ALTANA Commits to CM Venture's Newly Launched Evergreen Fund
11/28/2025
CM Venture Capital welcomes ALTANA, a leading German specialty chemicals company, as a LP in its newly launched CM Evergreen Fund. This commitment further expands CM Venture’s global investor base of long-term partners sharing a vision for innovation-driven and sustainable growth.
At the core of ALTANA’s strategy is a conviction that innovation is the key differentiator in serving customers across diverse markets. As Dr. Thomas Kostka, Head of Corporate Venturing at ALTANA, explains, innovation has long been a central pillar of the company’s growth strategy, with 6–8% of annual revenue consistently reinvested in R&D, well above the industry average. ALTANA’s investment focus spans both established and emerging innovation domains, from new developments in additives, pigments, and formulated chemistry, to opportunities in adjacent and emerging markets.
This philosophy aligns closely with CM Venture’s mission to bridge science and industry, identifying transformative technologies that create both strategic and financial value. The CM Evergreen Fund builds on this approach, focusing on advanced materials, clean energy, and industrial digitization.
CM Venture’s track record in identifying and scaling frontier technologies, combined with its deep insight into technology development, resonates with ALTANA’s long-term strategic vision. Moreover, ALTANA recognizes CM Venture’s international footprint as a strategic asset and champions early-stage collaboration to uncover promising startup opportunities. “Our business is truly global, with about one third of our revenue in the Americas, Europe, and Asia,” ALTANA noted. “Asia, and China in particular, are the regions where we are experiencing the strongest growth dynamics, and the CVC unit wants to support this momentum by identifying and enabling more strategic cooperation opportunities in China.”
Building on this shared global outlook, ALTANA and CM Venture are aligned in their long-term perspective on deep-tech and materials innovation. ALTANA’s investment underscores a convergence of shared values and strategic priorities, reflecting both firms’ commitment to advancing technological exchange between Europe and China. By combining ALTANA’s industrial foundation and global R&D expertise with CM Venture’s ecosystem and investment insight in strategic emerging industries, the collaboration seeks to accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough technologies and strengthen global innovation networks.
Through CM Venture Evergreen Fund, CM Venture supports visionary innovators and future industry leaders in hard tech with long-term capital, industrial partnerships, and strategic guidance.
