Europe’s industrial and vitality methods are being reshaped by new applied sciences, rising infrastructure wants, and the push for higher financial resilience. Montis VC needs to be a part of that shift.
The enterprise capital agency has launched a brand new fund with a €50 million first shut, focusing on early-stage startups constructing applied sciences for the vitality and industrial transition whereas additionally supporting wider adoption of synthetic intelligence throughout the economic system. The fund is backed by the European Investment Fund by means of the REPowerEU programme, the Polish Growth Fund, and a mixture of household workplaces and personal buyers from throughout Central and Japanese Europe.
Montis VC plans to put money into 20 to 25 startups on the pre-seed and seed levels. Preliminary cheques will vary from €0.5 million to €2 million, whereas half of the overall funding price range has been reserved for follow-on rounds. Its focus is on scalable corporations that may enhance productiveness, strengthen Europe’s competitiveness, and help extra sustainable financial methods.
Investing the place trade meets transformation
The timing of the launch displays a wider shift within the European market. As AI, industrial automation and new mobility fashions develop into extra widespread, demand is rising for applied sciences that may help cleaner, extra environment friendly and extra versatile infrastructure.
Montis VC is positioning itself round that chance. Its technique centres on startups working throughout the vitality and industrial transition, whereas additionally backing options that may assist Europe construct stronger long-term financial capability. The fund is on the lookout for companies with world potential, significantly these able to utilizing synthetic intelligence as a sensible instrument for sooner scaling and broader real-world impression.
This implies the agency shouldn’t be chasing slim themes. As a substitute, it’s trying on the methods that sit beneath the trendy economic system, from how items transfer to how vitality is managed and the way industrial operations can develop into smarter and extra environment friendly.
A staff constructing on a longtime monitor report
Montis VC was based in 2019 by Łukasz Dziekoński, Wojciech Szwankowski, and Michał Gawęda in Warsaw. The staff has additionally been strengthened by the addition of Michał Baś, who was beforehand related to pan-European enterprise capital agency Enterprise Mates. The identical staff beforehand launched and managed Montis Capital. It has invested round €30 million throughout 9 corporations working on the intersection of know-how and trade.
With the brand new car, Montis VC is scaling up each its construction and ambitions. The agency now has a bigger staff, a broader worldwide community and a extra energetic funding technique throughout European markets..
Worldwide community, broader ambition
Its worldwide attain extends past the core funding staff. Enterprise companions embody former Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, entrepreneur and Harvard Enterprise College graduate Tomasz Misiak, and renewable vitality specialist Bart Dujczyński, whose expertise spans Western European markets. Their function shall be to assist the fund construct relationships throughout the broader know-how ecosystem and help portfolio corporations as they develop internationally.
Montis VC says velocity and a founder-first strategy shall be central to the way it operates. The agency needs to work intently with founders on technique, cross-border progress and future fundraising. The €50 million first shut shouldn’t be the endpoint both. It marks the beginning of a broader fundraising course of, with plans to extend the fund’s capitalisation within the months forward.
Funding portfolio
Montis Capital’s portfolio spans trade, life sciences and digital infrastructure, backing corporations that pair technical depth with industrial traction. The portfolio consists of:
- Talkin’ Issues: RFID know-how that helps digitise merchandise at scale.
- PlumResearch: Viewers measurement for OTT and TV markets.
- Proteon Prescription drugs: Animal well being options based mostly on bacteriophages.
- Contemporary Inset: Publish-harvest freshness know-how for meals.
- Biotts: proprietary drug improvement in oncology, dermatology and autoimmune ailments.
- Plenti: Subscription-based tech leases supporting the round economic system.
- Autofixer: Managed market for automobile components.
- Port: Final-mile supply infrastructure for e-mobility companies.
“We put money into founders who wish to construct the way forward for the European economic system by means of know-how and vitality effectivity. We’re significantly centered on areas such because the vitality and industrial transition, the place synthetic intelligence can develop into a strong driver of innovation and world scale,” says Michał Gawęda, Companion at Montis VC.
“We’re constructing Montis VC as a new-generation fund that’s quick, versatile and works intently with founders. There’s nonetheless a scarcity of buyers who actively assist startups scale sooner and put together for the subsequent levels of progress. That’s the hole we wish to fill,” says Michał Baś, Principal at Montis VC.
“Europe has distinctive technological potential and a deep pool of expertise. At Montis VC, we wish to assist startups unlock that potential globally by supporting initiatives which have the ambition to rework complete sectors of the economic system,” provides Wojciech Szwankowski, Companion at Montis VC.
“Earlier, PFR Ventures additionally joined the investor base, allocating €10 million to the brand new Montis VC fund. – Montis VC is one other staff from Poland that first constructed its monitor report utilizing capital backed by European Union funds and is now efficiently attracting non-public and institutional buyers for its subsequent fund. Tales like this assist transfer the Polish enterprise ecosystem to the subsequent degree,” says Bartłomiej Samsonowicz, Funding Director at PFR Ventures.
“Our purpose is to ship above-average funding returns whereas backing applied sciences that genuinely enhance financial productiveness. We’re significantly curious about initiatives making use of AI in sectors akin to trade, vitality and infrastructure. These are the areas the place we see the strongest potential for constructing world know-how corporations from Europe,” says Łukasz Dziekoński, Companion at Montis VC – The €50 million first shut is barely a place to begin. Over the approaching months we plan to proceed scaling the fund and are already in superior discussions with further buyers – he provides.