• CCRAFT

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

  CCRAFT commercializes and manufactures TFLN-based photonic chips, operating what it describes as the world’s first independent TFLN foundry in Neuchâtel. The company began commercializing the technology in April 2025, based on more than six years of R&D carried out at CSEM, and has produced photonic chips for more than 40 partners worldwide through prior pilot production. CCRAFT currently serves customers across four continents and aims to scale its production platform to a capacity of up to 2,000 wafers per month by 2030. Financially, the company has just raised $7.8 million in private capital and secured more than $3.5 million in public and cantonal funding, totaling roughly $11.3 million in fresh capital to accelerate industrial-scale manufacturing. CCRAFT positions itself to capture demand from the growing photonic integrated circuits market and to establish a leading global manufacturing position in TFLN photonics.

• Ucaneo

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2024

  Ucaneo develops patented direct air capture (DAC) technologies that leverage renewable energy-driven electrochemistry and novel solvents to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and provide a sustainable CO₂ source for industrial use. The company is headquartered in Berlin and positions its technology as a way to help companies meet regulatory and sustainability targets while closing the carbon cycle. Supported by a Techno-Economic Analysis and an independent feasibility study, Ucaneo’s DAC approach has the potential to reach costs below €300 per ton of CO₂ in the near term. Ucaneo operates an industrial pilot—described as one of Germany’s largest DAC projects—to generate operational data under real-world conditions. The company plans to use new funding to progress to Germany’s largest DAC demonstration plant, targeted for commissioning in the first half of 2026. Ucaneo previously completed a €6.75 million Seed round in September 2024. Ucaneo develops electrochemical direct air capture technology that mimics the human lung, using electricity and a specialised biomimetic solvent to continuously remove and concentrate atmospheric CO2 at room temperature. The process yields a pure CO2 gas ready for industrial use, and the technology is energy-efficient and compatible with intermittent renewables such as solar and wind, enabling energy price arbitrage and on-demand removal. Supported by an extensive techno-economic assessment and an external third-party feasibility study, Ucaneo projects costs just below €300/tCO2 in the near term and targets below €100/tCO2 long term. The company intends to use its €6.75m seed funding (including grants) to build one of Germany’s largest DAC testing and development facilities and to develop its first industrial-sized product. By 2026 Ucaneo aims to have that industrial product in place to prove performance and scalability and is participating in a Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund project after being selected as one of 13 suppliers from over 220 CDR suppliers. Ucaneo is led by co-founders Florian Tiller (CEO) and Carla Glassl (CTO) and has relocated to the high-tech Campus in Marzahn within the MotionLab.Berlin hardtech ecosystem.

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