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Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in Europe in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Photography startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Photography companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Photography Startup Investors in Europe in July 2025

Investor	Photography Europe investments
LAUNCHub Ventures	4
Wellington Partners	4
Joachim Bernecker	3
Scottish Investment Bank	3
Enterprise Ireland	3
HOWZAT Partners	3
Saarbruecker 21	3
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner	3
Kernel Capital	3
Jeremy Yap	3
Christian Vollmann	2
True Global Ventures (TGV)	2
Index Ventures	2
Thibaud Elziere	2
MOIRA CAPITAL DESARROLLO KAPPA, SICC	2
PROfounders Capital	2
Balderton Capital	2
5M Ventures	2
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)	2
Openfund	2
Aglaé Ventures	2
EQT Ventures	2
Creandum	2
Global Founders Capital	2
Florian Heinemann	2
Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund	2
Volta Ventures	2
Force Over Mass Capital	2
ESADE BAN	2
FJ Labs	2
WING by Digital Wallonia	2
LDV Capital	2
Jonathan Beddoes	2
Accomplice	2
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund	2
Barclays Corporate Banking	2
BTQ Ventures	2
Venrex	2
Tesi	2
Max Jennings	2
Playfair Capital	2
Chris Bouwer	2
Newable Private Investing	2
QVentures	2
Adjacent	2
Wayra	2
Berlin Ventures	1
CSK Venture Capital	1
Kima Ventures	1
HSBC	1

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.

Wellington Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in technology and life sciences companies, focusing on Digital Media, Software, Electronics & Photonics, Resource Efficiency, and Biotech/Life Sciences. It is committed to providing outstanding entrepreneurs with the necessary resources to fund their strategies. We typically leadfinancing rounds ranging from € 0.5 million to € 20 million. Depending on the maturity of the company, its own commitment can go as high as € 15 million.Wellington was established in 1998 and has offices in Munich, London, and Zurich.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
HepaRegeniX — HepaRegeniX is developing drugs for treating acute and chronic liver diseases that effectively restore the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes. The therapeutic concept is founded on research by Professor Lars Zender’s group at the University Hospital Tübingen, which identified mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase 4 (MKK4) as a keyregulator of liver regeneration. Work by Professor Zender’s team showed that using small RNA molecules to suppress MKK4 gene expression restored the regenerative capacity of hepatocytes, even in severely diseased livers. Founded in 2015, HepaRegeniX is developing small-molecule MKK4 inhibitors to treat liver disorders, potentially including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
Nuclidium — NUCLIDIUM is a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company that develops novel radionuclide PET tracers for precision diagnostics. Using copper isotopes, Copper-61 for diagnostics and Copper-67 for therapeutics, the company is creating a differentiated platform with the potential to overcome existing limitations in radiotheranostics.

Joachim Bernecker

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.
MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Axe — Axe provides modern logistics solutions for businesses of all sizes. Streamline your logistics process with our innovative platform.
Assiduous — The AI-enabled platform to do the heavy-lifting for business owners seeking finance for their aspiring growth company.
Galway Biomedical — Galway Biomedical develops and manufactures medical devices.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Video
Seed
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kamedi — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Kernel Capital is the independent manager of The Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds, one of the largest and most active sources of equity finance on the island of Ireland. Kernel leverage their extensive network to enable their portfolio companies recruit the highest caliber people, to break into new international markets and to generaterevenues of scale. It is the only investment firm with venture capital Funds dedicated to both jurisdictions on the Island. Kernel have raised over €210M from investors which including their strategic partner Bank of Ireland, Invest NI, Enterprise Ireland, Galway University Foundation, The University of Limerick Foundation, The New York State Common Retirement Fund and undisclosed Family Offices. Consistently delivering strong financial returns for their investors Kernel have led more than 20 substantial trade sales to NASDAQ, NYSE, and LSE listed corporations.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
Rulemapping Group — Rulemapping Group is a rule-based AI platform that enables a level of end-to-end automation for rule-based processes. Automated decision-making solutions for digital legislation, administrative operations, legal procedures, and regulatory compliance.
Atmen — Atmen, formerly known as Point Twelve, automates hydrogen and e-fuels certification, saving you up to 90% time in the process.

