# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Bpifrance
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 28
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.

## Sam Enrico Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr.
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

## Atlantic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

## PSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 13
- 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.

## Enterprise Ireland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

## BITKRAFT Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming and emerging technology.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Passion Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Passion Capital is a partnership of entrepreneurs and operators who are applying our experiences to helping founders and early-stage teams build great digital media/technology companies. We are committed to fostering an ecosystem of technology, collaboration and executional excellence in Europe, and we believe that the criticaldifferentiator and key asset of a successful business is the passion and ability of its founders. We take pride in the calibre and success of all of our founders and teams including but nowhere near limited to GoCardless, Tray.io, Mendeley, Digital Shadows, Adzuna, Smarkets, Ravelin, Tide, Marshmallow, Butternut Box, PolyAI, Lendable and Monzo Bank

## Northstar Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

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

## SOSV
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software

SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.

## Seventure Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

Seventure Partners is a French venture capital firm targeting in Tech/Digital and Life Sciences companies. It funds innovation and participates in the entrepreneurial adventure, alongside entrepreneurs and sharing their passion.Founded in 1997, Seventure Partners is one of the European leaders in venture capital, with € 1 billion undermanagement as of December 31, 2023. It is an active partner of innovative companies that, according to the management team, show strong growth potential and evolving in two fields of activity: Digital Technologies and Life Sciences. With more than 20 employees, including some 15 investors, Seventure Partners has a proven track record and in-depth expertise in technology, entrepreneurship, and various private equity operations.Seventure's goal is to identify and support the development of tomorrow's European leaders in order to accelerate their growth. To do this, the firm provides entrepreneurs with the expertise, networks, and know-how of its internal team of investors.The different funds/verticals on which Seventure Partners are focusing on today:
- Life Sciences : Biotech, Healthcare, Nutrition
- Tech/Digital : B2B SaaS, Fintech, Retailtech, Cybersecurity
- Sports & Wellbeing
- Blue Economy

## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) is an investment fund manager whose funds focus on early-stage businesses from pre-seed, seed, and Series A rounds of investment.

## Eleven Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

## Octopus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Speedinvest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Kima Ventures promotes the growth of startups, supporting them in the fastest and most effective ways.

## Dreamcraft Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Seed-to-A engineers.
We invest in techdriven companies in the Nordics and Europe.

## Faraday Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Founded in 2011, Faraday Venture Partners is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in European innovative early-stage startups via its network of Clubs of  Investors and its own Funds.

## Angels Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

Angels Capital philosophy is to find and support at 1 able to lead a project. Their goal is to support the entrepreneurial, helping to create new businesses, help grow their business sector, generate employment and create wealth.

## TheVentureCity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

## Heartcore Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Heartcore Capital invests in companies re-enchanting the world through technology.

## DN Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).

## Development Bank of Wales
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Development Bank of Wales is an independent company, providing commercial funding to Welsh SMEs. They invests private and public funds, including EU funds.

## Possible Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

## Seed Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Seed Capital invests in Danish tech businesses with global ambitions. We are focused on "late seed"-stage companies, typically investing 1-3 MEUR in rounds of 1-6 MEUR. Proud backers of Trustpilot, Vivino, Lunar, Templafy, Dixa, Forecast, and many other great companies.

## Antler
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now!

## Mercia Fund Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

## Meusinvest (Noshaq)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Liège, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Noshaq offers financial services to help businesses develop.

## IBB Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Pre-Seed to Series A for Berlin-based founders. Where 30 years of expertise, capital and execution power meet.

## Draper B1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

We invest in you. Our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is your best ally to expand your business. Find out how we can boost your project!

## aws Gründungsfonds
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages.

## RTP Global
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.

## Kurma Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Kurma Partners is a management company based in Paris, specializing in the financing of innovation in healthcare and biotechnology, from pre-creation to development capital. Kurma Partners, which manages the Kurma Biofund I, II funds and the Kurma Diagnostics fund, is one of the main players in the financing of therapeutic and medical innovationsin Europe, particularly through links with many institutes. research and prestigious hospitals.

## Venrex
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

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

## JamJar Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Health Care, Food and Beverage

We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.

## Inventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

## GO CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Health Care

GO Capital is an independent management company and a major player in regional Seed and Venture Capital since 2003. With offices in Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Centre-Val de Loire and the South of France, GO Capital contributes to the financing of responsible innovation in these regions. With a team of investors with complementarysectoral experience, we have a solid track-record in DeepTech. GO Capital has nearly 400 million euros under management, and mainly finances technology leaders in the digital and healthcare sectors and in the industry of the future.

## Creandum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Edition Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Events, Music

Investment, advice and expertise for the entertainment and leisure industry

## Alven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Independent early-stage VC firm for 25 years

## M Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Food and Beverage

M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM. 
A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth.
In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.

## AlbionVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

AlbionVC supports visionary founders and technologies with long-term capital and scale-up know-how. Founded in 1996, it was amongst the first to back leading global success stories such as Booking.com, Egress, Quantexa and Oviva. With £1bn in AUM and over 100 exits successfully realised, it funds venture breakthroughs that drive real outcomes forfounders, investors and society. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more information please visit: https://albion.vc/

## Firestartr
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond. Beyond providing capital, they draw on their entrepreneurial successes and senior operational experience with leading technology companies to support sustainable growth in their portfolio. Their deep domain expertise, combinedwith an unrivalled network of advisors, enable us to make meaningful connections at the right time and propel companies with hands-on support.

## Equity Gap
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Manufacturing

Equity Gap is a group of private individuals set up to invest in and support emerging and growing businesses based in Scotland

## LVP
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Mobile

LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

## Athos Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## 24 Haymarket
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Aster
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Energy, Manufacturing

Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

## North-East Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Fashion

North-East Venture is an international, multi-stage fund placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The fund was launched December 1st 2013.

## Vaekstfonden
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hellerup, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Vaekstfonden – The Danish Growth Fund – is the Danish state's investment fund. We strive to improve access to risk capital to enable Danish businesses to innovate, and to generate growth and new jobs. In close collaboration with banks and domestic and international private investors, we finance companies from all sectors nation-wide. We canaccompany you for the entire journey – from your company’s infancy through growth phases to expansion abroad and even to an initial public offering.