Top 50 Local Startup Investors in Europe in February 2025

Investor	Local Europe investments
Speedinvest	5
tecnet equity	4
Innovestor	4
Act Venture Capital	3
P101	3
Seed Capital	3
Bernardo Hernandez	3
HV Capital	2
Antai Ventures	2
Portugal Ventures	2
Club Italia Investimenti 2	2
Point Nine	2
Enterprise Ireland	2
EnBW New Ventures	2
Felix Ruiz Hernandez	2
RubyLight	2
SparkLabs Global Ventures	2
HOWZAT Partners	2
IBB Ventures	2
Business Growth Fund	2
Committed Capital	2
Visionplus	2
Mehrdad Piroozram	2
Innovation Nest	2
Fernando Diana	2
Mercia Asset Management	2
The FSE Group	2
Calibrate Management	2
Tim Schumacher	2
Felix Haas	2
Criteria Venture Tech	2
David Pritchard	2
ETF Partners	2
Paul Forster	2
Redgate Software	1
Luca Lani	1
Brendan Gill	1
ustwo	1
Social Discovery Group	1
Principia SGR	1
Maven Capital Partners	1
Digital Pioneers	1
Ballpark Ventures	1
FMA	1
Seed GmbH	1
Chris Mairs	1
Nate Macleitch	1
Shohet & Cie	1
Kima Ventures	1
Neil Davidson	1

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Gigs — Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing platforms custom phone & data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries.
GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth.

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 — Orderlion is aiming to become the gold standard for online ordering of restaurants & hotels from all their suppliers. Orderlion is already available in more than 20 cities in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and France with over 1.000 restaurants and hundreds of suppliers.Orderlion was designed for all types of hospitalitybusinesses (café, restaurant, hotel, chain). The order platform combines all suppliers and products in one app and enables customer-specific pricing. With little effort, the entire inventory of restaurants can be recorded and activated for automatic ordering processes. Orderlion counts numerous prominent restaurants among its customers. Orderlion was founded by Stefan Strohmer and Patrick Schubert in 2018 and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
VALANX Biotech — Protein conjugation. Specific, fast and cost effective.

Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, Denmark, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

MailMoo — Record one video. MailMoo personalizes it to thousands of leads.
Gesynta Pharma — Founded in 2017, Gesynta Pharma bases its R&D on research from the Karolinska Institutet. The most advanced drug candidate, GS-248, reduces inflammation and increases blood flow in the microvasculature, thereby having the potential to provide improved treatments for several serious diseases. In an ongoing clinical proof-of-concept study,GS-248 is being evaluated for its capacity to normalize vascular blood flow and reduce pain in patients with the autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis. Positive results from this study may lead to a rapid broadening of the development program towards additional indications, for example cardiovascular diseases and rheumatic diseases other than systemic sclerosis. Major shareholders include Industrifonden, Linc, Hadean Ventures, and a number of successful life science entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.gesynta.se
Neumirna Therapeutics — Founded in 2020, NEUmiRNA focuses on achieving transformative disease modification for neurological conditions.

Technology-focused, investing capital and expertise to fuel growth in the most promising ideas and companies. Raised c.€600m across multiple funds and invest from seed to growth.We look for companies with potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure, communications, Internetand mobile. We help founders create and scale businesses globally. We work as a small team with diverse strengths accessing a community of over 200 founders. The teams and companies we back scale their investor base as they scale their business execution and ambition. We work closely with them in this process. Over the past 25 years have built a broad network of US and European investors and founders that share our vision and approach.Act is based in Dublin, Ireland.Our most recent funds are supported by the European Investment Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
Mavarick AI — Explore Mavarick AI's Carbon Accounting Software Platform. Get accurate carbon emissions accounting data and generate auditable reports with ease.

P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
Carol — Carol is a tech-enabled healthcare provider delivering membership-based primary care services, on a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible and affordable for everyone. To achieve this goal, Carol leverages a highly scalable technology, combined with high quality clinical operations and a salaried provider model.
Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.

Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tembi — Market Intelligence platform with deep market data, insights and predictions for B2B companies that look for a competitive edge.
Landfolk — Landfolk is the new marketplace for the special holiday homes that are hidden around the country. We have hand-picked every single cottage, where there are proud and passionate hosts, who love their holiday homes, but also like to share it with others.
Embankment Group — Embankment Group is a recruitment consultancy specialising in candidate short markets. We pride ourselves on matching the best talent to the right companies.

Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fiuter — La primera plataforma que permite crear segmentos inteligentes de tus clientes para mejorar el marketing y las ventas de tu Ecommerce.
Citibox — Citibox is the software platform that automatically connects all couriers with online shoppers, allowing all parcels to be delivered conveniently and efficiently in low cost smart parcel boxes inside residential buildings, with no need for the receiver to be at home. Couriers benefit from a boost in productivity while online shoppers are able tosafely receive their parcels in their building and to pick them up at their convenience. The company was founded by David Bernabeu, a serial entrepreneur, and has received support of top tier accelerators, business angels and VCs of the Spanish startup ecosystem.
Verse — We are the bank of the new generation! With Verse, spend, share and enjoy your money without limits nor fees. Split expenses easily

We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

KoRo — KoRo is a fast-growing FoodTech startup - one of the leading brands for healthy, long-lasting and sustainable food.
Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.

We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Chile, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.
Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.

Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Portugal, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Hoopers — Global basketball community platform connecting players, fans and enthusiasts through products, contents, experiences and NFTs.
PluggableAI — Pluggable is the leading Meaningful Mobile Engagement solution where, through disruptive AI models and non-intrusive smartphone sensors, we maximize mobile app engagement.
Corium Biotech — Corium Biotech is an R&D company dedicated to the bioproduction of exotic leather destined to answer the current leather market needs for performant materials that respect both the environment and animal wellbeing.

Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Cryptio — We offer enterprise-grade accounting, reporting, and audit software for your digital assets.
Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
Hula Earth — Biodiversity Monitoring for Nature, Agriculture, and Infrastructure

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Advise — Advise Freemium is a ground-breaking automated data analytics for CPG solution. Discover how Advise can assist your Revenue Growth Management.
NUA Surgical — NUA Surgical is an award-winning Irish MedTech company developing innovative solutions in obstetrics and gynaecology.
LaNua Medical — At LaNua Medical it is our mission to develop disruptive image-guided technologies providing safe and effective endovascular solutions.

We support entrepreneurs to develop new solutions for a sustainable future - people, planet, profit - by leveraging our financially driven VC setup with the reach and skills of our corporate investor EnBW.

Investment focus

Software, Energy Management, Renewable Energy
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Austria, France

Portfolio highlights

Sunhat — Sunhat empowers sustainability teams to deliver audit-ready responses for customer questionnaires, reporting checklists and ESG ratings.
enspired — enspired is a fully digital energy trading-as-a-service company. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our AI-based trading services. Our team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe thatthe way power is traded will soon drastically change - in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. All trades get executed in a fully automated fashion using advanced AI algorithms that outperform the market and monetize our client's flexibility to the fullest while supporting grid stability. Our clients include leading utilities, operators of renewables and batteries or consumption assets across Europe.
Cozero — Cozero's carbon accounting and climate management solutions help enterprises streamline their sustainability efforts. Start making an impact today with Cozero's ClimateTech.

Félix Ruiz, founder of Tuenti and president of Jobandtalent. He has invested in startups Jobandtalent, Syltek, Vitcord, Fudeat, Glovo or Deporvillage. As a business angel does not follow any pattern, invest for the team. Bet on internationally scalable projects that do not depend on a single market. Personal investments are made as entertainmentwithout being involved in day to day. When it involves investors, it decides to be part of the company's operations, such as Jobandtalent. He is considered an architect and accelerator of companies, invests in the technology and restoration sectors. His two exits are Tuenti and Buytheface.

Investment focus

Ride Sharing, Transportation, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Genially — Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make animpact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away.Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.
GuruCall — Next step on knowledge sharing and content platform.
Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

RubyLight is experienced tech entrepreneurs that founded a new technology investment fund in 2010.Their passion is to help fast growing internet and mobile startups to scale and expand globally. Social media, content sharing, communications, and crowd sourcing are their favorite areas of investment.RubyLight offers startups its professionaltech team, proprietary technology, and financial funding to help young companies scale up and expand globally much faster than their competitors.

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
Yaga SA — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
Peerby — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, South Korea, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Splab — Grow your influence and expand your network with events.
Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
Tella — Service

Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.

Investment focus

Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classiﬁcation system which allows users to select accommodation based on their diﬀerent levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

IBB Ventures is a venture capital and mezzanine arm of Investitionsbank Berlin specializing in seed/startup, early venture, and mid venture investments. The firm invests in technology-oriented companies and companies from the creative industries. It typically invests in information and communication sector with a focus on hardware andsoftware, network technology, new media, and internet and mobile technologies; life science sector with a focus on biotechnology and media technology; and industrial technologies sector with a focus on software, PPS, supply chain management, micro and nanotechnology, environmental and power technology, automation, manufacturing technology, transport technology and logistics, and new materials. The firm also invests in movies, broadcast, television, publisher, music, entertainment, advertising, fashion, design, architecture, multimedia, games, software, and art and culture. It invests in companies based in Berlin. It typically invests between €0.25 million ($0.32 million) and €3 million ($3.83 million) per transaction. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies. IBB Ventures was founded in 1997 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mediaire — mediaire supports radiologists with AI-based tools for MRI reporting. This enables them to make a more accurate and objective assessment even faster.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
ARC Intelligence — ARC Intelligence operates as a supplier of data systems driven by AI for small and medium-sized businesses.

BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.

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.

Committed Capital specialises in investing in and providing corporate finance advice to fast growing companies.

Investment focus

Local, InsurTech, Insurance
Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Konsileo — With over 35 years of experience, Konsileo Commercial Insurance Brokers protect businesses and mitigate risks. Contact us on 020 8148 9492
Living Map Company — Digital mapping, wayfinding and positioning for people, assets and places. Turn data into insight, turn insight into action with Living Map.

WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

Investment focus

Insurance, Apps, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cola — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
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Innovation Nest invest in early stage B2B SaaS startups from Europe and help them grow from local to global using our network of contacts and strong in-house competencies. It strongly believes that the path to growth leads through Silicon Valley and strongly encourage our portfolio startups to set up presence there. The company supports high-techcompanies to grow faster and scale their business globally.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Poland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kenjo — All-in-one human resources (HR) software created for SMEs that need to optimise their processes. Click to find out more!
Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Build the loyalty program of your dreams 10x faster, and run it on the most powerful loyalty platform with the best Workflow editor. All powered by AI.
AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.

Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews

Investment focus

News, Local, Fitness
Seed, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.
Fitprime — Il Partner unico per il Wellbeing Aziendale

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

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.

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. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Wilder Sensing — Wilder Sensing analyses audio and other data sources to produce actionable insights into the status and trends of biodiversity on your site.
Cybaverse — Cybaverse is a CREST accredited Managed Security Service Provider: Penetration Testing, Monitoring Detection and Response, Cyber Essentials.
Green Power Solutions — Green Power Solutions is a progressive business committed to providing innovative, environmentally friendly energy solutions. Green Power Solutions maintains our technology satisfies current demands while creating a more environmentally friendly future. With real-time monitoring, sophisticated analytics, and seamless integration, our flagshipproduct, the 3MS platform, is revolutionizing off-grid asset management and providing genuinely green, potent solutions to companies all over the world.

Calibrate is focused on long-duration capital investments. Our firm belief is that having a longer timeline for investing will generate superior returns. We do not believe in short term solutions.Our ethos is to operate with integrity and to add value across the spectrum of the investment cycle.Our mission is to provide the means to support,sustain, and enhance stakeholder value; to generate an environment aligned with value creation.Our business is founded upon our core values and a measured approach to risk management as our name suggests.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.
Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the #1 On Demand Booking Platform for Temporary Staff, providing quality vetted workers to over 1000 Hospitality, Event and Venue businesses in London and transforming the traditional agency industry.Staff Heroes removes the middleman giving Businesses control and transparency with as much or little control as they wish.Businesses have the option to view Worker profiles and ratings allowing the creation of favourite pools of workers. Vice versa workers are able to rate Businesses based on their experience.Staff Heroes works with many large businesses such as Four Seasons, Hilton, BBC, ISS, Servest, Virgin Atlantic, Youngs, Aramark, Delaware North as well as with over 1'200 SMEs who have signed up to the platform since launch.Staff Heroes empowers Heroes (workers), allowing them to have control of where and when they work and creating a more democratic working environment with reward and gamification to incentivise loyalty.Staff Heroes was founded by Laurent Gibb in December 2015; and is headquartered in London, England.
Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

Investment focus

Apps, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

JUMiNGO — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

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.

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 — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.

David Pritchard serves as an advisor of Hassle.com. David was Founder and Managing Director of OpenTable Europe. David has enjoyed a 30 year transatlantic career as a senior operating executive in primarily US based software before becoming an angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
Allegrow — Allegrow is the #1 inbox placement platform, we're helping more of your emails land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders.
JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.

ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
Next Sense — Next Sense creates climate-neutral buildings with data insights, simulations, and AI control.
Beams — Beams is a new renovation platform. We offer a seamless, end-to-end service to plan, design and build every room in your home.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

Founded in 1999, Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools used by more than 500,000 IT professionals worldwide. The company currently specializes in SQL Server and .NET tools. Red Gate has been chosen as one of The Sunday Times (UK) 100 best small companies to work for in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

Luca Lani is a Founder & CEO at CityNews.