True Global Ventures is a unique, international, early-stage vehicle formed by the world's leading technology entrepreneurs-turned-angel-investors. True Global Ventures leverages the personal networks and expertise of its founders to support the next generation of superstar entrepreneurs.Founded by Dušan Stojanović, awarded BusinessAngel of the Year in Europe in 2013 and nominated as one of the top four angels in 2009 by the European Business Angel Network, the True Global Ventures team includes entrepreneur-angels from mainly Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and New York. With every partner having deep startup operating experience and successful exits as entrepreneurs, as well as the investment expertise that comes from having completed prior to True Global Ventures a combined total of over 350 angel investments, True Global Ventures gives new meaning to the term 'smart money'.They do invest money but on top of the money they are specialised in 5 areas: 1. Bringing in Customers and Partners 2. Internationalise the company 3. Help refinance the company with introductions of traditional VC, Loans and Private Equity Firms 4. Help acquiring companies as well as exiting the company 5. Recruiting in general and especially of engineers.True Global Ventures typically invests from USD 100 000 to USD 600 000 into very early stage companies lead exclusively by serial entrepreneurs, and then provides them with hands-on assistance and access to the extensive personal networks of the True Global Ventures partners. The investment vehicule is focused on highly scalable Internet, software and mobile applications, with companies that are headquartered in Silicon Valley, New York, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and who can make optimal use of the international perspective that True Global Ventures brings to the table. True Global Ventures does not invest in Hardware, Cleantech and Medtech.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Prezent AI — Presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams. Add zen to your presentations!
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Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

MOIRA CAPITAL DESARROLLO KAPPA, SICC invests in innovative capital firms.

Investment focus

Energy, Mobile, Software
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Voovio — Voovio's Simulation Software enables the process industry to avoid errors during SOP execution, reducing downtime & increasing safety in operations & maintenance.
Cella Medical Solutions — Cella Medical Solutions allows surgeons to analyze and simulate complex surgery using the latest technologies, dramatically improving results.
Greene Waste to Energy SL — Greene Waste to Energy SL develops innovative gasification technology for energy recovery of biomass and organic waste. The company is dedicated to the design, manufacture, installation and commissioning of biomass and waste gasification plants and generation of renewable energy (electricity and heat).

We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Travel
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

QA.tech — Our AI combines the skills of a QA engineer with the speed of automated testing for you. This shortens your time to market, cuts costs and improves the quality of your web apps.
ClimeFi — ClimeFi is the leader specialising in permanent carbon removals (CDRs), partnering with companies to build portfolio of certified CDR assets.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

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.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
Scalable Capital — The broker with trading flat rate: trade shares, ETFs, funds, cryptocurrencies & derivatives without commissions. Europe's leading digital asset management manages your ETF portfolio.

5M Ventures is a unique Start-Up accelerator that has a complete ecosystem that meets all the needs of entrepreneurs: Fundraising, Consulting, Media For Equity, Purchase of Space and an Investment Fund dedicated to Products Consumer Goods.The founders and shareholders of 5M Ventures, investors in over 250 Start-Up companies, are convinced thatbusiness creators need tailor-made support to succeed in the world of Venture Capital.5M Venture is an innovative model for capital risk investment, offering B2C companies experiencing rapid growth the possibility to advertise in top quality media space in exchange for shares in the said companies.

