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Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Europe (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Europe Payments startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Payments startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Seedcamp
VC Fund
54 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $587k–$30M
Speedinvest
VC Fund
38 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $411k–$32M
Kima Ventures
VC Fund
33 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $515k–$16M
Index Ventures
VC Fund
30 United States, United Kingdom, France Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$102M
Anthemis
VC Fund
26 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Software $1.3M–$60M
Bpifrance
VC Fund
25 France, United States, Switzerland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Health Care, Biotechnology $752k–$34M
LocalGlobe
VC Fund
25 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1M–$30M
Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund
23 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$18M
Global Founders Capital
VC Fund
23 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $575k–$30M
Chris Adelsbach
Angel
23 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $118k–$19M
SFC Capital
VC Fund
21 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $123k–$2.5M
Atlantic
VC Fund
21 Germany, Switzerland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence $850k–$30M
Antler
VC Fund
20 United States, Singapore, Australia Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$29M
Balderton Capital
VC Fund
19 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Series B, Series C Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services $5M–$160M
Point Nine
VC Fund
19 Germany, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $900k–$62M
Digital Currency Group
VC Fund
19 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $550k–$114M
Ascension
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Italy Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$10M
Headline
VC Fund
18 United States, Germany, Brazil Series A, Series B, Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $1.1M–$78M
Passion Capital
VC Fund
18 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Series B Software, FinTech, Financial Services $600k–$85M
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
18 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Financial Services, Banking $1.3M–$65M
Motier Ventures
VC Fund
16 France, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software $1.6M–$27M
Fuel Ventures
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $313k–$24M
Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund
16 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$41M
Par Equity
VC Fund
16 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Venture - Series Unknown, Seed Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology $103k–$4.3M
GSR
VC Fund
15 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.5M–$50M
Redbus Ventures
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, United States, Australia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, E-Commerce, Software $323k–$23M
Animoca Brands
VC Fund
15 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $100k–$40M
Draper Associates
VC Fund
15 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain $700k–$41M
Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund
15 United States, United Kingdom, Australia Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1.3M–$43M
1kx
VC Fund
15 United States, Germany, Singapore Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.8M–$40M
Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund
15 United Kingdom, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning $54k–$41M
Firstminute Capital
VC Fund
14 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $650k–$21M
Credo Ventures
VC Fund
14 United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $385k–$19M
Wayra
VC Fund
14 Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $40k–$2.4M
ZBS CAPITAL
VC Fund
14 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $1M–$6M
Accel
VC Fund
14 United States, India, United Kingdom Series A, Series B, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $1.4M–$75M
Practica Capital
VC Fund
13 Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, B2B, Information Technology $219k–$30M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
13 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
MMC Ventures
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1.4M–$54M
Notion Capital
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$66M
Octopus Ventures
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $2.1M–$43M
Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund
13 United Kingdom, Germany, Austria Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Health Care, Wellness, Software $538k–$18M
Edward Lando
Angel
13 United States, United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $125k–$31M
Taavet Hinrikus
Angel
13 United Kingdom, United States, Estonia Seed, Series A, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $1.4M–$58M
Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund
13 Ireland, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Grant Software, Health Care, Information Technology $26k–$8.3M
FJ Labs
VC Fund
12 United States, United Kingdom, Brazil Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $1.2M–$65M
Magnus Capital
VC Fund
12 United States, India, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming $1.3M–$34M
SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund
12 United States, France, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $120k–$27M
DN Capital
VC Fund
12 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $1M–$82M
BREEGA
VC Fund
12 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$24M
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Seedcamp
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 54 investments in Europe Payments startups, 40 in the past 12 months

