Amanda-Stella Birkenholz brings a hands-on builder's background to venture investing, having co-founded the IoT startup VISN, led the PropTech company Raumgold, and worked as a Venture Architect Director before joining UVC Partners, where she focuses on hard technical fields like quantum computing, energy, and robotics through companies such as HQS Quantum Simulations, planqc, and STABL Energy. Her engineering training from RWTH Aachen and product development experience at Bombardier Transportation give her credibility with technical founders, and she stays closely involved after investing—leading UVC's decision on Certivity and supporting its expansion, co-authoring a 2026 analysis on European quantum talent, and even writing a children's book to introduce young readers to entrepreneurship and technology.
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UVC Partners
UVC Partners was founded in 2011 within UnternehmerTUM, Europe's largest startup hub, at a time when German venture capital was still recovering from the dotcom crash, and it uses an in-house data team, a startup database with about 700,000 datapoints, and an internal tool called uvcGPT to find and evaluate deals, while making investment decisions by consensus rather than letting individual partners own deals. All of its partners have technical backgrounds, which has helped it connect with technical founders and back deeptech companies like Proxima Fusion before they gained wider investor interest, and it reserves more than 50% of its fund for follow-on investments, using growth funds and SPVs to keep increasing its ownership in successful companies instead of being diluted over time.
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