Top 50 Franchise Startup Investors

Investor	Franchise investments
Business Finland	5
EchoVC Partners	2
IDEA Fund Partners	2
TechOperators	2
Vendep Capital	2
Innovestor	2
HOWZAT Partners	2
Pembroke VCT	2
Cecily Drucker	2
Alerion Ventures	2
Fuel Ventures	2
Digital Future	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Alchimia Investments	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Chicago Ventures	1
Alex Jankelevich	1
Volta Circle	1
Firstminute Capital	1
Loyal VC	1
Telescope Investment	1
French Partners	1
SBI Investment	1
Invest Nebraska	1
Bolt Ventures	1
Tribeca Venture Partners	1
GSA Venture Partners	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
Sean Fannan	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Hans Limmer	1
Dirk Schneider	1
Chile Ventures	1
Paul Melin	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
Rentracks	1
Horacio Broggi	1
Plus Venture Capital	1
Wi Venture	1
Tencent	1
GC Angels	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
PEX International	1
United Seven Hills Venture Partners	1
BIP Capital	1
Auxxo	1
XTX Ventures	1
Nick Bilogorskiy	1
LDC	1
My Petroleum	1

Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Valosan — Scale your international PR into any local market. With Valosan, you connect with PR specialists in local markets and pitch your story to real journalists
Fixably — Fixably is the repair management solution to seamlessly connect all users, from the end customer to the technician, and all repair systems within your service business.
Vensum Power — Revolutionizing power conversion. More power in same package, less energy waste and low maintenance.

EchoVC Partners is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on financing and cross-pollinating leading technologies, teams, business models, and knowledge across North America, Africa, and SE Asia. The average investment size ranges from $25,000 to several million dollars depending on the stage of opportunity and capital needs of thebusiness.

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Snowstorm — Snowflake is decentralized and is deployed as a pluggable transport for Tor.
Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

As one of the oldest and most active early-stage investment firms in the Southeast, our investment philosophy has been honed from years of experience. We fund entrepreneurs who are applying technology and business model innovations to industries in the earliest stages of digital disruption with an emphasis on underserved people, places and stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

RightRev — Simplify and streamline your accounting process with RightRev's automated revenue recognition software. Get in touch with us to know more.
Revcast — A modern approach to sales capacity planning. Drive revenue predictability, improve business agility, and uncover risk earlier.
Bionic Health — Bionic Health provides preventative health services. Bionic Health designs an iterative journey that allows us to understand your unique needs and make the changes that will have the biggest impact over time.

TechOperators is a venture capital firm which focuses on solutions in software, internet, cloud computing, security, and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Security
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States

Portfolio highlights

SafeGuard Privacy — SafeGuard Privacy automates the assessment of compliance with privacy laws to help reduce risk, save costs, and increase efficiency.
Phylum — Phylum identifies software supply chain security risks across five domains using deductive analysis that is integrated into every stage of your build.
Todyl — Todyl's Secure Global Network was built with security baked in, not bolted on, helping channel partners address some of the toughest challenges facing businesses today. Todyl consolidates multiple security products, features integrated SIEM and GRC, reduce the attack surface area and leverages our patent-pending ZeroTrust technology to stopthreats like ransomware and Fileless Malware from spreading. With Todyl, partners can deliver world-class, cost-effective security programs to businesses of any size.

B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
Happeo — This intranet keeps your teams informed, aligned, and productive with a template-based page builder, integrations, and universal search across all company tools.
My Telescope — My Telescope is the Share of Search analytics tool marketers use to track campaigns and build data-driven branding strategies.

Welcome to Innovestor! We are a Finnish investment company focusing on venture capital, corporate venturing services, and real estate.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
HVR Cardio — HVR Cardio Transformative Mitral Valve Repair Solutions The Future of Mitral Valve Repair Our mission is to develop solutions for mitral valve interventions that are faster, easier to use, and less invasive without compromising clinical efficacy. About HVR Cardio Utilization of new technologies and less...
SynergyXR — SynergyXR is a no-code, cloud platform that lets companies design, onboard, sell, and support across all XR devices without writing a single line of code

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.

Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.

Investment focus

Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cydar Medical — Cydar's Intelligent Maps platform advances surgical visualisation & decision-making to improve care
Pembroke VCT — Pembroke VCT PLC is a venture capital trust specializing in investments in any stage of business development. Their focus is on companies in the health and fitness, hospitality, apparel, and accessories, and media and technology sectors.
Ro&Zo — Your go to brand for the latest fashion pieces for the eco-conscious woman. Shop statement dresses & tops in versatile silhouettes. #roandzowomen. Shop now.

Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.

Alerion Ventures is an evergreen venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in scalable startups. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Alerion prefers to partner with entrepreneurs in the Southeast.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Stellar — Make money as a tradesperson with Stellar Get consistent work, fast payments, and flexible scheduling. APPLY FOR WORK Discover hassle-free property maintenance Partner with Stellar to maintain your SFRs at scale. REQUEST A CALL Make money as a tradesperson with
biospatial — biospatial's EMS data platform combines ePCR from EMS providers to support the missions of public sector and commercial healthcare entities.
RepVue — RepVue has the largest set of sales specific company ratings, sales jobs, sales compensation and salary benchmarking data, and other sales specific insights.

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, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
ChipFlow — ChipFlow is an open-source semiconductor chip design platform.

Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Advertising
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

OneNotary — Looking for a reliable and convenient online notary service? OneNotary platform offers fully legal and secure notarization services in all 50 states.
Moodmate — I will help you learn more about mental health and self-care, fight stress and stay optimistic no matter what
Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.
Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.

Alchimia is an investment company primarily operating in the Venture Capital Sector. Leveraging the expertise of our team and a wide network of international advisors, we invest and co-invest in high growth potential opportunities offering capital, as well as dedicated strategic and operational resources.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
Prestatech — Prestatech is a digital credit factory that has developed an innovative underwriting platform for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Currently active with major European banks, Prestatech offers them a variety of digital credit services from data enrichment to end-to-end instant lending solutions. Thanks to technological innovation,Prestatech has gained an extensive expertise in the digital credit space and through its open-platform is currently offering API-based solutions that leverage on AI, advanced algorithms and Big Data technologies.
Chiara Ferragni — COM Chiara Ferragni

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
Cuutio Software —

Chicago Ventures leads seed investments in overlooked teams.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Leverage — Answering the Fundamental Question: "Where
CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
GoodShip — How shippers and carriers digitally procure, measure, and optimize contract business more easily and accurately than ever before.

Alex Jankelevich is the Co-Founder & Ceo of Hunger Brands. He attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — At Hunger, we are experts in building strong food brands, maximizing commercial kitchen space efficiency, and optimizing productivity to increase food sales and profit. Backup by a strong team of professionals and through our knowledge and experience, we offer our partners a no-risk solution to enhance kitchen output, whilst developing an exciting,on-trend, multi-brand delivery opportunity for pubs, bars, and restaurants in a time where delivery, consumptions habits and the efficient use of spaces is every day more important.

Volta Circle is a global investment firm focused on building a resilient future. The firm invests in breakthrough technologies and visionary brands across the field of Circular Consumption, Regenerative Systems and Human Wellbeing – creating abundance without waste, driving planet-positive development and helping people thrive. Their portfoliocompanies include Perfect Day, DayTwo, Vestiaire Collective and Cervest, among others. As a platform built by and for entrepreneurs, Volta Circle serves as a long-term partner – providing the patient capital, strategic support, and global network to build profitable, sustainable industry leaders. The team is based between Geneva, Milan, London, Singapore, and Bangkok.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Fashion, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glowb — Looking for a trusted solar panel installer in Central England? Our accredited installers can help homeowners transition to solar energy.
Clarity Movement — Clarity Movement is a team of passionate engineers and scientists focused on making a positive impact in the world by tackling the global air pollution crisis. They leverage their expertise in air sensing technology, IoT devices, and data analytics to create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve the qualityof life. Having successfully developed the world’s most accurate low-cost particulate matter sensor, Clarity is now deploying the next generation of dense air quality monitoring networks around the world to build smarter cities through smarter data.
Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 120 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
Roadie — Easier, scalable and zero-maintenance. With security, scorecards and customizability built-in.
Axis — axis for Business enables small businesses to seamlessly manage employee payroll, salary advances, and expenses - all from one place.

Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
InSyBio — A disruptor to Precision Medicine and Nutrition through biomarker discovery.
ZestIOT — ZestIOT is an IoT & AI enabled aviation platform to integrate passenger, baggage, aircraft, ground & airport operations.

