Top 30 Franchise VC Funds & Investors in Europe (August 2026)

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• eMabler — EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand.
• Coolbrook — Our RotoDynamic electric technology can cut 30% of industrial emissions annually, delivering hope at industrial scale.
• Solar Foods — Solar Foods is a food-tech startup that specializes in testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins, and minerals to feed and grow microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein. The industrial biotech startup develops a protein called Solein, a nutritious, sustainablesubstitute for animal-derived proteins. Solein is created using elements from the air—CO2, water, nitrogen—and electricity. This single-cell protein is cultivated through gas fermentation, essentially deriving edible calories from hydrogen-oxidizing microbes.

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• VREY — VREY is a startup that empowers landlords of multi-tenant buildings to generate and manage solar energy on-site.
• 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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• Softcube — The first AI for video ads production. Softcube automatically creates videos of products in use. These ads are delivered through AdWords banners, Facebook, and Instagram.
• LifeTracker — Symbiotic AI that helps to progress towards life long goals every day. Proprietary cognitive architecture and learning algorithms. Accelerated in @sbcIoT_Data
• 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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• Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
• Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
• 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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• GitHits — Code context layer for coding agents. Version-aware index for agents to search, navigate, and inspect 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 — Automate IoT security testing and compliance with major standards and accelerate product development with Test of Things.

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• 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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• 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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• Retailgrid — Agentic AI pricing platform for mid-market retailers. Turn messy retail data into structured, explainable price decisions in days, not months.
• Bahn Express — Euroopan nopein autojen kuljetus. Autoliikkeille, autokauppiaille ja kalustonhallintaan. Euroopan halki 72 tunnissa.
• Cornea Sense — CorneaSense is a medtech startup developing a non-invasive, eye-based sensing device that measures ocular surface hydration to enable early detection and monitoring of conditions such as dry eye disease and systemic health disorders. The technology aims to provide real-time, objective eye biomarkers for improved clinical diagnosis and patient care.

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• 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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• 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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• PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
• Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
• Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.

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• Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
• Shiplong — Shiplog gives every customer a live profile and decides the next best action in real time, so you expand, retain and grow revenue from the customers you already have.
• 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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• Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
• welevel — Building games with attitude

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• 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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• MittiLabs — Mitti Labs leverages satellite & AI technology to enable a positive impact for nature & small-holder farming communities
• Syntetica — Syntetica is a materials technology and climate technology company that develops chemical recycling technology for synthetic textiles. It uses proprietary green chemistry to convert nylon textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polymers, enabling circular production for the textile, automotive, and industrial materials industries. Its mission isto decarbonize synthetic materials by making high-quality recycled feedstocks commercially viable.The company's proprietary chemical depolymerization process separates and recovers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from blended textile waste that would otherwise be difficult to recycle. The process operates under low-temperature, low-pressure conditions, removes dyes and finishes, and produces recycled raw materials that can be reintroduced into manufacturing without compromising quality. Syntetica's technology supports textile-to-textile recycling and is designed to reduce carbon emissions, landfill waste, and reliance on virgin fossil-based materials.
• MacroCycle Technologies — MacroCycle Technologies: Old Threads, New Possibilities.

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• BioOrbit — BioOrbit are a UK biotech startup using protein crystallisation to turn hospital treatments into self-injectable medicines patients can use at home.
• 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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• 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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• VSPN — VSPN is an internet sports and cultural media company that focuses its business on e-sports. It provides core marketing and entertainment content operations as its core business, providing brand marketing, artist brokerage, e-sports TV, and e-sports venues.Founded in 2015, Quantum Sports VSPN (Versus Programming Network) and is based in Shanghai,China.
• Gaana — Gaana.com- Listen & Download latest MP3 songs online. Download new or old Hindi songs, Bollywood songs, English songs* & more on Gaana+ and play offline. Create, share and listen to streaming music playlists.
• 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.

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• Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
• BreezeMove — We're revolutionising the home-moving process. #PropTech
• Prorizon — Health & sports startup that empowers young athletes to take control over mind and body.

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• 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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• Omniplex — Omniplex eLearning solutions provider that's changing the way businesses train.
• 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.

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• Waniwani — Help users better understand your offers through personalized AI experiences.
• CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
• Macrodata Labs — Reviewing and annotating robotics data by hand does not scale. Macrodata Labs automates QA, subtask annotation, 3D hand tracking, and reward scoring across large robot and egocentric datasets. Send a few sample episodes for a free demo.

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• 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.
• Logistica OS — Logistica OS helps logistics teams get more done through AI. Our AI agents automate load carrier management, returns and other backoffice processes in logistics.

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• 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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• Peckwater Brands — Peckwater Brands is a delivery franchise for kitchen operators, and the fastest growing virtual brand company in the UK.

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• iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
• SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT provides smart movement and deformation monitoring solution for civil engineering projects such as bridge, tunnel and dam constructions, quarries, slope stability inspections by monitoring geotechnical and environmental parameters. SURVIOT supports operators and constructors to comply with professional regulations by digitizing labourintensive, manual monitoring processes with automated data collection, processing and analysis. The SURVIOT platform is constantly evolving by adding new sensors and features.
• Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever

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• 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 is an innovative tool for practices that want to demystify the medical billing process and boost patient collection rates. Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect patient payments, automate, and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate the patient financial experience. It also helps hospitals and health systemsboost self-pay and after-insurance-responsibility engagement.

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.

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• 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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• Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.