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Top 50 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Europe (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Europe Manufacturing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Manufacturing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Venture - Series Unknown round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Bpifrance
VC Fund
113 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $752k–$34M
HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund
78 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $790k–$31M
SOSV
VC Fund
70 United States, China, Canada Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $50k–$5M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
69 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $123k–$2.5M
Almi Invest
VC Fund
65 Sweden, Norway, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Health Care, Information Technology $226k–$3.5M
Business Growth Fund
VC Fund
64 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $3.4M–$22M
Hiventures
VC Fund
53 Hungary, United States, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $18k–$2.9M
Par Equity
VC Fund
52 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $103k–$4.3M
Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund
51 United Kingdom, United States, Philippines Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $991k–$44M
EISMEA
VC Fund
44 Spain, Italy, United Kingdom Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology $53k–$2.6M
The FSE Group
VC Fund
40 United Kingdom, United States, Canada Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $106k–$5.4M
Bayern Kapital
VC Fund
33 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Health Care, SaaS $1.2M–$132M
Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund
33 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $19k–$5.5M
CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund
33 Italy, United States, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $483k–$23M
Finorpa
VC Fund
29 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Manufacturing, Software, Industrial $212k–$8.6M
Chalmers Ventures AB
VC Fund
29 Sweden, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology $5.8k–$3.5M
Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Software, Health Care $119k–$8.4M
Foresight Group
VC Fund
28 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$8.3M
360 Capital
VC Fund
28 France, Italy, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$33M
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical $582k–$5.9M
Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, France Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $199k–$7.5M
Portugal Ventures
VC Fund
24 Portugal, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $107k–$3.6M
Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
24 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $54k–$41M
UVC Partners
VC Fund
24 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $2.2M–$175M
Future Planet Capital
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Singapore Seed, Convertible Note Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $670k–$5.1M
Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $648k–$8.3M
TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund
23 Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Health Care $796k–$15M
Antler
VC Fund
22 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States, Finland Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1.3M–$168M
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $68k–$6.3M
Innovate UK
VC Fund
22 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Health Care, Biotechnology, Software $58k–$3.5M
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
VC Fund
21 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $167k–$26M
GO CAPITAL
VC Fund
20 France, Canada, Israel Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Biotechnology, Health Care $549k–$13M
IP Group
VC Fund
20 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Series A, Series B Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology $265k–$68M
bmp Ventures
VC Fund
20 Germany, United States, Austria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing $162k–$12M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
20 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $26k–$8.3M
Oxford Technology Management
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Software $33k–$8.5M
Aster
VC Fund
19 France, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown Energy, Software, Manufacturing $281k–$27M
Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund
19 Finland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $430k–$22M
Starquest Capital
VC Fund
19 France, Singapore, United States Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $300k–$20M
Tesi
VC Fund
19 Finland, United States, Switzerland Series A, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $2.4M–$46M
Join Capital
VC Fund
18 Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing $1.1M–$27M
SOSV HAX
VC Fund
18 United States, Canada, China Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Robotics, Manufacturing, Health Care $25k–$4.7M
Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $375k–$12M
Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Portugal Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Health Care, Manufacturing $257k–$3.3M
IQ Capital
VC Fund
17 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.3M–$40M
Siparex Groupe
VC Fund
17 France, United States, Italy Private Equity, Series A Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology $1.5M–$27M
Atlantic
VC Fund
17 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
Project A Ventures
VC Fund
17 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.4M–$75M
Primo Capital
VC Fund
17 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace $358k–$49M
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 113 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1723
  • Round size: Seed $752k–$6.1M; Series A $2.6M–$34M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $27M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Melvan — Melvan develops, finances, builds and operates solar and wind installations, combined, where relevant, with storage facilities.
  • WAAT — WAAT operates fast charging stations for electric and rechargeable hybrid vehicles. Its services are aimed at all private sector market segments, including condominiums, lessees, tertiary, and real estate development. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris with sales offices in Malakoff and Bagneux (92).
  • Nepsis — AI-powered software and debt advisory for renewable energy developers. Modern financing solutions for small & medium renewable projects.
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HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
VC Fund · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 78 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in various sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 781
  • Round size: Seed $790k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $841k–$2.8M; Series A $3M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $515M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Selfapy — Selfapy offers a therapy support tool that helps recognize negative patterns of thought and train new behavior. Selfapy is your guided, self-help online course against depression with a personal psychologist as a companion.
  • Smartblue — Smartblue develops and runs software and processes to monitor and optimize zero emission energy systems. As a hardware independent specialist Smartblue delivers a software service for the maintenance, life-cycle management, production forecasting and remote control of photovoltaic and energy storage systems all together in one centralized “SmartControl” Operations and Control Center web application. We help our customers drive down overall operational cost through automation, smart failure detection and big data analysis on imminent defects.
  • OMEICOS Therapeutics — OMEICOS Therapeutics is developing a novel, first-in-class, small molecule utilizing a new Mode of Action. OMEICOS' novel therapeutic strategy is based upon the discovery of natural metabolites of omega-3 fatty acids that mediate a strong anti-arrhythmic effect. In contrast to all other anti-arrhythmic drugs, OMEICOS' substances activatean endogenous cardio-protective signaling pathway that not only stabilizes the heart rhythm but shall provide curative effects to the diseased organ by preventing its electrical and structural remodeling.
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SOSV
VC Fund · Princeton, New Jersey, United States · 70 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

