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NRW.Venture
Corporate VC · Germany · Europe
NRW.Venture is a venture capital offering of NRW.BANK, the promotional bank for North Rhine-Westphalia. Its team supports startups in developing and marketing innovative technologies and business models and in rapidly scaling their business.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsinnovationtechnologystartupsnorth rhine-westphaliadigitalization
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Or find every investor that fitsNRW.Venture lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 23 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 52% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (29%), AI & Machine Learning (19%) and Space & Defense (10%). 95% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside High-Tech Gründerfonds, Ventech and capacura.
Counts come from funding rounds that name NRW.Venture, 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 roundNRW.Venture does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 5% |
| Seed | 52% |
| Series A | 29% |
| Series B | 5% |
| Growth | 10% |
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 | 7 | 1 |
| '26 | 16 | 3 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 16 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 74th | 57% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 49th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 29% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 10% | 3% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Consumer | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| High-Tech Gründerfonds | 4 |
| Ventech | 2 |
| capacura | 2 |
| neoteq ventures | 2 |
| AFI Ventures | 1 |
| Acton Capital | 1 |
| Angelini Ventures | 1 |
| Ankaa Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers21100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with High-Tech Gründerfonds
Compare NRW.Venture 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 NRW.Venture| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Nov 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 17 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 3 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 17 Aug 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 30 Jun 2026 | Seed |
Round details for NRW.Venture
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in NRW.Venture's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company develops and provides electro-physical weed control and crop desiccation technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a business AI platform that connects and understands a company's knowledge and systems | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Aug 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Cellbox Solutions provides transportable CO₂ incubators and logistics services for the transportation of living cells and biological materials | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Series A · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Co-reactive turns CO2 into value by pioneering a breakthrough carbon mineralization technology that transforms CO2 into high-performance Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM) | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Detechgene makes diagnostics accessible to everyone with its molecular diagnostics technology | Healthcare & Biotech | Aug 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company builds quantum computers designed to scale using its proprietary MAGIC technology | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| ENTRYZERO provides cybersecurity services, including vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, to help companies identify and prioritize security risks. | Cybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company helps businesses implement and measure environmental actions and communicate them transparently. | Space & DefenseConsumer | Aug 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Femi-ON develops effective solutions to alleviate menstrual pain through low-frequency vibration. | Healthcare & Biotech | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| iDEL Therapeutics is advancing a new class of cancer medicines by delivering therapeutic payloads directly into the cytosol of tumor cells through a unique, pan-cancer uptake mechanism. | Healthcare & Biotech | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| JUPUS provides a KI-secretariat for law firms, supporting them from client acquisition to research and document creation | Legal & ComplianceAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Maesn provides a unified API for integrating with various ERP and accounting systems | FintechSpace & Defense | Nov 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Nuclidium develops next-generation copper-based radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| The company provides an AI platform for automating complex processes and offers solutions for customer service, field service, and technical support. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Nov 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides personalized nutrition recommendations for employees in workplace cafeterias through its app. | Healthcare & BiotechFood & Agriculture | Apr 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Phagestack is a full-service resource company supporting development of phage-based solutions for medical, agricultural, industrial, and environmental use. | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Skylance develops a cost-effective kinetic interceptor for the last layer of air defence | Developer ToolsAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| SRTD Biotech develops cell-selective mRNA therapeutics | Healthcare & Biotech | Nov 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Syte provides software that analyzes and plans real estate properties, including their potential for development, energy efficiency, and economic viability. | Real Estate & ConstructionFintech | Sept 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company invests in early-stage technology companies | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Round | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- nrwbank.de
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 21
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