Top 50 Social Impact Startup Investors in Europe in December 2024

Investor	Social Impact Europe investments
APX	4
Ascension	3
Demeter	3
Samaipata	2
Nigel Wray	2
Hansmen Group	2
Richard Brooke	2
SoftBank	2
Übermorgen Ventures	2
Thierry Petit	2
Intel	2
Wiklöf Holding	2
Shubhrendu Koche	2
OurCrowd	2
DVR Capital	2
Alexander Hars	2
Wouter Born	2
Giorgio Chiellini	2
Ingka Investments	2
BayBG Venture Capital	2
Ananda Impact Ventures	2
Digital Currency Group	2
coparion	2
Nico Rosberg	2
Seedrs	2
Ålandsbanken	2
Calm/Storm Ventures	2
Mastercard	2
CommerzVentures	2
Curt Hopkins	2
EXOR N.V.	2
Lena Apler	2
Tomahawk.VC	2
Bynd Venture Capital	1
Goldman Sachs	1
Guardian Media Group	1
MGV Capital Group	1
All Turtles	1
Nordic Makers	1
Moussa Karim	1
Quadrature Climate Foundation	1
Grouport Ventures	1
Leandro Sigman	1
EIT Urban Mobility	1
Sir Stuart Rose	1
GMG Ventures	1
Not On The High Street	1
Mediobanca Banca di Credito Finanziario S.p.A.	1
Arlan Hamilton	1
Google.org	1

APX is Europe’s leading very-early-stage VC. Based in Berlin and backed by Axel Springer and Porsche, we support and partner with the most ambitious founding teams from Europe and beyond - often as their first investor.We invest up to EUR 500K in startups until a series A starting with a quick EUR 50K investment, and within a few months,depending on traction and speed, we can invest further. Each month we invest in new teams who become part of the APX community, counting hundreds of other founders. Since 2018, we have invested in 100+ startups across 20+ industries with founders from 20+ countries together with 100+ co-investors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the energy and ecological transition. They invest from 500 K€ to 30 M€ to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
France, Germany, Slovenia

Portfolio highlights

E-Recycle — E-Recycle is an online and offline store that specializes in recycling used high-tech products such as mobile phones, tablets, and PCs.
Plan A — Automate your company's ESG and carbon footprint reporting and reduce your emissions. Create decarbonisation plans plans based on data and science.
BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells — Miniature batteries are complex, expensive and unecological to collect and recycle. Our thin, light-weight and flexible paper-based biofuel cells are biodegradable, environmentally friendly and economically viable.

Samaipata is a specialized and pan-European venture capital fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at the early stage across Europe. With over $160M of assets under management, we start with investments of $750k to $2.5m and reserve up to $10m for future rounds, from pre-seed to Se

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Auctree — Auctree is an online trading platform for real estate investors.
Nory AI — Transform your hospitality business with Nory's AI-driven OS. Elevate profitability, centralise operations, and empower your workforce.

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck

The hansmengroup is a bunch of startups, that share common values, similar goals and the same Business Angel. A group with an incredible performance.

Investment focus

EdTech, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Vitaance — Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. We aim to improve people's quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology. We want to democratize access to life insurance and to a healthier lifestyle.
Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.

Richard Brooke

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Social Impact, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

SoftBank Group Corp. (Chairman & CEO: Masayoshi Son) Corporate and IR site provides company information such as our company profile, an overview of the company and Group companies, as well as IR and CSR.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series B, Series C, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Mapbox — Integrate custom live maps, location search, and turn-by-turn navigation into any mobile or web app with Mapbox APIs & SDKs. Get started for free.
Stack AV — Stack AV - Revolutionizing the Transportation of Goods
Better.com — Buy or refinance your home with Better Mortgage for a seamless online mortgage experience backed by superior customer support. Not available in all states. See better.com/about-us/licensing-disclosure.

We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.

