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Top 50 EdTech VC Funds in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 VC funds that invest in Edtech startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 EdTech VC Funds in Europe

Investor	EdTech Europe investments
Emerge Education	29
Brighteye Ventures	22
Educapital	19
Nesta Impact Investments	17
HV Capital	15
ENISA	14
FJ Labs	13
Sparkmind.vc	12
Speedinvest	12
Bpifrance	12
LocalGlobe	11
Business Growth Fund	11
Midven	10
Northstar Ventures	10
Wayra	9
IBB Ventures	9
CDP Venture Capital	9
Force Over Mass Capital	9
Social Tech Trust	9
Forward Partners	9
Fuel Ventures	9
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	9
Enterprise Ireland	9
Vaekstfonden	9
Octopus Ventures	8
Zanichelli Venture	8
Kima Ventures	8
Ufi Ventures	8
Concept Ventures	8
Inventure	8
Angelsquare	8
Concept Ventures	7
Global Founders Capital	7
Almi Invest	7
Armilar Venture Partners	7
SeedBlink	7
Reach Capital	7
Scottish Investment Bank	7
DN Capital	7
Tera Ventures	7
Vaekstfonden	7
Development Bank of Wales	7
JME Ventures	7
Seedcamp	7
Nordic Makers	7
Practica Capital	7
Project A Ventures	6
All Iron Ventures	6
DvH Ventures	6
RTP Global	6

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Emerge Education is a European seed fund investing in founders solving the $8.5tn skills gap. Emerge provides founders with unrivalled education sector insights, as they're the only fund backed by the world’s foremost education entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Edurino — Edurino is an e-learning platform that introduces digital learning responsibly and playfully for children aged 4-8+.
Algor Education — Algor Lab is a company that provides tools and materials needed for teaching through artificial intelligence.
Niyyah — The goal of Niyyah is to give consumers a guided approach to comprehending the Quran in a way that is understandable, significant, and useful. With its short material, tailored suggestions, and gamified elements like leaderboards and prizes, it fits in easily with its users' everyday routines and gives them insight into the Quran'steachings and practical application of faith.

Brighteye Ventures is the first and largest vertical EdTech Venture Capital firm in Europe. If you are an entrepreneur using technology to reinvent learning and education, we want to hear from you!

Investment focus

Education, Software, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

UpHill — Clinical algorithms, medical events, scientific evidence and a simulation software in one place
Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
coachbetter — Football drills for kids, youth and pro teams in one platform. Coachbetter is your digital assistant coach. Manage football trainings, matches, teams and your club.

The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

NOLEJ — NOLEJ is a decentralized skills platform powered by an AI engine, that automatically generates interactive courseware & global knowledge graph
HappyPal — HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport...). « After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employeebenefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience...), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks »
MerciApp — MerciApp is a spellchecker that helps people write faster and better in French. It is correcting stylistic, spelling, and grammar errors embedded in a secure and simple interface.

We provide financial, knowledge and network capital to innovative enterprises that are changing the world for good.

Investment focus

Education, Health Care, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.
Rabot Charge — Rabot Charge offers intelligent charging management solutions for customers to charge their electric cars at home.
Bitlight Labs — Bitlight Labs builds infrastructure using the RGB protocol and the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Imageryst — Imageryst is a cutting-edge SaaS platform that uses artificial intelligence and remote sensing to automatically extract exact, worldwide geolocated data from satellite imagery.
Neuromindset — In an ever-evolving digital era, the mental abilities and emotional health of children often get overshadowed. Envision a world where the essence of education transcends mere knowledge, nurturing every child to unlock their cognitive and emotional prowess using evidence-based tools. At Neuromindset, a Spin-off of the University of Granada (Spain),this isn't just a dream—it's our mission. Our purpose? Seamlessly integrate cognitive and brain training into the very fabric of schooling and home environments. Our dual B2B and B2C models cater to educators and families alike, fortified by three pioneering instruments. Firstly, a classroom-integrated platform that provides educators with a training curriculum that includes mindfulness and game-based activities grounded in rigorous neuroscientific research, empowering students to enhance their attention, executive functions and self-regulation. Secondly, an interactive at-home gaming app, meticulously crafted to cultivate cognitive prowess, making the training both captivating and consequential. And lastly, our avant-garde AI assessment of attentional profiles, not just delineating a child's cognitive map but also tailoring their training, fortifying frailties, and magnifying mights. Neuromindset's hallmark is our dedication to fortify children's mental well-being, bolstering self-regulation, and providing AI-infused, personalized cognitive training. With Neuromindset, education it's not just about learning—it's about flourishing in every sense.
Muse Scene Lab — Perform with a virtual orchestra or band with Muse Scene Lab Suite and experiment: rehearsal enveloping, concert immersive experience, instrument selection, conductor & singer experience, all with classical, jazz, and popular repertoire.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mama — Hispanic super market with ready-to-eat food, frozen goods, and Venezuelan snacks at a great price. Delivered to your door across the US. From pantry to tropical fruits and homemade desserts, it's all in here!
ValidMind — ValidMind is the most efficient solution for governance & risk management of AI and LLMs. Automate model documentation and validation for all model types.
Midas — U.S. Treasuries, On-chain.

