European enterprise capital agency U2V (University2Ventures) has introduced the primary closing of its €60 million Fund I. With this fund, the spin-off from Earlybird-X goals to again early-stage DeepTech startups from European tech universities.
It would put money into pre-Seed and Seed-stage startups throughout Europe, specializing in AI novel computing, IndustrialTech and CleanTech, with as much as 25 investments deliberate.
The primary closing was backed by skilled traders, together with anchor-LP Jungheinrich through Uplift Ventures, household workplaces, serial founders and business managers. The VC agency goals to determine Europe’s best DeepTech spin-off platform, scaling university-born applied sciences into international industrial options.
“Europe is world-class at creating scientific breakthroughs, however nonetheless struggles to show them into international corporations. With U2V, we’re fostering a considerable change right here: we assist scientists turn into entrepreneurs, linking analysis, capital, and company companions to construct Europe’s subsequent technology of category-defining Deep Tech startups,” mentioned Dr Philipp Semmer, founding associate at U2V.
Based in 2025 by Philipp Semmer, Michael Schmitt, and Johannes Triebs, the U2V’s mannequin is constructed upon its staff’s expertise main Earlybird-X, certainly one of Europe’s first DeepTech spin-off funds. In line with the agency, its companions convey greater than 30 years of mixed enterprise expertise with over 50 investments and greater than 10 exits throughout earlier funds, together with Earlybird-X and Motu Ventures. Their earlier portfolio consists of Quantum Diamonds, Greenlyte, Ncodin, Certivity, Twaice and LiveEO.
Past capital, U2V supplies strategic help, business connections and hands-on operational steering to the startups it backs.
The agency operates from workplaces in Berlin, Aachen and London. Its modus operandi consists of combining proprietary entry to main European tech universities, together with TU Munich, ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen, École Polytechnique, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial Faculty London, DTU Denmark and Politecnico di Milano, with an industrial community of greater than 500 company companions.
This method allows portfolio corporations to safe early pilot prospects and profit from structured go-to-market pathways.
“Our industrial community provides founders what most early Deep Tech startups lack: direct entry to prospects and real-world validation. Whether or not it’s an AI utility, a quantum-sensing chip, or a carbon-capture course of – we join expertise to traction,” commented Dr Johannes Triebs, founding associate at U2V