Investment focus

Energy, Software, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, Finland

Portfolio highlights

CleanHub — Become plastic neutral with CleanHub and prevent ocean bound plastic before it can cause damage
Openvolt — A developer friendly API for unlocking access to smart meter data across Europe. Build more impactful apps in Energy Efficiency, ESG, EV Charging, Demand Response and a host of other use cases.
E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage.And it all starts with data.Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data.Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Wiklöf Holding operates as a holding company. It invests in logistics, construction, helicopter, real estate ownership, trade, and tourism sectors.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

Shubhrendu Koche

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sports, eSports
Seed, Pre-Seed
India, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fando — Sports & eSports : Fan Engagement Platform
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.
BazaarNXT — B2B Marketplace for Packaging Materials, Manufacturing & Distribution

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
Israel, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

ThetaRay — ThetaRay's big data analytics solutions are based on AI & machine learning, empowering businesses to find opportunities and threats hidden in their big data
Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
Intuition Robotics — Intuition Robotics empowers older adults to live happier, healthier and independent lives at home with an empathetic digital companion, ElliQ.

DVR Capital offers M&A advisory and private equity as well as equity services for businesses, financial investors, and multinationals

Investment focus

Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.

Alexander Hars - Board member @ Zalster

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
Brink Commerce — Brink Commerce offers leading eCommerce solutions. Boost growth, perfect customer experiences, and unlock agility with our Composable Commerce API.

Wouter Born is a Founder at Born Capital. He attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pynk — Pynk is the Multi-Award Winning London Fintech that rewards you for making predictions on assets like Gold, NASDAQ and Bitcoin. Free sign up, start today!
Hurree — Hurree is a pinboard for your analytics. Unify data from across your different tools and pin what matters most to you on one, easy-to-read dashboard.
Skopos.AI — Lupasafe offers immediate and continuous complete insight into cyber security risks on people, process and IT.

Giorgio Chiellini

Investment focus

Gamification, Social Impact, Natural Resources
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Vedrai — Vedrai develops online platforms based on AL.
Treedom — Grow a tree and follow the story of the project of which it is a part.

We're Ingka Investments, along with Ingka Centres and IKEA Retail, one of the three core businesses of Ingka Group. We invest in generations, not quarters.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, GPS
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
Sweden, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
DirectID — We build solutions that create frictionless financial experiences, breaking down barriers & creating trust with bank data online. Bank Data, Open Banking.
GoBolt — Logistics, Simplified. GoBolt is building a sustainable, first-party supply chain network. Delivering an end-to-end customer experience.

Innovative post-revenue startups with first customers trust us as highly reliable investors. We have been an active player in the venture capital market for over 25 years. Due to our evergreen approach, we offer institutional venture capital without the limitations of the usual fund structure. Predominantly we invest straight equity. Additionally,we can offer venture debt to mature startups close to break-even in order to avoid further dilution for founders. Being a private investment company we act as both lead investor or co-investor. We can also fulfill the private lead investor role for public investors like Bayern Kapital. Together we are increasing YOUR company's value.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
Germany, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

4.screen — 4.screen is a technology company that develops technologies for driver interactions. The 4.screen Mobility Experience Cloud (MXC) connects the car to the mobility ecosystem and provides a standardized interface for real-time communication with drivers. 4.screen shares a common goal with car manufacturers and businesses – placing the driver at thecenter of every equation. Car manufacturers and mobility service providers implement 4.screen APIs into their existing systems and applications to provide integrated services for seamless journeys. Businesses of all sizes - from local shops to global brands - use 4.screen to communicate with drivers directly through the vehicle's screen. Drivers enjoy frictionless access to the mobility ecosystem, see more relevant content and benefit from value-added services such as sponsored parking and charging. The 4.screen technology is developed by a team of automotive, marketing, and software experts who are committed to creating seamless experiences for drivers.
ChargeOne — The complete charging solution for your e-mobility.
SUSHI Bikes — SUSHI Bikes has developed the perfect e-bike for modern urban people.

