SO

SovereignTech Fund

VC
Berlin, GermanyWebsite
How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$1.5M – $5.0M

Portfolio

8+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Dedicated to European digital sovereignty, investing in AI infrastructure and compliance for regulated industries.

Meet the Team

PS

Paul Sharratt

Research Manager

AG

Adriana Groh

CEO

KM

Katrin Muller

Principal

AI
Infrastructure

Industry Focus

Invests In

AI / ML
Other
Developer Tools
Security

Does Not Invest In

Consumer
Media

Portfolio Companies (8)

Other

OP

OpenJS Foundation

Open‑source software infrastructure / JavaScript ecosystem.·Grant / program investment to improve web security and JavaScript infrastructure; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Neutral foundation that hosts and supports popular JavaScript projects such as Node.js and jQuery.

SC

Scala / Scala Center

Programming languages / developer tooling / open‑source infrastructure.·Two‑year grant / program investment to strengthen security, maintenance, and developer experience; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Open‑source programming language and ecosystem running on the JVM, coordinated in this project by the Scala Center at EPFL.

KD

KDE e.V. (KDE Project)

Desktop environment / open‑source operating‑system user interface and applications.·Grant / program investment of roughly €1.2–1.28 million to strengthen KDE software, Plasma desktop, and related infrastructure; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Community‑driven project developing the KDE Plasma desktop and KDE software for Linux and other platforms.

FR

FreeBSD (via The FreeBSD Foundation)

Operating systems / open‑source infrastructure.·Grant / program investment of €686,400 to improve infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

FreeBSD is a free and open‑source Unix‑like operating system, supported by The FreeBSD Foundation.

OP

Open Web Docs

Developer documentation / web platform infrastructure.·Grant / program investment as one of the selected projects in a Sovereign Tech Fund funding round; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Community‑driven initiative that funds documentation and content for core web platform technologies (e.g., MDN content).

GN

GNOME Foundation / GNOME Project

Desktop environment / open‑source user interface and platform.·Grant / program investment of about €1 million from the Sovereign Tech Fund; no equity stage specified.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

GNOME develops a widely used free desktop environment and platform libraries for Linux and other Unix‑like systems.

OP

OpenSSL Foundation / OpenSSL Project

Cryptography / security infrastructure / open‑source libraries.·Grant / program investment of €405,888 to enhance timing side‑channel resistance and related security improvements in OpenSSL.·Sovereign Tech Fund

"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"

Widely used open‑source cryptography and TLS/SSL toolkit that underpins secure communication on the internet.

AI

AI Secure

AI Infrastructure

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