# Top 50 Email Startup Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Hexa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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

## Winton Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

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

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Luminar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Luminar is one of the most active seed investors in the Nordics, providing experienced seed financing and active operational support.

## Fraser
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

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

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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

## Santiago Izaguirre
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Email, Consumer Goods, Cyber Security

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

## Tim Jackson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

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

## Walking Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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.

## Partech
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

## Amadeus Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## WestTech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

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.

## Ahmed Mhiri
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit.
An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad.
In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move.
As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses.
Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.

## Bling Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Bling Capital is an early stage venture fund that helps entrepreneurs find product / market fit.

## Boost Heroes
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

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

## Priit Kasesalu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Email

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.

## HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.

## MMC Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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

## Crane Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Crane is a London based VC firm investing and building seed and early stage intelligent enterprise and deep technology businesses across Europe. Our strategy is to support founders in building and executing their go-to-market strategy.

## White Star Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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

## NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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.

## Alven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

## Acurio Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Acurio Ventures partners with visionary founders to make history happen.

Acurio Ventures is a European early-stage VC that invests across sectors and business models and that relies on its entrepreneurial DNA, flexible approach and proven value add to partner with the best founders out there.

## SIDE Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## Gecad Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Payments, Information Technology

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

## Oxford Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile

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

## Bertrand Jacquelot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage

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

## Fredrik Olsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Email, Sales Automation, Artificial Intelligence

Fredrik Olsson - Head of Data Science & Product strategist @ Gavagai

## Oxford Technology Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

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.

## David King
- Type: Angel
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Mobile, Blockchain

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

## Hedgewood
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Hedgewood is an investment firm active in venture capital, internet businesses, real estate, specialty finance, asset management, and private equity.

## Merseyside Special Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

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.

## Entrepreneur Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Marketing

Entrepreneur Venture is a private equity firm based in Paris, France. The firm seeks to invest in the retail, SaaS, and e-commerce sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe.

## Nidhi Surana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Email, Mobile

Nidhi Surana

## Bill Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Gvangels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

GVAngels is a network of angel investors founded by former students of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Brasil in 2017. The GVAngels network invests in technology startups that aim to solve inefficiencies in large markets.In these 4 years of operation, investments have already been made in 40 startups and checks have averaged from R$800,000 to R$2million. We currently have more than 300 associates with a personal interest in investing in startups and adding knowledge with their expertise and experience through smart money to our investees.GVAngels has its roots in the School of Business Administration at FGV, where most of the associated angel investors graduated. For 11 consecutive years, the university has been considered the best think tank in Latin America and has been ranked among the best institutions in the world since 2004.

## Mumbai Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage

Mumbai Angels is an angle stage investment firm. Mumbai Angels has served as a breeding ground for both plug-in businesses for larger corporations and financial investors seeking incubated businesses ready to scale.

## Andrus Purde
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Public Transportation, Internet

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

## Nimesh Sanghrajka
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Email, Mobile

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

## SaaS Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Software

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

## Butterfly Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.

## Florian Hagenbuch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Mobile Apps

Florian Hagenbuch is the Founder and President of Loft. He previously worked at Silver Lake Partners as an Analyst. Florian Hagenbuch attended The Wharton School.

## Tom James
- Type: Angel
- Location: Abbotsbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Tom James - Advisor @ OneLogin

## Gustaf Alstromer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, B2B

Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning

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.

## Thomas France
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology

Entrepreneur, Investor

## Jinesh Patel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Jinesh Patel

## Cyril Moutran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, TV

Cyril Moutran - Cofounder - Product & Strategy @ feedly