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The industrial sector is attracting serious investment from venture capital firms focused on physical industries. For founders building in this space, finding the right partner is more important than ever.
Firms like Alumni Ventures have backed over 2,100 companies, while Battery Ventures has seen more than 230 exits from its portfolio. Finding the right one for your startup can be a challenge, but many great options are out there.
Below is our list of the best 34 Industrial VC firms.
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Buy It For $97 $297 →Alumni Ventures opens up venture capital to accredited investors by building diversified portfolios, many of which are centered on university alumni networks. They co-invest with established VCs to fund a wide array of companies from seed to late-stage, with a portfolio of over 1,400 companies that includes SimpliSafe.
As one of Europe’s most active early-stage funds, Speedinvest uses dedicated, sector-focused teams to back pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. They provide portfolio companies like Bitpanda and GoStudent with hands-on support from in-house operational experts to accelerate growth and market expansion.
With a team of former operators, Eclipse Ventures provides seed funding and deep operational guidance to founders modernizing massive physical industries like manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare. This hands-on partnership aims to build generational companies, such as baby monitor company Owlet, within the core sectors that drive the global economy.
Battery Ventures operates as a multi-stage investment firm, backing technology companies from their earliest seed rounds all the way to private equity. Their portfolio includes household names like Coinbase, Wayfair, and Glassdoor, reflecting a focus on backing potentially category-defining businesses across a wide range of technology markets.
Led by founders from companies like Spotify and Zalando, Cherry Ventures acts as the first institutional investor for Europe's most ambitious pre-seed and seed stage startups. The team provides hands-on support in go-to-market strategy and scaling, having helped build successful companies like Flix and Auto1.
Correlation Ventures uses an analytics-based process to co-invest in funding rounds, offering entrepreneurs a quick and reliable decision. Their broad portfolio covers multiple industries and stages, and includes successful companies like the fintech platform Upstart.
Atomico partners with European technology founders from the seed stage onward, helping them scale their disruptive companies on a global stage. Drawing on operational experience from tech giants like Skype and Google, the firm provides hands-on support for global expansion and has backed major successes including Supercell.
BACKED VC champions a human-centric approach to investing, providing seed funding to European founders across a wide range of industries. Their Founder Experience Platform and active community go beyond capital to help entrepreneurs with everything from talent to international expansion, backing companies like Thought Machine and Hutch.
Angular Ventures provides early-stage capital to enterprise deep tech companies founded in Europe and Israel. The firm partners with founders who have strong domain expertise, often writing the first check to help them build globally-focused businesses.
Trinity Ventures provides early-stage and seed funding for technology entrepreneurs, with a focus on social commerce, digital media, and SaaS. Their partnership-driven approach has been instrumental in the growth of well-known companies like Starbucks, Zulily, and New Relic.
Our main list is just the beginning of the story for industrial venture capital. The firms below, hailing from twelve different countries, have funded over 3,400 startups and seen nearly 600 exits between them. There's a deep well of support for founders looking to build the next big thing in industry. Here are the other venture capital firms helping them do it.
| VC Firm | Country | Year Founded | Nº Investments | Nº Exits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 2017 | 177 | 47 | |
| Australia | 2014 | 176 | 16 | |
| Canada | 1975 | 709 | 173 | |
| Germany | 1997 | 116 | 18 | |
| United States | 2011 | 530 | 114 | |
| United States | 2016 | 35 | 3 | |
| United States | 2014 | 71 | 6 | |
| Czech Republic | 2014 | 48 | 5 | |
| South Korea | 1986 | 471 | 55 | |
| Poland | 2018 | 35 | 1 | |
| Switzerland | 2000 | 93 | 13 | |
| United States | 2012 | 108 | 26 | |
| The Netherlands | 2009 | 55 | 2 | |
| Canada | 2009 | 79 | 4 | |
| Poland | 2009 | 73 | 9 | |
| The Netherlands | 2013 | 41 | 2 | |
| United Kingdom | 2009 | 42 | 13 | |
| Canada | 2012 | 62 | 2 | |
| United Kingdom | 2013 | 168 | 18 | |
| Sweden | 1979 | 216 | 34 | |
| United States | 2015 | 8 | — | |
| United States | 2013 | 16 | 1 | |
| Singapore | 2016 | 94 | 12 | |
| United States | 2018 | 45 | 3 |