Investment focus

Internet, Innovation Management, Recruiting
Series A, Seed, Series B
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Valoo — Valoo is a Digital Management Platform for your belongings. It helps you: 1- to inventorize anything you purchase or own already in an automatic way, including important documentation (receipts, warranty, etc.) 2- to know the market value in real time of your belongings 3- to actively manage it - sell, rent, share any but also insure or file aclaim - for a single item or your inventory as a whole.It is free and if your home insurance provider is a partner, you get a premium version.
CornerJob — CornerJob is a startup founded by Antai Venture Builder and is therefore part of the Southern Europe´s leading digital ecosystem with headquarters in Barcelona. The same digital ecosystem that founded other successful ventures like Wallapop, Glovo (JustBell), Deliberry, BePretty, Stampydoo, Shopery or Elcodi, among others.CornerJob'smission is both, for companies to empower them with mobile technology and multiple disrupting features in order for them to find the right candidate in the shortest period of time, and for candidates to find the right job in the same short timeframe.It is basically a job matching platform that enables users to find geolocated job offers, apply to them, chat directly with the recruiters and get an answer in 24 hours. For companies, it represents the perfect recruiting channel in terms of simplicity, interaction and immediacy. It also adds value in the selection process, since it includes a chat feature to minimize timeouts.
Cherche mon nid — When they was a real estate agent, Antoine Huvé, the founder of rechercheemonnid.com, started from the double observation that it had become tedious for clients to search for real estate on the internet (many sites, imprecise locations, multiplication of contacts and registration, ....) and for professionals, it became very expensive and painful tohave to multiply ads on different media to be able to get customer contacts without valuing its expertise and skills.The very simple idea of Cherchemonnid.com appeared:To allow people in search of good to be able to contact ALL the professionals of a sector in a single step in order to receive CUSTOMIZED proposals and to cover the whole market.

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 andinternational 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 .

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Grant
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Floatech — Discover Floatech: Boosting lithium-ion batteries with sustainable, high-performance silicon anodes. Explore our innovative technology.
Ironchip — IRONCHIP means location-based security. We create cybersecurity solutions based on our exclusive unspoofable geolocation technology.
Ideeea Therapeutics — Ideeea Therapeutics is a biotechnology start-up focused on advanced therapies (ATMPs).

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

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Greece, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Goodvidio — Goodvidio is a software service that turns the power of product videos into a conversion optimization tool. It helps ecommerce stores optimize their product pages for conversions by adding curated product videos from social media, to engage shoppers and drive purchases.
100mentors — The problem:We take our most critical career & academic decisions quite randomly. *Our mission:To empower the world’s youth to consciously take their once in a lifetime decisions.100mentors: On-demand access to the world's largest alumni network. Prepare your students for the workplace of the future.* We live in an agewhere you can have an Uber cab show up in 2', with the car type you like, full visibility of the driver reviews, even the ability to pre-set the music you' ll listen to during your ride. At the same time, you have almost zero capacity to personalise yours or your kid's career & academic orientation to find what truly fits their profiles, needs & special talents or customise their counselling for landing their dream universities & jobs & pursuing their real inclinations...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g18FLCNjscM&feature=youtu.be
Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.

Aglaé Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris, New York and San Francisco backed by Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH, global leader in luxury goods. Aglaé invests from € 100k up to € 100m in asset light tech businesses at all stages. Groupe Arnault-backed companies include Netflix, Spotify, Backmarket, Betfair, Airbnb,Slack, Algolia, Lyft and others.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

CAST AI — Cast AI cuts AWS, Azure, and GCP costs, secures Kubernetes applications, and boosts DevOps efficiency. Try it now!
HeyLibby — HeyLibby is the AI sales assistant and best kept secret for small business owners to engage, qualify, and convert leads.
SPRiNG Collective — SPRiNG is a consumer goods company that offers clean and efficient laundry and cleaning products, delivered in a 100% plastic-free box and directly in the mailbox. The company is headquartered in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Philippe Cantet, Laure Favre, and Ben Guerville in 2017.

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than justcapital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures' in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
Kota — Replace your tools, brokers and outdated processes with the only platform that handles the entire employee benefits journey.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
CarOnSale — Operator of B2B auction platform intended to digitize the lease-return and trade-in of cars.
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Aspora — Aspora help users bank seamlessly across countries, invest in diverse assets, access credit and insurance services.
Orasio — Orasio turns video feeds into easily actionable information for cities, homeland security forces, and businesses.
Octane — Octane is a digital wallet for vehicles that streamlines payments for all vehicle related expenses.

