X2 Equity GmbH

PE/Buy-Out · Munich (Germany)

PE/Buy-Out

Seed

Series A

Cloud/SaaS

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X2 Equity GmbH is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in seed stage, start up, early stage, growth stage, expansion stage, late stage, management buyouts & buy ins and corporate carve out investments. The companies in the early-stage should have at least a working beta version of its technology in place (software or systems hardware proto) ready for testing in real customer environments. The firm seeks to invest in technology sector with focus products and services targeting industrial manufacturing, technology machinery and equipment, advanced components, services, modular software, smart connected machines and digital platforms. The companies in products and services targeting industrial manufacturing markets should market and distribute their products and services to large-scale industrial manufacturing customers from the following industries: Semiconductor, PCB and Electronics manufacturing, automotive (Tier-1 / OEM‘s), high-end consumer electronics products (ODM‘s / OEM‘s), industrial electronics, battery production (energy storage), clean energy / renewables, medical devices and defense and security. For technology machinery and equipment the firm invests in process and automation equipment, electronics manufacturing equipment (Semicon/PCB/SMT/Assembly), automation systems and robotics, autonomous systems, line integration equipment and services, other advanced technology systems deployable in high-end mass production environments, yield and quality protection (Industrial imaging and vision), test & inspection systems, customized vision systems for quality assurance and yield protection in large-scale manufacturing. For advanced components the firm invests in industrial Imaging and test components (cameras and sensors), x-ray detectors and sources, sensors and MEMS devices, drive and motion components, control and power electronics. For services sector the firm seeks to invest in advanced manufacturing services (technology machinery & equipment), rapid prototyping, mass customization, contract manufacturing (machine hardware), service based machinery use, inspection as a services and pay per use. For modular software the firm seeks to invest in industrial imaging software and standard software for imaging equipment manufacturers and system integrators (machine vision). For smart connected machines the firm seeks to invest in smart sensors enabling machine connectivity and monitoring, machine data analytics, machine learning (predictive analytics) and AR/VR for service, repair and maintenance steps. For digital platforms the firm seeks to invest in automated machine and service bookings, digital workflows, pay per use, enabling software and smart manufacturing logistics. The firm seeks to invest in companies located in Europe, North America or Asia. The company seeks to take both minority and majority stakes. X2 Equity GmbH is based in Munich, Germany with additional offices in Suzhou, China and Tempe, Arizona.

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