We are the home for entrepreneurs with a big vision who want to create something less ordinary. Something that matters. For all of us.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

EcoG — EcoG connects and enables monetizing charging infrastructure with an API-software platform. EcoG is the first cloud-based platform to enable shared revenue streams and value-added services in fast charging. With EcoG a personalized and customized EV fast charging experience is easy to implement and operate.
Klim — Klim enables farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture at scale by providing them financial support, knowledge, documentation tools, and a community via our digital companion for farmers.Klim-verified carbon removal credits, generated by Klim farmers, help companies to transition to net zero by offsetting their carbon emissions locallyand with maximum impact and transparency.
OroraTech — OroraTech provides global real-time information services. The first target market is early detection and monitoring of wildfires, extended by a proprietary constellation of thermal imaging nanosatellites equipped with in-space AI image processing. At the beginning of 2020, OroraTech launched an MVP called Wildfire Service (WFS) that enables quickdetection and monitoring of wildfires on a global scale. The combination of existing thermal-infrared satellite data with external data layers, such as fuel, wind, and risk maps results in an automatic generation of fire alerts and the display of current fire perimeters for users. The MVP was launched in early 2020 and has gained increasing traction with governmental and large corporate customers all over the world.

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

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Germany, Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

Insify — Insify is an insurance company that offers digital insurance solutions to freelancers and small businesses. The company was founded in 2020 by Koen Thijssen and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.

Alandsbanken provides retail banking, corporate finance, asset management, and private banking services to institutions and individuals.

Investment focus

FinTech, Social Impact, Sustainability
Series A, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.
Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

Mastercard is a payments and technology company that connects consumers, businesses, merchants, and governments. They provide data services and marketing center. Their marketing materials help card portfolios and businesses. They also provide fraud prevention solutions and payment ecosystem security.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
Series A, Corporate Round, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

Venture capital investor in early stage FinTech and InsurTech companies starting at Series A in Europe, Israel and the USA.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Runa — Businesses from every walk of life use rewards to acquire, retain and thank customers but the current process is broken. Sending rewards, incentives and non-cash payouts is manual, expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. WeGift changes this. Operating in more than 30 countries, in 22 languages, 20 currencies, with over 700 brand partners, andhundreds of clients, like Perkbox, Sodexo, New Look and Halfords among others, WeGift’s cloud-based, open API solutions allow businesses to transfer value to consumers, in real-time and globally. Established in 2016, WeGift is backed by leading entrepreneurs and investors.
Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

Tech CEO, Chairman and venture builder in sustainable tech, fintech and the future of work.

Investment focus

SaaS, Fitness, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Keia Ltd — From acupuncture to yoga, browse, compare and book on the world's most extensive wellness platform from the comfort of your phone, tablet or laptop.
Epic Impact — Epic is the app that rewards you for buying ethical products that are better for the planet, and empowers you to do more good, from offsetting your carbon footprint to donating to good causes.

EXOR is a holding company based in the Netherlands that the Agnelli family controls. The company has a diverse portfolio of investments in various industries, including automotive, real estate, and finance. The company is known for taking a long-term approach to its assets and has a reputation for being a patient and value-oriented investor. Thecompany's primary focus is on creating long-term value for its shareholders by actively managing and growing its portfolio of investments.EXOR's core mission is to cultivate exceptional enterprises, simultaneously nurturing opportunities for its talented workforce to flourish, make meaningful societal contributions, and yield outstanding returns for its valued investors.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
Verity — Our automated inventory tracking system powered by self-flying inventory drones makes the zero-error warehouse a reality.
Philips — Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services. The company offers professionals with healthcare, lighting, and oral healthcare products, professional dictation, and display solutions, and innovation services. It offers consumers electronic products related tosound and vision, personal care, mother and child care, housewares, lighting, PCs and phones, and more.

Lena Apler is the Founder and CEO of Collector Bank.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Marketplace
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Inimini — Inimini is a second-hand children’s clothing company by style and size.
Songsay — Share music video clips like gifs with sound!
Go North — Go North is an e-commerce aggregator operated by Amazon FBA entrepreneurs.

