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Top 10 EdTech VC Funds & Investors in Cyprus (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Cyprus EdTech startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Cyprus EdTech startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
RTP Global
VC Fund
5 United States, India, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.8M–$80M
Flashpoint
VC Fund
5 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Machine Learning $750k–$19M
DLA Piper
VC Fund
1 United States, Cyprus Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$50M
Marathon Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Greece Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $830k–$17M
Insight Venture Management, LLC.
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, Germany Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Information Technology, SaaS $12M–$140M
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
1 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
SOSV
VC Fund
1 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
University Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Cyprus, India Series A, Seed, Series B Education, Higher Education, EdTech $500k–$45M
Big Pi Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Medical Device $3M–$16M
No Such Ventures
VC Fund
1 The Netherlands, Germany, Cyprus Seed, Series A Software, Internet, Human Resources $2.1M–$4M
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RTP Global
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 257
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$13M; Series A $6M–$26M; Series B $11M–$80M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $650M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
  • homefully — Habyt is an easy way to find a fully furnished, private room or apartment in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Lisbon. All costs are included in the rent, no surprises.
  • DoControl — DoControl gives organizations automated, self-service tools to take full control of their SaaS security and prevent SaaS data exfiltration. DoControl provides end-to-end visibility and continuous monitoring across all your applications, users, assets, and external collaborators.
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Flashpoint
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 121
  • Round size: Seed $750k–$4M; Series A $2.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • QMENTA — Our industry-leading neuroimaging cloud-based software works with advanced AI-powered tools to empower researchers, radiologists, and clinical trials.
  • Revian — Revian is the manufacturer and supplier of medical-grade LED technology.
  • Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
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DLA Piper
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in 40+ countries, providing legal solutions to businesses worldwide. Helping clients succeed every day.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Cyprus

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.4M; Series A $3M–$13M; Series B $2.6M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wildfire Systems — Boost customer loyalty and revenue with Wildfire's Commerce Intelligence Platform, delivering targeted rewards and insights for an enhanced shopping experience.
  • SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.
  • Gradial — Gradial is the marketing execution layer for modern enterprise marketing teams. AI agents author, optimize, tag, and QA across AEM, Salesforce, Jira, and all the other systems your team uses so you can launch campaigns faster, boost AI search visibility, and scale without adding headcount.
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Marathon Venture Capital
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

Marathon Venture Capital is a seed-stage fund, helping ambitious Greek and European founders build world-class technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Pre-Seed $830k–$1.6M; Series A $4.8M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 65% lead, 35% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $234k in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • NOFire AI — NOFire's mission is to shift reliability left and help engineering teams understand and operate complex systems. Built by the team behind Elastic, Mattermost Cloud and creators of urunc sandbox CNCF project. We’re a team of SREs , AI researchers, and systems engineers.
  • LearnWorlds — From digital products to marketing and selling tools, get everything you need to build a profitable business, all in one scalable platform.
  • Hack The Box — Hack The Box is a provider of an ethical hacking community and cybersecurity training platform based in the United Kingdom. It enables users to test their penetration testing skills, exchange ideas and methodologies with the community. The platform contains several challenges that are constantly updated. Some of them simulating real-world scenariosand some of them leaning more towards a CTF style of challenge.The company was founded in 2017 by Aris Zikopoulos and Haris Pylarinos.
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Insight Venture Management, LLC.
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1067
  • Round size: Series A $12M–$60M; Series B $19M–$110M; Series C $27M–$140M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3B in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Olea — Our sustainable, one-of-a-kind technology generates revenue and manages critical utility assets, while providing the safe, clean and affordable drinking water.
  • Pollinate — Pollinate gives banks a modern toolkit for small businesses. Cloud based, and designed to take data feeds from existing bank and third party systems.
  • Zone & Company Software Consulting — Zone & Co is a premier NetSuite Solution Provider & SDN partner helping companies automate complex lead-to-revenue entirely in NetSuite with Zone Apps.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
  • Root — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
  • Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups, 75 in the past 12 months

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1482
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
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University Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

