$250M for the next generation of european frontier tech

     Twenty years ago, we started redalpine with a conviction: the most important companies of the future would emerge where software and science meet. We believed Europe had the talent and entrepreneurial ambition to build them, and that founders deserved investors who would support them for the long run.

Today, that conviction is stronger than ever. We’re proud to announce the final close of redalpine capital VIII (RAC VIII) at $250 million. Closed oversubscribed, RAC VIII brings our total assets under management to more than $1.4 billion and enables us to back another generation of European founders building frontier technology companies. More details in Bloomberg and Forbes.

For us, this milestone is about more than the size of a fund. It’s about the people, ideas, and ambition shaping what comes next.

two decades of investing at the frontier

Europe has always had the ability to turn scientific curiosity into progress. To look beyond the world as it is and imagine how it could be.

A new generation of founders is carrying this tradition forward, tackling some of the hardest problems of our time through technologies in fusion energy, AI, robotics, biotech, and more. These technologies have the potential to reshape industries, strengthen European sovereignity, and create lasting economic value.

When Peter Niederhauser, a serial entrepreneur, and Dr. Michael Sidler, a molecular biologist, founded redalpine in Zurich in 2006, they set out with the conviction that the most important companies would emerge at the intersection of software and science.

That conviction continues to shape our investment approach and our team. Half of our investment team are trained scientists, including genomists, physicists, and machine learning experts, while the other half are operators and entrepreneurs. This combination gives us the technical depth to understand complex technologies and the practical experience to help founders turn them into global businesses.

where software meets science

With RAC VIII, we will invest in around 20 early-stage companies across Europe, primarily leading Seed and Series A rounds. We review more than 5,000 companies each year, looking for founders and technologies with the potential to become global category leaders.

The first investments in RAC VIII illustrate the breadth of technologies we are excited about. Arlequin AI (Paris) develops topological neural networks that learn from relationships between data points to help governments and organizations uncover hidden threats. calliora (Munich) is creating an AI operating layer for hospital economics to manage patient cases from admission to reimbursement. Enact Intelligence (Zurich) is building a nervous system for robots, giving them the ability to feel and interact with the physical world, not just see it. telli (Berlin) builds AI agents that conduct customer conversations end to end. Helical (London) creates the virtual AI lab for pharma, turning biological foundation models into reproducible drug discovery workflows. 

Building these companies takes time. Our role does not end with the first investment. Through our multi-stage platform, spanning early-stage investing through to IPO, we aim to be a partner founders can rely on for the long run.

Our track record reflects this long-term conviction. Since 2023, 11 of our portfolio companies have exited, even as exits across the technology sector have remained scarce. Companies backed by our previous early-stage fund, RAC VII, have also raised more than $1.1 billion in total funding since its close in 2024.

thanks to our founders & investors

None of this happens in isolation. Behind every fund are the founders building world-changing companies, the investors who share our conviction, and the team working alongside them to turn ideas into reality.

To our founders: thank you for your ambition, determination, and willingness to take on difficult problems. To our investors: thank you for your trust and long-term partnership. We couldn't do any of this without you.

building what comes next

Europe has never lacked the talent, ideas, or ambition to shape the future. What matters is turning that potential into companies that make a lasting difference. That is what we set out to do twenty years ago, and what we remain committed to doing for a new generation of founders. We strongly believe Europe's next chapter is only just getting started.