Vanagon with WEF Co-Chair in INSEAD Webinar | Holy in Handelsblatt

Dear Vanagon-Community,

We warmly invite you to an INSEAD webinar next Tuesday, which has been opened to all: Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum André Hoffmann in conversation with Vanagon GP Susanne Fromm on “How to Create Intergenerational Prosperity in Times of AI”.

How do we create lasting prosperity in a world where AI is rewriting the rules? Join us next Tuesday.

Our upcoming INSEAD Lifelong Learning Webinar has been opened to all.

We’ll explore, e.g.

• Our times of exponential change and how technologies like AI are reshaping business models.

• How the fundamentals of prosperity are being redefined.

• And what role our portfolio company The Landbanking Group plays.

Our GP Susanne Fromm will be in conversation with André Hoffmann – Vice-Chairman of Roche, Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum, and long-standing advocate for business as a force for good – to discuss the intersection of AI innovation and long-term prosperity.

Hosted by Nermeen Varawalla, President of the INSEAD Alumni Association UK, the session will draw on André’s recent book 'The New Nature of Business' and explore actionable frameworks and real-world examples.

And yes, there will also be prosperity tips at the end. :)

• 🎙️ “How to Create Intergenerational Prosperity in Times of AI”

• 📅 Tuesday, 18 November 2025

• 🕑 2:00 PM CET

• 📍 Online Webinar – Opened to all

• 👉 Sign up here

Vanagon Portfolio Company Holy featured in Handelsblatt

Below is a summary of the Handelsblatt article:

• Holy Technologies aims to revolutionize carbon-fiber lightweight manufacturing in Europe. The company has developed a highly automated production process that makes carbon parts cheaper, faster, and recyclable — enabling competitive series production previously dominated by Asian manufacturers.

• With fresh funding of €4 million from investors including Vanagon Ventures and Rockstart, Holy is moving from pilot production into industrial-scale manufacturing. According to co-founder Bosse Rothe, the goal is to scale this process across industries that rely on lightweight yet strong components.

• Holy’s Technology and Efficiency: Holy’s approach replaces the traditional, labor-intensive and expensive production of carbon composites with robot-controlled fiber placement: Robots lay continuous (uncut) fibers precisely along calculated stress paths. Design elements such as holes and inserts are integrated directly during production. This reduces waste, costs, and manual labor, enabling up to 50% cost savings at scale compared with current methods — while increasing product performance.

• Recyclability — a longstanding weak spot in composites. Until now, most carbon parts have not been recyclable, because the fibers are cut and fragmented during both production and recycling. Once shortened, they lose their mechanical integrity and are unsuitable for reuse. Holy’s process overcomes this by using uncut fibers and recyclable resins: after a product’s lifetime, the fibers can be chemically separated and reused in new parts — enabling circular carbon manufacturing.

• Globally, Carbon fiber composites demand is growing across aviation, automotive, and cycling, thanks to their strength and light weight. However, the industry still relies on largely manual, costly processes, with production heavily concentrated in Asia. Holy is now making European mass production economically viable.

• Outlook: Holy already produces 12 parts in series for industrial clients and targets seven-figure revenues next year. With its automation-driven efficiency and recycling innovation, the company sees itself as building the foundation for the next generation of European lightweight manufacturing.

Congrats, Holy, for being featured in Handelsblatt! (Link to original article)

If you would like to learn more details about Holy Technologies’s paradigm shift in manufacturing and why we invested: click here.

Have a great day!

Warm regards from our Vanagon office in Munich,
Axel, Sandro & Susanne