Sparkmind.vc is the first Nordic venture capital company focused on the learning sector. The company invests in teams transforming early childhood, K12, higher, secondary and vocational education as well as corporate and lifelong learning. The investment sweet spot of the company is from seed to international growth phase with single investments upto €5m.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Germany, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Complori — Codary provides a number of initiatives that aid kids in developing abilities like critical thinking, numeracy, communication, creativity, and resilience.
Swap Language — Swap Language is a language learning platform that delivers Danish lessons to companies and international employees.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

HawkCell — A plug-and-play solution turning human MRI into the first animal-dedicated imaging enhanced with AI algorithms. A unique MRI solution.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.
Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Qogita — A leading global wholesale supplier that offers a wide variety of products, brands, and categories across geographies.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.
Victory League — The virtual home for football fandom.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Trojan Energy — Trojan Energy support the roll-out of its on-street flat and flush electric vehicle charging points, which aims to solve the issue for vehicle owners who do not have access to off-street parking.
Elite Dynamics — Leading software solution developed for Holiday Parks, Marinas, Holiday Home Manufacturers and Holiday Home Dealers.
The Insights Family — The global leader in kids, parents, and family market research. Clarity and confidence from independent real-time data & insights.

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

Northstar Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in innovative solutions to help solve the most pressing societal issues we have today. Our ticket sizes range from £100k to £500k into early stage tech companies. We provide added value in leveraging our network of university partners, funders, non-executive directors and talent to supporteach investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
Circadacare — Circadacare offers a broad approach to circadian lighting products for the care home industry. We are one of the most reliable circadian lighting company in UK.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quantistry — Move beyond traditional chemical simulation software and boost your R&D success. From Quantum to AI. Get started!
Meloon — Meloon captures and converts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Elucid Social — Elucid Social integrates businesses with the social good movement through a data-driven strategy that yields measurable results. Elucid Social develops and deploys technologies to assess, report, and minimize human rights risks linked with the sourcing of products and services.

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

MOGU — By employing one of its finest technologies, mycelium, Mogu delivers responsible products for interior design. Mycelium design with Mogu.
Voidless — VOIDLESS is the new generation of box-on-demand packaging. An innovative system that bets everything on reliability and integrability.
Daze — Discover Daze's innovative electric car charging systems. The only charging systems with integrated load balancing.

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0.FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growthjourney.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Education
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TapSOS — TapSOS is an app for a non-verbal method of contacting the emergency services. It will promote inclusivity and help transform the delivery of emergency services.
RightsDD — RightsDD is an award winning startup. Use RightsDD's platform to assess and monitor suppliers for slavery risk. Train employees with RightsDD's online and in-person anti-slavery courses. Benefit from specialist consulting.
Carers Trust — Carers Trust provides basic digital skills for young adult carers to help them achieve their aspirations.A carer is anyone who cares, unpaid, for a friend or family member who due to illness, disability, a mental health problem or an addiction cannot cope without their support.Anyone could be a carer – a 15-year-old girl looking after a parentwith an alcohol problem, a 40-year-old man caring for his partner who has terminal cancer, or an 80-year-old woman looking after her husband who has Alzheimer's disease.

Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

PocDoc — PocDoc is a pioneer in the field of smartphone-based fast disease testing.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
iCustoms — ClearCustoms use AI & ML to reduce 200m new annual customs declarations time
Think Cyber Security — Think Cyber Security was founded at the end of 2016 by Dr Mike Butler and Tim Ward, the ex-global heads of Information Security and Information Services respectively, from the cyber arm of BAE Systems (previously Detica). Their mission, to deliver pragmatic, user-oriented, solutions providing measurable security risk reduction.Despite a $1bnsecurity awareness market (predicted to grow to $10bn by 2027), 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with the human user. In a context where technical controls can never promise to be 100% and cyber risks involve people as much as computers, ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their RedFlags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory in a highly innovative approach, to provide context-sensitive just-in-time guidance – delivering secure behavioural change for their customers.

