# Top 50 Social Startup Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Octopus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Notion Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Notion Capital is a VC firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud. ## True. - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail A unique model for investing, innovating & growing ## Connect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech We've been investing in pre-seed and seed stage product companies since 2012, from our home in London. ## Seedcamp - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, SaaS 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. ## 360 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 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. ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More. ## Banque des Territoires - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care Banque des Territoires is a Investment Firm. ## 24 Haymarket - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Inventures SA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology 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. ## Sustainable Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology 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. ## Ned Cranborne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK. ## Fuel Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies. ## Shan Drummond - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK. ## Mediaset - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Apps Mediaset Infinity: Programmi Mediaset, Canali TV Live, Video Clip e Puntate Intere. Programmi, Fiction, Film, Documentari, Streaming e funzione Restart ## Tangram Partners Limited - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Angel - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Health Care Terms and Conditions for Edible Marketing & Edible Internet inc Web Hosting Account Suspended / Service Cancellation & Acocunt Deletion ## Ian Hogarth - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence Ian Hogarth is based out of London, England, and is the Chairman of Phasecraft. Ian previously worked at Songkick as a Chairman. Ian Hogarth attended the University of Cambridge. ## Google Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mountain View, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. ## Sputnik Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Social, Fashion Sputnik Capital is an investment firms ## Nicolas Julia - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Samaipata - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce 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 ## Burda Principal Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail 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. ## Soleio Soleio - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Product Design, 3D Technology Software designer turned investor 👨‍💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more ## Banco Sabadell - Type: VC Fund - Location: Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care 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. ## Beringea - Type: VC Fund - Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends. ## Richard Fearn - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet 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. ## PSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS PSV cares about a conscious future. As a venture house, our mission is to clear the path for founders who build companies that matter. Our hybrid setup, comprising PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and two unique venture funds, PSV Tech and PSV Hafnium, sets us free from adhering to a singular method. Rather we rethink existing ways and models to maximise our impact beyond any individual firm or investment. Together, we can punch above our weight. ## BREEGA - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Global Cleantech Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Software, CleanTech, Energy 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. ## Principia SGR - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software 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. ## Citizen Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology 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. ## Novaltia - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Social, Elderly, Child Care Novaltia is a pharmaceutical cooperative that distributes medicines and full-range prepharmacy products. ## Richard Lewis - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Social, Travel, Software Richard Lewis is a Chairman at Earth Blox. Attended University of Glasgow. ## Investible - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally. ## Financiere Saint James - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Services 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. ## Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Backing great companies when they're tiny ## Richard Scudamore - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports Richard Scudamore is an English sports executive. He was the Executive Chairman of the English Premier League. ## Spectrum Impact - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Environmental Consulting, Energy, Renewable Energy 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. ## Boost Heroes - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Apps Boost Heroes is an Italy-based holding company focusing on seed and early stage investments. ## VenturCap - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Software 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. ## Nicola Volpi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment Nicola Volpi (born in 1961 in Milan) is an Italian entrepreneur and manager with a deep knowledge of financial matters and more than 25 years of experience in Private Equity. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. After graduating in Business Administration at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Master inFinance at SDA Bocconi. His professional career started as a Financial Analyst at Sefimeta S.p.A. (Financial Services Department of Montedison Group). In 1987 he joined Sanpaolo Finance, the Investment Bank of San Paolo Group (now Banca Intesa). As Head of Leverage Finance until 1995, he structured the first buyouts ever in Italy. In 1997, Nicola Volpi was a founding Partner of Permira– one of the leading and most successful Private Equity firm in Europe and worldwide with over 40 billion euros under management. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of the Italian branch, Permira Associati SpA, and then Member of Permira Executive Committee which run operations worldwide. Under his leadership, Permira successfully executed several acquisitions and disposals of Italian sector-leading companies, such as Ferretti Yacht, Marazzi, Valentino, Sisal, TFL, and Veneta Cucine. His professional experience at Permira lasted until 2013, when he joined the luxury sports cars manufacturer Pagani Automobili Group as a direct Investor and Member of the Board, a position he is currently holding. In 2014 he was appointed by Erick Thohir, the President of FC Internazionale S.p.A., as Member of the Board of Directors: Nicola Volpi held this position until 2018, with a focus in the area of finance and strategic planning. ## Robin Shenfield - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports Robin Shenfield - CEO @ The Mill ## Idinvest Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care 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. ## Matt Robinson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Oltre Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Finance, SaaS, Agriculture We shape impact investing for people and planet ## Everywhere Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech Everywhere Ventures (fka "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 acrossten micro funds. The Fund's $70M+ 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. ## Roderick Banner - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series B - Focus: TV, Music, Video 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. ## Wing Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology 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. ## SGH CAPITAL - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech Capital That Makes Sense. Tactical early stage technology investors in the US, Europe and beyond. ## SODENA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pamplona, Navarra, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software SODENA is the main instrument of the Government of Navarre for the business development of the region. SODENA carries out its activities as a public limited company, with a majority direct shareholding of 65.42% by the Government of Navarre, and an indirect participation through Nafinco (14.58%). It also participates in the shareholding of GrupoCorporativo Empresarial Caja Navarra (20%), through TME 2001 CorpCan, S.L.