Daniel Kirchleitner is a venture capital investor at Innovation Industries who combines a PhD in engineering and direct founder experience (having built both a solar power business and AdTech company trbo) with his role as co-founder and former Managing Director of Siemens' corporate VC arm Next47. His background positions him as a bridge between large industrial organizations and venture-backed startups, particularly for deep-tech companies in logistics, robotics, and enterprise software that need to sell into or partner with corporate engineering cultures.
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Deeptech / Hardware, Chips, Food & Ag, Energy, Medtech
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Pre-Seed - Series B+
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€1.5M - €2M
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Innovation Industries is a European deep-tech venture capital fund with ~€900m AUM that focuses on three specific verticals—Industrial Tech, MedTech, and Food & AgriTech—and employs an unusually science-heavy team with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, and engineering rather than typical business backgrounds. The fund can provide up to €50m per company and has led some of Europe's largest deep-tech financings, including Axelera AI's >$250m round, while serving as a cornerstone of the Dutch and Benelux high-tech ecosystem with backing from national actors like Invest-NL.
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