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Genomics
Sequencing platforms, gene editing, therapeutic discovery. The point at which biology becomes engineering.
FOUNDED 2000 · BEIJING
Multinational Holding. Private Capital. Long-Horizon Vision.
Twenty-six years of selective capital deployment in the technologies that will shape the next century.
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A Private Holding Built for Decades
Tera AG was founded in 2000 and operates from Beijing. The capital is privately held. Decisions are taken on a horizon measured in decades, not quarters.
The portfolio is concentrated in industries with structural rather than cyclical demand. Hard engineering, contested regulatory ground, long time-to-scale. The kind of work that rewards patience and punishes the alternative.
Discretion is part of the operating model. Portfolio companies are not named publicly. The work is done in the open with the people who matter, and quietly with everyone else.
INVESTMENT DOMAINS
Where the Capital Is
Six fields. Each chosen on the same test: does the asset compound across cycles, or does it depend on a moment passing.
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Aeronautics
Civil and defence airframes, propulsion, autonomous flight. Capital-intensive, regulated, durable.
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Geothermal Energy
Deep-well baseload power. The most underwritten resource on the planet.
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Small Modular Nuclear
Factory-built reactors. The realistic decarbonisation pathway, eventually conceded.
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Artificial Intelligence
Foundation models, applied systems, the silicon they run on. Not a sector, an input to every sector.
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Longevity Research
Senolytics, epigenetic reprogramming, ageing as disease. The one market with structurally unlimited demand.
SPOTLIGHT
Terahertz: Closing the Gap
The letters in Tera AG are not decorative. TERA, a related entity founded in 2003, works the Terahertz band: the stretch of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared that spent decades as a laboratory curiosity. The gap was real. Industrial-scale generation and detection did not exist. That gap has closed.
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Food & Agriculture
Non-invasive quality inspection across the production chain. Contamination detected, moisture mapped, waste reduced at industrial scale.
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Manufacturing QC
Real-time, non-destructive testing of materials and composites. Defects that optical and X-ray methods routinely miss.
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Medical Diagnostics
Tissue imaging and pharmaceutical analysis. Non-ionizing. Sensitive to water content and molecular structure where it matters.
Non-Ionizing
Safe for human exposure and sensitive materials. Unlike X-rays.
Penetrating
Sees through plastics, ceramics, fabrics. No contact required.
Precise
Molecular-resolution chemical fingerprinting.
Non-Destructive
Zero damage to samples under inspection.
A scientific frontier turned into industrial infrastructure. This is what patient capital looks like.
PORTFOLIO
Two Companies Worth Naming
Tera AG does not stop at the laboratory. Portfolio companies operate on multiple continents, serving clients from enterprise IT buyers to subsurface exploration operators. Two of these are worth naming.
Terrera AG
Intelligent IT Systems
An international IT system house. Network architecture, cloud integration, cybersecurity, managed services. The unglamorous digital plumbing that modern enterprises depend on and rarely thank their providers for. A reminder that deep-technology investment also means funding the infrastructure that carries everything else.
TERRA-A AG
Remote Earth Exploration
Makes the underground visible. Remote sensing and geophysical analysis identify subsurface mineral deposits, groundwater, and geothermal resources without invasive drilling. The energy transition demands lithium, rare earths, and geothermal heat. Finding them responsibly is not a footnote. It is the premise.
Together: the physical infrastructure of the Earth's crust and the digital infrastructure of the modern enterprise. Two ends of the same technology stack, under one holding.
GROWTH
Twenty-Six Years. USD 15 Billion.
Compounded across cycles. Not as virtue. As arithmetic.
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TURNOVER · USD BILLIONS · 2000 - 2026
APPROACH
Four Principles. Nothing Else.
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Long Horizon
Twenty-year mandates. Holding, not trading. The quarterly noise is someone else's problem.
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Selectivity
Fewer, larger, deeper. Conviction over breadth. The best ideas are rare and worth the concentration.
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Discretion
Quiet operations. No named portfolio. The right people know. That is sufficient.
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Operational Rigour
Capital is the easy part. Governance, talent, execution are the work. Performance follows.
RESPONSIBILITY
Returns and Responsibility Are Not Opposites
For Tera AG, financial return and responsible impact are not competing objectives. They are mutually reinforcing imperatives. Not a marketing posture. Not a compliance exercise. Operating DNA.
Environmental
Geothermal baseload. Small modular reactors. Subsurface sensing that reduces the environmental cost of extracting the minerals the energy transition requires. Clean energy is not a sidecar investment. It is the thesis.
Social
Diversity of perspective compounds the same way capital does. STEM education funding, community partnerships in host regions, and deliberate cultivation of teams that draw from the widest possible range of human experience.
Governance
Transparent reporting. Ethical leadership. Accountability that is rigorous in substance, not performative in form. The governance discipline that makes decades-long capital deployment possible.
Legacy is measured not only in returns but in the quality of the future those returns helped build.
CONTACT
Beijing
REGISTERED OFFICE
20 East Middle 3rd Ring Road
5/F, Block A, Landgent Center
Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020
China
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