Mätch VC is a team of 91 family businesses and entrepreneurs. We joined forces to back the next generation of innovators from all over Europe 🇪🇺

NEWS
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn
Mätch VC announces Investment #13: LILY from Mannheim / Pre-Seed / Cloud Infrastructure
Icon of LinkedIn

TEAM

Real Commitment. Real Expertise. Real Partners.

We are highly selective - not just in the teams we back, but also in who we welcome as LPs. The investors behind Mätch VC are far from the usual suspects: we collaborate only with those who share our mission and bring real value to building the next generation of tech leaders - mainly family business entrepreneurs from the "Mittelstand" (e.g. Trumpf, Mapal Dr. Kress, Festool, Bauder
Dachsysteme, Wenglor), founders (e.g. sevDesk, Diconium, Vialytics), and industry veterans (e.g., C-Level executives from Würth, VW, Haniel, Liebherr).
This is some text inside of a div block.
This is some text
This is some text
This is some text inside of a div block.
This is some text
This is some text
This is some text inside of a div block.
This is some text
This is some text
This is some text inside of a div block.
This is some text
This is some text
"The unique combination of family businesses, experienced business angels and a strong local network, paired with a management team that has a strong track record in founding and scaling start-ups, convinced us about Mätch VC."
Moritz Ritter
Managing Director, R2 Holding GmbH (Ritter Sport)
Born in the Black Forest we have been proving for decades that world-class technology can emerge from this region. Through Mätch VC, we continue this legacy - investing in the technology standards of tomorrow often tackling society’s biggest challenges.
Isabel Grieshaber
CEO, VEGA Grieshaber KG
"We have supported NXTGN for many years. With Mätch VC, I am thrilled that we can now take this support further - offering top startups direct access to the leadership of innovation-driven family businesses, along with the capital they need to grow."
Curt Michael Stoll
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Festo SE & Co. KG
"Mätch VC couldn’t have arrived at a better moment for the region. The next generation of unicorns is emerging, particularly in industrial deep tech - and often in surprising locations that are not yet recognized as dynamic startup ecosystems. That’s about to shift!"
Benedikt Ilg
Co-Founder and CEO, Flip
"Founders need support and building strong connections between startups and the Mittelstand is essential - not just here in Baden-Württemberg, but across all of Europe. That’s why we’re thrilled that Mätch VC is bringing venture capital to this ecosystem, fueling collaboration and growth on a broader scale."
Maximilian Bucher
Managing Director, Bucher Stahlhandel GmbH
"With a career in tech and digital transformation across the U.S. and Germany, I’ve always focused on turning technological potential into real-world impact. Now, as a private investor in Mätch VC, I’m doubling down: Europe has top talent - we back them so they can build global tech leaders."
Elke Reichart
Chief Digital and Sustainability Officer, Infineon Technologies AG
Vector partnered with NXTGN and Mätch VC from day one because we believe more globally leading software companies can be built in Europe. Our co-investment with a16z in Black Forest Labs proves it. The next step? Funding such investments from Europe - without help from our U.S. friends!”
Helmut Schelling
Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board, Vector Informatik GmbH
"We, the German "Mittelstand", bring long-term perspective, deep expertise, and a robust local ecosystem to support founders in their early stages. This is the perfect foundation for driving sustainable innovation. Let’s finally join forces!"
Petra Wörwag
Business Angel & Family Entrepreneur

who we have co-Invested with

Portfolio & Thesis

We invest early in highly technical teams tackling complex challenges in B2B markets

We back European founders from Fund I (€49M), often before a company is even incorporated. Because speed is crucial, we prefer moving fast via CLAs, but we’re equally ready to lead, co-lead, or follow on priced equity rounds.

Our initial tickets range from €200k up to €1M, with room for more in exceptional cases, investing from PreSeed - Seed. Our core focus belongs to deep tech, academic spinouts, and complex hardware or software engineering where the science is the moat. Sometimes we also invest in classic SaaS Companies - check our portfolio companies below to get an idea.

If your team can benefit from our network of ~90 German industrial family businesses, we are your unfair advantage. Please note that we strictly do not invest in biotech, pharma, B2C, or food.
Cybersecurity
LINKEDIN
WEBSITE

XOR produces cyber reinforcement learning training data to train AI models in cybersecurity. The company provides RL environments, verified task trajectories and evals that AI teams use to train coding agents to autonomously find and fix their own security flaws.

