Deep-tech venture capital
for Central and Eastern Europe.
New Wave VC backs technically serious companies at the point where innovation meets commercialisation, with early access to opportunities before they reach the broader market.
A region with the technical depth, and a structural gap in early-stage capital.
Central and Eastern Europe has built one of Europe’s deepest pools of technical talent. Strong engineering universities, mature research institutions, and a growing density of deep-tech founders coming out of laboratories, spin-outs, and serial second ventures.
What the region does not yet have, in proportion, is the early-stage capital infrastructure to match it. Companies routinely cross the gap between public research funding and Series A with less support than equivalents in Western Europe or North America, and at meaningfully lower entry valuations for comparable technical quality.
That gap is where we invest. We back companies after the science is validated but before the broader market has priced them, in the years where capital, judgement, and operator support compound the most.
A region of uneven but rising innovation capacity.
Global Innovation Index 2025, twenty regional economies.
Operator-led, evidence-driven, embedded in the regional ecosystem.
We are an operator-led partnership. Our diligence is technical first and commercial second, with kill criteria defined in advance rather than negotiated after the fact. We document decisions, not conviction.
Our sourcing is deeply embedded in the CEE deep-tech ecosystem. We are the general investment partner of the Deep Tech CEE Summit, the region’s largest deep-tech founder convening, which gives us early visibility on companies as they emerge from research institutions, university spin-outs, and operator networks across the region.
We invest with discipline, not breadth. We expect to take a relatively small number of meaningful positions per year, with concentrated follow-on into the companies that earn it. Founders should expect honesty about what we can and cannot help with, and a partnership rather than a process.
An entrepreneur and investor with twenty years of experience building technology companies, spin-outs, and exits across the UK, EU, and Polish markets.
A serial entrepreneur and co-founder of eight ventures, with two IPOs and three strategic exits, and has built investment vehicles for science-based technology.
Founder of Deep Tech CEE and Innovative Poland, with eighteen years in management and operating roles. Raised $3.5M of funding in Poland over three years.
The Deep Tech CEE Challenge.
We are the general investment partner of the Deep Tech CEE Challenge, the region’s largest open call for deep-tech founders and science-led teams. The Challenge is where most of the companies we look at first surface, often before they have a deck or a round.
It is a competition, a matchmaking platform, and a sourcing engine in one. Founders apply, finalists are presented at Investor Day and the CEE Innovators Gala, and our partnership gives us early visibility on what comes through.
If you are building something serious in CEE deep-tech, the Challenge is the most direct way to put your company in front of us, alongside the rest of the regional ecosystem.