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World Fund
Venture capital · Berlin, Germany · Europe
World Fund is a deep tech venture capital fund that backs founders building technologies in energy, industry, and food and agriculture. It describes itself as a leading European climate tech VC fund.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingFood & Agriculture
In its own wordsclimate techdeep techdecarbonisationenergyindustryfood and agriculture
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Or find every investor that fitsWorld Fund lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 7 funding rounds, 4 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 57% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Industrial & Manufacturing (17%) and Food & Agriculture (17%). 47% of its companies are based in Germany. It invests most often alongside Vsquared Ventures, iAccelerate and Bayern Kapital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name World Fund, 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 World Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 7 companies; its own site lists 21. 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 roundWorld Fund does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 43% |
| Series A | 57% |
| 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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 4 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 89th | 6 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 98th | 33% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 13th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 17% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 17% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 14% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 14% | 3% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 3% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Vsquared Ventures | 4 |
| iAccelerate | 3 |
| Bayern Kapital | 2 |
| Deeptech Labs | 2 |
| Revent | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| Zero Carbon Capital | 2 |
| 10x Founders | 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 Vsquared Ventures
Compare World Fund 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 World Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Series A | |
| 5 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 4 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 May 2025 | Series A |
Round details for World Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in World Fund'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aedifion supports real estate asset managers in operating commercial buildings in their property portfolio more efficiently | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Anaphite Limited develops and applies dry coating technology for battery manufacturing. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Barocal develops and produces solid refrigerants for cooling and heating systems | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company transforms end-of-life batteries into critical raw materials, strengthening resilient European value chains. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Ecoworks provides serial and sustainable building modernization services, including energetic renovations and construction of new building elements, such as facades and roofs. | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| ENOUGH produces mycoprotein through a zero-waste fermentation process to provide a sustainable protein source | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Faircado aggregates millions of second-hand offers from various marketplaces in one app | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company brews proteins using fermentation. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Freshflow develops and provides AI-based replenishment systems for fresh food departments in retail stores | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Hyperscale Power enables high-density conversion at medium voltage, allowing power to scale while infrastructure remains compact and modular | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| The company produces and sells plant-based meat products. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company uses AI to find new critical metal deposits by applying it to geology reasoning | AI & Machine LearningMobility & Logistics | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| IQM builds full-stack superconducting quantum computers for HPCs, researchers, and enterprises. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops technology to efficiently recover CO₂ from the atmosphere | Climate & EnergySpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Nitricity makes plant-based, organic fertilizer using air, water, clean energy, and almond shells. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| NetZeroNitrogen is developing a highly disruptive alternative product for the synthetic fertilizer market | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Planet A Foods supplies food ingredient alternatives for climate-threatened and highly regulated raw materials using a fermentation platform. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| QuantumDiamonds localizes semiconductor defects including depth with high accuracy, non-destructively | Industrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Recup provides a reusable system for food and drinks to go for the gastronomy industry | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Space Forge manufactures advanced materials, including semiconductors, using in-space growth and microgravity environments. | Space & DefenseIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2025Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- worldfund.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 May 2025
- Companies checked
- 21
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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