10x Founders is a network-driven European early-stage venture capital firm backed by over 200 entrepreneurs and angels. Based in Munich, it employs an 'Entrepreneur-to-Entrepreneur' investment platform supporting ambitious founders building category-leading companies, with a focus on Europe and the US.
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Type Venture capital 2 10x Founders Fund I 2022-05-13 2022-05-13 €160M Approximately EUR 160m first fund final close, counsel announcement 2022-05-13. Approximate closed fund amount, not target, Fund II size or current AUM.
10x Founders Fund II GmbH & Co. KG — — Official legal disclosure names vehicle, LEI 391200XBS485Y1219E87. Partner retrospective says first close early 2025; precise date/amount/final close unverified. Robotics/automation, AI/cloud, sustainability and B2B focus.
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$100M 2026-06-15 Hydra Host Founders Fund , 10x Founders , NBCUniversal , Sterling Road , Kindred Ventures , NVIDIA Corporation $100M 2026-06-15 Hydra Founders Fund , 10x Founders , Y Combinator , Sterling Road , Kindred Ventures , NVIDIA Corporation $100M 2026-06-15 Hydra Host Founders Fund , 10x Founders , Sterling Road , Kindred Ventures , NVIDIA Corporation $100M 2026-06-15 Hydra Host Founders Fund , Y Combinator , 10x Founders , Sterling Road , Kindred Ventures , NVIDIA Corporation , Steve Jang $8M 2026-05-27 Landeed Y Combinator , 10x Founders , Pioneer Fund , Draper Associates , Bayhouse Capital $18M 2025-11-25 Cerrion Creandum , 10x Founders , Y Combinator , Founders Fund , Goat Capital , Session VC $— 2025-11-13 Songscription 10x Founders $16M 2025-11-03 mimic robotics Elaia , Speedinvest , 10x Founders $— 2025-09-17 Kertos 10x Founders €45M 2025-09-09 ReOrbit 10x Founders $— 2025-06-24 Lyceum Redalpine , 10x Founders $10M 2025-06-05 Flank 10x Founders , Gradient Ventures , HV Capital $— 2025-02-27 Mimic 10x Founders , Wing Venture Capital $3M 2024-10-02 Fynk 10x Founders , Peter Lasinger , Johann "Hansi" Hansmann $— 2024-09-10 WorkerHero 10x Founders €55M 2024-05-15 cylib 10x Founders , Bosch Ventures , Speedinvest , Vsquared Ventures $4M 2024-04-30 Ceartas Earlybird Venture Capital , 10x Founders $3M 2024-02-21 Nodeshift 10x Founders , Notion Capital , Inovo.vc , Karol Lasota $— 2024 WorkerHero 10x Founders €5M 2023-11-24 Floy 10x Founders , Acurio Ventures $10M 2023-09-14 LastMile AI Gradient Ventures , 10x Founders , Darian Shirazi $— 2023-09-01 ReOrbit 10x Founders $7M 2023-07-11 Ivy Creandum , Angel Invest , 10x Founders $50M 2023-06-14 Fernride 10x Founders , Fly Ventures , Speedinvest $— 2023-02-09 Blobr 10x Founders $— 2023 Raus 10x Founders , Speedinvest $— 2022-09-08 Valuecase 10x Founders $— 2022-05-05 Accountable 10x Founders $14M 2022 Zowie 10x Founders , Gradient Ventures $— 2022 Yaba 10x Founders $— 2022 Valuecase 10x Founders $— 2022 uPacjenta 10x Founders , Inovo.vc , Michał Rokosz $3M 2022 Block Green Founders Fund , Coinbase Ventures , FJ Labs , 10x Founders , dao5 , Blizzard Fund $— Unknown date Tilta 10x Founders $— Unknown date Smatch 10x Founders $— Unknown date Smatch 10x Founders $— Unknown date Qorelo 10x Founders $— Unknown date qeen.ai 10x Founders $— Unknown date iGent AI 10x Founders $— Unknown date Huzzle 10x Founders $— Unknown date Emporix 10x Founders $— Unknown date Beyond Presence 10x Founders $— Unknown date Arlequin 10x Founders $4M Unknown date Thera Y Combinator , 10x Founders , Amino Capital , Bayhouse Capital $— 2025-06-11 Arlequin AI Vsquared Ventures , 10x Founders $— Unknown date Logicc 10x Founders
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team@apexlogos.ai · 15 hours ago
Investment-fund research reviewed 2026-10-06. Publicly identified funds, dates, amounts and fundraising status are below. Undisclosed commitments remain unknown; this is not a complete register of private SPVs or parallel entities.
