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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Europe in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hardware startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in Europe in May 2025

Investor Hardware Europe investments
Bpifrance 85
High-Tech Gruenderfonds 74
Enterprise Ireland 57
Speedinvest 47
SOSV 42
Scottish Investment Bank 42
Par Equity 41
Seraphim Space 39
Parkwalk Advisors 39
Scottish Enterprise 34
Innovacom 33
Bayern Kapital 32
Kima Ventures 32
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen 32
Partech 31
LocalGlobe 31
Inventure 31
Balderton Capital 30
Techstart Ventures 30
Amadeus Capital Partners 30
Lifeline Ventures 30
Cambridge Angels group 30
Ascension 28
360 Capital 28
Foresight Group 26
The FSE Group 26
Antler 26
Octopus Ventures 26
Newable Private Investing 25
Oxford Capital 25
IQ Capital 25
GO CAPITAL 25
Butterfly Ventures 25
Development Bank of Wales 25
Mercia Fund Managers 24
7percent Ventures 24
MMC Ventures 24
Midven 24
Nauta Capital 23
Kelvin Capital 23
Business Growth Fund 22
Mercia Asset Management 22
Aster 22
Wayra 22
Accel 22
Vaekstfonden 22
Earlybird Venture Capital 22
Criteria Venture Tech 22
tecnet equity 22
Kernel Capital 22
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Bpifrance VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 93 investments in the past 12 months
Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Lprint — Lprint revolutionise the way PCBs are designed and manufactured, empowering hardware engineers and product development teams. Lprint is a 3D electronic printing system for PCBs, designed to manufacture complex, free-form printed circuit boards (PCBs) in a single step, simplifying the prototyping, testing, and manufacturing process of electronics.
  • Veesion — Veesion: AI-driven smart video surveillance. Detect theft in real time. Protect your business now.
  • PyxiScience — PyxiScience operates as an adaptive Math Learning Platform designed by educators and powered by AI.
High-Tech Gruenderfonds VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 45 investments in the past 12 months
The seed investor High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) finances tech start-ups with growth potential and has supported more than 700 start-ups since 2005. With the launch of its fourth fund, HTGF now has about 1.4 billion euros under management. Its team of experienced investment managers and start-up experts support young companies with expertise,entrepreneurial spirit and passion. HTGF’s focus is on high-tech start-ups in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry and related business areas. To date, external investors have injected about 5 billion euros of capital into the HTGF portfolio via more than 2,000 follow-on financing rounds. In addition, HTGF has already successfully sold shares in more than 170 companies. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries. Fund investors in this public-private partnership include the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, KfW Capital and 45 companies from a wide range of industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • mo:re GmbH — Mo:re is building the new gold standard for organoid-based drug development by offering a lab platform that industrialises cell culture workflows.
  • Eyeo — eyeo revolutionizes imaging with color splitter sensors. Capture sharper, brighter images in low light using optical waveguide innovation, discover how it works
  • AICA SA — AICA believes programming robots should be at everyone's reach. We combine Artificial Intelligence & an intuitive interface, to help you relocate your production.
Enterprise Ireland VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
  • Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
  • Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.
Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 40 investments in the past 12 months
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
  • remberg — The remberg software helps industrial companies become digital champions in customer & field service for their machines and equipment, moving from reactive and analog to proactive and digital, thereby eliminating paper chaos and preparing them for the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
  • Riverse — The impact monetization platform enabling European green-techs finance their growth by valorizing their impact
SOSV VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 75 investments in the past 12 months
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
  • unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
  • Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Scottish Investment Bank VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
  • IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
  • Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
Par Equity VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • CSignum — CSignum specializes in wireless communications solutions, digitization of subsea assets, and actionable insights for ocean industries.
  • Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
  • Watercycle Technologies — Watercycle Technologies specialized in the development of high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its core technology, capable of treating highly concentrated water, is an end-to-end solution encompassing mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallization.
