Investors / Axel Carbon Capital
Axel Carbon Capital
Investor
Axel Carbon Capital is a pan-European climate tech investment holding company backed by a collective of angel investors, industry experts and single family offices. It acts as a strategic co-investor alongside VC partners, writing tickets of up to €150k at pre-seed and seed.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducationSpace & Defense
In its own wordsclimate techdecarbonizationhardwareco2 removalenergy transitionclean mobility
Your fit with Axel Carbon Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsAxel Carbon Capital lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (37%), Education (21%) and Space & Defense (16%). It invests most often alongside Moonstone, Almanac Ventures and Ananda Impact Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Axel Carbon Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Axel Carbon Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 11. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 67% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 27% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Moonstone | 2 |
| Almanac Ventures | 1 |
| Ananda Impact Ventures | 1 |
| Antler | 1 |
| Axon Partners Group | 1 |
| CDP Venture Capital | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Draper B1 | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 37% | 7% |
| Education | 21% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 16% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Climate & Energy | 5% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Axel Carbon Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Axel Carbon Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Axel Carbon Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Axel Carbon Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company builds hybrid electric powertrains for heavy machinery. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Airmo designs, builds, and operates methane monitoring tools for continuous emissions monitoring | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Energiot uses self-powered sensor devices and AI grid analytics to optimize power grid assets | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Limenet produces carbon-free lime, enabling permanent CO₂ removal and ocean storage as a transparent solution of calcium bicarbonate with the same pH as seawater | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Mespac provides satellite-derived metocean data for offshore decisions | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Mykor develops and manufactures bio-based building materials using mycelium and agricultural and industrial residues. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Neology develops ammonia power generator technology for industrial applications | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| SEATOM Technologies develops ruggedized marine reactors | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company designs, builds and supplies solid-state radio frequency generators for industrial process heating | Industrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company develops and manufactures sustainable materials and structures using a biomimetic technology inspired by trees, creating alternatives to steel, concrete, and aluminum. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Tether EV provides a prediction and optimization engine for electric vehicle charging | E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- axel-carbon.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 26 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 11
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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