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.
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
Portfolio 22
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.02.2022 | Circular G... | circulargenomics.com | $12.8M | United Sta... |
| 13.02.2022 | SmartNanot... | smart-nanotubes.com | $2.7M | Germany, S... |
| 17.08.2021 | Flexiramic... | flexiramics.com | - | - |
| 17.08.2021 | Exagen Dia... | exagen.com | $25M | - |
| 17.08.2021 | The Drone ... | thedronebird.com | - | Argentina,... |
| 29.04.2021 | Sencure | sencure.com | $7.41M | - |
| 10.01.2019 | Infinitum ... | infinitumelectric.com | $134.3M | United Sta... |
| 06.04.2018 | BayoTech | bayotech.us | $169.5M | United Sta... |
| 27.09.2017 | SoundEnerg... | soundenergy.nl | $1.26M | Netherland... |
| 09.09.2015 | Eurekite | eurekite.com | $6.19M | - |
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News 44
| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.02.2022 | Cottonwood leads €2.4M round in electronic nose sensor chip startup | 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 announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding, led by Cottonwood Technology Fund and various space sector investors. The Seri... |
| 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, is pleased to announce the oversubscribed final close of its third fund. More than 40 new Limited Partners from Benelux, Germany, Switzerland... |
| 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 to announce the closing of their $4.5M Series Seed investment round. The round was co-led by Cottonwood Technology Fund III and Tramway Vent... |
| 26.05.2021 | Infinitum Electric raises $40 million in C-round to further develop electric vehicle motors | Infinitum Electric raises $40 million in C-round to further develop electric vehicle motors May 25, 2021 – Cottonwood Technology Fund is happy to announce a $40 million C-round for portfolio company Infinitum Electric, which is disrupting t... |
| 29.04.2021 | Cottonwood Technology Fund invests €1M in Dutch medical chip firm Sencure | Cottonwood Technology Fund invests €1M in Dutch medical chip firm Sencure |
| 06.04.2021 | Cottonwood congratulates Sarcos Robotics on its announced merger with Rotor Acquisition Corp. – transaction value $1.3 Billion | April 6, 2021, Cottonwood Technology Fund, a top-performing early stage hard science focused venture capital fund, congratulates one of its portfolio companies, Sarcos Robotics (Sarcos), a global leader in robotics, on its announced merger ... |
| 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 Partner | March 15, 2021. Cottonwood Technology Fund, a hard tech focused early stage venture capital fund, is pleased to announce that Matthew Ongaro will join its investment team. |
| 01.02.2021 | Dutch materials company Eurekite raises € 4.2M in follow-on round | January 31, 2021. Eurekite, an advanced materials spin-off from the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has raised € 4.2 million in a follow-on round. The funding is provided by Demcon, OostNL and a group of informal investors from the D... |
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Mentions in press and media 22
| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.06.2025 | Quantum Leap: OrangeQS Secures €12 Million to Revolutionize Chip Testing | In the heart of Delft, a small startup is poised to make a big splash. Orange Quantum Systems, or OrangeQS, has just raised €12 million in a seed funding round. This isn't just any funding; it's the largest seed investment in the Netherland... |
| 18.06.2025 | OrangeQS has raised €12M in an oversubscribed seed funding round | A pioneering Dutch startup transforming the field of quantum chip testing, Orange Quantum Systems (OrangeQS), has closed an oversubscribed €12 million seed round. Quantum computing is a rapidly developing field. As the chips that underpin m... |
| 12.06.2024 | Dutch quantum tech startup Orange Quantum Systems raises funding from InnovationQuarter | Read this article in: Delft-based Orange Quantum Systems, a quantum technology company, secured fresh funding from InnovationQuarter, a firm that helps entrepreneurs in South Holland to develop and market technological innovations. Dutch-ba... |
| 26.01.2024 | Precision Psychiatry: Circular Genomics Secures $8.3M to Tackle Depression with CircRNA Test | What You Should Know: – Circular Genomics, a pioneer in unlocking the secrets of circular RNA (circRNA) for precision psychiatry and neurology, has secured $8.3 million in a Series A funding round. Led by Mountain Group Partners, this vital... |
| 20.07.2023 | Dutch-based Sencure raises €5M to commercialise its SNCE-800 biosensor chip | Read this article in: Based out of Enschede, the Netherlands, Sencure, a company that is focused on medical devices for monitoring and diagnostic purposes, announced on Wednesday, July 12, that it has secured €5M in a fresh round of funding... |
| 06.07.2023 | Dutch-based Reyedar raises €3M for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases | Read this article in: The Netherlands-based Reyedar, a deeptech startup developing a medical tech platform for the early detection of age-related degenerative diseases, announced on Wednesday, July 5, that it has raised €3M in a fresh round... |
| 05.07.2023 | Dutch deep tech start-up Reyedar raises €3 million to commercialise it degenerative disease screening technology | Dutch deep tech start-up Reyedar, previously know as Reperio Medtech, uses eye-tracking sensors coupled with deep learning to detect early symptoms of age-related degenerative diseases such as glaucoma, parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis. ... |
| 03.02.2022 | German startup gets a whiff of €2.4 million to become game changer in gas sensor market | German startup that has developed micro power multi-channel gas detector chip for the mass market, SmartNanotubes Technologies has raised €2.4 million in Series A funding round. The lead investors include Cottonwood Technology Fund and duot... |
| 02.02.2022 | Cottonwood leads €2.4M round in electronic nose sensor chip startup | Disruptive electronic nose sensor chip startup SmartNanotubes raises € 2.4M Series A |
| 04.01.2022 | Will Silicon Valley finally change after the Elizabeth Holmes verdict? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. After a four-month-long trial, Elizabeth Holmes of the now-defunct blood testing startup Theranos... |
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