UVC Partners invests in European B2B technology startups from pre-seed through Series A and beyond, writing initial cheques of EUR 0.5m to EUR 10m and up to roughly EUR 30m per company over time. The firm concentrates on deep tech, climate tech, mobility and software/AI, with portfolio companies including Isar Aerospace, Proxima Fusion, KONUX, TWAICE, FINN, Flix and Aleph Alpha. It says it has made more than one hundred B2B investments with more than thirty exits, and works out of Munich (registered seat in Garching) and Berlin. Its funds are supported by the European Investment Fund, and portfolio companies are given access to the UnternehmerTUM network at TU Munich.
EUR 800M (assets under management, stated on uvcpartners.com) AUM71/100 Power Score™2011 FoundedMunich, Germany
Founded near Munich; the management company is entered in the commercial register on 22 June 2011 (Amtsgericht München HRB 192643) under the name UnternehmerTUM-Fonds Management GmbH, later renamed Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners GmbH
2017
Benjamin Erhart joins as Partner from High-Tech Gründerfonds; Alexander Kiltz also joins
2019
Berlin office opened
2021
Fund III reaches EUR 255m, with LPs including the FlixBus founders, LANXESS AG and German family offices
2023
Exits fleet-management company Vimcar to Battery Ventures, which merges it with Avrios
2024
Fund IV closes at EUR 250m in six months, the firm's fastest raise to date; UnternehmerTUM's announcement describes UVC as an 'unabhängiger Partner von UnternehmerTUM'
2026
Fund IV expanded to EUR 400m with added growth capital, taking total assets under management to about EUR 800m