Investors / Cycle
Cycle
Venture capital
Cycle is an investment firm whose team has backgrounds in technology, cleantech and international business development, and whose members have previously managed venture capital and renewable energy infrastructure funds. It identifies and supports entrepreneurs building technology companies with global growth potential, providing growth capital, operating expertise and access to a network of strategic customers.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingEducation
In its own wordscleantechclimateenergyhydrogensemiconductorssmart grid
Your fit with Cycle
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Or find every investor that fitsCycle lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (39%), Education (31%) and AI & Machine Learning (8%). 33% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside IQT, ADB Ventures and AlbionVC.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cycle, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundCycle does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 71th | 39% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| IQT | 2 |
| ADB Ventures | 1 |
| AlbionVC | 1 |
| Antares Capital | 1 |
| Elemental Impact | 1 |
| FORWARD.one | 1 |
| Future Energy Ventures | 1 |
| Global Brain | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- 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
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 39% | 7% |
| Education | 31% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 8% | 18% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 8% | 1% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 8% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 8% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Cycle head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue World Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of methanol fuel cells | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| EdgeCortix designs and develops energy-efficient AI processors and acceleration systems | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Element 3-5 develops and manufactures semiconductors using a novel epitaxy process | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| The company provides hydrogen technology solutions, including green hydrogen electrolyzers and fuel cell systems. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| IONATE develops and manufactures hybrid intelligent transformers for power systems, including data centers and grids. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Nuventura manufactures SF₆-free gas-insulated switchgear for medium-voltage applications | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Paragon Mobility provides mobile energy and charging solutions, including customizable container pods with battery storage and solar panels for electric vehicle charging and energy management. | Mobility & LogisticsSpace & Defense | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- cycle-group.com
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Jun 2026
- Companies checked
- 8
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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