Industrial Tech News - July 2021

Fernride - a teleoperations software platform for autonomous fleets - has closed a €7.1m Series A round, after a pilot project with logistics service provider DB Schenker. (Article in German)

Our first investment in waste management, Greyparrot, has recently acquired its first commercial customer. A2A - the largest plastic recovery facility in Italy - is Greyparrot’s first pilot client to convert to a long-term commercial partnership.

We have just exited our Construction Tech portfolio company Corrux, which has recently been sold to another PropTech company. Read more about the sale here. (Article in German)

HEROTECH8 is a robotics company delivering internet-connected and automated drone-in-a-box solutions, enabling the automatic deployment, recovery and recharging of drones from anywhere in the world.

Procuros simplifies supplier relations by providing a single platform which integrates all of an organization’s supplier portals and consolidates all order documents.

NODE offers plug&play software solutions for autonomous intralogistics. The focus is on driverless  transport vehicles and mobile robots, which are  turned into multi-vendor, autonomous and  collaborative fleets by our software solutions. 

Easelink industrializes Matrix Charging®, the first automated conductive charging technology that has no moving parts outside of the vehicle. Matrix Charging® has been developed to foster smart living through outstanding charging technology.

Fabriq is a workshop management solution that enables industrial organizations to centralize all operational data, connect teams and speed up problem solving, connect information systems, and improve industrial performance through data analysis.

Our Climate Action landing page is now live! Here you can learn more about our commitment to funding the next generation of Climate Tech companies.

At our most recent Industrial Tech Talk, close to 100 startup founders joined our panel of leading investors to discuss the future of Climate Tech and what investors look for in Climate Tech startups. Follow the link for access to key learnings from the event, a recap video, as well as a recording of the entire panel discussion.

Check out this long-term scenario analysis on the future of the energy economy from Bloomberg NEF. This edition presents three climate scenarios that align with the Paris Agreement: The Green Scenario, Gray Scenario, and Red Scenario.

SVB’s climate tech report analyzes the latest climate tech investment and fundraising trends. Download the full report here.

Marie-Helene Ametsreiter was featured in a front-page article on Climate Tech investing in the German online newspaper Handelsblatt. (Article in German)

Andreas Schwarzenbrunner was featured in this article by Sifted in which he talks about the trends in the Sustainability startup ecosystem and which ideas we’d like to see more of.

This report on Europe’s Construction Tech industry features an interview with Andreas Schwarzenbrunner during which he explains what it takes to become a Construction Tech entrepreneur and more.