Top 50 Social Startup Investors in Europe in September 2025

Investor	Social Europe investments
Octopus Ventures	4
Speedinvest	3
Notion Capital	3
360 Capital	3
True.	3
Connect Ventures	3
Seedcamp	3
BREEGA	2
Shan Drummond	2
Banque des Territoires	2
Inventures SA	2
Banco Sabadell	2
Mediaset	2
Richard Fearn	2
Tangram Partners Limited	2
Nicolas Julia	2
PSV	2
Samaipata	2
Fuel Ventures	2
Beringea	2
Burda Principal Investments	2
Global Cleantech Capital	2
Soleio Soleio	2
Sputnik Capital	2
Ian Hogarth	2
GV	2
Principia SGR	2
24 Haymarket	2
Sustainable Ventures	2
Ned Cranborne	2
Synergo Capital	1
Grupo Empresarial Larrión	1
Foreword Fund	1
Everywhere Ventures	1
eBay	1
Antonio Zaccheo	1
Will Neale	1
Fondazione Paideia	1
Citizen Capital	1
Novaltia	1
Richard Lewis	1
Investible	1
Financiere Saint James	1
Tiny VC	1
Richard Scudamore	1
B Holding	1
Spectrum Impact	1
Boost Heroes	1
Failup Ventures	1
VenturCap	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CRED — Compare millions of commercial data points and uncover unique and personalised opportunities for your brand.
Healsgood Ai LTD — Discover how HealsGood is revolutionising healthcare with AI-powered workforce solutions. Explore our expertise in clinical insourcing, staff bank management, and secure data-driven technology.
Perci Health — Connecting cancer patients with expert practitioners. On-demand, affordable appointments. Get personalised support and a tailored care plan today.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ARX Robotics — ARX is a defence technology company that specialises in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Tibo Energy — To make sure you operate within the limits of your contract we control your network. We avoid congestion in your energy network.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Miru Labs — Miru Labs offers tailored solutions to spot, rank, and halt crypto threats for enterprises and retail users.
Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

PhotonPath — Enabling seamless integration between Photonics and Electronics for a faster, more connected and sustainable future
Skillvue — Analizza tutte le competenze dei tuoi candidati in pochi click. Skillvue ti aiuta ad analizzare in modo rapido ed efficace le competenze dei tuoi candidati, semplificando la fase di pre-screening.
Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.

A unique model for investing, innovating & growing

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.

We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Cino — Cino automatically deducts everyone's share from their bank accounts. Create groups with whom you want to share bills, set your ratio split & stop fronting costs!
ai-coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. The Seedcamp Nation includes over 400 startups building breakout businesses that change the way people live, interact and buy and includes publicly listed UiPath, Wise, and unicornsRevolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo, and wefox along with fast-growing businesses such as Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
Pensero AI — Pensero.ai is an AI-powered performance review platform for engineering teams, offering real-time insights, automated analysis, and ongoing feedback. Setup in just 5 minutes to enhance transparency, save managers 50 hrs, and promote a culture of growth.
Brink Therapeutics — Brink Therapeutics is a Biotechnology Research firm conducting cell therapy research using reprogrammed recombinases.

Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Analytics
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
Car Throttle — The internet's car community

Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hoji — Hoji is a startup studio focused on driving the environmental transformation of manufacturers. It develops companies that provide innovative technological solutions and decision-making tools designed to help manufacturers reduce their ecological impact, modernize operations, and adapt their business models to address environmental, energy, andsocietal challenges.
Kapsera — Kapsera bridges the gap between sustainability and productivity in agriculture, using cutting-edge, biosourced and biodegradable formulation technologies.Kapsera offers natural and innovative formulations for microbials based biofertilizers and biopesticides.
Auxo — Auxo Dynamics assists businesses in transitioning to a more sustainable business strategy. The technological platform automates data collecting from information systems and provides environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reports in accordance with requirements. Auxo Dynamics also allows stakeholders to share reports, facilitating access tolong-term financing.

