{"id":53535,"date":"2025-08-08T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53535\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:09:33","slug":"german-vc-fund-smart-infrastructure-ventures-launches-e30-million-siventures-ii-fund-to-support-early-stage-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53535\/","title":{"rendered":"German VC fund Smart Infrastructure Ventures launches \u20ac30 million SIVentures II Fund to support early-stage startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the success of its first fund, Leipzig-based VC fund Smart Infrastructure Ventures <\/a>has announced the launch of its \u20ac30 million fund, SIVentures II to further invest in early-stage startups focused on innovative technologies in AI, IT infrastructure and energy.<\/p>\n

The current investment strategy plans to \u200binvest in a total of around 30 startup teams, above all in the DACH region, with up to \u20ac500k being made available for initial investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already recorded two successful exits, such as the sale of the Leipzig-based digital health startup mentor to the US medical technology group ResMed. This significant exit after a short period of time has naturally had a positive impact on our fundraising for SIVentures II,\u201d explains Dirk Frohnert, one of the two managing directors of SIVentures.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2019, the founding team \u2013 consisting of Bj\u00f6rn Bauermeister, formerly a trader at BNP Paribas in New York and London, and Dirk Frohnert, formerly a fund manager at JPMorgan in London \u2013 is supported by Falk Trietsch as an investment manager.<\/p>\n

The SIVentures team has more than 20 years\u2019 experience in investment and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n

SIVentures also works closely with the SpinLab group, which manages several accelerator programmes in Germany and has an extensive partner network.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an active investor, we not only offer startups capital, but also see ourselves as a proactive sparring partner,\u201d adds Bj\u00f6rn Bauermeister, the second Managing Director of SIVentures.<\/p>\n

After the successful closing of the first fund in 2024, more than 75% of the target value of \u20ac30 million has already been achieved. The fund\u2019s management plans to double its volume compared to the first fund.<\/p>\n

Successful investments from the first fund include the Jena-based cybersecurity-company Enginsight. According to the fund, their portfolio companies have created more than 300 new jobs in Germany to date.<\/p>\n

The new fund will focus on B2B startups in the pre-Seed and Seed phase, and has already made four investments in the fields of AI, software development and enterprise software. Other potential investments are now in the due-diligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the success of its first fund, Leipzig-based VC fund Smart Infrastructure Ventures has announced the launch of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29490,13457,84,29491,29492,29493,4203,29494,29495,29496,29497,29498,29499,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-53535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-bjorn-bauermeister","9":"tag-bnp-paribas","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-dach","12":"tag-dirk-frohnert","13":"tag-enginsight","14":"tag-entrepreneurship","15":"tag-falk-trietsch","16":"tag-jpmorgan","17":"tag-leipzig","18":"tag-siventures","19":"tag-smart-infrastructure-ventures","20":"tag-spinlab-group","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}