Open jobs
Related articles
Location(s)

Munich

San Francisco

Stage
Pre-Seed

Buzz

Our startups are making headlines

Paxray Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption ↗
Paxray, July 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Paxray
Paxray is setting a new gold standard for enterprise process intelligence, deploying in just 1 day to slash documentation effort by 80% and accelerate automation delivery by over 50%. The platform's transformative ROI is already proven in the wild, highlighted by customer wins like NORDSEE shrinking monthly invoice processing time from 32 hours down to a mere 2. By seamlessly turning hidden operational friction into high-value execution, Paxray is establishing itself as an indispensable infrastructure layer for scalable enterprise AI.
Kausable Raises €12M to Drive Next-Gen Enterprise Automation ↗
Handelsblatt, July 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: Kausable
Kausable reached a major milestone by securing €12 million in seed funding to pioneer reasoning-first AI models that learn and adapt without continuous retraining. This capital injection accelerates kausable’s transition from frontier research to commercial deployment, cementing its role in shaping the next generation of adaptive enterprise intelligence.
Black Forest Labs Pioneers the Future of Physical AI ↗
Bloomberg, July 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is successfully expanding its TAM beyond generative media and into the highly lucrative physical AI space with its new multimodal Flux 3 and Flux-mimic models. By partnering with major manufacturers like Audi AG to automate previously impossible, unstructured tasks, the company is proving the real-world scalability of its technology. This groundbreaking application highlights Black Forest Labs' growing role in pioneering "visual intelligence" and advancing the future of industrial robotics.
DYNO Calls for Modern Retirement Solutions as Germany's Pension Gap Widens ↗
Versicherungsbote, June 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO
DYNO is positioning itself at the forefront of modern retirement planning by advocating for simpler, more accessible savings solutions. As Germany's growing pension gap creates increasing demand for innovative retirement products, the company is championing a digital-first approach that removes barriers to saving and helps turn awareness into action. With demographic pressures reshaping the pension landscape, DYNO is well positioned to support the next generation of retirement planning.
Blockbrain Sets Standard for Safe, Flexible Enterprise AI Amid Model Volatility ↗
Cash Online, June 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain
Blockbrain highlighted the strength of its enterprise AI platform after Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 was unexpectedly withdrawn from the market. Thanks to its rigorous compliance review process and model-agnostic architecture, Blockbrain did not release the model to customers before validating changes to its data retention policy, ensuring uninterrupted service and continued compliance for clients in regulated industries. Its model-agnostic platform, offering access to 40+ AI models, ensured clients in regulated industries continued operating seamlessly without dependency on a single provider. This reinforces Blockbrain’s position as a trusted, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure provider built for resilience, compliance, and flexibility.
metergrid Simplifies Tenant Electricity Project Planning with New Digital Tool ↗
pv magazine, June 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid
metergrid launched a new digital partner portal that streamlines project management and enables installers to calculate the profitability of tenant electricity projects in seconds rather than days. The platform combines lead generation, project configuration, and project management into a single workflow, introduces integrations with industry partners, and lays the foundation for future AI-powered planning tools. This product launch demonstrates metergrid's continued execution of its software platform strategy and strengthening its competitive position in the decentralized energy market.
ATMOS Co-Founder Marta Oliveira Wins 2026 EIC Rising Innovator Prize ↗
The Brussels Times, June 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
ATMOS Space Cargo's co-founder and COO Marta Oliveira was named the winner of the 2026 EIC Rising Innovator Prize by the European Innovation Council and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. The award recognizes her role in transforming ATMOS from an early-stage concept into one of Europe's leading space logistics companies, including the successful PHOENIX 1 mission and the establishment of Europe's regulatory framework for commercial re-entry operations. This recognition highlights the strength of ATMOS's ability to execute on its long-term vision for reusable space transportation and orbital return services.
ATMOS Expands PHOENIX Platform for Commercial Microgravity Manufacturing ↗
semiconductor TODAY, June 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