Inventures is a European venture capital fund that builds a better world through a portfolio of investments in sustainable businesses.The firm has two funds: Inventures I & Inventures II.Inventures was created to support early stage smart and innovative European businesses, to support sustainable job growth and empower entrepreneurs.Inventures empowers citizenship co-investments through a crowdfunding platform, MyMicroInvest.

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Belgium, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
myskillcamp — Myskillcamp is a digital learning platform and educational design support service. Myskillcamp supports their customers in the digital transformation of their company and the launch of their Digital Learning project. From the audit of needs to the design of engaging educational devices, through a pilot phase, they make a point of honor to adapt thedigital to the specificities of each and give it meaning.With their online platform, businesses can manage their learner communities and connect all their partners in one place. Their tool also allows businesses to structure training spaces by skills, trades, brands within camps. In parallel, businesses can create educational content from scratch, select a map in their marketplace, or plan sessions in-class. Businesses can organize the distribution of their training to a single learner or to a whole group.
Octave — A sustainable, cost-effective and reliable energy storage system with second-life batteries from electric vehicles.

Banco Sabadell is a banking group that specializes in serving small and medium enterprises. It comprises of several banks, brands, subsidiaries, and associated banks. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Alicante, Spain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
Vivira — Vivira Health Lab focuses on making physical rehab programs available to everyone.
Scottish Power — At ScottishPower are amongst the top 6 power companies in the UK. As an energy provider to over 5 million households and businesses across the UK, their role is to bring you YourEnergy – and that means keeping your home nice and cosy, being there when you need us and bringing you competitive tariffs and products.

Mediaset Infinity: Programmi Mediaset, Canali TV Live, Video Clip e Puntate Intere. Programmi, Fiction, Film, Documentari, Streaming e funzione Restart

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Spain, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Termo — Supportiamo imprese, condomini e privati ad abbattere i consumi e a diventare sostenibili.
ProSiebenSat.1 Media — ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE is a German mass media company operating television, radio stations and print businesses. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the largest independent media corporations in Europe with a reported reach of 42 million household around Europe. The company operates 15 television stations across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE was established in 2000, with its headquarters in Unterföhring, Germany.
Colvin — At The Colvin Co we aim to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets selected by our floral gurus through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience.

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

For the angel investor, family office and VCs, CQRS creates opportunities for its investee companies to engage with other potential investors to participate in funding rounds. CQRS and its partners may participate in the financing of some of these businesses. CQRS partners represent a diverse talent pool, with an abundance of business experienceand provide perspective on strategy and market context for all investment opportunities. CQRS advises entrepreneurs and their business seeking growth through investment, on business planning, legal, organisational, funding and communication challenges. You could say we are venture building our pre-seed investee clients, hands on prior to and with any early investment. The dynamics of our network providing a combination of resources produces the most explosive results in order to capture market share quicker.Register now to join The CQRS extended network of angels, FOs and VCs. A member of the UKBAA

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Biotechnology
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Buyerdock — Buyerdock is a GS1 partner, 2D QR Barcode and European recycle logo generator, automatically download triman and conai regulations for consumer packaging, all delivered by a Digital Product Passport
Caldera — Caldera develops "Warmstone Heat Battery," a heat storage to lower carbon usage. It provides thermal storage to heat water and warm a household. Caldera was founded in 2017 and is located in Fareham, United Kingdom.
The Ticket Bank — The Ticket Bank matches event tickets to disadvantaged and marginalized individuals by working with charities & event organizers. It also provides event tickets to disadvantaged and marginalized individuals free of charge. They work with event organizers, charities and community organizations to distribute otherwise unused event tickets tobeneficiaries, creating fantastic life experiences that provide wide-ranging benefits to health and wellbeing.The Ticket Bank aims to offer a service that supports more ticket donations to more community projects and increases participation in arts events. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Sheffield, England, UK.

