16 February 2022 Press releases

AI invest­ment: GvW advises inves­tors on finan­cing round of micropsi indus­tries

micropsi industries GmbH has successfully closed a $30 million financing round. GvW Graf von Westphalen advised the investors Metaplanet, VSquared Ventures and Ahren Innovation Capital on this transaction.

Micropsi industries is a robotics software company based in Berlin. Using technology developed by micropsi, robots can be trained by humans to make hand-eye coordinated motions in a myriad of use cases.

Metaplanet, based in Tallinn, is an early-stage investor that makes long-term investments in companies with disruptive technologies. 

Vsquared Ventures specializes in technology-oriented investments. Investment focus areas of the Munich-based venture capital firm are New Space, Quantum Computing, New Materials, AI, Robotics and Enterprise SaaS. Vsquared Ventures' portfolio companies include Isar Aerospace, IQM Quantum Computing, Morpheus Space and Zama.ai.

Ahren Innovation Capital is an investment institution that supports transformational companies at the cutting edge of deep tech and deep science. The firm’s co-Founding Partners have founded companies or technologies today valued in excess of $100 billion combined, and it has team members in London, Cambridge (UK) and Boston.

GvW advised on this financing round with a Frankfurt team consisting of Titus Walek (lead), Jan Hüniken (both venture capital), Karsten Kujath (labor law) and Joachim Mulch (IP).

For more information, see also:

venturebeat.com/2022/02/10/micropsi-raises-30m-euro-to-retrain-industrial-robots-using-human-demonstrations/

 

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