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Top 50 Email Startup Investors in Europe in October 2024

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

Top 50 Email Startup Investors in Europe in October 2024

Investor	Email Europe investments
Hexa	4
Winton Ventures	3
Jaan Tallinn	3
Crane Venture Partners	2
Accel	2
MMC Ventures	2
Walking Ventures	2
Boost Heroes	2
Oxford Capital	2
Gecad Ventures	2
LocalGlobe	2
HTGF \| High-Tech Gruenderfonds	2
Tim Jackson	2
Amadeus Capital Partners	2
Fraser	2
Priit Kasesalu	2
WestTech Ventures	2
SIDE Capital	2
White Star Capital	2
Santiago Izaguirre	2
Alven	2
Shiv Matharu	1
David King	1
3TS Capital Partners	1
Luminar Ventures	1
Nidhi Surana	1
NEON Adventures	1
Michael Brehm	1
Marcus Boström	1
Mosaic Private Equity	1
Stéphane Derône	1
Bill Lee	1
Oxford Technology Management	1
Merseyside Special Investment Fund	1
Andrus Purde	1
Lehman Holdings	1
Nimesh Sanghrajka	1
Simon Lehnis	1
Arnault Olivier	1
Antler	1
Bertrand Jacquelot	1
Greenaap Consulting	1
KREAXI	1
BayTech Venture Capital	1
Global Finance	1
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance	1
Calm Company Fund	1
SaaS Partners	1
FlyCap	1
Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden)	1

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eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Upflow — Stop wasting time and automate customer payments reminders. With Upflow, businesses quickly collect unpaid invoices and reduce overdue payments by 50%.
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
Catalog — Catalog is the first plug-and-play tool exclusively designed to digitise small-to-medium B2B merchants ordering process. With Catalog, B2B SMBs are equipped with the tool they need to reclaim their time, engage with buyers in meaningful ways and boost growth.

Winton is a quantitative investment management firm. Our goal is to generate returns for our clients across a range of market environments.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ripjar — AML Name Screening, Data Fusion, Adverse Media Screening, Threat Intelligence & more. Powerful solutions enhanced with A.I. machine learning.
SenseOn — Senseon's award-winning cybersecurity platform uses unique 'AI Triangulation' to automate threat detection and response capabilities.
CyberSmart — Discover the power of CyberSmart: the leading cybersecurity platform for SMEs. Ensure continuous compliance and protect your business round-the-clock.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

VC firm investing into seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep tech companies in Europe.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.
Bitpart AI — BITPART.AI - The AI NPC engine built by game developers for game developers. Populate virtual worlds with characters that mimic real behavior.
Cyberhaven — DLP works for 1% of companies; fortunately there is Cyberhaven for the other 99%. Cyberhaven makes data protection simple, accurate, and comprehensive. With it's Data Detection and Response (DDR) platform, Cyberhaven automatically discovers and classifies data, provides continuous risk detection, delivers accurate blocking and incidentresponse, and improves user behavior.

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

e6data — e6data develops a high-performance lakehouse compute engine designed for enterprise-level data analytics. By boosting the ROI on current platforms and architectures, e6data enables businesses to avoid ecosystem lock-in. Their next-generation SQL engine delivers five times the performance, reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 50%, and ensures smoothadoption. The solution integrates effortlessly with leading data lakehouse formats, data catalogs, governance frameworks, SQL standards, dialects, object stores, and major cloud providers.
Raycast — A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Nurix AI — Nurix AI promotes data quality and integrity to provide accurate generative AI solutions.

MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

LiveEO — LiveEO is the leading solution provider for AI-powered satellite-based monitoring of large infrastructure networks. Trusted worldwide.
Simpler — Offer a fast & simple checkout with Simpler. Integrate all major payment options, save on fees & sell more. Get it now!
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Walking Ventures is a seed fund which invests in early-stage Internet and other technology startups based in Europe. The fund is a private vehicle controlled by Tim Jackson, a leading figure in the European technology scene as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor, commentator and technology journalist.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Oviva — Oviva is digitizing the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity through a unique behavior change platform.They have developed unique, personalised behaviour change programmes that combine smartphone app and learning portals to support dietitian-led behaviour change for conditions such as type 2 diabetes and complex obesity. Their approach allowspatients to achieve a better health outcome without having to attend clinic appointments, whilst saving health systems significant sums by preventing the development of complications related to these health conditions.Oviva was founded in 2013 and is based in London, England.
Tessian — Tessian enterprise email security protects employees from themselves. DLP and spear phishing protection. Automatically detect email threats.
Attractions.io — Smart technology to deliver a better guest experience, increase secondary spend and understand visitor behaviour like never before.

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Helping individuals and institutions invest in Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Media companies since 1999.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Ittybit — Ittybit is a API that enables users to handle rich media in applications. It provides developers with basic techniques for uploading, storing, transforming, and extracting data from video, music, and image files.
HealthKey — HealthKey is a platform that connects employers and insurers with health providers.
Noggin HQ — The next generation of credit referencing is coming. Look busy.

Our commitment, experience, and perseverance have fueled the creativity of some of the most exciting start-ups in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Payments
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Romania, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FintechOS — FintechOS extends your core, letting you innovate banking and insurance products, digital journeys, and back-office workflows without the cost or risk.
Dataworks Research SRL — Soleadify provides business data enrichment with unprecedented coverage of SMBs, accurate classification and in-depth insights based on real-time updates.Always driven by the complexity of AI and Machine Learning, we build more efficient ways of getting more data and get more out of it. Urged on reliability and complete-ness, our datasets haveyet to be beaten in terms of accuracy and classification by industry mammoths.
TypingDNA — TypingDNA provides typing biometrics authentication as a service, enabling companies to recognize people by the way they type. The company's authentication technology compares how people type on their keyboards against previous recordings. Works on both mobiles and PCs. Headquartered in New York, United States, with offices in Romania, EU.

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

Userled — Userled is a no-code interface and AI-powered platform that automates the distribution of personalizing marketing experiences across all ad and email platforms, empowering revenue teams with person-level engagement insights without cookies. Customers can deploy multiple personalized campaigns across all their target platforms from email, Linkedin,Meta, and more.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

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

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Symphera — An all-in-one surgical system that makes minimally-invasive procedures more efficient.

Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

CloudNC — CloudNC CAM Assist your CAM programming co-pilot. Automate your CAM programming. From setup to CAM program in seconds for 3-axis prismatic parts.
Credit Kudos — Credit Kudos builds products using Open Banking so credit providers can approve more people and lower risk. Explore now!
Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.

Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series B, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

PhoreMost — PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK: Using its core expertise to open up new ‘druggable’ target space and working with a global network of co-invested academic and industrial collaboration partners, we aim to bring a wide array of novel ‘targeted’ therapies more efficiently to market and pass these cost savingsonto patients.
Riverlane — Riverlane's mission is to make quantum computing useful far sooner than previously imaginable, starting an era of human progress as significant as the industrial and digital revolutions.
qomodo — Intelligent IOT Embedded Security. We protect commercial or industrial IOT devices from the threats of the internet. Driven by leading intelligence and machine learning, our anomaly detection allows us to protect even the simplest IOT devices.