SOSV offers pre-seed capital and follow-on financial support to startups focusing on deep technology and scientific innovation. Founders utilize purpose-built laboratory facilities and engineering spaces to accelerate product development and testing. The firm facilitates connections between entrepreneurs and a network of investors through structured matchmaking events and technology summits.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, China, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3729
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $50k–$1.6M; Convertible Note $50k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $306M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
  • Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
  • Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 69 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 53 in the past 12 months

Discover the UK's leading SEIS Fund, offering tax-efficient investments in innovative startups. Join thousands of savvy investors and raise capital for your business with SFC Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 783
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$2M; Pre-Seed $170k–$858k; Venture - Series Unknown $201k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.9M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Obsero — Obsero is an AI search intelligence platform and consultancy designed for marketing and communications teams. The platform tracks, measures, and optimizes how brands surface, get cited, and are recommended across Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI search assistants.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
  • NEARHUMAN — Nearhuman develops intelligent safety systems for micromobility and other physical-world devices. The company focuses on edge AI and computer vision that run directly on vehicles such as e-scooters and e-bikes to detect hazards, monitor pedestrian proximity, and support real-time decision making. Its flagship product, Scootrr, is an AI-powered safety platform that enables on-device perception, automatic deceleration, and safety analytics without reliance on cloud connectivity. Nearhuman designs its technology to integrate with existing shared micromobility fleets, collaborating with operators, vehicle manufacturers, and research partners. The company also provides dashboards and tools that turn on-vehicle events into route-level safety intelligence for stakeholders such as fleet operators and city authorities. Its work spans hardware vision kits, embedded firmware, perception models, and supporting software for deployment and monitoring.
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Almi Invest
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 65 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Almi Invest is Sweden’s most active early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across Sustainability, Industry, Tech, and Life Science. We invest from pre-seed to Series A, always co-investing with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. Our portfolio spans sustainable solutions, industrial innovation, deep tech, SaaS, and life science, supporting startups that drive economic and environmental progress. With €430 million under management and over 1,000 investments since 2009, we have backed leading companies like MIPS, Tobii, and Neo4j, with notable exits to Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Qlik. Beyond capital, we offer engaged ownership, providing strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to an extensive investor network. Almi Invest is part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Sweden, Norway, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 552
  • Round size: Seed $226k–$2.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $326k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $64M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstQFM — FirstQFM is a Stockholm-based quantum technology company building proprietary foundation models for quantum computing.
  • Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
  • Indevex AB — Indevex is a science-based and privately owned biotech company from Sweden. A natural and reliable partner, providing evidence based natural nutrition concepts based on the patented NGC™ Formula.
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Business Growth Fund
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 64 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 608
  • Round size: Series A $4.1M–$21M; Private Equity $6.4M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.4M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $97M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
  • Arran Aromatics —
  • Boost Juice Bars UK — Boost Juice Bars UK offer a range of smoothies and freshly squeezed juice products.
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Hiventures
VC Fund · Budapest, Budapest, Hungary · 53 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

As one of the largest and most active venture capital fund partners in Central and Eastern Europe our mission is to create new ways of equity funding for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential as well as more traditional businesses for the purpose of establishing a sustainable and competitive SME and enterpriseecosystem both in Hungary and in the region

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Hungary, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 708
  • Round size: Seed $118k–$935k; Pre-Seed $18k–$138k; Series A $163k–$2.9M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $493M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
  • SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT equips bridges, tunnels and buildings with automated sensors and software, giving engineers real-time, reliable data on structural health.
  • Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 52 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 305
  • Round size: Seed $253k–$4.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $103k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $122M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
  • PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
  • Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more
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Parkwalk Advisors
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 51 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009, anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth. Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 338
  • Round size: Seed $991k–$4.9M; Series A $1.6M–$14M; Series B $1.8M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
  • MoA Technology — We harness the principles of natural selection to accelerate discovery for better, safer herbicides so farmers can continue to feed the world.
  • Quantum Motion — Quantum Motion delivers scalable silicon-based quantum computing using standard semiconductor manufacturing technology.
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EISMEA
VC Fund · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 44 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

