Cottonwood Technology Fund
cottonwood.vc Direct investor
Cottonwood Technology Fund is an early-stage deep tech venture capital fund investing in patent-based hard science startups in the Southwest US and Northern Europe. It focuses on key enabling technologies such as photonics, advanced materials, and health sciences.
Cottonwood Technology Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in Enschede, Netherlands. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to growth, in photonics, optics, Micro- & Nanoelectronics and advanced Materials. Its stated cheque size is Early stage: average investment size of 1-3M and together with partners and other investors in follow-on rounds of our own portfolio. Growth stage: average investment between 5M and 25M in B / C rounds..
“Cottonwood’s investment focus is on hard science and deep tech, thus providing funding to IP-driven companies.”
— Cottonwood Technology Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Enschede, Netherlands
- Invests in
- Southwest US, Northern Europe
- Sectors
- Photonics, Optics, Micro- & Nanoelectronics, Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology, Health Sciences, Climatetech, Sensor Technology, Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing
- Cheque size
- Early stage: average investment size of 1-3M and together with partners and other investors in follow-on rounds of our own portfolio. Growth stage: average investment between 5M and 25M in B / C rounds.
Team, as Cottonwood Technology Fund publishes it
- Dave Blivin Managing Partner
- Alain le Loux General Partner
- Lee Rand Partner
- Patrick Claessen Partner
- Ytsen van der Meer Principal
- Sabine Jansen Corporate & Investor Relations
- Shinjan Dasgupta Technology Analyst
- Daan Boekhoudt Investment Analyst
- Charles Call SLP & Venture Partner
- Alan Abbott SLP & Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on cottonwood.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 29 co-investors found.
- Sun Mountain Capital Advisors, LLC 7 shared companies: mpowertech.com, bayotech.us, exagen.com, armonicatech.com…
- NOM 2 shared companies: reyedar.com, sencure.com
- Waves Capital Partners 2 shared companies: keirontechnologies.com, orangeqs.com
- BOM (Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij) 1 shared company: inphocal.com
- Amplify Partners 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
- Biopôle 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
- Carthona Capital 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
- Circulate Capital 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
- Cocoon Capital 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
- East Capital Asset Management 1 shared company: mailchi.mp
and 19 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cottonwood Technology Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.cottonwood.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.cottonwood.vc/team/people
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Record 970 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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