Seraphim Space VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem. They are an ambitious team with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in Venture. Collectively they have over 100 years’ experience, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses, returning more than £750 million to theirshareholders.They are also fortunate to have one of the world's leading entrepreneurs and experts in Earth Observation on board. They work closely with their portfolio companies and always strive to create meaningful value and endeavour to ensure that the full value of their network and partners is utilised.The backing of leading global corporates in the Space sector and the leading Space related Governmental Agencies in the UK and Europe brings significant value. They are able to leverage their capital, industry leading knowledge and networks, creating an ecosystem that delivers real results for your business. From roots to market, sales and marketing, partnerships, follow-on capital, and M&A they can deliver value creation across the company growth cycle globally.
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Investment focus
  • Aerospace, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • ICEYE — Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.
  • ALL.SPACE — One Device. All Networks. No Compromise. The world’s first smart terminal delivers total communications convergence.ALL.SPACE, formerly Isotropic Systems, has developed the 5th generation smart terminal, capable of linking with all satellites, all networks, in all orbits, all at once. Our ground-breaking software-defined service enablementplatform integrates intelligent routing, edge computing and on-demand services to deliver unprecedented network resilience and application performance. Whether you're on land, sea or air, we ensure that you stay connected.Our S2000 range is customisable across a range of sizes, Tx/Rx ratios, aperture combinations and scan ranges with up to 8,100 unique configurable options. Our modular architecture allows you to pick the exact terminal configuration to meet your requirements.
  • SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.
Parkwalk Advisors VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
  • Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
  • illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development
  • Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
Scottish Enterprise VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 21 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Grant, Funding Round, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • CSignum — CSignum specializes in wireless communications solutions, digitization of subsea assets, and actionable insights for ocean industries.
  • Sisaltech — Sisaltech a natural fiber from the Agave plant, is durable, biodegradable, and has low environmental impact in production. Sisaltech makes the use of these in building insulation a very eco-friendly choice.
  • Scotmas Group — Scotmas are specialists in Chlorine Dioxide (ClO2) generators & dosing systems for drinking water treatment, Legionella control and SWRO.
Innovacom VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series A
  • France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Interactive Autonomous DYnamic Systems — Iadys designs robotic and AI solutions like the Jellyfishbot for environmental preservation and oil spill response.
  • ION-X — Based on patented technology, our unique ionic liquid electrospray thrusters is the next big thing in small satellites propulsion.
  • AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
Bayern Kapital VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 26 investments in the past 12 months
Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share.The requesting company has to be located inBavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies.Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • AlfaDocs — Il primo software in cloud pensato per la gestione completa dello studio medico e dentistico e della relazione medico-paziente. Provalo subito gratis!
  • OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
  • Ubimaster — Ubimaster provides personalised employee benefits and additional product services that support parents and students.
Kima Ventures VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Kalent — Search. Match. Engage. At scale. From your ATS to our 500M+ profiles — Kalent is your AI recruiter.
  • Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
  • Alta Ares — Alta Ares is a data integration surveillance service provider that utilizes drone imaging.
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the currentfund.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zepta — Zepta emphasizes "digital solutions and sustainability in pest control." Zepta develops a digital approach for protecting humans from pests.
  • Prodlane — B2B Product Management SaaS solution
  • LipoCheck — LipoCheck is a healthtech startup that focuses on improving the diagnosis and treatment of lipedema, a condition that affects millions of women. The company offers a digital platform that serves as a support system for patients and treating physicians. LipoCheck's services include helping patients recognize lipedema and providing assistance inbecoming symptom-free. The platform was developed with the experiences of practicing doctors, product managers, and software developers. In addition to its digital services, LipoCheck also offers a range of merchandise including hoodies and shirts.
Partech VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 29 investments in the past 12 months
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
  • Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
  • AURA — A South African cloud-based security and safety startup .
LocalGlobe VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 21 investments in the past 12 months
Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Nia — Nia is an AI platform building the next generation of autonomous engineering agents and redefining how developers interact with their codebase.
