EX Venture is a deep-tech venture builder that finances, patents, and deploys breakthrough science at scale. Most groundbreaking research never leaves the lab — it stalls for lack of capital, protected IP, or an operator who knows how to carry it into commercial deployment. EX Venture closes that gap. We identify high-potential technologies in energy, carbon removal, biotechnology, intellectual property, and financial infrastructure, then finance them, file the patents that protect them, and build the operating teams that put them to work in the real world.
Our track record spans €160M+ in capital deployed, 200+ distributed-energy systems installed across 11 countries, and research partnerships with 16 institutions across 8 nations — including DLR, Fraunhofer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, KIT, RWTH Aachen, and PETRONAS. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Wellington Partners, Waste Management, and TriplePoint Capital.
EX Venture is built for founders, researchers, and operators who have real science but lack the capital, patents, or operating muscle to bring it to market — and for institutional partners and investors looking for exposure to defensible, physical technology rather than software alone. Our family of ventures includes Zero-X (distributed energy), EX Carbon and Seraph Group (carbon capture and biomanufacturing), EX IP Ventures and EX IX (patent creation and liquidity), LIFE AI (AI-driven wellness), EX FI (regulated financial infrastructure), and EX Academy, our operator training program in Bali that has deployed 250+ operators into the field.
The company is built and led by a team of operators, engineers, and researchers under founder Julien Uhlig, with 30 years of experience building companies across 4 continents. We are AI-first in how we work, but our moat is physical: defensible patents, hardware, and timeless problems like energy — the kind of value that compounds for decades.