Top 50 Biotechnology Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Biotechnology startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Biotechnology Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024
Investor | Biotechnology Europe investments |
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Jonathan Milner | 31 |
Nadav Rosenberg | 5 |
Charlie Songhurst | 4 |
Darrin Disley | 4 |
Bernard Majoie | 4 |
Milad Alucozai | 4 |
Annie Vereecken | 4 |
Stefano Bernardi | 4 |
Per Falholt | 3 |
Peder Nielsen | 3 |
Ian Hogarth | 3 |
DrPano Kroko Churchill | 3 |
Sake Bosch | 3 |
Nicholas Francis | 3 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 3 |
Romain Sautrau | 3 |
David Helgason | 3 |
Schnidar Harald | 3 |
Andrea Dusi | 3 |
Inaki Berenguer | 3 |
Jude Gomila | 3 |
Andrew Keys | 3 |
Pierre Drion | 3 |
Sophia Bendz | 2 |
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis | 2 |
Giampaolo Cagnin | 2 |
Detlev Riesner | 2 |
Pratima Aiyagari | 2 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 2 |
Others Others | 2 |
Tim Dempsey | 2 |
Mike Novogratz | 2 |
Nico Wittenborn | 2 |
Edward Lando | 2 |
Gilad Engel | 2 |
Nicholas Edwards | 2 |
Ariel Poler | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Mark Evans | 2 |
Juan Knuth | 2 |
Sten Tamkivi | 2 |
Hugh Grant | 2 |
Sauli Törmälä | 2 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 2 |
Paul Wicks | 2 |
Chris Mairs | 2 |
Carsten Maschmeyer | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Xavier Niel | 2 |
Bradley Horowitz | 2 |
Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
- LIfT BioSciences — LIfT BioSciences is a socially-minded Biotech start-up that develops a portfolio of potentially life-saving immuno-oncology cell therapies for different solid tumors using its innate immunity platform. Its goal is to create a Cell Bank with the potential to cure cancer, using Leukocyte Infusion Therapy.LIfT BioSciences was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in London, England.
- Shift Bioscience — Explore cutting-edge simulation-guided cell rejuvenation techniques aimed at combating aging-related diseases.
Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
- Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
- Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
- StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
- Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Darrin Disley is the CEO, Director & Investor at Mogrify. He attended University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- bit.bio — Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell. Their mission is coding cells for health. To do so, we apply the principles of computation to biology. Bit.bio's current focus is to develop a scalable technology platform capable of producing consistent batches of every human cell. Thishas the potential to unlock a new generation of medicine: it will enable research and drug discovery to move on from inappropriate models and work with the cells that actually are affected by the human disease. A scalable platform of consistent cells will also be the basis for a new generation of cell and tissue therapies. To achieve our goals, we have assembled a team of pioneers in stem cells, cellular reprogramming, mathematical modeling, and cell therapy. Collaboration is at the heart of bit.bio. We are empirical, highly ambitious, and driven by a common purpose.
- Mogrify — Mogrify is pioneering a new class of in vivo reprogramming therapy and transforming the development of ex vivo cell therapy.
- Desktop Genetics — Desktop Genetics is an international biotechnology company established in 2012 to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease. Today, Desktop Genetics is a recognised leader in genome editing technology, staffed by dedicated team of genome editing experts, bioinformaticians and data scientists, driven by thereal-world impact of CRISPR technology.They have invested four years developing their core technology, DESKGEN AI, trained on the largest database of genome editing data in the world. DESKGEN AI powers their flagship DESKGEN CRISPR Library product range, which enables the work of their pharma, biotech and academic customers working in drug discovery and functional genomics. Desktop Genetics' tools and technologies are used by over 1800 organisations all over the world, and their projects contribute directly to several key partnerships to bring CRISPR into the clinic. The company has received awards from Fast Company, Kairos 50 and SxSW Interactive.
Bernard Majoie - President @ Fournier-Majoie
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- reMYND — Driving the development of disease-modifying treatments
- AgenT — AgenT develops the first blood diagnosis to detect Alzheimer's years before the onset of the irreversible symptoms.
- PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology
Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Arpeggio Bio — We engineer medicine based not on a single target, but the biological network as a whole.
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.
Annie Vereecken
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- Ziphius — Ziphius Vaccines is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases.
- Sensolus — Introducing our smart, industrial-grade tracking solution. With battery life of up to ten years, and no additional infrastructure needed.
- Allegro Biotech — Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells).
Stefano Bernardi is the Investment Director, Climate at Fondazione ENEA Tech.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
- Eden Bio — Eden Bio is a biotech using machine learning to guide the genetic engineering of microorganism strain optimisation, improving protein yield.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
A passion and vision for chemistry and biotechnology led Per (born 1958) to Novo A/S, where he started his career as a research chemist. He subsequently held several managerial positions developing products for the detergent industry and rose to Director for Application Technology in the company’s new enzyme development division in 1995.Hemoved to Raleigh, N.C., to head the company’s U.S. application technology unit in 1997, returning to Denmark three years later as Corporate Vice President of the Enzyme Development and Application division. In April 2000, Per merged the Research and Development division into the newly formed Enzyme Business R&D.Per assumed his current position following Novozymes’ demerger from Novo Nordisk in 2000. As chief science officer, he has helped Novozymes develop a unique industrial biotechnology platform which delivers solutions to meet customer needs and support growth.Per holds a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Committed to promoting education and research within the sciences, he was appointed Honorary Professor at DTU’s Institute for Systems Biology in 2010 and became Chairman of the Board in 2013. He is also Chairman of the Young Scientists association in Denmark.Per’s current external positions also include Chairman, DTU, board member of DHI Group, board member of ARTs Biologics A/S, and member of the Danish Council for Research Policy.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Robotics, Life Science
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech
- Synamics Therapeutics — Synamics Therapeutics uses AI and predictive modeling for precision oncology and improved drug discovery. Our adaptive medicine approach helps prolong drug effectiveness and improves outcomes for patients with intractable cancers. Learn more about Synamics Therapeutics and how we leverage AI for personalized, adaptive cancer therapies.
Peder Nielsen - Member of the Global Advisors Network @ Global Bio Fund
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bactobio — At Bactobio, our mission is to create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
- Fabric — One home for everything. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files automatically gathered into one self-organizing home. Never forget anything again.
Pano Kroko is a legendary entrepreneur, Angel, VC and PE investor in innovation towards solving big problems. His investment emphasis is on Life Sciences, Biotech, Therapeutics, Medicine, Internet, Mobile, Communications, Clean Technology, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Finance. We have a quarterly Business Plan competition for placementin our early stage start up accelerator in Seattle Washington. We also run a program in Washington DC, and we have an Innovation Master Class Startup Weekend that runs Ten times a year in Seattle, Beijing, Silicon Valley, and in major Universities around the world.The Accelerator in Seattle & Silicon Valley is called American Angels, and the Accelerator in Washington DC is named H2O and both accept business plans and great ideas with Founders, and Executive teams right now. We would like to see StartUps in all of our areas of focus as well as anything else that is great and promising to solve Big Problems. Parallel to this we also run the CEP - Clean Energy Program incubator in Oxford UK, and the Biotech accelerator for genetics, stem cell applications, genomics, medicine, pharma and telomeres research in Cambridge UK.For our more traditional VC and PE work in the US, the American Venture Company in the US and the Investment Bank Green Capital Inc in the UK and Europe. These are our conduits of support for companies and also the Green Bonds Investments Plc. All of our organizations act as levers of positive change for impact investing, and as corporate environmental investment responsibility -- within the Finance community.In Seattle and in Silicon Valley we run the Accelerator and Early Stage Investment firm AMERICAN ANGELS where we have monthly pitches and demos for new StartUps and we also run a CEO roundtable to help promising Entrepreneurial leaders to succeed.If you or your company is interested in cooperation, presenting, funding, deal syndication or simply for submission of Executive Summaries and Business Plans for early stage angel funding and/or inclusion in the H2O Incubator/Accelerator or the Clean Energy program and the Biotech incubator, please contact us herewith: Mr Ruddy Wallace: envpar [at] gmail.com
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Therapeutics, Biotechnology
- Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Amrit Advanced Biotech — Company working in Genetics, Telomeres health applications, cancer mitigation and lengthening of....
Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- The Netherlands, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
- FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
- Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.
Nicholas Francis is Co-founder at framebunker
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Robotics, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
- Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Romain Sautrau is a Investment Director at Supernova Invest. Romain attended INSEAD.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Agriculture, AgTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Novolyze — Novolyze is a Food Safety company. They offer solutions to help the food industry manufacture safer food, while ensuring strong compliance with international Food Safety & Quality standards. Their research work mainly focuses on evaluating the inactivation of foodborne pathogens under different kinds of stress (heat, etc.). Based on thisexpertise, they have developed the first range of dried, ready-to-use surrogate bacteria, an innovation that allows the food industry to test the efficacy of microbial kill steps / intervention steps in real-life conditions. At Novolyze, they are at the forefront of Food Safety. Their cross-functional team of experts, mainly composed of food microbiologists and process engineers, is able to assist at multiple stages of a project. Novolyze relies on state-of-the-art infrastructures, installed in a pharmaceutical-grade environment at their R&D Center in Dijon, France.
- Antofenol — Antofénol is a post-harvest biocontrol company that directs and develops its work on the valorization of viticultural waste. Antofénol is an innovative biotechnology start-up providing ecological eco-extraction of plant matter.
- nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor
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Investment focus
- mHealth, Software, Biopharma
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- SCARLETRED — SCARLETRED is an international Digital Health Scaleup revolutionising the global skin care market by the AI powered SCARLETRED®VISION platform system. The problem we solved is subjective skin assessment and lacking standardization in Dermatology. Our medical device certified platform is fully mobile, runs via mobile App on smartphones and connectsto our web platform, which enables to generate smart imaging data and novel AI decision support applications in Dermatology and Telemedicine. The multi award winning technology is supplied international via SaaS to Biopharma and Cosmetics Industry, Hospitals and Medical Experts. Protected via worldwide patents it facilitates standardized skin documentation and remote tracking of skin changes and therapeutic effects via mobile App. Images can be uploaded in a cloud based platform and objectively analysed for visual skin changes over time, such as for allergic reactions, pigmentation changes, acne, psoriasis, disease or wound healing. SCARLETRED provides services on a broad range of dermatologic conditions ranging from B2B to B2B2C applications.
Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Inaki Berenguer is the President and Co-founder at iPronics Programmable Photonics.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
- Libera Bio — Libera Bio is a biopharmaceutical company devoted to the development of a new class of therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in cancer
- Mable (Neurolytic Healthcare) — Neurolytic Healthcare provides personalized medicine for neurological conditions. Neurolytic Healthcare collects and extracts insights from a combination of genetic and biomarker data to enhance diagnosis and help clinicians decide on optimal treatment strategies for neurological conditions.The company delivers digitally and genomically-drivenmedical devices to improve the current treatment of migraine and other neurological disorders, including a diagnostic support tool, pharmacogenetic test, and a mobile app for migraine event prediction.
Jude Gomila is currently CEO and Founder of the startup Golden.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
- Farmako — Install Farmako app, get a free health ID and get all your medical records safe and secure in one place!
Andrew Keys is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Andrew Keys. He previously worked for ConsenSys as a Head of Global Business Development. Andrew Keys attended Loyola University Maryland.
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Investment focus
- Software, Finance, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
- Zivoe Finance — Join Zivoe in disrupting predatory high-interest lending.
- Ithaca Finance — Ithaca Finance a cross-chain derivatives trading and settlements protocol, is composed of an on-chain settlement layer with an innovative off-chain matching engine.
