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We are thrilled to lead Black Semiconductor’s €254.4 million Series A financing round, making it one of the largest ever for a European chip company 🤖 We are excited to lead this financing round together with Project A, joined by Capnamic, Scania Group (Growth Capital), NRW.BANK and existing investors Vsquared Ventures, Cambium Capital and Hermann Hauser's Onsight Ventures. Complemented with huge public funding through the IPCEI ME/CT program, we are jointly striving to establish chip capabilities within Europe to decrease dependencies and strive for more resilient supply chains. Black Semi leverages graphene to build chips that are a magnitude faster and more energy efficient. The team is now well positioned to enable the first semiconductor mass production based on the novel material graphene — an important step towards developing the semiconductor value chain in Europe. Congrats to Daniel Schall, Sebastian Schall, Cedric Huyghebaert and the whole Black Semi team for this outstanding achievement! #BlackSemi #PorscheVentures #DrivenbyDreams #VentureCapital #Semiconductor #Pioneers #SeriesA #Graphene #Photonics Design Credit: Ingo Feisthamel __ Taycan Turbo S (WLTP): Electricity consumption combined: 20,5 – 17,9 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A; Status 05/2024

Join us at HackSummit 🌍 on June 13-14, one of Europe’s largest events for ClimateTech founders, investors, and corporates!   Yanisse Benabdellaziz from our Porsche Ventures Investment Team will be in Lausanne, keen to engage with corporates, VCs, and founders to discuss investments and sustainability topics 🌱.   We look forward to seeing you there! 👋 #PorscheVentures #DrivenbyDreams #HackSummit #HackSummit2024 #Pioneers #VentureCapital

📢 We are thrilled to share some exciting news about the growth and promotions within our Porsche Ventures Family! 🧡 Over the past year, our team has expanded with the additions of Irene Prota and Yanisse Benabdellaziz, who have already made a significant impact since joining us. 🌟 We also celebrate the well-deserved promotions of Justus Müller, Robin Neff, Carlo Stern, Dennis Levien and Ralph Riecke. They have been essential to our team, and we eagerly anticipate the remarkable contributions they will make in their new roles. 🏁 Our team truly embodies the spirit of Porsche Ventures, and we are excited for the future with such outstanding talent driving our success.

🌎 Happy World Environment Day!   Today, we celebrate some of our very special founders who are working tirelessly to push the boundaries for a better tomorrow. We are proud to have such visionary founders within our Porsche Ventures Family 💚   1KOMMA5° Bcomp Ltd cylib AM Batteries South 8 Technologies Chemix, Inc. Laka &Charge   Sustainability lies at the heart of our investment strategy, and we're proud to witness the impactful strides made by some of the remarkable people in this industry. At the same time, we also have to acknowledge how much more work we have ahead of us, so let's keep pushing!👊   #WorldEnvironmentDay #Sustainability #RenewableEnergy #PorscheVentures #Pioneers #VentureCapital Consumption Data: Taycan (WLTP): Electrical consumption combined: 20.0 – 16.7 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A; Status 05/2024

Paris is already a splendid city, but Viva Technology is what made Paris so special last week! Few highlights from the event: 📌 The numerous high-quality investors and innovative startups we had the chance to connect with 🤝 📌 The investor breakfast organized by Bpifrance, with the insightful discussions on the AI landscape and its strategic importance 🤖 📌 The new 2024 fully electric Porsche Macan showcased at the Meta booth by our great colleagues from Porsche France 🚗 A special thanks to Goncalo Gomes Oliveira, Antoine Silva and the entire VivaTech team for their organization and the fantastic side events 🙌   We are eagerly looking forward to next year’s edition ✨ Consumption Data: Macan 4 (WLTP): Electrical consumption combined: 21.1 – 17.9 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A; Status 05/2024   #VivaTech #PorscheVentures #DrivenbyDreams #VentureCapital #Pioneers #Paris #VCEvents

