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Top 45 Franchise Startup Investors in Europe (July 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Europe Franchise startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Franchise startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Business Finland
VC Fund
5 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Debt Financing Software, Biotechnology, SaaS $53k–$10M
Pekka Koskinen
Angel
2 Finland Angel, Pre-Seed B2B, SaaS, Content $106k–$424k
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
2 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $550k–$16M
EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
2 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Information Technology, FinTech, Software $200k–$22M
Vendep Capital
VC Fund
2 Finland, United States, Denmark Seed, Series A SaaS, Software, Information Technology $713k–$13M
Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.9M–$16M
HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS $318k–$11M
Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $439k–$7M
Digital Future
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, Ukraine Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Mobile $120k–$2.6M
Cecily Drucker
Angel
2 Finland Seed B2B, SaaS, Content $1.2M–$1.8M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
2 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $320k–$20M
Dirk Schneider
Angel
2 Germany Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Innovestor
VC Fund
2 Finland, Sweden, Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $204k–$4.5M
Alchimia Investments
VC Fund
2 Italy, United Kingdom, Israel Series A, Seed Software, Health Care, Medical $2.2M–$40M
Spring Capital
VC Fund
1 Estonia, Finland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $439k–$8.2M
kopa ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Sustainability $920k–$29M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$30M
Aviram Jenik
Angel
1 United States, South Korea, Israel Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence $74k–$18M
Sampo Parkkinen
Angel
1 Finland Pre-Seed B2B, SaaS, Content
Flyer One Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence $350k–$10M
Sebastien Breteau
Angel
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, EdTech, Software $500k–$150M
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel
1 United States, Denmark, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps $1.8M–$163M
Hans Limmer
Angel
1 Germany Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
DAAL
VC Fund
1 Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $100k–$5M
LDC
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands Private Equity, Secondary Market Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $13M–$65M
Food Retail Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Israel Series A, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$13M
SBI Investment
VC Fund
1 Japan, South Korea, United States Series B, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2M–$227M
Daphni
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $2.9M–$23M
2100 Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.9M–$150M
Alex Jankelevich
Angel
1 Spain Pre-Seed Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Matthias Willenbacher
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Energy Management, SaaS, Energy $10M–$10M
OPRTRS CLUB
VC Fund
1 France, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform $1.6M–$10M
Murat Abdrakhmanov
Angel
1 United States, Kazakhstan, Finland Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A SaaS, B2B, Mobile $235k–$3.4M
CABRA VC
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning $300k–$29M
Auxxo
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, FinTech $1.1M–$14M
Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Retail $5M–$200M
HMB Finance Group
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Angel FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
Alexandre Yazdi
Angel
1 France, Portugal, Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Gaming, Internet $1.1M–$31M
Nick Bilogorskiy
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Israel Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Security $550k–$3M
Volta Circle
VC Fund
1 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Food and Beverage, Fashion, Software $1.1M–$34M
Tencent
VC Fund
1 China, United States, United Kingdom Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence $3.9M–$400M
Euroventures
VC Fund
1 Hungary, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $531k–$11M
Paul Melin
Angel
1 Estonia, Finland Seed B2B, SaaS, Content $1.4M–$1.8M
GC Angels
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Fashion, Health Care $131k–$1.8M
Sonorcap
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom Pre-Seed Software, Franchise, Hospitality
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Business Finland
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in Europe Franchise startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 214
  • Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $53k–$10M; Debt Financing $241k–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Skyfora — Skyfora delivers sub-kilometer insights, nowcasts, and probabilistic forecasts so your teams can plan with confidence, no matter the weather.
  • Rotomate — Turn machine data into clear maintenance decisions, at scale. Rotomate's AI Engineer monitors every asset so your team knows what to act on.
  • Raisio plc — Raisio plc develops, manufactures, and markets foods, functional food ingredients, and animal feeds in Finland, Great Britain, rest of Europe, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Brands and Raisioagro. It offers snacks and cereals products, such as oat flakes, instant porridges, and snack biscuits and drinks under the Elovenabrand name; cereal bars under the Harvest Cheweee brand; sugar puffs under the Honey Monster brand name; flakes and porridges under the Nalle brand; grain-based products under the Nordic brand.
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Pekka Koskinen
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Founder at Leadfeeder