Telescope Investment is a private equity fund focusing on VC/PE investment projects in Chinese market. The office is located in Beijing. The founding team created its unique investment system out of their profound experience in consumer industry and advanced investment philosophy. Telescope Investment mainly focus on those top enterpriseswith high brand value in consumer goods, chain service, education, medical&health and culture industry. The investment stage covers both early stage and maturity stage and the investment scale varies from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars according to the specific circumstances of the projects.The investment team is composed of intelligent investment professionals with remarkable management ability and profound financial practical experience. As an emerging force in Chinese capital market, Telescope Investment spares no efforts to help Chinese enterprises achieve success with its advantages on intelligence, social resources and capital operation.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Online Portals
Series A, Angel, Seed
China, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Starwhale — Starwhale is an MLOps platform to manage machine learning projects, models and datasets.
Sucheon — Sucheon is an artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise that focuses on machine noise recognition and non-contact production process monitoring and equipment failure prediction.The main solution for the company's product machine auscultation master is to collect machine noise from the SC Box, which is placed in an industrial environment, toextract sound feature values, and to use machine learning to identify the real-time operating status of industrial equipment and the various components. Health indicators .
Beacon Education — Beacon Education their marketing, recruitment, support, and analytics technology services platform is a single-point solution for outstanding teaching and learning.

French Partners is the first co-investment club dedicated to qualified investors wishing to accompany and finance companies led locally by French entrepreneurs. French Partners targets start-ups and growing SMEs with revenues of up to several tens of millions of euros, who already have or wish to accelerate their international presence, as well asinnovative investment funds. French Partners invests from €1 million to €5 million, often on a minority basis, alone or in co-investment, in the capital of companies founded and managed by french entrepreneurs internationally.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Payments
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, China

Portfolio highlights

Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
GAIA — GAIA is a furniture eCommerce platform for the sale of home products and design accessories. It offers a range of products such as sofas, chairs, drawers, dressers, tables, desks, rugs, and textiles that let consumers purchase home furnishing products at affordable prices.
Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
Japan, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
Vark — ActEvolve develops Blitz Freak, a multi virtual reality game. It began operation in 2017, with its headquarters in Tokyo in Japan.

Invest Nebraska builds a better future for our state by providing financial and operational assistance to high growth companies, advancing the entrepreneurial economy, and attracting out-of-state capital to Nebraska.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Tiiga — Tiiga offers a powdered beverage mix that promotes a healthy microbiome and improved overall health. Tiiga's plant-based products are made from the Baobab fruit. Consumers add Tiiga’s natural hydration enhancer to water for a performance sports beverage.
EIO Diagnostics — EIO Diagnostics’ udder health technology transforms the way that farmers monitor and detect mastitis by automating the screening process. We use infrared image analysis and computer vision to help farmers improve livestock health. By installing a single sensor at the entry of the rotary, we are able to assess the udder of every cow at everymilking. We offer an affordable, scalable SaaS solution without touching animals or the milk.
Sentinel Fertigation — Sentinel Fertigation fertigation's N-Time FMS platform turns multispectral aerial imagery of crops into fertigation recommendations that boost nitrogen use efficiency, helping operations save money on fertilizer costs and eliminating excessive fertilizer applications.

Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, Retail
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Chile, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Sportlight Technology — Sportlight Technologies offers hyper-accurate LiDAR and AI technologies deliver unrivalled insights in the areas of load management, performance monitoring, talent development, technical and tactical analysis for teams.
Just Women's Sports — Visit JWS for women's sports news coverage, scores, schedules, stats, and standings for NWSL, WNBA, WTA, NCAA Basketball, and more.
Gametime — Gametime sells last-minute tickets to the most popular events in sports, music, and theater. It makes finding the perfect live experience remarkably fast and easy. They curate an epic list of the most amazing possibilities in the city has to offer. Once the client selects their event it will examine over 10,000 potential seats and present them withthe 50 best values to select.Each curated seat option includes a panoramic high-resolution photo so their client can experience the actual view from their section. Navigate to the seat map to see price versus the location comparisons with true-to-life, full-color venue maps. Gametime delivers the tickets directly to the client's phone. Now they are offering sports, concerts, and theater events across the United States and Canada.

TVP is a venture capital firm that invests in digital media, e-commerce, fintech, education, ad tech, and mobile apps sectors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
Mount — Mount's software makes offering upsells at your Airbnb easy. Offer your guests bikes, scooters, a golf cart or even a kayak to rent.
Gather AI — The world's first software-only autonomous inventory management platform for modern warehouses./.

Get set up with a new domain name right away. Affordable payment plans to fit any budget. Friendly customer support.

