Material Ventures

Micro VC·London, UK·Not publicly disclosed

Material Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2022 by Leon Kirchhoff and Piotr Brzezinski. Backed by US-based tech founders and GPs, the firm invests at pre-seed to Series A in European companies building at the intersection of software and the physical world. Its portfolio includes Isembard, an advanced manufacturing platform for aerospace and defence; Sky Spy, a dual-use defence technology startup; and folk, a CRM platform. The fund has invested in 12 companies to date.

Focus Areas

Deep TechAdvanced ManufacturingAerospace & DefenceApplied RoboticsSpaceHardware

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Flink

Robotics·Seed

Flink is an ETH Zurich spinout developing FlinkAI, software that transforms industrial robots into plug-and-play systems for material handling. Founded in 2023 by Moritz Geilinger, Simon Huber, and Stelian Coros, the company's AI-driven perception and physics-based execution engine enables robots to pack, unload, and sort any material within minutes without altering existing facilities. Flink has raised $4.57M in seed funding backed by Cambridge-based IQ Capital alongside Ellipsis Venture, Founderful, Material Ventures, and Venture Kick, and is expanding across European markets including the UK.