The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
CustomSurg — RETHINKING TRAUMA SURGERY At CustomSurg we are changing the treatment of complex bone fractures from a subjective to an objective approach, through personalized solutions.
Tubulis — Reimagining Antibody Drug Conjugates Tubulis generates uniquely matched protein-drug conjugates through the combination of novel proprietary technologies and disease-specific biologic insight. Our goal is to expand the therapeutic potential of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) by increasing design flexibility while overcoming constraints of toxicity, efficacy and indication. Tubulis will build new conjugates to fill its pipeline and

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lative — Lative automates capacity planning, maximizing profitable sales growth & revenue efficiency for high-performance revenue teams.
Cytidel — Cytidel helps security teams reduce breaches, save time, and stay secure. Vulnerability Management and Cyber Risk Management, and Threat Intelligence Specialists
Positive Carbon — Positive Carbon provides an innovative solution for businesses to track, manage, and reduce food waste. With real-time analytics, CO2 calculation, and a comprehensive learning platform, we help you save costs and achieve sustainability goals. Request a demo today to start making a positive environmental impact.

Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Haiper — Haiper is a generative AI startup building perceptual foundation models for next-generation visual content creation.
Connected — Connected is a startup that offers affordable connecting humans, unleashing a new wave of IoT-based business models and contributing to bridge the digital gap.

Zanichelli Venture is looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.We willsupport and finance ideas with the potential to have a positive impact on our future through education at every stage of our life. We will respectfully, discreetly stand by the entrepreneurs believing in these ideas, from the beginnings and at least since that impact leaves its first dent.We care about each startup in our portfolio getting the full value a hundred years old education company like Zanichelli can offer, wherever our expertise can be a lodestar because of our history, our mission, our network, our resources; and we believe in getting out of the founders’ way otherwise, if we don’t add value.We care about financial returns and self-sustainability and about bringing collaboration opportunities, insights, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial energy back to our company digital products designers, editorial staff and IT, searching for mutual advantages. Only in the long term, as we and the founders build trust through intense collaboration and shared stakes, and after a startup fully spreads out its potential as a maturing company, we believe in searching together for possible paths to a deeper partnership. We co-invest globally, following trusted, local lead investors.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

zick learn — zick learn makes learning simple, fast and efficient again. Create and deliver beautiful text message based courses reaching the learners on the main chat apps, where they already are.
Data Masters — Datamasters designs and develops Machine Learning solutions. They provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science skills. They acquire skills in machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

The UK’s specialist investor in VocTech ventures, investing between £150k and £1m in seed-stage companies that are building digital technologies to give people and businesses the skills needed for work, now and in the future.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Purlos — Purlos provides educational institutions with a comprehensive outcomes management platform that increases positive outcomes and decreases the lack of data needed to achieve them.
Learnerbly — Transform the way your People learn - give them access to a marketplace of learning resources specific to their needs and curated from 200+ providers.
Slinger — Slinger is a hospitality recruitment tool that connects vetted hospitality workers with some of London's best food and drink businesses. Sign up today!

Early-stage VC Firm based in London, investing in UK technology startups & SaaS companies through our award-winning pre-seed funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Leya AI — Feel and sound like an English native in 3 months
UltiHash — Data powers breakthroughs. UltiHash is the storage foundation to accelerate them: blazing fast, highly efficient, and built for sustainable long-term growth.
Reveel — Say goodbye to paper maps, brochures, and outdated audio guides. Reveel offers digital solutions for destinations such as UNESCO sites, sights, museums, cities, hotels and parks, taking the visitor experience to the next level. Become part of the smart destination movement, enhance the visitor experience, and discover the future of travel.

AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
Remotebase — Hire Silicon Valley Caliber Developers | Remotebase

Concept Ventures is the UK's largest pre-seed fund. Founded in 2018, the firm has backed over 45+ companies changing how we Work, Play and Learn and focused only at the pre-seed stage.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
JustParent — Parental leave insurance for businesses

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zocks — The Meeting Assistant made for Financial Advisors
Simplify — Simplify is a common application for jobs & internships. Autofill job applications anywhere on the web, get notified when new jobs open, & seamlessly track your applications.
Smartpay — Smartpay is the first free of charge BNPL payment option for Japanese consumers who have credit cards. There are no sign-up fees, interest fees, settlement fees, or late charges. The payment experience is also Japan’s first cross-merchant, cross-platform, and single-click checkout BNPL service, allowing consumers to checkout in as little as 10seconds. The BNPL payment solution is simple to understand, structured on 3 equal installments over 8 weeks. This means that unlike the existing BNPL services in Japan, customers do not need to go to the convenience store to make payments or pay any bank transfer fees.