Pierre Drion - CEO @ Petercam
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Life Science
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- A-Mansia Biotech — A-Mansia Biotech is a developer of products based on the properties of the Akkermansia muciniphila (A. muciniphila) bacterium. The company's nutritional supplement based on a gut bacterium called Akkermansia, the population of microorganisms housed in the gastrointestinal tract. A. muciniphila is located in the mucus layer covering theintestinal epithelium, which allows the bacterium to establish a close cross-talk with the host.
- Novadip Biosciences — Novadip Biosciences, an advanced biopharmaceutical company focused on new generation of therapies from adipose stem cells adapted to hard and soft tissues reconstruction.
- Santero Therapeutics — Santero Therapeutics seeks to provide novel medications with fresh modes of action that combat diseases with high resistance. Santero develops antimicrobials with novel modes of action to combat the rise of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation.
Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm.
Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Italy, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
Giampaolo’s aim has always been to apply a disruptive approach to functional food ingredients and that’s how he founded Italiana Ingredienti in ’89 and Campus in ’05. Both companies have been acquired, Italiana Ingredienti by Chr. Hansen in ‘99 and Campus by Firmenich in ’18. Today he serves as Founder and Chairman at Hi-Food, an Italian companyproviding key functional ingredients to food companies, and as a business Angel Investor in several startups.
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- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Plant-Based Foods
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Italy, Denmark
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- Chromologics — Chromologics produce natural sustainable colors. Our flagship product is ChromoRed which performs better than existing natural, red colorants. ChromoRed is also applicable with vegan, kosher and halal diets.
- Dreamfarm — We are a team of food-lovers 100% made in Italy! We dreamt of a better, tastier, more sustainable future and decided to join forces to create something special.
Prof. Riesner has held the Chair of Biophysics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany since 1980 and is Director of Technology at the University of Düsseldorf. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Braunschweig, Germany. Prof. Riesner is also a member of the Supervisory Board and a Director of Qiagen N.V., Netherlands.
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- Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care
- Seed
- Germany
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- Numaferm — NUMAFERM challenges this paradigm. We have developed a reliable, cost-efficient manufacturing process that enables the reduction of production costs dramatically (up to 1000x). How is it possible? Our process is based on a well-designed microorganism that converts simple nutrients to peptides. It is the first-in-place bioprocess that serves as areliable platform for the production of peptides; independent of their sequence, length or functionality.
- Pantherna Therapeutics — Pantherna Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class mRNA-LNP therapeutics.
Pratima is a Venture Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. At Nauta, Pratima focuses on enterprise software and deep tech domains.Pratima has 18+ years of professional experience. She is a software developer by background and spent several years in Silicon Valley working on developing intelligent network services in the networkmanagement domain. Pratima joins Nauta from US-based cybersecurity-focused investment firm Paladin Capital. Previously, Pratima led investments and acquisitions at Cisco Corporate Development in Europe with a specific focus on ML/AI, Enterprise Collaboration and Silicon. During her investment career, Pratima led an investment or held board seats in Aimotive, Adbrain, Evrythng, Secure Code Warrior, decentriq, Dashbird, and several fund investments. She also managed investments in several companies including Behaviosec, Italtel, ip.access, and Corvil.Pratima received her MBA from INSEAD in France and an MS in computer science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US. Pratima is a co-author of a US patent in the area of network device clusters and high availability.
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- Analytics, Cyber Security, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France, Croatia
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- Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
- Mindflow — Mindflow is a No-Code & AI-driven Automation & Orchestration Platform that enables all Enterprise Cyber IT Professionals to Automate Mundane tasks.
- ESPROFILER — ESProfiler is an enterprise platform that empowers CISOs to prioritise threats, optimise spend & continuously maximise return on investment
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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- Health Care, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
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- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
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- Biotechnology, Software, B2B
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, Germany, Ireland
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- Conektto — Design, Build & Test API in minutes. Conektto is the industry's first API SDLC platform that intelligently generates artifacts.
- Gheorg — Around 1 million children in Australia have diagnosable anxiety. Two-thirds of them will never get the help they need. Gheorg is on a mission to change that. We're aiming to reduce childhood anxiety and our new app helps parents and children at home. Sign up to get the app on our website.
