Top 10 Celebrity VC Funds & Investors in Europe (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $549k–$38M |
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startup300
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $55k–$13M |
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Angel Academe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Health Care, Software | $346k–$2M |
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, United States, France | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $110k–$2.1M |
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Ascension Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Health Care, Medical, Medical Device | $5.2M–$105M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Estonia | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage | $39k–$5M |
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Bynd Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, Spain, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Health Care | $483k–$50M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $145k–$15M |
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Inveready
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $400k–$14M |
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Schöne Töchter GmbH
VC Fund
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | Gift, Video, Celebrity | |
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Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 528
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $549k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
- Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $55k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $219k–$346k; Series A $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
- Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
- Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
We're a fast-growing and award-winning angel network. We invest in female founders and introduce more women to angel investing.
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- Industry: SaaS, Health Care, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $346k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- LabCycle — LabCycle is the world's first company to recycle hazardous plastic waste from laboratories (service) as well as the first to create 100% recycled laboratory consumables (product). Working with public and private labs, we are driving the circular economy of lab plastics to reduce the 5.5m tonnes of lab waste annually. A few highlights of ourprogress to date: • Proven impact - saving 90% of CO2 emissions & 93% energy compared to current alternatives: incineration and autoclave (LCA available upon request).• Technological validation creating the world's first 100% circular lab consumables including petri dishes, test tubes and more.• Secured commercial contracts with the NHS, several private companies and also universities. We are raising £1.5m to scale our patent pending technology to serve our growing demand after over 150+ organic expressions of interests following our feature in BBC news. The funding will establish the first automated decontamination system of our network, recycling over 350 tonnes annually, saving over 1000+ tonnes of carbon.
- Inicio AI — Inicio delivers an AI affordability assessment, the only FCA regulated business using AI to process consumer affordability data.
Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $110k–$658k
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- Azulfy — Real-time pollution monitoring for EU municipalities. Satellite-based environmental compliance tools for local governments and smart cities.
- PLUTOS — We are here to make sure that your Puppy gets the best treat! PLUTOS were created specifically for dogs to have fun. Find out our dog healthy chews.
- Hostels HUB — Hostels HUB is a hostel developer that is looking for opportunities both in city as leisure locations around Portugal.
Strategically investing in smarter technologies, bigger data, better alternatives, and healthier futures.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 109
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$26M; Series B $7.1M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ivantis — Ivantis, Inc. is a company focused on developing an innovative treatment for Glaucoma. It is their goal to develop a less invasive, more effective option for the 60+ million people worldwide suffering from Primary Open Angle Glaucoma. As they successfully address this initial goal, it is then there intention to focus on innovative development forthe treatment of other debilitating diseases within ophthalmology.
- AristaMD — AristaMD empowers primary care providers with excellent specialty care - improving patient outcomes with timely, cost-effective access.
- Ocular Therapeutix — Discover Ocular Therapeutix's retinal disease treatments. Learn more about AXPAXLI, our potential treatment for wet AMD our sustained-release hydrogel therapy, is redefining outcomes for wet AMD.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $154k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
- Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.
- OurPetsLife —
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $483k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $576k–$2.1M; Series A $5.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pollen — Pollen is developing a universal battery-swapping network for mopeds and motorcycles, enabling riders to quickly exchange depleted batteries for fully charged ones, reducing downtime and supporting efficient, scalable electric mobility in urban environments.
- Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
- Spacebackend — Spacebackend is redefining how aerospace teams handle mission-critical integration. Our platform, Lynapse, is an AI-powered system integration environment designed for engineers-in-the-loop. We empower software integration and AIT/AIV teams to bridge the gap from hardware interface to flight-ready software - starting in the design phase andcontinuing through end-to-end integration.By decoupling software readiness from physical hardware and leveraging AI to automate the implementation of complex interfaces, we reduce integration effort from years to days. Lynapse uses AI to convert complex ICD documentation into digital models, automatically producing, testing, and validating platform-agnostic source code.Our workflow ensures every line of code is deterministic, engineer-approved, and fully traceable from documentation to deployment. Whether you are generating platform-agnostic code from scratch or validating existing flight software against a digital ICD model, Lynapse exposes failures and readiness gaps early - when it matters most. Build integration readiness today.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 242
- Round size: Seed $145k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
- Sceenic — Sceenic offers solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together" technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience.
- Bcas — We eliminate economic barriers to education with flexible financing solutions.
Inveready is a leading Spanish financial services firm focused on investment solutions and wealth management.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 156
- Round size: Seed $400k–$5.5M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Qbeast Analytics — Qbeast Analytics SL is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Qbeast is a Big Data cloud platform with a patented data storage technology that reorganizes and manages data through multidimensional indexing and sampling techniques so that it can be analyzed up to 100 times faster. Qbeast provides data teams with the option toadjust the precision of data analytics to produce high-quality insights while only accessing a fraction of the available data. This speeds up their work massively and at the same time produces savings on computational resources and energy.
- StereoDive —
- 53Biologics — More than 98% of proteins in its hands have improved their production and/or recovery yields. Contact us to explore how can we help you
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- Industry: Gift, Video, Celebrity
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- wewave — wewave.com is an online platform where fans and businesses can book personalized video shoutouts from celebrities. Every participating celebrity donates up to 100% of his earnings to a charity organisation of his/her choice! A perfect solution for celebrities to deal with video inquiries from fans, great opportunity for fans to getpersonalized video shoutouts as a gift for friends & families, cheap possibility for businesses to book celebrities for their advertising campaigns and charities profit financially from every video sold.
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