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Scaling Europe

Backing Europe’s next deep tech champions: Johannes von Borries and Benjamin Erhart, UVC Partners

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UVC Partners leads Proxima Fusion seed round betting on stellarator fusion breakthrough

2026-06-09 · 5 company · 5 thematic

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benjamin erhart

Partner at UVC Partners co-managing the firm's fund strategy including the new growth opportunity vehicle. Focuses on deep tech thesis development, LP communication for frontier tech, and portfolio support leveraging the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem.

johannes von borries

Partner at UVC Partners, a Munich/Berlin-based deep tech VC firm managing 400M EUR across early stage and growth funds. Led early investments in Isar Aerospace (2018) and Proxima Fusion (2021). Focus on hard tech, space, energy, and quantum.

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“we're one of the two early lead investors of Proxima. So, together with our friends from Plural, we had the chance to help the team set up the company so we have been the first investors that, um, wrote the first checks. It was a 7 million…”

—johannes von borries

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