Cottonwood Technology Fund is an early stage venture capital fund that makes impact investments in Key Enabling Technologies (High-Tech & Deeptech).
Cottonwood's investment criteria are as follows:
Sector focus: B2B High-Tech/ Hardware (e.g. Photonics, Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Advanced Materials, Nanotech, Medtech, Advanced Manufacturing, Robotics, Cleantech and the Energy Transition)
Regional focus: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Southwest USA (NM, AZ, UT, CO, TX)
Business Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed & Early Stage
Ticket Size: min. €500.000 and max. €3 million in the first round
Other Requirements: IP/ patent-based technology
Current and prior investments include Skorpios Technologies, Sarcos Robotics (NASDAQ: STRC), Exagen (NASDAQ: XGN), BayoTech, Sencure, Infinitum Electric, Flexiramics (previously Eurekite), FibeRio (acquired by Clarcor), xF Technologies, Respira Therapeutics, TriLumina (acquired by Lumentum), SoundEnergy, OPNT, mPower Technology & Sencure.
Cottonwood is proud of its gender-diverse and multicultural team.
Location: United States, New Mexico, Santa Fe
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2010
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.02.2022 | Circular G... | circularge... | $12.8M | United Sta... |
| 13.02.2022 | SmartNanot... | smart-nano... | $2.7M | Germany, S... |
| 17.08.2021 | Flexiramic... | flexiramic... | - | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Exagen Dia... | exagen.com | $25M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | The Drone ... | thedronebi... | - | Argentina,... |
| 29.04.2021 | Sencure | sencure.co... | $7.41M | - |
| 10.01.2019 | Infinitum ... | infinitume... | $134.3M | United Sta... |
| 06.04.2018 | BayoTech | bayotech.u... | $169.5M | United Sta... |
| 27.09.2017 | SoundEnerg... | soundenerg... | $1.26M | Netherland... |
| 09.09.2015 | Eurekite | eurekite.c... | $6.19M | - |
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News 44
| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.02.2022 | Cottonwood leads €2.4M round in electronic nose sensor chip ... | Disruptive electronic nose sensor chip startup SmartNanotubes raises € 2.4M Series A |
| 31.01.2022 | mPower Technology Raises $10 Million in Series B Financing | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., January 31, 2022 – Innovative solar technology company, mPower Technology, today ... |
| 04.01.2022 | Cottonwood Technology Fund III closes above its $75M target | Cottonwood Technology Fund, specialized in funding seed-stage deep tech and hard science startups, i... |
| 14.12.2021 | Circular Genomics Closes $4.5M Series Seed Investment | November 30, 2021 – Circular Genomics, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based circRNA company, is pleased ... |
| 26.05.2021 | Infinitum Electric raises $40 million in C-round to further ... | Infinitum Electric raises $40 million in C-round to further develop electric vehicle motors May 25, ... |
| 29.04.2021 | Cottonwood Technology Fund invests €1M in Dutch medical chip... | Cottonwood Technology Fund invests €1M in Dutch medical chip firm Sencure |
| 06.04.2021 | Cottonwood congratulates Sarcos Robotics on its announced me... | April 6, 2021, Cottonwood Technology Fund, a top-performing early stage hard science focused venture... |
| 22.03.2021 | Cottonwood Technology Fund approved as HubSpot partner | March 22, 2021. |
| 15.03.2021 | Matthew Ongaro joins Cottonwood Technology Fund as a Junior ... | March 15, 2021. Cottonwood Technology Fund, a hard tech focused early stage venture capital fund, is... |
| 01.02.2021 | Dutch materials company Eurekite raises € 4.2M in follow-on ... | January 31, 2021. Eurekite, an advanced materials spin-off from the University of Twente, the Nether... |
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Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 26.01.2024 | Precision Psychiatry: Circular Genomics Secures $8.3M to Tac... | What You Should Know: – Circular Genomics, a pioneer in unlocking the secrets of circular RNA (circR... | hitconsult... |
| 20.07.2023 | Dutch-based Sencure raises €5M to commercialise its SNCE-800... | Read this article in: Based out of Enschede, the Netherlands, Sencure, a company that is focused on ... | siliconcan... |
| 06.07.2023 | Dutch-based Reyedar raises €3M for early detection of neurod... | Read this article in: The Netherlands-based Reyedar, a deeptech startup developing a medical tech pl... | siliconcan... |
| 05.07.2023 | Dutch deep tech start-up Reyedar raises €3 million to commer... | Dutch deep tech start-up Reyedar, previously know as Reperio Medtech, uses eye-tracking sensors coup... | tech.eu/20... |
| 03.02.2022 | German startup gets a whiff of €2.4 million to become game c... | German startup that has developed micro power multi-channel gas detector chip for the mass market, S... | tech.eu/20... |
| 02.02.2022 | Cottonwood leads €2.4M round in electronic nose sensor chip ... | Disruptive electronic nose sensor chip startup SmartNanotubes raises € 2.4M Series A | cottonwood... |
| 04.01.2022 | Will Silicon Valley finally change after the Elizabeth Holme... | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
| 04.01.2022 | Cottonwood Technology Fund III closes above its $75M target | Cottonwood Technology Fund, specialized in funding seed-stage deep tech and hard science startups, i... | cottonwood... |
| 01.12.2021 | Data Snapshot: Farm robotics startups raised $491m in H1 202... | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provi... | agfunderne... |
| 21.05.2021 | High Tech, Low Understanding: Dear European ‘deep tech’ tech... | Editor’s note: This is a sponsored article, which means it is independently written by our editorial... | tech.eu/fe... |
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