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about

PreSeed Ventures are the preferred travel companion for trailblazing founders when they set out on the journey of transforming startup dreams to successful businesses. Founded in 2000 they have an exceptional track record of spotting, fostering and financing tomorrow’s winners in syndication with top-tier investors locally and globally. As the namesuggests, PreSeed Ventures operates at the earliest stages, where founders need the professional, operational & systematic support of a VC, but the risks are still too high for most VCs in seed stages. Yet to the powerhouse of experts behind PreSeed Ventures, who have experience from hundreds of startup journey in the pre-seed stage, it is an opportunity to support and nurture the growth of promising startups on the rise, minimizing the time and risk to the next investment round.PreSeed Ventures has grown out of the technological research environment at Denmark’s Technical University, DTU. In 2020 they launch their first full blown commercial venture fund, yet continuing to be a subsidiary company to the university.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ZTLment — We empower online platforms and marketplaces to seamlessly hold, manage, and distribute funds in real-time, with full automation and compliance.
Dynelectro — Dynelectro is a Danish solid oxide electrolyser equipment manufacturer with proprietary innovation to lower the total cost of hydrogen. Dynamic operation enables load-follow of fluctuating renewable energy, delivering over 85% electrical efficiency prior to integrating with industrial heat sources. With fully reversable operation, electricity generation adds substantial value and flexibility with grid ancillary services. Small-scale units begin at 40 kW with 12-month lead time. Large-scale systems start at 1 MW with project-based lead time.
Interhuman — Interhuman is an artificial intelligence company that develops social-aware AI for real-time communication purposes.

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

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
PropHero — Award-winning property investment technology and services to help you build wealth from a global pool of high yield properties.
Genesy AI — Instantly aggregate real-time B2B data from 30+ sources and enrichment tools, and scale personalised outreach using our AI sales agent.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

Roomix — Make your home your own with Roomix. Get custom made products from expert joiners along with installation instructions and on-hand support. Floor Beds, wall panelling, shelving, radiator covers and lots more.
Allasso — Learn more about Allasso's services.
PayControl — PayControl is the control layer for enterprise payment management — modular, provider-agnostic infrastructure designed for scale, with native support for digital assets.

Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.
Limitless Travel — Limitless Travel provides holidays, tours, accommodation, and travel for people living with disability.

Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a division of Hubert Burda Media which provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Planet A Foods — The chocolate revolution is here. 100% cocoa-free and unbelievably delicious. We call it QOA. You need to try it!
BillEase — No credit card? No problem. Buy now, pay later at your favorite stores with Billease and avail monthly installment plans with 0% interest. Split your purchase in 4 payments or pay only 1/3 upfront and the rest up to 12 months. No hidden fees. No surprises. Learn more here.
Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.

Global Cleantech Capital (GCC) is a late venture / early growth investor scaling high-growth companies in the clean economy. We invest in entrepreneurs building new market leaders in clean energy, mobility, cities and fintech.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Software, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Private Equity
United States, The Netherlands, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Carbyon — Carbyon is a Netherlands-based company that develops direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The company's fuels help to replace fossil hydrocarbons with electrical batteries or hydrogen (H2), alternative energy carriers that are used to store renewable electricity and make major changes to transportation facilities, energy grids, and gastransportation networks, filters CO2 from the air and supply it in a purified form to make kerosene for aircraft, enabling existing fossil industry to re-use and repurpose these storage and transport facilities for renewable hydrocarbons.
Goodwings — Choose responsible travel options, track emissions, and offset them for free with Goodwings. Our sustainability-focused travel management system helps you travel responsibly while reducing your carbon footprint.
Battolyser Systems — Battolyser Systems aims to stimulate the development, production, and commercialization of battolyser technology and is looking for skilled and highly motivated people to join the team. The Company was founded in 2018 by dr. prof Fokko Mulder (Technical University of Delft) together with Kees Koolen (former CEO of Booking.com and former COO ofUber) and is led by CEO Mattijs Slee (previously Shell Hydrogen). The company has a unique patented technology that has the lowest production cost for green hydrogen in the market and does not require scarce materials.

