Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Europe in January 2026
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wine and spirits startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Wine And Spirits Startup Investors in Europe in January 2026
| Investor | Wine And Spirits Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 4 |
| Whiterock Finance | 3 |
| Angels Den | 3 |
| Midlands Engine Investment Fund | 2 |
| Atomico | 2 |
| Pente Capital | 2 |
| JamJar Investments | 2 |
| Alexander Chesterman | 2 |
| SFC Capital | 2 |
| Max Ventures | 2 |
| Demeter Partners | 2 |
| Angelsquare | 2 |
| HBAN | 2 |
| Caixa Capital | 2 |
| P101 | 2 |
| Italian Angels for Growth | 2 |
| LAUNCHub Ventures | 2 |
| Loyal VC | 2 |
| Beringea | 2 |
| Business Growth Fund | 2 |
| Cabiedes & Partners | 2 |
| QVentures | 1 |
| Aonia Ventures | 1 |
| Frenchfounders | 1 |
| Kickston Partner | 1 |
| Simon Blake OBE CCMI | 1 |
| Bertrand Jacquelot | 1 |
| Heinz-Werner Nienstedt | 1 |
| Stephen Fitzpatrick | 1 |
| Ben Bilboul | 1 |
| Nick Penny | 1 |
| South East Angels | 1 |
| Serena Cordero | 1 |
| Jad Benabdelkhalek | 1 |
| Michal Berski | 1 |
| Melanie Pfister | 1 |
| Will Greenwood | 1 |
| Ferovinum | 1 |
| Co-FundNI | 1 |
| Anglia Capital Group | 1 |
| Hubert Patricot | 1 |
| Robert Neale | 1 |
| Nils Glagau | 1 |
| Christian Mruck | 1 |
| Connie Schwaderer | 1 |
| HSBC UK | 1 |
| Sam Plunkett | 1 |
| Global Founders Capital | 1 |
| Ann Elliott | 1 |
| New Anglia Capital | 1 |
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
- Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
- La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!
Growth Loan Fund Invest NI and NILGOSC.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Retail, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RE-KKUR — Building a Brighter Future.
- Titanic Distillers — Titanic Distillers produces Irish whiskey and hosts events in Belfast.
- Cumulus Neuroscience — Cumulus Neuroscience has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform.
Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
- OnCare — Home care software | care management system
- SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.
MEIF is an investment firm that operates equity investment towards growth capital. The firm aims to transform the finance landscape for smaller businesses in the Midlands and to realize the region’s potential to achieve economic growth through enterprise. It is a collaboration between the British Business Bank and ten Local Enterprise Partnerships(LEPs) in the West Midlands and East and South East Midlands. MEIF provides over £250m of investment to boost small and medium business (SME) growth in the Midlands.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Manufacturing, Software
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Thailand
Portfolio highlights
- Capri Healthcare Ltd — Capri Healthcare is an organization driven by the vision of turning NHS Digital first strategy into reality by bringing digital innovation into the working of GP Practices. We lead healthcare organisations into the Digital Era by redesigning and developing patient centric online channels, reducing the NHS burden. We pride ourselves in offering arange of technology-driven innovative solutions to the healthcare industry driving your digital agenda.
- Medmin Group Limited — Medmin is building a group of healthcare businesses that will transform private medical treatment for the uninsured and the clinicians that treat them. We are developing a network of clinics across the UK, grouping clinicians together into branded, condition focussed clinics that patients can easily identify online. The clinics will provide care toour "Get Well Soon" patients and also undertake work for insured and self-pay patients requiring other procedures and treatments.
- School of Coding — School of Coding, We teach coding through our after-school clubs and at our education Centre. We teach coding to children from the age of 6
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Gengo — People-powered translation at scale. Gengo provides fast, affordable and quality translations by native speakers located worldwide.
- Ankar AI — Your AI Operating System for Patents
- Ben — Ben is the all-in-one platform for any company to personalise benefits and reward.Our secret? Marrying a modern software (SaaS) platform with per-employee Mastercards and financial infrastructure. That’s how Ben instantly adds employee choice to your existing benefits, unlocks access to hundreds of additional options through Ben Card, all whilesaving you time and money.
