FCF Fox Company Finance GmbH is happy to publish the “Superior Manufacturing Enterprise Capital Report – 2025”. The report is a part of the “FCF DeepTech Collection”, which is a quarterly collection of experiences monitoring European enterprise capital funding tendencies inside 4 essential DeepTech verticals.
The Superior Manufacturing Enterprise Capital Report highlights enterprise capital funding exercise in startups within the superior manufacturing sector, with subsectors together with additive manufacturing, robotic automation, sensors and IoT platforms, and industrial course of software program.
Key findings are:
- Important improve in enterprise capital exercise within the Superior Manufacturing Sector: After a weak 2023, each the variety of efficiently closed transactions and the full capital raised in 2024 have risen sharply – by 80% to 345 offers and by 63% to €1.1bn – bringing the market again to 2022 ranges. Along with the robust figures from Q1 2025 – 81 transactions totaling €383m – this factors to a restoration of the VC market on this sector, regardless of the nonetheless difficult setting.
- Germany leads the rating by deal quantity: With a funding quantity of €901m (2020 to Q1 2025), Germany is forward of the UK (€851m) and France (€641m) – argely pushed by the sector star “Neura Robotics” with a complete transaction quantity of €236 million over the previous 5 years. Resulting from low transparency (solely 52% of German offers publish financing quantity vs. 79% within the UK and 70% in France), the precise quantity in Germany (and management place) is perhaps even stronger.
- Robotic Automation is an important subsector: Accounting for 26% of all VC offers (351) and 45% of whole fairness raised (€1,9bn), Robotic Automation (options for automating manufacturing or handbook processes) stands out as an important of the 4 analyzed subsectors and attracts robust investor curiosity. That is additionally mirrored within the High 10 largest VC offers – 7 out of 10 in Superior Manufacturing belong to this subsector, together with Neura Robotics and Exotec.
- Two faces of the exit market – robust M&A exercise vs. weak IPO market: The exit panorama within the Superior Manufacturing sector reveals two contrasting tendencies:
1) M&A exercise surged in 2024 with 18 profitable acquisitions (+50% vs. 12 in 2023). Q1 2025 has already seen 3 firm gross sales, indicating a wholesome present setting and doubtlessly signaling an additional consolidation section within the sector
2) The IPO marketplace for Superior Manufacturing startups is just about non-existent. Just one IPO – Boa Idea for €5m in 2021 – has occurred over the previous 5 years. The widely weak IPO setting contributes to this unfavorable development
Conclusion: Startups on this sector have the best exit alternatives via the M&A market.
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Von Florian Theyermann und Daniel Klier.