  • Ovo Labs — Ovo Labs is developing therapeutics that boost egg quality to enhance IVF success, technology aims to extend the timeline when the chances of conception are high.
  • Floral Energy — Floral Energy provides microgrids to data centres, EV charging hubs, manufacturers, hospitals, campuses, and more.
Inventure VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Moncyte Health — Unique technology and novel data for personalized and optimal treatment of high cholesterol
  • Biomatter — Biomatter Designs is pioneering the technologies for generative protein design at the intersection of synthetic biology and AI.
  • Avenue Biosciences — From biotechnology tools to therapy discovery and development: Our platform enhances production yield and the quality of your end product.
Balderton Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in the past 12 months
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
  • Taktile — Taktile's no-code platform enables you to easily build automated decision flows and iterate on them in a data-driven way leveraging backtests and A/B testing.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Techstart Ventures VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
  • Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.
Amadeus Capital Partners VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Amadeus Capital Partners, Venture Capital For Technology Companies. We Back Entreprenuers To Win. Contact Our Experienced Team Of Investors Today
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Inephany — Inephany is a company focusing on improving the efficiency of AI, particularly neural networks and Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • Safe Intelligence — Safe Intelligence specializes in deep validation AI systems, focusing on enhancing the reliability of artificial intelligence models.
  • iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.
Lifeline Ventures VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Lifeline Ventures Oy is a venture capital firm specializing in startups, growth capital, and early stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, games, web based and general high technology sectors. It seeks to invest in Finland with a few investments made outside Finland as well. The firm targets investing between €0.5 million ($0.66million) and €1 million ($1.32 million). It seeks make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures Oy was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Bought — A fully automated secondhand marketplace unleashing the 95% of hidden secondhand supply with AI.
  • Soldera — Soldera enables renewable energy producers to earn additional income through an automatic guarantee of the origin trading system.
  • TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.
Cambridge Angels group VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • FLIT — Unfold Your Next Adventure. Discover the compact folding electric bike purpose-built for commuters, urban explorers and weekend tourers.
  • Wilder Sensing — Wilder Sensing analyses audio and other data sources to produce actionable insights into the status and trends of biodiversity on your site.
  • AVIEL Intelligence — AVIEL Intelligence provides a proactive, AI-driven solution to prevent customers from making payments to scammers and block fraudulent transactions.
Ascension VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
  • Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.
360 Capital VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 11 investments in the past 12 months
As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, Italy, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
  • Resilco — Resilco develops and applies unique sustainable solutions for circular economy, carbon capture and for gas purification, both for clean production and for renewable energy applications. They offer knowledge combined with high skill in material science to solve existing and emerging problems in gas treatment.
  • Soource — Automate B2B sourcing with Soource AI: find and compare new suppliers, and maintain an updated database optimizing your procurement processes.
Foresight Group VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in the past 12 months
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • J+S — J+S Ltd is a supplier of systems and in-service support for the defence and offshore energy markets.
  • illumion — Illumion develops high-throughput optical tools to accelerate battery material development
  • nisien.ai — Industry-leading artificial and human intelligence for effective and ethical online safeguarding with Nisien AI.
The FSE Group VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 21 investments in the past 12 months
FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • SportsPro — SportsPro manufactures its Pro sportswear training apparel and team wear and offers innovative conceptual ideas to local sports teams, including junior teams, athletes, sports clubs, parents, and supporters.
  • New Motion Labs — New Motion Labs is a driven collection of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to developing and licensing revolutionary designs for Mechanical Engineering. Nearly every mechanical component will contain a gear, belt or roller-chain drive. They all have one thing in common. They transfer power on one side of the tooth, and we referto this as ‘single engagement.’From the roller chain drives on bikes and e-bikes, to belt drives on conveyors and gear drives in transmissions. This method of engagement leads to shortcomings for each technology.Our first technology, DUAL ENGAGEMENT™ is a revolutionary method of transferring power on both sides of the sprocket tooth, leading to many advantages over roller-chains, increasing efficiency, strength and lifetime at smaller weights and sizes.Our technology enables a more efficient, more sustainable world, with smaller, lighter products with greater lifetimes.