EISMEA is an executive agency of the European Commission that implements European Union programs supporting innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the Single Market. The agency manages the European Innovation Council and European Innovation Ecosystems programs under Horizon Europe. It also implements the SME component of the Single Market Programme and the Interregional Innovation Investments instrument. EISMEA provides funding and support for innovators, researchers, businesses, regions, and other organizations through grants, procurement, investment, and advisory programs. Its activities cover innovation development, SME competitiveness, entrepreneurship, market access, consumer policy, standardization, and interregional innovation. The agency also supports the implementation of EU policies and programs related to innovation ecosystems and economic development.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Grant, Venture - Series Unknown, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3546
  • Round size: Seed $53k–$800k; Grant $54k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $573k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AGADE — Esoscheletri Agade | Il primo esoscheletro intelligente per lavoratori progettato per ridurre il rischio di disturbi muscolari delle spalle nella movimentazione manuale dei carichi.
  • BroadBit Batteries — BroadBit is a technology company developing revolutionary new batteries using novel sodium-based chemistries to power the future green economy.
  • Aenitis Technologies — We develop innovative devices for cells therapy processing using Acoustic Radiation Forces.
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The FSE Group
VC Fund · Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom · 40 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

The FSE Group provides growth finance and support for ambitious UK businesses, helping SMEs start, scale and succeed through tailored funding solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 279
  • Round size: Seed $294k–$2.6M; Debt Financing $106k–$633k; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $88M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Spotta — Spotta's smart pest systems help pest control monitor and identify pests. Solutions for hospitality, care homes, agriculture, farming and forestry.
  • Amino —
  • Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
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Bayern Kapital
VC Fund · Landshut, Bayern, Germany · 33 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Bayern Kapital (founded at the end of 1995) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the LfA Foerderbank Bayern (Bavaria‘s development bank). Bayern Kapital’s objective is to finance research and development as well as the market launch of new products, product diversifications, and expansion of the market share. The requesting company has to be located in Bavaria. Industries are e. g. IT/software, life sciences, new materials, micro-systems and environmental technologies. Bayern Kapital and its funds have invested in more than 250 companies and currently manages funds to the value of EUR 340 m. The five investing funds currently managed by Bayern Kapital are Seedfonds Bayern, Clusterfonds Start-Up!, Innovationsfonds, Innovationsfonds EFRE and Wachstumsfonds Bayern.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.3M; Series A $3.9M–$32M; Series B $3.9M–$132M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2010

Portfolio highlights

  • Hema.to — Flow cytometry analysis software, re-imagined. From raw FCS and LMD data to finalized report with AI-powered CellStudio.
  • Arcos — Arcos is a civil safety and security technology company that builds and operates modern infrastructure protection and alarm management systems.
  • HyImpulse Technologies — HyImpulse develops dedicated sub-orbital and orbital launch services using hybrid propulsion-based launch vehicles. Their SR75 is a single stage sounding rocket using a hybrid rocket engine to deliver institutional and commercial experiments into a micro gravity environment during a suborbital flight.
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Development Bank of Wales
VC Fund · Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom · 33 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 296
  • Round size: Seed $279k–$3M; Debt Financing $19k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $383k–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Reacta Biotech — Reacta Biotech has been established to develop, manufacture and commercialise oral food challenge materials to pharmaceutical standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
  • MeOmics Technology — MeOmics Technology is a biotech company with a focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of mental health illnesses. The company operates in the manufacturing industry and has a team of 9 employees. The team includes experts in Neuronal Cell Biology and Neuropsychopharmacology. The company's mission is to leverage technology to enhancethe understanding and treatment of mental health conditions.
  • Outlook Expeditions — Outlook Expeditions provide overseas educational expeditions, adventure travel and service-learning projects for schools.
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CDP Venture Capital
VC Fund · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 33 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

CDP Venture Capital Sgr - National Innovation Fund aims to make venture capital a cornerstone of the country's economic development and innovation, creating the conditions for an overall and sustainable growth of the venture capital ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 302
  • Round size: Seed $483k–$8.1M; Series A $3.3M–$23M; Venture - Series Unknown $652k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $212M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Evja — Evja supports growers in optimizing the management and monitoring of irrigation, nutrition and protection of their crops through the use of OPI, the most advanced system for precision agriculture .
  • TrueLayer — We power faster and safer online payments with our open banking payments network. Onboard users, accept payments & make payouts in seconds. Learn more today.
  • Tretau — E-mobility is powered by its core - the electric motor. We at Tau are at the very core of the core: the copper winding wire, the magnetic core, the electrical steel.We just make it bet.
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Finorpa
VC Fund · Lens, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France · 29 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Finorpa is a venture capital firm based in France that finances seed and early stage investments of Small and Medium Enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Industrial
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 100
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $332k–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $60M in 2004

Portfolio highlights

  • Extensee — Extensee is a French company that specializes in providing comprehensive drone solutions tailored for civil, industrial, and governmental applications. Their offerings include drones (UAVs) and sensors, airworthiness management, maintenance services, logistics support, expert personnel deployment, and supply of spare parts. This enables clients toeffectively implement drone-based operations across various sectors, ensuring operational readiness and compliance with regulatory standards.​
  • Beyond Green — Beyond Green is an agri-food group specializing in agricultural transition and sustainable food.
  • Sophie Lebreuilly — Sophie Lebreuilly is a traditional pastry bakery, kneading and bread making on the spot, all day long. A gourmet artisan pastry shop and a fast food place: pizza, burger, pasta, salads, sandwiches, breakfast.
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Chalmers Ventures AB
VC Fund · Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden · 29 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Sweden, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 282
  • Round size: Seed $237k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $5.8k–$349k; Venture - Series Unknown $357k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ambidex AB — helps food retailers create new revenue streams on their refrigeration systems by stabilizing the electricity grid.
  • Solinide Photonics — Solinide Photonics is a technological company spun out of Chalmers University of Technology. It develops ultra-efficient silicon nitride-based photonic circuits and microcomb technologies.
  • InfiniNode Technologies AB — InfiniNode is a semiconductor IP company that seeks to enable efficient data movement in future compute systems.
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Scottish Enterprise
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 28 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 35 in the past 12 months