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $106k–$424k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
  • Cuutio Software
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 573
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $587k–$4.2M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora
  • Kalipso — Kalipso automates regulatory compliance for financial institutions across Europe. AI-powered analysis of MiCAR, PSD2, CCD2, DORA & more. Live in 2 weeks.
  • Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.9M; Series A $1.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $8M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
  • S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
  • Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa
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Vendep Capital
VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

We back early-stage B2B SaaS founders in the Nordics & Baltics with capital, expertise, and long-term partnership. See how we invest and support growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $713k–$5.4M; Series A $3.4M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GitHits — GitHits gives AI coding agents access to open-source code
  • 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.
  • Test of Things — Test of Things is to protect customers and society from cyber incidents by making IoT cybersecurity easy and automated. They are building a cloud service that automates security testing so customers can ship secure, compliant products with peace of mind.Their platform integrates security into the development lifecycle, enabling continuous testingthat lowers risks and costs while enhancing reputation.
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 70
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.7M; Series A $3.6M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
  • Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
  • Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 94
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
  • Quoroom — A single intelligent platform to manage capital raising,equity, debt and employee options
  • 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.
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Andreas Mihalovits
Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2.1M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UMNAI — UMNAI's neuro-symbolic AI learns, explains and enforces policy in real time, with built-in governance. Intelligence you can trust. Decisions you can defend.
  • Skarbe — Skarbe has officially wound down operations as of April 2026. Thank you for being part of our story.
  • STAMP — STAMP redefines Tax-Free in Europe. Instant VAT exemption for travelers. More sales, transparency, and control for merchants.
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Digital Future
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $250k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Attendify — Create engaging hybrid & virtual events, mobile apps & event registration to elevate the attendee experience & put your event data to work. Get started for free.
  • LifeTracker
  • Reply.io — Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints with leads and customers throughout the sales process. From email search on LinkedIn to meetings booked right on the platform - Reply saves up to 40% of SDR and Sales teams time to focus on closing deals. Backed with a top-notch AI algorithm, Replyhelps SDRs and sales reps tailor and improve sales messages and focus on the hottest leads faster. Its robust reporting system tracks all activities for team members and automatically logs them to your CRM via native integrations, rich API with 40+ methods, or Zapier.The platform is recognized among the top 50 tools for sales in 2021 by G2 and trusted by over 2500 companies worldwide.Crush your sales quotas and book more meetings with Reply: 1. Reply automates bulk email search, LinkedIn outreach, personal emails, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp messages according to your sales playbook. 2. It offers out-of-the-box email and sequence templates with proven top performance to help you launch your outreach sequence in an hour. 3. Streamline the workflow with native CRM integrations, rich API with 40+ method, and the power of Zapier to automatically sync data and keep CRM records up to date. 4. Reply is backed with AI features: Email Sorting (check the ‘Interested’ folder for the hottest leads to focus on); Email Quality service and Email Assistant to create best-practice email copy which is likely to convert. 5. Collaborate in teams within sequences and prospects, manage workload between team members, and perform account-based selling. 6. Track your team progress with detailed in-depth reports and stats for sequences, calls, tasks, and team performance.Reply use cases: ✓ OUTBOUND SALES - automate outbound outreach to significantly scale sales and empower revenue growth. ✓ INBOUND SALES - engage in communication with potential customers and close more inbound deals. ✓ ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - communicate with existing customers on a personal level. ✓ STAFFING & RECRUITING - reaching out to prospective job candidates. ✓ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - building relations with future partners. ✓ PR & LINK BUILDING - pitching journalists and bloggers with your idea.For more information visit https://reply.io
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Cecily Drucker
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 233
  • Round size: Seed $851k–$4M; Pre-Seed $320k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
  • StudioSpace — The top Agency Marketplace, providing over 100 kinds of digital & marketing services to the world's leading brands. No subscription fees. No lock in contracts.
  • Materials Market — Materials Market seeks to improve efficiency in the building materials supply industry by connecting customers with the most appropriate suppliers to fulfil their needs.
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Dirk Schneider
Angel · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Dirk Schneider is Co-Founder at BackWerk.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.
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Innovestor
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland, Sweden, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $478k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $204k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Jaakko.com — Reinventing the housing market with no agents, more homes, and less fees.
  • Retailgrid — Retailgrid is an AI-powered retail workspace that enables pricing, merchandising, and commercial teams to analyze data, run simulations, and make decisions in real time. Combining a flexible spreadsheet-like interface with AI agents, RetailGrid replaces fragmented tools and manual workflows with a single system for pricing optimization, promotionplanning, and assortment decisions. The platform connects to product, sales, and competitor data, automatically generates insights, and allows teams to test scenarios and deploy decisions at scale. RetailGrid is built for data-driven retailers looking to move faster and operate with the efficiency of top-tier consulting, without the cost or complexity.
  • Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
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Alchimia Investments
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$11M; Series A $4.4M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
  • NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
  • Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.
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Spring Capital
VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Estonia, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $500k–$580k; Series A $7M–$8.2M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.9M in 2018

