Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Europe (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Emerge VC
VC Fund
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39 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1k–$33M |
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Brighteye Ventures
VC Fund
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24 | United Kingdom, France, Spain | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, Software, E-Learning | $549k–$20M |
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Educapital
VC Fund
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20 | France, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed | Education, EdTech, E-Learning | $1.9M–$16M |
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HV Capital
VC Fund
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17 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Internet | $1.5M–$80M |
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Bpifrance
VC Fund
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17 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $658k–$35M |
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ENISA
VC Fund
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15 | Spain, United States, France | Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $66k–$2.2M |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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14 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $406k–$38M |
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Nesta Impact Investments
VC Fund
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14 | United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia | Seed, Series A | Education, Health Care, SaaS | $262k–$10M |
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Verena Pausder
Angel
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13 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech | $1k–$18M |
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
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13 | Germany, Switzerland, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology | $909k–$33M |
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Sparkmind.vc
VC Fund
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13 | Finland, Germany, Sweden | Seed, Series A | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $768k–$10M |
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FJ Labs
VC Fund
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13 | United States, Brazil, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $1.3M–$70M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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Midven
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $152k–$2M |
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Ufi Ventures
VC Fund
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12 | United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, EdTech, Software | $433k–$10M |
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
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12 | Ireland, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $439k–$12M |
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Antler
VC Fund
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11 | Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$29M |
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
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11 | Italy, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $488k–$17M |
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1M–$30M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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11 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $338k–$4.3M |
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Northstar Ventures
VC Fund
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10 | United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, E-Commerce | $39k–$9.7M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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10 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $145k–$15M |
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IBB Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $1M–$15M |
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, FinTech | $350k–$18M |
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Sven Gabor Janszky
Angel
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9 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech | $54k–$1M |
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Social Tech Trust
VC Fund
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9 | United Kingdom | Seed, Grant | Health Care, Software, Education | $20k–$655k |
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Health Care, Wellness, Software | $478k–$18M |
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Acurio Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | Spain, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $1.2M–$54M |
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Angelsquare
VC Fund
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8 | France, United States, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $400k–$5.5M |
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Forward Partners
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $343k–$17M |
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Imprimatur Capital Fund Management
VC Fund
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8 | Latvia, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Information Technology, Apps | $63k–$549k |
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Inventure
VC Fund
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8 | Finland, Sweden, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $549k–$23M |
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Concept Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $500k–$19M |
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APX
VC Fund
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8 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $55k–$15M |
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Health Care, Biotechnology | $18k–$3.7M |
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Ada Ventures
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $507k–$6.8M |
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Zanichelli Venture
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Education, E-Learning, EdTech | $713k–$10M |
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | Series A, Private Equity | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $3M–$21M |
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Vaekstfonden
VC Fund
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8 | Denmark, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Software, FinTech | $637k–$33M |
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SFC Capital
VC Fund
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8 | United Kingdom, United States, Canada | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $158k–$2.2M |
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Reach Capital
VC Fund
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7 | United States, Brazil, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Education, EdTech, Software | $1.3M–$80M |
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Demium Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Spain, Portugal, Poland | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Health Care | |
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Angel Invest
VC Fund
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7 | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $655k–$21M |
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Movens Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Poland, Czech Republic, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $160k–$17M |
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Practica Capital
VC Fund
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7 | Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | B2B, Software, Information Technology | |
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JME Ventures
VC Fund
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7 | Spain, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
Angel
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7 | Austria, United Kingdom, Spain | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Fitness | |
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allygatr
VC Fund
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7 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Human Resources, SaaS | |
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Emerge is a $70m pre-seed fund backed by 100+ of the world’s best edtech and future of work founders and executives. Our vision is to democratise access to opportunity by being a catalytic partner for early-stage founders re-designing the future of learning and work.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 73
- Round size: Seed $53k–$8M; Pre-Seed $1k–$1.4M; Series A $5M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Popp AI — Popp helps brands boost customer lifetime value + unlock community-led growth by transforming customer advocacy into a community sport.
- Popp — Joinpopp provides AI-driven solutions to automate recruitment tasks, including application screening and candidate conversations. The platform integrates seamlessly with ATS/CRM systems, enhancing efficiency in the hiring process. Joinpopp also offers features for creating personalized messages, streamlining communication with potentialcandidates.
- Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.
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!