Tomahawk.VC (www.tomahawk.vc) is an entrepreneur-led early-stage venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur Cédric Waldburger. We invest in global-first companies in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds. We give honest and quick feedback and value empathy, execution and clarity. We think that data beats experience beats opinion.Global-first companies are ventures that think and act global from the very start. They hire the best talent from anywhere in the world and build company culture incorporating remote employees from day 1. Investments range from USD 100k-1M per transaction and up to USD 2M per company. Global focus, based in Switzerland. Get in touch via www.Tomahawk.VC.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
Daylight — Our transaction recommendation API helps apps, protocols, and creators grow transactions and revenue.

Bynd Venture Capital, former Busy Angels, is a Portuguese venture capital investor with more than 30 active investments in the portfolio in different funds. At Bynd Venture Capital we invest in companies: - At the seed / early stage - In IT/Digital and Sustainability (including Lifesciences, Clean Tech, among others) sectors - FromPortugal, Spain and any startup that has a direct connection with these markets (founders, tech team, investors, ...).

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ukio — Artfully designed fully furnished apartments available for extended stays
Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
Guud Woman — Verbeter je cyclus met Guud Woman. Onze supplementen ondersteunen je hormonen en vruchtbaarheid, bevorderen een gezonde huid en meer.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, China, India

Portfolio highlights

Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
MPOWER Financing — Apply for international student loans through MPOWER Financing. Our student loans to study in the USA & Canada don't require a cosigner or credit history.
RecNation Storage — RecNation Storage ("RecNation" or the "Company"), the owner, operator, and developer of specialized recreational vehicle and marine storage facilities,

Latest international news, sport and comment from the Guardian

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel

We are a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in fintech, consumer internet, and enterprise software.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Mexico, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Plerk — Somos una plataforma que te permite crear planes de incentivos flexibles para tus colaboradores cumpliendo con las normas de trabajo NOM 035 y 037 y deducir impuestos
Codiga — Customizable Real-Time Static Code Analysis engine. Works anywhere you write code.
GO — A simpler and cheaper way to get a car. Order your car subscription online in minutes from GO. Save ...

We make products that matter

Investment focus

Software, B2B, 3D Technology
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Makua — Makua is the micro-philanthropy app. Explore the best nonprofits, get inspired to give, and easily make donations. Join the #MakuaMovement
Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.

We know how much grit and luck it takes to build big companies. That’s why we invest our time and our children’s money in crazy, ambitious founders.Founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs that have built, scaled and exited some of the largest technology companies of the Nordics, Nordic Makers is a seed stage hands-on investor, workingactively with companies to take them to the next level.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Denmark, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Tjommi — B2C app helping customers get money back from price drops
CluedIn — CluedIn helps enterprise companies achieve easier and reliable access to data that is scattered across their business. We build the Smart Data Fabric.
Cognigy GmbH — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!

Karim joined EFG Hermes in 2008, with primary responsibility for building the Group's infrastructure private equity platform. He lead the creation of the Vortex Energy Platform and raised and deployed over USD350m of equity in yielding renewable energy assets across Europe. Karim has recently been appointed Co-CEO of EFG Hermes InvestmentBank, responsible for the entire buy-side business of the Group.

Investment focus

Big Data, Sustainability, Impact Investing
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Quadrature Climate Foundation's mission is to unlock the critical solutions needed to avert and manage the worst climate impacts.

Investment focus

Consulting, Non Profit, Machine Learning
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a UK-based nonprofit, building open databases and AI-powered research tools to accelerate climate action

Grouport is a dynamic and versatile fund with a unique approach – it combines direct engaged involvement in terms of project portfolio with an attractive return on investment. As such, the Investor enters the startup ecosystem and becomes a member of a unique network of fellow Angels investing their financial means and know-how into progressivestartups shaping the 21st century.Further, Grouport allows you to enter the startup ecosystem without the need to abandon or divert from your current job occupation and career. Grouport – engaged involvement in progressive startups that have the potential to significantly affect our future Grouport – bringing together a remarkable group of people with a common goal and allowing them to grow.Grouport – unique investment opportunity for those seeking new challenges and creating projects from scratch.

