Series‑A round for DyeMansion with UVC, btov Partners and AM Ventures.

Munich, Germany — Unter­neh­mer­tum Venture Capi­tal Part­ners (UVC Part­ners), btov Part­ners (btov Indus­trial Tech­no­lo­gies Fund) and AM Ventures have inves­ted in DyeM­an­sion GmbH as part of the appro­xi­m­ately EUR 4.5 million finan­cing round for the company.

Munich-based DyeM­an­sion offers indus­trial solu­ti­ons for surface finis­hing and colo­ring of addi­tively manu­fac­tu­red plas­tic parts. The entire solu­tion deve­lo­ped by DyeM­an­sion is refer­red to as a ‘print-to-product’ work­flow and covers all steps of the finis­hing process from raw part to finis­hed product. Alre­ady trus­ted by more than 400 custo­mers for color and finish solu­ti­ons, inclu­ding many 3D prin­ting service provi­ders and manu­fac­tu­r­ers from various indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, life­style, retail, medi­cal and sport­ing goods, DyeMansion’s effec­tive ‘print-to-produce’ work­flow enables them to offer their custo­mers high-quality addi­tively manu­fac­tu­red products. As a result, the Munich-based company was able to quickly estab­lish itself as the world market leader in this field. DyeMansion’s solu­ti­ons are now compa­ti­ble with all powder-based tech­no­lo­gies, such as those from EOS, HP, 3D Systems and Prod­ways, and can be used regard­less of geometry.

Advi­sor Unter­neh­mer­Tum Venture Capi­tal Part­ners GmbH: GÖRG Part­ner­schaft von Rechts­an­wäl­ten mbB
Dr. Chris­tian Glauer, Asso­ciate Part­ner; Dr. Bernt Paudtke, Part­ner; Tobias Reichen­ber­ger, Asso­ciate, (all M&A / Corpo­rate); Dr. Ulrich Fülbier, Part­ner, Labor Law; Dr. Mela­nie Ries, Asso­ciate, IP & IT (all Munich)

Advi­sors to DyeM­an­sion GmbH: Orrick, Herring­ton & Sutcliffe LLP
Dr. Sven Greu­lich, LL.M., EMBA, Part­ner; Dr. Johan­nes Josef Rüberg, Mana­ging Asso­ciate; Vanessa Sousa Höhl, Inter­na­tio­nal Asso­ciate (all M&A / Corpo­rate, Düsseldorf)

About Unter­neh­mer­Tum Venture Capi­tal Partners
Unter­neh­mer­tum Venture Capi­tal Part­ners (UVC Part­ners) is an early-stage venture capi­tal firm that invests speci­fi­cally in tech­­no­­logy-based start­ups in the Indus­trial Tech­no­lo­gies, Enter­prise Soft­ware and Mobi­lity sectors. EUR 0.5 — 3 million are inves­ted per invest­ment round and up to EUR 12 million in total in successful investments.

Port­fo­lio compa­nies bene­fit from the exten­sive invest­ment and exit expe­ri­ence of the manage­ment team and from the close coope­ra­tion with Unter­neh­mer­TUM, Europe’s leading inno­va­tion and start-up center. With its more than 180 employees and more than 100 indus­try part­ners, Unter­neh­mer­TUM has many years of expe­ri­ence in buil­ding young compa­nies. Through the part­ner­ship, UVC Part­ners can offer start­ups unique access to talent, custo­mers and part­ners. The port­fo­lio includes invest­ments such as Flix­Bus, Carjump (Freer2Move), KONUX, Blick­feld, 3YOURMIND and Vimcar.

About btov Part­ners Indus­trial Tech­no­lo­gies Fund
btov is a Euro­pean venture capi­tal company mana­ging appro­xi­m­ately EUR 375 million in insti­tu­tio­nal funds, part­ner funds and direct invest­ments from private inves­tors. btov teams in St.Gallen, Berlin, Munich and Luxem­bourg support start-ups with highly ambi­tious teams toge­ther with expe­ri­en­ced entre­pre­neurs from the btov network. The Indus­trial Tech­no­lo­gies team of btov Part­ners supports compa­nies like compo­nent, module and system hard­ware manu­fac­tu­r­ers with embedded soft­ware up to provi­ders of appli­ca­tion and infra­struc­ture soft­ware for the indus­try. The tech­no­logy focus is on robo­tics & auto­no­mous vehic­les, “machine lear­ning”, indus­try 4.0 and IoT, data secu­rity (cyber­se­cu­rity), elec­tro­nics & photo­nics, addi­tive manu­fac­tu­ring, energy conver­sion and storage, medi­cal and quan­tum technologies.

About AM Venture Holding GmbH
AM Ventures Holding GmbH (AMV) is an inde­pen­dent, stra­te­gic inves­tor focu­sed on indus­trial 3D prin­ting. The company was foun­ded in 2015 by Dr. Hans J. Langer, CEO of the EOS Group. With the goal of estab­li­shing gene­ra­tive manu­fac­tu­ring as a key tech­no­logy of the future, AMV finan­ces and deve­lops start­ups that deal with inno­va­tive systems, soft­ware, mate­ri­als or appli­ca­ti­ons in indus­trial 3D prin­ting. In addi­tion, AMV deve­lops and opera­tes appli­­­ca­­tion-speci­­fic manu­fac­tu­ring faci­li­ties in which gene­ra­tive manu­fac­tu­ring is used for series produc­tion. Thus, the company offers unique access to tech­no­lo­gies, expert know­ledge and the network of the Langer Group — such as EOS, the world’s leading tech­no­logy provi­der in indus­trial 3D prin­ting of metals and plas­tics, and Scan­Lab, the tech­no­logy leader for high-precis­­ion scan­ning solutions.