At Pente, we invest in entrepreneurs and operators who aim to build great businesses. The teams we partner with are true builders, whether they work with wireframes, code, physical products or ideas.We see the emergence of a kinder and more sustainable world, powered by a new generation of businesses. A world where life's luxuries areredefined as design being the central determinator of quality. We are working with the most promising founders and businesses to catalyze change with radical, empathetic visions for a better future.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Wine And Spirits, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- WatchHouse — Cosy, unique coffee spots & eateries in London. We make great coffee and exceptional food within beautifully bespoke environments tailored around our local community. It is as simple as that. | Never worry about running out of coffee supplies again. The Modern Coffee experience from the comfort of your own home.
- Pentire Drinks — Made from unique plants native to the Cornish coastline, Pentire is a new botanical non-alcoholic spirit drink. A gin style drink that harnesses the power, beauty and immense flavour of plants, without the after effects. Buy online now.
- Mytos — The Infrastructure for Cell Manufacturing
We love, help & invest in early-stage consumer brands.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Yepoda — Yepoda is a DTC K-Beauty brand developing sustainable & natural beauty products based on the latest trends & innovations from South Korea.
- Meatly — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet
- With Nothing Underneath — WNU is all about simplicity - paired back, laid back, timeless, effortless shirts - just like the woman who wears them. Our shirts are not about trends or fleeting style moments, but about a wardrobe essential in which to live a life.
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- 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
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TILKI — TILKI is an AI-powered game creation platform that democratizes video game development by enabling all creators to build immersive games without coding.
- ZERØTEC — ZERØTEC is an pattern design and nesting software platform for fashion designers and manufacturers
- Sages — Biodegradeable, non-polluting, low-impact and vibrant dyes extracted from food waste.
Max Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in consumer tech and health-tech companies. Max Ventures primarily invests in digital commerce, digital media, fintech, and digital Health.
It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Sweden, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Belidor — Belidor Helps preconstruction teams win more bids with AI bid leveling and bid management tools.
- Previvor Edge — Previvor Edge is an clinical and comprehensive program for cancer prevention and early detection.
- Equal Parts — Join a network of like-minded insurance agencies ready to help reimagine the industry and bolster their earning potential.
Demeter is a major player in venture capital and private equity for the ecological transition. We invest from €1m to €30m to support companies at all stages of their development: innovative startups, high growth SMEs and infrastructure projects.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ICTYOS — Ictyos is a startup that creates marine leathers using a circular and sustainable economy logic. It recycles fish skins from the culinary and catering industries.
- Upciti — Upciti provider of precise, localized and real-time data for smart cities and smart retailers. we produce and make available data at the service of man to make cities smarter and more pleasant to live for all on a daily basis.
- Hyperplan — Hyperplan is a SaaS company whose mission is to assist industrial companies in dealing with crop production's increasing volatility. Hyperplan is a live, real-time software platform for crop and harvest management for all crops.
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…
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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!
HBAN is dedicated to raising the profile of business angel investment as an asset class on the island of Ireland and to promote the creation of business angel syndicates.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ovagen — Ovagen is a biotechnology company that has developed the process of producing germ free (GF) chicken eggs and GF birds in commercial quantities for use primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. Ovagen can also provide a Contract Research Service and has extensive expertise in SPF poultry & rodent housing & husbandry, in specific poultry& rodent research technologies to GMP standards and in avian transgenics.
- Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
- Change by Degrees — Change by degrees supports individuals and organizations in developing sustainable competencies and gaining self-assurance to achieve sustainability goals, expand their businesses, and adhere to legal requirements.
Caixa Capital is the Private Equity and Venture Capital arm of banking Group Caixa Geral de Depósitos and has a track record spanning over two decades of activity, since the industry was created in Portugal. It is a leading investor in terms of funds under management, portfolio size and diversity.Caixa Capital´s mission is to invest in fundsand companies, led by highly qualified management teams, with high growth and valuation potential, that enable our funds to achieve an attractive risk adjusted return and for society at large to benefit sustainably from our activity.Currently with more than 700 million Euros under management and a portfolio of over 80 investments, Caixa Capital is a reference in this area with special links to the respective European sector associations.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
- Noxus — At Spot, we're crafting the operating system for tomorrow's workforce, harnessing AI to streamline influencer marketing. Our platform empowers agencies, businesses, and content creators to collaborate effectively and reach audiences with ease.
- Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Toduba — Toduba is a digitalization company that provides shopping vouchers, food stamps, gift cards, and travel expense management.
- Hotiday — Hotiday is the first hospitality startup that applies Instant Buying to the hotel industry to become a true "Online-Only" hotel chain, completely decentralized
- Soplaya — Soplaya is a B2B food company connecting chefs and farmers to build a diverse, sustainable, and efficient food system.By providing data and transparency to an opaque supply chain, we help chefs to simplify purchases, get a wider selection of products and save money and farmers to increase their margins and get easy access to the market.We lovequality food as much as technology and automation. We are rebels: we love transparency and how the internet is capable of bringing the long tail to the market. We're excited about the fact that the restaurant supply chain hasn't basically changed since 40 years, and was technology reluctant for a long time, but restaurants necessities changed dramatically in the last 3 years.We’re becoming the standard layer for restaurant purchasing across Europe, by bringing transparency and simplicity in the procurement phase, increasing order frequency, promoting lean inventory and food waste reduction.
IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ALKemist Bio — ALKemist Bio provides cell treatment to cancer patients.
- Rubedo Life Sciences — Rubedo Life Sciences is the Premier Longevity Company. Rubedo discovers and develops medicines to keep you biologically young.
- Restorative Neurotechnologies — Siamo un'azienda di dispositivi medicali certificati per la riabilitazione cognitiva ed il trattamento di disturbi cognitivi post ictus.
LAUNCHub is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
- SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
- UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
Loyal runs a global venture fund with quarterly redemptions and a proprietary gate-stage process, reducing investment bias and unlocking greater returns. Partnered with INSEAD, Founder Institute, and 500+ advisors, we are Loyal to the world with 250+ investments in 50+ countries.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WASTETIDE — Wastetide turns these wastes into profit, and your excel sheets into useful data.
- Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
- Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.
Beringea is an international investor in high growth US & UK businesses. With expertise in multiple sectors we are at the forefront of emerging trends.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- VRAI — First and foremost, they are a content creation company specialising in virtual reality production. They are visual storytellers embracing this new medium as a way of creating immersive, engaging content.Their pioneering methodology takes elements from our diverse background. We use techniques from narrative cinema, from visual effects, fromexhibition design, from gaming, from brand management and combine them in new exciting ways to help you tell your story.
- InvestNext — Create sharable offering pages, collect digital signatures, and pay your investors automatically.
- Limitless Travel — Limitless Travel provides holidays, tours, accommodation, and travel for people living with disability.
BGF is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority investment to growing companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jola — Jola provides broadband, ethernet leased lines, hosted telephony, ISDN replacement, calls & lines and Mobile SIMs to UK SMEs via Partners.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- T-Therapeutics — T-Therapeutics is a expertise in mouse genome engineering, deep expertise in biopharmaceutical drug development, single cell genomics, machine-learning and structural biology, anchored in a culture of creativity and collaboration. .
Cabiedes & Partners is a Spanish venture capital firm that provides seed funding and early-stage and later-stage investment services.
Cabiedes & Partners was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Laagam — Laagam is a apparel & fashion website.
- Shalion — Shalion enables ambitious brands to navigate their journey to digital shelf excellence with a unique, unified digital shelf & retail media insights solution.
- Tutrocito — Tutrocito is an online store that sells decorative supplies and custom-made furniture.
QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- sqcdp — We work with manufacturing clients to make paper systems redundant, introducing smart, efficient systems to capture production data through your teams.
- PORTAIRE — Bring your team together and simplify your work from product discovery to procurement.
- Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
Aonia Ventures is investing in tech companies all over the world. Supporting entrepreneurs from the start of their projects ! Investing from 150k$ to 300k$ in early stage rounds.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, E-Commerce, B2B
- Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Namla — Namla is a provider of a Cloud Edge Orchestration platform. Its solution combines Distributed Edge Orchestration, Integrated SD-WAN & Multi-Cloud Support. This gives a unique way for companies to securely and automatically deploy Edge infrastructure at scale and have a Cloud Level performance and availability.
- Foodjer — FOODJER creates incredible delivery food brands that are then integrated into existing restaurant kitchens to increase turnover.