ATMOS Space Cargo successfully completed an engineering collaboration with Elethron to integrate advanced microgravity materials processing into its reusable PHOENIX return vehicle. This milestone demonstrates ATMOS's ability to support high-value applications in semiconductors, photonics, and quantum technologies while also strengthening its position as a key enabler of Europe’s emerging in-space manufacturing ecosystem.
Black Forest Labs Gains Hollywood Validation ↗
The New York Times, June 2026 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs reached a significant milestone as legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese revealed he has been using the company's AI technology during film pre-production and has joined as a partner and adviser. His use of Black Forest Labs' tools for film pre-production highlights the company's growing role in empowering creative professionals and advancing the future of visual storytelling.
Metergrid Wins P5 Property Congress 2026 Award ↗
metergrid GmbH, May 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid
Winning the P5 Property Congress 2026 award among 4,000 industry professionals, metergrid stood out as proof that tenant electricity has evolved from a niche topic into a powerful value driver for property owners. This recognition serves as a strong validation of Metergrids work and its growing role in advancing practical, revenue-generating energy solutions within the real estate sector.
Black Forest Labs Advancing Visual AI Through Focused Innovation ↗
Forbes, May 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs breakthrough work in latent diffusion demonstrates how efficient, resource-driven innovation can lead to state-of-the-art image generation technology. The company is recognized for its strong focus on building long-term visual AI infrastructure, prioritizing deep technical capability and product quality over short-term visibility. Its disciplined approach to partnerships and product direction further highlights a commitment to stability, focus, and sustained excellence in advancing next-generation visual intelligence systems.
Black Forest Labs Takes on Tech Giants in the Global Race for Physical AI ↗
WIRED, April 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has rapidly emerged as a significant player in AI image generation, competing with Silicon Valley giants. Now the company is also venturing into physical AI, planning to unveil a robot powered by its technology and collaborating with hardware firms for smart devices.
Atmos Space Cargo has successfully raised $30 million to fund further missions ↗
Space News, April 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
Atmos Space Cargo has secured $30.1 million on a $117 million valuation to fund its Phoenix 2 reentry vehicle missions, expected to commence in late 2026. Additionally, Atmos is developing a larger Phoenix 3 vehicle, designed for heavier payloads, and has established a unit aimed at serving government sectors. Following this momentum, Atmos is also expanding by opening an office in Poland.
Breaking the Semantic Gap: Black Forest Labs outperforms Industry Standards by 2.8x ↗
Venture Beat, March 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs has introduced Self-Flow, a self-supervised framework that eliminates the reliance on external models by allowing generative AI to learn representation and creation simultaneously. The system achieves state-of-the-art multimodal performance and massive gains in training efficiency, positioning it as a foundational leap toward high-performance world models for robotics and video synthesis.
Portugal has granted ATMOS Space Cargo, the first commercial licence for the atmospheric re-entry and recovery of a space vehicle ↗
The Portugal News, March 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
Portugal has issued ATMOS Space Cargo the first commercial licence for the atmospheric re-entry and recovery of a space vehicle, specifically for the PHOENIX 2.1 mission set for later in 2026. This licence encompasses all phases of the re-entry process, including a controlled water landing and recovery in the North Atlantic.
Metergrid secures largest growth financing in Germany’s tenant-power segment ↗
Newnex, February 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: metergrid
Metergrid secured €10 million in Series A funding to expand its software platform for multi-tenant energy system and achieved the largest growth financing in Germany’s tenant-power segment. With the fresh capital, Metergrid plans to transform its billing-focused solution into a fully integrated energy management platform for multi-tenant residential buildings, bringing together solar PV, EV charging, energy storage, smart metering, and heating and utility cost accounting within one unified ecosystem. The round was led by SET Ventures, with strong participation from existing investors Hager, LBBW Venture Capital, Mätch VC, as well as several business angels.
Blockbrain lands €17.5 million to advance enterprise-grade AI agents ↗
EU-Startups, February 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Blockbrain