Software designer turned investor 👨‍💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more

Investment focus

Software, Product Design, Collaboration
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bezi — Bezi automates coding, debugging, and prototyping for game engines so you can spend more time actually creating. It indexes all parts of your game, not just your code, to provide plug-and-play solutions.
Bezi — Bezi automates coding, debugging, and prototyping for game engines so you can spend more time actually creating. It indexes all parts of your game, not just your code, to provide plug-and-play solutions.
Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers

Sputnik Capital is an investment firms

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Fashion
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Watchity — The Video Engagement platform for your video strategy. Create memorable content and experiences that connect with your audience.
21Buttons — 21Buttons is a technology start-up for fashion social and shopping lovers. It provides the tools everyone who loves fashion is looking for and allows to buy everything that friends and favourite influencers have shared with just a click.\ 21Buttons was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Intent Inc — GroupUltra is a platform that allows users to program their groups and design their communities.
Phoebe — Phoebe is an agentic search tool for tech stack data. It helps engineering teams to troubleshoot many sorts of problems much faster, from minor bugs to major incidents. Phoebe can also initiate searches proactively to help anticipate and triage new issues.
Blue Water Autonomy — Blue Water Autonomy develops fully autonomous, unmanned ships designed from the keel up for long-endurance missions. Its vessels, about 100 feet and 100 tons, are purpose-built for open-ocean operations with modular payloads for logistics, surveillance, or munitions. The ships integrate hardware, software, and AI systems to operate independentlyover long durations. They are engineered for mass producibility, using medium-sized shipyards to keep production simpler and more cost-effective than traditional crewed ships. While initially focused on defense applications, the company also targets future use in commercial sectors such as cargo shipping, offshore energy, and other demanding maritime operations.

Principia is an Italian Venture Capital firm with over Eur 80M under management. Currently Principia has two funds investing in digital start ups and expansion capital opportunities and in particular cases, we invest also in seed opportunities.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

KLISBio — KLISBio is a medtech company currently developing a variety of regenerative medicine implantable products leveraging the power of silk fibroin to promote an endogenous repair of human soft tissues.
ENTEROME — We are a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel drugs to transform human health based on our unique ability to de-code molecular interactions in the gut microbiome.
WISE — WISE (Wiringless Implantable Stretchable Electronics) is a start-up company created in 2011 with the mission of producing the new generation of leads for neuromodulation for treatment of chronic pain and Parkinson: unbreakable, less invasive and cheaper.

24Haymarket is an investment network which included several highly-experienced private equity and venture capital investors, seasoned entrepreneurs, and senior operators. Investing up to £5 million in growth companies in the UK and Europe. They invested their own capital in direct alignment with entrepreneurs and actively support their growthagenda and join the board of the companies in which they invest. Since inception in 2011, 24Haymarket has invested in more than 50 high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

CyberOwl — Helping maritime fleet operators gain visibility, cybersecurity and cyber compliance of shipboard systems with IMO 2021.
Optalitix — Optalitix's data driven products and expertise allow you to move your models to the cloud and improve underwriting efficiency.
onHand — The volunteering and climate impact platform for businesses and individuals. Help your local communities and have global impact.

Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Israel, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
Uplift360 — Uplift360 is a greentech startup working in advanced material circular economy (redesign, reuse, regenerate and recycle), uniquely focused on the defence and security sector.
Danu Robotics — Danu Robotics manufactures AI guided robotic systems for sorting recyclable waste - highly accurate, modular multi-arm systems that retrofit into existing MRF operations and collates EPR data.

Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

Investment focus

SaaS, Social, Analytics
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
Car Throttle — The internet's car community

Diamo sostegno operativo e finanziario alle PMI italiane che vogliono crescere negli USA. Investiamo a fianco di imprenditori ambiziosi per aumentare significativamente il valore delle loro aziende. Non siamo un partner solo finanziario, ma anche operativo e strategico. Mettiamo a disposizione la nostra esperienza nel costruire aziende di successo.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Private Equity, Series A, Funding Round
Italy, Spain, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
Agricooltur — Agricooltur is an agriculture company that design and develop patented systems for aeroponic cultivation.
Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.

Grupo Empresarial Larrión is made up of six business organizations with long history in the steel cutting, wiring, and electronics sectors.