By Your Side from Day One

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 624
  • Round size: Seed $658k–$8M; Pre-Seed $587k–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $220M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
  • Metaview — Metaview uplevels the most outcome-defining part of your recruitment process: your interviews.
  • Solvera AI — Solvera is an AI-native engineering firm on a mission to unleash the potential of every building engineer with AI. It develops advanced proprietary AI systems to help design better buildings, significantly faster, establishing a brand-new standard for MEP engineering.
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Speedinvest
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 38 investments in Europe Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 678
  • Round size: Seed $797k–$7.9M; Pre-Seed $411k–$3.8M; Series A $4.5M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $372M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
  • GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
  • Polaron — Polaron connects process, structure, and performance using AI and image data to accelerate how materials are characterised, designed, and manufactured.
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Kima Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 33 investments in Europe Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 769
  • Round size: Seed $515k–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $591k–$3.8M; Series A $1.2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
  • Verso — Verso is an AI-powered qualitative market research platform that automates consumer insights at scale. It uses adaptive AI to conduct 1-on-1 video or voice interviews with consumers worldwide, turning open-ended conversations into structured, actionable insights in under a week.
  • Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.
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Index Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 30 investments in Europe Payments startups

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1591
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$16M; Series A $5M–$35M; Series B $12M–$102M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $400M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Moleskine — Moleskine develops, distributes, and sells notebooks, diaries, portfolios, purses, writing materials, reading articles, and many other products in Italy and internationally.The company offers paper products such as notebooks, diaries, home and office products, and gifts as well as writing, travelling, and reading collections, including pens,pencils, bags, reading glasses, and book lights. It also offers digital services and products comprising templates and applications for smartphones and tablets; Smart Notebook; and print-on-demand services for the creation of photo-books.Moleskine distributes its products in approximately 105 countries through a network of book, department, specialty, and stationery stores as well as museums; its sales network and websites; and a retail network of 30 directly-operated stores, including 9 in China, 12 in Italy, 2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in France, and 5 in the United States.Moleskine was founded in 1997 and is based in Milan, Italy.
  • Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.
  • Milestone Systems — See and know more with video technology. Milestone offers award-winning XProtect video management software, Arcules VSaaS, and BriefCam analytics.
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Anthemis
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 26 investments in Europe Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

digitally native finance

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 335
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7M; Series A $4M–$24M; Series B $7.5M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $56M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Humanos — Humanos helps companies measure, control and transfer AI risk through continuous Risk Intelligence, unlocking insurance, credit, yield and other financial products.
  • Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
  • CollectiveX — Collective X is a Women's Health Intelligence platform designed to bridge the historical research and data gap in women's health. It provides evidence-backed, female-specific insights built around female physiology to power the smart health ecosystem, ensuring that digital health products and clinical workflows don't rely on biased data.
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Bpifrance
VC Fund · Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France · 25 investments in Europe Payments 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: 1722
  • 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

  • Cofarco — Founded in 2009, Cofarco has established itself as a premier insurance brokerage firm dedicated for complex and specialist risks
  • Proteor — Proteor offers a complete range of high quality products and services to the O&P world, through more than 60 clinics.
  • Advicenne — Specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development of pediatric friendly therapeutics for the treatment of orphan renal diseases and neurology.
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LocalGlobe
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in Europe Payments startups, 29 in the past 12 months

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 442
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Pre-Seed $1M–$5.1M; Series A $4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $500M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
  • Resolutiion — Resolutiion provides AI-powered software for managing commercial conflict, delivery risk, and business relationship performance. The platform supports organizations with dispute detection, workflow automation, contract monitoring, issue resolution, and operational risk management across customers, suppliers, workforce teams, and commercialpartnerships. Its system uses AI-driven analysis to identify relationship friction, monitor delivery performance, and support structured resolution processes. Resolutiion also provides commercial intelligence tools, reporting, and collaboration features for enterprise delivery and governance management.
  • Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.
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Force Over Mass Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in Europe Payments startups

Force Over Mass Capital is an FCA regulated venture capital firm focused on early stage technology investments across UK and Europe. We invest in B2B innovation across four verticals, i.e. Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS and Industry 4.0. FOM cap operates both seed and scale-up funds to support early stage businesses through their growth journey.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 202
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $3.3M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $131M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
  • Artificial Labs — Artificial is the power between brokers and insurers in the specialty market. Underwriting technology and placement tools to move risk faster, with less in the way.
  • Stoa Corporation — Save with Stoa and unlock premium perks upfront. Build better saving habits, protect your deposit, and enjoy real rewards with your Saving Score.
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Global Founders Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 23 investments in Europe Payments startups

Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1121
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $575k–$5M; Series A $5M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2B in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
  • Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
  • sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
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Chris Adelsbach
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 23 investments in Europe Payments startups

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 322
  • Round size: Seed $120k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $118k–$1.9M; Series A $4.3M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI sources, screens and shortlists candidates so your team only spends time on the people worth meeting.
  • Emblematic — The first AI-driven Agentic Automation platform, designed to fully automate and enhance the accuracy of Finance Operations, including Bookkeeping, IFRS/GAAP Compliance, Reconciliations, and more.
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SFC Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 21 investments in Europe Payments 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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Atlantic
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 21 investments in Europe Payments 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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Antler
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 20 investments in Europe Payments 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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Balderton Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 19 investments in Europe Payments startups

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 471
  • Round size: Series A $5M–$32M; Series B $9.3M–$100M; Series C $13M–$160M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $615M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Duvo — Duvo brings your people, AI agents and existing systems together to map, run and improve your processes, with decisions, exceptions and results in one place.
  • NewBay — NewBay enables operators and device makers to deliver a lifetime of digital content experiences across any connected device such as mobile, PC, tablets and TV. The NewBay white label software platform powers cloud-based services for storing, sharing, accessing and organizing digital content. NewBay enables customers to monetize a wide range ofbranded services such as social networking, photo and video albums, digital vault, notifications and converged messaging. NewBay is delivering highly successful commercial services for operators and device makers worldwide. Customers include T-Mobile, Telefonica O2, Orange, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Telstra, Verizon and LG Electronics. NewBay is processing millions of messages daily and stores billions of media for live operator and device maker services. NewBay is based in Dublin, Ireland; Seattle, USA; Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sydney, Australia and Seoul, South Korea. NewBay was founded in 2002. Following acquisition in 2011, NewBay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM).
  • Socowave — Get full access to this domain. Easy, seamless transactions. Zero percent financing available.
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Point Nine
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 19 investments in Europe Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 312
  • Round size: Seed $900k–$7.5M; Series A $3.1M–$24M; Series B $9M–$62M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $173M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
  • Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
  • Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime
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Digital Currency Group
VC Fund · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · 19 investments in Europe Payments startups, 9 in the past 12 months

We are the capital engine supporting emerging talent & crypto technology. On its mission to accelerate the development of a better financial system.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$9.7M; Series A $3M–$48M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$114M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AntSeed — AntSeed operates a peer-to-peer protocol and open marketplace for AI services, connecting buyers with independent providers for model inference, agents, and routing. The network uses BitTorrent DHT for discovery and WebRTC for transport, while payments settle in USDC on the Base blockchain through non-custodial smart contracts. Providers define their own services and pricing, and on-chain settlement data is used to build verifiable performance and reputation metrics. AntSeed exposes OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs via a local proxy so existing tools, frameworks, and autonomous agents can route requests through the network. For non-technical users, the AntStation desktop application offers a chat interface that selects providers based on factors such as model type, cost, latency, and privacy. The ecosystem also includes the ANTS utility token, which underpins emissions and incentive programs tied to real network activity.
  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • SafeWorld — SafeWorld is a safety testing platform for companies deploying robots around people, helping them assess and improve the safety.
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Ascension
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in Europe Payments startups

Pre-seed and seed investors backing 300+ ambitious founders from day one.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 326
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.1M; Pre-Seed $261k–$2.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $790k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $21M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Sprive — Sprive is the free app that helps take years off your mortgage and save you thousands of pounds in interest.
  • Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
  • Neela Biotech — Transforming organic waste into carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuels through innovative biotechnology and AI.
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Headline
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 18 investments in Europe Payments startups

Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across categories and geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 584
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$30M; Series B $7.4M–$78M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $865M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Blips — Blips is a platform in Brazil that aims to bridge the gap between investors and entrepreneurs. The company connects and drives investors and entrepreneurs with tangible assets that enable productive business activities, allowing customers to buy and finance supplies and inputs, as well as an educational platform to support the entrepreneurs'journey, teaching management techniques, growth, and technical knowledge for equipment use.
  • Heidi Health — Heidi Health develops an ambient AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks. It listens to patient-clinician conversations, transcribes key highlights, and then produces structured notes, referral letters, patient summaries, billing codes, and other downstream documents. The system supports customizable templates, allows editing during sessions, and integrates with various EHR systems while offering compliance with privacy and security standards. Clinicians in multiple specialties and care settings use Heidi to reduce administrative burden, improve focus on patient care, and streamline workflows.
  • Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Passion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 18 investments in Europe Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the critical differentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 188
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $5M–$85M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $52M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • geoSurge — The platform for brands and agencies to measure, understand, and improve how they're represented inside large language models and AI search.
  • Marble — Marble is the first open source transaction monitoring. We automate detection and investigations with unparalleled flexibility and simplicity to allow tech teams to build on top of Marble, while removing manual compliance checks. Built for real-time and scalability, Marble protects against fraud and money laundering leading financial institutions in the EU, UK and over 15 geographies.
  • Backbone — AI platform for food & beverage quality teams. Connects standards, audits, supplier data, and customer requirements into one live picture. Automates the admin. Routes the right intelligence to the right person. Faster decisions, fewer blind spots.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 18 investments in Europe Payments startups

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges and opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 263
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$33M; Series B $18M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5.3M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Tab — Tab is an text-based AI assistant that acts as an execution agent rather than just an information provider. Developed by Terrasoft, Inc., it allows users to delegate actual workloads directly via their messaging app using text, photos, documents, or video.
  • Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
  • Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
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Motier Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 16 investments in Europe Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Motier Ventures is the Family Office managing the investments in Tech start-ups made by the owners of the Galeries Lafayette Group.We are a value-added business angel. At scale.We provide agile and patient capital, investing up to €300k as Business Angel in your early days and following with up to €3m on next rounds. Our favorite investmentthemes include Future of Commerce, FinTech, Web3 Picks & Shovels, Creative Technologies and Cybersecurity.We bring for your business 125 years of experience in entrepreneurship and a wide network within our brands (Galeries Lafayette, La Redoute, BHV, Citynove...) and across many industries.If you are aiming at changing the game in your industry, we would be happy to connect.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 212
  • Round size: Seed $2.7M–$17M; Pre-Seed $1.6M–$3.4M; Series A $11M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bondio — Connect instantly to 1000+ networks in 200+ countries, with 0 commitments
  • Linc — Linc is a platform that delivers data retrieval and analysis services tailored to business needs. The company offers solutions supporting bookkeeping and payroll workflows alongside information management capabilities. Linc offerings streamline data management processes and enable organizations to operationalize their data more effectively.
  • Concord — Concord turns media plans into live campaigns on Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Google Ads and DV360: setup, pacing, optimization and reporting. Your team approves.
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Fuel Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 16 investments in Europe Payments startups, 19 in the past 12 months

Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 256
  • Round size: Seed $674k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $313k–$2M; Series A $4.4M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $126M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • AI Score — AI Score is the intelligence-led AI governance platform for enterprise. Monitor AI risk, prove compliance and capture value in real time. Book a demo.
  • Souk — Coco is an AI partnerships manager: she finds partners, activates them, and handles agreements, attribution and payouts.
  • Affinity Labs — We build software companies with category-defining creators.
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Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in Europe Payments startups, 54 in the past 12 months

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 644
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Series A $6M–$41M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$32M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.
  • Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
  • Catalyst — Catalyst develops a platform that converts plain-English trading ideas into automated workflows that track real-time market data and execute financial trades within user-defined parameters.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 16 investments in Europe Payments 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: 304
  • 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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GSR
VC Fund · Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups

GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its trading technology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 231
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$12M; Series A $4M–$50M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
  • Evernorth — Evernorth is a purpose-built digital asset treasury that gives investors exposure to tomorrow’s markets. The company focuses on XRP, using XRP Ledger infrastructure, DeFi, liquidity, and yield strategies. The company also develops treasury strategies to generate returns from its digital asset holdings.
  • TrueNorth — Let your personalized agents scan the market, set up trades, and watch your portfolio 24/7
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Redbus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups

Redbus invests in early-stage ventures, predominantly but not exclusively, in the UK. Redbus allocates part of its resources to special situations such as acquiring a business that requires reorganising or purchasing an asset that seems materially undervalued. We are not a fund, we are permanent capital, so we invest for the long term and can be very patient. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand some great businesses can take time to flourish. Most importantly, we get, like and understand mavericks, innovators and operators. We once were them. We are proven entrepreneurs who are passionate about backing the next generation of entrepreneurs. Our lead people have founded or had senior managerial roles in start-ups that have had successful and material exits. Our portfolio companies benefit from the support both financially and otherwise of experienced entrepreneurs who have been on the same journey they are on. We aim to provide entrepreneurial insights, know-how, strategic introductions and operational experience that will help entrepreneurs have the courage to grab opportunities, avoid some mistakes and ultimately build excellent companies. We love it when people who want to talk to us manage to find someone in our eco-system who can introduce them to us. A recommendation goes a long way. If that is not possible then we would want know why you think we would be the right investors for you as opposed to any one of the other great investors out there. We can move quickly and can run at an entrepreneur's speed. Sometimes we take down a whole round, other times we act as lead and others we just participate. We like investing alongside angel investors whom have proven entrepreneurial experience and successful track record of backing brilliant entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 153
  • Round size: Seed $586k–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $323k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SOLVE — SOLVE have developed novel transient flow techniques that extend the capabilities of current approaches. SOLVE’s products leverage technology for the efficient collection of data from chemical reactions, as well as predictive computational models tuned based on the collected data. Both the data by itself, as well as the models, are used to informthe reaction conditions and solvent mixtures applied to manufacture chemical compounds at different scales of production.
  • Tolemy Bio — The AI-native virtual cell platform for therapeutic development and manufacture.
  • Nila Elder Care — Nila acquires independent UK homecare agencies and runs them on our AI platform. Families get care they can count on; owners get a fair exit and a team that's looked after.
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Animoca Brands
VC Fund · Cyberport, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups, 25 in the past 12 months

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$10M; Pre-Seed $100k–$5M; Series A $5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
  • PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
  • Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.
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Draper Associates
VC Fund · San Mateo, California, United States · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups, 41 in the past 12 months

Draper Associates, founded in 1985, is a seed-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness. We understand that a great company takes time to build and we'd like to ensure that entrepreneurs are in for the long haul.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 519
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$7.2M; Series A $2.5M–$28M; Series B $5M–$41M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $200M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Wisecut AI — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
  • mogul club — Mogul is a real estate investment company specializing in crowdfunded commercial property investment and acquisition. Mogul can help you buy rental property and expand your investment portfolio.
  • Xverse — Xverse is your go-to sovereign onchain bank and Bitcoin wallet. Buy BTC, earn yield, pay with stablecoins, and borrow against your bitcoin. Download on iOS, Android & Chrome.
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Maven 11 Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups, 16 in the past 12 months

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$10M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$3.1M; Series A $5M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $107M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Umia — Umia is an onchain venture-creation platform for token-native projects. It provides a legal wrapper, token minting, community fundraising through public token auctions, a noncustodial treasury, and governance through onchain “decision markets.”
  • tenka — tenka is an institutional-grade, decentralized market layer for asset-based finance (ABF) and private credit
  • functionSPACE — functionSPACE develops decentralized financial infrastructure and market primitives that allow users to price, trade, and build custom payoff structures based on a continuous range of numerical outcomes rather than simple binary choices.
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1kx
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 15 investments in Europe Payments startups, 8 in the past 12 months

