# Top 45 Cannabis Startup Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Casa Verde Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Cannabis, Software, Health Care As both the domestic and international markets continue to evolve and mature, Casa Verde maintains a view that cannabis will be among the most compelling investment themes of our generation. ## Christian Angermayer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group ## Maria Frances - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Fashion, Marketplace, B2B Maria Raga Frances is based out of London, England, and is the venture partner of Creandum. Maria previously worked at ITV as a digital advisory council member. Maria Raga Frances attended INSEAD. Maria Raga Frances has been nominated as a finalist for the Bold Woman Award. ## HV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies. ## TQ Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles. ## Torus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Computer, Software We are investors advocating for positive action, and are searching for like-minded founders. Is this you? ## MassMutual Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice. ## Sophia Bendz - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures ## Dennis Aogo - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer. ## Augustin Paluel-Marmont - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Cannabis Augustin Paluel-Marmont is the founder of Michel et Augustin. ## Bitburger Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bitburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Marketplace In the mid of 2018, Bitburger Holding founded the investment company Bitburger Ventures for its investments in start-ups. The aim is to combine the growth potential of young, innovative companies with the financial strength and access to different expertise along the value chain of the Bitburger Group. Our heritage as a medium-sized family businesswith a long-term orientation distinguishes Bitburger Ventures from pure financial investors and offers young entrepreneurs a unique added value. Our activities focus primarily on the German-speaking area, where we have been operating for 200 years. Through our industrial holdings in leading medium-sized companies that are successful in various industries and in international markets, we have direct access to different networks and various competencies. We are pragmatic, accessible and credible and expect the same from our venture partners.Bitburger Ventures invests venture capital in the form of minority holdings in already established start-ups, preferably in the Seed to Series B phase. Our investment focus is on consumer-facing business models, but we are also interested in leading alternative technology and service solutions. Following the tradition of a family business, we sustainably support our portfolio companies on their growth path. Bitburger Ventures also invests in international venture capital funds. ## National Center for Research & Development - Type: VC Fund - Location: Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology The National Research and Development Centre is an executive agency of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. It was established in summer 2007 as a unit realizing the tasks of scientific, scientific-technical and innovation policy. At the time of inception was the first unit of this type, created as a platform for effective dialogue betweenscience and business environment. Currently it operates under the Act of 30 April 2010 by the National Centre for Research and Development (Dz. U. 2010, No. 96 item. 616). Introduced in autumn 2010 reform of the science center has allowed greater freedom in disposing financial resources, within the framework of the strategic research agenda. An additional 1 September 2011, NRDC has expanded the scope of its activities with new initiatives and opportunities. Taking over from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education function of the Intermediate in three operational programs: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment, has become one of the largest centers supporting innovation in Poland. The Centre is funded by the Treasury and European Union funds. ## CBDSI GmbH - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Cannabis, E-Commerce Holding ## Teal Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: AgTech, Cannabis, Genetics Early-stage impact driven investment vehicle, looking for the best combination of team, product & impact, across Europe & UK. ## JR Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing JR HOLDING is an Alternative Joint Stock Company listed on the NewConnect stock market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2012.When investing in a given project, we invest primarily in people who can manage the company, team, capital and achieve their goals. We consciously don't invest in activities that lack a leader, coordinator, someonewho is fully involved in managing the project. We believe that our greatest value is the fact that so many people trust us and look for a partner for joint investments in us. We adhere to the principle of creating value through investments made. The company builds its financial potential by investing in projects and industries with a high rate of return, which allow us to achieve above-average profits in the long term.In accordance with our strategy, we invest in several key industries of the future, such as Digital Business Renewable energy Space Industry Deeptech / Hardware Biotech Gaming New MediaHowever, we believe that creating a business is more than just good projects or industries with potential - it's people and relationships with them. Employees, leaders and shareholders - people with whom we create and achieve our goals together. ## Senseii Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, Cannabis, Messaging Senseii Ventures is an accelerator and a venture capital investment firm that focuses on digital disrupting ideas and projects. It provides strategic assistance, industrial capital, and capital funding to startups. The firm was established in 2016 and is headquartered in Paris, France. ## redalpine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software redalpine is a thesis-driven vc with deep expertise in software and science. since 2006. we believe in the power of big ideas and in empowering game changers. we don't just invest, we co-create a better tomorrow. together with you. ## Artemis - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services Artemis is a leading UK-based fund manager, offering a range of funds which invest in the UK, Europe, the US and around the world. ## Fiona Pathiraja - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen. ## Deepbridge Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Deepbridge is a different kind of investment manager. They work closely with financial advisers and investors to design innovative products, ranging from investment in technology growth companies to asset-backed renewable energy projects. They also partner with innovative and committed management teams to help UK based companies realise theirpotential and become successful leading-edge businesses. ## Salica - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Founded as an investment firm focusing on the most promising startups, we have evolved into a unique set of private market funds investing globally in equity and debt across complementary sectors and stages. We fuse traditional values with a contemporary approach and balance exacting processes with the agility to capture commercial opportunity andcompelling investment returns. Our continuous search