Top 50 Social Startup Investors in Europe in November 2024

Investor	Social Europe investments
Connect Ventures	3
Seedcamp	3
Notion Capital	3
True.	3
Speedinvest	3
Octopus Ventures	3
360 Capital	3
Google Ventures	2
Beringea	2
Ned Cranborne	2
Sputnik Capital	2
24 Haymarket	2
Principia SGR	2
Nicolas Julia	2
Shan Drummond	2
Ian Hogarth	2
Samaipata	2
PSV	2
Richard Fearn	2
Inventures SA	2
Breega	2
Banco Sabadell	2
Mediaset	2
Sustainable Ventures	2
Burda Principal Investments	2
Soleio Soleio	2
Companisto	1
UBI Banca	1
Matt Robinson	1
Marc McCabe	1
Financiere Saint James	1
Northstar Ventures	1
CQRS Limited	1
Angelsquare	1
Generis Capital Partners	1
Robin Shenfield	1
Tiny VC	1
Lánzame Capital SL	1
Richard Lewis	1
Idinvest Partners	1
Fedefarma	1
Harald McPike	1
Redbus Ventures	1
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal	1
Novaltia	1
Berlin Metropolitan Ventures	1
Everywhere Ventures (The Fund)	1
Roderick Banner	1
Fondazione Paideia	1
Wing Venture Capital	1

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

Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Steep — Business intelligence for modern companies. Steep lets anyone on your team stay on top of your data.
Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

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.

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

Ferovinum — We are a technology enabled supply chain financing partner for the wine and spirit industries. Our platform funds wine producers, whisky distillers, bottlers and merchants.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
In Parallel — In Parallel aligns strategy and execution, enabling organizations to thrive in complexity and adapt to change. Our Intelligent Operating Model bridge the gap between strategy and operations. Founded in 2023.

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.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
AllFocal Optics — AllFocal Optics revolutionizes display technology through groundbreaking nanophotonic solutions.
Recyda GmbH — All-in-one Packaging Recyclability Management

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, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers

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

Korint — Korint is a real-time policy management, rich data, no-code interface, open architecture, and cloud-native. Discover the new generation of insurance platforms.
Mela Works — Manage your work site with Mela, and generate logbooks and reports with one click. Download Mela now!
Jinko — Jinko provides tailored supportive care to those impacted by cancer.

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

Infinitus Systems — Infinitus Systems offers Voice Robotic Process Automation (VoiceRPA) software for businesses in the healthcare industry.
Speakeasy — Create great integration experiences for your APIs: native-language SDKs, Terraform providers, and friction-free docs.
PeopleOne Health — PeopleOne Health provides world-class healthcare that seamlessly blends treatment and prevention, leading to significant savings for employers and employees by keeping people healthier. This is the next generation of value-based primary care. Employers save up to 30% on healthcare costs and enhance employee recruiting and retention. Employees getaccess to an award-winning health benefit at no cost, including a team of top-tier doctors and healthcare professionals. Leading employers and thousands of members trust PeopleOne Health and rate their customer satisfaction an excellent 90+ NPS (exceeding the healthcare industry average of 35). Discover more at peopleonehealth.com.

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

MOTH: — MOTH: is a beverages company that provides ready-to-drink cocktail for family and friends.
Gorilla — We empower Energy Retailers in pricing, forecasting and reporting with data-driven solutions in boosting speed and flexibility.
ATLAS Space Operations — ATLAS Space Operations provides Secure Space Access Anytime, Anywhere. Ground Software as a Service on a global federated network.

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

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 — 21 Buttons is the first fashion social network where you can earn money from sharing your looks on our shoppable feed

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

myGwork — The global recruitment & networking hub for LGBTQ+ professionals. Find jobs in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender friendly organisations. Grow your LGBTQ+ professional network. Read the latest LGBTQ+ professional news.
Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
Huq Industries — The leading monitoring platform for footfall, dwell, catchment and traffic flows valued by government, retail and real-estate. Used by 50+ councils!

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.

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

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — Welcome to Cubzh, a universe of user-built avatars, hangouts and games.
Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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.

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

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 everything. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files automatically gathered into one self-organizing home. Never forget anything again.

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, Real Estate, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
retraced — The future of fashion is transparency
Veremark — A leading online background checking platform that is scalable, secure and fast. Featured Checks - Criminal Record Check, Reference Check, Employment Check.

