Netherlands · 
What does PhotonVentures invest in?
PhotonVentures invests most often at Seed and Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as AI & Computing, Data & Communications and Security & Resilience.
PhotonVentures highlights
- 01
3 cheques in the last 12 months
- 02
Mostly Seed and Series A: 100% of its rounds
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Led 2 rounds
What they do
PhotonVentures is a European specialist venture capital firm exclusively focused on photonicsFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- AI & ComputingData & CommunicationsSecurity & Resilience
- Based in
- Hilversum, Netherlands
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first5 appearances
- 2026
2 rounds
- Oct
- Jan
- 2025
3 rounds
- Nov
- Apr
- Apr
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
5+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Who backs their funds
5 LPs on record in PhotonVentures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
Invest-NL1 fundFund Vintage Committed PhotonVentures PhotonVentures Fund I - - 
Brabant Development Agency (BOM)1 fundFund Vintage Committed PhotonVentures PhotonVentures Fund I - - 
PhotonDelta1 fundFund Vintage Committed PhotonVentures PhotonVentures Fund I - - 
OostNL1 fundFund Vintage Committed PhotonVentures PhotonVentures Fund I - - 
TNO1 fundFund Vintage Committed PhotonVentures PhotonVentures Fund I - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
8 of 16 we have independently watched raise
Arycs-techDeltadiagnosticsLionix-internationalLumaiMantispectraMicroalignNcodinVitrealabAstrapenetworksBrilliancergbCubiq-technologiesEfinstrumentsGolbriakInvestors portalQuixquantumScantinel
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.