Funds, stages and current strategy
| Vehicle/metric | Verified finding | Evidence and date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| First fund / Fund I | **Approximately €160m final close**, not a target or total firm AUM. | [YPOG, legal adviser announcement](https://www.ypog.law/hubfs/YPOG%20Press%20Release%2010x%20Founders%2013.%20May%202022.pdf ), **2022-05-13**, explicitly says the first fund reached final closing. |
| Fund II | Exists as **10x Founders Fund II GmbH & Co. KG**, LEI 391200XBS485Y1219E87. **Amount, target and final-close date not verified.** | [Official legal disclosures](https://www.10xfounders.com/legal ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Fund II fundraising status | Partner Rupert Schäfer reports first closing at the beginning of **2025**, with 13 investments during that year. Treat as a partner's retrospective statement; no exact first-close date or amount provided. | [Partner's year-end 2025 post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rupertschaefer_2025-has-been-a-truly-inspiring-year-for-activity-7407485652671442944-Ufym ), publication date not exposed reliably; text is retrospective 2025 and looks ahead to 2026; read/index accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Initial stages/checks | **Pre-seed, seed, Series A**. Main strategy text gives initial checks **€500k–€2.5m** and follow-ons through pre-IPO. Another block on the same page gives **€250k–€2.5m**, an unresolved minimum-check conflict. | [Official About](https://www.10xfounders.com/about ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
The About page's €160m language relates to the known first fund; do not assign that amount to Fund II or present it as aggregate current AUM. Searching for newer fund announcements surfaced Fund II, but no defensible size. Fund II official disclosures specify robotics/automation/infrastructure, data/AI/cloud computing, planetary resilience/sustainability, and B2B/SaaS/platforms. Thus the older generalist description is incomplete for the newer vehicle. The official [homepage](https://www.10xfounders.com/ ) currently describes more than 300 entrepreneurs in its network, versus the snapshot's 200-plus; both can reflect different dates/definitions. Fundraising backing, network membership and number of investments are different metrics. All undated official pages accessed 2026-10-06.
Funds recorded in Adex after this review:
| Fund | Disclosed amount | Announcement / filing date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 10x Founders Fund II GmbH & Co. KG | Undisclosed / unverified | Unknown |
| 10x Founders Fund I | EUR 160000000 | 2022-05-13 | SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 16 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / Firm10xFounders / sha256:87483705fd9ea372a3910bc400e4a63bd969f1193e27b9c8c501722647be1ada / part 2 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
**No verified neurotech investment found in the sources checked.** This means no confirmed direct brain-computer interface, neural recording, neural stimulation or neuroprosthetic portfolio company in this review, not proof the firm has never invested in one.
- **Ixana:** The [official technology page](https://new.ixana.ai/ ) describes wearable networking silicon and an aspirational brain-AI communication mission. Present-day described products communicate among electronic wearables in an electric-field network; future brain-interface positioning does not verify a deployed neural recording/stimulation product. Keep as **neurotech-adjacent enabling electronics**, with follow-up needed on any actual neural-sensing product.
- **Floy:** Firm attribution is confirmed by [10x Founders' own financing post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/10x-founders_ai-activity-7133746182165516288-qlaC ), describing continued participation in a **€5.4m seed** led by HV Capital. Exact date is not exposed reliably in the accessible post; external reporting places the round in November 2023, while [BioM December 2023 newsletter](https://www.bio-m.org/fileadmin/Webdata/Uploads/Zahlen_und_Fakten/BioM%20Bavarian%20Biotech%20News/December_2023/BioM_Bavarian_Biotech_News_December_2023.pdf ) corroborates the financing and participants. Floy's [official opportunistic screening page](https://www.floy.com/en/opportunistic-screening ) includes brain-MRI aneurysm detection and brain pathological changes relevant to stroke/dementia. **Classify as adjacent AI medical/neuroimaging**, not direct neural interfacing. Official product page undated, accessed 2026-10-06. Do not import medical performance claims as independently validated clinical conclusions.
