Investors in Technology

Porsche Ventures is a venture capital arm of Porsche that invests in companies from early-stage through growth. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Porsche Ventures engages with top entrepreneurs across the globe through our offices in Europe, Silicon Valley, Israel and China. We partner and invest in companies from early stage through growth, helping our founders accelerate by identifying and executing on relevant opportunities.

Hitachi Ventures is the global venture capital arm of Hitachi Group, a global industrial player active in a broad range of technology sectors. Hitachi Ventures invests in innovative companies that address society’s key technological, social and environmental challenges in areas like IT, industrial automation (robotics, sensor technology and IoT). Hitachi intends to leverage its strong position in multiple global technology markets, its expertise and network to support and promote Hitachi Ventures portfolio companies.

YaraGerminate is a corporate VC-fund to support innovation in start-ups and early ventures. YaraGerminate are interested in young and innovative companies that share Yara's vision and aspirations. Most common sectors for investment is agritech, biotech and circular economy where investments are from 500 000$ to 7,5M$ pr start-up.

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The corporate venture capital arm TRUMPF Venture extends TRUMPF’s comprehensive activities to promote innovation and to detect disruptive technologies and business models early on. TRUMPF is the world technological and market leader for machine tools used in flexible sheet metal processing as well as industrial lasers. TRUMPF Venture invests globally in early-stage start-ups active in areas complementary or adjacent to the TRUMPF core, such as Advances Photonics and Smart Factory. Funded start-ups benefit from an extensive network, deep domain knowhow, proven skills in scalability as well as support to access the TRUMPF group and its ecosystem.

Germany-based global venture fund with entrepreneurship at heart. We are eager to invest in bright startups and publishers who are already working with Affiliate Networks or willing to work on the CPA model.

Leaps by Bayer invests in paradigm-shifting advances in the life sciences and specializes in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, and scientific breakthrough. The firm's approach is making significant and sustained investments in disruptive biotechnologies that could have the greatest impact on humanity. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Wayra UK provides access to networks and capital, turning start-ups into scale-ups. Wayra scales start-ups by giving them access to investments and to business development opportunities with some of the world’s largest companies. We also have a network of more than 140 partners and customers, and two innovation platforms (Alaian and Open Future) open to third parties.

The Roche Venture Fund is the name given to the corporate venture fund of the healthcare company Roche. Roche has allocated CHF 500 million to invest in and develop commercially successful innovative life science companies. Roche has been investing in early-stage companies as part of collaborations since the early-1990s and independent of collaborations since 2002. All equity investments made by Roche in biotech and diagnostics companies (including collaboration investments) are negotiated and managed by the Roche Venture Fund.

Telecommunications, Digital Technology, Big Data, Machine-to-machine

Leorsa Innovations invests in companies with big ideas that aspire to be the best in the world. Excited by technological breakthroughs and cutting-edge ideas, Leorsa invests in a variety of companies from the initial seed round through to series A. Leorsa provides these companies with unparalleled support from world class scientists and researchers to drive both growth and revenue.

Principal Engineering is an IT firm that provides solutions, software development, IT services, consultancy, and outsourcing services.Principal engineering s.r.o. offers top IT services and business solutions in Europe and North America, partnering with clients to drive innovation and growth through software development, IT consulting, and project management.