OCCIDENT
occident.group Direct investor
OCCIDENT is a venture capital investor focusing on deep-tech startups, particularly spin-offs from scientific research. It invests its own money and supports startups from seed stage onwards, with a focus on life sciences and industrial tech.
OCCIDENT is a venture capital firm headquartered in München, Germany, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series C and later, in Deep-Tech, lifesciences, industrial Tech and digital. 14 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Wir investieren in die Visionen von heute, um sie morgen Realität werden zu lassen.”
— OCCIDENT, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- Germany, Switzerland, Europe
- Sectors
- Deep-Tech, Lifesciences, Industrial Tech, Digital
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 14 companies
Team, as OCCIDENT publishes it
- Patrizia Schützenhöfer Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Michael Pauer Chief Investment Officer (CIO)
- Cédric Barra Senior Investment Manager
- Paul Sunzenauer Junior Investment Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on occident.group. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 13 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Redalpine Venture Partners 3 shared companies: insphero.com, lunaphore.com, versantis.com
- coparion 2 shared companies: thermosome.com, tubulis.com
- SICTIC 2 shared companies: insphero.com, startupticker.ch
- EFI Lake Geneva Ventures 2 shared companies: eba-med.com, hemotune.ch
- Andera Partners 1 shared company: tubulis.com
- Frazier Life Sciences Management, LP 1 shared company: tubulis.com
- BroadOak Asset Management, LLC 1 shared company: insphero.com
- Xista Science Ventures 1 shared company: recatalyst.si
- CDP Venture Capital Sgr 1 shared company: lymphaticamedtech.com
- Redstone 1 shared company: chipmetrics.com
and 3 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page OCCIDENT publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.occident.group/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.occident.group/about/founded, people, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote
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Record 6084 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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