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Top 40 Franchise Startup Investors in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 40 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Franchise startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Franchise companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Franchise Startup Investors in Europe

Investor	Franchise Europe investments
Business Finland	5
Cecily Drucker	2
Fuel Ventures	2
Dirk Schneider	2
Hans Limmer	2
EchoVC Partners	2
Pembroke VCT	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
kopa ventures	2
Innovestor	2
Digital Future	2
HOWZAT Partners	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Vendep Capital	2
Alchimia Investments	2
Euroventures	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
DAAL	1
Kima Ventures	1
Flyer One Ventures	1
GC Angels	1
Nick Bilogorskiy	1
HMB Finance Group	1
Firstminute Capital	1
Volta Circle	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
SBI Investment	1
Spring Capital	1
Sebastien Breteau	1
Auxxo	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Horacio Broggi	1
Marton Szoke	1
LDC	1
Food Retail Ventures	1
Alfabeat	1
Tencent	1
Burda Principal Investments	1
Sampo Parkkinen	1

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

Portfolio highlights

Teamspective — Teamspective's SaaS solution helps companies create culture of performance and wellbeing in their organization through - Actionable and real-time visibility to employee wellbeing and effectiveness of teams' collaboration - Replacing heavy 360 feedbacks with timely collection of high quality feedback that activates personal development -Modernizing performance evaluations with a process that takes only minutes per employee and eliminates rater bias - Understanding organization's dynamics through ONA surveys that are 10x faster and cheaper than consulting-driven versionsTeamspective's customers have 2x higher amount of employees satisfied with the feedback they receive.
Supersight — 100% privacy preserving mobile app for people counting, revolutionising real world business process automation. A Finnish high-tech product is most efficient method on the market for counting the number of people in a space with our AI technology, ensuring complete privacy and a productive environment for all. Customers in Finland and France.
Linio Biotech Ltd — Science by nature, Inspired by biology, driven by curiosity. We redefine skin regeneration.

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.

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Eilla AI — AI Platform to Power the M&A, VC and PE Deal Workflow.
iCustoms — ClearCustoms use AI & ML to reduce 200m new annual customs declarations time
Think Cyber Security — Think Cyber Security was founded at the end of 2016 by Dr Mike Butler and Tim Ward, the ex-global heads of Information Security and Information Services respectively, from the cyber arm of BAE Systems (previously Detica). Their mission, to deliver pragmatic, user-oriented, solutions providing measurable security risk reduction.Despite a $1bnsecurity awareness market (predicted to grow to $10bn by 2027), 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with the human user. In a context where technical controls can never promise to be 100% and cyber risks involve people as much as computers, ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their RedFlags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory in a highly innovative approach, to provide context-sensitive just-in-time guidance – delivering secure behavioural change for their customers.

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.

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
Snowstorm — Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.
Senga Technologies — Welcome to Senga, custom-built, with love, for businesses shipping in Africa.

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

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.
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.
Cydar Medical — Advancing the Quality of Care. Cydar Medical provides regulated cloud-based AI clinical applications within an enterprise data architecture to support healthcare organizations in the provision of improved outcomes in image-guided surgery.

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, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
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.

kopa is a venture capital investment firm. kopa ventures, formerly Wi Venture, is a leading early-stage impact investment firm focusing on Europe's most innovative climate tech startups in the areas of Energy, Mobility, and Nature & Carbon Tech. Since its inception in 2017, Wi Venture has successfully invested in over 25 incubations andstartups, resulting in numerous exits, an IPO, and more achievements on the horizon.As an early-stage investor, we prioritize the impact potential of startups during our investment decision-making process. Our mission is to support and empower these groundbreaking startups as they develop cutting-edge solutions to foster a climate-positive economy.

Investment focus

Energy Management, Solar, Energy
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Daato — One platform for all your key ESG reporting frameworks. Simple, efficient, and compliant.
E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Capalo AI — We maximize the value of your energy storage systems. Now and in the future.
Kausal — Kausal helps cities turn their climate goals into action through a digital platform that enables smarter collaboration around key data.
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.

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 A
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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.
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.
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.

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 —

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.

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, Artificial Intelligence
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

Budapest-based Euroventures is one of the longest-established and leading independent private equity and venture capital firms in Central Europe, with a proven ability to achieve international exits over two decades in a fast-changing environment. It has advised or is advising five investment programmes totalling over €180m since 1989, with a focuson funding INNOVATION and GROWTH in Hungary and Central Europe. The investors in Euroventures funds have been international institutional Investors. Euroventures' nearly 50 current and former portfolio companies illustrate the commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the regional and global economy. Its professional team members have many decades of private equity / venture capital experience between them. Recent investments have targeted growing businesses with innovative technologies in the fields of medtech, big data, security, and IoT among others. Euroventures has had an outstanding track record in supporting its portfolio companies entering global markets. As a result, it has delivered highly successful exits, including IPOs (Vienna, NASDAQ, NYSE) and several dozens of trade sales to international corporations. Euroventures is a founding member of the Hungarian Venture Capital Association and complies with the conduct, governing principles and valuation/reporting guidelines of Invest Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Hungary, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo Loyalty Cloud is the most powerful loyalty program technology on the market. Our scalable, pure-play tech integrates easily thanks to robust APIs.
Daytrip — Get to your next destination. Discover beautiful places that would otherwise remain hidden.
Prefixbox — Prefixbox makes eCommerce search easy. Easy to integrate search modules increase conversion rates and online revenue within weeks.

Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Machine Learning
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
South Korea, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
illustria — Illuminating blind spots and minimizing the exposed surface area to mitigate potential malicious activities

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.

The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Keyring Network — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.
Composable Prompts — Composable Prompts helps enterprises deploy LLM technology, with governance, collaboration, orchestration, and a unique virtualization engine.

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, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

Competera — Optimal prices that boost your customer trust
ForActive — ForActive The Best App for Sport & Wellness Service Providers
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them

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

HACE — HACE's Child Labour Index is an AI-powered specialised ESG rating, scoring companies and portfolios in relation to three performance indicators in the specific area of child labour. The Child Labour Index scores are the only quantitative metric available on the market to report on child labour in re
Vector Homes — Vector Homes
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.

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
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — Create and send email campaigns on auto-pilot. Move prospects down the funnel faster with the help of AI. Build-up your pipeline in days with AiSDR. Reduce costs by 90%.
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.

The HMB Finance Group provides financial solutions for every stage of your financial journey.

Investment focus

FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

The UK Adviser Group / AdviserTech® — At The UK Adviser, our advisers deal with lenders on a day-to-day basis. Their experience means they can offer more than just mortgages

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

Layla — Find, plan & book your next trip in seconds using AI. Layla will give you personalized ideas for where to go, help you plan an itinerary & book hotels & flights.
Risk Ledger — Risk Ledger ensures your supply chain security by providing tools to run and respond to cyber security-led, third-party risk management programmes at scale.
Arcane Intelligence — The AI Copilot for modern Marketers. Arcane accelerates and automates mundane tasks. Join the waitlist today.

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, Biotechnology, Fashion
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

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
Glowb — Looking for trusted solar panel installers and solar battery installers in Central England? We 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.

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, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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!
Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.

SBI Investment supports the business development and growth of private venture companies through fund investment. It manages and manages venture capital funds under the management philosophy of becoming a leading company responsible for the creation and development of core industries in the 21st century as a "new industry creator".SBIInvestment has invested in a total of 986 companies in the past, of which 169 (17.1% of investment companies) have exited through IPO or M & A.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
TopoLogic — TopoLogic designs and manufactures heat flow sensors, thermoelectric conversion devices, and topological and novel spintronics materials.
OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.

Investments in exceptional teams in the Baltics & Nordics.Our two main focuses include: 1. Startups with a technological edge. Seed stage. Our check size is from €50K up to €200K. With a vast experience in startup building, we typically get hands-on with our advice and help the founders achieve operational excellence. 2. Innovators oftraditional sectors. SMEs with a proven track and strong market position. Clear plans to accelerate the growth. Our investment ticket can be from €300K to €700K to support these aspirations. If you think we have a match, reach out through invest@springcapital.ee.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
FoodDocs — Globally trusted Food Safety Management System to get and stay compliant. #1 Food Safety software for production, food service, and retail.
Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.

Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong.Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network.QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data.In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program.Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.

Investment focus

Apps, Biotechnology, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Asana — Work anytime, anywhere with Asana. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on their goals, projects, and tasks with Asana.
Marqeta — Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com.
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

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, Service Industry
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Filu — Tierversorgung, wann und wie immer du es brauchst. In der Praxis, Zuhause und unterwegs.
FINDIQ — FINDIQ is a young company based in the heart of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe industrial zone. We have developed a novel strategy as a software producer to intelligently integrate knowledge management and help solutions for machine service. FINDIQ develops its service solution with the industry, whether for machine makers, operators, or service providers.
DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, B2B, Mobile
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.
Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
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.

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.

An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, EdTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Omixon — Omixon is a biotechnology company that specializes in high-resolution HLA genotyping.
Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming

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, Manufacturing, Information Technology
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.
Message Direct Limited — Message Direct is the longest established and highest rated UK call answering service. Our reputation for quality has been forged over the past 27 years serving thousands of businesses.

Venture capital Retail technology Food technology Early stage investment Retail startups

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FoodMaven — FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and theenvironment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs.
Veeve — Shopper engagement platform for the physical store
Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.

Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.

Investment focus

Software, Marketing, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Poland, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

SunRoof — Roof of the future
Monetizr — Engage with niche Gen Z and Millennial audiences through the fastest-growing mobile in-game advertising platform. Easy to set up and scale for all brands!
Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.

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

Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Sinovent — Founded in 2016, Sinovent is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on innovation. Sinovent is centered around global standard excellence through its advanced biotechnology platform, decades of management experience, as well as financial support. Sinovent uniquely combines its expertise in science, management and finance, to develop and promoteadvanced treatment methods to solve worldwide healthcare problems. Currently, the company has 12 products in development, primarily in oncology, auto-immune diseases, and infectious diseases.
Pocket FM — Listen to Audio Books, Podcasts and read Novels on Pocket FM. We bring you over 10k+ popular audio shows in multi languages. Best audiobooks app

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare

Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
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.

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