Investment focus

Finance, Financial Services, Credit
Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Crowdtap — Crowdtap harnesses collective insights from millions of consumers worldwide to deliver real-time intelligence. It was founded in 2009 and is based in New York.
RealDirect — RealDirect is a next-generation real estate technology company and brokerage that uses the power of the web to help people buy and sell real estate better. Founded in 2010 by Doug Perlson, a real estate lawyer and online technology industry veteran, RealDirect features services for both sellers and buyers of New York City real estate. RealDirectfor Sellers is the first web-based, data-driven marketing platform for homeowners to maximize their net proceeds in the sale of their home. Whether buyers want to work with an agent or on their own, RealDirect for Buyers helps clients accurately assess their living needs and recommends the right properties based on this analysis. RealDirect is located in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.
Lendio — Lendio is the free, easy way to see all your loan options and find the best rate. We make small business loans simple. Get funded in as little as 24 hours.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Education
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Awesomic — Get matched with the best-fit designer on a fixed budget with no stress. Place a design task and see the first results on the next business day. Start today!
Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.

Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employeesat Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.
HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!

Hans Limmer

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

Dirk Schneider is Co-Founder at BackWerk.

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

Admiramos a los fundadores

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Chile, United States, Colombia

Portfolio highlights

Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
Nutrix — The future of glucose monitoring
Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.

Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Estonia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
Warren.io — Warren platform equips partnering providers with a white labelled self-service portal for easy access to infrastructure and managed services.

Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Peech — text to speech
Cooper Pet Care — Cooper Pet Care - Compare and buy the best pet insurance at lowest price. Give your pet the protection they need.
99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.

Rentracks provide suitable information and convenience for people, making full use of the internet. They aim at the maximum growth of sales of their clients by leveraging the Internet.In addition, they propose not only just to increase sales but to increase the ability to attract customers, improve the efficiency of systems, and reduce costs.Itis founded in 2005 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketing, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Japan, Vietnam, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.
Hiip — Hiip has helped +1,000 brands collaborate with +20,000 vetted influencers across Southeast Asia via our offices in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines and Singapore

Horacio Broggi

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — At Hunger, we are experts in building strong food brands, maximizing commercial kitchen space efficiency, and optimizing productivity to increase food sales and profit. Backup by a strong team of professionals and through our knowledge and experience, we offer our partners a no-risk solution to enhance kitchen output, whilst developing an exciting,on-trend, multi-brand delivery opportunity for pubs, bars, and restaurants in a time where delivery, consumptions habits and the efficient use of spaces is every day more important.

Plus VC is regulated by ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority for the provision of Managing a Collective Investment Fund.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
Egypt, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Wellx — Turn your health into currency. At Wellx, we're focused on making you healthier. Insurance helps us make it happen.
Growdash — Growdash is a business intelligence and analytics tool built specifically for restaurants to support profitable growth strategic decisions across online sales channels.
Agel — Agel aim at reshaping the traditional financial services business model, operational model and customer experience to unlock a unique finance avenue for (“MSMEs”), with a core preposition of availing industry-agnostic merchandise credit limit for Merchants within Agel network in a manner that is Digital, Cashless and Sharia compliant, aligning withthe UN Global (“SDG”) goals, and Egypt’s 2030 plan towards financial inclusion and sustainability.our goals are: - Empowering MSMEs growth, - Accelerating Financial Inclusion, - Eradicating Informal Economy, - Raising Financial literacy

Wi Venture is an early stage Climate-Tech VC Fund initiated by Matthias Willenbacher.

Investment focus

Energy Management, Solar, Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Green Fusion — Green Fusion is developing a cloud-based energy manager for the intelligent control of heat, electricity, and e-mobility. The focus here is on hybrid heating systems in buildings such as heat pumps + gas boilers and the coupling to photovoltaic systems and electric vehicle charging stations.
Carbonfuture — At Carbonfuture, we build trust throughout the carbon removal journey with our rigorous, data-driven approach, ensuring unmatched quality and reliability of carbon removal.
Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.

Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Series B, Series A, Series C
China, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.
Lighthouse Games — Lighthouse works at the bleeding edge of video game development, and our studio attracts and nurtures the best talent in the industry.

