NRW.Venture is the venture capital investment program of NRW.BANK in Düsseldorf, backing young, innovative, technology-oriented companies in North Rhine-Westphalia and Germany. It makes minority investments across financing rounds after a seed, business angel or first VC round, with commitments of up to €15 million over three to seven years. The program targets seed and early-stage companies across climate tech, ICT, AI, enterprise software, SaaS, cybersecurity, life sciences, diagnostics, new medicines, medtech, robotics, photonics, new materials and digitalization.