Investment focus

Social, Elderly, Child Care
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Familiados — Familiados is a marketplace on line where families can find, select, and hire caregivers. Caregivers can create profiles, showing education, specialization, experience and availability; they also choose their hourly rate and the area where they want to work.Families, on their side, can search, find profiles with the specific skills for theirneed, request availability, close the deal directly with the caregiver and rate the service. All of it in an open platform, where familiados role is to facilitate the interaction, making sure that the profiles include true information, that families can evaluate their experience and that the transactions take place in a seamless and fluid way, from the beginning to the end, from selection to payment and evaluation.

Foreword Ventures is an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Foreword commits to adding value far beyond the small checks they write by devoting time, reputation, and capital to clients' success. Foreword typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, but can also invest in Series A and beyond whenthere is an existing relationship with the founder or co-investor.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

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Fyxer AI — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
Isembard — Isembard has experience from the military, government, large enterprises, and a successfully exited technology business.

Everywhere Ventures is a global pre-seed venture capital fund for founders, by founders. Click to read Everywhere VC, by Everywhere Ventures, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

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VOW — Meet Quick, a purpose-built Webflow template to promote SaaS and software apps without writing code. Its pre-built content will help you get your website up and running in no time at all.
Fusepay — Modern Finance & Payments for Indian Ocean Islands
Outfox Health — Healthcare answers quick as a fox

Buy & sell electronics, cars, clothes, collectibles & more on eBay, the world's online marketplace. Top brands, low prices & free shipping on many items.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series C
United States, India, China

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Funko — Funko provides branded pop culture products to a diverse range of consumers and retail channels.Funko currently holds hundreds of licenses and the rights to create tens of thousands of characters - one of the largest portfolios in the pop culture and collectibles industry. Funko’s Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible on themarket, selling millions of figures to collectors around the world.
Optoro — Unlock the power of returns technology. Improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and optimize inventory with Optoro's Returns Management System.
COMC — CheckOutMyCards.com takes the latest technology and applies it to card collecting. They desire to continually impress their customers by offering the best service and making it easier and more fun to collect cards.

Antonio Zaccheo is the CEO at BIC Capital. Antonio Zaccheo attended at University Bocconi.

Investment focus

Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment
Angel
Italy

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The Hundred — The Hundred is an holding company which invests in entertainers.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

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qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

Every day we strive to restore trust and serenity to children and families in need. Because no family can feel alone and no excluded child .

Investment focus

Local, Social, Finance
Funding Round
Italy

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PerMicro — PerMicro: microcredito in Italia a chi non ha storico creditizio. Avvio startup, redazione business plan e prestiti per esigenze famigliari.

Citizen Capital is a leading French private equity fund dedicated to using an impact-driven investment approach to deliver both financial and social returns for investors and society at-large. Citizen Capital manages €60 million and provides growth capital to high growth small or medium companies (€1 to 50 million sales) with a strong socialpurpose targeting :- Inclusion : adress the needs of underserved populations (silver economy, health, education, Bottom of the Pyramid...)- Social mobility : enable excluded people to access employment and cross social barriers (job creation in underserved areas, integration of disabled or low-educated workers...)- Sustainable production and consumption : change consumption habits and give access to sustainable goods and services (local production and short distribution channels, environment-driven technologies...)- Social Innovation : introduce new organisation models with tangible positive impact upon employees and partners (employee shareholding schemes, collaborative management...)Our goal is to build wealth for all stakeholders in our portfolio companies. In addition to capital we offer a combination of strategic, financial, operational guidance to the companies in which we invest, as well as a pro-active support in building and driving impact strategy – Citizen Capital has implemented a methodology combining social impact and ESG approach. Citizen Capital has signed the Principles for Responsible Investment (United Nations, PRI) and is a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
France, United States, Germany

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Hubcycle — Hub cycle converts fruit, vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.
NOVO — Digital analysis, planning and financing of energy renovation for real estate.
CardioParc — CardioParc is a network of cardiology institutions that aims to redefine cardiology consulting by reorganizing it around the notion of delegation of tasks.

Novaltia is a pharmaceutical cooperative that distributes medicines and full-range prepharmacy products.