- Hooke Bio — Hooke Bio is a new Pharmaceutical company operating in the preclinical to early stages of drug discovery. It draws its strength from the close co-operation it has between its biologists and engineers. The engineers design, patent and test new microfluidic technology: the scientists apply the technology to finding new therapeutics.
Tim Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Epiphany Capital. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- Lunio — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media
- Mitra bio — We are transforming skin-care by approaching ageing as a disease to be fought. We are developing a genetic and epigenetic discovery platform to help skincare companies find and develop new compounds that actually fight the root cause of skin ageing.
- PPC Protect — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media
Michael E. Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners. He was formerly a principal and a member of the board of directors of Fortress Investment Group LLC and Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund. Mr. Novogratz joined Fortress in 2002 after spending 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected partner in 1998. Mr.Novogratz founded and serves as the Chairman of the Board for Beat the Streets, a non-profit organization which builds wrestling programs in New York City public schools and is also the Honorary Chairman of USA Wrestling Foundation. Mr. Novogratz is Chairman of The Friends of the Hudson River Park. He also serves on the board of the Acumen Fund, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club and The Jazz Foundation of America. Mr. Novogratz received an AB from Princeton University in Economics, and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
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- Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
- Cambrian Biopharma — Cambrian is developing a raft of new companies and therapies to extend healthy lifespan, bringing proven scientific and organizational expertise to exceptional research teams worldwide.
Nico Wittenborn is an Investor at Adjacent.
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- Software, Health Care, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, France
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- Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
- Backbone — Backbone is a mobile gaming controller with intuitive controls, clickable thumbsticks & zero latency that works with cloud and remote gaming.
- Momentum — Finally, a real solution for major gift fundraising. Powered by AI.
Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- Fun — Fun offers to build a product ecosystem that leverages cross-chain decentralized wallets on the Odsy blockchain.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Gilad Engel - Partner @ Target Global
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- Hardware, Analytics, Biotechnology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Joe — Joe is an financial service that reimburses and allows ALL expenses to be paid in several installments.
- Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
- Fourier Optics — Fourier's Metasurface optical combiner seamlessly embeds inside everyday glasses' lenses.
Nick serves as the Chairman of Prescient’s Board of Directors. He holds a degree in physiological sciences from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and completed his training in clinical medicine (BM, BCh) at Green College (now Green Templeton College), University of Oxford. Nick practiced in the areas of cardiology and general surgerybefore joining Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture), eventually becoming the global leader of Accenture’s pharmaceutical R&D business during his 18-year tenure. In 2005, he founded Kinapse to provide consulting and outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry. Nick served as Kinapse’s Chairman until the company was sold to HgCapital in early 2016.
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- Medical, Health Care, Life Science
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Oxford Medical Products — Oxford Medical Products is a UK-based biotechnology start-up revolutionising the weight-loss treatment space with its hydrogel-based technology.
Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
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- Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
- Openlytics — Openlytics is a visual analytics platform. It allows Data Workers to create pipelines for data transformation and analysis, in a visual way. Our mission is to empower everyone in the organization to solve data problems, without waiting for developers.Openlytics is an early-stage company, looking to build a founding team that can shape thedirection of the product. We’re seed-funded, remote-first, and hiring.If you're interested in learning more, email us at hello@openlytics.io.
- humm — humm harnesses cutting-edge neuroscience into products that allow people to learn faster and perform better.humm is working to bring the incredible results of neuroscience research out of the lab and into non-invasive wearables that improve the quality of life for everyday people. Our first product is a clinically validated patch that you wearfor 15 minutes to get up to 90 minutes of improved working memory, by gently stimulating the signals in the part of the brain that controls your executive thinking. humm improves your ability to learn and be at your best, allowing people to reconnect with the joy of learning and challenge themselves to continue growing at any stage of life, whether it's for work or personal enjoyment!
