Omnes Capital Raises €112M To Back European Deeptech Scaleups With EU Defence Support

The fund aims to support Europe’s fast-growing deeptech scale-ups through their early growth phase.

Backed by major European institutional investors like Bpifrance, France 2030, the European Investment Fund (under the InvestEU Defence mandate), BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole Assurances, and several family offices, the fund will focus on high-impact sectors including defence, AI, quantum tech, new space, advanced materials, and electronic components.

The first investment from the fund is going to Germany-based ARX Robotics, a company building unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for the defence sector.

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This new fund follows the success of Omnes Real Tech 1, which supported companies like The Exploration Company, Sekoia.io, Quantum Systems, and Quandela — now industry leaders.

Omnes Real Tech 2 is also the first fund in Europe to benefit from the EU’s defence investment mandate. With the European deeptech sector raising over €27 billion last year (18% growth), the fund will focus particularly on markets like Germany and Italy, while continuing to support portfolio companies through multiple stages of growth.

Omnes brings 20+ years of experience and a strong European network of deeptech founders and industry experts to identify and support top-tier startups.

According to Michel de Lempdes, Managing Partner at Omnes Capital: “With world-leading scientific research, a new generation of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs, and funding mechanisms backed by all European countries,

Europe is well equipped to address today’s challenges in key sectors such as defence, industry, health and energy”

Marc Wietfeld, CEO of ARX Robotics, shared: “In such a demanding industry as defence, it is essential to be able to count on investors who understand our industrial and technological challenges.

The support of Omnes, through its Omnes Real Tech 2 fund, is enabling us to accelerate our industrial scale-up and consolidate our position as a European leader in unmanned ground vehicles”.

The fund is still open for investment and is expected to reach its final close in 2026.

About Omnes Capital

Founded in 1999, Omnes is a European private equity firm focused on the energy transition. With €6.7B in assets under management, it invests in renewable energy, deeptech, resilient cities, and co-investments. Headquartered in Paris with offices across Europe, Omnes also supports youth-focused causes through its foundation.