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

spektr — spektr offers client onboarding, continuous compliance, and case management solutions that adapt to your business needs to automate your compliance processes.
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 green energy technology company that focuses on reducing CO2 emissions by transforming fossil fuels into green fuels.

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.

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.

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

InSpek — Next-generation chemical monitoring systems using Raman-on-a-chip integrated photonic sensors.
Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
Jump — Jump takes the hassle out of being a freelancer. We accompany hundreds of freelancers in their daily lives by securing their adventure. Relax, we take care of everything.

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

Software, Internet, Health Care
Seed, Debt Financing, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

MOA — MOA make healthy food for a sustainable world that solves growing global food demands. They are establishing a new industry of sustainable food that solves growing global food demands without the need for arable land. They are focused on designing high-value, natural and nutritious food.
Elawan Energy — Elawan Energy is a vertically integrated company with a long-standing track record in developing, financing, constructing, and operating its own renewable power plants worldwide, with the goal of establishing its position as a significant global renewable Independent Power Producer. It promotes, builds, and operates wind farms around the worldleading the wind energy market. The company has 714 megawatts of operational projects, more than 460 megawatts under construction, and a development pipeline of over 10 gigawatts.
Vivira — Vivira Health Lab focuses on making physical rehab programs available to everyone.

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.

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.

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

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.
Kasagi Labo — Kasagi Labo is the leading anime venture studio that brings authentic Japanese craft to a global audience through licensing, distribution and merchandising.

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 is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Bezi — Bezi is a collaborative 3D design tool.
Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers

Companisto is an equity platform for startups. It enables investors to participate in the funding of companies with an investment of their choice, and in return share profits and increases in value of the startup or property. Companisto is the investment platform for startups and growth companies. Business angels and investors participate ingroundbreaking innovations, promising companies, and ideas that write history through venture capital. As a fintech company, they stand for lean processes, specialized knowledge, and efficient solutions. They are the driver of innovation in the field of professional online corporate finance. In a diverse society, they assume responsibility for the founding culture in Germany and Europe.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OMC°C — Micro Climate Cultivation is creating a scalable, seasonally farmed product system for vertical urban greening.
INHUBBER — INHUBBER is a SaaS Contract Lifecycle Management platform based on Blockchain and AI. INHUBBER simplifies contracts, making them comprehensible, interactive and easy to manage. It reduces the time, costs and risks associated with negotiating, creating, approving and managing contracts.Founded in 2018 from an R&D project, INHUBBER receivedtwo competitive grants and evolved into a software company specializing in cloud-based Contract Management and digital signature solutions. In its MVP, INHUBBER offers a digital signature, a repository and an audit trail at the highest security level. The use of blockchain saves costs, increases transparency, compliance, and security.
Living Brain — Living Brain is a biotechnology company that develops a new method of rehabilitation treatment using virtual reality.

UBI Banca is the fifth largest banking group in Italy for number of branches, with a market share of around 6% and a significant presence in the regions with the highest potential of the country. UBI Banca is a cooperative Group, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange and included in the FTSE MIB

Investment focus

ISP, Local, Social
Funding Round, Debt Financing
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Linkem — Linkem ti offre Internet senza linea fissa per la tua casa grazie alla tecnologia FWA. Naviga senza limiti di traffico.
PerMicro — PerMicro: microcredito in Italia a chi non ha storico creditizio. Avvio startup, redazione business plan e prestiti per esigenze famigliari.

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.

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

Portfolio highlights

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.

Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later stage, high growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

FAT32 — FAT32 is at the forefront of compliance automation, transforming the way businesses satisfy regulatory requirements.
Lightox — Lightox has developed a unique range of molecular tools for use in imaging, therapeutics and assay development. These unique probes are smaller than any other commercially available fluorescent product. They offer the option of using our technologies as freely-moving probes that readily incorporate into cells or with a range of flexible linkers togive specificity to your unique applications and research needs.
Circadacare — Circadacare helps elderly people and people with dementia live independently for longer with an integrated circadian lighting and home health monitoring system.

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, FP and VCs.

Investment focus

Events, Social, Medical
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MedicSpot — MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Insphere — Revolutionising Robot Performance Unlocking the true potential of industrial robots Discover IONA Introducing IONA Accurate positional awareness for
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.

