EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than just capital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures'  in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

EQT Ventures

Venture Capital in disruptive, global and high growth potential companies. Stage of funding is pre-series A - C rounds

Inbox Capital

LocalGlobe is a UK-based venture capital firm that focuses on seed and impact investments. Seeding ambitious UK founders since 1999 inc Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Tweetdeck, Transferwise, and Zoopla.

LocalGlobe

Ion Pacific invests creative capital in the technology sector to galvanize opportunities, connect markets and tackle the challenges of building a great business. As the technology sector has grown and matured, venture capital LPs, GPs, corporate venture capital funds and technology companies face new challenges that require creative capital solutions. Ion Pacific has a blindpool venture capital structured secondaries fund. Ion Pacific was founded in 2015 and has offices in Hong Kong, New York City and Europe

Ion Pacific

Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally. It partners with technology founders at the Seed stage and beyond with a particular focus on Europe, leveraging deep operational experience to supercharge their growth. The company's team of founders, investors, and operational leaders have been responsible for global expansion, hiring, and marketing at companies from Skype, Google, and Twitter to Wise and Snowflake. It specializes in seed, startup, Series A, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, and growth capital investments.   Atomico was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in London, England, with offices in Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm

Atomico

Navigate Ventures offers a unique, differentiated investment thesis and strategy by offering ''A Extension Rounds'' for B2B Enterprise SaaS companies outside Silicon Valley during their early growth stages, and help them get to growth rounds. We look for companies that use the latest technologies and AI to solve big problems in traditional industries. The partners bring decades of investing, advising, and operating experience in enterprise SaaS and are focused on helping our portfolio companies prepare for rapid growth, scaling, and raising a growth round.

Navigate Ventures, LLC

Nordstjernan Growth is an an active partner to fast-growing tech companies.

Nordstjernan Growth

Recurring Capital Partners specializes in debt financing for Software as a Service (SaaS) and other recurring revenue model technology-driven companies. Our team, advisors and investors couple significant operating experience with start-up finance expertise to drive a focus on results founders and management teams care about: accelerating growth, controlling business and personal risks, and maximizing personal equity stakes.

Recurring Capital Partners

INX International Ink produces and supplies inks and coatings for commercial, packaging, and digital print applications. The company also offers a complete line of ink and coating solutions technology for various applications, and they are known for their strategic advantage in the industry. INX International Ink was founded in 1992 and is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

INX International Ink

Flat Capital invest in people who are passionate, dedicated, have potential and skin in the game.

Flat Capital

Pledge Ventures is a value-aligned venture fund, and in partnership with Founders Pledge will invest exclusively in members’ companies. Pledge Ventures operates as a rules-based fund, basing its investment decisions on specific criteria. These criteria include the requirement that the founders or leadership of the target company are members of Founders Pledge, the company is in the process of raising a minimum of $20 million in a series B or later funding round, and the participation of a ''top tier'' venture capital firm in the investment round.

Pledge Ventures

Oden Technologies

Oden Technologies creates data capture and analytics platforms that can monitor and optimize production in real-time from any device. The company's platform integrates wireless industrial Internet of Things and proprietary cloud-based analytics into a single, easy platform, allowing clients to digitize production and constantly improve through clear data and actionable insights.

Oden Technologies, originally founded in London but now headquartered in New York, offers an industrial data platform for manufacturers to analyze and optimize factory production via the Cloud. The company’s platform is integrated with manufacturing machines and connects data from the available enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and quality control software on the manufacturing line. Collected data is analyzed with the use of machine learning and predictive analytics to identify optimum factory performance.

Using data and automation to achieve 24/7 production.

Smart Factory

Michael Risse on LinkedIn: Oden Technologies Raises $28.5M Series B to Launch Suite of AI Products…

Oden announced the availability of advanced manufacturing analytics platform on the PTC Marketplace. The integration with PTC’s ThingWorx® IIoT platform enables manufacturers to leverage Oden’s pre-built analytics suite to drive performance and quality improvements faster, extending the value of the ThingWorx® IIoT platform.

Companies that provide an industrial IoT platform across factories as the primary offering.

Oden Technologies, originally founded in London but now headquartered in New York, offers an industrial data platform for manufacturers to analyze and optimize factory production via the Cloud. The company’s platform is integrated with manufacturing machines and connects data from the available enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and quality control software on the manufacturing line. Collected data is analyzed with the use of machine learning and predictive analytics to identify optimum factory performance.The company claims that its software will be able to increase output by 10%–25% with the same quality, make processes 10x faster, and improve first-pass yield (throughput yield) by 10%–50%. Interactive dashboards allow production metrics to be viewed in real time, and machine learning technologies enable instant alerts regarding machine failures to reduce unplanned downtime and reduce product quality failures. Oden Technologies states that the IoT software can be deployed in under 30 days. The company’s technology is used by manufacturers of wire and cable, building products, packaging, and automotive parts, in the US and the UK.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21134">In August 2023</a>, Oden Technologies announced the launch of “Process AI,” which focuses on improving operator productivity through prescriptive process-setting recommendations. Oden Technologies claims Process AI offers operators real-time process setup instructions that help it save material or energy costs or speed up production while preserving every run's quality specification, adhering to company-defined tolerances and considering current operational restrictions.Key customers and partnershipsOden Technologies partnered with PTC (November 2021) to feature Oden's manufacturing analytics platform on the PTC Marketplace.As of August 2024, the company served a number of enterprise clients such as Rockwell Automation, Duraline, INX, Sonoco, Southwire, and Viakable.

