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Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in November 2024

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

Top 50 Education VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in November 2024

Investor	Education Europe investments
Emerge	29
Brighteye Ventures	24
Educapital	19
HV Capital	16
ENISA	15
Bpifrance	14
Nesta Impact Investments	14
Speedinvest	13
FJ Labs	13
Sparkmind.vc	12
Business Growth Fund	11
LocalGlobe	11
Midven	10
Enterprise Ireland	10
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	10
Northstar Ventures	10
CDP Venture Capital	10
Vaekstfonden	9
Fuel Ventures	9
Social Tech Trust	9
IBB Ventures	9
Force Over Mass Capital	9
Forward Partners	9
Kima Ventures	9
Wayra	9
Ufi Ventures	8
Concept Ventures	8
Zanichelli Venture	8
Inventure	8
Angelsquare	8
SeedBlink	7
Octopus Ventures	7
SFC Capital	7
JamJar Investments	7
Seedcamp	7
Almi Invest	7
Development Bank of Wales	7
Global Founders Capital	7
Reach Capital	7
DN Capital	7
Practica Capital	7
Concept Ventures	7
JME Ventures	7
Nordic Makers	7
Tera Ventures	7
Vaekstfonden	7
Scottish Investment Bank	7
Armilar Venture Partners	7
Techstart Ventures	6
Calm/Storm Ventures	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, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

VARM — Varm provides efficient insulation for energy saving and comfort.
Mendo — Mendo is an add-in that aims to provide employees with the tools they need to become competent at their jobs. It can generate lessons or make it simple to learn.
Solvely.ai — Inspire Every Human Mind

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, France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
Adam — Adam connects you with verified painters and decorators across whole Europe. Get an instant price estimate and book a painter for the next day already!
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.

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
Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
Buddy.ai — Buddy lets children practice spoken English by talking with a virtual AI-powered cartoon character in a mobile app. With its engaging virtual character, speech technology, and adaptive learning, Buddy is making speaking practice affordable for 500 million children around the globe by automating the mundane part of tutoring work at a fraction ofthe cost. This enables teachers and parents to give kids unlimited speaking practice, essential for mastering English.

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

iGent — iGent AI focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities into the software development process.
Marvel Fusion — Our mission is to enable humankind to access clean, safe & reliable energy by building a laser-driven fusion power plant.
Beyond Presence — Human cloning company

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

Remolon — Remolon's mission is to reduce food losses and waste while also building a better food system for all.
Ubicuity — Ubicuity is a software platform that allows to create and manage advanced audiovisual experiences for space managers and content providers.
Kreios Space — Kreios Space is developing an electric propulsion system to revolutionize the satellite industry. With this technology we enable orbital keeping in VLEO (Very Low Earth Orbits) thanks to renewable energy. We make space applications easier.

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

Vaxinano — Vaxinano is a biotechnology company specialized in preclinical and pharmaceutical development of human and veterinary vaccines and drug delivery systems. Vaxinano was created in 2016, building on 25 years of research and clinical trials on vaccines and the patented technology of Pr Didier Betbeder.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Starfish Bioscience — STARFISH Bioscience focuses on the creation and development of microbiological solutions for agriculture and vineyards. Our objective is to regenerate soils by restoring their microbiomes, increasing sustainability and productivity while minimizing environmental impact. We are dedicated to improving humanity's well-being and preserving theearth by inventing technologies that address the future difficulties of global agriculture.

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, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia

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.

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

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management

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, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LoopUp — LoopUp exists to provide multinational businesses with one global telephony provider, simplifying and centralizing telephony management and support, and delivering economies of scale. LoopUp is the world leader in global coverage for Microsoft's certified Operator Connect program.
StruxHub — Construction Management Software. Best project management software for construction, Jobsite Management. Scheduling Software for Construction Field Teams.
Squido Studio — No More Rainbows is a first person VR platformer with unique locomotion inspired by classic titles such as Super Meat Boy and Super Mario. The studio behind No More Rainbows is Montreal based Squido Studio, a studio that focuses on core mechanics and gameplay before all else.

