# Top 50 Startup Investors in Bulgaria in June 2026

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 80
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

## LAUNCHub Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 38
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. 

## Vitosha Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Information Technology

Vitosha is a EUR 26m early-stage VC fund investing in innovative businesses in Bulgaria

## Impetus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Early stage venture capital fund partnering with founders at Seed and Series A stage.
We are not simply the next investor who sends you money and shows up at board meetings. Our team seeks to empower you throughout your journey with actionable, game-changing support.

## New Vision 3
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Consulting, Service Industry, Solar

New Vision 3 is an Early-stage Venture Capital fund.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more.
From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster.
Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together.
Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More.

## Hristo Hristov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Hristo Hristov - Chief Executive Officer @ DarikNews.bg

## SeedBlink
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

All-in-one solution for fundraising, managing and trading equity. Explore promising tech startups and flexible funding opportunities with SeedBlink.

## Zoran Arsovski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Internet

Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.

## BrightCap Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

We invest in early-stage tech startups with roots in Southeast Europe, working on defensible technology and a clear strategy for entering affluent markets.

## Neo Gravity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Pet, Craft Beer, Veterinary

Neo Gravity is the 4th successive investment fund of serial entrepreneurs active in Southeast Europe since 2005.Investment strategy is to build increasing stakes in high-end consumer goods & services providers and in personal mobility. Investee companies and targets may be based in SEE but operate on a global scaleRapid digitalization ofthe global economy, convergence of EM economies to Western standards and spread of the pandemic have changed the purchasing behavior of the connected consumer.

## Morningside Hill Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, AgTech, Farming

Private investment partnership

## Mihail Stoychev
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Apps, Shipping

Mihail Stoychev - Founder and CEO @ SMSBump

## PostScriptum Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Postscriptum Ventures is a venture capital group with a broad portfolio of sustainable investments. Established in 2006, Postscriptum invests in innovative technology and disruptive business models, with a particular focus on the ongoing (r)evolution of the energy sector. We prefer to invest in early stage ventures where our expertise and experience can leverage our financial investments to help realize the full growth potential of the business.

## BlackPeak Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Private Equity, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Leisure, Software

BlackPeak Capital is a co-investment growth equity fund focused on investing in high-growth Southeast European small and medium enterprises. BlackPeak Capital is funded by the European Investment Fund, part of the European Investment Bank, through the JEREMIE initiative for support of the SME enterprises in Bulgaria.We invest in equity,mezzanine, and other forms of hybrid capital to support the investment plans of dynamic regional companies. As a co-investment fund, BlackPeak Capital invests alongside other private institutional or individual investors on pari-passu terms. Our target investment ticket is between €1-8 million per transaction.

## Sofia Angels Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Agri supply chain tech and finance solutions.World best visual search platformImproving transportation industry via advanced technology and

## Cherry Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

## Georgi Petrov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Apps, Shipping

Georgi Petrov is a Chief Executive Officer and Founder at SMSBump.

## Svetozar Georgiev
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.

## North Base Media
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Digital Media, Publishing, Advertising

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. TheFund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape. NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

## Daniel Tomov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Small and Medium Businesses

Daniel is founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund and investing in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups in CEE. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse domains ranging from software to mobile to consumer goods torenewable energy. He has been lucky to meet and befriend with some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in our region.

## Silverline Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Retail, Security, E-Commerce

Silverline Capital provides mezzanine and equity financing solutions to mid-market businesses in Bulgaria.

## Valeri Petrov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, B2B, SaaS

Valeri is primarily in charge with investment opportunities in Bulgaria and the Western Balkans. Prior to that, he was Partner at Bancroft Private and, before joining Bancroft, he was Investment Director with Global Finance, running the company’s activities in Bulgaria. Valeri led and co-led many transactions in various countries acrossSouth-Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey among others). Prior to moving to the Private Equity industry, Valeri ran Orgachim, the largest paints & coating company in Bulgaria (backed by private equity funds, including RAEF) as CEO, where he completed a successful turnaround. Valeri also worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell, and held various positions within the organization. Valeri holds an MSc in Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia. He also attended Management Academy in London and ETP on Business Management in Delaware University, Sofia branch.

## HV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

## Casey Armstrong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newport Beach, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps

Casey Armstrong is the CMO at ShipBob.

## European Investment Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy

The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation, and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.

## Bogomil Balkansky
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. 

He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Accession Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Focus: Manufacturing, Health Care, Telecommunications

Central Europe's leading provider of financing solutions for middle market businesses.

## Ivaylo Simov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Coffee, Big Data, Agriculture

Ivaylo Simov devised eleven’s strategy. His notorious shyness can be overcome only with ample amounts of beer, preferably while skiing. He was previously a director in a private equity fund, but now wants to change the VC industry from the bottom up.

