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Uluu secures $2.1M in Australian Government grant funding to accelerate production scaling and certifications for its seaweed-based materials technology.

Vinted reports strong 2025 annual results with 47% GMV growth to €10.8bn, €1.1bn in revenue (up 38%), and €62m net profit, reflecting continued momentum in its mission to make second-hand first choice.

Two of our portfolio companies are named in the Tech Nation Future Fifty cohort, celebrating the UK’s fastest-growing and most ambitious scale-ups.

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Promptah No. 4

20 July 2026
Edition #4 of The Promptah is here and we’re thrilled to share what BPI’s Christian Teichmann and DLD’s Steffi Czerny have been working on over the last months together with...
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BPI invests in Fleek

13 July 2026
BPI has led Fleek's $25m Series B, backing the company's mission to digitise the fragmented wholesale supply chain behind global secondhand fashion.
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BPI invests in Proxima Fusion’s € 411M Series A2

07 July 2026
BPI joins Proxima Fusion's €411 million Series A2, backing Europe's best-funded fusion company as it builds toward commercial fusion power.
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Promptah No. 4

Post on 20 July 2026
Edition #4 of The Promptah is here and we’re thrilled to share what BPI’s Christian Teichmann and DLD’s Steffi Czerny have been working on over the last months together with...
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BPI invests in Fleek

Post on 13 July 2026
BPI has led Fleek's $25m Series B, backing the company's mission to digitise the fragmented wholesale supply chain behind global secondhand fashion.
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BPI invests in Proxima Fusion’s € 411M Series A2

Post on 07 July 2026
BPI joins Proxima Fusion's €411 million Series A2, backing Europe's best-funded fusion company as it builds toward commercial fusion power.
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Perspectives

Why we invested in Proxima Fusion

10 August 2026 by Friedrich von Wulffen, Sheng Xin Yu
Every model trained resolves to the same question: where does the power come from. Fusion can meet a load set to quadruple in the decades ahead. Our investment in Proxima...
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Why we invested in welevel

23 June 2026 by Friedrich von Wulffen
welevel is building what could become the game engine of the next decade. Here's how a small Munich studio with no prior shipping experience convinced us to make our first...
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Moat or Wrapper?

19 May 2026 by Hannes Voucko-Glockner
Every AI model release risks turning a standalone product into a feature. The question is no longer whether a software company uses AI, but whether its structure creates defensibility that...
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Why we invested in Proxima Fusion

Post on 10 August 2026
Every model trained resolves to the same question: where does the power come from. Fusion can meet a load set to quadruple in the decades ahead. Our investment in Proxima...
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Why we invested in welevel

Post on 23 June 2026
welevel is building what could become the game engine of the next decade. Here's how a small Munich studio with no prior shipping experience convinced us to make our first...
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Moat or Wrapper?

Post on 19 May 2026
Every AI model release risks turning a standalone product into a feature. The question is no longer whether a software company uses AI, but whether its structure creates defensibility that...
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The Era of Tech-enabled Wellbeing

Post on 01 April 2026
We are no longer just collecting data, we are using AI to metabolise that data into predictive insights that can fundamentally change how we live.
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Game on

Post on 03 February 2026
At DLD 2026, one thing became clear very quickly: gaming is no longer a niche entertainment category or a youth subculture.
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Why we invested: Revibe

Post on 22 December 2025
Why we invested in Revibe - shaping the future of refurbished electronics in emerging markets.
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Christian Teichmann
CEO & Managing Director
Clare McCartney Beer
COO & Managing Director
John Greger
CPO & Managing Director
Julian von Eckartsberg
Managing Director Europe
Neil Fong
Managing Director Asia
Thomas Juvin
Managing Director Europe
Natalie Schmitke
Managing Director Capital Networks
Luisa Düsberg
Principal
Francesco Moro
Principal
Friedrich von Wulffen
Principal
Briac Bombrun
Investment Manager
Vincent Rose
Investment Manager
Yuhan Xie
Investment Manager
Lena Nedebock
Investment Associate
Alejandro de Remedios
Investment Associate
Hannes Voucko-Glockner
Investment Analyst
Sheng Xin Yu
Investment Analyst
Daniela Liebischer
Head of Finance
Michael Horejsi
Controller
Eva Kurzweil
Marketing & Communications Lead
Dallies Lim
Investor Relations Associate
Monika Waizmann
Executive Assistant