1kx is a research-driven global investment firm making trust instant, open, and programmable, with 160+ investments since 2018 across DeFi, stablecoins, and onchain infrastructure.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Germany, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $5M–$28M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
  • KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
  • Freehand — Freehand AI Teams resolve disputes, negotiate credits, and settle enterprise spend autonomously; recover 2-5% margins with 100% audit coverage.
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Entrepreneurs First
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 15 investments in Europe Payments 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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Firstminute Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups, 11 in the past 12 months

firstminute is a seed fund backed by over 130 unicorn founders and a world-class community.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 221
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$10M; Pre-Seed $650k–$5.5M; Series A $6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $100M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Vocca — Voice AI for healthcare: 1,500+ practices, 20+ specialties. Vocca answers every patient call, books into your software and follows up with patients, 24/7.
  • StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
  • Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
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Credo Ventures
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$7M; Pre-Seed $385k–$10M; Series A $2M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $88M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
  • Fabrica AI — Fabrica AI offers a revolutionary platform for faster robot development, using custom hardware designs and learned optimal control to increase efficiency while minimizing complexity and cost. With a vision for a future where robot development takes days, not years.
  • Delta Green — Aggregating household assets in large controllable block of flexibility.
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Wayra
VC Fund · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with driven entrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 567
  • Round size: Seed $48k–$2.4M; Grant $40k–$387k; Venture - Series Unknown $50k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
  • Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
  • 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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ZBS CAPITAL
VC Fund · Kyiv, Kyyiv, Ukraine · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 161
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500k in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Yellow — Trades clear off-chain through state channels. Only the net result settles on-chain, across the chains participants already use.
  • KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
  • Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
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Accel
VC Fund · Palo Alto, California, United States · 14 investments in Europe Payments startups

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2505
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $4.3M–$40M; Series B $9.5M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $750M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Discord — Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
  • Filigran — Embrace a proactive approach with end-to-end cyber threat management, from anticipation to response.
  • Krux — Use Salesforce's data management platform (DMP) to unify your data and strengthen customer relationships across every touchpoint.
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Practica Capital
VC Fund · Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Practica Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Lithuania, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 148
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $555k–$2.4M; Series A $2.4M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $85M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Creem — Creem is the money platform for the AI era. Sell software and digital products globally.
  • kopa.ai — Kopa is the AI Google Ads media buyer and ecommerce marketing platform for stores doing 7 figures and up. Replace slow agencies, freelancers, and manual PPC rule tools with store-connected campaigns, AI static and video creatives, 8-area audits, offer pages, and reporting.
  • Outcraft AI — Outcraft AI develops autonomous revenue agents that convert, retain and grow customers across voice, SMS, email and messaging.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 402
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $3.5M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners. About 2x faster on hardware alone, up to 10x with cache hits. Deep observability on every job.
  • finmid — Scale bigger by building your business on finmid's lending infrastructure. Our APIs enable tech companies to offer credit cards, transaction-based lending, and working capital to their business customers.
  • ColibrITD — ColibriTD leader of Simulation solutions using Quantum computing
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MMC Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

