Former F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg is as soon as once more accelerating ahead – this time not on the monitor, however within the enterprise capital world. His agency, Rosberg Ventures, has introduced the shut of its third fund at €86 million (£75 million), pushing complete property underneath administration to roughly €172 million (£150 million).
In recent times, Rosberg Ventures has expanded its mandate to incorporate direct co-investments in high-growth startups. These embrace ClickHouse, a real-time information analytics platform, and Ivy, an organization constructing a common API for fast financial institution funds – in addition to Fuse Power and Cardino.
“We’ve simply closed our $100 million Fund III at Rosberg Ventures, oversubscribed with unprecedented demand, and capped allocations for optimised efficiency. I’m tremendous humbled by the assist we’ve obtained as soon as once more. A heartfelt thanks particularly to all our long run companions for the belief,” says Nico Rosberg, Founding father of Rosberg Ventures.
Within the context of European VC fundraising in 2025, this €86 million shut of Rosberg Ventures’ third fund aligns with a broader sample of mid-sized and specialist VC automobiles securing capital.
Backed VC closed a equally sized €86m Fund III to proceed investing in frontier and DeepTech, whereas Concept Ventures raised €75 million for a big, Europe-wide pre-Seed car.
On the bigger finish of the spectrum, Índico Capital Partners launched a €125 million Fund III centered on Southern Europe, and Ventech closed its sixth fund at €175 million to again round 35 European corporations.
Extra specialised methods have additionally attracted capital, together with Rubio Impact Ventures (€70 million, impact-focused), U2V (€60 million, DeepTech spin-outs), and Catalpa Ventures (€30 million first shut, HealthTech).
Taken collectively, these fundraises characterize effectively over €600 million in dedicated capital, suggesting sustained LP urge for food for European VC platforms that mix diversified publicity, sector focus, and structured fund methods – inserting Rosberg Ventures’ Fund III squarely inside an lively and aggressive fundraising surroundings slightly than as an outlier.
Based following Rosberg’s shock retirement from F1 in 2016 – simply days after clinching the Components 1 World Championship from Lewis Hamilton – the London-based enterprise agency deploys a Fund of Funds mannequin, giving its traders publicity to elite VC outfits globally.
Since its inception, Rosberg Ventures has been lively in backing each VC funds and particular person startups, writing cheques sometimes within the vary of €1.7 million (£1.5 million) to €4.2 million (£3.7 million).
The fund’s portfolio contains standout names resembling SpaceX, Lyft, ClickHouse, and Lilium, amongst others. In parallel, Rosberg’s private funding document spans early-stage bets on ventures like Jack & Jill AI, Clyx, Fyxer AI, and Black Forest Labs, all working throughout software program, AI, and enterprise sectors.
In a public assertion, Rosberg additionally mirrored on how calculated risk-taking and preparation – abilities honed on the racetrack – are very important in enterprise capital.
“Listed below are some learnings from Components 1 which have helped us progress so quickly. Take your probabilities. Generally which means even taking these very low odds, 10% probabilities, however the place the upside is gigantic. You is perhaps questioning how we could be courageous and totally commit when failure is so extremely probably?
“Effectively, all the things comes all the way down to preparation. It’s important to undergo all of the failure eventualities. Then discover the best way to make the perfect of these unfavorable outcomes, or develop a plan to mitigate their unfavorable affect (in order that they don’t really look dangerous in any respect). This gives you the arrogance to go all in in your alternative.”
EU-Startups beforehand coated Rosberg Ventures in 2024, once they introduced the close of a new fund of funds of more than €70 million, aimed toward giving LPs diversified publicity to main world enterprise capital managers slightly than backing startups immediately.
Since that 2024 fund announcement, Rosberg Ventures has additionally participated in direct startup investments, together with backing Fuse Energy, which raised €59 million in 2025 to scale its UK vitality operations, and Cardino, the Berlin-based used-EV market that secured a €4 million Seed spherical in mid-2024.