ALMI Invest is a venture capital company which invests in Swedish companies with exciting, scalable business models and motivated entrepreneurs. ALMI Invest consists of eight regionally based venture capital funds, all with local offices and experienced local investment managers. We manage a total of SEK 1 billion. Unlike most venture capitalists,we can invest in a wide range of businesses. A strong team of entrepreneurs, a scalable business model and an initial revenue stream are more important than the line of business when we invest.Our first, initial investment would typically be SEK 2-4 million. During the lifetime of an investment, sums of up to SEK 10 million can be ventured. We always syndicate with an investment partner (another venture capitalist or angel investor) from Sweden or otherwise which means that we can take a maximum of 50 percent of an investment round.ALMI Invest was founded in 2009 by ALMI Fretagspartner together with regional investors. Half of our capital comes from European Union structural funds, which accounts for an investment of SEK 500 million. The other 50 per cent comes from regional investors and ALMI Fretagspartner.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
Trackpaw Scientific — Contributing to the development of safe and effective pharmaceuticals at increased speed and quality by digitalising the preclinical study landscape.
Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bdeo — Bdeo provides a visual intelligence solution designed to change the way customers connect with insurance companies. Its platform enhances the customer journey beginning with underwriting and all the way through the time the claim is processed, also recognizing risks, damage, and providing assessments in real-time, allowing insurance companies todetect fraud or pay customers in the event a claim is approved.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Appentra — The first static code analyzer that increases the performance of C/C++ code. Write hardware-friendly code that runs faster on modern hardware.
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

Explore startup tech-investments, a digital secondary market for early liquidity, and an optimised portfolio management solution. One-stop for smart investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Romania, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SoCyber — SoCyber provides services in the field of Information and Communication Technology, specializing in Cybersecurity services. The main business lines are security as a service, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and IT audits. After being a successful service company for several years, SoCyber developed a holistic vulnerability managementsolution "Kikimora.io" that makes the vulnerability management process centralised, transparent and easy to follow and understand. It enables companies to prioritise the remediation of vulnerabilities and address their security issues in a timely manner. The solution saves companies time and money by eliminating the need for repeated security testing that shows the same vulnerabilities.
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Affirma Biotech — Affirma Biotech develops new orally available immunotherapeutic drugs for the treatment of severe infections and cancer

Reach Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on education and workforce development, backing the biggest and most beloved brands in teaching and learning.

Investment focus

Education, EdTech, E-Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Stepful — New York City, 100% Job Guarantee, Online, 4 months, Part-Time, $166 per month
Coral Care — Coral Care is a technology company for in-person specialized pediatric developmental healthcare. It aims to improve access to pediatric developmental health services from infancy to adolescence. The platform serves as a marketplace, offering a simplified path to care by matching families with Coral Care’s team of trusted, local, in-networkpediatric specialists available for in-person and in-home sessions.Coral Care’s platform provides pediatric specialists with the infrastructure needed to grow their private practices and deliver quality in-person care. The company offers administrative support and tools, content, credentialing services, and marketing services, which enable pediatric specialists to focus on care, not managing their businesses.
Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.

Speak with our Entrepreneurship Team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
OXOLO — OMASLOT adalah GAMING ONLINE BERLISENSI RESMI dengan promo event menarik terlengkap yang sangat menguntungkan
Lanes & Planes — Lanes & Planes GmbH is the Travel Management solution as Software-as-a-Service that truly maps all areas of the business travel in a digital way.

Tera Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tallinn, Estonia and focused on exceptional founders from Baltics, Scandinavia and CEE, disrupting digital space globally. Tera builds presence and networks in the markets where our portfolio companies want to expand to - the UK, the US, and Asia. With presence in Estonia, Finland, and California,Tera Ventures is supported by a global advisory network and provides portfolio companies with access to expertise and hands-on support necessary to grow from pre-seed and seed stage to successful exit. While investing we do not take a controlling shareholding as they believe that the management of the company should be adequately motivated by its shareholding in the company.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
AI Clearing — Full digital field construction progress tracking. To decrease re-work cost. To mitigate litigation risk. 100% databased.
Flowstep — Flowstep is a copilot that helps you create better designs, 10x faster. Just type and get user flows, high-fidelity UI, JTBD and more.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.