Since its launch in 2016, Angelsquare has supported more than 500 startups from all sectors in their Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A & Series B fundraising. From the implementation of the operation to the final negotiations, we have developed unique expertise that we put at the service of entrepreneurs to advise them throughout their fundraisingoperation and help them convince the right investors. : Business Angels, Family Offices, investment funds…

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Pongo — Pongo has created for you the first intelligent marketing assistant that communicates with your customers and increases your Google referencing, without you having to lift a finger
Orosound — Superior headsets for work. Advanced quality signed by Orosound -the French expert in active noise control, audio intelligence, and durability.
Remotebase — Get thoroughly vetted software developers from all over the world with expertise in AI, ML, back-end, front-end and more. Risk-free trial available!

Generis Capital Partners is a management company approved by the AMF, whose mission is to provide financing to SMEs in the form of capital contribution or the form of bonds. Generis Capital Partners is a crossroads between the banking business and the business of traditional venture capital. Generis Capital Partners provides innovativefinancing and technical pioneers to best meet the needs of SMEs and investors. Thanks to its technology and a diversified and balanced allocation of assets, Generis Capital Partners has the objective to provide better protection to investors while retaining the possibility of strong gains linked to capital investment.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Upsideo — Upsideo is a software publishing company for finance professionals.
Provectio — Provectio is a provider of "fundamental" IT services for companies.
Les Raffineurs — Les Raffineurs has been offering a selection of products to find a gift for men or the next favorite, experiences to live or to offer in Paris and throughout France. The e-shop to have fun or for a successful gift for men or women.

Robin Shenfield - CEO @ The Mill

Investment focus

Gaming, Social, Sports
Series A
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.

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.

Lánzame Capital is a pledge fund in Spain that invest in startups. Lánzame is promoted by a group of investors who work in different economic and business areas with many years of experience in different sectors.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FLOORFY — Real estate software to create virtual tours. The new way to show your portfolio of properties from anywhere and at any time. Know it!
Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
Food for Joe — Food for Joe is a pet food company.

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.

Idinvest Partners is a pan-European private equity manager focused on the low and middle-market segments. With over 6 billion euros under management, the company has developed several complementary areas of expertise, including equity investments in buyout deals focusing on both mid-size as well as young innovative European companies; primaryinvestments in European private equity funds focusing primarily on the middle market segment; secondary investments; mezzanine investments in Europe; and private equity consulting.Idinvest Partners’ recent success stories include Criteo, Clear2Pay, Meetic, Prosensa, Converteam, Kwik Fit, Lastminute.com, Dailymotion, Deezer, Talend, Synthesio, Menlook, Vestiaire Collective, Pretty Simple, Curse.com, Withings, Kantox, Secret Escapes, Happn, Peakon, Dayuse, Botify, Financefox, Azalead and many more.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
Series B, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Coave Therapeutics — Coave Therapeutics is active in the field of gene therapies in rare ocular and CNS (Central Nervous System) diseases.
BreezoMeter — BreezoMeter offers personalized air quality & pollen data as well as active fire alerts with worldwide coverage & accuracy down to the street level.

Fedefarma, founded by and for pharmacists, is a health-care cooperative that provides comprehensive services to pharmacies.

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.

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
Health Data Analytics Institute — HDAI specializes in transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed for hospital systems and ACOs to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.

Redbus Group is a UK based investment group that invests in early stage ventures and funds or acquires businesses that require restructuring. Redbus Group came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of thelargest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold to Helkon Media AG.Redbus through its subsidiary Filmgroup was the first company in Europe to successfully develop technology to compress and stream moving images over the internet. Between 2000 and 2004 Redbus was the UK's fastest growing company with a compound annual growth rate in-excess of 280%. In 2005 Redbus sold its production and distribution operations to Lionsgate Inc and sold its stake in Lovefilm of which it was co-founder, to Amazon in 2010.Employing an entrepreneurial and disciplined approach, Redbus, either with partners or alone looks for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Wild Cosmetics — Go Wild for a plastic-free natural deodorant that's kind to your skin and the environment. 5 great scents. No nasty aluminium, parabens and sulphates. Cruelty-Free. Made in the UK.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

Investment focus

Computer, Collaboration, Software
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Somewhere — Somewhere, formerly Support Shepherd. We find you amazing employees who cost 80% less than US equivalents, backed by our 6-month Perfect Hire Guarantee.

