Top 10 Celebrity VC Funds & Investors in Europe (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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startup300
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $55k–$13M |
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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 | $713k–$33M |
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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 | $107k–$2M |
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Seedrs
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $39k–$4.2M |
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Inveready
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $439k–$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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Bynd Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $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 | $103k–$16M |
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Angel Academe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Health Care | $238k–$2.8M |
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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 | $4.8M–$105M |
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startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $55k–$2.2M; 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 — Shopstory provides AI-based marketing software that makes online shops more profitable. Shopstory replaces marketing agencies, reduces costs, improves online store Google Ads & SEO performance, and automates keyword research. Shopstory aims to boost sales, cut costs, and save time.
- Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
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: 603
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $713k–$3.8M; Series A $4.1M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% 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!
- Facility — Flexkeeping is a Hotel Operations Platform designed to help teams automate and collaborate like never before.
- Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.
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: 295
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2M; Pre-Seed $107k–$547k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2011
Portfolio highlights
- AddVolt — AddVolt is a technology based company that tackles markets where there is a high potential for diesel costs reduction through the generation of solar and kinetic energy, while other secondary savings are generated (e.g. maintenance).
- Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
- Logical Safety — IoT safety for a safer, more productive workforce
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 199
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $39k–$505k; Equity Crowdfunding $204k–$4.2M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% 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.
- OurPetsLife — At OurPetsLife, our mission is to empower pet owners with innovative, reliable, and accessible Pet products trusted by the professionals. From dog food, supplements for pets, shampoo, pet treats, dental care & much more.
- The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.
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: 203
- Round size: Seed $439k–$5.8M; Series A $1.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Voztelecom — VozTelecom develops software to enable Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services over Internet. The company's products include miVoz.net, personal IP telephony service; intraVoz.net, local area network (LAN) IP telephony service with enhanced features; extraVoz.net, a hosted IP telephony service; vozConference.net, a hosted Web-conferenceservice with enhanced collaboration features; and wifiVoz.net, application that enables the usage of VozTelecom service through any wireless terminal. Voz has strategic alliances with Interxion, Cisco Systems, Iptel.org, SIP Phone, Jasomi Networks, Midworld Networks, and Endercom. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Cerdanyola, Spain.
- Inventia Kinetics — Inventia Kinetics specializes in the design, analysis, and manufacture of equipment and assembly tools for electronics sector.
- Telum Therapeutics — Telum Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops new treatments for infectious diseases based on the use of lytic enzymes from bacteriophages.
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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.
Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $483k–$5.3M; Pre-Seed $552k–$2.1M; Series A $2.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $11M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
- Wio Capital — Wio Capital is a wealthtech company that builds an AI-powered wealth management platform for financial advisors, offices, and bankers.
- Spacebackend — Lynapse by Spacebackend unifies interface modeling, version control, testing, and validation. Convert ICDs into traceable, deterministic implementations with human-in-the-loop review.
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: 254
- Round size: Seed $103k–$3.5M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
- LetsData — LetsData is an AI-power radar against disinformation. LetsData provides real-time media and social media monitoring in over 50 countries, empowering state agencies, businesses, and civil societies to proactively navigate risks and seize opportunities in the face of disinformation.
- YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.
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, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $238k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% 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.
- Zonova — Zonova embeds patented antimicrobial protection directly into medical devices - tackling hospital infections at the source.
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: 112
- Round size: Series A $4.8M–$23M; Series B $7.1M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bind On-Demand Health Insurance — Surest is an employer-sponsored health plan available to employers with 2+ employees.
- Syapse — Syapse is a real-world evidence company dedicated to extinguishing the fear and burden of serious disease by advancing real-world care.
- Neuronostics — At Neuronostics we are reimagining the way neurological conditions are diagnosed, treated, and monitored with the power of mathematical modelling
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