HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds announced that Veridue is officially launching with a $4 million pre-seed round backed by Episode 1 Ventures, HTGF, Pi Labs, Cameron Hepburn, Co-Founder of Aurora Energy Research, and Jeremy Palmer, former CEO of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.

HTGF is one of the leading and most active VC investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports start-ups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed approx. 800 start-ups and successfully sold shares in 200 companies. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy, KfW Capital and 45 companies. Our multi-stage VC platform has over 3 billion euros of fund volume.