Investment focus

Social, Elderly, Child Care
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Familiados — Familiados is a marketplace on line where families can find, select, and hire caregivers. Caregivers can create profiles, showing education, specialization, experience and availability; they also choose their hourly rate and the area where they want to work.Families, on their side, can search, find profiles with the specific skills for theirneed, request availability, close the deal directly with the caregiver and rate the service. All of it in an open platform, where familiados role is to facilitate the interaction, making sure that the profiles include true information, that families can evaluate their experience and that the transactions take place in a seamless and fluid way, from the beginning to the end, from selection to payment and evaluation.

Richard Lewis is a Chairman at Earth Blox. Attended University of Glasgow.

Investment focus

Social, Travel, Software
Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
Make it Social — Make it Social is a social-first creative agency founded by two former Universal Pictures creatives. Specialising in creating and adapting content for social media.

Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Singapore

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Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.
Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

Financiere Saint James is the Family Office of Michaël Benabou, vente-privée.com's co-founder. We invest in digital startups bringing disruptive services to the market. Financiere Saint James invested in companies such Welcome to the Jungle, Glovo, Alma, WeMaintain, Spendesk. Financiere Saint James also invests in PE/VC funds.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

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Nūmi — Nūmi mission to redefine health through groundbreaking research making the unparalleled benefits of breast milk accessible to all.
Tomorro (ex Leeway) — Leeway helps you reduce the time spent on contract management and gives you more control and visibility over legal and financial risks.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deta — The cloud for doers and dreamers
PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.

Richard Scudamore is an English sports executive. He was the Executive Chairman of the English Premier League.

Investment focus

Gaming, Social, Sports
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Monterosa Productions — Monterosa is the global leader in audience interaction technology and commerce, providing the platform powering the world’s biggest entertainment and sports properties.We work with BBC, ITV, Sky, CBS, IMG Arena, EA Sports & The English Premier League, World Rugby, Viacom, and many others to provide audiences with better ways to participate intheir favourite TV shows and sports. TV hits include Love Island, X Factor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent, where Monterosa tech lies at the heart of the official show apps and interactive experiences across all screens.We help our clients provide game-changing real-time interactivity that grows active, loyal audiences directly. We monetise their attention with commerce and first party data.Our technology is trusted by the world's biggest media organisations and brands to deliver at extreme volumes and securely. Audience experiences include mobile apps, web apps, social media, messaging, and augmented reality.Our creative and delivery teams are award-winning experts in interactivity with TV and sport, and we provide round the clock support to ensure creativity and innovation is matched with reliability and peace of mind.

B Holding is an industrial holding that wants to establish itself as a reference player for innovation in Italy, investing and supporting the best business projects.

Investment focus

Retail, E-Commerce, Grocery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Abiby — Abiby is the italian leading platform that offers subscription services to discover and try new beauty brand and products.
Lupa Run — Lupa is your running partner, built to run with you and mindfully guide you to your goals, whatever they may be. Combining smart technology with mindfulness and human like coaching, Lupa is all you need to get started, go faster, run for longer or simply get some headspace.
Barberino's - Benessere Italiano — We are an Italian independent men's grooming company. We operates a classic though stylish barber shop chain with an Italian soul in Milan, Rome, Padova and Brescia. Our award-winning Barber Shops recreates places where the gestures, the rituals and the habits behind men's grooming are honored while updated with modern attitude. Ourbarbers are top skilled and carefully trained. We focus on high quality haircuts, beard trims and hot towel wet shave with the mission to offer a relaxing grooming experience. We use and sell exclusively our own products, entirely designed, developed and packaged in Italy by an expert group of artisans, chemists and designers that represent the ultimate Italian excellence. Our product line is the result of our years of on-the-ground experience and hundred of thousands of haircuts and bear trims. We know not only what our customers need but also what our customers wants. The cosmetics are characterized by high performance formulas enriched with the most advanced active ingredients (such as plant stem cells) that are extracted from natural sources. The accessories are entirely handmade using the most precious natural materials, such as horn or wengé wood, according to the most elegant Italian design principles. We offer a 360° customer experience which starts in our store with our barbers and which continue at home with our products!