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is a Berlin-based state-accredited university of applied sciences that offers bachelor’s degree programs in the field of Digital Product Development.

The Bank of Ireland Seed and Early Stage Equity fund is a joint fund built with contributions from the Bank of Ireland, the University of Limerick Foundation, and government-backed The seed fund will invest in export-oriented high potential firms that operate in the technology, food and financial services sectors, inaddition to supporting patent and patent pending projects within Irish universities, targeting investments between EUR 100K-500K. The new fund comprises of a â‚¬17 million investment by Bank of Ireland, along with funding of â‚¬8 million from Enterprise Ireland and â‚¬ 1million by the University of Limerick Foundation. It will be managed by

Investment focus

Software, Photography, Solar
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Pulsate — Effectively engage consumers and transform digital micro-engagements into real growth for your bank/credit union with Pulsate.
LegitFit — LegitFit is there to help you from first sale to scale! Our leading software solution is everything you need to run & grow a successful business. It's easy to use, affordable, and integrates powerful tools for bookings, payments, and communication!
Certification Europe — Achieve and maintain compliance with the most in-demand standards with Amtivo. We help organisations reach their true potential.

Volta Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed & early stage VC for internet & software companies in the Benelux.The fund’s team, with active support from some 30 business angels, expects to make a substantial impact on every company it invests in by working with the founders and management to identify new markets andcustomers, hire senior talent, provide ongoing guidance and arrange further financing rounds.Volta Ventures has offices in Ghent and Amsterdam.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Hyperfox — The tailored eCommerce platform for the Wholesales industry. All you ever needed to grow your Wholesales enterprise.
LangWatch — LLMops, AI evaluations, B2B, AI optimisations, Prompt management, Collaboration
Videobot — Grow your business with personalised video funnels that engage your audience with human interaction, capture leads, guide your users, enhance customer satisfaction and increase conversion rate.Short videos have already become dominant across social media platforms. Now, this beloved user experience is available on company websites as well. The applications are vast and varied. Discover how it all works by reserving your own presentation slot.

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 growthjourney.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
Converge — Converge is building the next generation of wireless sensor networks for the industrial internet of things by augmenting existing sensors to help large industries replace manual monitoring with automated, continuous data collection and analytics.
Adclear — Instant approvals for financial promotions. Real-time marketing. Zero bottlenecks. Transform manual compliance into automated confidence. Scale your marketing operations while reducing risk. Adclear empowers your team to move fast and stay compliant.

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
LoveTV Channels — LoveTV Channels is a TV channel production company offering entertainment that connects with audiences
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
Rebag — Shop expertly-vetted used luxury styles, getting the best value with Rebag+. Sell your items for upfront quotes. Find Rebag at select Bloomingdale's stores.
Unblock — Unblock is a climate technology company that offers a solution to mitigate emissions.

W.IN.G by Digital Wallonia invests in SAAS, advanced tech and deep tech startups (AI, drones, medtech, IOT,...). W.IN.G brings smart money by helping startups by bi-weekly interactions and providing an operating teams (seasonal entrepreneurs being hands-on with the portfolio).

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Internet
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

IONNYK — IONNYK is a new medium of art photography, containing millions of tiny ink capsules.
MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.
Soil Capital Belgium — Discover Europe's first certified, multi-national carbon farming programme that rewards regenerative agriculture.

LDV Capital invests in deep technical teams building visual technology businesses that leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
Luma AI — Building visual AI to expand human imagination and capabilities
Dannce.ai — dannce.ai uses AI-driven 3D-aligned neural networks to automate behavioral analysis for faster, more accurate drug development and clinical care.

Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.

