Berlin AI Fund Merantix Closes €103M Round
Co-Founder & General Partner Adrian Locher, Founding Partner Nicole Büttner, and Co-Founder & General Partner Dr. Rasmus Rothe - © Merantix Capital
Berlin-based venture firm Merantix Capital has closed a new €103 million AI fund, aimed at early-stage startups using AI to transform Europe's industrial sectors. The fund, announced on June 4, 2026, will make around 40 investments across Europe, from the pre-idea phase all the way through to seed stage.
The fund is split evenly: half goes to founders working directly with the Merantix team at the Merantix AI Campus in Berlin, from the earliest conceptual stages; the other half targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies. Target sectors include logistics, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, life sciences, robotics, and finance.
Merantix Capital is already deploying from the fund. Early investments include Droidrun (mobile-native AI agent infrastructure), Arqh (AI logistics optimization), and Outpost Bio (AI for human microbiology), with additional stealth bets in areas like recruiting, ERP, and fashion tech.
The fund sits within the broader Merantix Group ecosystem, which includes the Merantix AI Campus (home to over 80 resident companies and 300 events per year), the London AI Hub, AI House Davos, and Merantix Momentum, an AI solutions provider running 100+ enterprise projects annually.
LPs include Union Investment, Jungheinrich, KPMG Germany, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. According to the firm, many LP relationships go beyond capital and involve strategic partnerships around AI transformation.
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