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Europe's Deep Tech sector just hit a milestone: nearly €15 billion invested in 2024, cementing its position as one of venture capital's hottest sectors. Yet for founders building hardware-first companies, the path to funding remains opaque.

Sequoia Capital details how Magentic's AI agents, called Mages, catch late payments and unfulfilled supplier obligations that can leak roughly 2 percent of enterprise spend.

We’ve joined Sequoia and Westly Group in backing Magentic, which is building enterprise-grade AI agents that autonomously recover millions in lost procurement value, founded by a supply chain veteran and an ex-OpenAI engineer.

In this episode, Lukas shares his journey from a mechanical engineering student rejected from aerospace programs to spending 14 years at DLR before selling his motorbike to raise startup capital.

Sentiment von First Momentum, D11Z. Ventures, seed + speed, und NRW.Bank.

Am 2. Juli 2025 wurden erneut die innovativsten Deep-Tech-Unternehmen der Hauptstadt ausgezeichnet, darunter Kipu Quantum.

Weltweit hat ein Wettlauf um den Bau von Fusionskraftwerken begonnen. Ein Quartett deutscher Start-ups mischt mit. Und ihre Chancen stehen gar nicht so schlecht.

Die Partnerschaft trägt direkt zur Ausweitung der Verfügbarkeit grüner Energiealternativen bei.