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German Bionic, a developer of electrically powered exoskeletons, raised more than $16.3 million in an expanded Series A funding round. The funding is part of the company’s plan to intensify its relationship with its industrialization partner, Mubea. Mubea is a German automotive supplier. German Bionic said it’s leveling up its relationship with the supplier to better meet the escalating demand for smart occupational safety systems. “The strengthening of our partnership with German Bionic underscores Mubea’s commitment to play a pivotal role in advancing sustainable mobility solutions,” said Thomas Muhr, managing partner of Mubea. “This is increasingly the case in the field of micromobility, which operates within the group under the name Mubea U-Mobility. Our expertise in smart lightweight solutions coupled with a proven track record in successfully launching large-scale production projects and the global reach of the Mubea Group, align seamlessly with the shared growth objectives we are pursuing alongside German Bionic.

As we navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of geospatial technology, a crucial challenge emerges: the growing skill gap in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) industry. This gap is not just a hurdle; it represents a significant opportunity for innovation and adaptation. At Picterra, we've been closely attuned to this challenge, recognising the need for tools and solutions that not only embrace technological advancements but also make them accessible and usable for professionals across various sectors.

CloudNC tells Ed Hill about its revolutionary new CAM programming software CAM Assist aimed to dramatically reduce CNC machine tool CAM strategy creation.

Let’s be honest, engineering is the powerhouse of innovation, and engineers have developed some of the most life-altering products and solutions known to humanity today.

According to the global health experts, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) affect around 1.71-billion people globally and are the leading contributor to disability worldwide, with low back pain being the single biggest cause. Repeated heavy lifting is an activity that places considerable strain on the musculoskeletal system, which can lead to the development of MSDs. The US Institute of Medicine estimates the economic burden of workplace MSDs as measured by absenteeism, compensation costs, lost wages, and lost productivity being US$ 45 – 54 billion annually in the US alone. And as populations continue to age, these figures will rise.

Generative Engineering, a London-based software company on a mission to vastly improve the overall efficiency of physical engineering, has successfully closed a €4 million pre-seed round led by EQT Ventures with participation from Join Capital. The engineering of complex physical products, such as those within the automotive and aerospace industries, is a slow, inefficient and capital-intensive process. Engineering tools have not kept up with the increasing complexity of modern products, and today, engineers working on product development typically take a single design through a multi-year, highly manual process. This usually involves collaboration issues, information loss, mistakes, rework and often failure.

Finalcad & Wizzcad announce their merger to become Advae, the French leader in digital transformation for the construction and inspection industries.

Frenetic, a pioneer in custom magnetics technology, announced a €11.2 million Series A led by Kibo Ventures. Existing investors 42Cap, Join Capital, Bankinter, Bonsai, and Big Sur participated in the round. The funding will enable the company to embark on an ambitious new manufacturing project, open an office in Silicon Valley and expand its presence in the US. To date, Frenetic has raised €17.7 million.

Since co-founding Join Capital in 2015, Jan has been entrenched in the European industrial tech landscape. We spoke with him about what has changed in the ecosystem, how Join returned investor capital early, and how being a first-mover has allowed for an advantageous position in an increasingly crowded VC market.

We sat down with one of Join’s Founding Partners to talk about AI, teamwork, growth and overcoming obstacles in the world of VC.

On a sunny Thursday, Join Capital’s Jan Borgstädt stood in front of a room of investors, founders and industry experts. The murmur of the crowd slowly hushed as he began to speak...

Join Portfolio Day 2022: The Neue Industry, Ambassador Networks and “Techquisition”

We are excited to announce our Seed investment in Modelwise, the Munich-based company providing an AI-based software tool for functional safety engineering.

We are excited to announce our Series A investment in Lausanne-based Picterra, alongside VI Partners and ACE & Co. Picterra provides a machine learning DevOps platform for geospatial data analytics.

While there's no magic playbook for founders to let them know when it's time to hire a COO, Jennifer Diamant Foulon has uncovered some valuable perspectives from startup executives about hiring for this complex role.

Lisbon-based Codacy has closed a $15 million Series B funding round led by Bright Pixel Capital, the corporate VC of one of Portugal’s biggest employers, the Sonae Group.

We are excited to announce our investment in Berlin-based Digital Spine. Alongside two successful German Mittelstand companies, Phoenix Contact and Goldbeck, we have co-led this €6.7m Series A round.

The UK-based company’s technology uses a similar approach to the way insects use embodied cognition to move around in complex, dynamic and often hostile environments

Armed with a fresh $45 million, CloudNC is one step closer to realising their vision of a world where manufacturing is fully autonomous

We’re announcing our backing of How.fm, the Cologne-based company that has created a warehouse worker training platform to help onsite managers quickly enable and retain workers. This marks a €5m Seed round, led by us and joined by Kindred Capital, Capnamic and business angels Here’s why we invested in How.fm to help solve global workforce staffing challenges.

How do startups and scaleups decide how they want to compensate their team members?