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- Industry: Education, Software, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, France, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.6M; Pre-Seed $549k–$1.6M; Series A $3.8M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $111M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- 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 !!
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
The first European Edtech & Future of Work fund.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.3M; Series A $4.4M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $55M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- Appscho — AppScho is a mobile plug-and-play mobile technology dedicated to Higher Education, which help institutions to improve student engagement with an efficacy-driven app. The app centralises relevant student information into one seamless experience that reduces complexity and eases communication and content management.
- Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 427
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $3.3M–$33M; Series B $7.5M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $834M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
- Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 988
- Round size: Seed $658k–$6.4M; Series A $2.5M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- May Health — May Health is developing a modern treatment - Ovarian Rebalancing - designed to restore ovulation for people with polycystic ovary syndrome.
- Callyope — Callyope is building the first speech-based foundational model to monitor mental health symptoms through low-touch smartphone interactions.
- Smile Wanted Group — Spot the most valuable inventory on premium websites and provide guarantees of performance to advertisers. Reach +500M users /month globally.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Spain, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 175
- Round size: Seed $66k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $186k–$1.2M; Debt Financing $66k–$494k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swipoo — Transferencia de vehículos y cambio de nombre automatizado.
- TucanPay — TucanPay is a money transfer platform that sends money between continents.
- DARWIN Biomed — Biomedical Engineering
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: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 518
- Round size: Seed $823k–$8M; Pre-Seed $406k–$3.8M; Series A $3.7M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $384M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
- MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
- Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.
Nesta Impact Investments backs innovative businesses that focus on creating social and environmental good
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- Industry: Education, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $262k–$2.6M; Series A $466k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $65M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
- martee ai — Reduce Wastage, Unlock Revenue, Maximise Profit. Martee ai is the only demand forecasting tool tailored for the food-on-the-go industry.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1k–$2.6M; Series A $7.9M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Karri — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
- Huzzle — Stop chasing jobs. Huzzle collects the best opportunities from student societies and companies and only shows you the relevant ones. Download Huzzle today!
High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 542
- Round size: Seed $909k–$6.5M; Series A $3M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $522M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
- envelio — We are driving forward the energy transition with our smart grid solutions for grid operators. Get information now and plan smart!
- Atriva Therapeutics — Therapies against viral infections. First-in-class host-targeting therapies to treat respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19 and influenza.
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, Germany, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $768k–$3.8M; Series A $3.9M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $64M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- AUTOVIO — Autovio offers digital concepts for driving schools.
- Swap Language — Swap Language is a language learning platform that delivers Danish lessons to companies and international employees.
- Pandatron — With clients like SAP, Universal Pictures & Skanska, Pandatron is a startup that supports change management. We do it by scaling AI-driven coaching 1-on-1s to every employee, which also allows us to measure change.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 812
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $4.2M–$27M; Series B $11M–$70M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- PVML — PVML enables CIOs and IT teams to securely operationalize GenAI on existing infrastructure - without moving or duplicating data - through unlimited virtual databases with built-in security and AI readiness.
- Secfi — Secfi is the leading provider of equity education and stock option financing. Get the expertise, planning, and cash to own your startup stock options with confidence.
- roclub — roclub is a healthcare company that offers a teleoperation platform for MedTech. The platform enables MRI/CT scans to be carried out remotely, providing support and training for radiographers. The company's solution can bring medical technology, regardless of type, manufacturer, and installation site, into a managed system withoutintegrations plug-and-play. roclub also offers a bonus program for radiographers who recommend their solution to their employers.
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 523
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $560k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
- Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $152k–$1.7M; Series A $393k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $45M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Eyoto — The future of eyecare technology, advanced tele-optometry solutions for the global optical industry. Creators of the world's first remote digital slit lamp.
- Online Poundshop — Online Poundshop is an online-only, 24 hour, single priced retailer.Since launch in February 2014, Poundshop.com has created a new online shopping solution for customers keen to take advantage of pound shop savings. The huge range of everyday household essentials including cleaning products, batteries, toiletries, kitchen items, snacks, treatsand toys is now available with the convenience of home delivery. We are based in Exeter, Devon.In October 2014, the managerial and marketing teams of the UK’s 2 premier online single price retailers, Poundshop.com and Hereforapound.com joined forces. More exciting plans are only a few clicks away starting with our brand new look website and bigger than ever range of pound shop favourites!
- Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
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.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $589k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $433k–$655k; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Chorus — Everything you need to enhance safety, improve performance, and stay compliant
- Assemble You — Increase your learning and development skills with our podcast-style Power Skills audio learning. Unlock your potential with innovative training in multiple languages. Build a better you and embark on an exciting journey of self-improvement today!
- Data Literacy Academy — Enterprise Data Literacy programmes. Live, online and in-person classes delivered by industry data leaders. Enable a data-driven workforce today.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 485
- Round size: Seed $439k–$3.3M; Series A $2.2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Tirlan — Tirlan is an agricultural company that supplies agri-food and farm input materials to the framing sector.
- Lakeland Dairies — Lakeland Dairies, a major dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area across the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dairy foodservice products and functional dairy food ingredients.
- Touchtech Payments — At Touchtech Payments, believe in making industry changing and innovative technology.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 932
- Round size: Seed $362k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.3M; Series A $4.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $72M in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- not8 — not8 is a SaaS platform that helps digital agencies and IT companies save those hours and increase employee productivity by up to 15% by moving all the conversations "inside the product".
- Qeeper — On-demand property maintenance across London, Edinburgh and Brighton
- Cloud Cycle — Globally we produce over 10 billion tons of concrete each year, its the second most consumed material on the planet behind wate and is responsible for upto 10% of global CO2 emissions. Around 5% of all concrete produced goes to waste, this waste in the UK alone costs around £400 million.Cloud Cycle has developed an on-truck device and sensorarray which feeds our cloud platform to ensure concrete meets specification & prevents waste. Even when surplus does still occur, our marketplace for the local on-sale of surplus concrete will find a buyer. We aim to save industry billions whilst reducing global CO2 by 1%.We are using advanced technology & the circular economy to transform the concrete industry.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 228
- Round size: Seed $488k–$8.3M; Series A $3.3M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $197M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
- Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
- Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 324
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Wefarm — Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS.Since its founding in 2015,Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.
- 7bridges — The smart logistics platform that uses A.I technology to transform your logistics for scalable, sustainable and profitable business growth.
- Cosmos Video — Cosmos Video is virtual office software for remote teams, cohort-based learning, and creative studios. Always-on spatial video with proximity-based audio.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 218
- Round size: Seed $851k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
- Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
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Browse database — It's Free!Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 189
- Round size: Seed $39k–$1.8M; Series A $851k–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- H2CHP — H2CHP's Free Piston Engine Technology enables your transition to green energy with the reliability & confidence of fuel flexibility.
- NunaBio — NunaBio operates as a privately-owned specialist DNA development company. NunaBio engaged in CRO (Contract Research Organizations) and CDMO (Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation) activities.
- Moralbox —
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: 240
- Round size: Seed $145k–$2.6M; Series A $2.5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
- MetaSoccer — MetaSoccer is a decentralized football metaverse where you can create your own club and generate income while you run it.
- Smart Protection — Protect your revenue by eliminating threats and infringements. Gain full visibility of what is happening with your brand online.
Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 206
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Series A $2.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $33M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
- BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
- dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 163
- Round size: Seed $350k–$4.5M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
- Converge — Pioneering sustainable construction with smart concrete sensors, predictive AI, and real-time monitoring. Build faster, safer, and greener.
- MONET — Embedded finance for agencies and B2B platforms. Frictionless access to white-labelling B2B credit, global payments and new revenue streams. Offer white-label invoice finance to your network, driving growth for you and your suppliers.
Scientist, Chairman, Speaker, Investor, Author, Future Coach. I’m Founder and Chairman of the Germany based “2b AHEAD Group”, which is Europe's leading strategic foresight institute. Using scientific methods we analyze and predict the future of industries, technologies and business models. Backed by our future studies we consult corporates andmedium size companies for future strategies. Within my twenty years’ experience I wrote eight books about trends and strategy, became a well-known interview expert and a popular keynote speaker on conferences and business events. In my RULEBREAKER Society, an executive network of disruptive innovators, we are regularly visiting the innovation hotspots in Israel, Silicon Valley and Shanghai/Shenzhen and meeting the people who are actually working on shaping our future.I build startups in our own 2b AHEAD Ventures company builder and invest in international deep tech startups through my family office. Beside that I manage 3 investment funds in my 2b AHEAD Group which currently consists of 33 early and later stage deep tech companies in Australia, US, UK, Israel and Europe. Before entering my innovation carrier, I worked for more than ten years as editor and prime time anchor at German public radio. I am playing chess, running marathons and I climbed the Kilimanjaro several times.