University Ventures is the only investment firm focused exclusively on the global higher education sector. UV pursues a differentiated strategy of innovation from within. UV has the deepest respect for the missions and traditions of colleges and universities around the world and is confident that through innovation, these same institutions will besuccessful in fulfilling and expanding their missions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Higher Education, EdTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Cyprus, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.8M; Series A $2.2M–$18M; Series B $2.5M–$45M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $136M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Edu101 — 101 builds mobile-first teaching and assessment tools specifically for college STEM courses. Its first app, Chem101, replaces the clicker and provides tools for chemistry professors to engage their students in the classroom. Chem101 features a module that allows students to intuitively draw and visualize Lewis structures on their mobile devices.Its mobile platform enables instructors to engage students in the classroom, assign homework, and provide on-the-go reinforcement.101 Edu was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
  • Portfolium — Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. The ePortfolio network helps connect 3.75M+ students from over 190 partner institutions with 50,000+ employers based on their proven skills and competencies. Portfolium's cloud-based platform empowers students with lifelong opportunities tocapture, curate, and convert skills into job offers while giving learning institutions and employers the tools they need to assess competencies and recruit talent.The platform is used by over 3600 institutions to help assess the effectiveness of their programs and courses, certify students’ competencies, and empower students to showcase their achievements and skills with evidence.It was founded in 2014 by Aerospace Engineer, Adam Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California.
  • Techtonic — Techtonic Group is a full service software development services company that also creates talent through a Department of Labor certified Apprenticeship program. The company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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Big Pi Ventures
VC Fund · Athens, Attiki, Greece · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Big Pi Ventures is a seed-stage technology fund bringing deep connections with the local talent pool and access to prominent businesses. They invest in innovative technology companies starting from Greece, aiming to be leaders in international markets. They also support teams that have developed proprietary technology in software, artificialintelligence, automation, life sciences, or other high-potential science-based fields.Big Pi Ventures was founded in 2017 and is based in Athens, Attiki, Greece.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $3.5M–$8.1M; Series A $3M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $53M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • ORamaVR — ORamaVR (www.oramavr.com) is a deep technology, spatial computing startup, innovating the field of med-ed-tech Virtual Reality (VR) training simulation authoring platforms. Our technologies are based on state-of-the-art research by world-renowned scientists team members. This research is turned into a novel, symbiotic VR authoring and simulationplatform by our top engineers, medical professionals and business developers. ORamaVR was founded in 2016 and received initial €575K pre-seed financing from the VC PJ TECH CATALYST FUND in Greece. The company has moved its HQ to Geneva, Switzerland upon strategic partners' demand. ORamaVR is adopted by the USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, NYU Langone Medical centre in New York, the University of Geneva and the Inselspital Hospital system in Switzerland, FORTH and the University of Athens in Greece and recently Western Governors University, Fayetteville State University and the University of Michigan in USA. Medacta International, a leading Swiss medical implant manufacturer expressed high interest to collaborate intensively with ORamaVR. ORamaVR has been awarded in 2020 an Epic Games Mega-Grant, in 2019 the Augmented World Expo (AWE) Auggie award for "Best Societal Impact” and the prestigious FARE award, from the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) in 2018. ORamaVR has attracted more than €1.3M in R&D grants and awards up to date. In 2020 ORamaVR concluded a €370K bridge round led by HTC Vive, a leader in enterprise virtual reality.
  • Acumino — Acumino offers next-generation, AI powered robot models for the execution of highly dexterous tasks in industrial automation settings. The Acumino AI is trained on the most accurate data of robot interactions and facilitates the deployment of next-generation intelligent robot workers in a fast, scalable, reliable, cost-efficient manner, unlockingunmatched dexterity & ROI.
  • August Robotics — August Robotics creates robots to automate "dirty, dangerous and dull" workflows across the B2B economy. The company's first robot, Lionel, automates the dull and labour intensive task of floor-marking for the global exhibition industry. Lionel has been used as a critical part of the trade show setup process by the world'slargest exhibition companies in Europe and USA. August Robotics' second robot, Diego, automates the dirty and dangerous task of disinfecting high-traffic public areas, such as hotels, offices and aged care centers, optimizing hygiene and reducing the risks of infection. The company is also working on a number of other robots, each leveraging August Robotics' industry leading proprietary mobile robotics platform, which enables August Robotics to generate new robots for new cases far more quickly and cheaply than other robotics companies. The physical world is ripe for disruption by robots, and August Robotics is leading the charge to do this in the B2B segment
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No Such Ventures
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 1 investments in Cyprus EdTech startups

We support inspiring entrepreneurs and invest 2-8M EUR in revenue-generating companies together with our network of engaged, experienced investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Human Resources
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: The Netherlands, Germany, Cyprus

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • troy — troy verbindet erfolgreiches Inkasso mit CRM. Wir realisieren eure Forderungen und erhalten gleichzeitig teuer gewonnene Kunden!
  • blackbear — Define every project with clarity, rapidly match with the right specialists, and ensure delivery within an agreed scope, deadline, and budget.
  • proprty.ai — proprty.ai is a European PropTech company building domain-specific AI for data-driven building maintenance and portfolio planning.The platform helps property owners and asset managers turn fragmented building data into prioritized maintenance plans across entire portfolios, supporting long-term planning, capital allocation, and risk management.Today, many maintenance decisions are still based on manual assessments, disconnected systems, and short-term priorities. This leads to unplanned repairs, inefficient CAPEX allocation, and limited transparency across portfolios. At the same time, buildings represent a significant share of CO₂ emissions, making maintenance and energy performance a growing financial and regulatory concern.proprty.ai addresses this by using predictive models to estimate the condition and remaining lifespan of building components, and combining this with public building registers and portfolio data. This creates a continuously updated foundation for prioritizing maintenance, allocating capital, and managing long-term risk.The platform enables property owners to move from reactive repairs to structured, preventive maintenance based on clear priorities rather than ad hoc decisions, while aligning financial, operational, and sustainability goals.The company works with municipalities, social housing organisations, and professional property investors across Northern Europe, including Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland.
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EdTech VC funding in Cyprus at a glance

Stats across 25 deals from 23 investors.

23
investors
in Cyprus EdTech startups
25
deals
in Cyprus EdTech startups
$1.1M
median round
in Cyprus EdTech startups
57%
lead investors
lead at least one round
32%
Seed
most common funding stage

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