Searches included the exact firm's name with neurotech, brain, neural and Neuralink, the official portfolio, Signal team profiles and the snapshot. Ordinary AI/SaaS deals (including legal agents, e-commerce agents and transcription) do not alone demonstrate neuroscience or deep-tech exposure.
## Conflicts, omissions and later Adex review notes
1. Retain exact ID `Firm10xFounders`; distinguish 10x Group, its direct investments and individual partner history. Official [10x Group](https://10x.group/ ) explicitly separates direct growth/late-stage investments from early-stage investing through 10x Founders (undated, accessed 2026-10-06).
2. Add first-fund amount only with **€160m approximate / final close / 2022-05-13** provenance. Record newer Fund II separately with unknown size; request its manager's current fundraising data.
3. Resolve official **€250k vs €500k** minimum-check conflict before assigning one precise current check floor. Maximum €2.5m is consistent across blocks.
4. Review duplicate **Hydra/Hydra Host** entries in snapshot (multiple entries sharing 2026-06-15 and $100m). Correct lead attribution using the investee release; do not confuse company round total with fund check.
5. Keep **mimic robotics** and ransomware company **Mimic** separate. Snapshot includes both, with different financings and technologies.
6. FERNRIDE historical tranche and final Series A amounts require reconciliation. ReOrbit's newer €45m financing is stronger evidence than an undifferentiated source listing the space sector.
7. Check Signal firm's page manually later; profile access failed and team profiles conflate affiliations. Partner historical unicorns advertised on the website do not prove investment by Fund I or II.
8. Ixana's 2023 pre-seed entry on the official portfolio and its earlier 2022 seed in commercial databases may describe different transaction/entry definitions; keep dates source-specific. Further verify its 2024 Series A against an investee financing release or filing. Floy's exact historical round dates/extension totals remain incompletely reconciled.
9. Review neurotech labels conservatively: Floy is neuroimaging-adjacent, Ixana enabling-electronics/aspirational brain-interface-adjacent. Neither establishes a verified direct neural-interface investment.
Research is complete for this assigned firm with the stated public-source limitations. No Adex/database update, MCP Patch, or commit was performed. All linked sources accessed 2026-10-06; publication dates are given above where available. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 16 hours ago
Match research 2026-10-06 / Firm10xFounders / sha256:87483705fd9ea372a3910bc400e4a63bd969f1193e27b9c8c501722647be1ada / part 1 of 2
Imported completed research. Baseline Adex/Signal statements describe prior state, not independent verification. Retain cited attribution, date, currency and classification caveats.
# 10x Founders
- **Exact Adex ID:** `Firm10xFounders`
- **Adex webpage:** https://adex.page/firms/Firm10xFounders
- **Research date:** 2026-10-06
- **Identity:** Munich venture investor, with a founder/angel network and European emphasis plus US investments. Distinguish the institutional 10x Founders funds from 10x Group and partners' earlier personal angel investments.
- **Conclusion:** Verified early-stage investor with an approximately €160m closed first fund, a newer Fund II whose size is undisclosed in sources checked, and directly attributed battery recycling, satellites, autonomous trucking, dexterous robotics and wearable semiconductor investments. No verified direct neurotech investment found; Ixana and Floy are important adjacent cases.
## Starting evidence: Adex and NFX Signal
Read the exact record in `data/research/_sources/Firm10xFounders.adex.json`, retrieved 2026-10-06T19:30:15.644Z. It describes a Munich early-stage network investor backed by over 200 entrepreneurs/angels, links the official site and https://signal.nfx.com/firms/10x-founders , and leaves check minimum/maximum/sweet spot blank. Named investment records include cylib, ReOrbit, FERNRIDE, mimic robotics, Hydra Host, Floy and numerous ordinary software businesses. These are starting claims, not independent evidence. Several round totals appear in participation `amount` rather than `roundAmount` and require review.
