Criteria Venture Tech operates as a venture capital fund that invests in early- and growth-stage startups, writing initial checks of €0.5-3M in pre-seed to pre-Series A rounds (€2-8M total) and €5-15M tickets in later rounds (€10-20M total). It has participated in 190 investment deals, with portfolio companies achieving €11Bn in aggregated valuation. The fund targets B2B SaaS and deep tech startups with MVP and early market traction, focusing on verticals including cybersecurity, infrastructure, AI, data, climate, and enterprise SaaS, where competitive advantage derives from strong technology or IP. Portfolio investments include Vilynx (multimodal AI for video labeling, indexing, and analysis), an AI SOC hyperautomation platform, sensorless energy infrastructure monitoring, a cybersecure industrial edge AI platform, and an open-source data curation platform for SLM and LLM. It invests across Europe.