KOMPAS VC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on physical industries, has
announced the €160 million final close of its second fund. The fund attracted
support from existing backers such as VKR Holding, as well as new institutional
investors including Realdania.
With
Fund II, KOMPAS VC will continue investing in technologies aimed at improving
productivity, resilience, and decarbonisation across sectors such as
manufacturing, the built environment, energy, advanced materials, and
logistics. These industries are characterised by complex infrastructure and
legacy systems, where transformation is both necessary and challenging.
The
investor focuses on solutions that can be deployed in real-world industrial
environments, including industrial AI, robotics, and cybersecurity. Its
strategy centres on supporting technologies that integrate with existing
workflows and enhance how companies design, operate, and maintain physical
assets.
Founded
in 2021, KOMPAS VC invests from seed to Series B across Europe and North
America, typically deploying initial cheques between €1 million and €5 million.
With the new fund, KOMPAS VC plans to expand its investment and platform teams,
strengthening its ability to support founders through domain expertise,
industrial partnerships, and commercial access.
The
investment strategy focuses on three core priorities: increasing productivity,
strengthening resilience, and enabling decarbonisation. In practice, this
includes backing technologies that optimise industrial workflows, secure
critical infrastructure, and support retrofit and electrification efforts.
Sebastian Peck, partner at KOMPAS VC, said the focus is on addressing barriers to
adoption in industrial environments, ensuring that innovations can scale
effectively within complex, real-world systems:
We
prioritise understanding the operational friction from legacy infrastructure to
complex buying cycles that often stall transformation. By solving these
real-world constraints, we ensure our investments don’t just offer performance
gains, but actually scale within the industry.
The fund is expected to support a portfolio of early-stage
companies and has already made several initial investments across industrial
technology, energy, advanced manufacturing, and data infrastructure.