Antler VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 118 investments in the past 12 months
Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • GenPage — GenPage is a SaaS platform that supercharges outreach & account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns with personalized landing pages that captivate, engage, and close. We help our users create unique experiences at scale for every prospect with AI - and win more deals.
  • Lodgicl — Lodgicl streamlines the insurance supply chain to enhance the claims experience for policyholders, insurers, and partners.
  • FoodHealth — Your home for healthy eating made simple. Powered by a team of food lovers & Dietitians, we help you find the right food for your body. And then we deliver that food directly to your doorstep!
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 22 investments in the past 12 months
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Amplience — The shopping experience platform for generating, creating and delivering content with context
  • Orbex Space — Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from aunique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent.They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service.
  • Zendo Energy — Zendo Energy is dedicated to the mission of decarbonising computing power. The company aims to empower data centres to become smarter, more efficient, and prepared for the increasing future demand of computing by leveraging advanced software solutions. Their platform utilizes real-time analytics and predictive tools to optimise energy consumption,reduce emissions, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, thereby supporting the transition to sustainable digital infrastructure. This mission addresses the urgent need to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres amid the exponential growth of AI and computing workloads globally
Newable Private Investing VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
  • Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
  • EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology
Oxford Capital VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Helping individuals and institutions invest in Venture Capital, Infrastructure and Media companies since 1999.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Egregious — Egregious is an advanced research & intelligence lab established to defend humans from AI and provides narrative intelligence solutions across the public and private sectors to protect organisations and online users from malign influence using AI-driven data acquisition, insights, and engagement.
  • Arcube — We make sure all travellers, frequent and infrequent, make the most of travel loyalty programs, using our data-driven approach, airlines can understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention.Arcube uses a data-driven approach to make the most of airline loyalty programs for both frequent andinfrequent flyers. Our software allows airlines to understand their customers and provide hyper-personalised offerings to boost value and retention at no extra cost to the airline.
  • FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
IQ Capital VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London-based VC firm that invests in ‘deep tech’ companies capable of dominating their respective markets on a global scale. Initial investments at Seed and Series A range from £0.5m to £10m, with capacity for follow-on investment up to £30m through the Growth Fund. The team has achieved over 30 exits including toApple, Huawei, Google and Oracle.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Nyobolt — The latest innovations in battery technology have the potential to reduce charging times from hours to minutes. Join us on our journey.
  • IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
  • Alpine Eagle — The Sentinel Counter-UAS System is an air-to-air sensor & interceptor network designed to detect, classify, and intercept unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
GO CAPITAL VC Fund · Rennes, Bretagne, France · 9 investments in the past 12 months
GO Capital is an independent management company and a major player in regional Seed and Venture Capital since 2003. With offices in Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Centre-Val de Loire and the South of France, GO Capital contributes to the financing of responsible innovation in these regions. With a team of investors with complementarysectoral experience, we have a solid track-record in DeepTech. GO Capital has nearly 400 million euros under management, and mainly finances technology leaders in the digital and healthcare sectors and in the industry of the future.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • France, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • AISPRID — AISPRID is a robotic company that manufactures autonomous robots for soft fruit picking.
  • BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
  • Moea — MOEA recrute ! Consultez toutes nos offres d'emploi (CDI, CDD) ainsi que toutes nos offres de stage et postulez en ligne.
Butterfly Ventures VC Fund · Oulu, Oulu, Finland · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Butterfly Ventures is a seed-stage focused VC in the Nordics, investing in deep tech, hardware, and hardware interfacing software. The company prefers to get involved with companies early on; 80% of Butterfly Ventures portfolio companies don't have any revenue at the time of their entry. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012 and ever sincethen it has been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. The company has offices in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, Sweden, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Zenniz — Zenniz is an ITF approved game tracking solution that provides real-time info, such as automated line calling, stroke and serve speeds, shot charts, match statistics and more. Players and coaches at all levels can use Zenniz on and off the court to help improve their game. For tennis clubs, Zenniz is an easy and cost-effective way to upgrade to thenext level. Due to a new, innovative sensor technology, they’ve been able to keep the cost to a minimum, making Zenniz accessible for all clubs, coaches and players.
  • Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.
  • Happy Plant Protein — Changing the way plant proteins are made
Development Bank of Wales VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 20 investments in the past 12 months
Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Driverly — Driverly is an Insurtech based in Cardiff, Wales, with a mission to bring insurance to the 21st century. We offer AI-powered Insurance Intelligence at different stages of the customer life cycle.
  • nisien.ai — Industry-leading artificial and human intelligence for effective and ethical online safeguarding with Nisien AI.
  • Lumin Solutions
Mercia Fund Managers VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
  • Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.
  • Warwick Acoustics — Warwick Acoustics believe in creating products that are designed from the ground up in order to deliver the best personal audio listening experience available to customers.
  • Melius Cyber — Melius Cyber continuously monitors an organization's IT network, testing security and protecting it from the latest threats.
7percent Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Venture X is our top-notch financial investment firm Webflow Template created for modern VC and investor firms looking for a dark mode website design.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Magdrive — A revolutionary plasma thruster for the new space age
  • AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
  • Biological Black Box — A groundbreaking new field of science using real neurons for computing. Train the most complex AI models better, faster, and cheaper using 500 million years of biology.
MMC Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in the past 12 months
MMC is a venture capital fund investing in early stage, high-growth UK companies. Investing in technology companies at Seed and Series A.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • BlackWall — Protect your web site from hacking, content theft, crawling, and cloning!
  • ABEX — ABEX Capital focuses on algorithmic trading for digital assets using machine learning and high-frequency trading engines. It offers "Algorithmic Best Execution" solutions for institutional clients and is registered with the FCA for cryptoasset activities
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
Midven VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Inicio AI — A specialist Income & Expenditure trained virtual agent delivering improved CX and robust results
  • 4T2 Sensors — 4T2 Sensors is a fluid sensor designer and data analytics company that focuses on sensor technologies meant to analyze fluids in real-time utilizing electrical impulses.
  • Assemble You — Increase your learning and development skills with our podcast-style Power Skills audio learning. Unlock your potential with innovative training in multiple languages. Build a better you and embark on an exciting journey of self-improvement today!
Nauta Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 7 investments in the past 12 months
We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
  • NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
  • Unravel — Unravel delivers immersive digital transformation and engagement with travellers through short-format, shoppable videos.
Kelvin Capital VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We invest venture capital in to globally ambitious companies which have the potential to deliver a significant return to our investors
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chromacity — Chromacity manufacture the next generation of ultrafast lasers. Discover our fixed wavelength femtosecond lasers and picosecond OPOs.
  • Ingenious Audio — Ingenious Audio is a Scottish start up designing and manufacturing audio electronics."invisible guitar cable" is a compact plug in device which turns an analogue audio product, such as an electric guitar or amplifier into a wi-fi device.This system allows wireless connection of any existing guitar and amplifier; and for the firsttime will allow the use of wireless effect pedals.As the product outputs, wi-fi users can connect seamlessly to any wi-fi enabled pc, replacing the need for expensive recording and audio effects devices and crucially allows sharing of audio across the web.
  • Sofant Technologies — Sofant is developing a low cost RF MEMS technology that solves power consumption and heat problems in high frequency phased array antenna systems.
Business Growth Fund VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 32 investments in the past 12 months
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
  • United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sulmara — Innovation for a sustainable energy future | Sulmara
  • Besseges — ValvesTubesFittings.com launched in 2015 as the online arm of Besseges VTF and has become one of the leading online pipeline suppliers.
  • Miracle Design & Play — Miracle Design & Play specializes in designing and installing playgrounds for children.
