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 seed to Series C and later, in Deep-Tech, lifesciences, industrial Tech and digital. 14 portfolio companies, as it reports.
- 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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 13 co-investors found.
- 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
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Record 6084 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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