We’re excited to announce that we’ve backed London-based Silico in a £3.4 million Seed round alongside existing investors Forward Partners and high profile business angels from the B2B enterprise field.

This week, we’re celebrating a huge win for European industrial manufacturing startups. Here’s why this acquisition is so important for industrial tech.

The second exit of Join’s first fund will create a groundbreaking toolkit for corporates to navigate today’s ever-changing workplace environment.

Successful growth can be measured in many ways – and one of them is team expansion. We sure are proud of FotoNow's "How it started" versus "How it's going".

In an industry where commercial success cannot be rushed, here’s how Flexciton navigated its way to a Series A.

In an acquisition that creates one of the biggest real estate tech companies in the world, valued at $500m, Boston-based HqO has acquired Join portfolio company Office App.

Hear the story of how WIZZCAD cleared its internal information bottleneck and opened up dialogue to create a brand new Product team

In a €4.5 million round co-led with Bonsai, we’ve backed Madrid-based magnetics design company Frenetic. The company is revolutionizing magnetics through AI, replacing outdated engineering models across sectors.

As we forge ahead in 2021, we’re excited to announce our co-leading of the €2.0m Seed financing round for Helsinki-based IPRally, alongside Spintop Ventures and existing investor Icebreaker.vc. Sakari, Juho, Juuso and the IPRally team have built a remarkable product and quadrupled revenues in 2020 despite a global pandemic.

Together with Holland Capital, we proudly announce our backing of RheoCube, an Amsterdam-based simulation and software company offering breakthrough technology for chemical research and development. RheoCube provides virtual prototyping, replacing up to 90% of synthesis and laboratory experiments with detailed bottom-up scientific simulations.

Join Capital is thrilled to announce a €3 million seed round for Munich-based FotoNow, a company tackling global challenges in manufacturing quality with an omnipresent, AI-powered visual inspection solution.

During this time, discovering what your team really needs from an office can be tricky. Learn how leadership at RheoCube ensured no one was left out of the discussion.

After a rigorous selection process to select the most impactful companies in Europe led by Black founders, Google for Startups – through its Black Founders Fund – has backed Circuit Mind in its journey to empower electronics engineers.

Valispace co-founder and CPO, Louise Lindblad, explains how Join played an active role in building a structure for empowering her team as it prepared for growth.

Who's leading the back-to-office wave? Let Office App clue you in. We spoke with them to find out what people really want when it comes to the post-Covid office, and how shared desks and real meeting rooms aren't going to disappear. The data might surprise you.

Opteran's Chief Scientific Officer joins a University College London Senior Lecturer and MIT Tech Review Writer to discuss how honeybees can help us make more crash-proof drones

Philippe from our investment team — together with our friends Lisa (UVC), Robin (Aveo), and Levent (Paua Ventures) — had a Clubhouse fireside chat about the Industrial Tech space. In this event recap, you can find out what key trends industrial tech startups should be taking advantage of right now.

Hiring for sales is tough. That's why you need a formula. Founder and CEO of Prodsmart, Gonçalo Fortes, gives us the lowdown on his sales hiring journey in our first Founder Fix.

When physical distancing becomes social distancing, what happens to company morale and performance over time? Here’s what we’re learning from startups during the pandemic.

WHERE are all the intelligent robots? Despite huge recent strides in artificial intelligence, autonomous robots answering our every beck and call are still a long way off. To make that leap, we are going to need a revolution in AI – and I believe insects will be at the heart of it.

Digital R&D simulation software platform RheoCube has attracted an investment of over 2 million USD. This funding round, which will drive RheoCube’s global expansion, was co-led by renowned investors Holland Capital and Join Capital.

IPRally, a burgeoning startup out of Finland aiming to solve the patent-search problem, has raised €2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is JOIN Capital and Spintop Ventures, with participation from existing pre-seed backer Icebreaker.

The story of our first steps towards explainable patent search. In the end of the post you get to test our unique approach, which is one of the first few serious attempts to provide real world value from explainable NLP deep learning models.

German/Portuguese start-up company Valispace develops state-of-the-art software tool to store and structure engineering data, and make all easy browser accessible. Meet Valispace at the 10th ESA Investment Forum in ESOC 31 January 2019.

We proudly announce our backing, along with IQ Capital, Episode 1 and Seraphim Capital, of Opteran Technologies — a spinoff company from the University of Sheffield that is designing the next generation of autonomous technology.

Proxyclick is a startup in Brussels selling a software-as-a-service visitor management system that replaces pen and paper with an iPad check-in process at office reception desks.

Production floor tracking and management in real time

With a strong vision, team and product, beWanted is poised to become one of the most important resources for young job seekers and companies looking to hire talent.

JOIN Capital co-leads funding round for the industrial robotics startup that’s transforming workplace safety with exoskeletons

What happens when you introduce a revolutionary new talent scouting technology into an organization?

Quality code is more vital than ever as software becomes the backbone of our society. Codacy, a Portuguese company that has created a widely used, automated code review tool, is among the wave of startups facilitating an efficient, software-driven world.

