Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC Partner to Accelerate Europe’s Deep-Tech Innovation
Europe is home to world-leading research in semiconductors, photonics, quantum technologies, AI hardware and advanced engineering. Yet many breakthrough technologies struggle to make the transition from research to commercial deployment.
To help bridge that gap, Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC have entered into an informal, non-exclusive collaboration focused on accelerating Europe’s next generation of deep-tech companies.
Together, we aim to create a faster pathway from:
Research → Start-up → Industrial Validation → Customer Adoption
By combining:
- Venture capital
- Industrial digital twin validation
- Engineering expertise
- Access to industrial customers
- Collaborative innovation ecosystems
our ambition is to help Europe’s most promising technologies reach the market faster.
Why We Are Collaborating
The partnership brings together two complementary strengths.
Cloudberry VC provides specialist venture capital investment and company-building expertise for early-stage deep-tech companies.
Siemens Cre8Ventures provides access to industrial validation, digital engineering capabilities and routes into global industrial, defence, mobility and energy customers.
Together, we believe innovation accelerates when founders can access both capital and industrial expertise at the right time.
What Siemens Cre8Ventures Brings
Through the Siemens Cre8Ventures collaborative venturing platform, innovators can benefit from:
- Access to Siemens customer networks
- Engineering tools and simulation platforms
- Industrial validation opportunities
- Multi-physics Digital Twins
- Collaborative ecosystem partners
- Support identifying non-dilutive EU Chips Act funding opportunities
The objective is simple:
Reduce risk before companies invest heavily in hardware development.
What Cloudberry VC Brings
Cloudberry VC contributes:
- Early-stage venture capital
- Pre-seed and seed investment
- Founder support
- Venture scaling expertise
- Access to an extensive investor network
Their investment approach complements the Siemens Cre8Ventures platform by helping technically validated companies secure the capital needed to scale.
Supporting Deep-Tech from Research to Deployment
A central objective of the collaboration is helping companies emerging from universities and research institutes accelerate their journey towards commercial success.
The partnership is particularly interested in:
- Semiconductors
- Photonics
- Quantum Technologies
- AI Hardware
- Edge Computing
- Advanced Sensing
- Robotics
- Autonomous Systems
with a strong emphasis on technologies relevant to:
- Defence
- Industrial Automation
- Energy
- Aerospace
- Mobility
The Siemens Cre8Ventures Journey
Companies introduced through this collaboration may engage with the Siemens Cre8Ventures programme across three stages.
Proof-of-Technology (PoT)
Supporting innovators through:
- Access to Siemens EDA tools
- Siemens Cre8Ventures Higher Education Programme
- Market discovery
- Partner ecosystem
- Non-dilutive EU Chips Act funding opportunities
Proof-of-Concept (PoC)
Working alongside the innovator’s natural customer to validate:
- Power
- Performance
- Architecture
- System integration
using subsystem Silicon Twins before silicon is manufactured.
Proof-of-Value (PoV)
Collaborating with customers and ecosystem partners across full-system multi-physics Digital Twins to demonstrate commercial value before deployment.
Building Stronger University Connections
Another important element of the collaboration is a joint campaign with leading European technical universities.
Together we aim to support:
- PhD researchers
- Academic spin-outs
- Early-stage founders
by providing access to:
- Venture capital
- Engineering tools
- Digital twin prototyping
- Corporate customers
- Industrial and defence partners
How the Collaboration Works
The partnership follows a simple introduction model.
1. Opportunity Identification
Either organisation identifies promising companies, university spin-outs or emerging technologies.
2. Information Sharing
Relevant opportunities are introduced through teasers, presentations or company overviews.
3. Independent Evaluation
Each organisation independently decides whether and how to engage.
Investment decisions remain entirely independent from Siemens Cre8Ventures platform engagement.
4. Optional Platform Engagement
Where appropriate, companies may engage with Siemens Cre8Ventures to access industrial validation, ecosystem partners and routes to market.
A Simple Commercial Model
The collaboration has been intentionally designed to remain straightforward and transparent.
- No referral fees
- No introducer fees
- No success fees
- No equity sharing
- No financial obligations between the organisations
Investment decisions remain fully independent.
Revenue opportunities arise through industrial platform engagements rather than from the start-ups themselves.
Looking Ahead
Europe has world-class research.
It has world-class entrepreneurs.
What it often lacks is a faster route from breakthrough innovation to industrial deployment.
By combining specialist venture capital with industrial validation, engineering expertise and customer access, Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC aim to help Europe’s next generation of deep-tech companies:
- Reduce technical risk
- Reduce commercial risk
- Reach customers sooner
- Accelerate funding readiness
- Move faster from laboratory innovation to real-world deployment
We look forward to working with founders, universities, investors and industrial partners to help shape Europe’s sovereign deep-tech future.
