Top 25 Franchise VC Funds & Investors in Europe (June 2026)
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Business Finland
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $53k–$11M |
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Digital Future
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Advertising | $120k–$2.6M |
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS | $318k–$11M |
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Innovestor
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Denmark, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $163k–$4.5M |
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Vendep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Analytics | $713k–$13M |
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $338k–$20M |
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $549k–$16M |
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EchoVC Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Nigeria, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, FinTech, Software | $200k–$22M |
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Alchimia Investments
VC Fund
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2 | Italy, United Kingdom, Israel | Series A, Seed | Software, Health Care, Medical | $2.2M–$40M |
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Pembroke VCT
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $1.9M–$16M |
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Spring Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Estonia, Finland, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $439k–$8.2M |
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Auxxo
VC Fund
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1 | Germany, United Kingdom, France | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, FinTech | $1.1M–$14M |
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LDC
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands | Private Equity, Secondary Market | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $13M–$65M |
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Flyer One Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $350k–$10M |
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Tencent
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | $3.5M–$400M |
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Food Retail Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series A, Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $1.1M–$13M |
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Sonorcap
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | Software, Franchise, Hospitality | |
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OPRTRS CLUB
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform | $1.6M–$3.5M |
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GC Angels
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Fashion, Health Care | $131k–$1.8M |
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HMB Finance Group
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | FinTech, Franchise, Financial Services | |
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Alfabeat
VC Fund
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1 | Poland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Marketing, SaaS | $199k–$13M |
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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $650k–$30M |
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SBI Investment
VC Fund
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1 | Japan, South Korea, United States | Series B, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Financial Services | $4M–$283M |
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Burda Principal Investments
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A, Series C | E-Commerce, Internet, Retail | $5M–$200M |
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Euroventures
VC Fund
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1 | Hungary, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $531k–$11M |
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Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $53k–$11M; 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
- 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.
- Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
- Valio — We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $120k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $424k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- 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
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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- Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- 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.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $507k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $163k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Innomost — Innomost develops and produces high-value bioactive ingredients from forest industry side streams that enable customers to make innovations in the cosmetic beauty industry. Its current product portfolio consists of birch charcoal powder, birch bark powder, betulin, suberin, and azelaic acid, which can trigger innovation in all cosmetic productcategories including skincare, haircare, body care, decorative cosmetics, and oral care.
- Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
- Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $713k–$3.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Hopsworks — Hopsworks is an online platform for the development and operation of Machine Learning (ML) pipelines at scale, based around the industry's first Feature Store for ML.
- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 224
- Round size: Seed $670k–$4.3M; Pre-Seed $338k–$1.7M; Series A $4.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
- Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
- Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 544
- Round size: Seed $549k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $584k–$4.4M; Series A $1.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hoora —
- Avocode — Centralize design collaboration, developer hand-off, version control, screen flows, & feedback in one tool. Sign up free today. Work with Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Figma designs on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
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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- Industry: Information Technology, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- 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
- Kukua — Empowering today's generation of children through entertainment Stories and characters fundamentally change and reaffirm how children see themselves in the world. At Kukua we blur the worlds of entertainment and education
- TRADE X — TRADE X offers Dealers an interactive and fully encompassing global automotive trading platform.
- GraphScience — Since 2005, we have helped thousands of people get the perfect domain name.
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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 69
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$6.7M; 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7.1M; 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.
- Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
- Fides — Fides is your one-stop-shop for c-level governance.We are making it easier for managers to comply with, digitally execute and track their legal obligations across different companies in various jurisdictions. Keep an overview of duties, deadlines and tasks in different entities. Orchestrate, execute and document c-level meetings, resolutions& approvals. Create a revision-proof audit trail of any c-level decision.We know you have good intentions. You just need to be able to prove them.
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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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Secondary Market
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 143
- Round size: Private Equity $13M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 82% lead, 18% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Wireless CCTV — WCCTV is the USA's leading supplier of mobile video surveillance cameras specifically optimized for secure 4G LTE transmission.
- CTI Group — An award-winning network of independent digital agencies. Discover what makes us tick.
- Rhino Products — Rhino Products offers a range of van roof racks, bars, steps and other vehicle accessories. Discover products for your van or become a Rhino partner.
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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- 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!
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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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: China, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 539
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$140M; Series B $15M–$283M; Series C $34M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Utaite — Utaite is an operator of an entertainment platform that focuses on planning, production, and development of entertainment content.
- Phytech — Helping the world's top growers to optimize production by connecting them to their plants. Welcome to the Plant-based Farming Revolution
- Rocketwerkz — RocketWerkz aims to create interactive experiences that challenge players to reach for the stars.
Venture capital Retail technology Food technology Early stage investment Retail startups
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- 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.
Sonorcap is an early stage technology investor with a focus on software and retailtech
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- 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.
OPRTRS CLUB is a community-led investment platform for tech operators.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Developer Platform
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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.
- Revox — Reach your customers with Revox. The platform to launch AI outbound call campaigns at scale.
- Linkup — Linkup connects large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to the internet. The platform enables AI systems to access, search, and interact with web content efficiently, enhancing their capabilities and reducing inaccuracies. By providing APIs, Linkup allows developers to integrate web content into AI applications seamlessly.
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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- 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–$589k
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Molymem — Molymem develops next-generation ceramic ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes, powered by a proprietary 2D coating technology that delivers unmatched
- TheNextLevel — Boost engagement & conversions by turning your Shopify store into a mobile app. Customize, connect, and sell globally with The Next Level platform.
- 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.
The HMB Finance Group provides financial solutions for every stage of your financial journey.
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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Marketing, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $199k–$4M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.2M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
- 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.
firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 188
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6.8M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Klu.ai — Klu.ai is a generative AI platform that simplifies the process of designing, deploying, and optimizing AI applications.The company integrates major large language models (LLMs) such as Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, GPT-4, and over 15 other models, enabling rapid prompt/model experimentation, data gathering, and user feedback. The platformoffers features like Klu Actions for content generation, business operations workflows, content analysis, and summarization, as well as optimization techniques for A/B testing and fine-tuning support for models like OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4. Klu.ai is committed to data privacy and security, providing data obfuscation and redaction features to protect sensitive information.Klu.ai is founded by Stephen M. Walker II in 2022 and is located in San Francisco, California.
- Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for enterprise online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto.
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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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: Japan, South Korea, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 350
- Round size: Series A $4M–$170M; Series B $6.5M–$283M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.1B in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
- Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
- Sonire Therapeutics — Sonire Therapeutics provides High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound treatment for cancer.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $6.2M–$200M; Series C $16M–$67M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
- 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.
- Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
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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- 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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