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Mark is currently a Founding Partner and LP and Investment Committee member at Kindred Capital, a European Seed-Stage Venture fund, based in London. He was a General Partner at Balderton Capital/ Benchmark Europe from 2002 through 2015, and an EIR at Benchmark Capital in 1999/2000.He spent the prior 15 years @ Goldman Sachs, where hewas a General Partner and Management Committee member. He studied Economics at both University of Oxford and Queen's University in Canada.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
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- ONI — Where are you in your super-resolution journey? ONI is here to support you along your super-resolution journey Answer a few simple questions to discover key resources that can help you make the most of single-molecule imaging technology across a wide range of applications Products Gallery FAQs Subscribe to our mailing list
- Ufonia — Ufonia is replacing routine patient healthcare interactions with next-generation automated phone calls.
- Arctoris — Arctoris is a platform company headquartered in Oxford, with its US operations based in Boston and its APAC operations based in Singapore. Arctoris developed and operates a unique drug discovery platform powered by advanced robotics and data science combined with an experienced team of biotech & pharma veterans. Arctoris actively pursuesseveral drug discovery programs in oncology and neuro, while also providing access to its platform to select biotech and pharma partners. Arctoris' approach of data-driven drug discovery leads to higher chance of success, and an accelerated progression of programs towards the clinic.
Juan Knuth
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Devicare — Devicare designs point-of-care medical devices that monitor, diagnose and treat chronic diseases. The company's medical devices are useful in measuring the level of biomarkers in body fluids such as saliva, tears, sweat, sputum, feces, urine or blood, enabling medical professionals to detect and treat various infectious diseases.
Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.
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- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Estonia, United States, United Kingdom
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- Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
- Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
- Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
Hugh Grant is President and Chief Executive Officer at Monsanto.
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- Biotechnology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bactobio — At Bactobio, our mission is to create a safer and greener world by harvesting valuable metabolites from biological dark matter.
Sauli Törmälä is the Board Member, CFO at Promilless Oy. He attended University of Oulu.
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- Life Science, Biotechnology
- Seed
- Finland
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- Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Paul is a neuropsychologist and expert in digital health, clinical trials, and patient centricity. For 13 years he led the R&D team at PatientsLikeMe, an online community for over 700,000 people living with medical conditions. Specialising in clinical research using the Internet, Paul shaped the scientific validity of the platform in generatinginsights from patient-generated health data, leading to over 110 studies including a patient-driven observational trial of lithium in ALS, numerous patient-reported outcome measures, a “dose-response” curve for the benefits of friendship between patients, and methods for patient-centered and virtual clinical trial designs.He sits on the editorial boards of the BMJ, BMC Medicine, JMIR, Digital Biomarkers and The Patient. Prior to joining PatientsLikeMe, Paul worked at the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London) studying cognition and neuroimaging in ALS, with a postdoc in psychological consequences of Parkinson’s disease.His work has been profiled by the BBC, NPR, CNN, BBC Radio 4, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. In 2011 he was awarded MIT Technology Review’s TR35 “Humanitarian of the Year” award, recognized as a TED Fellow in 2012, and joined the inaugural FLIER Program at the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019.
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- Real Time, Marketplace, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Sano Genetics — Sano Genetics is a user-centric genetic data marketplace that connects individuals directly to the research world. It act as ethical brokers to facilitate a direct connection between you and research institutions. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States
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- VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
- Quantly — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
- Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- frats — frats' goal is to become a solution-oriented company in the party, event, and festival market for sustainable products.
- Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
- Bildungs urlauber — The goal of Bildungsurlauber.de is to make complicated topics simple. First and foremost, we assist you in locating the appropriate seminar for you by using simple filter options - regardless of whatever federal state you work in.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
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- CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
- Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
- The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.
Bradley Horowitz is an Advisor and Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google's incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He's led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google - including Google for Startups, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, blogger, and GoogleNews.Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo's vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company's initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN).Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.Horowitz was a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. While at the Media Lab, he worked on a number of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing, which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences.Horowitz holds an MS in Media Science from MIT and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Mill — Meet the cleanest, easiest way to prevent food waste at home. Mill recycles your peels, bones, stalks, and forgotten leftovers.
- Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
- Overture Life — We are making In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) more accessible than ever before while improving success rates. An embryology lab in a box.
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