Fraser is a dedicated M&A advisory and investment firm, partnering with leaders in Europe’s B2B technology sectors to unlock next levels of growth & success. Based in Berlin, London and Chicago, we advise entrepreneurs, senior management and boards on their most important strategic decisions and transactions. Alongside our clients andpartners, we also invest into selected opportunities.Since 2005, we have completed over $1BN of transactions, incl. ADTECH AG (acquired by AOL), 3GNet GmbH (acquired by iCrossing and subsequently sold to Hearst), UDG (backed with $100M+ by EQT and recently merged with PIA Performance Interactive Alliance), nugg.ad AG (acquired by Deutsche Post DHL and then sold to Zalando), Optivo GmbH (acquired by Deutsche Post DHL), explido GmbH (acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network and combined to form explido iProspect), Adglow (acquisition of Glow), Episerver AB (acquisition of Optivo GmbH, backed by Accel-KKR), Tessian (backed by Sequoia), diffferent GmbH (acquired by Syzygy, part of WPP), and m-pathy GmbH (acquired by Verint).For further information or to contact a member of our senior team, please visit: https://www.fraserfinance.com

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
France, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Incision — Support the entire OR team to learn & perform better. Build surgical skills with surgery videos and courses. Accredited by The Royal College of Surgeons.
PathoQuest — PathoQuest provides biosafety assays based on next-generation sequencing (NGS) for biologics quality testing. GMP biotesting for biopharmaceuticals. Learn more.
Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.

Priit is heavily involved in assessing all of ASI's new technology investments.Before ASI, Priit played an integral role in developing Kazaa and later Skype; indeed, he continues to work at Skype as a core library developer.While cryptography and data communication are his areas of expertise, his other passion is computer gamedevelopment. Together with Ahti and Jaan, he wrote the first Estonian commercial computer game, Kosmonaut.When he isn't using his innate ability to solve complex technical problems, Priit enjoys good company, gourmet restaurants and biking.He holds a degree in automation and system technology from Tallinn University of Technology.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Email
Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Fleep — Fleep is a web, Android, iOS, Mac and Windows app that wants to bridge the gap between ‘reply all’-style group email and enterprise messaging/IM services.Founded by ex-Skypers, Fleep is a messaging service that fills the gap between email and various IM/texting services. They take email’s ability to contact anyone and marry it withreal-time messaging.They are based in Estonia, with offices in Tallinn and Tartu. Their services are hosted on Amazon EC2 in Dublin, Ireland.

WestTech Ventures is a Berlin-based VC firm focused on pre-seed & seed investments primarily in Germany in the fields of B2B SaaS in different verticals, and Enterprise Software as well as Mobility and New Work.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Notch — Boost your deal win rates and customer onboarding with Notch. Create tailored buyer experiences, structured action plans, and gain valuable insights. Try our demo today.
Careloop — Berlin-based HR-tech and EduTech startup with a focus on the German healthcare industry.
THE CLIMATE CHOICE — The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains.

Smart Investment for Disruptive Entrepreneurs Fonds d'investissement early-stage pour les start-ups tech & digitales

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

LiveTonight — LiveTonight is the referencing platform for live music events and DJ sets in bars.
Superindep.fr — Superindep is an auto entrepreneur that offers personalized support and automation of their VAT and turnover declarations. They provide space for real-time monitoring and entry of their invoices and expenses.
Elqano - Where Knowledge Finds People — The story behind Elqano starts in a Coffee Conversation between two young professionals that wanted to shape the future of knowledge management. Yann and Guillermo were tired of spending half of their day looking for information stored in disorganized folders or overwhelmed email inboxes so they came out with a holistic platform that makes theright knowledge find straight away the right people.

Our presence, perspective and people enable us to partner closely with founders to help them define this future.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.
Blueberry Protocol — Blueberry is an interface for interacting with the rest of DeFi with the ability to leverage and hedge by borrowing from an internal lending market.

Santiago Izaguirre is a Managing Director at Stout. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Email, Consumer Goods, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mayku — We help people make incredible things with beautiful tabletop machines.
Tessian — Tessian enterprise email security protects employees from themselves. DLP and spear phishing protection. Automatically detect email threats.

Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Gorgias — Helpdesk designed for e-commerce stores. Provide multichannel customer service from a single app. Gain productivity with automated responses to common requests.
Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

Shiv Matharu

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

David King is a Founder of Highlighter. He attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for Computer Engineering.