Scotland's business advice, support and funding agency. Explore our products and services to find the right support for your business and apply online today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 403
  • Round size: Seed $387k–$4.3M; Grant $119k–$4.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $681k–$8.4M
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • GLORIAH — Nurse founded, natural intimate hydration oils and gels for menopause.
  • SolarSub — SolarSub is an environmental firm that offers floating solar cooling system.
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Foresight Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 28 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices, private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 232
  • Round size: Seed $648k–$7.3M; Private Equity $2.1M–$8.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $979k–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $120M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Vertal — Vertal is a food waste recycling company
  • Bloemteknik — Bloemteknik develops, manufactures, and distributes high-quality modular lighting solutions for vertical farms and greenhouses. All solutions are cooperatively tailored with our growers to maximize production and reduce cost-of-ownership.
  • Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication, DW154-compliant ductwork, machining, and plastics distribution
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360 Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 28 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 17 in the past 12 months

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: France, Italy, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 251
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.2M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $6.6M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $98M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Tundr — Tundr combines technology with environmentally friendly mobility. TundrMove is the first sustainable mobility voucher. A winning combination for improving workplace quality of life while also redefining the concept of green mobility. The ecosystem includes a SmartCard, on which it will be possible to load mobility vouchers and a brand new App toexplore more ecological and sustainable modes of transport and estimate CO2 emissions.
  • BYNARIO — BynarIO develops an AI-driven cybersecurity platform focused on automated binary analysis and application security testing. The company builds an autonomous security pipeline that examines compiled binaries without requiring access to source code. Its technology targets closed-source environments, legacy software components, and complex third-partysoftware supply chains. The platform uses AI agents to scale testing across large codebases, mapping control states and identifying hidden vulnerabilities such as memory corruption issues and race conditions. BynarIO applies responsible disclosure practices, validating and supporting remediation of discovered issues in widely used software stacks. By converting low-level binary structures into actionable security findings, it supports security teams in strengthening vulnerability management and software assurance processes.
  • Circular Materials — Scopri Circular Materials: immagina una tecnologia che tratta le acque reflue e, allo stesso tempo, recupera metalli preziosi.
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UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
VC Fund · Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 25 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

UKI2S, formally the Rainbow Seed Fund, is an investment fund backed by the government, providing seed funding to science & technology start-ups and SMEs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 151
  • Round size: Seed $582k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2014

Portfolio highlights

  • Zentraxa — NATURE ENGINEERED FOR PURPOSE Through millions of years of evolution, nature has found solutions to the most difficult problems. Inspired by the diversity of nature, we precision engineer bespoke biomaterials to meet the toughest challenges across
  • StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
  • SILVIA BIO — SilVia Bio develops technologies to analyze and optimize mammalian cell factories used in biomanufacturing. The company focuses on identifying critical parameters that limit bioproduction yield and product quality in cell systems such as CHO and HEK cells. Its platform provides cell profiling services that generate interpretable data on manufacturing-relevant bottlenecks. Based on these insights, SilVia Bio designs and supplies precision media additives formulated to address specific rate-limiting cellular processes. The offerings are intended for biopharmaceutical and biomanufacturing teams seeking to improve titre, cell performance, and consistency in production processes. SilVia Bio also collaborates with industrial partners to apply its platform within real manufacturing environments.
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Scottish Investment Bank
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 25 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Speak with our team, who can help you find sources of finance, engage with funders and secure investment to grow your business.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 291
  • Round size: Seed $331k–$3.1M; Series A $1.7M–$7.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $199k–$4.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Corvidae — Corvidae is a software company that provides data analysts, digital marketing, e commerce, and paid media solutions.
  • IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
  • RoslinCT — We are the prefered global partner for cell and gene therapy solutions. With our wealth of expertise and infrastructure, we can support you at every step of your advanced therapy journey.
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Portugal Ventures
VC Fund · Porto, Lisboa, Portugal · 24 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

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 Parks Mobile, 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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 389
  • Round size: Seed $121k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $107k–$796k; Venture - Series Unknown $121k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
  • Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
  • Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

