Participated · Seed · May 2025

akeno provides an AI-driven production planning platform that ingests real-time machine status, material availability, and capacity utilisation to generate adaptive, self-learning production plans. The software continuously updates plans to improve reliability, reduce inventories, and increase energy efficiency, and it anticipates disruptions such as machine delays or new production windows. akeno targets complex, capacity-constrained sectors including chemical and pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and metalworking. Customers named in the article include BASF Coatings, the Beckers Group, and SunChemical. The company has announced a €4.5 million Seed financing and plans to use the capital to triple its team and enter new industries. Having already entered the Chinese market, akeno intends to expand into North America and other Asian countries.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2025

peopleIX integrates data from HRIS, ATS, performance, engagement, payroll and business systems into a single platform that delivers real-time, predictive workforce insights without requiring data‑science expertise. Its product creates a unified workforce intelligence layer that connects disparate HR and business systems and empowers people teams and business leaders with real-time analytics. Key benefits highlighted include predictive workforce insights and enabling HR to act as strategic business enablers. The company raised €2.3M in a Pre‑Seed round to accelerate product development. With the new investment, peopleIX plans to expand product capabilities and strengthen its market presence across Europe. Co‑founders Nick Stodt and Dr Georg Schaal said the platform equips CHROs and business leaders to unlock workforce potential and drive impact.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2023

Impossible Cloud Network (ICN) is a permissionless, open Web3 cloud platform that aims to provide data-sovereign storage and compute as an alternative to hyperscalers. The platform powers over 1,000 enterprise customers and has delivered more than 80 PB of live storage across enterprise nodes in Europe and the United States, with a further 250 PB planned across three continents. ICN reports €5.9 million of ARR, a 2,000% year-over-year surge, and claims its decentralized architecture can be up to 80% more cost-effective than traditional hyperscalers. Its roadmap spans over 200 planned decentralized cloud services, expanding beyond storage into compute, AI inference, and edge networking. ICN has launched a native token, $ICNT, which is set to debut on multiple centralized exchanges including Binance, Bybit, Kraken, Bitget, Gate, KuCoin, Bitvavo, MEXC, and Bitpanda. Founded in 2024, the company’s founding team includes leaders with two prior nine-figure exits and holds over 20 patents in distributed-system design. Impossible Cloud offers a decentralized, multi-service cloud platform that provides enterprise-grade storage with an almost unlimited capacity, designed for 100% durability and 99.95% availability. The platform combines web3 infrastructure benefits with a fiat-based payment model tailored for B2B customers, removing the need to transact in tokens. It presents access to a global network of enterprise-grade storage hubs and emphasizes security and compliance, citing ISO27000 and SOC 2 Type II standards. The company plans to incorporate in the United States, build an elastic network of storage hubs, and expand platform capabilities. Impossible Cloud has already attracted interest from leading SaaS providers and potential customers as it prepares market entry for its cloud storage solution. Funding to date exceeds €10 million (approximately $10.9 million), including founders' capital.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2023

CarbonCloud, founded in 2019 and based in Gothenburg, Sweden, offers a climate intelligence and digital twins platform for packaged food and drink producers. Its product enables customers to establish climate footprints across supply chains and perform automated lifecycle testing. The platform is designed to improve visibility into cross-border supply chains, a key challenge for producers responding to sustainability demand. CarbonCloud cites figures showing 87% of European consumers would accept higher prices for more sustainable food and drink products. Its client roster includes Oatly and Dole Sunshine Company. The company is positioning to roll out its digital food-graph solution more broadly with support from new investment. CarbonCloud provides a platform that enables companies in the food industry to calculate and communicate the climate footprints of their products at scale. The platform is used in-house by brands including Oatly, Naturli Foods, Sproud and Nude, and its model has been used by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency as well as institutions such as Princeton University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Founded in 2016 as a spinout from food and climate research at Chalmers University of Technology, the company is based in Gothenburg. The startup plans to use new funding to expand, onboard new customers, and hire across sales, marketing and product development. Recent financing provides the company with fresh capital to support growth and product work.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2023

Anari AI develops a software stack that delivers cloud-based virtual chips and software-defined accelerators to optimize AI/ML workloads, including FPGA customization for domain-specific performance. The technology aims to reduce compute requirements and associated carbon emissions by enabling efficient use of CPUs, GPUs, standardized accelerators and ad-hoc customized hardware. The team highlights use cases such as processing massive 3D point clouds for digital twins and infrastructure planning and plans to focus on a few initial verticals for early commercial traction. Anari AI intends to use its latest funding to further develop the product and continue exploring suitable verticals. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Serbia. The founding team includes CEO Jovan Stojanovic, who has extensive AI/ML project experience, and the startup is supported by a group of advisors and business angels. Anari AI offers a cloud platform that lets companies design personalized AI chips with one click, shrinking hardware development from 12–18 months to weeks. The platform is built on a Python-based programming framework developed by Anari that opens hardware design to software engineers. Its first configurable cloud chip, Thor X, delivers 100x more efficient processing of 3D point cloud and graph data structures compared to a high-end GPU. The company says it will use the new funding to continue developing the platform and bring it to market. Anari's team includes Ph.D. researchers, machine learning experts, and senior software engineers led by co-founders Jovan Stojanovic (CEO), Stefan Sredojevic (COO), and Bogdan Vukobratovic (Head of R&D). The company is based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and maintains an office in San Francisco; advisors and board additions include industry veterans such as Roland Manger and Sasha Ostojic.