- Cuvée Privée — Cuvée Privée allows wine lovers and companies to adopt vines in prestigious French vineyards for one year. 1 - Select your vines from among Cuvée Privée's exceptional wineries. 2 - Receive bottles from your parcel and a certificate of adoption. 3 - Follow your vines for a year under the tutelage of the winemaker 4 - Get 6 bottles of thefollowing vintage, featuring your name on the label!
FrenchFounders provides its members with a networking platform for premium business profiles.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flitter — Flitter is a neo-insurance company that provides pay-per-mile insurance and connected technology.
- Groover — Groover is the best way to promote your music to blogs, radios, record labels, & Spotify playlisters. Get listened to, receive coverage & guaranteed feedback!
- Fairly Made — Fairly Made is an environmentally friendly fashion provider dedicated to helping brands create a transparent procurement model.
Kickston Partner is a corporate Banking Company specialized in Technology. We are building a bridge between industrial companies and start-ups. Our mission is to help industrial companies executive to diversify and grow through start-ups. To do so, we help you address the technological market by selecting the best startups and setting up the rightrelation from partnership to investment and acquisition. On the other hand, our entrepreneur state of mind push us to help the one who wants to grow faster by raising their first round of financing.
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Investment focus
- B2B, B2C, Gift
- Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Cuvée Privée — Cuvée Privée allows wine lovers and companies to adopt vines in prestigious French vineyards for one year. 1 - Select your vines from among Cuvée Privée's exceptional wineries. 2 - Receive bottles from your parcel and a certificate of adoption. 3 - Follow your vines for a year under the tutelage of the winemaker 4 - Get 6 bottles of thefollowing vintage, featuring your name on the label!
Simon Blake OBE CCMI is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
- Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
- Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Rental, Travel
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- VRdirect — Uptale is an Immersive Learning platform enabling companies and schools to create rich immersive experiences, no-code and deploy it at scale.
- Vicampo — Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by thecompany’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
- Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
Stephen Fitzpatrick is founder and CEO of Vertical Aerospace and OVO Energy.
Recognising the potential of EVTOLs to transform air travel, Fitzpatrick resolved to bring together the best technologies from aviation, energy and automobile industries. Today, the company is closing in on its mission of decarbonising flight.A serial entrepreneur,Stephen Fitzpatrick believes in the power of human ingenuity, directing his attention to forming businesses that solve the world’s biggest problems.In 2009 he founded OVO Energy, overseeing its growth to the biggest independent provider of power in the UK, offering customers energy that is cheaper, cleaner and simpler than rivals.Stephen Fitzpatrick’s expansive experience, as founder of an energy company and former owner of F1 team, Manor Racing, led to his setting up Vertical Aerospace. In 2021 the company announced conditional pre-orders for 1,350 aircraft from American Airlines, Avolon, Virgin Atlantic, Marubeni Corp, Iberojet and Bristow Group for an estimated $5.4bn. In December of that year, Vertical Aerospace listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Today the company is poised to launch the most advanced aircraft of its type ever designed, the VX4, with test flights expected to run in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Project Lead
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Investment focus
- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
A group of credible Hight Net Worth individuals based in the South East of England looking to invest in ambitious founders.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Evidenced — Evidenced is your interviewing copilot, guiding your team to the most accurate hiring decision with fewer interviews.
- Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.
- Onya Therapeutics — Onya Therapeutics is a biotechnology research company.
Serena Cordero
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures
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Investment focus
- Winery, FinTech, Payments
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
- Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.
Michal Berski is the CEO & Founder of Curlsmith.He Previously worked at L'Oréal as the Senior Manager.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Melanie Pfister
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Will Greenwood
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- Winery, Snack Food, Organic Food
- Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
- Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x
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.
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- Distillery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Corporate Round
- United Kingdom
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- Holyrood Distillery — Holyrood Distillery is an award winning Gin & Whiskey Distillery located in the heart of Edinburgh offer a memorable experience with Spirits.
Through Co-Fund NI £12.5million will be made available to invest alongside business angels and business angel syndicates (hereafter referred to as "private investors" or "syndicates") into eligible SME's based in Northern Ireland. When matched 45% public with 55% private investors on a deal-by-deal basis this will give anoverall "fund" size of £28m.This initiative is provided by Invest Northern Ireland and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Invest for Growth and Jobs Programme 2014-2020.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Ireland
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- Kinsetsu — Organisations are continually challenged to find better ways to manage processes. Traditional approaches are being pushed to their limits.