Investment focus

Photography, Film, Video
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twine — Build a more diverse team of freelancers to beat your competition. Hire vetted freelancers from Twine's global network to help you scale your business.
Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
Socialite —

Accomplice is a venture firm and contemporary family office. We have been part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, Coinlist, Currencycloud, DraftKings, FalconX, FLOW, Freshbooks, Integral Ad Science, Hopper, HQO, Luna, Near, Orchard, Patreon, PillPack, Plastiq, Recorded Future, SecurityScorecard, Skillz, Veracode, Work Human, WHOOP, Zoopla, and more. We are also founders behind Accomplice Blockchain and the Spearhead operator-angel movement.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bolo AI — At Bolo AI, we are pioneering the future of knowledge management in heavy industries, starting with Oil & Gas. Our groundbreaking platform combines domain-specific models with cutting-edge AI technology to redefine how millions of heavy industry professionals access and create vital knowledge. Our products, Bolo AI Answer and Bolo AI Writer,streamline access to critical information and documentation processes, setting new standards in productivity, safety, and efficiency.
TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
Throne — Throne is a health company that focuses on individual gut wellness and hydration maintenance.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Think 360 — Think 360 is able to comprehend the needs, provide straightforward and effective solutions, and provide solutions for decision makers.
CCI Photonics — CCI Photonics specialises in medical instruments and supplies, as well as conducting biotechnology research and development.
Patisserie Lane — Patisserie Lane will provide coffee, tea, and pastries in the heart of Farnworth hamlet.

Barclays PLC is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide. It is engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia.The company offers current accounts, savingsproducts, Woolwich-branded mortgages, unsecured loans, general insurance, and banking and money transmission services to small- and medium-sized businesses; investment and insurance products; business lending services; bank assurance solutions; and retail, credit and debit card, and corporate services. It also offers international payments services for consumer and business customers, including credit cards and consumer lending services; investment banking services comprising strategic advisory, financing, and risk management services to large corporate, government, and institutional clients; integrated corporate banking solutions, including cash management, lending, and trade financing services to corporate and financial institutions as well as multinationals; and a range of wealth and investment management services such as international and private banking, investment management, fiduciary, and brokerage services.With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 147,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests, and protects money of more than 48 million customers and clients worldwide.The company was formerly known as Barclays Bank Limited and changed its name to Barclays PLC in January 1985. It was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Sunswap — Sunswap is developing zero-emission transport refrigeration products to reduce noise and air pollution in our cities. Our mission is to replace the dirty diesel engines currently in use in the cold chain with our electric Transport Refrigeration Units (TRU).
WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Offr — Offr is the new way to buy and sell property, quickly and transparently.

BTQ Ventures is a (pre-)seed, early stage investment fund that invests in great founders with bold, innovative and maybe crazy ideas.

Investment focus

SaaS, Content, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Beazy — Beazy is an all-in-one platform for content production. We help companies find the creatives, equipment and locations they need for their photo/video productions and give them collaborative tools to manage everything in one place.

Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Pockla — Supercharging creatives with content strategy and creation.
Midnite — Bet on Football, Horse Racing, Slot games, Live Dealer, and much more. Play your way and get rewards like no other. Unlock huge promos, boosts, and free spins. Easily deposit and instantly withdraw your winnings. Join today and claim your welcome offer.
Quantum Light — Quantum Light strives to transform the pigment industry by developing colors, coatings, pigments, dyes, and inks that take advantage of quantum dots' remarkable optical properties.

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 privateco-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

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Finland, United States, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

Hedera Dx — A diagnostics platform that makes liquid biopsies a reality in cancer care
Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.
TILT Biotherapeutics — TILT Biotherapeutics is the leading company globally working in the area of enabling tumor T-cell therapy with oncolytic viruses. TILT is a preclinical stage company working in the field of cancer immunotherapy and will soon translate its unique approach into clinical trials. The company’s patented technology involves utilization of oncolyticviruses for enhancement of tumor T-cell therapy. Initial embodiments of the technology will be used to enhance tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL), chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) and checkpoint inhibiting antibody therapy. The TILT approach has the potential to achieve similar results in CAR-T therapy of solid tumors as currently achieved for CD19+ hematological tumors.

Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Photography
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
Console — A free weekly devtools newsletter. Reviews of the most interesting devtools and latest beta releases.

Playfair is a generalist VC fund with a contrarian approach to pre-seed technology investing. Based in London, Playfair invests across the UK and Europe with an intentionally high conviction, low volume approach: making 6-8 investments a year and preserving time, capital and resource to help companies post-investment. Playfair has backed 70+companies across two funds including Thought Machine, Andela, Mapillary, Recycleye and Orca AI.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
Astral Systems — Our compact multi-state fusion reactors offer high particle flux and exceptional lifetime performance, unlocking a wide variety of critical medical, industrial, and research applications today.
NetFabric — NetFabric is building a next-generation network observability platform that seamlessly combines all network data sources and provides real-time responses to any network question.

Chris Bouwer

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Photography
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BIYU — Transform your business with our modular rental and subscription platform. Proven expertise in warehouse management, asset tracking, and circular economy solutions.
Agora Awards — AGORA images is the market of images without intermediaries where you can make money with your photos.
Modelmanagement.com — Model Management connects new faces and models with scouts, international modeling agencies and model photographers.

Newable: Helping over 20,000 businesses thrive annually with tailored financial products, advice, and flexible workspace solution

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Delta g — Delta g Limited is a quantum technology and gravity gradiometry company. A spin-out from the University of Birmingham our technology has applications in industries as varied as civil engineering, infrastructure, defence, rail, navigation and resource exploration. Experts from science, engineering an
Weldfast — Weldfast is a manufacturer and supplier of welding consumables, abrasives, chemicals, premium gas equipment, and safety products.
EarSwitch — Empowering new ways to control and connect with the world through in-ear biometric switch and sensor technology

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meysey — Increase your company's resilience to fraud with Meysey today. We seamlessly plug into Xero to perform vital checks and governance across your commercial eco-system.
Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Astronome AI — Astronome AI is a company that provides streamlined IT management for SMEs, powered by AI.

Exploring the Adjacent

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
RevenueCat — RevenueCat handles the pain points of in-app subscriptions, so you can get back to building your app.
Inversion — Inversion Space is a privately held company driven to change how humanity utilizes space. Its builds affordable, high cadence return vehicle for the commercial and defense industries.

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 drivenentrepreneurs 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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shakers — We are Shakers and we are redefining the future of work. We connect companies and talent with a perfect match between personal and professional life through technology and methodology. We want to achieve a lifestyle in which work is synonymous with happiness so that you can work where, how and when you want. And thus be more productive and havebetter results in the projects in which you collaborate. Sounds good to you? You already have DNA Shakers, follow us !!
Capably AI — Capably empowers professionals to automate complex tasks with AI in minutes, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Operating autonomously in the background, Capably acts as an extension of the teams it supports, driving greater productivity and efficiency. Anyone in the company can use Capably to automate back-office tasks like dataentry and processing, generate insights and reports, manage projects, and more—all while the organisation maintains complete control and visibility over how and when employees delegate work to AI.
Openlayer — Test, monitor, and govern AI systems from ML to LLMs. Openlayer's enterprise platform brings unified AI evaluation, observability, and governance to every stage of the AI lifecycle.

Berlin Ventures invests in new and innovative internet companies as entrepreneur-driven pre-seed, seed and growth capital investors. In addition to primary and/or secondary funding they provide ‘hands on’ support with their entrepreneurial experience alongside their considerable knowledge and network of contacts in all relevant areas such asstrategy, internationalisation, marketing, logistics, product, follow-on funding, finance, human resources, etc.

