Strategic Investments
We identify and back businesses with strong growth potential, partnering with founders who drive innovation, build durable advantages, and create lasting value at scale.
BLACKVINE GMBH
Backing the Businesses that Define Tomorrow.
The personal holding company of Bastian Grimm. We back founders building category-defining businesses in AI, energy, and defense, drawing on 25+ years in search and digital.
ABOUT BLACKVINE
Trusted Partner for Shaping Tomorrow's Innovations
blackvine GmbH is the personal holding company of Bastian Grimm, backing founders and ventures across AI, energy, and defense. Drawing on more than 25 years operating in search and digital, blackvine partners with companies shaping the technologies, infrastructure, and platforms that define the next decade.
Shaping Tomorrow with AI
Backing teams building frontier AI, from foundation models and reasoning systems to the agents and applications redefining how the world discovers, decides, and creates.
Powering the AI Era
We invest in the energy systems and infrastructure powering tomorrow's AI economy, from advanced nuclear to grid resilience and the next generation of compute.
Advancing Defense
We back companies building advanced defense systems and sovereign technology, from autonomous platforms to secure infrastructure for a more contested world.
Recent Investments
blackvine's core focus is investments in AI, energy, and defense. A selection of recent transactions:
Advanced Machine Intelligence: world models for the next generation of AI.
FEATURED IN TECHCRUNCH Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models. Visit amilabs.xyz
Frontier AI lab building large language models (e.g., Kimi-2), based in China.
FEATURED IN TECHCRUNCH China's Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets. Visit moonshot.ai
Anduril Industries builds advanced autonomous systems and defense technology.
FEATURED IN AXIOS Anduril raising $4 billion at a $60 billion valuation. Visit anduril.com
Frontier AI research and the Claude model family.
FEATURED IN REUTERS Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, Bloomberg News reports. Visit anthropic.com
Small modular nuclear reactors for the AI era.
FEATURED IN WORLD NUCLEAR NEWS Aalo completes assembly of experimental reactor. Visit aalo.com
Spatial intelligence and large world models for AI.
FEATURED IN REUTERS AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion in funding. Visit worldlabs.aiInvestments shown may be held either through direct or indirect participation.
ABOUT BASTIAN
Bastian Grimm
Bastian Grimm is an internationally recognized SEO and digital marketing expert with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. He was named "Search Personality of the Year" at the European Search Awards and named "SEO World Champion" at the G50 Summit. Over the past years, he worked with leading global brands on large-scale SEO programs, AI-driven marketing initiatives, and complex digital transformation projects.
As CEO of Peak Ace AG, Bastian scaled the company into one of Europe's leading independent digital marketing agencies, delivering campaigns in more than 25 languages. After successfully leading Peak Ace through its exit to HEROIKS Group, he gained first-hand experience in M&A and growth strategy. Today, his focus is on how AI and brand are redefining digital visibility and what that means for the next generation of search.
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blackvine GmbH
Bienenweide 1, 27324 Eystrup, Germany
VAT ID (Section 27a German VAT Act): DE815430363
Commercial Register: Walsrode District Court, HRB 204312
Managing director: Bastian Grimm
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