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.
  • Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
  • Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.
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kopa ventures
VC Fund · Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $920k–$29M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$1.5M; Series A $10M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VREY
  • encosa — encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns.
  • Capsule Corporation — Capsule Corporation (the Italian spacetech startup) develops and commercializes WaterCube, a water-based propulsion system for CubeSats and Smallsats, designed to offer compact, non-toxic, and cost‑effective orbit control, collision avoidance, and deorbiting capabilities
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups, 8 in the past 12 months

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 192
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CodeWords
  • Unleash — Private, secure, scalable, and ready for the most complex setups out-of-the-box. Cut down on costs, time, and technical debt. +18M Docker's downloads.
  • Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.
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Aviram Jenik
Angel · Cupertino, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $494k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $74k–$275k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
  • Adversa AI — Autonomous AI red teaming platform that continuously tests AI agents, LLMs, and GenAI apps. 300+ attack techniques. OWASP & NIST mapped. Trusted by Fortune 500
  • Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
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Sampo Parkkinen
Angel · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
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Flyer One Ventures
VC Fund · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $350k–$1.3M; Series A $500k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
  • Peech — text to speech
  • Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!
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Sebastien Breteau
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $6.5M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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 — Transform your business with Marqeta's modern card issuing platform. Our open API platform allows businesses to instantly issue cards and process payments.
  • 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.
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Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$10M; Series A $4M–$48M; Series B $9.6M–$163M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
  • UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.
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Hans Limmer
Angel · Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Hans Limmer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.
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DAAL
VC Fund · Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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).
  • Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
  • Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
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LDC
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 166
  • Round size: Private Equity $13M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 84% lead, 16% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Panthera Biopartners — Take part in paid clinical trials with Panthera Clinic. We run safe, professional medical research studies across the UK for a range of health conditions.
  • Bespoke Kitchen Foods — Bespoke Kitchen Foods is a food products supplier. They manufacture vegetarian products such as burgers, biscuits and bars, bespoke kitchen foods, fat chef burgers, vegetarian pies, freezer to table, specialty bread, tarts, quiches, puddings, pastry, and cheesecake, and food service suppliers a range of vegetarian savories, cakes, and desserts fora wide range of restaurants and pubs.
  • Eagle Eye Innovations
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Food Retail Ventures
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Venture capital Retail technology Food technology Early stage investment Retail startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Series A $4.5M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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SBI Investment
VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 375
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$156M; Series B $4.9M–$227M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
  • Direava
  • Zerodoor HD — Zerodoor HD specializes in digital transformation in constructing industry.
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Daphni
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

