Freiburg-based VUSE XR, which develops enterprise software for mixed reality training, has closed a €1.2 million pre-Seed round.
The Round
The round was led by IACD, a Düsseldorf-based business angel network, with additional participation from individual business angels. The money will go toward the VUSE XR Hub platform, its AI-assisted content creation features and commercial growth.
Markus Roithmeier, IACD member and Chairman of the VUSE XR Advisory Board, said: “From an investor’s perspective, VUSE XR brings together everything we look for at this stage: an exceptional team, defensible AI-driven technology, and strong commercial traction. The company has demonstrated its ability to turn a technically demanding product into a scalable software business with considerable growth potential, further accelerated by continuous AI-powered feature enrichment.”
Andreas Goss, IACD member and former CEO of thyssenkrupp Steel, added: “Effective training is critical to productivity, knowledge transfer and the safe operation of increasingly complex products and processes. The technology developed by VUSE XR has the potential to fundamentally change how companies deliver training, making it more accessible and scalable across products and locations.”
The Problem and the Product
Mixed reality hardware has matured quickly, but producing the training content that runs on it is still expensive and hard to scale. VUSE XR replaces costly, agency-led custom projects with a standardised, AI-assisted workflow that lets companies build, update and distribute training content themselves, across products and locations.
Founded in November 2023 by cousins Niclas Matthias and Dr. Paul Matthias, VUSE XR built the VUSE XR Hub, an enterprise platform for creating, managing and deploying immersive training for complex products and processes in industrial and life sciences companies. The Hub converts existing CAD models, engineering data and product documentation into photorealistic 3D models. Users then arrange them into interactive training sequences with AI-assisted tools or drag-and-drop.
Training can be delivered through a web browser, mobile devices or fully immersive XR headsets such as Meta Quest. Results are tracked centrally, and content can be updated and redeployed across an organisation at any time.
Niclas Matthias, co-founder and CEO, said: “Mixed reality hardware is advancing rapidly, but creating mixed reality training content remains the biggest barrier to broader enterprise adoption. The VUSE XR Hub removes this bottleneck, enabling companies to unlock significant business value from mixed reality.”
Customers and Awards
Customers include ZEISS, Hologic, Badenova, Scheidt & Bachmann, WITRON, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and Sartorius. The company won the smartXautomation Award 2025, the AI Champions Award 2025 from Baden-Württemberg, and the pitch competition at Black Forest Space 2026.
New Commercial Team
Alongside the funding, VUSE XR made two senior hires: Jan Hendrik Degner joins as Chief Commercial Officer, with experience from J.P. Morgan and CEWE Group, and Robert Günther, formerly in senior roles at Meta and Unity, becomes Vice President of Sales and Service Delivery.
Matthias said: “With this funding and our expanded commercial team, we are ready to build VUSE XR into the category leader in enterprise mixed reality training.”