As we plunge further into 2019, we’re seeing increasingly rapid growth in European investments and industrial innovation. The fibers of the Neue Industry are taking shape in production, manufacturing, robotics and all processes that support these industries behind the scenes.

At JOIN, we’ve come to anticipate our yearly pilgrimage in April to Hannover Messe — the largest industrial trade fair in the world. It’s a time to gather insights, demo products and most importantly connect and brainstorm with great minds who are shaping the Neue Industry.

Discovering key trends in Asia Pacific helps us bridge the two regions

JOIN Capital is proud to announce our lead in the latest €4.3m funding round for Dutch PropTech startup Office App, alongside Austria-based SIGNA Innovations (the Venture Capital Unit) and UK-based specialist PropTech VC Pi Labs.

Meet Mark Harré — a Berlin-based Investment Manager at SIGNA Innovations. After three years at DVH Ventures, Mark joined SIGNA in January 2019 and is now focused on early stage PropTech investments. With a combination of varied experience, dedication and sheer love for his job, Mark has become not only a professional at leading investments, but also a valuable advisor for startups.

We believe the future of construction tech lies in BIM-native technologies. Our lead investment in a €5 million round for French construction tech startup, WIZZCAD, will help it meet the global challenges of smart building.

When it comes to investments, powerful technologies call for powerful due diligence. That’s the idea behind TechMiners — a new service brought to life by former kaufDA CTO Thomas Frieling and former movingimage Head of Software Development & Infrastructure Christoph Beckmann.

JOIN Capital hosts its first WHAT?! event as part of an ongoing series on the world’s most exciting tech sectors.

CEO Thijs van der Burgt reveals the key advantages for getting ahead in the PropTech market

JOIN Capital participates in a Series B funding round led by Five Elms Capital to support Proxyclick’s expansion in the US.

At Berlin’s most insightful LP/VC relations event, top VCs reveal what they’ve learned about articulating their “number one-ness.”

We proudly announce our backing of the Datapred team, who are scaling a timely cost and risk management solution for supply chain organizations. The company’s undeniable value proposition — up to 5% cost savings on direct material procurement — makes it poised to take the lead in a huge market.

Thijs van der Burgt, CEO and Co-founder of Office App, discusses what the COVID-19 crisis has shown us about work and the office, and why technology will pave the way forward.

Female founders lack access to funding. To change that, more than 70 investors from Europe have joined forces to connect and provide female founders and mixed founding teams from DACH with remote funding office hours.

Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: instead of building machines that replace humans altogether, build hardware that humans can wear to supercharge their abilities.

At Codacy, we envision a future where everyone can impact the world by crafting complex software with confidence and focus at the speed of thought. In the spirit of this vision, we want to find new ways to help teams build software.

Tech start-up Opteran has raised £2.1m in seed funding for its ‘Natural Intelligence’ technology, aiming to solve autonomy in machines and robotics.

JOIN CAPITAL hosts its first WHAT?! event as part of an ongoing series on the world’s most exciting tech sectors.

We are excited to lead the $2.4m pre-Series A financing round for Bremen-based Valispace, alongside Hardware Club and existing investor High-Tech Gründerfonds.

British scientists are studying the way bees adapt to their surroundings to develop software which could guide a new generation of sophisticated drones.

Proxyclick began life by providing an easy way to manage visitors in your building with an iPad-based check-in system.

Dutch startup Office App has landed a €4.3 million funding round led by German VC Join Capital and...

Hardware engineering is mostly document-based. A typical satellite might be described in several hundred thousand PDF documents, spreadsheets, simulation files and more;

Die drei Ingenieure Louise Lindblad, Simon Vanden Bussche und Marco Witzmann haben ihren Beruf aus einem Grund gewählt:

Bei Krebsen befindet sich das Skelett nicht im Körper, wie bei Menschen, sondern außen. So wird das empfindliche Innenleben geschützt. Eine Firma aus Augsburg nutzt dieses Prinzip für die Arbeitswelt:

xoskelette kommen bisher vor allem in Sci-Fi-Filmen vor oder wenn es darum geht, Gehbehinderten zu helfen.

UK precision engineering firm CloudNC has introduced a pioneering new AI based approach to manufacturing. In this exclusive Q&A interview the company’s CEO Theo Saville...

CloudNC, the U.K. startup and Entrepreneur First alumni that is developing AI software to automate part of the manufacturing process, has quietly raised £9 million in Series A funding, TechCrunch has learned.

Datapred, an innovator in direct material procurement software, today announced its first institutional fundraising, led by Berlin-based JOIN Capital.

If you’ve ever entered a company’s office as a visitor or contractor, you probably know the routine: check in with a receptionist, figure out who invited you...

Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, held its tenth London Demo Day this afternoon.

Gregory Blondeau is CEO and Founder of Proxyclick, the leading provider of enterprise visitor management software.

Codacy, a startup based in Lisbon, Portugal that offers what it calls an “automated code review platform,” has raised $5.1 million in Series A funding.

Flexciton’s mission is to apply cutting-edge technology to industrial data to make industrial efficiency improvements that would be impossible for a human to do on their own.