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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| Date | Title | Description |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 01.12.2021 | Data Snapshot: Farm robotics startups raised $491m in H1 2021 to automate the basics | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletter to receive alerts about new re... |
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