Blockbrain successfully raised €17.5 million in Series A funding to accelerate the expansion of its secure GenAI agent platform by enhancing security and governance capabilities, developing specialized AI agents, and scaling across Europe and the UK, helping enterprises protect and leverage Europe’s knowledge expertise. The round was led by Alstin Capital and 13books Capital, with participation from HARTING Family Foundation. Existing investors, including Giesecke+Devrient Ventures, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Ventures and Mätch VC, also increased their commitment, bringing total funding to €23 million.
The AI startup that has quietly become one of Europe’s most valuable AI companies ↗
Fortune, February 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Although nearly 80 percent of last year’s $270 billion in AI venture funding flowed into North America, while Europe captured just 13.6 percent, one of the most significant breakthroughs in visual AI is emerging from Germany. Black Forest Labs has introduced the first model capable of editing images while maintaining true character consistency. While its rise coincides with the global AI investment surge, Black Forest Labs is pursuing a different ambition: to build a sustainable company at a time when AI is beginning to create real productive value, focused on long-term impact rather than short-term capital market momentum.
Kausable joins Cyber Valley Startup Network ↗
Cyber Valley, January 2026. 🇺🇸 Featured: Kausable
Cyber Valley welcomes Kausable, which is developing a reasoning-first, agentic AI approach that generalizes across tasks and modalities without retraining, to its Network. The Start-up Network connects more than 90 AI and robotics start-ups with world-class research, industry partners, and investors, fostering collaboration and accelerating technology transfer across Baden-Württemberg. Together, the network’s growing community is driving the development and deployment of impactful AI and robotics solutions across Europe.
Europas erstes Krebsforschungslabor im All ↗
Frankfurter Rundschau, January 2026. 🇩🇪 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
ATMOS Space Cargo is responsible for transporting biological samples back from a cancer research laboratory in low earth orbit, which is attempting to study tumors more realistically in zero gravity. The return transport is considered crucial, as sensitive samples must be returned to Earth quickly and undamaged so that they can be evaluated using established analysis methods. Together with European space and logistics partners, experiments in zero gravity are to be systematically used for the development of new cancer drugs.
Danish Skycore Semiconductors secures €5 million in a seed round to tackle AI data centers’ power bottleneck ↗
ArcticStartup, December 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: Skycore
Skycore Semiconductors has raised €5 million in a seed funding round to accelerate the commercialization of its advanced Power Integrated Circuit technology. With this capital, the company plans to expand its team, speed up product development and manufacturing capabilities, grow its patent portfolio, and pursue co-development projects with strategic partners so it can move from validated silicon prototypes to market-ready products. By strengthening its supply chain and deepening industry collaborations, Skycore aims to be a key enabler of more efficient, high-density power infrastructure in future AI compute facilities.
Paxray schließt siebenstellige Finanzierungsrunde ab und verstärkt Führungsteam ↗
OpenPR, December 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Paxray
Paxray has raised a seven-figure funding round to accelerate the development and scaling of its privacy-first task-mining platform. With the new capital and an expanded leadership team, Paxray is positioned to grow its solution further and support more enterprises in transforming digital work into measurable, continuous operational improvements.
“Wir wollen ein Anlaufpunkt für Talente sein“ ↗
Handelsblatt, December 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Robin Rombach, founder of Black Forest Labs, talks in detail for the first time about the development of Black Forest Labs, his motivation – and the lessons he has learned from the past few months. The start-up is one of the fastest-growing AI companies in Europe, and since its founding, researchers and tech media have been puzzling over what explains its rapid rise. The founders rarely speak publicly, and the laboratory in Freiburg is considered secretive.
Atmos Space Cargo offers solution to space pollution ↗
Yale School of the Environment, December 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
The increasing number of satellites that burn up during reentry pollute the upper atmosphere, damage the ozone layer and alter atmospheric chemistry for long periods. While this approach reduces space debris, it shifts the environmental burden to Earth’s atmosphere, creating a growing pollution problem. Atmos addresses this by using inflatable heat shield technology to enable controlled reentry and recovery of payloads, preventing uncontrolled burn-up and significantly reducing harmful emissions released into the atmosphere.