The Signal firm page failed direct retrieval with an internal error on 2026-10-06. Related [Felix Haas profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/felix-haas ) was directly readable, but is headed **10x Group Partner** and mixes multiple roles, including founding partner at 10x Founders. Its tags include DeepTech at pre-seed/seed/Series A, alongside software sectors. [Robert Wuttke's profile](https://signal.nfx.com/investors/robert-wuttke ) was search-index accessible and similarly mixes 10x Group, older 10x, FLEX Capital and 10x Founders roles. Personal investment histories must not be assigned wholesale to this fund. Both pages are undated, accessed 2026-10-06.
## Funds, stages and current strategy
| Vehicle/metric | Verified finding | Evidence and date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| First fund / Fund I | **Approximately €160m final close**, not a target or total firm AUM. | [YPOG, legal adviser announcement](https://www.ypog.law/hubfs/YPOG%20Press%20Release%2010x%20Founders%2013.%20May%202022.pdf ), **2022-05-13**, explicitly says the first fund reached final closing. |
| Fund II | Exists as **10x Founders Fund II GmbH & Co. KG**, LEI 391200XBS485Y1219E87. **Amount, target and final-close date not verified.** | [Official legal disclosures](https://www.10xfounders.com/legal ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Fund II fundraising status | Partner Rupert Schäfer reports first closing at the beginning of **2025**, with 13 investments during that year. Treat as a partner's retrospective statement; no exact first-close date or amount provided. | [Partner's year-end 2025 post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rupertschaefer_2025-has-been-a-truly-inspiring-year-for-activity-7407485652671442944-Ufym ), publication date not exposed reliably; text is retrospective 2025 and looks ahead to 2026; read/index accessed 2026-10-06. |
| Initial stages/checks | **Pre-seed, seed, Series A**. Main strategy text gives initial checks **€500k–€2.5m** and follow-ons through pre-IPO. Another block on the same page gives **€250k–€2.5m**, an unresolved minimum-check conflict. | [Official About](https://www.10xfounders.com/about ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
The About page's €160m language relates to the known first fund; do not assign that amount to Fund II or present it as aggregate current AUM. Searching for newer fund announcements surfaced Fund II, but no defensible size. Fund II official disclosures specify robotics/automation/infrastructure, data/AI/cloud computing, planetary resilience/sustainability, and B2B/SaaS/platforms. Thus the older generalist description is incomplete for the newer vehicle. The official [homepage](https://www.10xfounders.com/ ) currently describes more than 300 entrepreneurs in its network, versus the snapshot's 200-plus; both can reflect different dates/definitions. Fundraising backing, network membership and number of investments are different metrics. All undated official pages accessed 2026-10-06.
## Verified previous deep-tech investments
Round amounts below are total company financing, **not 10x Founders' individual checks**. Classification is research judgment based on the identified technology.