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

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.
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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Shift Bioscience — Explore cutting-edge simulation-guided cell rejuvenation techniques aimed at combating aging-related diseases.
Signify Research — Signify Research provides health tech market intelligence empowered by data.
ER Productions — ER Productions is an innovative laser and SFX specialist providing cutting edge laser and special effects products and choreography to some of the largest shows on earth

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

Clock Bio — Clock Bio operates as a biotech company, that develops novel regenerative medicines.
Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

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

Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
Nylahs Naturals — Shop our award-winning all-natural hair care products, designed to redefine the haircare standard for afro-textured hair.
Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

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

Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
Slick+ — Slick+ is a SaaS B2B Video-Based platform designed for enhance learning and collaboration in hybrid and remote working environment. By enabling teams to create, share, and discuss short, engaging knowledge videos, Slick+ fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation. The platform makes it easy for employees to capture and preserveessential expertise, share best practices, and implement new ideas, all seamlessly integrated into their daily workflows. With a focus on bite-sized content, Slick+ empowers organizations to boost productivity, enhance team communication, and stay agile in a rapidly evolving work environment. Ideal for L&D and HR managers, Slick+ is the go-to solution for companies looking to optimize their onboarding, training, and knowledge-sharing processes in both hybrid and remote work setups.
The Freebird Club — The social travel club for over 50s. Homestays, local events, travel advice and more.

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

Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Cloudsquid — is an an artificial intelligence based revenue orchestration company intended for companies with usage-based pricing models.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.

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

Portfolio highlights

Waxy — Waxy is an innovative startup that operates in the domain of designing, building, and distributing technologies for the sanitization of liquids and food products.
Radical Storage — Find your closest luggage storage and enjoy your journey until the very end!
Tau Group — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.

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.

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, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

R.grid — Research Grid is the automation engine for admin-free clinical trials. Research Grid has developed two industry-leading products that leverage its AI-powered automation engine.
Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
Groov — Get the measure of merchant business - Access merchant-consented, up-to-the-day transaction data to streamline customer journeys and lending decisions

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.
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.

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

Vara — Vara develops a breast cancer screening platform powered by AI for radiologists, allowing them to focus on finding cancer early. While we provide. Vara also provides remote mammography reading services to those that lack the radiologists. Vara's mission is to make affordable diagnostics available all over the world by designing machinelearning-powered workflows that users love to work with.
Nuuron — Nuuron is a neurotech startup that is developing the Memory-Pacemaker, a non-invasive photonic neurostimulation device that allows Alzheimer's sufferers to store and retrieve memories anew.
Aignostics — Aignostics is an AI-powered precision diagnostics focused on pathology to assist with drug development and clinical research. Its “explainable” AI overcomes the “black-box” limitations of conventional AI. Based on their patented technology for reverse-engineering the black box, they render diagnostic results explainable in the form of preciseheatmaps and image overlays. These heatmaps allow pathologists to quickly verify the results of the AI, which is crucial, as the pathologist is ultimately responsible for the diagnosis.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

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.
Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
SentientSports — SentientSports is revolutionising the sports industry by unlocking the full potential of AI in sporting organisations.

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

Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.
OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe safeguards critical infrastructure with AIoT devices, enhancing asset health and security while reducing cloud data transfers.

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, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Freqens — We transform B2B negotiations with our advanced intelligence platform, empowering finance teams and buyers to lead confidently. Centralize your suppliers, leverage real-time market data to benchmark your terms, and gain a strategic edge in every deal. Secure optimal buying conditions while building and maintaining trusted supplier relationships.
Storio Energy — Storio Energy is an AI-powered energy efficiency technology platform that provides renewable energy.

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

Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Legit Health — Legit.Health is the Revolutionary Clinical Data and Communication tool for Next-generation dermatologists that triples the empowerment of patients.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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

Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.

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 — 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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.

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…

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
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 — 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!

All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Pago — Managing and paying utility bills, insurance, mobile top-ups and taxes takes too much time for many households in Europe. Pago simplifies these payments by adding automation where possible, using integrations with billers, insurers and online platforms to dramatically reduce the time needed for all these payments. The service is available in theB2C app called Pago and through B2B integrations by embedding Pago features in partner apps through SDK or API. Pago's services are used by over 500k monthly active users in Romania, Poland and Italy.
Brainactive — Brainactive is an AI-driven platform that streamlines the access to vital insights used by companies to make sound business decisions, by enabling them to directly interview their current and potential customers, regardless of their expertize in sociology, past experience with market research, size of their team, or their market research budget.Integrated with a pool of 300+ million vetted and engaged consumers around the world, the platform allows companies to get relevant answers to their questions in minutes, with assistance from advanced conversational and generative LLM trained on market research, available along the way.Putting businesses in direct contact with their customers essentially removes the need for any intermediaries in the process and brings the costs and time down to a mere fraction of what traditional market research typically requires. At the same time, companies get to keep sensitive concepts and prototypes tested entirely secured, since no one else is involved, at any stage.
dotLumen - Empowering the Blind — .lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nesti — An AI-first generative video platform that enables sales teams to deliver 1,000s of personalised outreach videos, on dynamic buyer landing pages, at scale.
Cytix — Cytix is a vulnerability management software platform and cluster of dedicated pentesters to help you identify & resolve Vulnerabilities. Reach us & get a free trial of tool.
Soil Benchmark — Independent software creating Soil Management Plans that tick all the right boxes for SAM1.

