Participated · Series B · Jun 2024

LiveEO develops satellite-based monitoring systems and analytics to track risks along linear infrastructure corridors, including pipelines, railways, and power lines. Its Twinspector project is a dual-satellite constellation designed to capture high-resolution and three-dimensional imagery tailored to long, narrow infrastructure routes. The company intends Twinspector data to integrate with its existing analytics platforms to help operators detect threats like unauthorized construction, excavation, and vegetation encroachment earlier. LiveEO is developing the system with European partners and positions the project as part of expanding commercial Earth observation capabilities for infrastructure monitoring. The company’s current disclosed financing activity includes ESA program funding through the InCubed program to support Twinspector’s development.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2022

ecoworks develops AI-powered planning tools, digital twins and industrial prefabrication methods to enable serial, cost-efficient energy renovations of residential buildings. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berlin, employing over 130 engineers, architects and digital experts. Its approach packages prefabricated facade modules, roof insulation and PV systems, upgraded windows and services to accelerate retrofit timelines and reduce tenant disruption. ecoworks is currently executing a flagship project in Hagen to upgrade twelve buildings (approximately 15,000 sqm and 192 apartments) to KfW Efficiency House 55, targeting a 36% reduction in final energy demand and about 190 tonnes of CO₂ savings per year. The company previously raised €40 million in 2023 for its AI digital planning solution and now announced a €23 million raise to scale serial renovation at neighbourhood scale. ecoworks states its mission to save one gigaton of CO₂ by 2045 through industrialised renovation techniques.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2019

Mindpeak builds AI-driven digital pathology algorithms that support pathologists in routine diagnostics by automating tissue analysis for faster, more accurate results. The company’s solutions have been deployed for routine clinical diagnostics in both the US and EU and have supported over 30,000 patient diagnoses to date. Mindpeak serves clinical labs and biopharma companies, including strategic partnerships with organizations such as Roche. The firm recently expanded its product portfolio to cover additional organs, biomarkers, and stainings. Positive regulatory developments and growing market adoption have bolstered its position in digital pathology. Mindpeak reports a cash-flow positive core business and plans to accelerate development and commercialisation of its technologies across several geographies. MindPeak develops artificial intelligence software to assist histopathologists in clinical routine cancer diagnostics, focusing on automated detection and quantification of tumor and malignant cells in human tissue. Its first product is a breast-cancer quantification tool designed to identify and quantify tumorous regions and detect breast cancer cells, and the company plans to expand its product portfolio to additional cancer types. MindPeak says its solution improves pathologists' throughput and accuracy by enabling detection and classification of up to ten times more cells in a fraction of the time and can reduce diagnostic costs by up to 90% while improving accuracy. The software is built to work out of the box and be robust against laboratory variations; the company has partnered with research institutes such as Charité Hospital Berlin and clinical labs in Hamburg and Cambridge. Founded in 2018, MindPeak's team includes data scientists from Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Princeton and TU Munich, and co-founders Felix Faber and Dr. Tobias Lang bring entrepreneurship and deep-learning experience. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2019

Inflight VR develops a fully immersive VR entertainment solution tailored for transportation companies, delivered via individual stand-alone headsets. The company’s multinational team has deployed the product on buses, airlines and lounges across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Founded in 2014 and based in Munich and Barcelona, Inflight VR emphasizes seamless technical, commercial, logistic, usability and rights-management integration for customers. In its first year of operations the company secured eight customers and recorded over 95% positive passenger sentiment. The product supports ancillary revenue opportunities and the company plans to use fresh capital to expand rollouts across multiple travel industries and use cases. Management also intends to generate data on content performance, user behavior and business models to inform future deployments and monetization.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2018

Opinary provides interactive opinion-polling widgets and visualizations that integrate into publisher articles, using an algorithm and semantic targeting to place topics across large publisher networks. The platform claims more than 70 million monthly users who share their opinions within online content. Opinary works with major publishers such as NBC, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, HuffPost, Spiegel Online and BILD, and with global brands including P&G, Toyota and Mastercard. Founded in 2016 by Pia and Cornelius Frey and Max Meran, the company operates from New York and Berlin. The startup plans to use new funding to strengthen its presence in the United States by deepening relationships with publishers, brands and agencies and to continue developing its tools and technology. Opinary provides visual polling tools that let publishers enrich content and make articles interactive. Its tools are designed to engage and retain users and to help publishers monetize traffic, with the company promising 5-7x higher click-through rates. Customers listed on the company website include Spiegel.de, WELT Online, 1&1, Web.de, ozy.com, NewsCase and Cornelsen. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Cornelius Frey and is based in Berlin, Germany. In April 2016 the company raised €1m in funding from external investors.