KOMPAS VC has closed its second fund with backing from existing and new investors, aiming to support early-stage companies developing technologies that improve productivity, resilience, and decarbonisation across industrial sectors.
KOMPAS VC, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on physical industries, has announced the €160 million final close of its second fund. The fund attracted support from existing backers such as VKR Holding, as well as new institutional investors including Realdania.
With Fund II, KOMPAS VC will continue investing in technologies aimed at improving productivity, resilience, and decarbonisation across sectors such as manufacturing, the built environment, energy, advanced materials, and logistics. These industries are characterised by complex infrastructure and legacy systems, where transformation is both necessary and challenging.
The investor focuses on solutions that can be deployed in real-world industrial environments, including industrial AI, robotics, and cybersecurity. Its strategy centres on supporting technologies that integrate with existing workflows and enhance how companies design, operate, and maintain physical assets.
Founded in 2021, KOMPAS VC invests from seed to Series B across Europe and North America, typically deploying initial cheques between €1 million and €5 million. With the new fund, KOMPAS VC plans to expand its investment and platform teams, strengthening its ability to support founders through domain expertise, industrial partnerships, and commercial access.
The investment strategy focuses on three core priorities: increasing productivity, strengthening resilience, and enabling decarbonisation. In practice, this includes backing technologies that optimise industrial workflows, secure critical infrastructure, and support retrofit and electrification efforts.
Sebastian Peck, partner at KOMPAS VC, said the focus is on addressing barriers to adoption in industrial environments, ensuring that innovations can scale effectively within complex, real-world systems:
We prioritise understanding the operational friction from legacy infrastructure to complex buying cycles that often stall transformation. By solving these real-world constraints, we ensure our investments don’t just offer performance gains, but actually scale within the industry.
The fund is expected to support a portfolio of early-stage companies and has already made several initial investments across industrial technology, energy, advanced manufacturing, and data infrastructure.