Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s leading stellarator company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, developing commercial fusion power plants using the QI-HTS stellarator concept. The company is building Alpha, a net-energy stellarator demonstrator targeted for the early 2030s, and plans a follow-on commercial plant called Stellaris later in the decade. Proxima leads the Alpha project in partnership with the state of Bavaria, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and industrial partners including RWE, supported by an Alpha Alliance of more than 50 companies. Headquartered in Munich with offices in Zurich and Oxford, Proxima employs around 200 people across engineering, science and operations. Financially, Proxima has secured more than €650 million in funding to date, including about €95 million in public grants, and plans to expand engineering, manufacturing and magnet production capabilities as it advances toward demonstrator completion.

Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

Epoch Biodesign develops enzymatic processes that depolymerize pre- and post-consumer plastic and textile waste into monomers, recovering more than 90% of desired monomers through a cascade of enzyme treatments. The company sources industrial enzymes rather than using live microbes and captures dyes as a separate byproduct to be treated independently. Its current commercial focus is nylon 6,6, a high-strength synthetic fiber used in apparel, airbags, carpets and other applications, with plans to adapt the platform to other plastics over time. Epoch is building a demonstration-scale facility near Imperial College London and plans a commercial-scale plant expected online in 2028 with capacity targeted at 20,000 metric tons per year of monomer. The company was founded and is led by CEO Jacob Nathan and has secured strategic investor support including Lululemon through its recent $12 million funding round.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Rhoda AI is building FutureVision, a foundation model for robotic intelligence based on the company’s proprietary Direct Video Action (DVA) architecture. The system is pre-trained on hundreds of millions of internet videos to learn motion, physics, and physical interaction, then post-trained on smaller robot datasets to map predictions to actions in closed-loop control cycles lasting only a few hundred milliseconds. This allows robots to handle shifting factory layouts, unseen objects, and unpredictable workflows that defeat conventional automation. In a high-volume manufacturing evaluation, Rhoda robots completed a component-processing workflow in under two minutes per cycle without human intervention, surpassing customer KPIs. Over time, the firm intends to license FutureVision to third-party hardware and software providers while continuing direct industrial deployments. Emerging from 18 months in stealth, Rhoda is led by CEO and co-founder Jagdeep Singh alongside a team drawn from Stanford, generative AI, computer vision, and robotics labs. With its recent capital infusion, the company plans to intensify R&D, broaden customer pilots, and scale commercial rollout.

Participated · Series D · Feb 2026

Lunar Energy builds an ecosystem of all-electric residential products, anchored by its proprietary home battery hardware and Gridshare optimization software that turns households into nodes of a virtual power plant. The company’s AI platform manages distributed energy resources, allowing utilities and homeowners to shift and store power intelligently. To date, Lunar Energy has deployed thousands of battery systems in California and remotely manages approximately 650 MW of devices worldwide. Its technology underpins several Sunrun-led power plant projects in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and New England. Fresh capital from its latest rounds brings total new funding to $232 million, positioning the firm to accelerate U.S. hardware rollouts and expand its software footprint. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is led by founder and CEO Kunal Girotra and continues to target affordable, green, and reliable home electrification.

Participated · Series C · Jan 2026

Founded in Munich in 2020, RobCo develops a vertically integrated hardware-plus-software platform that brings "Physical AI" into factory environments. Its robots combine perception, motion planning and self-learning so they can acquire new skills from demonstrations instead of manual programming, accelerating deployment for applications such as machine tending, palletizing, dispensing and welding. The system is offered on a recurring robotics-as-a-service basis, reducing upfront costs and operational risk for customers ranging from BMW to DynaEnergetics and T-Systems. RobCo has expanded beyond Europe and now operates from offices in Munich, San Francisco and Austin as it targets U.S. manufacturers facing labor shortages and reshoring pressures. The company’s roadmap focuses on deepening autonomy, compounding learning across deployments and extending to additional industrial use cases. Robust industrial and technology investors back the firm, positioning it to scale deployments and enhance its Physical AI stack with the new capital. No revenue or user figures were disclosed in the articles.