We turn exceptional individuals into funded founders. We back you first, then give you a bridge to Silicon Valley.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 485
  • Round size: Seed $54k–$6.7M; Pre-Seed $55k–$2.7M; Series A $5.1M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $133M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • ByteAsk — Derisk your AI agents
  • Sourcepulse — Your early warning system for software delivery (YC S23)
  • Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
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UVC Partners
VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 24 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology-based startups in the areas of enterprise software, industrial technologies, and mobility. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 - 10m initially and up to € 20m in total per company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 152
  • Round size: Seed $2.2M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$32M; Series B $6.5M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $276M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Reverion — Reverion develops reversible and carbon-negative power plants using patented biogas technology for renewable energy.
  • Stabl Energy — Scalable battery storage systems for energy storage in industry and commerce made by STABL Energy help to utilise the full potential of renewable energies.
  • Kuro Technology — Kuro Technology develops an artificial intelligence platform designed specifically for general contractors in the construction sector. The software automates the analysis of complex project documents, including architectural plans, technical specifications, and bills of quantities, to identify structural or legal contradictions before construction begins. It processes unstructured data to streamline pre-construction workflows, specifically optimizing risk management, cost estimation, and subcontractor bidding. The technology functions as an enterprise data hub to preserve and transfer operational knowledge across different building projects.
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Future Planet Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Brilliant Ideas. Brilliant People. Brilliant Minds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 288
  • Round size: Seed $670k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $23M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Unloq AI — Unloq is a Decision Intelligence Platform that turns your company data and live market signals into governed strategic recommendations. Approved, tracked, measured.
  • Nourished — At Nourished we create innovative. personalised nutrition stacks that are truly unique to you. Vegan, waste-free and always made to order.
  • K3 Metrology — K3 Metrology is a specialist metrology company commercialising laser‑based 3D coordinate measurement technology developed at the National Physical Laboratory. The company’s platform is designed to provide high‑accuracy, uncertainty‑aware dimensional data in large‑volume industrial environments, supporting inspection and assembly processes inadvanced manufacturing. Its systems integrate into production workflows where traceable measurements are required across complex geometries and large structures. The technology is applied in sectors such as aerospace, defence, and nuclear, where dimensional integrity and process control are critical.
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Maven Capital Partners
VC Fund · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · 23 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $783k–$5M; Private Equity $981k–$6.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $648k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 74% lead, 26% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $132M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • KubeNet — We are KubeNet - a multi-award winning technology solutions provider based in Glasgow. Whether it's Managed IT, IT Support, Cloud, Connectivity, Voice or Cyber Security, we're by your side as your trusted technology partner.
  • Tixserve — Secure, Trackable, Interactive Digital Tickets for Live Events
  • ReadyGo Diagnostics — ReadyGo Diagnostics has invented a novel “Diagnostic Pen”. Low cost, intuitive to use from the raw sample, the ReadyGo Pen will be a game-changer in the newly emerging consumer diagnostics market, offering a yes/no answer in minutes, based on molecular analysis.
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TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
VC Fund · Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany · 23 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

TGFS - Technologiegruenderfonds Sachsen is an early stage VC fund targeting high tech startups with strong growth potential. The fund invests into ventures located in Saxony/Germany, Europe's leading semiconductor cluster. The team has invested into more than 120 companies so far, including more than 40 investments from the current fund.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $796k–$4.8M; Series A $1.9M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.3M–$5.8M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Prodlane — Prodlane, the company behind MAIA, is a technology company based in Leipzig that specializes in intelligent software solutions for SMEs in the DACH region. With MAIA, we are setting new standards in data analysis and daily knowledge management in all areas of the company using AI, thereby driving forward the digital transformation of SMEs.
  • Cyber Insight — Cyber Insight - Measure, Manage, Mitigate Cyber Risks
  • HandsOn Robotics — Handson Robotics provides state of the art robotics automation workflows for commercial kitchens.
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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 22 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2387
  • Round size: Seed $158k–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$600k; Series A $4.1M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $7.5M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
  • Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
  • Plouton AI —
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Oxford Science Enterprises
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 22 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking on challenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 210
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$12M; Series A $6.3M–$45M; Series B $9.1M–$168M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $299M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Salience Labs — Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high-throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designedto exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and the University of Münster, Germany.
  • OMass Therapeutics — OMass Therapeutics is a drug discovery company exploiting novel mass spectrometry platforms to develop therapeutics against challenging disease targets.
  • Beacon Therapeutics — Beacon aids in restoring and improving the vision of patients with ophthalmic gene therapy. Find out more.
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Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
VC Fund · Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom · 22 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) is an initiative launched by the government-owned British Business Bank.It is a key part of the government’s ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision, which aims to end the historic North / South divide and create economic prosperity in the North of England on par with London and the South East.Thegovernment firmly believes that SMEs form the foundation of the region’s future growth. NPIF therefore aims to nurture regional entrepreneurship by providing investment and support for small and medium businesses between 2016 and 2021. NPIF's funding will support new and growing SMEs, create jobs and encourage and attract additional private sector investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $68k–$1.7M; Debt Financing $74k–$794k; Venture - Series Unknown $120k–$6.3M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $498M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Brace-Yourself — Brace-Yourself is a specialist retailer focused on Orthopaedic bracing, sports supports, and rehabilitation equipment.
  • Acrol Air Conditioning — Acrol Air Conditioning specializes in the design and installation market for marine air conditioning and refrigeration services.
  • Human Capital Investment Group — HCIG is a recruiting platform that works with experienced operators to develop and scale specialist businesses in the areas that will drive global investment over the next decade, including transportation, natural resources, data centers, energy, engineering, and mission-critical construction.
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Innovate UK
VC Fund · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 22 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 90 in the past 12 months