daphni is a venture capital based in Paris, firm investing in tech startups with a European DNA and a strong international ambition.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$13M; Series A $6.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Shine.fr — Shine is a mobile bank that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers. It offers freelancers a multitasking solution platform that combines online banking with contract and invoice management, streamlining administrative and financial tasks for those who work independently.The company was established inyear 2017 in Paris, France.
  • Certo — Certo is an agentic AI company that offers a product compliance platform for regulatory management.
  • Double — Double combines a dedicated human assistant and the best software to help you achieve what matters most.
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2100 Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups, 10 in the past 12 months

We are an early-stage fund built to help the next generation of European heroes defy the odds and build century-defining businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Pre-Seed $1.9M–$5.1M; Series A $9M–$150M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Alpa — Alpa is a financial platform designed for hospitality businesses like restaurants and franchises. Alpa provides real-time financial insights for hospitality operators by integrating POS sales data, bank transactions, and supplier invoices into live profit and loss statements, cash flow tracking, and AI-driven recommendations.
  • Orbio — Orbio is an AI native system firm that aids companies to create dynamic talent, eliminate repetitive work and deliver business impact.
  • Seltz — Web Search Engine
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Alex Jankelevich
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hunger Brands — Curated premium domains for founders and startups. Find the perfect brand-ready name for your next venture.
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Matthias Willenbacher
Angel · Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Matthias Willenbacher is an entrepreneur, investor and visionary in the field of renewable energies and sustainability.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy Management, SaaS, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • VoltStorage — VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thusmaking the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.
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OPRTRS CLUB
VC Fund · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups, 8 in the past 12 months

OPRTRS CLUB is a community-led investment platform for tech operators.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $8M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Opereit — Opereit believes that their AI agents can become a vital tool for logistics operators, transforming a neglected area of loss into a source of recovered revenue.
  • Waniwani — WaniWani develops AI infrastructure that helps companies distribute products and services through AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. It enables AI storefronts, customer discovery, quoting workflows, analytics, and compliance monitoring for businesses using conversational AI channels.
  • CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
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Murat Abdrakhmanov
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, B2B, Mobile
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Kazakhstan, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $235k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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.
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CABRA VC
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Cabra.vc is a venture fund for technological startups that want to scale out to international markets