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- Industry: Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $54k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- CamHera — Future of Selfie
- GeneNeer — GeneNeer is a biotechnology company that has developed a proprietary technology for locking and unlocking traits for complete GM containment.
- JANSZKY GmbH — Family Investment Office of Sven Gabor Janszky, one of the leading futurists in Europe.
Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.
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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Education
- Stage:Seed, Grant
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 66
- Round size: Seed $20k–$200k; Grant $65k–$655k
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $675k in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Feebris — AI-guided tools that support carers to capture and share precise health measurements enabling more effective care for vulnerable patients.
- 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.
- Beam — Help us support people into stable jobs and homes
Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.
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- Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 118
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $478k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $23M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- thymia — We use video games based on Neuropsychology alongside analyses of video and speech to make mental health assessments smart, starting with depression.Our online platform empowers clinicians so they can assess depression faster, more accurately and objectively. Our multi-modal depression recognition and tracking system allows us to find the righttreatment in weeks instead of years and we make the entire process enjoyable for the patient.
- doctorly — doctorly is a digital medical infrastructure platform. We have a regulated, cloud powered, fully centralised, practice management platform for doctors, a fully connected health app for patients, and an integration platform for the wider industry to natively connect their tools & workflows directly with our doctors & patients.We are backedby amazing investors and driven by a desire to make positive and meaningful changes to the healthcare industry internationally.
- Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
Acurio Ventures partners with visionary founders to make history happen. Acurio Ventures is a European early-stage VC that invests across sectors and business models and that relies on its entrepreneurial DNA, flexible approach and proven value add to partner with the best founders out there.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 111
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.8M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- UniteLabs — UniteLabs provides the foundational operating system for AI-driven lab automation in life science. It accelerates scientific discovery by closing the loop with a unified data and automation infrastructure, seamless integration, and intelligent control. Our platform empowers ambitious biotech companies, big pharma, integrators, and hardware vendorsby offering bidirectional connectors for diverse lab equipment, a scalable cloud platform with an open API, and a powerful workflow engine with an integrated compute environment. This allows for the creation of sophisticated, modular workflows, and enables rapid automation development through our Lab-as-Code environment, featuring a dynamic Python SDK and application-specific libraries.
- TandemTrace — TandemTrace deploys autonomous AI agents that hunt, detect, and respond to cyber threats in real time.
- Those Beyond — Those Beyond develops a social gaming platform that supports interactive fan experiences within fictional universes. The platform uses its proprietary Arise Engine to enable browser-based adventures, role-playing, and puzzle-solving activities involving mass community participation. Projects include collaborations with entertainment franchises suchas "The Walking Dead," allowing fans to engage with story-driven challenges and community events. The platform includes customizable social spaces designed to reflect the themes and aesthetics of the associated intellectual properties.
Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising. From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 117
- Round size: Seed $400k–$2M; Series A $2.1M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
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 — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!
Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 102
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.9M; Series A $2.6M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $76M in 2017
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- OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
- Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
- OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.
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Browse database — It's Free!Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Latvia, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $131k–$549k; Debt Financing $63k–$70k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2010
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- Axial3D — Leading the way with the latest 3D imaging, models, and devices
- afriQloud — AfriQloud provides a white-labeled cloud computing solution to telecom operators, internet service providers, system integrators, and managed information technology service providers.
- Sonarworks — SoundID Reference software calibrates your speakers and studio headphones, so you can trust that every mix will translate.
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Finland, Sweden, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 164
- Round size: Seed $549k–$6M; Series A $1.3M–$17M; Series B $1.3M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $169M in 2022
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- Omocom — Omocom offers safe, simple and secure insurance for all kind of renting, sharing and re-using, digitally, automated and integrated into the sales flow of the platform
- Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
- Blueprint Genetics — We offer complete genetic testing and genetic diagnostics to medical professionals worldwide. Learn more about our winning clinical-grade NGS offering!
Early-stage VC Firm based in London, investing in UK technology startups & SaaS companies through our award-winning pre-seed funds.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $510k–$7M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3.1M; Series A $10M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
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- Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
- Archestra.AI — Enterprise MCP platform with security guardrails, compliance controls, and a curated catalog of 900+ evaluated Model Context Protocol servers for AI agents.
