AVES Reality, the company turning satellite and aerial data into AI-generated maps and 3D digital twin worlds, has raised an oversubscribed €2.7 million seed round to accelerate product development and market extension. The round was led by Matterwave Ventures with participation from new investors XISTA Science Ventures, xdeck, and Lightfield Equity, plus continued support from existing shareholders Bayern Kapital and Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF).

AVES Reality builds AI models and advanced computer graphic algorithms that automatically reconstruct the world in 3D — from entire cities down to road networks and street junctions. These digital twins are not just pixels put into 3D shapes but procedural reconstructions backed with physical and semantic information built on geospatial AI analytics of satellite data. These resulting 3D digital twins allow AVES’s customers to simulate and train the next generation of autonomous systems in a scalable, deterministic digital environment before they operate in the real world. AVES Reality therefore provides a crucial missing piece to their customers: an accurate representation of the real world that autonomous systems and physical AI can reliably learn and be validated in.

A base-layer technology for physical AI and next-gen world foundation models

AVES Reality builds the foundational layer for the next generation of autonomy and physical AI.

Florian Albert, co-founder and CEO of AVES Reality explains:

“The company’s technology automatically transforms raw satellite and aerial data into accurate, physics-aware 3D digital twins — a capability that unlocks simulation, training, and world understanding at global scale. As next-generation physical AI systems will increasingly navigate, reason about, and interact with the real world, the ability to generate rich, deterministic digital training environments becomes a critical enabler for entire industries.”

AVES Reality’s platform is already demonstrating this impact. The company works with major automotive OEMs to provide simulation-ready environments and maps for the virtual validation of autonomous vehicles, addressing one of the automotive industry’s biggest unsolved challenges. For years, autonomous mobility has been held back by the gap between limited real-world testing and the enormous data volumes required to prove safety. Virtual validation — using physics-correct, semantically consistent digital twins —is now becoming the decisive step to finally bring autonomous vehicles from long- promised prototypes to dependable real-life deployment. Deterministic simulation enables a virtual vehicle roll-out in new operational areas long before physical deployment. This not only is multiple times more cost efficient but also allows for risk- free testing of edge cases in dedicated operational areas earlier in the process, and with a level of repeatability impossible in the physical world. AVES Reality’s platform, the AVES Launcher, enables their customers to generate simulation-ready maps of any desired operational area in minutes instead of months.

At the same time, AVES Reality is working with NVIDIA to implement one of the world’s first reference workflow to provide high-fidelity synthetic environments to fine-tune vision language models (VLMs) like NVIDIA Cosmos Reason. These new AI architectures rely on vast amounts of structured, physics-grounded data, including not just images, but complete simulations of how objects behave, move, collide and interact. One of the first applications is being used for deploying intelligent AI agents for automating traffic management, leveraging NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI as a framework for city-scale solutions.

AVES Reality has demonstrated real world benefits together with partners for the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung. There it was clearly showcased, the current shift and advancement towards physical AI requires virtual environments to collect synthetic training data which obey real-world constraints, and AVES Reality with their 3D digital twins delivers exactly that: scalable, mathematically consistent, richly annotated worlds that models can learn from.

Benedikt Kronberger, Partner at Matterwave Ventures confirms:

“These promising early use cases explain why this round was oversubscribed with substantial investor interest in the company. AVES Reality’s technology sits at the intersection of space data, geospatial AI, autonomy, simulation, and world modeling. These are sectors that are now entering a period of rapid adoption as machines transition from narrow automation to general physical intelligence.”

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About AVES Reality

AVES Reality is a deep-tech company building AI systems that automatically generate accurate, simulation-ready 3D digital twins from satellite and aerial imagery, globally scalable and up to 900x faster than traditional map creation processes. Founded 2022 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with offices in Germany and Bulgaria, AVES Reality enables enterprises to simulate, test, train, and deploy the next generation of autonomous systems and world foundation AI models.

www.avesreality.com

About Matterwave Ventures

Matterwave Ventures is a leading European venture capital firm investing in early-stage hardware and software companies, leading the transformation of the European industrial sector towards a more sustainable, sovereign, and digitalized future. Matterwave’s vision is to regain technology leadership, production capacity as well as energy and raw material autonomy in Europe. Over the last 25 years, the team invested in over 70 companies at the intersection of ClimateTech, DeepTech and IndustrialTech. With over EUR 250 million of assets under management, Matterwave typically participates in Seed and Series A financing rounds across Europe.

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About XISTA Science Ventures

xista science ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing across Europe in visionary science start-ups in life sciences, software and hardware, helping academic spin-offs grow into global companies.

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About xdeck

xdeck ventures is an early-stage venture capital investor focusing on tech companies with superior solutions in process automation, applied big data / AI, and sustainability tech. xdeck ventures invests in inspiring teams with deep domain expertise and a distinctive understanding of the problem they are trying to solve. Moreover, they are looking for differentiated products or services that solve a real pain point for customers and teams who are building something significant with the spirit to walk the extra mile. As investor on eye level, xdeck ventures empower founders to constantly challenge their status quo by being their biggest critic and close sparring partner at the same time.

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About Lightfield Equity Lightfield Equity is an entrepreneurial-led family office investing its own capital in innovative startups. Lightfield backs ambitious founders with patient, hands-on capital to turn strong technologies and business models into resilient, scalable companies. With a clear, disciplined investment approach and a long-term mindset, Lightfield focuses on real value creation.

About Bayern Kapital

Bayern Kapital is the venture capital company of the Free State of Bavaria. With around €1.3 billion under management, investments of up to €50 million per company, and over 30 years of experience, it is one of the most powerful and experienced VC investors in the DACH region. The focus is on investments in innovative high-tech and deep-tech startups and scaleups in Bavaria, together with private co-investors – from pre-seed through the growth phase to exit. Since its foundation in 1995, Bayern Kapital has invested over €650million of its own equity capital in more than 380 startups and scaleups in sectors such as life sciences, SaaS, climate tech, new space, nuclear fusion, quantum technology, and AI. The active Bayern Kapital portfolio has thus created over 7,000 jobs to date.

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About Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF)

The Fraunhofer Technology Transfer Fund (FTTF) is an independent early-stage venture capital investor for young deep-tech companies of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the first such fund in Germany. With a fund volume of 60 million euros, FTTF finances start- ups in very early phases and can invest up to 5 million euros per company. FTTF’s investors are the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the European Investment Fund (EIF). Since its launch in 2019, FTTF has invested in 39 start-ups pursuing innovative business models based on a wide rang

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