Hyperdrives, a Munich-based DeepTech company building high-performance electric drives at scale, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed €3 million pre-Seed round.
The round was led by Rethink Ventures, joined by First Momentum Ventures, SDAC, Acequia Capital, 2100 Ventures, Prototype Capital, and several angel investors. With the new funding, Hyperdrives will focus on converting its strong customer pipeline into commercial projects, validating lifetime durability to automotive standards, and preparing its manufacturing processes towards industrial-scale rollout.
Robin Renz, CEO & Co-Founder of Hyperdrives said: “Hyperdrives is turbocharging electrification with the best performance-to-cost electric motors on the market, designed for industrial-scale production. Over the past years and through three product generations, we have proven that breakthrough motor performance doesn’t require exotic materials or new production concepts. With this new funding, we will expand our team to validate lifetime durability to automotive standards, accelerate our go-to-market, and prepare for industrial-scale production.”
Founded in 2021, Hyperdrives has developed a hollow-conductor motor cooling technology that allegedly enables scaling record power densities at dramatically lower cost – without exotic materials or novel motor layouts and based on existing production processes.
The result: motors that are lighter, smaller, more efficient and deliver a unique performance-to-cost advantage across automotive, aerospace, and marine applications.
Michael Numberger, CTO & Co-founder of Hyperdrives said: “Our breakthrough is making hollow-conductor cooling work for mass production. By cooling directly inside the copper conductor, we achieve up to three times higher current density than today’s motors — more power in the same space, or the same power in a smaller, lighter package. With this funding, we can take our technology through the toughest automotive validation and prove it works not just in the lab, but at industrial scale.”
Hyperdrives supplies turnkey drive systems with integrated SiC inverters to project customers and partners with OEMs and Tier-1s on industrialisation via manufacturing-technology licensing.
Founded by a team that combines a competitive motorsport ethos with years of large-scale industry experience, Hyperdrives already serves a commercial pipeline and generated over €1 million revenues in 2024 without any external funding – according to the company.
Matthias Schanze, General Partner at Rethink Ventures added: “Hyperdrives solves one of the toughest challenges in e-mobility: combining record performance with true scalability. Their hollow-conductor platform is the first I’ve seen that delivers motorsport-level performance with automotive-level manufacturability and cost. That’s why we are excited to support the Hyperdrives team and lead this oversubscribed round.”
As OEMs race to cut EV costs while keeping customers at the centre, Hyperdrives aims to offer a technology that delivers both – lower cost and a more attractive product for the customer.
Andreas Fischer, General Partner at First Momentum Ventures said: “Many high-performance motor companies don’t make it because they require new production concepts or don’t scale. Hyperdrives takes the opposite approach: by building on proven automotive processes, they achieve revolutionary performance through evolutionary design. That’s why we are excited to back the team. We believe this is what it takes to scale electric mobility, also beyond automotive.”
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/09/german-deeptech-startup-hyperdrives-secures-e3-million-to-turbocharge-electric-motors/