Avathon (formerly SparkCognition) offers a suite of AI-powered data analytics solutions for businesses, specializing in the industrial sector. The company’s offerings include: 1) Industrial AI Suite, which enables users to connect datasets with configurable AI models, identify and contextualize risks to equipment, analyze maintenance actions, monitor performance, and visualize multi-asset systems, without requiring coding experience, and 2) Visual AI Advisor, which leverages computer vision to analyze real-time data from existing camera infrastructure for a number of different use cases, such as safety monitoring, visual inspection, and machine monitoring.&nbsp;In May 2023, the company launched the Generative AI Suite, a solution specifically tailored for the industrial sector, which enables users to build and deploy custom large language models (LLMs) on either private or on-premise cloud environments. Users also autonomously augment data sets by generating text, images, audio, and other signals and create imagery for use in simulated real-world environments. It claims to&nbsp;reduce the foundational information needed for decision-making by up to 20x.Since 2021, the company has acquired a number of companies to further develop its product offering. This includes Indian visual AI startup&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9370?industryIds=6">Integration Wizards</a> (March 2022) to expand its intellectual property (IP) portfolio to improve vision capabilities as well as digital knowledge platform Maana (July 2021), software developer for the renewable energy industry Ensemble Energy (May 2021), and financial technology company AIM2 (February 2021).&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34997">In October 2024,&nbsp;</a>Avathon unveiled a new system-level AI platform that provides solutions for managing and monitoring critical industrial infrastructure. The AI platform addresses various industrial issues, including maximizing the uptime of capital-intensive assets, enabling efficient manufacturing ramp-up, and ensuring worker safety in industrial settings.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsSparkCognition’s clientele comprises large companies such as Boeing, Hitachi, and British Petroleum. It has also built partnerships with Google for cloud platform services, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise to offer AI predictive maintenance on HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems, and OSIsoft to integrate SparkCognition’s machine learning technology with OSIsoft’s PI system to improve data and process data analytics.&nbsp;

Avathon

Sight Machine offers a manufacturing data platform that captures and contextualizes data from factories to deliver a system-wide view of the manufacturing process as well as individual assets. The platform transforms raw plant data as well as data from machines of various manufacturers into a standardized data foundation and provides actionable insights for a range of use cases such as predictive maintenance, quality improvement, and capacity utilization. Users can analyze all assets, data sources, and processes by creating digital twins, thereby improving processes, quality, and productivity.&nbsp;In October 2022, Sight Machine introduced <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13696?industryIds=6">Blueprint</a>, a tool developed in collaboration with NVIDIA and Microsoft, which uses AI for high-speed, automated data labeling. The company claims that this solution enables manufacturers to analyze up to 100x more of their data than traditional methods.&nbsp; Key customers and partnershipsSight Machine caters to at least 15 verticals, such as food and beverage, electronics, and automotive. Its global clientele includes Fortune 500 companies such as Nissan, Heineken, Westrock Co., and Asian Paints.&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21955">In September 2023</a>, Sight Machine partnered with LS Electric, a power and automation solutions provider, to create an AI-driven Big Data analytics platform tailored for the manufacturing and energy sectors. In December 2023, the company went on to partner with Teamviewer, a remote collaboration solutions provider, to offer a joint product that combines the latter’s remote connectivity and industrial AR solutions with its real-time data and analysis for industrial processes.&nbsp;Sight Machine has established partnerships with large global companies such as Microsoft, Google, Databricks, Siemens, and AWS to integrate with their data analytics platforms and Fujitsu to help with wide deployments. In July 2023, the platform also became a certified Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing partner and released Factory CoPilot, integrating its Manufacturing Data Platform with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to offer GenAI capabilities for manufacturing analysis and real-time insights. The company went on to launch the<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33441"> Sight Machine connector for Databricks</a> (in September 2024), to integrate its manufacturing data platform with the latter’s data intelligence platform.

