First Momentum Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($285K–$1.7M Checks)
First Momentum Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Karlsruhe, Germany investing in AI / ML, SaaS, Other. The firm typically writes $285K–$1.7M checks and has 40 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $285K–$1.7M
- Portfolio
- 40 companies on record
- Partners
- 6 listed
- AUM
- $42M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- AI / ML, SaaS, Other
- HQ
- Karlsruhe, Germany
Last verified: 2026-09-25
Pre-Seed, Seed
$285K – $1.7M
$42M
40+ companies
6 partners
Investment Thesis
First Momentum backs European pre-seed deep-tech startups led by ambitious technical teams solving hard problems, across areas including climate and energy, compute, manufacturing and robotics, AI, aerospace, and software infrastructure.
How First Momentum Ventures invests
First Momentum Ventures is a vc firm based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on AI / ML, SaaS, Other.
First Momentum Ventures typically writes checks of $285K–$1.7M per investment, backed by approximately $42M in assets under management.
First Momentum Ventures has backed 40 companies in our records, including Causal, SAP-i.ai, Daedalus.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (40)
Other
Causal
SAP-i.ai
Daedalus
autonomous manufacturing
Quantum Diamonds
quantum sensing
Dive
particle-based fluid simulation
Skycore
power conversion for AI data centers
Roofline
edge ai compiler platform
TURN2X
renewable natural gas
Magentic
ai agents for procurement and supply chain
Unikraft
high-performance serverless cloud
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in AI / ML, SaaS, Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $285K – $1.7M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Ana Koller, Director of Research.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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