Innovate UK is part of the UK Research and Innovation .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1251
  • Round size: Seed $143k–$3.5M; Grant $62k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $58k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
  • Stride Health Group — Digital health optimisation company, helping how people understand and optimise their health, fitness and longevity.
  • Alchera Technologies — Alchera's AI-powered, cloud-based software platform provides real-time data on the movement of vehicles and pedestrians around cities and major infrastructure
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Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 21 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 25 in the past 12 months

The Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) is a public corporation under the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, which promotes innovation and technological development of Spanish companies. Is the entity which channels requests for funding and support to projects I + D + i of Spanish companies in the national and international levels. The CDTI has a staff of more than 300 people formed three quarters of engineers and graduates. Although the bulk of the infrastructure of the CDTI is located in Madrid, the Centre offers Spanish companies a strategic network of offices and representatives abroad (Japan -SBTO (Spain Business and Technology Office) - Belgium -SOST (Spain Office of Science and Technology) and Permanent Secretariat Eureka-, Brazil -FINEP (Financier of Studies and Projects) -, Korea, Chile, Morocco, China, India, Mexico and USA) to support them in their technological activities of type int .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Grant, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 224
  • Round size: Seed $576k–$5.8M; Grant $167k–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $846k–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MOA — MOA make healthy food for a sustainable world that solves growing global food demands. They are establishing a new industry of sustainable food that solves growing global food demands without the need for arable land. They are focused on designing high-value, natural and nutritious food.
  • Anaconda BioMed — Anaconda Biomed, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, is among the world's most innovative early stage medical technology companies. The company was founded by Dr. Ofir Arad and Dr. Marc Ribó in 2015, and is developing the ANCD BRAIN™, a novel 3rd Generation Stented Aspiration Thrombectomy System for the treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS).
  • Connecta Therapeutics — Connecta Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops new treatments for unresolved medical needs of the central nervous system. It focuses on the development of a first-in-class drug for the treatment of fragile X syndrome.
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GO CAPITAL
VC Fund · Rennes, Bretagne, France · 20 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

GO Capital is an independent management company and a major player in regional Seed and Venture Capital since 2003. With offices in Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Centre-Val de Loire and the South of France, GO Capital contributes to the financing of responsible innovation in these regions. With a team of investors with complementary sectoral experience, we have a solid track-record in DeepTech. GO Capital has nearly 400 million euros under management, and mainly finances technology leaders in the digital and healthcare sectors and in the industry of the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, Canada, Israel

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$7.1M; Series A $2.1M–$13M; Venture - Series Unknown $974k–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • SoonGo — SoonGo is a SaaS company that helps businesses manage and optimize vehicle fleets and professional mobility using data and AI.
  • Edison IA — Edison IA functions as an artificial intelligence accelerator designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises integrate AI into their business operations. The company provides a structured, multi-phase framework—spanning 30, 60, and 90 days—to guide businesses from initial training to full deployment. It specializes in developing custom, secure AI agents tailored to automate internal processes, analyze data, and optimize specific corporate workflows. Their service includes auditing a company's readiness, training employees, and implementing scalable AI solutions that comply with data privacy standards.
  • NeoXperiences — NeoXperiences develops technological solutions that bring audiences together around fun and interactive experiences.
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IP Group
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 20 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 234
  • Round size: Seed $265k–$7.6M; Series A $2.4M–$30M; Series B $7.9M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $50M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight19 — Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness.
  • Matter Machine — Matter Machine is an AI-driven materials discovery company that creates technologies that use materials chemistry, machine learning, and automated experimentation to speed up the discovery and optimization of next-generation materials.
  • Mach42 — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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bmp Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 20 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 7 in the past 12 months

bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $162k–$3.6M; Series A $912k–$5.9M; Venture - Series Unknown $172k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Lab Thunder — LabThunder provides a cloud-based laboratory management software platform designed to digitize operational workflows. The system centers on centralizing equipment management, automated maintenance scheduling, digital logbooks, and AI-supported knowledge management to ensure audit-ready compliance.
  • Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
  • Solar Materials — Solar Materials primarily engages in the development of technologies for the sustainable and economical recycling of solar modules.
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 20 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant
  • Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 894
  • Round size: Seed $394k–$3.2M; Grant $26k–$5.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $560k–$8.3M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
  • Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
  • Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.
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Oxford Technology Management
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom · 19 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $33k–$2.2M; Series A $786k–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • OrganOx — OrganOx Limited was founded in 2008 to exploit normothermic preservation technology invented by Prof Peter Friend and colleagues and further developed by Prof Constantin Coussios at the University of Oxford.
  • HydRegen — HydRegen is a biotechnology company that provides sustainable solutions for chemical manufacturing. HydRegen was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
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Aster
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 19 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industry sectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase. They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd). Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 171
  • Round size: Series A $1.8M–$20M; Series B $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $281k–$9.5M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $283M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Otoqi — Otoqi is a vehicle delivery platform that develops connected services and logistics solutions for the automotive professionals.
  • Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.
  • Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.
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Lifeline Ventures
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 19 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Lifeline Ventures is one of the world's highest performing venture funds. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, Lifeline partners closely with resilient founders from day one — supporting them with funding, talent, and everything it takes to build category-leading companies. The fund is sector-agnostic and seeks to make inception to Series A investments. Lifeline Ventures was founded in November 2009 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 203
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$5.4M; Series A $2.8M–$22M; Venture - Series Unknown $430k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $464M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Verda — Verda provides a full-stack AI cloud platform for the development, training, and deployment of AI models. Its services include GPU instances, instant clusters, serverless containers, managed storage, and other cloud infrastructure powered by NVIDIA hardware. Verda also operates an AI Lab focused on large-scale training, inference optimization, reinforcement learning, and AI systems engineering. Its platform serves AI developers and organizations across the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping to scalable inference.
  • S-Transistors — S-Transistors is one of the few businesses founded on a truly novel core technology that has the potential to serve as an enabling layer for a whole industry.
  • Thor Dynamics — Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with a European base in Finland, Thor Dynamics specializes in directed energy systems for defense against drones and drone swarms. The company’s innovative solutions are available worldwide to protect critical infrastructure and enhance national security. Laser Armor™ is a complete directed energy counter-dronesolution. Utilizing advanced radar and optical systems it can detect, track, and target hostile targets. High-power directed energy from Thor’s Laser Engines then eliminates the threat in seconds. Multiple safety systems ensure accurate target identification and minimal collateral damage.
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Starquest Capital
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 19 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

High Tech, Low Carbon: crafting tomorrow, today. We finance innovation to make tomorrow happen today. Starquest is a Montefiore Company.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: France, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 116
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$11M; Venture - Series Unknown $448k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200k in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Heliup — Heliup is a company that creates and manufactures solar systems for huge building roofs for commercial and industrial buildings.
  • Cailabs — Cailabs is a global leader in free-space optical communications. Its dual-use Optical Ground Stations (OGS) are deployed worldwide by leading satellite operators and agencies such as SES, ESA and Contec. The company is among the very few globally to have demonstrated satellite-to-ground links fully compliant with the US Space Development Agency(SDA) standard, confirming its unique technological position.It also plays a central role in European sovereignty/defense programs such as Keraunos, developing secure OGS for next-generation optical satellite links.Founded in 2013, Cailabs has raised over €100M and grown to 170 employees (as of Dec 2025). Cailabs has a global presence with 3 offices : its HQ based in Rennes (Brittany, France), 1 office in Paris (France) and 1 office in Washington DC (Arlington, VA).
  • Eurodia — Eurodia is a designer, manufacturer, and assembler of industrial solutions for the purification of fluids. They provide liquid purification industrial processes combining electrodialysis, chromatography, ion exchange systems, and membrane filtration. They provide these tools for the dairy and cheese industries, the sugar and wine industries, andthe field of energy and ecological transition. They provide electrodialysis technology, bipolar membrane electrodialysis, membrane filtration, and much more.
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Tesi
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 19 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Finnish Industry Investment Ltd is a government-owned investment company. It invests the proceeds accrued from the privatisation of state-owned companies in stimulating the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses. Finnish Industry Investment invests in venture capital funds and directly in growth companies, together with private co-investors. The targets are in all sectors. Capital investments are needed for financing the growth of investee companies, and for spin-offs, major industrial investments, and sector and corporate restructurings. The investments of Finnish Industry Investment amount to over MEUR 570

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 154
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$46M; Series B $3.1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $177M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Vexlum — VECSELs Novel semiconductor lasers for high-impact applications in quantum technology, medicine and semiconductor industry.
  • Verda — Verda provides a full-stack AI cloud platform for the development, training, and deployment of AI models. Its services include GPU instances, instant clusters, serverless containers, managed storage, and other cloud infrastructure powered by NVIDIA hardware. Verda also operates an AI Lab focused on large-scale training, inference optimization, reinforcement learning, and AI systems engineering. Its platform serves AI developers and organizations across the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping to scalable inference.
  • Kasvu Therapeutics — Kasvu develops first and best-in-class small molecule neuroplastogens for diseases where neuronal connectivity is altered
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Join Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 18 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on Seed and Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink and rewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.5M; Series A $5.1M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • TERASi — Scalable hardware for 6G and beyond.
  • enclaive — Experience the strength of confidential cloud computing with Enclaive.io. Elevate your company's security and performance in the most fortified cloud ecosystem. Unlock unparalleled confidentiality with our secure compute environments.
  • Golbriak Space — Golbriak Space develops and implements technologies for distributed and federated satellite missions.
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SOSV HAX
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 11 in the past 12 months