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.

Berlin Metropolitan Ventures is an investment firm that offers seed- and pre-seed ventures to its clients. It was founded in 2012 by Felix Schaal and is based in Berlin.

Investment focus

Organic Food, Brand Marketing, Food and Beverage
Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ZAPITANO — Zapitano was a social TV startup from Berlin. The company went bankrupt in eary 2014.ZAPITANO offered a completely new interactive TV experience. While watching TV, viewers could login to ZAPITANO via a second screen device, such as a Laptop, Smartphone or Tablet-PC. They could then check into TV-Shows, talk about it with their friends, commenton TV-Stars, vote for their favourite TV-show and more.
Berry White — BerryWhite manufactures, markets and sells non-carbonated organic fruit drinks. BerryWhite organic drinks, already sold in 27 countries, has just confirmed that they are now due to be sold in 50 Waitrose stores around the UK to complement their presence on Ocado.

Everywhere Ventures (The Fund) is a first-of-its-kind early-stage venture fund created by founders for founders to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.Everywhere Ventures is a community-powered venture investing platform that integrates the capital, expertise, and mentoring of experienced founders and operators across ten micro funds.The Fund's $50M+ under management comes almost exclusively from the over 500 founders and operators who are its limited partners. Everywhere Ventures operates from the belief that those who have actually built successful companies are best suited to advise and support early-stage startups. Everywhere Ventures invests in pre-seed deals globally usually in the first financing round the company raises. Emphasis is placed on purpose-driven teams across money, health and work verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
North.cloud — Automate your enterprise-grade cloud finance with zero effort. Our AI reduces your cloud bill by 50% without any risk, contracts, or technical work.
ThreeV Technologies, Inc. — End to End Inspection Lifecycle Management Platform using AI

Rod founded the technology marketing group, Banner Corporation in 1984 and left it in 2009. It had grown to become the largest Business to Business agency in Europe and boasted the best of the world's blue chip tech firms as its clients.Since selling Banner to WPP, Rod became an angel investor - specialising in marketing technologyplayers. Investments include: The Sound Agency, Appinions, EngageSciences, The Filter, EveryOneCounts and Shopa. This sector has proved to be exciting, dynamic and rewarding.Rod has several day jobs, one of which is Forgather - a fresh, new business proposition. Its mission is to build and develop event properties that enhance people’s lives.Rod believes that the power of ‘real life’ experience is often underestimated in an online world. Most social content relates to human interaction and engagement. So Forgather creates events packed with exuberance, intelligence and fun so that participants (both on stage and in the audience) want to be there and want to come back. To complete the offer, the company builds audiences and communities around live events to maximise returns on any investment.Rod is also working on a new proposition - 3LA.com. This business offers digital planning services to help big brand CMOs (and their agencies) grapple with the complex, cluttered landscape of marketing automation technologies, social media platforms and increasing mobile priorities. The company leverages the diverse experience of a global group of highly experienced technologists and marketers and focuses on very pragmatic business outcomes.Specialties: Social media, mobile and marketing automation. 25 plus years in creating tangible, marketing-driven success for technology companies located in EMEA. Architecting brands. Having as much fun as possible - within the law and a good moral compass. Writing Linkedin testimonials.

Investment focus

TV, Music, Video
Angel, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shopa — Shopa.com offers safe shopping ideas, popular brands, healthy foods, gift ideas, and great offers for a great shopping experience
The Filter — Our personalization platform harnesses AI & data science to drive content engagement. 24iQ is available as pre-integrated packages or with additional managed services.

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Wing Venture Capital primarily invests in technology-based businesses. It emphasizes craftsmanship over volume and engages deeply with founders to help them build companies that matter. The body of work of Wing's team spans more than two decades and dozens of successful early-stage companies, 21 of which went on to achieve billion-dollar-plusoutcomes following IPOs or acquisitions. Its portfolio companies include Cohesity, Gong, Instart Logic, Juvo, Moogsoft, Palerra, Shape Security, and Snowflake.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
Gradient — A centralized data platform that enables full organizational observability. Find and manage everything that's going on with your team, products, and customers.
Wherobots Inc. — Wherobots provides software solutions to enable every orgranization to drive value from data via geospatial location and time