- Architect AI — Move beyond static pages. Architect uses AI agents to personalize every visit, handle objections, and boost co
APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.3M; Series A $5M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $61M in 2021
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- VisioLab — Instantly scan products for self-checkout, using the iPad camera - no barcodes needed. Designed for speed, simplicity and human centricity.
- Spike Technologies — Spike is an API for all fitness and health data from wearables & loT devices designed for digital health app developer.
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 211
- Round size: Seed $327k–$3.7M; Debt Financing $18k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2018
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- Forth — Forth are a group of clinical and digital experts who are passionate about healthcare. They’re part of a new breed of digital healthcare companies who are transforming people’s relationship with their health by using technology to give them more information and help them gain greater control.
- enModus — Experience the thrill of competing against other players in online casino tournaments! These events offer a unique opportunity to showcase your skills and
- Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
Ada Ventures is a pre-seed inclusive venture capital firm that invests in the best, not just the best-connected. They find and fund the Ada Lovelaces of today. Backing European founders building businesses for a better human future. They invest £250K - £1M in technology companies across climate equity, economic empowerment and healthy ageing. Adainvests in purpose-led founders building for markets that are large, untapped and growing. Their approach drives outperformance, which they call Inclusive Alpha®.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 72
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $507k–$1.4M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- Glowb — Glowb offers solar energy and battery solutions.
- Interfaze — JigsawStack provides fine-tuned custom models that do the heavy lifting for APIs in every tech stack and helps ship faster.
- Low Carbon Materials — We offer innovative, award-winning carbon negative materials that significantly reduce the carbon footprint of asphalt and concrete. We are a climate tech company dedicated to transforming the construction sector towards a net zero future.
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.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $713k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $713k–$1.6M; Series A $3.3M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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- Gyver — Recruiting platform for skilled blue collars
- Data Masters — I migliori corsi online di intelligenza artificiale, machine learning e data science. Formazione pratica, docenti esperti, lezioni on-demand e live. Entra ora!
- 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.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity
- Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 292
- Round size: Series A $3M–$21M; Private Equity $6.5M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $102M in 2022
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- Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
- Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer technology expands the accessibility of all mobile devices by unlocking SDR capabilities in the RFFE front end.
- Snipple Animation Studios — Snipple are specialists in animated television and sports entertainment. We are one of the largest animation partners to Disney and Warner Brothers. We develop original IP and we have unique partnerships with sports teams, growing the fans of the future.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 194
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 822
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $637k–$5M; Series A $4M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
- Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.
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Browse database — It's Free!Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 329
- Round size: Seed $159k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $158k–$840k
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Elaitra — Elaitra’s breast cancer platform includes a Generative LLM for voice-based patient engagement, and a unique AI reading tool that helps doctors read 3D X-Rays. Operating in USA & UK. FDA 510(k) and UK regulator approved.
- Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
- WeFindFlats — Live and work anywhere, without housing worries.
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.
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- Industry: Education, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 157
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.4M; Series A $4.7M–$22M; Series B $10M–$80M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $215M in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Winnie — Find local child care providers, including daycare and preschools for your children. Winnie provides parent-trusted child care resources and community.
- Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
- Swing Education — Swing Education transforms the way K-12 schools and substitute teachers connect, ensuring teacher absences are filled and student learning stays on track.
Demium is a talent investment company founded in Spain in 2013 with the aim of supporting the best professionals and helping them to carry out successful projects, always with an eminently digital and technological component. In November 2020, it's asset management company, Demium Capital, started operating with a first €50M fund to invest inmore than 75 early-stage startups per year (pre-seed/seed), becoming the most active venture capital fund in Spain. Startups such as Hannun, Voicemod, Swipcar, Citibox, Singularu or Landbot, among others have been created in the incubator. The company is present in five countries: Spain, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine and Czech Republic
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Health Care
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, Portugal, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Dealcar — DEALCAR is a company that digitalizes the used car market through a SaaS platform, enabling fully digital transactions. This platform creates a network effect benefiting dealers, partners, and customers. • Dealers: Increase revenue by selling extra products and boost sales by reducing turnover time. • Partners: Distribute products at the pointof sale without marketing expenses, lowering operational costs. • Consumers: Purchase a used car easily in just three steps, enjoying a smooth, trusted process similar to renting but with the benefits of owning a car.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- Aino — AI-powered site analysis for real estate professionals. Generate feasibility studies with quantified metrics, maps, cost estimates, and zoning insights in minutes, no GIS or coding required.