Investment focus

News, Local
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.

Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

We help businesses grow by creating digital products and services that matter.

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Lifestyle
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hoop — Hoop is an app that helps families across the UK discover things to do with their kids.
Curiscope — Inspiring curious kids to develop a love for Science. Their beautifully designed Augmented Reality products allow children to explore the world around them in ways they never thought possible.Their first product. The Virtuali-Tee is an Augmented Reality T-Shirt. Point their free app (on iOS & Android) at the 100% cotton supersoft tee andwatch it bring the Science of Anatomy to life.

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies. It unites more than 40 brands, an investment fund and a venture studio.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Mobile
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, China

Portfolio highlights

My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
Woebot Health — With Woebot Health, you can deliver instantly accessible, chat-based mental health support to patients and members, with the goal of offering the tools and insights to enhance their care experience, improve population health and increase provider efficiency.
Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

Maven is one of the UK's leading private equity and investment firms. We provide essential capital and expertise to help businesses unlock their potential.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Drovo — The GIG economy driven on-car mobility media Platform that delivers high reach at low cost CPM via vehicle wrapped advertising campaigns for D2C brands. Adverttu - Get your brand on the road.
Sensoteq — We specialise in wireless sensor solutions for remote machine health monitoring. Sensoteq's technology enables predictive maintenance of industrial applications, preventing costly downtime and increasing efficiency.
McKenzie Intelligence Services Ltd — We deliver actionable intelligence on a global scale, empowering informed decision making for insurance and commercial clients across the world

Das exklusive Barclays Arena Hamburg stellen kostenfrei eine EventLoge. Wir wollen spannende StartUps in einem kleinen privaten Kreis zusammenbringen.

Investment focus

Apps, Local, Banking
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.

Ballpark Ventures is a small, boutique fund investing in early stage technology startups. Their partners are all successful entrepreneurs and at this stage, investing their own money.

Investment focus

Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

FMA is a company that provides music downloading services.

Investment focus

News, Local
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

CityNews — Citynews is an italian based network of local newspaper sites. Actually active in 9 cities Citynews planning to open in the 30 principal italian cities. Actually 1,4 million visits each months.

Investment company

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
LoanLink24 Mortgage — LoanLink24 is Germany's online mortgage broker that transforms the traditional process of getting home loans and helps expats get the best rate in buying property in Germany.

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Quantly — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Android
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.

Henry Shohet set up Shohet & Cie in 1991, in Geneva, whose activities are Portfolio Management and Financial Engineering in the interest of Private Groups.

Investment focus

News, Local, Events
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Streetlife — streetlife.com, the local social network, has a simple aim: to help people across Britain make the most of where they live by connecting with nearby residents, groups, organisations and businesses.The streetlife.com team believes that better connected neighbours build stronger communities, and that digital media has a key role to play inbringing together people with busy routines or reduced mobility, to discuss and improve the local issues they care about.The site provides an easy way for locals to share practical information, advice, opinions, skills and resources. People sign up using their postcode, and can start and join conversations with others in their area. Users can customise their settings so they control how much information they receive, the areas they're interested in, and what they share about themselves.Main uses of the site include:- discussing nearby news, crime, planning proposals and public services- finding locals with common interests, organising and attending social groups and events- sharing skills and belonging with neighbours, from hedge-trimmers to spreadsheet skills- recommending and discovering local businesses and tradespeople- promoting, campaigning and volunteering for community projects and local causesstreetlife.com is a privately funded limited company headquartered in Covent Garden, London.Following a successful pilot in the London Borough of Wandsworth, streetlife.com is now available nationwide. The service is free for residents discussing local issues. Find out more and watch a short video narrated by Stephen Fry at www.streetlife.com.

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Naboo — Give your teams the freedom to meet where they want, when they need
Welfaire — Welfaire is an insurance and health insurance startup for the self-employed.
Latitude — Venture Orbital Systems provides a tailor-made service for NanoSat & CubeSat operators.

Neil Davidson - Founder @ Business of Software

Investment focus

CRM, Local, Security
Angel, Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Apiary — Apiary provides the leading API-First platform designed specifically to help companies accelerate and control the design, development, and documentation of APIs.
Hassle.com — Hassle is a free to the consumer, destination web site that puts together buyers and sellers of home based services such as cleaners, tutors, personal trainers, and driving instructors. It enables the consumer to search for a vetted provider, read ratings and reviews, and instantly book and pay for a service. They have started with domesticcleaners, providing real time order fulfilment for busy customers across London.
CryptoSeal — CryptoSeal provides Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) as a service.