Because semiconductor startups deserve a semiconductor VC. We invest early in the companies building the foundation of computing.
Deep domain expertise, strategic industry connections, and capital designed for the unique needs of hardware startups.
€30M fund investing €400K to €1M into pre-seed and seed startups working on semiconductors, photonics or advanced materials.
We invest mainly in Europe because we have the R&D talent but until now have lacked specialist early-stage semi investors.
Backed by GlobalFoundries & Radiant Opto-Electronics, giving founders access to industrial know-how, tech roadmaps and manufacturing networks.
Deep technical and commercial experience across the semiconductor supply chain with ASML, Heptagon, Bosch, and ams Osram.
Europe has a choice. The continent that pioneered the industrial revolution now risks becoming its footnote. Not from lack of talent or expertise but from failure of will and ambition.
We invest in European prosperity because computing is the bedrock of economic growth. Every major industry runs on semiconductors. Every breakthrough in medicine, energy, transport and communications depends on advances in processing power.
This isn't a vertical to put a little bit of money towards. Semiconductors are everything. Europe invented much of this technology within living memory. It can lead again if we choose to do so.
"We want to see the next trillion dollar company in Europe. We think it will be a computing hardware company. We are here to back the founders who are going to build it."
Europe has world-class research institutions and engineering talent in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials.
Home to ASML, NXP, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, and hundreds of deep tech research centres and fabs.
Europe has everything it needs to win globally in semiconductors. What it has been missing is dedicated, specialist early-stage capital.
The EU Chips Act and national semiconductor strategies are creating unprecedented momentum for European chip companies.
Three interconnected domains at the heart of semiconductor innovation. We invest across the full value chain: from the design software and simulation tools that architect new chips, to the equipment and measurement systems that make production possible, all the way to the devices, materials and integration platforms that power the end product.
Compute & Electronics
We invest in compute and control platforms that deliver more performance per watt and reshape where and how computation happens, from space, to datacentres, wearables, and medical devices.
Connectivity & Sensing
We back photonic and mixed electro-optic systems that move, measure and process information: from high-bandwidth communications to imaging, diagnostics and instrumentation.
Equipment, Design Tools & Metrology
We invest in advanced materials, equipment, design tools and metrology that extend what fabs and manufacturers can do, turning lab-scale innovations into robust, repeatable production.
The founders building the future of semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.
Operators, investors and researchers with deep roots across the semiconductor supply chain.
Before Cloudberry, René served on the leadership team at Heptagon, a global leader in optical sensors, scaling the company from a handful of employees into a global powerhouse. His tenure culminated in Heptagon's acquisition by ams AG in 2017. He began his career in engineering and product management at ASML.
Veera has nearly a decade of experience supporting early-stage teams and deep tech companies. Since 2019, she has been involved in the deep tech space across investments, portfolio support, legal and fund administration. She has also advised companies as a fractional CFO.
Always early to a market opportunity: crypto in 2015 and Deep Tech in 2020. Lawrence believes the greatest opportunity in the next decade is semiconductors. Most interested in photonic memory, compound semi, and edge computing. He writes speculative fiction at State of the Future.
VP and Head of the Business Area Optics at Bosch Sensortec. 25+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry across IC design, system engineering, product management and full business unit ownership. Previously held senior roles at Texas Instruments and MaxLinear.
Based in Zurich and active across Egon Zehnder's Industrial and Technology & AI practice groups. Previously ams Osram AG's SVP and Head of modules and solutions, and VP & Head of Strategy at Heptagon in Singapore.
Thoughts on semiconductors, European deep tech, and the future of computing.