JamJar Investments is a venture capital firm that invest in high growth consumer brand businesses in both digital and non-tech.Its combination of operational, commercial and brand experience was honed over 14 years taking innocent from scratch to sale to Coca Cola for north of half a billion £. That journey means the company understand thejourney of entrepreneurs, the highs the lows, the challenges and some of the solutions. JamJar is the consumer Venture Capital fund run by the innocent drinks founders.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
Bibbi Parfum — SIGN UP TO THE BIBBI UNIVERSE
With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.

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.

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

FLOX — Transforming global wildlife interactions with autonomous technologies. From fields to airports, we redefine boundaries for coexistence.
RemotiveLabs — RemotiveLabs is a developer of an automotive software development platform designed to streamline the vehicle manufacturing process.
GAIA BioMaterials — GAIA BioMaterials is the manufacturer of a bio-degradable product that offers pouch, tray, and bottle products.

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

PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
Menna — Be smarter about money and grow faster with Menna. Take control of your business finances today!
Llusern Scientific — Llusern specialises in rapid and affordable near-patient and POC molecular diagnostics developed to detect bacterial and viral infections.

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

Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.

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

LabLabee — Gain practical expertise in the most in-demand Telco Cloud technologies with instantly set up labs.
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.
Nurture — Learn Foundational Life Skills Through Immersive Play

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

Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
Hawk — Award-winning AML & CFT technology powered by explainable AI increases your risk coverage, helps you identify more crime, and reduces your false positives.
Prometeo — Prometeo allows access to banking information, transactions, and payments across multiple financial institutions in Latam. Prometeo brings interoperability to Latam's financial sector. We believe the financial future is open and connected. We are building it

Practica Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CTO2B — CTO2B helps organization in managing the cloud service adoption and runtime operations.
eany — B2B marketplace for Household, DIY and Home Electronics products
Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of

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

Verax AI — Seeks to be the leading provider of enterprise-grade trust solutions for Generative AI, enabling companies worldwide to build or adopt any Generative AI agent with confidence
Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
Vsim Technology — Experience the power of next-generation physics simulations with Vsim. Our cutting-edge technology provides realistic and accurate simulations for various industries.

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

Hoola — The #1 customer automation platform for commerce. Support, sell and market via WhatsApp on auto-pilot.
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.
XRF.ai — We simplify complexity by presenting crucial information visually and accessibly. With generative AI, we learn and maximize available options, ensuring clarity and confidence in every decision.

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
Denmark, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Munchfam — Munchfam develops virtual brands that restaurants can sell online and the supporting supply chain. We use existing restaurants that produce our menus in their kitchens in addition to their own. The supply chain is built the same way as Mcdonald's, Subway, etc. with supplier and wholesaler networks under Munchfam’s control. We make our moneyfrom ingredient sales, online sales commissions & subscription fees.
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 — Invester uden minimumskurtage

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, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

10Lines — 10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.
Supersimple — Supersimple helps SaaS companies use customer behavior data to drive decisions in product & sales.
CARÁ Health — CARÁ Health is creating a hybrid health and well-being platform for women throughout any stage of maternity to make them feel empowered and make informed choices. We do this by combining all verticals a woman needs (and does not yet knows she needs) during the maternity period, including education, products, podcasts, masterclasses, and servicerecommendations.

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.

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.

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

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Tonic App — Tonic App is a B2C2B digital health company building a professional ecosystem for medical doctors. Tonic App helps medical doctors to diagnose and treat their patients by curating, for them, in a single mobile platform, the best professional resources from peers, publishers, regulatory bodies, recruiters, providers & the industry.

Techstart Ventures is a leading investor of seed capital across Scotland and Northern Ireland. they are a trusted partner to ambitious founders on their journey to success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Propcorn — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
Linq — The safest way to send intimate content
Univa Health — Univa's objective is to provide evidence-based clinical tools that address the detrimental impact of eating disorder diseases on both the individual and their families.

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