Nucleus Capital is a new venture capital firm supporting purpose-driven founders. We profoundly believe that entrepreneurial innovation is necessary to enhance planetary resilience. We partner with entrepreneurs at the nucleus of their journey, investing at the Pre/Seed stage and are focussed on Synthetic & Computational Biology, Food- and Climate Technology.
Location: Germany, Berlin
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2020
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed
Portfolio 36
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 09.03.2026 | Datapods | datapods.app | $4.68M | Germany |
| 09.03.2026 | Telura | telura.com | $4.68M | Germany |
| 09.07.2025 | ScienceMac... | sciencemachine.ai | $3.5M | United Kin... |
| 11.05.2024 | Biodrive | biodrive.io | - | - |
| 12.02.2024 | Atmio | atmio.com | $6.93M | - |
| 10.01.2024 | Izote Bios... | izote.bio | - | United Sta... |
| 26.10.2023 | Brineworks | brineworks.tech | $10.16M | Netherland... |
| 26.10.2023 | BioMia | biomia.com | - | Denmark, N... |
| 04.07.2023 | Biographic... | graphica.bio | $9.5M | United Kin... |
| 08.06.2023 | Aspre Food... | aspyrefoods.com | - | - |
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Persons 13
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Dr. | Mazen Rizk | Scientific... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Dr. | Patricia B... | Scientific... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Martin | Weber | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Maximilian | Schwarz | Founder | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Dr. | Isabella F... | General Pa... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Aaron | Suri | Investment... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Andreas | Berger | Industry A... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Dr. | Carolina V... | Principal | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Christian | Ohlshausen | Industry A... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Kamel | Chida | Industry A... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
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Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.05.2026 | Exclusive: Triple Bio emerges from stealth with lipid tech designed to boost milk yields and curb methane | Netherlands-based startup Triple Bio has emerged from stealth with a lipid-based feed additive platform (RumeNRG) designed both to enhance existing methane inhibitors and redirect hydrogen in cattle rumen toward more productive fermentation... |
| 08.05.2026 | Ruby Bio aims to launch “world first” fermentation-derived clean label emulsifiers in 2027 | A new generation of emulsifiers derived from fermentation could hit the market next year, enabling companies to replace a flurry of additives derived from palm oil or petrochemical intermediates with clean label alternatives, says Californi... |
| 14.03.2026 | +++ Qdrant +++ Airmo +++ heycare +++ Telura +++ finperks +++ ShowHeroes +++ Rows +++ Code Intelligence +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker-Wochenrückblick liefern wir einen schnellen Überblick darüber, was in der deutschsprachigen Startup-Szene zuletzt wirklich wichtig war! STARTUPLAND: SAVE THE DATE The next unicorn? You’ll meet it ... |
| 09.03.2026 | Telura erhält 4 Millionen – Peeriot sammelt Millionensumme ein – Finanzspritze für Datapods | Im #DealMonitor für den 9. März werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor-Arch... |
| 03.03.2026 | Bindbridge raises $3.8m for targeted protein degradation platform for next-gen crop protection | – Bindbridge—a startup using targeted protein degradation to create more effective herbicides and other crop protection products—has raised $3.8 million from Nucleus Capital and Speedinvest. – The funding will help UK-based Bindbridge—found... |
| 03.03.2026 | Bindbridge raises $3.8M for next-generation crop protection | Cambridge-based Bindbridge has secured $3.8 million in early-stage funding from Speedinvest and Nucleus Capital to advance next-generation crop protection aimed at improving crop resilience and agricultural productivity. Traditional crop pr... |
| 17.02.2026 | Alt-coffee startup Koppie nets new funds to build 1,000-ton capacity for launch partners in 2026 | Belgian startup Koppie—which makes a single-ingredient coffee alternative from peas—has raised an undisclosed sum from DOEN Ventures to help build 1,000-tons of capacity in 2026, ensuring sufficient volumes for its first launch partners. Th... |
| 11.09.2025 | Aspyre Foods taps duckweed for casein and RuBisCO: ‘We’re maximizing the biomass value’ | South African startup Aspyre Foods is building a platform it claims can turn duckweed into a biofactory for producing two highly functional food proteins: casein and RuBisCO. While several startups are engineering plants to produce recombin... |
| 09.07.2025 | ScienceMachine raises $3.5M for leading autonomous AI in biotech research | ScienceMachine, a fast-growing London-based AI startup accelerating biotech data analysis with a fully autonomous agent, has raised a $3.5 million pre-seed funding round. The company’s autonomous AI agent, named Sam, functions as a 24/7 AI ... |
| 09.07.2025 | London-based ScienceMachine raises €2.9 million for BioTech analysis with a team of only two and without spending “a cent on marketing” | ScienceMachine, a British AI startup accelerating BioTech data analysis with a fully autonomous agent, has raised a €2.9 million pre-Seed funding round to support product development and hiring, particularly in sales and pharma partnerships... |
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