alqem raises €8 million pre-seed round co-led by UVC Partners, Union Square Ventures

  • alqem raised EUR 8 million in a pre-seed round co-led by UVC Partners, backing an AI-driven materials discovery company.
  • The Munich-based startup is commercializing an engine built on the Alexandria open materials database, targeting faster identification of next-generation compounds.
  • Funding supports scaling a proprietary predicted-materials database, property training datasets, in-house synthesis, starting with rare-earth-free magnet candidates.


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