Spectrum Impact is a family office committed to using its resources to help solve the problems of society by allocating its for profit and its not-for-profit pools of capital in a manner consistent with the objective of optimizing the total return on investments made.

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Volt14 — Volt14 Solutions develops ultra-high performance materials for Li-ion batteries - which will double the energy density of batteries mass-produced today.Volt14's anodes will boost battery energy density by upto 70% - and such a radical improvement would eliminate range anxiety and $/kWh storage costs by nearly 40%In comparison to otherbattery materials startups, Volt14 uses a wet chemistry approach - meaning a battery producer can use their existing production lines to mass produce our anodes, without any manufacturing bottlenecks.
ZeroCircle — Zerocircle intend to use seaweed to create bio-alternatives to products that we use in our daily lives and enable organisations to create solutions that are perfectly circular, and leave nothing behind and make a zero waste lifestyle as easy as instant noodles.
Mooev Technolgies — MOOEV Technologies provides a holistic System Engineering approach to solve key challenges of commercializing electrified heavy-duty vehicles

Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Cosaporto — Cosaporto is a home delivery service bringing users goods from upmarket and premium shops in Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and London. The startup carefully selects the best independent shops, producers and artisans, delivered directly to the user’s doorstep within hours of ordering. The service can be used to send beautiful gifts, or forevents, as well as surprises. Currently, Cosaporto operates in several Italian cities, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence and last year it launched a London branch of the business.
Ricehouse — Ricehouse uses organic residues, such as rice straw, husk and chaff, from the rice industry and creates natural construction materials.
Babaco Market — Babaco Market is a subscription with which you receive out-of-the-ordinary fruit and vegetables at home. Products that do not exceed the beauty contests organized by traditional channels and which risk being wasted. We deliver them to your home, in a box. Bring all the goodness of nature to the table and reduce food waste!

Failup Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies based in the US and Nordics.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Power Grid, Electric Vehicle
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Finland, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Nvelop — Nvelop is a pioneer in AI-powered, automated IT sourcing, delivering more efficient procurement, faster time-to-market, and enhanced compliance. Nvelop develops an AI-native SaaS platform for sourcing supporting end-to-end IT sourcing processes including solution exploration, requirements gathering, RFP generation, proposal evaluation, andcontracting. Nvelop was founded in 2024. The company is based in Helsinki, Finland. Learn more at www.nvelop.ai.
OSCAR — On-demand app for home services like repair, cleaning and laundry with fixed prices in less than 30 minutes.
Studio 555 — Studio 555 operates as a tech company, that creates a category where interior design meets gaming and social apps.

VentureCap invests in the industrial, technology, commerce and distribution sectors.In 2000, VenturCap was born, a venture capital fund that invests both in startups and in companies in the growth phase. It was founded by a group of entrepreneurs with the ambition of being able to transfer their experience to these companies and boost theirgrowth. Headquartered in Barcelona, VenturCap is consolidated as the option for companies to consolidate their viability and develop their business model, investing in any non-financial company that is not listed on the first stock market, which has a viable project. and that show possibilities of success.

Investment focus

SaaS, Mobile, Software
Funding Round, Seed
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kompyte — Kompyte is a competitive intelligence tool designed to respond in real-time to its users’ competitors' online strategies. It is designed to learn about its users’ competitors’ online strategies in real-time, and respond to them in an easy and affordable way.Kompyte's competitive intelligence software enables businesses to collect,organize, analyze, and act on competitive changes in their market. Kompyte reinvents the way businesses use intelligence to drive sales, marketing performance and product strategies. Serving thousands of product, marketing and sales roles in over 20 industries, across the globe, Kompyte compiles over 3.5T data points a year. Founded in 2014, Kompyte is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Barcelona and Austin.
21Buttons — 21 Buttons is the first fashion social network where you can earn money from sharing your looks on our shoppable feed
Currency Alliance — API-first, SaaS loyalty platform. Making loyalty commerce simple. Maximize the lifetime value of every customer and extend your existing loyalty platform.