The Growth Company’s two Angel services, Co-Angel Investment Service and North West Business Angels have recently merged creating a more cohesive offer, enabling increased access to early stage equity funding. The service now known as GC Angels, supports businesses seeking access to angel investment, ranging from £25,000 up to £2m. Developed by GCas the next evolution of its successful Co Angel Investment Service, GC Angels forms part of the GM Combined Authority's response to supporting the early stage investment market, and integrates with the range of wider GC business finance and business support services. It will incorporate the network offer (NWBA); the fee-bearing advisory service (Co Angel) alongside the new GM Co-Investment Fund, providing an innovative, single solution equity funding service.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Simplifai Systems — Simplifai Systems is a provider of a traffic management system that uses artificial intelligence so that it can achieve a number of goals beyond simple congestion control. The company's product generates real-time traffic control strategies that solve complex issues, such as major events, pollution, traffic incidents, and unexpectedcongestion. It exerts real-time control of city-wide traffic management systems such as traffic signals, to achieve a wide variety of citizen-focused and coordinated goals.Simplifai Systems was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Huddersfield, England.
Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.
Your FLOCK — Your FLOCK helps teams stay together longer by increasing employees engagement by asking the right questions based on a team member's values.

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Advertising
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

PEX International is a payment service provider in the region and beyond by providing tailor-made solutions.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.

United Seven Hills Venture Partners is an investment advisory firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.

BIP Ventures connects ambitious founders with bold investors to build innovation and wealth. Get to know us and join the innovation economy.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

ConnexPay — ConnexPay is a payments gateway that connects payment acceptance & issuance for marketplace and intermediary companies. Discover a better way to pay!
OncoLens — OncoLens develops technologies that improve cancer treatment planning, simplify tumor board management, facilitate survivorship care planning, and automate accreditation and quality reporting through an intelligent workflow engine that streamlines business processes and enables more informed clinical decision-making.
Kobiton — Kobiton is a mobile device testing platform that accelerates mobile testing and delivery of mobile applications by offering a wide array of testing services.

The Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund is a sector agnostic pre-seed and seed stage investors that backs female (co-)founded startups in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Fermify — We are here to domesticate microorganisms and build simple and fully automated production platform to address the issue of large-scale milk protein production
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.

XTX Ventures is the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. XTX Markets is a leading, innovation-driven algorithmic trading firm.XTX Ventures focuses on early stage startups (Seed to Series A) applying machine learning and leverages XTX Markets’ deep expertise in ML and financial technology to help grow and enhance those businesses. We are geographyand industry agnostic.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
Tallarium — Tallarium uses AI to provide enterprise data solutions and to enable the largest global traders making more informed trading decisions.

Nick Bilogorskiy is a founding team member at Cyphort, a next-generation anti-malware startup, and is currently leading security research there. He came to Cyphort from Facebook where he was the chief malware expert and a security spokesperson for the company, keeping 1 billion active users safe and secure.His Facebook focus was on annihilatingbotnets that targeted Facebook (e.g., Koobface) by developing countermeasures, remediating victims and working with law enforcement agencies on bad actor attribution and enforcement. Prior to joining Facebook, Nick managed virus research teams at SonicWALL and Fortinet.Nick is skilled in reverse engineering, analysis, writing patterns and tracking malware, frequently quoted in the media. He presented and published research papers at major security conferences. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computing science and philosophy from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and a GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) certification. He holds several patents in computer security.Nick has been an angel investor since 2012, investing into 2-3 seed stage companies per year, focusing on cybersecurity, AI and IOT. He invested in Petcube, Cymmetria and Uber, among others.Nick Bilogorskiy is also the founder and a Director of the largest Ukrainian charity in California, Nova Ukraine, helping Ukraine by fighting corruption, providing humanitarian aid, and increasing awareness about Ukrainian culture in the US.

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Narrative BI — Narrative BI is an augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically generates data insights in natural language.
PromoRepublic — We created a set of smart products that helps enterprises, marketing agencies, and SMBs grow brand awareness and sales at the local level. We’re recognized as a Top-10 fast-growing SaaS Company, High Performer Summer 2020 by G2, and featured in prominent publications like TechCrunch and TNW.
People.ai — Uncover the Fastest Path to Revenue

For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams. We invest in a diverse range of businesses across every region and sector of the UK economy.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Sedex — At Sedex, it is our goal to help businesses consistently improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) results by providing data-driven insight, tools, and services.
UniHomes — UniHomes showcase the best all-inclusive student homes across the UK. View & compare student accommodation with bills included.
Star Live — From world tours, brand activations and record-breaking feats of engineering to complex turnkey solutions for major sporting, entertainment and cultural events, Star Live makes it happen.

My Petroleum is an emerging Oil Marketing Company by has experienced Oil & Gas sector entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed
Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

MyTM — MYTM is a fintech company and provides mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services.