Investors / Germany / Foundamental
Foundamental
Venture capital · Berlin, Germany · Europe
Foundamental is a venture investor focused on the project-based sectors that build the world, including construction, building materials, infrastructure, renovation, design software and heavy industry supply chains. It invests as an early partner, leading first institutional rounds with cheques from $500k to $5 million, and operates teams across North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Invests inReal Estate & Construction
In its own wordsconstruction techaecinfrastructurebuilding materialsheavy industry3d design
Your fit with Foundamental
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Or find every investor that fitsFoundamental lists 52 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 Real Estate & Construction (36%), Industrial & Manufacturing (14%) and AI & Machine Learning (14%). It invests most often alongside Accel, Antler and Soma Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Foundamental, 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 Foundamental's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 52. 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 85th | 52 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 80th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 66th | 6% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 66th | 36% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 98th | 14 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Real Estate & Construction | 36% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 14% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Accel | 4 |
| Antler | 3 |
| Soma Capital | 3 |
| Stride Ventures | 3 |
| Suffolk Technologies | 3 |
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Era Ventures | 2 |
| Force Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5198%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company12%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Foundamental 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 Foundamental| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 4 Jan 2023 | Seed |
Round details for Foundamental
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Foundamental's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
52 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company designs and builds buildings with an industrialized system and a digital platform that connects factory, design, and construction. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds wireless monitoring systems for various industries such as construction, mining, and rail. | Industrial & ManufacturingReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Aeria provides an AI powered facilities management and tenant experience platform for real estate | Real Estate & ConstructionAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Brick&Bolt constructs homes and commercial spaces in India. | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| CalcTree develops and provides engineering calculation management software | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonBuilt produces ultra-low-carbon concrete masonry products | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Conversant builds AI applications for industrial products to turn fragmented product data into structured intelligence | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Cutr provides end-to-end high-quality interior production solutions | Real Estate & ConstructionIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Dekoruma sells furniture and home accessories | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Desteia is an AI-native supply chain operating system that helps organizations automate their international trade operations | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Earlytrade provides a platform for early payment negotiation in the construction industry | FintechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company installs and compares heat pumps and photovoltaic systems for homes. | EducationConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Faktus provides a platform for financing and financial services for the construction industry. | FintechConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Forge installs heat pumps for homeowners in Massachusetts. | EducationReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Graneet provides ERP software for construction companies to manage their operations and protect their profitability | Enterprise SoftwareReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Handoff provides AI estimating and assistant services for residential builders, remodelers, and trade contractors | Real Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| HoloBuilder provides a digital reality platform to manage and analyze reality capture data | AI & Machine LearningReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| IndiFrame manufactures uPVC windows and doors | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Infra.Market supplies building and construction materials to contractors, developers, and retailers in the real estate, construction, and infrastructure sectors. | Real Estate & ConstructionIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- foundamental.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Jan 2023
- Companies checked
- 52
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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