Black Forest Labs jetzt wertvollste KI-Firma Deutschlands ↗
Handelsblatt, November 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Following a successful $300 million financing round, Germany's most valuable AI company now comes from Freiburg. Valued at $3.25 billion, the company is one of the fastest-growing AI companies in Europe and has raised over $450 million since its founding last year from renowned investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, AMP, Salesforce, Samsung, and Adobe.
Mätch VC announces Investment #9: Skycore from Copenhagen / Seed Round / Semiconductor↗
Press Release, November 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Skycore & Mätch VC
Skycore Semiconductors, backed by Mätch VC, is advancing high-performance computing with next-generation chip architectures that deliver exceptional efficiency and processing power for real-time, intelligent systems.
Metergrid: starkes Wachstum trotz politischer Unsicherheiten ↗
Tagesschau, October 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
Metergrid CEO Julian Schulz discusses uncertainties facing tenant electricity providers caused by new legal regulations and inconsistencies among distribution network operators.
Wie KI Unternehmenswissen rettet ↗
Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung, October 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain
The loss of knowledge and experience resulting from a shortage of skilled workers and an aging workforce presents many companies with major challenges. Blockbrain provides experience-based problem solutions and uses digital twins to create a company that learns once and never forgets.
Salesforce will offenbar hunderte Millionen in Freiburger Startup investieren ↗
Handelsblatt, October 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is currently the most hyped AI startup in Germany. Now there is to be a new round of financing led by Salesforce and AMP. Despite having fewer resources, BFL is considered a long-term competitor for Google and other technology companies, with customers such as Canva, Snap, and Telekom.
Alle reden über Black Forest Labs: Was steckt hinter dem geheimnisvollen Unicorn aus dem Schwarzwald? ↗
Business Insider Deutschland, October 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
The Freiburg-based startup, which is one of the fastest-growing AI startups in Europe, would also be the second most valuable AI startup in Germany if the rumors about a new round of financing are true. Although the company itself is keeping a low profile, it has attracted the attention of Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Raumfahrt: Sebastian Klaus und ATMOS Space Cargo ↗
StartupValley.news, October 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
Amos has set itself the task of rethinking space logistics. CEO Sebastian Klaus talks about motivation, milestones and his vision for European space travel.
Meta to Pay 140 Million to Use Black Forest Labs AI for Images ↗
Bloomberg, September 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Meta Platforms Inc. signed multi-year contract worth $140 million in order to use the technology from AI image startup Black Forest Labs for their artificial intelligence. With this deal, the Freiburg-based company is positioning itself as a serious player in the highly competitive field of generative AI technology.
Deutscher KI-Anbieter könnte Milliarden-Bewertung vervierfachen ↗
Handelsblatt, September 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
The Black Forest Labs startup is planning a new financing round of $200 to $300 million, aiming for a valuation of $4 billion. The endeavor is supported by very successful business results over the past 14 months and the development of new AI models for video generation.
Wie es für das deutsche Weltraumwunder jetzt weitergeht ↗
ntv, September 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Atmos Space Cargo
Atmos Space Cargo is working on an innovative return capsule with an inflatable heat shield. The test flight in April provided enough data to advance the development of another prototype. This is scheduled to launch into space as early as next year.
Betriebsrente: Experte Marc Karkossa (Dyno) zerlegt Pläne der Bundesregierung ↗
Bild Zeitung, August 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO
Founder of Germany’s digital pension startup Dyno slams Berlin’s reform as red tape and an insurance rip-off - leaving employees without real security. He argues Dyno offers the first real alternative to an industry long dominated by costly, self-serving insurers.
KI-Companions im Kinderzimmer: Worauf zu achten ist. Entscheider-Briefing mit Mattias Protzmann ↗
Tagesspiegel, August 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain
Blockbrain and Statista founder Mattias Protzmann warns that while AI companions quickly win children’s trust, parents and policymakers must move past bans and focus on guidance, education, and critical awareness.
Blockbrain hat den "Best of Technology Award" der WirtschaftsWoche gewonnen ↗
WirtschaftsWoche, August 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain
Germany’s leading business magazine honors Blockbrain for its AI-powered process automation in Legal & Tax - where its bots analyze court rulings and check patent applications. Beyond that, the platform drives efficiency, security, and profitability across many more industries.
Warum verstehen so viele ihre Altersvorsorge nicht – und was jetzt anders läuft? ↗
StartUp Valley, July 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO
DYNO’s digital pension solution makes company retirement plans flexible, transparent, and commission-free – boosting returns while cutting administrative effort.
Node Energy und Metergrid kooperieren bei Photovoltaik-Mieterstrom und Onsite-PPAs im Gewerbe ↗
PV Magazine, July 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
Node Energy and Metergrid Partner to Support Commercial and Residential Real Estate Clients.
Mätch VC announces Investment #8: Kausable from Heidelberg / Pre-Seed Round / AI↗
Press Release, July 2025 🇩🇪 Featured: Kausable & Mätch VC
Kausable, backed by Match VC, is advancing AI with adaptive general reasoning that powers real-time, autonomous decision-making.
Final Closing: €49M Raised from 91 Strategic LPs - Surpassing €35M Target↗
Press Release, July 2025 🇩🇪 Featured: Mätch VC
Final Closing: €49M instead of the planned €35M. More importantly: 91 LPs bringing not just capital, but networks and hands-on support.
Mätch VC announces Investment #1: metergrid from Hamburg / Seed Round / Renewable Tenant Energy↗
Press Release, September 2023. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid
Solar Made Simple: Mätch VC, 468 Capital, and Mario Götze back metergrid with €3 million. The startup empowers landlords to offer rooftop PV power directly to residents - fighting climate change and high energy bills in one stroke.
Mätch VC announces Investment #2: DYNO from Offenburg / Seed Round / bAV: Digital & Fair↗
Press Release, January 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO
Backed by Mätch VC, LEA Partners, and 468 Capital, the investment accelerates DYNO’s mission to eliminate hidden fees and old-school paperwork, delivering the only truly transparent bAV option for Europe’s SMEs
Mätch VC announces Investment #3: Assemblio from Stuttgart / Seed Round / Automated Assembly Instructions↗
Press Release, February 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: Assemblio
The funding round, led by LEA Partners and Mätch VC, will support Assemblio in its mission to reinvent assembly planning with AI and streamline complex assembly processes.
Mätch VC announces Investment #4: Black Forest Labs from Freiburg / Seed Round / Image Synthesis↗
Press Release, August 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs
Mätch VC joins Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst in backing Black Forest Labs, the German pioneer that is building state-of-the-art generative AI models for media, accelerating Europe’s leadership in open visual intelligence.
Mätch VC announces Investment #6: gyde from Stuttgart / Seed Round / Frontline-Worker Enablement↗
Press Release, December 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: gyde
Mätch VC and LEA Partners invest in gyde - a game-changer that redefines how knowledge is accessed and shared within enterprises and will transform internal enablement across Europe.
Portfolio update from metergrid: Seed extension raised – We welcome Hager Group on board↗
Press Release, January 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid
With support from the Hager Group, along with funding from 468 Capital and Mätch VC, metergrid is set to scale its digital platform and enhance training programs for installers and energy professionals.
Mätch VC announces Investment #7: ATMOS Space Cargo from Lichtenau / Seed Round / Spacetech↗
Press Release, April 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo
ATMOS Space Cargo is changing the game, and we are on board! Mätch VC invests in ATMOS to fuel Europe’s first independent space cargo return system, making Europe less dependent on foreign space logistics providers.
Portfolio update from Blockbrain: Seed extension raised – LBBW VC invests in Blockbrain’s AI Platform↗
Press Release, May 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain
Signal, not just capital: The investment by one of Germany’s largest banks signals confidence in Blockbrain’s privacy-first AI and proofs that regulated industries want the secure approach by Blockbrain.
Wie Mario Götze sein Geld investiert: „Ich lege in Menschen und ihre Ideen an"↗
Frankfurter Rundschau, May 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
World-Cup icon Mario Götze joins Mätch VC and other investors to fund metergrid - proving top athletes and top VCs share a green-energy vision.
Metergrid setzt Deutschlands größtes Mieterstromprojekt um↗
ZfK, January 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
Metergrid launches Germany’s largest tenant solar power project in Berlin with a photovoltaic system featuring over 4.7-megawatt peak capacity.
Metergrid: siebenstelliges Investment für Stuttgarter Energie-Start-up↗
Starting Up. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
