Radix Ventures focuses on the “second death valley” in Central and Eastern European deeptech—startups that have moved past grants and angel funding but aren’t yet ready for Western European Series A investors—backing companies at Technology Readiness Levels 7–9 with help on patents, pilot projects, and follow-on funding (half the fund is set aside for this). The firm also looks for technologies tested in tough environments like Ukraine, believing that defense, energy efficiency, and infrastructure resilience go hand in hand, which shows up in its portfolio of applied science companies working on things like self-healing tire materials, hydrogen coatings, and AI for human-robot teamwork in crisis settings.