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.9M; Series A $7M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Adwisely — Automate Facebook and Google ads for your Shopify store with AI. Get 6x ROAS. Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify brands. Install Adwisely and set up in minutes.
  • Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
  • Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
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Auxxo
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.1M; Series A $6M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $15M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • DUDE CHEM — DUDE CHEM is a leading company in green chemical manufacturing based in Berlin.
  • NanoStruct — NanoStruct is a biotechnology company that develops nanostructured sensor chips to identify bacteria and pathogens in food.
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $6.2M–$200M; Series C $16M–$67M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bloom & Wild — Bloom & Wild, a letterbox flower delivery company, take an online approach to the traditional business of ordering and delivering flowers. It has infused the traditional flower-giving experience with predictive analytics and technology to deliver a fresher, less-traveled bouquet to the people they care most about.Founded in 2013 by AronGelbard and Ben Stanway, Bloom & Wild aims to become the pan-European market leader in flower and gift delivery. The company continued its expansion into more European markets and added bricks and mortar retail for the UK. By entering into a retail partnership with Sainsbury’s, Bloom & Wild sees an exclusive range of premium bouquets available in selected superstores nationwide.
  • Skillshare — Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business,and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
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HMB Finance Group
VC Fund · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Alexandre Yazdi
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Portugal, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.5M; Series A $2.3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
  • Alpa — Alpa is a financial platform designed for hospitality businesses like restaurants and franchises. Alpa provides real-time financial insights for hospitality operators by integrating POS sales data, bank transactions, and supplier invoices into live profit and loss statements, cash flow tracking, and AI-driven recommendations.
  • Revox — Reach your customers with Revox. The platform to launch AI outbound call campaigns at scale.
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Nick Bilogorskiy
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Nick Bilogorskiy is based out of San Francisco Bay Area and is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Dnipro VC. Nick previously worked at Google as a Director of Security. Nick Bilogorskiy attended Simon Fraser University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$3M; Pre-Seed $550k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AiSDR — AiSDR finds in-market buyers using real-time signals, then reaches out with messages that sound like your best rep wrote them. 1-3 demos per 100 leads.
  • 12New.AI — AI-Agents for Negotiations & Procurement
  • Ability.ai — Automate your marketing, sales, and operations with Ability AI's intelligent agents and workflows. Save time, reduce costs, and scale your business.
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Volta Circle
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Volta Circle is an evergreen VC fund focused on technology-driven solutions that reshape linear economic systems into circular ones.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$12M; Series A $6M–$9.6M; Series B $24M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
  • Glowb — Glowb offers solar energy and battery solutions.
  • MacroCycle Technologies — MacroCycle is developing a technology to curb the usage of fossil fuel derived plastic through a circular, sustainable and zero-carbon plastic upcycling process. The company's proprietary process based on the synthesis of cyclic macromolecules enables us to produce virgin-grade recycled PET from plastic waste at lower energy use thantraditional processes.
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Tencent
VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 559
  • Round size: Series A $3.9M–$230M; Series B $15M–$283M; Series C $35M–$400M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

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  • XtalPi — XtalPi is a pharmaceutical technology company that is reinventing the industry’s approach to drug research and development with its Intelligent Digital Drug Discovery and Development (ID4) platform. Through its tightly interwoven quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance cloud computing algorithms, the ID4 platform enablespharmaceutical companies to increase their efficiency, accuracy, and success rate at critical stages of drug R&D. By accelerating the pace of drug discovery and development, XtalPi aims to contribute to a healthier society worldwide.Founded in 2014 by a group of quantum physicists at MIT, XtalPi has since grown into an elite team of researchers with multi-disciplinary expertise in physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical R&D, and algorithm design. XtalPi has received much recognition for its cutting-edge technologies, its innovative solutions, and the breadth of potential applications of its offerings across the pharmaceutical value chain, which has allowed it to gain industry approval and establish strategic partnerships with several top international pharmaceutical companies.
  • PolicyBazaar — Compare insurance policies offered by various insurers in India & buy insurance policy online. Get instant quotes & save huge on premiums.
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Euroventures
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $531k–$2.5M; Series A $531k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Datapao — Discover DATAPAO's data consulting solutions in cloud migrations, data science, data engineering, AI & ML.
  • Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
  • Hypefy — An influencer marketing platform built for brands that want to discover creators, run campaigns, and measure performance with ease.
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Paul Melin
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Estonia, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Warren.io — Warren is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
  • PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
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GC Angels
VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Fashion, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$1.8M; Angel $196k–$1.3M; Pre-Seed $131k–$656k
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mission C — Mission C provides well-being and dietary supplement products such as beauty care, athletics, and rehabilitation solutions.
  • BreezeMove — BreezeMove is a software firm that provides property management, consulting, home buying, and selling solutions.
  • Prorizon — Prorizon is to pioneer a new era in mental health through the development of objective measurements and tracking ,paralleling advancements in physical health, to empower individuals with proactive and preventative health solutions.
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Sonorcap
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Europe Franchise startups

Sonorcap is an early stage technology investor with a focus on software and retailtech

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Franchise, Hospitality
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Alpa — Alpa is a financial platform designed for hospitality businesses like restaurants and franchises. Alpa provides real-time financial insights for hospitality operators by integrating POS sales data, bank transactions, and supplier invoices into live profit and loss statements, cash flow tracking, and AI-driven recommendations.
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