Act Venture Partners

Act Venture Partners, operating as ACT Venture Partners, partners with European deep-tech founders at seed stage, aiming to help turn early ideas into larger companies. The firm invests at the earliest stages, describing itself as often the first institutional investor into a company, and focuses on sectors including artificial intelligence, physics-based modelling for chemistry, materials and healthcare, satellite and space technology, advanced manufacturing and autonomy, computational biology and diagnostics, and advanced materials for construction and clean energy. It looks for founders with deep technical knowledge, an ambitious vision, and the willingness to learn quickly, and says it supports portfolio companies with fundraising, hiring, grant access and strategic partnerships. Its team has written about the need for deep-tech investors to engage with public policy given geopolitical dynamics, and it publishes periodic updates on portfolio milestones such as industrial scale-up and product launches.