VIGO Ventures

VIGO Ventures (formally VIGO We Innovation sp. z o.o.) is a Warsaw-based alternative investment fund founded in 2017 as a 50:50 joint venture between Polish photonics champion VIGO Photonics, a global leader in high-operating-temperature infrared detectors, and Warsaw Equity Group, a privately held investment firm with more than two decades of operating-investment experience. The fund's distinctive thesis is sharply focused on hardware deep tech, photonics and optics, semiconductor and chip design, automation and robotics, photovoltaics and clean energy, and materials engineering, with selective adjacent activity in advanced sensing, machine vision and applied AI. By giving Polish and broader European deep-tech founders access to VIGO Photonics' manufacturing know-how and customer base alongside capital, VIGO Ventures effectively functions as a strategic-CVC-plus-VC hybrid, generally investing as a co-investor. Adam Piotrowski, Chairman of the Management Board of VIGO Photonics, sits on the Supervisory Board of VIGO We Innovation. Across approximately 10 disclosed portfolio companies the fund has invested across Poland, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, with named names including Deep Detection in sensing, QustomDot in quantum-dot materials, supported in a EUR 2.7M round in November 2024 with EIC accelerator co-funding, Dutch integrated-photonics specialist PHOTON IP, ObvioHealth in decentralized clinical trials, and Fluence, VIGO's most recent reported investment on August 20, 2025 in a Seed-II round. By coupling capital with VIGO Photonics' deep-tech manufacturing expertise, VIGO Ventures backs European hardware, photonics and semiconductor founders.