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Siemens announced a collaboration between Siemens Cre8Ventures and Cloudberry VC to help accelerate commercialization of Europe’s sovereign deep-tech innovation ecosystem and to further strengthen European industrial resilience and supply chains.
The collaboration brings together the industrial validation and customer access capabilities of Siemens Cre8Ventures with Cloudberry VC’s venture capital expertise in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials. It is designed to help startups and university spin-outs reduce the time and risk involved in moving from early-stage innovation to industrial deployment.
Industrial organizations increasingly face challenges identifying and validating emerging technologies early enough to maintain competitiveness. This collaboration helps address those challenges by enabling earlier access to technically validated innovation and improving routes to industrial adoption.
"By collaborating more closely across the deep-tech ecosystem, we help bring innovation closer to industrial reality," said Geoff Lee, vice president Europe, Middle East & Africa, Siemens EDA, Siemens Digital Industries Software. "This collaboration connects emerging companies with Digital Twin validation, engineering environments and potential customers, helping to accelerate their path to value."
“Our specialization in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials lets us go deeper with founders and connect them directly to industry,” said René Kromhof, founding partner, Cloudberry VC. “This collaboration with Siemens Cre8Ventures helps accelerate and de-risk their path to scale.”
The collaboration focuses on creating earlier visibility into emerging innovation across semiconductors, photonics, robotics, AI hardware, sensing and autonomous systems. It enables startups to benefit from Siemens’ collaborative venturing model, spanning proof-of-technology, proof-of-concept and proof-of-value, helping to reduce technical and commercial risk. For Siemens’ customers, the collaboration provides improved access to emerging technologies, earlier validation pathways and stronger engagement with deep-tech ecosystems. These capabilities help reduce integration risk and support faster adoption of differentiated technologies.
This is an ecosystem-oriented, non-exclusive collaboration with no equity investment or ownership structure between the organizations. The focus is on enabling industrial validation, fostering collaboration and improving access to customers and markets.
