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Backed by fund II
Industrial tech

factorymaker

Industrial buildings and data centers define competitiveness, resilience, and energy demand. Yet their early stage planning remains fragmented and constrained, even as complexity continues to rise. factorymaker transforms this decisive phase into a computational process. By enabling systematic exploration and optimisation of design alternatives, the platform allows efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability to be embedded from the start. We believe factorymaker is building a foundational layer for how complex industrial systems will be conceived and realised in the future.

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Backed by fund II
Life Science

Amplifold

Amplifold elevates rapid diagnostics to a new performance level. By integrating DNA origami nanostructures into conventional lateral flow tests, the company increases sensitivity by up to one hundred fold without requiring instruments or changes to manufacturing. This enables laboratory-level performance in a familiar strip-based format, opening new possibilities in infectious disease, oncology and decentralised testing.

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Backed by fund II
Industrial tech

AVES reality

Autonomous cars are among the most complex physical AI systems ever built. They must operate safely in open, dynamic environments, yet validating them in the real world remains slow, expensive, and fundamentally limited.
AVES Reality addresses this bottleneck by building a foundational infrastructure layer for autonomous driving: accurate, simulation-ready 3D digital twins of the real world, generated automatically at global scale.
Using satellite and aerial imagery combined with geospatial AI, advanced computer graphics, and physics-aware modeling, AVES Reality reconstructs cities, road

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Backed by fund II
Industrial tech

Ora Computing

Ora Computing is an AI deployment company specializing in optimizing and compressing Artificial Intelligence (AI) foundation models. They develop AI techniques that automate manual labor mostly on edge devices, such that small and performant models can be deployed on phones, laptops, IoT devices, and cars.

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Life Science
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Syntropic Medical

Syntropic develops a non-invasive and non-pharmaceutical treatment for mental health disorders. Through light stimulation, neural remodeling is activated by instructing the immune cells of the brain to support in healing and recovery.

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Backed by fund I
Life Science

HEPHAISTOS Pharma

ONCO-Boost, the first product from HEPHAISTOS-Pharma’s platform, is a natural TLR4 agonist that stimulates the patients’ own immune system to strengthen both innate and adaptive immune systems to strengthen their responses against cold tumors.

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Backed by fund I
Industrial tech

Rivus Batteries


Batteries are needed to store renewable energy – it's not always windy when you want it to be, and the same applies to the hours of sunshine. Rivus’ idea is for gigantic batteries to be placed at solar and wind farms.

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Backed by fund I
Industrial tech

Infrared City

Infrared.city is a platform for intelligent and resilient architecture and construction design powered by Artificial Intelligence. Using simulation prediction models, infrared.city can deliver simulation results at a fraction of the computational time and financial cost. Their state of the art machine learning models provide real-time feedback on the performance of design proposals and can guide climate informed decisions at every step of the process.

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Backed by fund I
Industrial tech

Subdron

subdron is dedicated to transforming underwater inspections through the development of close range navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and automatized data processing and analysis. By leveraging vanguard hardware technology and artificial intelligence, subdron aims to revolutionize the way underwater structures such as port infrastructure and ship hulls are inspected for damages and biofouling. Their mission is to provide efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly solutions for underwater infrastructure management.

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Backed by fund I
Industrial tech

ReCatalyst

ReCatalyst reduces required platinum in fuel cell catalysts for applications in heavy duty transport, while improving efficiency and durability

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Industrial tech

VitreaLab

VitreaLab is commercializing integrated laser powered photonic devices that will transform displays as we know them. Inspired by quantum photonic technologies, VitreaLab developed its “Quantum Light Engine” which is a light source capable of illuminating AR, VR, and 3D displays with laser light of unprecedented brightness and perfect colour quality while consuming just a fraction of the energy needed by other technologies.

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Backed by fund I
Life Science
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Solgate

Solgate’s founders combine deep expertise in the biology of solute carriers with unique chemistry-based approaches for accelerated drugging of difficult targets. Current projects are focused on CNS and immunology indications.

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Backed by fund I
Life Science
Retired

Sarcura


Sarcura set out to tackle one of the toughest challenges in advanced medicine: how to manufacture cell therapies at scale. With an interdisciplinary founders team and a research-derived, innovative product for a growing market, they aimed to miniaturize and automate cell therapy production on a chip.

At xista science ventures, we are proud to have supported this journey from its early days, providing capital, infrastructure, and a place in our community. While Sarcura will not continue as a company, it's achievements and people remain part of our ecosystem as a Retired Innovation Pioneer. This

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Backed by fund I
Life Science

Ribbon Biolabs

Ribbon Biolabs is a synthetic biology leader driving DNA synthesis beyond the limits of current technologies. With their automated, enzyme-based platform, Ribbon Biolabs can provide synthetic DNA molecules without size or sequence limitations at a high level of accuracy and at unprecedented speed.

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Backed by fund I
Industrial tech

Prewave

Transparency and actionable insights are becoming increasingly important in an interconnected world with complex supply chains and increasing disruption risks. Finding, monitoring and analyzing disruption- and sustainability risks is a tremendous challenge for almost every industry. With its technology, prewave is making supply chains more resilient and sustainable.

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