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Vanagon Ventures
Venture capital · Germany · Europe
Vanagon Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in European deep tech and AI-native startups, typically leading pre-seed and seed rounds of up to €500k. It also supports founders with fundraising from pre-seed to Series A, round structuring, and ongoing operational help.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsdeep techaiadvanced manufacturingfuture materialsgeospatial intelligencequantum computing
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Or find every investor that fitsVanagon Ventures lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 63% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (39%), Industrial & Manufacturing (21%) and Healthcare & Biotech (11%). 83% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside EWOR, Bayern Kapital and Nucleus Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Vanagon Ventures, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 63% |
| Seed | 25% |
| Series A | 13% |
| 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 | 8 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 93th | 8 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 85th | 88% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 38% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 72th | 39% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 39% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 21% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 4% | 1% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1594%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| EWOR | 3 |
| Bayern Kapital | 2 |
| Nucleus Capital | 2 |
| ZOHO.VC | 2 |
| 10x Value Partners | 1 |
| AQAL Capital | 1 |
| Altitude Investment Management | 1 |
| Angel Invest | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Vanagon Ventures 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 Vanagon Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 30 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Pre-Seed Led |
Round details for Vanagon Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Vanagon Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides automated quality control through deep learning and a robust algorithm for visual inspection | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Caery provides an intelligent decision-making layer for secure, auditable, and integrated performance processes in statutory and private health and care insurance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Deeplify connects inspection findings, asset history, maintenance, engineering, and operational data into one intelligence layer | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company builds backend software that lets manufacturers unlock what their robots are truly capable of | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Ewigbyte develops a technology for permanent data storage using glass and laser pulses. | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Feb 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Finches connects droughts, disease, labor shortages and trade conflicts to raw materials, origins and suppliers, and tells companies what to do next. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Bench automates engineering workflows with AI across existing toolstacks, allowing teams to ship faster. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Holy Technologies manufactures composite components using its proprietary robotic technology | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Neuramancer develops a solution for detecting deepfakes and image manipulation using AI and forensic analysis. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Quint Computing builds fault-tolerant quantum computers with efficiency and speed to unlock industrial impact. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| RhymeQ lets software developers build quantum applications in Python | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Sybilion connects external world dynamics to the decisions that shape a company's margin, working alongside the systems the company already runs. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Tentris stores and queries RDF knowledge graphs at scale | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| The company provides nature data infrastructure for governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and land stewards | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Tumbleweed provides a service to send payloads to Low-Earth Orbit for microgravity research and manufacturing | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- vanagon.vc
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
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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