Prototype Capital

About Prototype Capital

European-focused fund investing in robotics, automation, and physical/frontier AI. Supports European founders building deep tech companies.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionGermany

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Deep Tech

Manufacturing

Robotics Automation

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

European hard-tech founder building robotics or physical AI with real industrial application

robotics

physical-AI

automation

hard-tech

industrial-systems

Bullish Signals

Fund III live with follow-on capacity and ability to lead roundsblog

Reported 5.6× MOIC across earlier portfolio in hard techblog

Patient capital covering prototype through first commercial deploymentblog

Contrarian Signals

Rejects generalist momentum investing; conviction-only in hard techblog

Not interested in software layers without physical-world impactblog

Founder Do's

Show real-world physical impact, not just software layers

Demonstrate hardware-software integration depth

Highlight path from prototype to scalable deployment

Show understanding of industrialization challenges and timelines

Engage early, even pre-production-ready product

Founder Don'ts

Pitch pure software plays without physical system component

Expect fast feedback loops or short development cycles

Come without deep technical domain expertise

Key GPs & Partners

Unknown

General Partner

thesis-drivenpatient-capitalhands-on

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€15M

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Key People

Andreas Klinger

UnknownGeneral Partner