for new opportunities has led us to create a balanced collection of complementary funds and relationships. ## SevenVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Unterföhring, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Food and Beverage SevenVentures is a leading TV media investor. As the investment arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, they are the ideal partner for B2C growth companies, especially in the consumer goods, retail and service sectors that have the potential to achieve sustainable success through the use of TV advertising. Cases such as Zalando, AboutYou, flaconi and inthe current portfolio Grover, refurbed, KoRo and TiNDLE illustrate how companies can benefit from their media power and become strong brands in their respective market segment within a short period of time. The combination of media power and operational know-how make SevenVentures the premier partner for growth through target-group-related and far-reaching TV and digital campaigns. ## Futury Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet We are looking for the newcomers, the architects of the future, the movers & shakers. ## Navy Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Post-IPO Equity, Seed - Focus: Cannabis, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Navy Capital’s research-oriented, fundamentally-driven investment process focuses on identifying attractive opportunities within the legal cannabis space. Navy Capital seeks to find the best in class businesses within key verticals of the global cannabis industry. Those verticals include Consumer, Healthcare, Technology, Industrials, andAgriculture. ## Leafy Tunnel - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Cannabis Leafy Tunnel is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in alternative medicine to address mental health and pain disorders. ## Lince Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Venture - Series Unknown - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Retail Lince Capital is an independent venture capital company. Lince Capital was born from the experience of a family group with over 30 years of experience in managing investment funds in various business areas, including real estate, infrastructure, agriculture, and telecommunications.Lince Capital is distinguished by its personalized and excellentsupport, close and direct relationship with each of its investors and business partners, and the dedication of an experienced and dynamic team. ## AgFunder - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology AgFunder is a global venture capital firm backing deeptech platforms across AI, biotech, robotics, manufacturing, climate, and materials. ## Irina Elena Haivas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Irina Haivas is a Principal. Based in London, she works on sourcing and due diligence of global investment opportunities.Irina focuses on businesses that use advanced technologies such as machine intelligence or robotics and automation, to transform large industries. She also focuses on the intersection of science and technology, including nextgeneration biology, as well as on companies in healthcare.Before joining Atomico, Irina was a growth and PE investor at GHO Capital Partners, where she invested, among others, in enterprise software and AI/ML businesses and focused on the intersection of science, healthcare and technology. Before that, Irina was part of the leadership team of Bain & Co. in Europe and the U.S., where she worked directly both with private equity firms on investment diligence, as well as with corporates on Innovation and Product, Go-to-Market, BD and acquisitions, and organisation scale-up. While at Bain she seconded in an operational role at Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical engineering companies.Irina is a former surgeon, having studied medicine at Freiburg University in Germany and Iasi Medical University in Romania. She was a surgical fellow at Harvard Medical School before completing an MSc (Dist) in International Health Policy at London School of Economics.Irina speaks Romanian, English, advanced German, and conversational French. ## Sol Global Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Cannabis, Fitness Tuned for performance. SOL Global Investments is a diversified private equity firm targeting best-in-class companies that operate in ultra-high growth industries. Our team has a proven track record of identifying pioneering businesses that are poised to disrupt the status quo and take ## b2venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology B2venture is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. B2venture invests EUR 100m+ per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m. ## Simplyhealth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Medical Simplyhealth is a healthcare center that offers cash plans, dental plans, private medical insurance, and self funded health plans. ## MMV Europe & Asia-Pacific - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice. ## Alexis de Galembert - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Cannabis Alexis de Galembert ## RIV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, SaaS RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets. ## Mario Götze - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Mario Götze is a professional footballer. ## Think.Health - Type: VC Fund - Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device Think.Health invests as a boutique risk-taker in healthcare ventures. We continuously seek innovations and disruptive business models in digital healthcare, medical technologies and health service providers, ## Kindred Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund ## Measure 8 Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Cannabis, Health Care, Alternative Medicine Measure 8 Venture Partners, LP is an alternative investment vehicle created to capitalize on the emergence of the U.S. and global cannabis industry. ## Alyssa Milano - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Retail, Sports, Fashion Alyssa Milano is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is best known for portraying Samantha Micelli on the ABC sitcom series Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Jennifer Mancini on the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–98), and Phoebe Halliwell on The WB television series Charmed. Milano is currently working withUNICEF to educate American youth to the issues crucial to that country's evolution. She launched UNICEF's pivotal "Trick or Treat" campaign last fall as an official spokesperson, and has plans to work with UNICEF on numerous projects in the future, with any and all proceeds returning to the organization.Milano also has her own clothing and jewelry line, TOUCH by Alyssa Milano. Recently she has joined forces with the NFL, NBA and NHL to make TOUCH available to fans of football, basketball and hockey as well. ## Julien Codorniou - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys. ## Klaas Heufer-Umlauf - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: B2C, Medical, Cannabis Klaas Heufer-Umlauf is a TV moderator. ## Will·I. Am - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Medical, Cannabis Will·I·Am is an artists and individual investor. ## Karan Wadhera - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cannabis, Software, SaaS Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College. ## Yan Hascoët - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A - Focus: Banking, Finance, Cannabis Yan Hascoët ## Michelle Tempest - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Cannabis, Life Science Michelle Tempest