| Company | Technology and attribution | Round/date and source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **cylib** | RWTH Aachen research-derived proprietary end-to-end lithium-ion battery recycling; strong physical/process deep-tech case. Investee explicitly names **10x Founders as an existing investor participating**. | **€55m equity Series A, 2024-05-15**, co-led by World Fund and Porsche Ventures. [Official cylib announcement](https://www.cylib.de/post/next-gen-lithium-ion-battery-recycling-technology-company-cylib-raises-eu55-million-series-a-to-scale-industrially ). |
| **ReOrbit** | Manufactures sovereign satellites and connected systems for civilian/defence communications and intelligence. Investee explicitly lists **10x Founders** among participating investors. | **€45m all-equity Series A closed, 2025-09-09**, led by Springvest. [Official ReOrbit announcement](https://www.reorbit.space/news/reorbit-secures-eur45-million-to-manufacture-sovereign-satellites-and-connected-systems-for-national-security ). Snapshot also contains a 2023 seed investment; that earlier transaction was not independently reverified here. |
| **FERNRIDE** | Autonomous electric yard trucking and human-machine collaboration/teleoperation. Investee names **10x Founders among existing venture backers**; source does not isolate its check or prove participation in the incremental second closing. | **$50m total Series A, 2023-09-20**, after a further **$19m** closing. [Official FERNRIDE release](https://www.fernride.com/news/series-a-50m ). The snapshot's $31m June 2023 announcement reflects the initial tranche; do not count $31m plus $50m as separate full rounds. |
| **mimic robotics** | ETH Zurich spinout building physical AI foundation models, proprietary demonstration capture and dexterous humanoid robotic hands; firm directly named among seed participants. Distinct from cybersecurity company **Mimic** also in the snapshot. | **$16m seed, 2025-11-03**, led by Elaia alongside Speedinvest. [Company-issued GlobeNewswire release](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/11/03/3179052/0/en/mimic-robotics-raises-16-million-to-deploy-frontier-physical-ai-across-industries.html ); independent university corroboration [ETH AI Center, 2025-11-12](https://ai.ethz.ch/news-and-events/ai-center-news/2025/09/mimic_Robotics_Seed_Round_2025.html ). |
| **Ixana** | Wearable communication semiconductors and Wi-R body-area electric-field networking; technically defensible deep tech, with brain-interface ambitions requiring the caveat below. Official firm portfolio establishes ownership attribution. | Official [10x portfolio page 3](https://www.10xfounders.com/our-founders?0621c055_page=3 ) lists **pre-seed entry, 2023** (undated, accessed 2026-10-06). [Silverwood Partners transaction review](https://silverwoodpartners.com/technology-private-placement-and-ma-transactions-review-week-ending-june-9-2024/ ), week ending **2024-06-09**, reports **$10m Series A on 2024-06-04 led by 10x Founders**. The [Purdue SPARC lab media page](https://engineering.purdue.edu/~shreyas/SparcLab/media.html ) search index corroborates a June 2024 $10m Series A led by the firm, though the direct text extraction returned chiefly image links. Funding detail is therefore adviser/index supported, weaker than the other investee releases. [Official Ixana technology](https://new.ixana.ai/ ) and [About](https://new.ixana.ai/about-us ), undated, accessed 2026-10-06. |
**Infrastructure boundary case: Hydra Host.** Official announcement confirms **$100m Series A, 2026-06-15**, led by **Kindred Ventures**, naming 10x Founders among existing investors in the round. It provides GPU infrastructure, an AI-factory operating system and compute offtake services. This is enabling AI/HPC infrastructure; the source does not establish proprietary fundamental hardware or scientific research, so treat it as adjacent infrastructure rather than an unqualified core deep-tech example. [Official Hydra Host release](https://hydrahost.com/blog/news/hydra-host-raises-100m-series-a/ ), 2026-06-15. This contradicts some snapshot language calling it a Founders Fund round; Founders Fund is a participant, not the named lead.
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team@apexlogos.ai · 23 days ago
MATCH 
Founders Fund
Hydra Host$100M · 2026-06-15
Hydra$100M · 2026-06-15
Hydra Host$100M · 2026-06-15
Cerrion$18M · 2025-11-25
Block Green$3M · 2022
Y Combinator
Landeed$8M · 2026-05-27
Thera$4M · Unknown date
Kindred Ventures
Speedinvest
mimic robotics$16M · 2025-11-03
cylib€55M · 2024-05-15
Fernride$50M · 2023-06-14
Raus$— · 2023
Gradient Ventures
Flank$10M · 2025-06-05
LastMile AI$10M · 2023-09-14
Zowie$14M · 2022
Vsquared Ventures
Acurio Ventures
Floy€5M · 2023-11-24
Ivy$7M · 2023-07-11
Bosch Ventures
Darian Shirazi
Draper Associates
Ceartas$4M · 2024-04-30
Elaia
Fly Ventures
HV Capital
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
Fynk$3M · 2024-10-02
Notion Capital
Nodeshift$3M · 2024-02-21
Peter Lasinger
Steve Jang
Wing Venture Capital
Mimic$— · 2025-02-27