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

dYdX — Trade Perpetuals on the most powerful open trading platform, backed by @a16z, @polychain, and @paradigm.
TruStory — As more people see the likes of Bitcoin as a superior alternative to investments like precious metals, demand is at an all-time high. The Bitcoin Profit website makes it its mission to guide new and experienced investors along their journey.
Manufactured — Manufactured is a product sourcing platform that provides access for entrepreneurs to manufacturing companies to find the perfect product and help build and operate digital manufacturing supply chains.

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.

Luminar Ventures is a venture capital fund that prefers to make early-stage investments in technology companies. They engage with their portfolio companies and are actively helping with strategic, growth, team and organizational, and operational support, and together setting the foundation for future expansion.Luminar's core investment focusis on scalable digital seed-stage companies from the Nordics, founded by highly motivated and talented entrepreneurs with a vision to disrupt or transform major industries. The firm aims to provide experienced seed-stage financing and active operational support to Sweden based early-stage technology companies that are looking to disrupt or transform major industries with digital technologies and innovations.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Insurance
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Sweden, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!

Nidhi Surana

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

NEON Adventures is a single family office with interests across technology, property, lifestyle and philanthropy.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Enterprise Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zzish — Zzish are EdTech's most passionate pioneers; on a mission to transform the use of apps in the classroom through a data driven technology platform that solves key pain points for developers and teachers. Their platform helps developers create, distribute and monetise and helps teachers discover, use and buy, curriculum mapped education appsthat have a real impact on student learning. At the heart of their platform are their real-time teacher dashboards, a "virtual teaching assistant" that gives teachers instant insight into student strengths and weaknesses using any app.More than 500,000 teachers (70% in the USA) from over 170 different countries have signed up to use Zzish already. With their first paying schools in the UK, US, Holland and Israel and Ministries of Education around the world starting to recommend their products, Zzish is now scaling up to become a global technology leader providing the key data and intelligence layer underpinning the new generation of education applications.Zzish has won numerous awards over the last few years. EdSurge ranked Quizalize as the "No.1 new app for schools" in 2015 and Zzish was selected as one of the "Future 30" at the Bett Show (Europe's leading EdTech trade show) and one of the "EdTech 20" at EdTechXEurope (Europe's leading EdTech investor summit). Moreover the Zzish Teacher Dashboards was the runner up for Teach Secondary's "Technology Innovation of the Year" and a finalist for selection in the Education Resource Awards.
Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com
Mainframe — Mainframe — A decentralized network for censorship-resistant message routing.The need for a privacy and security focused communications ecosystem has never been higher. Distrust and centralized powers abound, with third parties monopolizing users’ information and governments imposing surveillance tactics on citizens inside and outside theirborders. Each takes advantage of the same decades-old architecture on which the entire Internet is built. The Mainframe network is the messaging layer for the new web. This goes beyond human-to-human messaging. There are many use-cases and applications for reliably, privately, and securely routing data packets through the Mainframe peer-to-peer network. Mainframe is resistant to censorship, surveillance, and disruption. With the exception of a catastrophic asteroid event or an aggressive alien invasion, the Mainframe network is simply unstoppable. We build with five fundamental principles as our guide.

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
Atheneum — Powered by a network of 1,000,000+ experts, our Atheneum Insights Platform unlocks on-demand access to global intelligence. Faster Insights. Better Data.

Marcus Boström

Investment focus

Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Causiq — Causiq combines data science with the principles of marketing mix modeling while unifying teams with a single source of truth, across online and offline.
Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.

Mosaic Private Equity is a private equity business with a different approach. It addresses two opportunities in the market.Firstly, a funding gap exists for those businesses requiring equity investment up to £10m. This gap has been created by the requirement for traditional private equity houses to complete ever larger deals, a feature of theweight of money which needs to be invested by the industry as a whole.Secondly, highly successful business people with a wealth of first hand experience in building and exiting companies desire exposure to high quality private equity investments. mpe provides a route for these individuals to invest in institutional quality deals where they can bring to bear the benefit of their experiences, good and bad, in growing businesses and successfully exiting for maximum value.mpe was founded by Paul Newton and Mike Rogan, based on their substantial experience in private equity where they have worked together since 1999.