Meet us at Viva Tech 2024 🌐 Justus Müller and Yanisse Benabdellaziz will be attending Viva Technology in Paris this week! 🗼 Don’t miss the chance to connect! They are excited to meet visionary entrepreneurs, other investors and industry leaders.  See you there! 🌟   #PorscheVentures #DrivenbyDreams #VivaTech2024 #VivaTechnology #Pioneers #VentureCapital

We are proud to co-lead the €55 million Series A of cylib – making it the largest round ever raised by a European battery recycling company. 🔋♻️   This landmark funding round was co-led by World Fund, joined by Bosch Ventures, DTCF | DeepTech & Climate Fonds, NRW.Venture and existing investors Vsquared Ventures, Speedinvest and 10x Founders. The capital injection will enable cylib to switch gears and pave the way to industrialization. 🛠️   cylib is commercializing nearly a decade of research from RWTH Aachen University. In less than 24 months, cylib managed to build up a full-fledged pilot-line, grew to a team of over 60 people while launching numerous projects with leading automotive OEMs and battery manufacturers.   We are excited to partner with the cylib team to industrialize their innovative end-to-end recycling process with the aim to drive the European Raw Material Ecosystem to become more sustainable and resilient. Our shared ambition of striving for a decarbonized and circular supply chain makes cylib and Porsche Ventures a perfect fit.   Congrats to Lilian Schwich, Paul Sabarny, Dr. Gideon Schwich and the entire cylib team for this achievement!   #cylib #PorscheVentures #DrivenbyDreams #VentureCapital #Pioneers #SeriesA #End2End #BatteryRecycling #Sustainability Consumption Data: Taycan (WLTP): Electrical consumption combined: 20.0 – 16.7 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A; Status 05/2024

Unser neues Entwicklungszentrum in Berlin bekommt ein vollelektronisches Testfahrzeug für die Optimierung von dynamischen Laden mit Heartbeat und natürlich zur Optimierung unseres Algorithmus für die Back-End Integration direkt über das Fahrzeug selbst. Danke Team Porsche AG Porsche Zentren in Berlin und Porsche Ventures gemeinsam bauen wir die Mega Batterie für günstigen und sauberen Strom aus Wind 💨 und Sonnen ☀️ 😎✊ The best is yet to come! ❤️ Dennis Levien Lutz Meschke Patrick Huke und viele andere!!!

AI and electrification are two of the most important technologies of this decade. Empowering battery R&D with sophisticated AI frameworks and systems represents a pivotal step forward to making products better, faster and cheaper 🔋   With the goal of advancing battery productization, accelerating sales and de-risking supply chain, we are excited to announce our investment in Chemix, Inc.. The company raised a $20M Series A led by Ibex Investors and key investors Mayfield Fund Ventures, BNP PARIBAS SOLAR IMPULSE VENTURE FUND, and Global Brain Corporation / KDDI Corporation.   Why are we compelled by this? ⚡   Chemix is AI company for battery R&D. The team has developed an AI-R&D Flywheel that vertically integrates 3 combined technological approaches: 1) Generative AI, 2) Self-Driving Lab (highly automated experimentation), and 3) Proprietary Data (specially curated, high dimensional data).   This flywheel allows Chemix to rapidly discover and optimize novel material formulations and battery configures tailored to specialized and underserved EV verticals, including established OEMs, emerging EVs and pack customers.   The mission is to revolutionize next-gen battery design using AI. Chemix focuses on the highest value-add step, the most challenging step: how to come up with a battery design because of the limitless design space and testing environments (i.e., taking a cell design from “0-to-1”).   The power of the SDL comes from the dramatically increased throughput and consistency due to autonomy and standardization (e.g. running an R&D lab more like high-volume manufacturing where every step is properly recorded/digitalized with positive feedback loops).   This is a massive undertaking. In less than 3 years, Chemix is already delivering high quality cells today for GWh production. Fresh capital is being used to scale operations and product delivery to serve global customers GWh-level demands with Chemix’s “recipes” as a drop-in solution to existing manufacturing processes and factory ambitions.   It is our belief that high-performant AI models will generate superior materials and cell design, driving progress at an accelerated rate. Find more information here: https://lnkd.in/gha8psuY