Investment focus

SaaS, Apps, Augmented Reality
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Czech Republic, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Beem — Beem lets musicians, performers and influencers live stream themselves in Augmented Reality and have their followers see those broadcasts wherever they are.
Oxus.AI — AI-driven speech analytics software aiming to cover 6,000 languages, and every member of your sales team. Get every agent in your team performing like your best reps.
Pulse — An easy way to share your GoPro videos with friends and your community. Pulse is a social network for sports that connects creators to fans and communities. Trail running, snowboarding, mtb, paragliding, kite surfing

Leandro Sigman

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Delivery
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

QuadMinds — QuadMinds is a SaaS company that offers logistics efficiency solutions in Latin America and Spain. QuadMinds go along with his clients throughout their digital transformation and adoption of innovative solutions for the business.The QuadMinds Platform allows companies to be more efficient in their logistics processes and offers a better service totheir clients at a competitive cost. Currently, more than 500 companies plan, certify and optimize their daily operations using the QuadMinds Platform. More than 125,000 delveries are optimized activities per day in our platform.
Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. Europe’s leading community for impact-driven start-ups and scale-ups in urban mobilityWe want to move cities toward a more sustainable future by partnering up with start-ups and scale-ups like yours. Our Impact Venturesdivision gives you access to funding and support channels to deliver financial, environmental and social impact on the urban landscapes around us. Our tools are: Funding through grants and equity investments, Knowledge and training through partner-led programmes, networking and introductions through dedicated support to our equity portfolio companiesOur investments provide you with a boost on your growth journey, and our network connects you with the right stakeholders in the public policy sector — on a regional, national and European-wide scale — to put your company on the map and bring your urban mobility services to the people who need it the most.If you’re like us and have a drive to shape the cities of our future, join our community of engaged and esteemed impactful ventures by applying for one of the many different programs we offer.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Smart Point — We are entering the age of convenience and immediacy. A Smart Point automates the reception of any product you shop online, and any service available in your city, from pharmaceuticals, to flowers and dry cleaning. All delivered in 1 hour and available to pick up at your convenience.
Parabol — As Parabol, we use our innovative power for smart mobility systems and traffic safety all over the world.
Fastlane — Discover seamless logistics control with our cutting-edge transport management software. Streamline operations, optimize routes, and enhance efficiency effortlessly. Try our solution for comprehensive control today!

Rose first joined Marks & Spencer in 1972, as a management trainee. Rose remained with Marks & Spencer until 1989, when he joined the Burton Group as Chief Executive in 1994. The Burton Group demerged, forming the Arcadia and Debenhams businesses.In 1997, he joined Argos as Chief Executive, where he was charged with defending thecompany against a takeover bid from the home shopping giant, Great Universal Stores (GUS). Ultimately, GUS did succeed in taking control of Argos, although Rose was widely praised for negotiating an increased price for the retailer.In a turbulent time in its history, Rose became the Chief Executive of Booker plc, where he oversaw the merger of the company with Iceland to form the Big Food Group.Rose joined the Arcadia Group in 2000 as Chief Executive and left in 2002 following its acquisition. Rose turned around the fortunes of the Arcadia Group, and sold the group for over £800m, netting himself around £25m as part of the deal.

Investment focus

Software, B2C, Social Impact
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sunsave — Save money on your bills and gain energy independence with Sunsave solar panel and battery solutions. Get a free quote today.
Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
Glasswall — Glasswall is a cyber security software company. Its technology is designed to regenerate files and documents to a standard of 'known good' and deliver proactive protection. The company's software remediates file structures back into line with their published specification, removes risky Active Content, and regenerates files inmilliseconds in their original file format with visual content completely untouched, thereby, enabling companies to eliminate cyber threats and deliver safe, usable documents in their native format.