Sight Machine

Overview offers smart cameras and AI to enable users to monitor manufacturing equipment and robots and identify defects in real time before significant damage or downtime is incurred. The technology has a repository of machine data so that there is a traceable visual record of all units.&nbsp;With AI, the cause of production issues and quality concerns can be identified either on-site or remotely. The company claims over time, the deep learning computer vision algorithms allow for any sudden substantial increases in production and improved yields. Moreover, it reportedly offers 100% visual traceability and an over 99.9% uptime.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, the solution was used by a number of enterprises, including Schaeffler, ThermoFischer, Honda, Caterpillar, and Tyson.&nbsp;

Overview

Bright Machines combines robotics, machine learning, and computer vision to provide automation applications for the electronics manufacturing industry. Its flagship product is the “Bright Machines Microfactory,” a pre-integrated, programmable assembly line that can be deployed in existing and new production facilities. The Microfactory runs on the company's proprietary “Brightware” cloud-based software platform, offering a scalable solution that enables manufacturers to enhance supply chain resilience and adapt production capacity according to market demand. This software-defined manufacturing allows factories to change the products that they manufacture if needed. The company offers its service on a subscription-based microfactory-as-a-service (MaaS) business model.The company reportedly generated USD 83 million in revenue in 2021. In May 2021, Bright Machines reported that its revenue doubled each year since its inception (2018) and forecasts a 5-year CAGR (2020-2025) of over 84%.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsBright Machines served over 40 manufacturing companies as of October 2022.The company collaborated with Microsoft Azure in May 2024 to leverage the latter’s infrastructure to deliver a full-stack environment for all stages of the manufacturing lifecycle.The company also has distribution/sales partnerships with Anstar Corporation (April 2021), SMT Capital (April 2021), MaRC Technologies (May 2021), PAC Global (May 2021), Restronics (June 2021), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/3618">BROCK Electronics</a> (June 2021), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4740">Murray Percival</a> (July 2021), <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4412">Competitive Edge Manufacturing Equipment</a> (CEME; July 2021).Key competitors: None comparable (Bright Machines is the only company in the smart factory industry that offers microfactories-as-a-service, which combines intelligent software with adaptive hardware to automate manufacturing processes.)

Bright Machines

Augury offers AI-based predictive maintenance solutions. It uses wireless halo sensors to record the vibration, temperature, and magnetism of machines and upload them to the cloud, where AI will be used to diagnose faults and predict potential malfunctions. The system can predict failures and provide early, actionable insights on equipment status, allowing companies to plan maintenance more effectively. Augury offers Machine Health solutions for Critical Assets (MH CR) and Supporting Equipment (MH SE).&nbsp;Furthermore, it offers a warranty policy (one-of-a-kind in the predictive maintenance field) for up to USD 100,000 of repairs and replacements if the software fails to successfully predict machine faults. The company reported that its machine health (predictive maintenance) solutions can deliver an ROI of 3x–10x. In December 2023, the company launched a product loss guarantee solution, in partnership with HSB, which covers a broader range of production-related assets, including protection against production loss due to mechanical failures.&nbsp;In May 2022, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10286">Augury acquired Seebo,</a> another Israeli company that offers predictive quality and yield solutions for manufacturers to identify process-driven inefficiencies.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAugury has built a customer base consisting of companies such as Hershey’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Grundfos, Heineken, Danone, and Bausch Health. The company announced an insurance plan for its customers in 2020, partly as a strategy to attract more customers. Augury’s Machine Health Solutions are integrated with PTC’s ThingWorx IoT through a partnership in July 2020 and are available in the PTC Marketplace. In October 2021, it partnered with Baker Hughes, a provider of energy technology solutions, which integrated Augury’s solutions into its System 1 software and asset performance management (APM) solutions. It went on to integrate Baker Hughes’ “Ranger Pro” wireless condition monitoring sensor and “Cordant” gateway into its platform in June 2024.&nbsp;In November 2023, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23991">Augury partnered with IFS Ultimo</a>, a provider of cloud-based enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions, to offer machine health monitoring and asset management workflows for industries. It went on to partner with DSV, a logistics solutions provider, in March 2024, to introduce a new Parts As a Service (PaaS) solution. The solution utilizes machine health to predict machine faults and enables users to automate the procurement of replacement parts.

Augury

Companies that provide robotic fleet management software, robotic automation software, and inspection software.

Companies that provide cobots, sorting/ picking robotics, modular production robotics, and microfactories.

Companies that focus on data analytics for operations streamlining and process optimization, and may offer predictive maintenance.

Companies that provide autonomous mobile robots (AMR) or self-driving vehicles (SDV) used in manufacturing/ factory operations.

Companies that monitor the manufacturing equipment and assembly lines.

Companies that provide predictive maintenance as a primary offering. 

Creates digital twins of assets and processes to help manufacturers improve processes, quality, and productivity

Connected devices, sensors, IoT, and analytics are used to optimize factory operations

Uses advanced robotics, AMRs, and related software to improve the efficiency of factory operations

Uses connected devices and sensors to gather data—IIoT, predictive analysis, and equipment inspection

Uses AI/ML to analyze data for predictive maintenance and AI-based vision systems for line inspections

5G standard allows for faster reaction times and supports high connection densities

Uses edge computing for data processing at the edge

Some companies in the predictive maintenance space uses generative AI to generate possible alternative scenarios

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 Oden Technologies, a manufacturing analytics company, recently secured funding of USD 28.5 million in a Series B round. The round was led by Nordstjernan Growth and witnessed participation from Flat Capital, Oden Customer INX International, Atomico, and EQT Ventures.
 
 With this investment, the company intends to advance its product development, particularly enhancing its AI products for the manufacturing industry. It also seeks to improve data accuracy, disseminate domain knowledge, and expand recommendation capabilities. 
 
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