Investment focus

Internet, Fashion, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

CSK Venture Capital invests in companies of Japan and overseas, focusing on the areas of Information Technology and Life Science. They provide IPO and management consulting services.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, France

Portfolio highlights

Ecrio — Ecrio provides optimized, standards compliant software clients and development resources to mobile phone service providers and device manufacturers for mobile commerce and real time communications. The Ecrio Mobile Communications Client Suite (MCCS) transforms everyday applications into communication-rich applications. The MCCS frameworkreduces the complexity and effort required to add rich communication functions to applications ranging from Voice and SMS to video telephony, content sharing, social communications and enterprise solutions. Applications running in common application environments, developed using standard SDK tools on a wide range of device types and platforms can be easily upgraded to communication-rich applications using the framework’s rich set of functions and its simple access methods.The Ecrio MCCS solves the challenges of enabling and sharing high-value and complex communication capabilities among multiple applications and devices, reducing the incremental effort, cost, and risk of deploying and using new LTE and IMS service capabilities. It accelerates application development resulting in more uses and optimized experiences expanding the individual value and market reach and achieving a higher value for the service capability investment.
Exanet — Exanet Ltd. designs network attached storage systems. It offers ExaStore, a solution with a clustered distributed file system; ExaSync software that offers a method of protecting and recovering data, providing mirroring between local or remote ExaStore systems; and EX1500, an integrated server pre-installed with the ExaStore clustered distributedstorage operating system. The company also provides ExaAdmin, a Web-based console and command-line interface that offers centralized configuration, management, and monitoring of ExaStore clustered storage solution from a single point; ExaStore, which provides monitoring for the cluster status, filesystem performance, and protocol information; and ExaVolumes that offers on-demand provisioning, which allows administrators to allocate capacity independently of physical storage configuration. In addition, it offers ExaSnapshots, which offers online point-in-time data protection; ExaRestore that allows administrators to recover data sets in one step. Further, the companyâ€™s solutions include data protection, digital media, disaster recovery, global content delivery, high performance computing, hosted storage services, technical applications, and Web services. It serves media and entertainment, telecom and service providers, Internet, manufacturing and imaging, enterprise, education, government, software and semiconductor industries. Exanet Ltd. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel with offices in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan.
MicroCHIPS — Microchips Biotech, Inc. is dedicated to improving the lives of patients by revolutionizing drug delivery. Our proprietary microchip-based implant can store and release precise doses of drugs over months and years. The implant, which is placed under the skin by a trained physician during a simple office procedure using local anesthesia, can bewirelessly activated or deactivated by a physician or patient, without requiring removal. In addition, physicians can wirelessly modify the frequency or dose of the drug to meet the individual needs of each patient.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Solteo — Solteo operates as a platform for photovoltaic installers.
GROWL — Discover GROWL: the smart boxing bag blending cardio, strength, and gaming. Experience an immersive home boxing coach and step up your performance.
CROWN — CROWN is modernizing procurement negotiations through ethical eAuctions.

HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, serves millions of customers through its three Global Businesses.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Mirakl — Mirakl offers the industry’s advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform. With Mirakl, organizations across B2B and B2C industries can launch marketplaces faster, grow bigger, and operate with confidence as they exceed rising customer expectations. Platforms are the new competitive advantage in eCommerce, and the world’s most trusted brandschoose Mirakl for its comprehensive solution of technology, expertise, and the Mirakl Connect ecosystem to unlock the power of the platform business model for them. As a result, companies like ABB, Astore by AccorHotels, Best Buy Canada, Carrefour, Catch, Changi Airport, Darty, The Kroger Co., Leroy Merlin, Maisons du Monde, Metro, and Toyota Material Handling gain the speed, scale, and agility to win in the changing eCommerce landscape. For more information: www.mirakl.com.
Varo Energy — VARO Energy is an integrated oil refiner and supplier serving North West Europe, safely and efficiently. Varo Energy is investing in this market by building a network of refineries, storage tanks and distribution channels to secure the reliable supply of oil products for heating, transportation, construction and the petrochemical industry in NorthWest Europe.
Sai Silks (Kalamandir) — Sai Silks Kalamandir Limited (SSKL), a renowned retail textile conglomerate established in 2005 by Mr. Chalavadi Naga Kanaka Durga Prasad.

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