London based Venture Capital Fund Manager investing in UK seed stage companies at the intersection of media and technology

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.
Papercup — Next-gen AI Dubbing service that automates video translation. Create new voices in other languages for your video content at scale and increase your ROI.
Signal AI — Signal AI is an AI-powered business intelligence and media monitoring company that aggregates, analyses, and provides business leaders with insights into digital, print and broadcast media, news, and regulatory data. Signal AI’s machine learning enables businesses to track their competitive landscape, changes to regulation, and monitor theirreputation—empowering them to make smarter, faster business decisions.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Not On The High Street is a provider of a curated collection of gifts.

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, Education
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Chatterbox — A corporate language learning platform that uniquely offers active practice alongside algorithmically matched native language coaches who share their students' professional backgrounds and interests. On the app, engineers are learning Arabic from engineers and aid workers are learning French from medical doctors and achieving industry toppingcourse completion rates. Chatterbox language coaches are professionals who have become forcibly displaced and are currently undervalued in the labour market. Co-founded by a former refugee and Y Combinator alum, Chatterbox is backed by BGV, All Turtles and WeWork.

Mediobanca is the leading Italian player in Corporate & Investment Banking, Consumer Finance and Online BankingFor over 60 years we have helped our clients grow, offering high-quality advisory services and providing finance in all its various forms, from more traditional bank credit to the most sophisticated solutions available on capitalmarkets.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, Shopping
Series A, Debt Financing
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MANGO BCN — Spanish multinational Retail company with Headquarters in Barcelona. Leading Brand worldwide and one of the main exporting companies in the European textile sector.
Audaces Impact — Impact investment platform whose mission is to mainstream impact investing.Audaces uses an innovative hybrid model for impact investing. It sources and validates investment opportunities in breakthrough social enterprises and invests with its own principal from its own vehicle. It subsequently syndicates the same transaction to a community ofaccredited UHNWI investors on its co-investment platform.Audaces investors include foundations, HNWIs, family offices and sophisticated investors. They are offered the opportunity to co-invest directly in social businesses, partnering with the deal sourcing, due diligence, legal work and management capability of an institutional fund, whilst maintaining the flexibility to pick and choose investments on a deal-by-deal basis.

Arlan Hamilton is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015, Backstage has now raised more than $12 million and invested in more than 150startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018, they launched a four-city accelerator program in Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, and London.Arlan is the author of, It's About Damn Time, an inspirational and tactical business book for budding entrepreneurs and aspiring investors. She hosts the popular podcast, Your First Million, and has been featured on CNN, PBS, and others, and in 2019 became the first Black woman to have an entirely devoted episode of Emily Chang's Bloomberg 1.0.In October 2018, Arlan was featured on the cover of Fast Company magazine as the first Black woman non-celebrity to do so (following Oprah, Serena, and Beyonce). In 2019, Arlan and her mother, Mrs. Earline Butler-Sims, announced their new scholarship program, which kicked off with Oxford University's first-ever undergraduate scholarship for a Black student, as well as a commitment to fund a full-ride scholarship for a Psychology student at Mrs. Sims' alma mater, HBCU Dillard University.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Communities
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

MicroAcquire — Buy and sell startups in as little as 30 days. Connect with 200k+ qualified buyers & browse 1,000s of vetted listings. Free escrow, legal docs & more. Join now.
Acquire.com — Buy and sell startups in as little as 30 days. Connect with 200k+ qualified buyers & browse 1,000s of vetted listings. Free escrow, legal docs & more. Join now.
Maven — Maven is where top creators teach cohort-based courses. We help you make a living teaching what you love.

Google.org is a platform that pulls together Google's philanthropic efforts. Google.org funds teams with big ideas that have a long-term global impact.

Investment focus

Non Profit, Education, Information Technology
Grant, Funding Round, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

InnovateUS — InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own pace, and live learning on data, digital and innovation skills for public servants like you.
Global Sisters — Global Sisters is a Making Business Possible for ALL women
Climate Policy Radar — Climate Policy Radar is a UK-based nonprofit, building open databases and AI-powered research tools to accelerate climate action