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 141
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$6.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3.1M; Series A $4.7M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Seapoint — Business accounts, treasury and expense automation - built to scale with you. Join our beta programme and get your unfair financial advantage.
- symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.
- CruxOCM — Crux OCM: Automate your oil and gas control room operations
Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Poland, Czech Republic, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $384k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $160k–$2.5M; Series A $318k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
- BeeSpeaker — BeeSpeaker is a mobile app that helps people learn to speak foreign languages by focusing on speaking and listening from the start. Combining real video tutors and AI-powered conversation modules, BeeSpeaker makes language learning practical, affordable, and flexible.
- PilotGo — Developer platform for secure data sharing with multiple partners powered by Digital Twins.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 343
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
- Perci Health — Connecting cancer patients with expert practitioners. On-demand, affordable appointments. Get personalised support and a tailored care plan today.
- Lyrebird Health — Lyrebird Health is revolutionising medical scribing with AI. Our AI medical scribe helps healthcare professionals save time and improve patient care.
Practica Capital
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- Industry: B2B, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Creem — Creem provides Indie Hackers, Micro-SaaS and SaaS businesses with instant financial tools and functionality. As a Merchant of Record our pre-integrated embeddable components tap your existing data, boosting revenue effortlessly. No costs—pure growth potential for your business.
- Handwave — Handwave is the world’s first biometric wallet and identity platform — replacing wallets, phones, and IDs with a single gesture for in-store payments. Designed for retail, meant for people. End users can easily onboard their palms through the Handwave app by scanning their palm with the phone camera, linking payment and loyalty cards, and thenenjoy frictionless checkout at retail by simply scanning their palm at a payment terminal.
- Atrandi Biosciences — Achieve your discoveries easier using high-throughput screening and droplet microfluidics. Create your own custom workflows for any R&D or academic applications.
We help build cutting-edge companies like Flywire. Flywire's trusted and secure global payment platform keeps your money moving around the world.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 115
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- QuiverAI — Quiver is an AI research and product company specializing in advanced models and tools for vector generation and editing. These capabilities enable high-quality, scalable creation and manipulation of vector graphics.
- Wodan AI — Wodan AI develops artificial intelligence software focused on predictive maintenance and industrial data analysis. The company provides a platform that uses machine learning models to process sensor and operational data in order to identify patterns, detect anomalies, and anticipate equipment issues. Its technology supports data integration, modeltraining, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring within industrial environments. Wodan AI’s solutions are used to support maintenance planning and asset management across manufacturing and other operational settings. The company applies data-driven methods to help organizations understand equipment behavior and operational risks.
- Altan — Altan is an AI-driven team that autonomously transforms ideas into fully-functional digital products using its innovative Collective AGI (CAGI) multi-agent framework. Altan handles end-to-end software development—from frontend to backend, including infrastructure, testing, and iteration—allowing users to focus solely on their vision.Founded withthe mission of empowering everyone with a superhuman AI team available 24/7, Altan uniquely combines frictionless infrastructure and a transparent, no-code interface for easy modification and control of AI-generated outputs.Altan primarily serves entrepreneurs, operational leaders, digital agencies, and freelancers, enabling rapid prototyping, launching, and scaling of digital solutions without traditional development teams. Headquartered in Barcelona, Altan emphasizes community engagement (#BuildInPublic), rapid innovation, and continuous improvement, supported by an attractive Employee Stock Option Pool (ESOP).Altan aims to redefine industry standards with benchmarks for end-to-end software creation and targets significant market milestones, including autonomous SaaS growth and substantial recurring revenue.
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
allygatr builds and invests into HR Tech companies and helps them thrive. Our mission: Transforming HR & recruitment and leading it into the 21st century. Together with our allies, we want to cover the whole HR value chain: - Attract & Select - Motivate - Train & develop - Retain
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- Industry: Software, Human Resources, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Clypp — We make documentation sexy. Clypp is an enterprise SaaS solution that helps employees explain software and workflows through video tutorials. The content is intelligently transcribed and shared on an internal platform with colleagues, customers and partners. This way, companies can save up to 20% of their employees' working time, which wouldotherwise be spent on preparing and searching for work-relevant information.
- Talent2Go — Talent2Go is an HRtech company that provides training management software solutions for companies to make less burden for the trainers.
- Senior Connect — An AI-driven career platform that matches senior professionals with companies seeking expertise, aligning their skills and personality with employers' needs.
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