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Top 25 Franchise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in July 2025

A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) 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 25 Franchise VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in July 2025

Investor Franchise Europe investments
Business Finland 5
EchoVC Partners 2
Alchimia Investments 2
Fuel Ventures 2
Innovestor 2
Vendep Capital 2
Digital Future 2
HOWZAT Partners 2
Pembroke VCT 2
Flyer One Ventures 1
GC Angels 1
Alfabeat 1
Burda Principal Investments 1
Kima Ventures 1
DAAL 1
Flyer One Ventures 1
Auxxo 1
Euroventures 1
Food Retail Ventures 1
Spring Capital 1
Volta Circle 1
Tencent 1
HMB Finance Group 1
SBI Investment 1
LDC 1
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Business Finland VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 20 investments 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
  • Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Grant, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • AIATELLA — Automating medical image analysis
  • SparkReceipt — AI-powered Receipt Scanner and Expense Tracker for Individuals and Small Businesses. Create your free account now!
  • University of Eastern Finland — The University of Eastern Finland is a multidisciplinary university which offers teaching in more than 100 major subjects. The university comprises four faculties: the Philosophical Faculty, the Faculty of Science and Forestry, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.
EchoVC Partners VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
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
  • Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
  • Rivy — We're building the financial infrastructure to make clean energy easy to afford, quick to access, and open to all.
  • Shuttlers — Shuttlers is a platform that offers mobility solutions by providing scheduled bus-sharing services for the professionals within the region.
  • Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network
Alchimia Investments VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy
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
  • Health Care, Software, Medical
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Italy, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
  • Prestatech — Prestatech: revolutionizing the automation and bank account and financial data with automation and analysis with advanced technology and machine learning. Streamline your financial workflows, ensure compliance, and enhance decision-making with our cutting-edge solutions.
  • 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.
Fuel Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 30 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Roomix — Roomix is a DIY platform, partnering with you from inspiration to action. Our customers search for amazing home projects designed by our community, use our tech to tailor projects to their space, then receive a personalised project box delivered right to their door.
  • Eventwise — Eventwise is the all-in-one event budgeting platform designed to simplify the financial side of event planning.
  • Glyde — Glyde is a financial technology platform focused on simplifying and improving cross-border payments for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Innovestor VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Aplagon — Aplagon is committed to bringing unique, effective antithrombotic medicines with important safety advantages to patients with unmet needs.
  • Bahn Express — Fast and Effortless Car Transport
  • Tribune Therapeutics — Tribune Therapeutics is a preclinical biopharmaceutical company building a promising pipeline of novel medicines to treat patients with a wide range of fibrotic diseases. It was founded in 2020 with funding from HealthCap and Novo Seeds.
Vendep Capital VC Fund · Espoo, Southern Finland, Finland
B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest in the best early-stage software entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Cluby — Own a restaurant?This is your all-in-one marketing & loyalty tool. Increase returning customers, boost spend, and stay top of mind. Cluby revolutionizes customer engagement and marketing with powerful tools to collect data, communicate effectively, and build loyalty. Everything through one app. Download Cluby App for Consumers Build Your Customer Base Sell Smarter, Market Better Grow ... Read more
  • Claimlane — Claimlane is an end-to-end returns management solution for brands and retailers to manage any type of return, across all sales channels and markets. Perfectly document claims and returns. Streamline workflows. Get quality insights. Turn unhappy claimers into loyal customers. That's Claimlane.
  • Eyeball — Eyeball operates as a digital platform for youth football.
Digital Future VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
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
  • 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 VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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
  • Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
  • 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.
Pembroke VCT VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments 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
  • Fashion, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Ryft — Butlr is the fastest growing ordering platform for bars, pubs and music venues. One app across all venues removing queues.
  • Mindset AI — We help you form meaningful, lasting relationships with your end-users
  • Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
Flyer One Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
  • Jome — On our platform, you can search for and tour thousands of new construction homes and communities near you. Our new home experts are ready to guide you through the entire home-buying process and will help you turn your dream home into a reality
  • Heizma — Heizma make climate-neutral heating possible and easy for every family. It offers complete solutions that include not only heating systems, but also photovoltaic systems, power storage, e-charging stations, and intelligent energy management systems.
  • Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
GC Angels VC Fund · Manchester, New Hampshire, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Fashion
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Cress — Cress is a new online marketplace focused to buying and selling gently used children's apparel.
  • Brarista — Elevate your lingerie shopping with our AI Fit Chatbot, seamlessly offering perfect bra fittings and bespoke styling advice. Boost sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations.
  • 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.
Alfabeat VC Fund · Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketing, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SunRoof — Roof of the future
  • Monetizr — Monetizr connects brands with 340M+ Gen Z and Millennial gamers through rewarded, native experiences in mobile games, driving engagement, brand favorability, and purchase intent in one of the most immersive media channels.
  • 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.
Burda Principal Investments VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
  • BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with Billease and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
  • Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 40 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hylight — Hylight inspects energy infrastructures and provide solutions that makes societies resilient to the effects of climate change.
  • Aloen — Aloen offers live AI training for agents, analyzing 100% of calls, and enhancing personalized AI models. solutions provided by Aleon are Automation & training, Every interaction counts, GDPR: Regulatory compliance, Committed teams: Retain your talents,
  • Usual Labs — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
DAAL VC Fund · Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
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!
Flyer One Ventures VC Fund · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
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
  • Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom
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 — Cooper Pet Care - your personal vet. Anytime. Anywhere. Get instant access to certified vets via chat or video call 24/7.
Auxxo VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BIOVOX — Mit Biokunststoff aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen bis zu 85% CO2 einsparen. Hergestellt unter ISO 13485, biokompatibel nach ISO 10993.
  • Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management
  • Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.
Euroventures VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
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
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Hungary, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Prefixbox — Prefixbox makes eCommerce search easy. Easy to integrate search modules increase conversion rates and online revenue within weeks.
  • Hypefy — B2C companies working with Instagram and TikTok influencers run top performing influencer marketing campaigns with minimal effort.
Food Retail Ventures VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Venture capital Retail technology Food technology Early stage investment Retail startups
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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.
Spring Capital VC Fund · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Estonia, Finland, United States
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.
Volta Circle VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Fashion
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Shiru — Discover Shiru. We are an Ingredient Company that Identifies and Creates Functional Ingredients for the Plant-Based Industry.
  • 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.
Tencent VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 30 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Chico Chilo — ChiccoChilo is a retailer that integrates 3D digital jewelry technology research and development, design, manufacturing and sales.
  • Scalable Capital — The broker with trading flat rate: trade shares, ETFs, funds, cryptocurrencies & derivatives without commissions. Europe's leading digital asset management manages your ETF portfolio.
  • Unitree Robotics — Unitree focus on the development of four-legged robot mobile platform and related power system components
HMB Finance Group VC Fund
The HMB Finance Group provides financial solutions for every stage of your financial journey.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services
  • Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
SBI Investment VC Fund · Minato, Chiba, Japan · 22 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
  • Series B, Series A, Funding Round
  • Japan, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OPTEMO — OPTEMO develops and supplies sales technology that allows businesses and customers to connect through a website.
  • Helical Fusion — Helical Fusion is a startup company that aims to commercialize fusion energy using magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasmas.
  • Tokyo Artisan Intelligence — Tokyo Artisan Intelligence develops od purely domestic AI high-speed code generation tools as part of deep learning and hardware research. Their objectives are to contribute to the development of new computational technology and its application in society, particularly by providing experts through the training of doctoral students.
LDC VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Private Equity, Funding Round, Secondary Market
  • United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Precise TV — Precise.TV helps you deliver brand safe, targeted YouTube advertising campaigns complete with actionable data analytics to drive performance for your brand.
  • HSL Compliance — HSL Compliance offers water hygiene and tank replacement, water quality testing, city and guilds training & fire risk assessments services.
  • Harper James — Harper James is a full-service national commercial law firm with offices in London, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Cambridge. Our solicitors provide expert corporate legal advice for businesses in the UK. We provide expert business legal services from partner level lawyers, but at affordable prices for startups, SMEs and other businesses. The majorityof our lawyers have previously worked for a top 100 UK law firm or in-house at large international businesses. Our business model is based around clients paying a small monthly amount to us via direct debit for largely subscription-based legal services (although we also handle one-off instructions for ad-hoc legal needs at a competitive hourly rate). This model is sustained due to our low overheads and the fact that most of our lawyers work remotely
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