News report about startup metergrid helping owners of multi-unit and commercial properties offer clean and locally generated energy to tenants through an end-to-end solution.
Hager und metergrid erleichtern die Energiewende im Mehrfamilienhaus mit innovativen Mieterstrommodellen↗
Hager, February 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: metergrid.
Hager Group powers up metergrid’s platform to enable efficient tenant electricity models in multi-family homes, providing a digital platform for metering, billing, and managing locally generated solar power
Stuttgart-based metergrid raises €2.7 million seed to turn landlords into green energy providers↗
EU-Startups, September 2023. 🇺🇸 Featured: metergrid & Mätch VC.
Metergrid‘s successful seed round with participation from footballer Mario Götze […], and the recently established Mätch VC from Baden-Württemberg.
LEA Partners investiert: Gyde sichert 4 Millionen Euro Finanzierung↗
Startbase, December 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: gyde & Mätch VC.
Gyde has raised €4 million to expand its AI-powered platform that helps organizations manage internal knowledge and make decision-making processes more effective.
DYNO erweitert Pre-Seed-Finanzierung auf über 2,5 Mio. €↗
Startbase, July 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO & Mätch VC.
DYNO‘s funding round was led by Haufe Group Ventures with participation from existing investors (e.g. 468 Capital and Mätch VC).
Eine Million Euro mehr: Mit diesem Pitchdeck hat Dyno seine Pre-Seed-Runde erweitert↗
Gründerszene, July 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: DYNO & Mätch VC.
The early-stage investors at the time included 468 Capital, Lea Partners, and Mätch VC, along with prominent business angels.
Münchner Traditionsunternehmen G+D beteiligt sich an KI-Startup Blockbrain↗
Finance FWD, September 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: Blockbrain.
The Munich-based security company Giesecke+Devrient is investing in the AI startup Blockbrain, whose clients include dozens of industrial giants like Bosch.
Black Forest Labs, the startup behind Grok’s image generator, releases an API↗
Techcrunch, October 2024. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs.
Black Forest Labs has launched an API for its Flux image generation models, powering Grok’s visuals, offering faster and higher-resolution outputs as the company eyes a $1 billion valuation following a $31 million funding round.
Warum jetzt der beste Zeitpunkt ist, um in Europa zu gründen↗
Handelsblatt, May 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs.
From Europe to the Future - Why German startup Black Forest Labs was intentionally founded in Europe, and how it maintains business ties with the U.S.
Black Forest Labs: Die Schwarzwald-KI, auf die Elon Musk setzt↗
Capital, November 2024. 🇩🇪 Featured: Black Forest Labs.
Capital profiles Black Forest Labs and its Mätch VC-fuelled FLUX.1 model—beating the industry’s best on image benchmarks.
Atmos and ARX Robotics form alliance to bolster European space defense capabilities↗
Defence Industry Europe, May 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo.
ATMOS Space Cargo and ARX Robotics have formed a strategic partnership to create the world's first orbit-to-ground deployment platform.
Die wilde Reise des fliegenden Donuts↗
Spiegel, April 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo.
With its first orbital test flight and breakthrough reentry technology, ATMOS shows what European aerospace is capable of.
Assemblio secures €2.1 million in seed round↗
Startbase, February 2024. 🇺🇸 Featured: Assemblio.
Assemblio successfully closes its seed round and receives support for its revolutionary AI for assembly instructions that speeds up planning by more than 92%.
Das sind die 18 europäischen Startups mit den besten Zukunftsideen↗
Handelsblatt, May 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo.
Handelsblatt spotlights ATMOS Space Cargo as one of Europe's most promising startups, recognizing their mission to revolutionize space logistics through autonomous cargo return technology.
Space Capsule marks milestone for bringing Cargo back from Orbit↗
Fox News, May 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo.
Making headlines in the U.S.: Fox News spotlights ATMOS Space Cargo’s role in bringing autonomous cargo return to Europe.
Black Forest Labs: Europe’s most-hyped - and elusive - startup?↗
Sifted, April 2025. 🇺🇸 Featured: Black Forest Labs & Mätch VC.
Sifted reveals Black Forest Labs’ only European investor: Mätch VC—quietly pooling family-office and entrepreneur firepower to back outstanding, European startups.
Weltraum-Container aus Lichtenau: So war der erste Testflug ins All↗
SWR, April 2025. 🇩🇪 Featured: ATMOS Space Cargo. ‍
Watch: ATMOS Space Cargo's PHOENIX completes its first launch — SWR captures Europe’s space-tech leap.
Load more ↓

contact

Hello, we would love to hear from you in

Headoffice
Lautenschlager Straße 16
LinkedIn ↗
70190 Stuttgart
Crunchbase↗
For investors
for Startups

PS: Not looking for Venture Capital? Aspiring founders, first-time entrepreneurs, and innovators from industry and academia – check out our friends at NXTGN!

© 2026 Mätch VC
BW Pre-Seed with Mätch VC
SFDR Disclosures · Imprint