Investment focus

Legal, Email, Energy
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Utilicomm — Utilicomm is a provider of utility pricing consultancy services and energy management.
SkinnyBrands — SkinnyBrands is a brewing company that provides gluten-free, vegan lager beers to its consumers. They focus on the reduction of carbohydrates in their products.
Woodall Nicholson Group — Woodall Nicholson is one of the oldest established coachbuilding companies in the UK, dating right back to the 1820′s, when its major market was the building of horse-drawn hansom cabs and carriages.

Stéphane Derône

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such aseBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing.Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

OpenSea — OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens. It includes collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.
Lightning Labs — Building faster, cheaper, global layer-two bitcoin
Goldin Auctions — Goldin Auctions is the leading marketplace for trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other collectibles. Founder Ken Goldin has sold more than $1 billion in memorabilia from many of the biggest names in sports, history, and pop culture. The company routinely sets records for the most expensive trading cards and other memorabilia ever sold.Lifelong collectors and new hobbyists alike trust Goldin Auctions because the company professionally authenticates everything it sells.

Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.

MSIF provides funding to support all sorts of businesses across a range of sectors and for a variety of needs. We invest in small to medium sized businesses (less than 250 employees) but this includes the very small end, the much larger end and everything in between. MSIF can provide funding to sole traders, partnerships and limited companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Springpod — Gain virtual work experience with top employers and try university courses before you apply on Springpod. Enhance your CV and Personal Statement online for free
SupplyWell — Teach more. Earn more. Smile more. Find supply jobs you want, when you want them and for the pay that you deserve.
Picnic Chester — Picnic Chester is a café and wine bar.

Experienced startup marketer. Co-founder and CEO of Outfunnel. Skype and Pipedrive alumni. Angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Public Transportation, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Avrio — Capture and share data analysis, user research, and learnings directly in context, with your team.
Klaus — Hypergrowth companies use Klaus to run an effective customer service QA process, coach agents, and boost retention.
SegmentStream — SegmentStream is a data intelligence platform which helps collect and unify from different data sources into own data warehouse for advanced analytics and attribution. Our solution is trusted by leading brands such as Benetton, Nespresso, New Balance, myToys, Eventim Group, and others.

Lehman Brothers was a global financial services firm that was founded in 1850 and went bankrupt in 2008. Barclays acquired Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets businesses for $250 million.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Telecommunications
Series B, Series D, Funding Round
United States, China, Japan

Portfolio highlights

MyShape — MyShape.com is an online retail store created for you. Personalized stores (called myShop) search for and display clothing matched to a shopper's specific measurements, body shape and preferences.
ExaGrid — ExaGrid Systems, Inc. provides disk based backup solutions in the United States. It also offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions, as well as disk-based backup systems for information technology companies. In addition, the company provides backup applications for backups and restores. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. was formerly known asInflection Systems, Inc.The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts. ExaGrid Systems, Inc. has satellite offices in the United States and internationally.
AOptix Technologies — AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as bordersecurity, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Nimesh Sanghrajka - Committee Member - Asian Business Association @ London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

Simon Lehnis is a Lead Investor, RecruitHub Angel Investor Network at RecruitHub. He attended University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

Management Chinese subsidairy of a French company specialized in Digital TV software and conditional access system.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Mobile
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Swytch — Work mobile numbers on personal phones. Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Everyone can now use multiple mobile numbers from one device. Visit our website: www.swytch.com

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Singapore, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Quinky — With Quinky intimacy has never been this deep, safe, and fun! It's your playful assistant for exploring intimacy.
Loewi — Loewi allows you to sell your two-wheeled companion.
Klearly — Klearly simplifies payment acceptance for small and medium-sized businesses by transforming smartphones and tablets into secure payment processing devices, allowing businesses to easily take payments. Businesses can focus on what they do best with our all-in-one digital payment solution, while Klearly handles the rest.

Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity

Greenaap Consulting

Investment focus

Email, Content, Enterprise Software
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

kVault Software — KVS is the provider of content archiving solutions today. Our flagship product Enterprise Vault offers a total archiving platform for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Portal Server, IM and file server environments. Enterprise Vault allows you to streamline and reduce the ongoing cost of information storage for the enterprise and simultaneously keepit instantly accessible for users and the organization.

Kreaxi is a management company specializing for over 30 years in investing in the capital of innovative and technological startups with high potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, Italy, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Inalve — Inalve produces fresh microalgae for various fields, such as animal nutrition and health, cosmetics, and nutraceutics. They use a new, resource-efficient industrial process to cultivate microalgae. They also use the sun and water, to which they add mineral ingredients, to promote the growth of microalgae.
B2eBike — B2ebike provides comprehensive electric bicycle fleet (VAE) solutions for businesses and communities. The best strategy to convert to a soft form of transportation.
MECAWARE — MECAWARE's mission is to speed up strategic autonomy thanks to resource circularity and the intelligence of the material cycle.

BayTech Venture Capital is a European Venture Capital firm with the ambition to help the best entrepreneurs build the most successful companies in their fields of expertise.They invest at an early stage in start-up companies in the sectors Technology and Life Sciences in Western Europe, especially in Germany and France. Their contribution tosuccess in the growth phase of these companies is not limited to capital. The money they provide goes along with their experience in company building and the industry expertise of their investment professionals, access to their world-wide network and the respect for the values and the contribution of the entrepreneurs they work with.

Investment focus

Collaboration, Software, Document Management
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

EnOcean — EnOcean provides valuable data for a sustainable Internet of Things (IoT) with its resource-saving energy harvesting technology.
PandoLogic (formerly RealMatch) — Unlock the power of PandoLogic's programmatic job advertising AI platform, revolutionizing recruitment software for efficient and effective hiring. Experience the future of recruiting by requesting a demo today.
Inge Watertechnologies — Inge develops ultrafiltration technology for drinking water, sea water, waste water, and processed water.

Global Finance is an independent investment firm investing in private equity and venture capital.The firm's operation consists of private equity fund management, real estate development, and advisory services. It manages a number of funds, each with a distinctive, clearly defined geographic and investment focus.It was headquartered inAthens, Attiki in 1991 and has offices in Sofia, Bucharest, and Belgrade.

Investment focus

Email, Linux, Software
Series A, Funding Round
Romania, Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Axigen — Axigen is an integrated email, calendaring and collaboration platform, masterfully built on our unique Linux mail server technology, for increased speed and security. The Axigen messaging platform is available in three solutions, all tailored to customer needs: - Axigen Business MessagingThe full benefits of email communication &collaboration, integrated in a smart & secure solution based on a powerful mail server for business. - Axigen Service Providers MessagingMulti-tenant messaging for SPs looking to host hundreds to millions of business-level email users, based on a powerful mail server for ISP.- Axigen Free Mail ServerThe Axigen Free Mail Server is a great alternative to open source: it is a turnkey messaging solution with an amazing number of free email users. Currently, AXIGEN is distributed internationally by over 200 partners from 100 countries and manages email traffic for more than 11,000 companies with 6 million end-users.
Eurolns Insurance Group — Euroins Insurance Group (EIG) is one of the independent groups operating in the Central and SEE insurance markets. The company is focused in providing a full range of insurance products in the areas of general, health and life insurance.

Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Suiso — Suiso is developing a breakthrough microwave-driven pyrolysis process which generates Hydrogen by decarbonising Natural/Bio Gas. Ventured backed and based in Sheffield UK, Suiso is a winner of the BEIS Low Carbon H2 Supply scheme. It plans to deliver shipping container sized Hydrogen generators, with a capacity to provide of up to 1,000kg ofHydrogen daily. A competitive benchmarking exercise, in the BEIS study, has confirmed that Suiso will have the lowest cost of H2 in a number of key H2 applications and lower Carbon emissions than grid powered electrolysis. By producing Hydrogen at the point of use, Suiso eliminates the expensive distribution costs incurred by large scale centralised H2 producers, one of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of Hydrogen. Suiso’s process reduces CO2 emissions by 97%+ versus steam methane reforming, utilizes 80% less energy than electrolysis and has very low equipment capital costs making it one of the most affordable Hydrogen production technologies. Suiso captures the Carbon in the Natural/Bio-Gas in the form of solid Carbon Black which has significant commercial value in the production of tyres, batteries, inks, other applications.
Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
Invincibles Studio — Invincibles Studio creating high quality, successful soccer management games.

Early stage funding, resources, and mentorship for founders building profit-driven calm businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CodeWP — We've just launched the NEW CodeWP Make WordPress Easy With AI . AI chat and coding tools trained specifically for WordPress creators. Try CodeWP For Free Watch
Featured — Featured connects subject-matter experts with top publishers to increase their exposure and create quality, ready-to-publish Q&A content.
Economize — Economize is a cloud cost optimization software that helps engineering teams analyze, manage and optimize their GCP/AWS cloud infrastructure spend.

SaaS Lab is a vehicle dedicated to manage assets for the long term by sharing knowledge via a large network of entrepreneurs & experts.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Funding Round, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Evina — Pioneering MNOs, merchants and payment gateways all over the world use Evina to fend off fraud and conquer new markets.
Quable — Drive your Product Data and Accelerate your Sales with Quable. Discover the new PIM & DAM platform that revolutionizes the product experience
Julie Desk — AI Based personal assistant.

FlyCap AIF is a Venture Capital Fund of total size of 15.75 MEUR. The Fund provides growth capital for Latvia based SME’s in a form of investments in equity and mezzanine capital.

Investment focus

Health Care, Consumer Goods, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
Latvia, Estonia, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Tapcore — Tapcore is the only solution on the market that enables mobile developers to monetize pirated copies of their apps through advertising. Established in 2015, we are a remote company with headquarters in the Netherlands. Currently we serve over 150 million ad requests daily (and counting!).
Purified — Purified is a nutritional supplement supplier.. It offers black chocolate produced by the best doctors in collaboration with scientists.
Elmo — In our car sharing business Elmo Rent we wanted to serve maximum customers with minimum resources, so we created remote control technology to deliver vehicles.

Nordic Venture Partners (Sweden) is a venture capital firm with a portfolio of investments in the Information and Communications Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Sweden, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bitbar — Bitbar is a technology and service company that offers mobile app and game developers with automated software build and test environments. Its portfolio of products includes Testdroid Cloud: an online service for testing applications on real Android and iOS devices; Testdroid Enterprise: an in-house software solution for managing all aspects ofautomated testing on multiple real Android and iOS devices simultaneously; Testdroid PrivateCloud: a cloud-based Devices-as-a-Service that enables companies to access pre-selected real Android and iOS devices for app development and testing; and Testdroid Recorder: a tool for recording user actions, generating reusable Android JUnit test cases, and running them in Testdroid Cloud. Its portfolio of resources includes research papers, eBooks, webinars, slides, and videos.Bitbar has customers from various industries such as gaming, utilities, technology, e-commerce, mobile and communications, social media, and lifestyle. Facebook, Rovio, Avast, Google, Mozilla, eBay, PayPal, Deutsche Telekom, Skype, Flipboard, and Pinterest are some of its customers.Bitbar is operated from Helsinki, Finland.
ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
Pear Sports — We build hyper-personalized adaptive digital coaching software products and solutions to help people move smarter, get healthier, and live happier.

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