# Top 50 Local Startup Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Innovestor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services. ## Seed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS 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. ## Bernardo Hernandez - Type: Angel - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery 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. ## tecnet equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sankt Polten, Niederosterreich, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology tecnet equity is an Austrian venture capital fund investing in innovative high-tech companies with potential for significant growth. ## RubyLight - Type: VC Fund - Location: Riga, Riga, Latvia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Mobile, E-Commerce 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. ## Fernando Diana - Type: Angel - Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: News, Local, Fitness Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews ## Act Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Visionplus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet WE HELP YOU TO GROW FASTER! ## David Pritchard - Type: Angel - Location: Reading, Reading, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Health Care 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. ## Felix Ruiz Hernandez - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Content, Logistics 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. ## Enterprise Ireland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Felix Haas - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Mobile, Sports 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. ## Calibrate Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance 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. ## Club Italia Investimenti 2 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital. ## Antai Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Shopping, Marketplace We back incredible people and help them build disrupting products with the potential of changing the lives of millions. ## Committed Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Local, InsurTech, Insurance Committed Capital specialises in investing in and providing corporate finance advice to fast growing companies. ## Innovation Nest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce 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. ## Portugal Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Porto, Lisboa, Portugal - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care 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 ## 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. ## The FSE Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology 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. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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 ## ETF Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology 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. ## Tim Schumacher - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Internet 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. ## HOWZAT Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS 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. ## Criteria Venture Tech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Seed to Series B) managing more than €300M of AUM. ## Mehrdad Piroozram - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Insurance, Apps, Software Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc ## IBB Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet. ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA. ## Mercia Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit. ## SparkLabs Global Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology 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. ## Business Growth Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies. ## EnBW New Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid 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. ## Point Nine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet 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. ## Thibaut Rouffineau - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: iOS, Local, Events Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical ## Seed GmbH - Type: VC Fund - Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Health Care Investment company ## PreSeed Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PreSeed Ventures is the biggest and most succesful early stage investor in Denmark. For more than 20 years, PreSeed Ventures have assisted and financed talented entrepreneurs with early-stage investments, and we hold more than 70 companies in our portfolio. ## TS Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps TS Ventures We team up with outstanding entrepreneurs and support them as angel investors wholeheartedly. In 2001, Tim co-founded Sedo.com, the world's largest domain market place. Since selling the company, Tim is active as an entrepreneur and/or investor in various startups. In 2020, Tim has been awarded as best investor in Germany by the German Startup Association. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Eyeo (makers of AdBlock Plus) and co-founder of SaaS.Group, a Software as a Service portfolio company. ## TECH TRANSFER AGRIFOOD - Type: VC Fund - Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Baby TECH TRANSFER AGRIFOOD is a Venture Capital firm. ## Redgate Software - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: iOS, Local, Events Solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, any platform, anywhere. ## Principia SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software 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. ## Digital Pioneers - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Local, Banking Complexity down - Impact up. Made in Hamburg. ## Paul McGuire - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: iOS, Local, Events Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton. ## Seedrs - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs. ## Jonathan Quin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, CRM, Apps Jonathan co-founded World First in January 2004. His career before this included two years as Head of Business Development within the Financial Markets division of RBS. Prior to that he was at Citibank, initially as a trader before moving to the bank's global corporate sales desk. He then looked after the European sales of Citibank'sonline FX trading products. Jonathan holds a law and accountancy degree from the University of Edinburgh. ## Kite Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS Kite Ventures is a global investment company that specializes in marketplace and transactional network investments for startups and early stage companies. It focuses on high technology and internet investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies in Europe and New York.Kite Ventures is a Russia-based company that was founded in 2008 by EdwardShenderovich. ## Global Founders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel. ## Stefan Glänzer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years. ## dPixel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Blockchain dpixel seleziona e connette imprese, startup, talenti e istituzioni per generare innovazione e crescita attraverso programmi formativi, accelerazione... ## BLN Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Schönefeld, Brandenburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Video Games, Gaming We are an investment firm focusing on partnerships with aspiring companies in the venture capital and private equity space.