## Bulgarian Development Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Finance, Software, Health Care

Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) is a financial institution 99.9%-owned by the Bulgarian state. It was established in 1999 as the Encouragement Bank with main focus to support small and medium-sized enterprises. BDB is among the top four Bulgarian banks in terms of credit rating, rated "BBB" with a positive outlook by Fitch Ratings. It isthe only Bulgarian bank to provide direct financing as well as financing via other credit institutions. BDB is the best-positioned local bank to raise funds from international partners. Its subsidiaries are the National Guarantee Fund, which issues guarantees for bank loans to the non-financial sector; the Micro Financing Institution Jobs, which provide financing to SMEs and start-ups; the Capital Investments Fund as well as the BDB Leasing and BDB Factoring.

## Freigeist Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Apps

Freigeist Capital is the investment company of Frank Thelen, Marc Sieberger and Alex Koch. We invest in deep tech startups and excellent founders.

## South Central Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belgrade, Vojvodina, Serbia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

South Central Ventures is dedicated to investments in startups, small and medium globally oriented technology companies in SE Europe.

## Imprimatur Capital Fund Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a venture capital firm focusing on high-technology at an early stage in its commercial development. We invest in start-up technology businesses which are based on innovative intellectual property, are led by strong teams and have high international growth potential.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management, based inLatvia, manages seed and start-up funds with investors including the Latvian Guarantee Agency, other institutional investors and some private investors. The company source investment opportunities primarily from the Baltic/Nordic/Russia region.Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a partner firm of Imprimatur Capital Ltd, headquartered in London and with investment operations in Europe, Russia, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the US.

## Neo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Aerospace

Neo Ventures is the first open-ended early stage investor, based in Eastern Europe. The founders have backed more than 30 startups and exited 10 successfully. We invest in game-changing businesses, without geographic limitations. We partner with exceptional founder teams to challenge incumbents in markets ripe for change or to create entirely newmarkets. Neo Ventures funds and then supports the founders in business planning, scaling operations, follow-on investments, making the best of each opportunity and dealing with hard situations. Our investment focus is on data analytics, computer vision and remote sensing addressing disruptive opportunities across the high-growth SpaceTech, BioTech and Security verticals.

## NEVEQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Analytics

NEVEQ (New Europe Venture Equity) is a venture capital fund focused on seed and early stage investments enabling companies to scale and reach growth stage. The fund has invested among others in business intelligence, travel technology, semantic technology, social media, telecommunication solutions and data center businesses.

## Skynet Trading
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Crypto market making experts with 5+ years of experience. We provide stable liquidity, tight spreads, and 24/7 coverage for your digital assets. Book a call today.

## Petr Baron
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Internet, Marketing

Petr Baron CEO TBI Financial Services

## 3TS Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.

## Marco Houwen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Marco Houwen, together with his partners LuxConnect and Datacenter Luxembourg, founded LuxCloud S.A. in April 2010.This partnership sets out to attract international SME and SMI, out of the field of Software development, to the Grand Duchy. LuxCloud will put Luxembourg firmly on the International Internet map and deliver services to SMB’s allover Europe.In 2000, Marco, in association with Xavier Buck, founded DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, now recognized as one of the biggest Internet success stories in Luxembourg. Companies in the Group include Datacenter Luxembourg, LuxCloud, EuroDNS, e-Brand Services and voipGATE, to name but a few.Passionate about the promotion of Luxembourg, Marco is co-founder and President of LU-CIX A.s.b.l. and as such, contributes actively on the promotion of the Luxembourgish e-commerce hub.In addition to his role as LuxCloud CEO, Marco is CEO of Datacenter Luxembourg and a board member of the DCL Group.

## Michael Gutsmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Michael Gutsmann is a CFO at Bigpoint.

## Openfund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Travel, SaaS

Openfund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, Greece, the Openfund brings together an exceptional team of executives, an extensive list of advisors and a number of passionate investors to provide everything a team of entrepreneurs needs to turn ideas into products and success.

## Denis Gorbunov
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketing, E-Commerce

Denis Gorbunov

## SquareOne Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage

## Thomas Peruzzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Thomas Peruzzi - CTO @ Virtual Minds

## Xavier Buck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Farming, Software

Xavier has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1996. After co-founding several ventures like Datecenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS, eBrandServices and DomainInvest, Xavier's current role consists in deploying the group's international activities with a special focus on the domain name industry, internet traffic and traffic monetization. Xavierholds chairman positions in his formerly founded ventures and is director of a series of companies including DomainTools.com, eBrandServices, OpenRegistry and LeftoftheDot.

## MetaCartel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

they aim to become the creator epicentre of the Web 3 movement,a hunting ground for the earliest of early ventures around decentralized applications and crypto experiments.they fund and support individuals and teams that aim to part-take in the collective effort towards this vision.they are a coordinating body, we are the connectors and fabric ofthe community.they are the infamous el cartel de la meta.

## Selahattin Zoralioğl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, Web Apps

Selahattin Zoralioğl

## Martin Schödel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Medical Device, Musical Instruments

Martin Schödel

## Iliya Valchanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education

Iliya Valchanov is the Co-founder of 3veta.

## ZBS CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.

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