Mercia Asset Management VC Fund · Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Netacea — Netacea takes a smarter approach to bot management. Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning quickly and accurately distinguishes bots from humans to protect websites, mobile apps and APIs from automated threats while prioritising genuine users. Actionable intelligence with data-rich visualisations empowers you to make informed decisions aboutyour traffic. The Netacea approach offers incredible speed, accuracy and transparency, solving the growing problem of credential stuffing and account takeover at scale. The technology is designed to complement existing controls such as WAF rulesets, rate limiting and threat databases to provide a deep analysis of all website visitors, actionable intelligence and real-time threat.The Netacea approach continuously monitors your web traffic to pinpoint the difference in automated bot activity vs genuine visitors, keeping you ahead of evolving bot threats. Choose to automatically block, redirect or challenge automated attacks in real-time, or receive alerts notifying you of potential threats. With access to rich dashboards and data, you can easily identify and stop account takeover attempts early in the attack chain.Learn more at www.netacea.com
  • Semble — The integrated clinical system for managing your patients' medical data and admin tasks.
  • Locate Bio — Locate Bio is a regenerative medicine development company focused on orthobiologics. Locate Bio exists to help surgeons improve the lives of people with debilitating spinal conditions. We are curious about what is possible, but ground all our work in robust scientific evidence. We relentlessly pursue high-value opportunities with clear unmetclinical needs.
Aster VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
  • Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
  • LevelTen Energy — LevelTen Energy provides transaction infrastructure for buyers, sellers, advisors, and financiers in the renewable energy economy.
Wayra VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Wise CX — Wise CX specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction for businesses and institutions. The company offers solutions that are designed to improve customer experiences through personalized attention and smart solutions. Wise CX's services include the development of chatbots and conversationalchannels, aiming to make customer interactions more efficient and effective. With a focus on compliance with current data protection regulations, Wise CX ensures that its solutions adhere to legal standards, providing a secure environment for customer data. The company's offerings are tailored to meet the needs of professional services, aiming to transform customer service into a more engaging and responsive experience.
  • Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
  • Just Move In — Just Move In makes home moving easy. We help you save time, hassle & money on your move by allowing you to easily manage the admin. You can set up utilities, find great deals on broadband, arrange removals & insurance and more.
Accel VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 89 investments in the past 12 months
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Recraft — The first generative AI design tool that lets users create and edit digital illustrations, vector art, icons, and 3D graphics in a uniform brand style.
  • Axe — Axe is a software firm that develops procurement software for businesses.
  • Biostate AI — Biostate AI develops generative AI that benefit all human health.
Vaekstfonden VC Fund · Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Denmark, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Wedio — Buy & Rent professional film equipment from trusted creators near you. Buy & rent cameras, lenses, drones with Global Coverage. Explore
  • Keepit — The Keepit Cloud is the most cost-effective solution on the market with 20+ years of experience. Learn more about our next-level data protection services
  • kleen hub — Kleen hub is Denmark's first digital return system for reusable coffee cups and food packaging.
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 23 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • eyva.ai — The decisonOS for beauty and personal care
  • GEMMABio — GEMMABio, a new therapeutics company, will serve as the research and innovation arm to speed the research of and global access to life-changing advanced therapies for those living with rare diseases.
  • peopleIX — peopleIX enables organisations to sustain commercial performance by making data-driven decisions about recruiting, employing, retaining, and utilising their most valuable asset: their people. people
Criteria Venture Tech VC Fund · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Pre-Seed to Series C) managing more than €300M of AUM.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
  • KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
  • iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.
tecnet equity VC Fund · Sankt Polten, Niederosterreich, Austria
tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Sipfront — Sipfront helps telecom operators to deliver better services by automating 24/7 active monitoring and by providing a test framework to simulate customer calls at scale
  • Orderlion — Streamline your wholesale business with Orderlion's ordering app. Automate orders, boost sales, and enhance customer loyalty. Find out more!
  • VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.
Kernel Capital VC Fund · Cork, Cork, Ireland
Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Ireland, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
  • Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
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