Development Bank of Wales is formed in 2001 by the Welsh Assembly Government. Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bikmo — Bikmo exists to enable you to ride more.We build awesome insurance products to protect our customers for unexpected events, use technology to make taking out and managing your policy ultra-simple, and provide exceptional customer experiences through our team of bike geeks.We’re now 5 years into our mission to enable anyone, anywhere, to protecttheir lifestyle, so they can spend more time enjoying it. And, become the brand that resonates with and protects the passion and drive behind the bike and adventure sports community.At the heart of our business is a bunch of bike and adventure sports geeks who choose to spend their free time in the epic wild places our earth has to offer and we want to continue to be able to do just that.
Hope Macy — Hope Macy is a dynamic and expanding financial technology company. Its primary focus is on consumers who require additional security in managing their money, as well as those in the subprime sector.
Validient — Digitally automated compliance and due diligence solutions. Empower your business with the ultimate advantage.

We help build cutting-edge companies like Flywire. Flywire's trusted and secure global payment platform keeps your money moving around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Harbiz — All-in-one productivity software for fitness professionals designed to digitize and professionalize your sports consultancy business.
Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
Genesy AI — Aggregate data in real time from 20+ data sources and launch our AI-powered sales agent across your preferred channels

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
Hyme Energy — Making sustainable energy available, always. Hyme's long duration thermal energy storage system provides clean and reliable steam for heat and power, supporting industries and utilities in their decarbonisation journeys.
Pluto.markets — Pluto is the modern investment app for the 100m Europeans living in countries without the EUR.

Practica Capital

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2B
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

CTO2B — CTO2B helps organization in managing the cloud service adoption and runtime operations.
Sentante — The first fully-robotic teleoperated system for endovascular interventions - Sentante. Fully robotic. Teleoperated. Haptic feedback.
Evergrowth — Evergrowth is the premiere B2B account-based sales platform, leveraging AI-driven insights to craft customer-centric sales frameworks and transform how companies engage and succeed. Its services are designed to build sustainable revenue growth machines for B2B companies, focusing on acquiring high-value clients through proven account-basedstrategies. Evergrowth’s AI-powered customer-centric sales workflows and data analysis tools help sales teams efficiently capture, recycle, and expand their Total Addressable Market (TAM), enhancing customer engagement by providing personalized data-driven interactions and ultimately leading to better sales outcomes. The company was founded in November 2023 by serial entrepreneurs JB Daguené, Mantas Urnieza, Tadas Cekavicius, Aivaras Rastenis, and Algimantas Padegimas, and has offices in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York City, USA.

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $600 M in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering,business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

ARX — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Relay — Relay is a technology-enabled delivery network that enables businesses to expand and improve their e-commerce operations.
Labrys Technologies — Visualise & Coordinate Your People. Securely. Anywhere. In Real-Time.

All Iron Ventures partners up with bold founders promoting innovative startups. We mainly invest in the early stages of European companies that aspire to reshape the future of both consumers and enterprises through technology. We at All Iron Ventures have been and continue to be entrepreneurs. We know what it is to be a founder and empathize withthe challenges our partner founders face. We put our resources and experience creating, scaling and selling companies at their disposal to help them take their projects to the next level. Based in Bilbao, Spain, and with approximately €110Mn under management, All Iron Ventures was promoted by the founders of Ticketbis, a global marketplace sold to eBay in 2016, in what is one of the main success stories in Spain’s startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
Flipflow — Flipflow is a SAAS company developing the most advanced price and ecommerce data monitoring BI software. We offer our customers accurate market data and a very powerfull and flexible BI platform and automation tools so they can maximize competitiveness, profitability and margins and take better business decisions.
Lanes & Planes — Lanes & Planes GmbH is the Travel Management solution as Software-as-a-Service that truly maps all areas of the business travel in a digital way.

Investing early in Europe's most passionate founders.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OneTwenty — OneTwenty is an early-stage health tech start-up that develops multiple Machine Learning based solutions for people with diabetes as well as Medtech companies for sensor optimization, biomarker prediction, glucoregulatory models, and iAGC (interoperable automated glycemic controller). Our solution demonstrates unprecedented precision in bloodglucose prediction 120 minutes in advance. OneTwenty revolutionizes the life of people with Type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Vivien Karl — Dr. Vivien Karl relies on a cream for moisturizing care against vulva dryness.
Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Varaha — Varaha generates carbon credits through its tech solutions.
Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
International Battery Company — International Battery Company (IBC) is constructing unique I-NMC Prismatic cells in India at the planned non-captive Gigafactory. Because of their big form factor, IBC cells reduce battery complexity while providing 40% more energy density than LFP cells. They are also recyclable. These cells will be ideal for mobility applications (EVs). Thesupply chain will be localized and secure, allowing for energy independence.

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