M Ventures

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M Ventures is Merck KGaA’s strategic venture investor in biotechnology, scientific tools, electronics and frontier technology. Explore its recorded Funding activity.

Investment focus

M Ventures is the strategic corporate venture investor of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. Its mandate spans drug development, life-science tools, electronics, frontier technology and sustainability. The team combines financial and strategic objectives and works with founders and co-investors to bring scientific and technical developments toward commercial use.

Activity recorded by RoundOS

RoundOS records activity across both sides of that mandate: drug developers Remepy, TwoStep Therapeutics and TRIMTECH; research-tool businesses Lightcast and Vizgen; and optical-interconnect companies Quintessent and Polaris Electro-Optics. These published financing records describe the activity captured here, rather than the firm’s complete portfolio.

Sources
Rounds participated in
9
Confirmed lead rounds
1
6 roles undisclosed
New companies
9
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$375.5M
8 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A5
Seed1
Series B1
Series C+1
Undisclosed1

By primary sector

Biotech6
Hardware3

By country

United States5
United Kingdom2
Israel1
Switzerland1

Rounds

9 in all activity
Nouscom

Clinical-stage biotech developing neoantigen-based cancer immunotherapies.

€120MSeries D
Lead
Mueon

Develops modular three-dimensional compute and memory systems for AI infrastructure.

$65MSeries A
Participant
Polaris Electro-Optics

Optical interconnect technology for moving data between AI and data-center systems with lower power consumption.

$50MSeries B
Participant
TwoStep Therapeutics

A peptide-targeting platform is advancing conjugate and radioligand therapies for solid tumors.

$62.5MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Quintessent

Makes quantum dot laser chips for AI datacenter optical interconnects

$40MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Remepy

Develops Hybrid Drugs combining prescription medicines with AI-driven therapeutic apps

$36MSeries A
Role not disclosed
TRIMTECH Therapeutics

Develops small molecule therapies to degrade protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

$47MSeed+
Role not disclosed
Lightcast

Develops functional single-cell analysis tools and platforms for life science research

$27MUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Vizgen

Builds technologies for spatial biology and multi-omics innovation

$48MSeries A
Role not disclosed