robotics-on-demand, as simple as it could be, no strings attached! Handelsblatt has the whole story. https://lnkd.in/dGeAYz6t SquareOne Venture Capital, Andy Bender, Mirko Novakovic, Dr. Marc Staeding, Patrick Hermann, Sven Rossmann, Moritz Werner
Start-ups: Der Mittelstand setzt auf Miet-Roboter
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I’m excited to be on stage at this year’s Hinterland of Things conference in Bielefeld next week, talking about “Startup-Corporate-Collaborations Through VC Investment”. I’ll be joined by two outstanding entrepreneurs who are very close to the SquareOne Venture Capital community: Fabian Kracht has been one of the first investors in our fund and knows the German Mittelstand, having worked with PERI. Christoph (Kiko) Berner started as an intern at SquareOne (Paua Ventures at the time), and he worked with SMEs and in consulting before becoming a founder with Cosuno. It’s not often in this industry that you find such talented, genuine and dedicated people like these two. We’ve been business partners and friends for years, and I’m more than happy that they agreed to do this panel with me. Join us on the Founders Stage on Thursday, June 13, from 2:40 to 3 PM, or reach out if you’d like to meet before.
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It's a wrap – our first DeepTech founders and investors BBQ on Tuesday evening was a great success, with over 80 people maxing out the capacities of our office and terrace. 🙌 A big thanks to our co-hosts First Momentum Ventures and Vsquared Ventures, and to everyone who joined us on this early summer evening in Berlin. We are excited to see how the DeepTech ecosystem is growing and still a bit overwhelmed by the great energy you brought after a long conference day at Deep Tech Momentum. See you next time! cc Pablo Karnbaum Thomas Oehl Dr. Maximilian Ochs
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Our spring update is here! 💥📩 For those of you who haven't signed up (yet), you can find the latest portfolio, industry and team news from the past quarter on Medium. This time, we have exciting updates from SEMRON, C1 Green Chemicals AG, Keelvar, Edgeless Systems, Alokai (previously Vue Storefront) and Deed. We also give a preview of three deals we made in the #AI, #DataIntelligence, and #ClimateTech space! Are you in Berlin for DeepTech Momentum? Together with Vsquared Ventures and First Momentum Ventures, we are hosting a BBQ to bring together and extend our DeepTech network of founders and investors. You can still register for the event; find the link in the newsletter. & more... ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ek2QmKU3 cc Federico Wengi Charlotte Baumhauer Georg Stockinger Pablo Karnbaum Christian Buchenau Maxine von Grumbkow
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