Top 5 Theatre VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in May 2026

Big Issue Invest provides social investment to charities and social enterprises across the UK working to end poverty and inequality.

Investment focus

Charity, Non Profit, Communities
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Grant
United Kingdom

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OVO — OVO is a professional theatre company creating bold, imaginative and surprising new versions of classic plays and stories in the heart of St Albans, Hertfordshire. We are the producers of the OVO Roman Theatre Open Air Festival in the breathtaking Roman Theatre of Verulamium.
World Media Initiatives — World Media Initiatives is a production company that stands out.
Phoenix Social Enterprise — PSE is a social enterprise with a purpose - to help individuals, communities and economies progress and grow, through our range of employment services

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Are you a founder, business owner or CEO looking to scale your business? Then you're in the right place.

Investment focus

Wellness, Health Care, News
Private Equity, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rungway — Create a safe space for people to gain work and life advice from their colleagues. More than just a mentoring platform, Rungway brings your company values to life and gives everyone a voice on the topics most important to them, improves employee engagement and wellbeing
Sanctus — Create sustainable high performance in your organisation with the Sanctus employee coaching and mentoring solutions.
Zevo Health — Zevo Health empowers organizations in high-pressure environments to protect people and sustain performance through trauma-informed, clinically led wellbeing programmes refined over a decade of global experience.

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Lazio Innova is a venture capital firm with its headquarters in Rome in Italy. The firm provides services in areas such as credit support and guarantees, interventions in risk capital, internationalization services, promotion of business networks and services for the creation and enterprise development.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Grant
Italy, United Kingdom

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Joinrs — Cut the noise. Joinrs uses AI to find the jobs that actually match your skills, experience and preferences. Over 2 million job seekers trust Joinrs.
Medicud — Medicud develops a device for treating wounds with negative pressure dressing.
Ticketoo — Compra e vendi biglietti in modo etico su Ticketoo. La piattaforma sicura per transazioni fan-to-fan. Trova i migliori eventi e assicurati il biglietto per i tuoi spettacoli preferiti.

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Ingenious Media is an one of the largest independent investors in the UK’s creative sector, they partner with companies and individuals in the film, television and live entertainment sectors to bring great ideas to life. They do this through their unique blend of industry knowledge, access to a diverse range of capital sources and exceptionalexecution capability.They have invested in excess of £8 billion in the sector and have a long and successful track record of collaboration with first class international partners, including Fox Searchlight, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Miramax, Open Road, Working Title, Film4, Warner Bros., Pathé, BBC, ITV, Endemol and Lionsgate.They have one of the most experienced teams of independent professionals in the UK dedicated to the analysis and commercial negotiation of media opportunities and are always looking for new opportunities to work with industry partners.

Investment focus

Apps, Theatre, Auctions
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Woto — Create and share your content in just 3 clicks with our free publishing tool
Property Place — Property Place, a new application allowing users to search, share and sell property via their Facebook account goes live on the 11th November. It offers consumers and selling agents a more intuitive and efficient marketing alternative to existing channels.
Digital Theatre — Your online home of world-class theatre, streamed directly to your sofa. Over 150 world-class and live events. Rent, Subscribe or Pay Per View.

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