MMC is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs across Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 261
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $2.9M–$19M; Series B $10M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $129M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Zenithon — Zenithon is building machine learning models to provide a step change in the development and optimization of technology. The company's mission is to keep humanity on the exponential by enabling radically faster and more accurate design and optimization. Their team develops physics grounded machine learning models that make complex simulations dramatically faster, enabling more simulations, more iterations and more ways to explore what is possible.
  • ABEX — Algorithmic Best Execution for Digital Assets
  • Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
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Notion Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 292
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.1M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $7M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $130M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
  • Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.
  • Scarlet — Scarlet certifies software medical devices. We’re Europe's only Notified Body specialised in software and AI, and have crafted a certification process that is built for software, and is thus significantly more efficient.This is how we deliver on our mission to hasten the world’s transition to accessible healthcare: by enabling manufacturersto release their medical software and AI to those who need it without unnecessary delays.We are designated as a UK Approved Body by the MHRA, and an EU Notified Body by the Dutch Ministry of Health and the European Commission.
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Octopus Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 442
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $3.4M–$22M; Series B $8M–$43M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $108M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
  • Living Optics — Living Optics is commercializing next generation imaging technology which leverages a compact camera system based on breakthroughs in hardware design and software processing.
  • Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Calm/Storm VC
VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Calm/Storm is an exclusive founder network and venture capital firm. We invest in purpose driven founders changing our life & health for the better. Headquartered in Vienna, Austria we invest in early-stage companies all over Europe and the US. We focus on the pre-seed and seed stages but also invest up to Series A.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Wellness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $538k–$2.6M; Series A $7.6M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • PROPCORN AI — At PROPCORN, our goal is to harness the power of AI to automatically unlock the full real estate building potential of our customers, enabling them to make faster and more accurate decisions in real-time.
  • aeon.life — Preventive healthcare platform that equips people with personalized insights and expert guidance for proactive whole-body health
  • Health Force — Health Force develops AI agents that automate administrative and operational workflows for hospitals and clinics. The company focuses on back-office tasks such as scheduling, billing, procurement, and insurance verification. Its AI agents integrate with existing hospital systems to handle repetitive digital work and reduce manual data entry. Health Force offers its agents on a subscription basis, allowing healthcare providers to adopt automation without major software changes. The service includes an AI readiness assessment, implementation support, and continuous optimization based on observed performance. By shifting routine logistics to AI, Health Force enables healthcare staff to spend more time on direct patient-related activities.
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Edward Lando
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 581
  • Round size: Seed $950k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3.3M; Series A $5M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
  • Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
  • Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.
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Taavet Hinrikus
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 13 investments in Europe Payments startups

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 135
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$10M; Series A $6.4M–$45M; Series B $23M–$58M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lassie — The AI for independent doctors.
  • Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
  • Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
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Enterprise Ireland
VC Fund · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 13 investments in Europe Payments 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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FJ Labs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1805
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9.8M; Series A $5M–$30M; Series B $10M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
  • Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
  • Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.
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Magnus Capital
VC Fund · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Magnus Capital is a crypto investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$7.5M; Initial Coin Offering $2.1M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Spicenet — Spicenet is a hyper-fast Layer 2 (L2) trading solution, engineered as a custom application rollup to deliver ultra-fast, reliable, and efficient transaction processing for seamless trading experiences.
  • Real Finance — Purpose-built blockchain infrastructure for issuing, managing, settling, and distributing tokenized financial assets across institutional workflows. Regulated banking integrated at the foundation.
  • WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.
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SGH CAPITAL
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, France, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$6M; Pre-Seed $120k–$27M; Series A $2M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $103M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cell Type — Cell Type develops models that simulate human drug response and analyze single-cell data for target selection and clinical design.
  • Merge Labs — Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface startup that aims to compete with Neuralink and integrate human cognition with AI.
  • Constellation Space — ConstellationOS is the ML-native operations platform for satellite fleets. Unified telemetry, link forecasts, and policy-bound orchestration. Start with a 30-day shadow pilot.
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DN Capital
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’s previous funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 452
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$12M; Series A $4.5M–$25M; Series B $10M–$82M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Gaussion — Gaussion is revolutionising batteries by utilising magneto-electrochemistry.
  • unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
  • sherpa — AI Operating System for External Workforce Management
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 12 investments in Europe Payments startups

VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 143
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.3M; Series A $4.2M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
  • Ubble.ai — ubble helps businesses fight against fraud with its frictionless online identity verification service that uses exclusive video live streaming and A.I. technology.
  • Send — Send is a commercial insurance platform that connects underwriting data, workflows, and decisions for commercial and specialty insurers.
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