HAX is a program for Hard Tech startups taking their first steps towards commercialization. We provide hands-on support and investment as part of SOSV, a $1B AUM multi-stage venture firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Robotics, Manufacturing, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 669
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $25k–$2.4M; Convertible Note $100k–$3.8M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 5QXT — 5QXT is a mining technology company that provides the design, development, and implementation of metal extraction processes.
  • XFuel — XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares.
  • Cortysis — Cortysis develops brain stimulation device for rapid spatial and temporal modulation of cortical networks
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Cambridge Angels group
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 18 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK. Typical funding requirements that the Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds. Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $446k–$3M; Series A $2M–$9.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $375k–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • xWatts — xWatts is an intelligent energy management software that reduces energy costs and emissions in commercial buildings.
  • Orthofuse — Orthofuse designs and manufacturers advance orthopaedic solutions using 3D printing technology. Their focus is on bringing precision and simplicity to complex surgical procedures, creating implants and systems that fit naturally into a surgeon's workflow while delivering dependable outcomes.
  • Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.
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Midlands Engine Investment Fund
VC Fund · Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom · 18 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity and debt investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 131
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$2.7M; Debt Financing $257k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $466k–$3.3M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ace Padel — Ace Padel is a club operator and expanding a network of community-focused padel venues, offering court bookings,
  • School of Coding — School of Coding is affiliated with the reputated org, invites you to apply for sept. intake Explore our courses and start your world-class education.
  • Halo X Ray Technologies — HALO X-ray Technologies - next generation X-ray diffraction technology for the aviation security, medical and process control markets.
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IQ Capital
VC Fund · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom · 17 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

IQ Capital is a dedicated European deep tech venture capital firm, built on the conviction that frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back founders leveraging scientific breakthroughs to build enduring global businesses. We have invested in over 100 of Europe's most ambitious deep tech teams across six funds since 2005.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 215
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$13M; Series A $4.7M–$40M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $200M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
  • Imperagen — Imperagen is a biotechnology research company focused on enzyme engineering, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology.
  • Undecimal Bio — Undecimal Bio operates as a platform biotechnology company that develops targeted delivery mechanisms for small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics. The company utilizes a proprietary platform that combines combinatorial chemistry libraries with transformer-based artificial intelligence to discover molecular conjugates capable of guiding genetic medicines to specified cells outside of the liver. This approach aims to circumvent traditional delivery constraints to expand the reach of RNA therapeutics into a broader range of therapeutic areas and human organs.
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Siparex Groupe
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 17 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Siparex, France,s first multi-sectoral private equity investment company, is founded in Lyon. It was a start-up at a time when the spirit of enterprise was flagging. It emerged in one of France's regions, listed the shares of the original company one of its main vehicles on the stock market, grew internationally, and has become one of the independent groups in its line of business in the space of 30 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 129
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M; Private Equity $1.7M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $452M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Cofarco — Founded in 2009, Cofarco has established itself as a premier insurance brokerage firm dedicated for complex and specialist risks
  • DESTIA Group — DESTIA Group is a provider of personal services to different aged people.
  • Ekoscan Integrity — Ekoscan Integrity is an innovative solution for the integrity and sustainability of industrial products through the implementation of innovative technology.
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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 17 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Switzerland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 275
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$9.4M; Pre-Seed $850k–$3.5M; Series A $4.5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $110M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
  • Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
  • Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems,Its platform enables precise, adaptable connections between chips, fibers, and light sources beyond traditional packaging constraints.This company focuses on scalable photonic integration to accelerate the development of high-performance optical systems.
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Project A Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 17 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Project A is an early-stage venture capital firm, combining financial and operational support for technology companies. In addition to $1bn in assets under management, Project A provides its portfolio companies with a wide range of operational support services. This includes more than 100 experts from key areas such as software engineering, business intelligence, marketing, and recruiting. The portfolio includes companies such as Trade Republic, sennder, KRY, Catawiki, WorldRemit, Spryker, and Voi.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.9M; Series A $3.8M–$28M; Series B $8.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $377M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Nexcade — Nexcade AI agents run freight quoting, tenders, rates, bookings, and reporting with your team, visible and controlled at every step.
  • Project Q — European defence integration. Deployed with Bundeswehr, validated at NATO. Open-core, ITAR-free, no vendor lock-in. Connect sensors to C2 in seconds.
  • Nettle — The AI workspace for Loss Control
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Primo Capital
VC Fund · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 17 investments in Europe Manufacturing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

Primo Capital is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage startups. The firm is a multi-fund investment company, with four different investment practices with dedicated funds on specialized strategies. Primo Capital invests in digital/software, new space, climate technology and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 112
  • Round size: Seed $358k–$5.4M; Series A $3.4M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.8M–$49M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $48M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
  • Archimede — Archimede.World, connect the impossible. We are an innovative and deep tech startup, engaged in the development of off-grid solutions.
  • Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Establishment (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services.
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