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March 12, 2026

UVC Partners raises €77m first close of new growth fund in ‘move into multi-stage investing’

The VC is planning to launch more, and larger, funds in the future


Anne Sraders

3 min read

UVC Partners team. Courtesy of UVC Partners

Munich-based investor UVC Partners, which has backed European deeptech unicorns like nuclear startup Proxima Fusion and spacetech Isar Aerospace, has raised €77m in a first close for a new growth fund, with plans to raise a total of €150m by the end of the summer. 

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Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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