Terralayr collects 192 million – Orbem collects 55.5 million – one.five receives 14 million
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+++ #DealMonitor +++ Battery storage startup Terralayr collects 192 million +++ Orbem collects 55.5 million +++ one.five receives 14 million +++ GeneralMind collects 12 million +++ Cancilico receives 2.5 million +++ Financial injection for Fintalo +++
In the #DealMonitor For January 20th we’ll take a look at the most important, exciting and interesting investments and exits of the day in the DACH region. All deals from the previous days are available in a large and clear format #DealMonitor Archives.
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INVESTMENTS
Terralayr
+++ The French investor Eurazeo and the existing investors RIVE Private Investment, Creandum, Norrsken VC, Earlybird Venture Capital and Picus Capital are investing 192 million euros in Terralayr. “This milestone transactions in the European BESS sector enables us to provide that flexibility at scale,” says the team about the investment. The Swiss startup based in Zug, which was founded in 2023 by Chronext founder Philipp Man, takes care of “infrastructure for the short, medium and long-term storage of energy”. The motto is: “Tomorrow’s Energy System. Today.” Creandum, Earlybird, Norrsken, Picus Capital and RIVE Private Investment recently invested 77 million (debt and equity) in the young company. More about Terralayr
Orbem
+++ The Dutch deeptech investor Innovation Industries, the French venture capitalist Supernova Invest as well as existing investors such as General Catalyst, 83North, The Venture Collective and Possible Ventures are investing 55.5 million euros in Orbem. The startup from Munich, founded in 2019 by Maria Laparidou, Miguel Molina and Pedro Gome as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, combines magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with artificial intelligence to solve problems. “Orbem’s AI innovation for biological materials scanning is transforming multiple industries, including agriculture, construction and healthcare,” the team said. 83North, La Famiglia, The Venture Collective, Possible Ventures and business angels such as Rüdiger Schmidt, Hanno Renner, Roman Schumacher, Jonas Rieke, Rubin Ritter, Michael Wax, Erik Muttersbach, Michael Ardelt, Alexander Hüttenbrink, Oliver Trinchera and Bastian Nominacher recently invested 30 million euros (debt and equity) in Orbem. The fresh capital will flow into US expansion, among other things. Innovation Industries now holds around 7.8% of Orbem. Supernova is on board with 2.5%. 83North accounts for 16.3%. More about Orbem
one.five
+++ Dr. Hans Riegel Holding (HARIBO), the Turkish investor 212 NexT, SymbiaVC, the investment arm of the Barbara Peifer Private Foundation, Btomorrow Ventures from London, KIMPA Impact, Zubi Capital, Speedinvest, Planet A, Green Generation Fund, Climentum Capital, Revent and WEPA Ventures are investing 14 million euros in one.five. The Hamburg-based GreenTech, founded in 2020 by Martin Weber and Claire Hae-Min Gusko, would like to establish itself as a “pioneer for AI-supported modern packaging solutions”. “The fresh capital will be used to further expand one.five’s proprietary AI platform and data foundation, enabling companies across the packaging value chain to develop successful packaging products faster and with significantly higher market success rates,” says the team. Planet A Ventures, Speedinvest, Green Generation Fund, Climentum Capital, Revent and Wepa Ventures recently invested 10.5 million euros in the young company. Dr. Hans Riegel Holding currently holds 6% of the company. More about one.five
GeneralMind
+++ The Swiss venture capitalist Lakestar, Leo Capital from Singapore, the Berlin financier Lucid Capital, Heliad, BOOOM from Munich as well as the business angels Alexander Kudlich, Jens Urbaniak, Samir Sood and Vishal Lugani are investing 12 million US dollars in GeneralMind. The startup from Berlin, founded in 2025 by the Razor Group team around Tushar Ahluwalia, Shrestha Chowdhury and Oliver Dlugosch as well as Lennart von Hardenberg, Nishrit Shrivastava and Sergiu Soima, positions itself as an “AI autopilot for automating operational processes in industry and trade”. The young company’s “autopilot” takes over the “digital paperwork along complex supply chains by autonomously executing manual, repetitive processes between email, Excel and ERP systems”. The company calls the investment round one of the “largest known European pre-seed rounds in recent years”. The investment follows “less than six months after the start of business operations”. More about GeneralMind
Cancilico
+++ The Bonn-based early-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), TGFS – Technologie Gründerfonds Sachsen, GEDAD, the investment vehicle of the Ehninger family, and the ROI Verwaltungsgesellschaft (Roland Oetker) are investing 2.5 million euros in Cancilico. The startup from Dresden, founded in 2023 by Markus Badstübner, Moritz Middeke, Sebastian Riechert and Jan Eckardt, aims to revolutionize the area of image-based clinical diagnostics using artificial intelligence. More about Cancilico
Fintalo
+++ Techstars and business angels invest $500,000 in Fintalo. The Munich B2B startup, founded in 2024 by Marius Fischer, Philipp Zirn and Jakob Wilhelm, positions itself as an “all-in-one infrastructure for modern investment banking”. Above all, the team wants to “improve communication between everyone involved – from establishing contact to signing NDAs and documents.”
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