- CV6 Therapeutics — CV6 Therapeutics is a drug development company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of human diseases.
- GenoMe Diagnostics — GenoME Diagnostics - We are developing a blood test for an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer.GenoME Diagnostics .
Anglia Capital Group are Angel Investors supporting innovative early stage businesses in East Anglia
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- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
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- CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
- Easology — New easy to use tablets - Samsung Galaxy easology. Easology makes your tablet easy with large text, big buttons, clear menus + more.
- Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises
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- Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- France
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- Kipli — Re-think sleep, naturally. Kipli is a luxury natural mattress company operating exclusively online. Our 100% natural latex mattress and its unique conception give you a great comfort and perfect natural nights. Kipli mattresses are handcrafted in Italy to create the best natural mattress possible. And because of our low overhead, we are able tooffer high-quality luxury natural mattresses for about twice less expensive than you'd pay anywhere else.
- Feed. — Feed. is a French foodtech that designs nutritionally perfect meals, in formats suitable for active people. It is developed by a team of dieticians-nutritionists, agri-food engineers and chefs, the recipes contain natural ingredients that provide 100% of the necessary contributions of a balanced meal.
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
Robert Neale
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- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
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- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
Nils Glagau
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- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Personal Health
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, United States
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- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- BIOTherma-Pad — BIOTherma-Pad is a completely biological cooling pad made of seaweed rather than the typical chemicals; it may cool little children's injuries or offer warmth if needed.
- Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.
Christian Mruck
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- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
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- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
Connie Schwaderer
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
HSBC UK provides financial products and services and long-term general and industrial credit services.
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- Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, Food and Beverage
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, South Africa
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- Co-op — The Co-operative Group is the UK’s largest mutual business, owned by over seven million consumer members. The Group operates 4,800 retail trading outlets, employs more than 100,000 people and has an annual turnover of more than £13bn. Whether it's a drop of milk for your morning cuppa, a little friendly advice because your back'splaying up again, or a helping hand onto the property ladder, we're here for you. With over 5,000 high street branches we're only ever just down the road, at the end of a phone or a click away. So whatever it is, however big or small, we're happy to help.We don't answer to shareholders, we answer to you. Unlike most businesses, we're owned by our members - all 7.2 million of them. We're not a plc, so we can fight for the good of our members and customers. Anyone can join The Co-operative, you can become a member online now or just pick up a leaflet in store. As a member, you'll not only have a say in the way we are run, but also get a share in our profits, as a big thank you for shopping with us.Originally formed in Rochdale in 1844 to offer real value to the community, 168 years on and our founding principles still stand. The world may have changed somewhat in those years but the need for a more ethical business, a more honest one and a more customer focussed one clearly hasn't. We're here for you in good and bad times. We're here for you for life.
- Amey — Amey provides full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonization solutions for transportation infrastructure and complex facilities.
- Karbon Homes — We build, manage and look after homes for people across the North. And then we go further, we give them the strong foundations they need to crack on with life.
Sam Plunkett
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Personio — Personio is the Intelligent HR platform for companies from 10-5,000 employees, powering over 1 million people worldwide. Book your free demo today.
- Talentry — Talentry TRM is your central platform for Talent Relationship Management: Sourcing, CRM, Alumni Management, Employee Referrals, Advocacy, Internal Mobility.
- Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Ann Elliott
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership works with businesses, local authority partners and education institutions to drive growth and enterprise in Norfolk and Suffolk.We are transforming the economy by securing funds from government to help businesses grow, through the delivery of ambitious programmes to ensure that businesses have the funding,support, skills, and infrastructure needed to flourish and ensuring that the voice of our business community is heard, loud and clear.
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Grant
- United Kingdom
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- CROSSIP — Great tasting non-alcoholic spirits with a kick. Made from natural botanical ingredients, no added sugar. 0% alcohol drinks perfected by TV's Carl Anthony Brown.
- Cellexcel — Cellexcel is a biomaterials research company that develops technology for enhancement of water resistance of biomaterials.
- One Planet Pizza — One Planet Pizza is a vegan food company, dedicated to creating good food. It distributes a range of frozen pizzas and redi-meals through local retail outlets and via home delivery in Norwich, Cambridge, and Ipswich. One Planet's pizza currently come in 4 Italian style pizza's and can be found in most of the major high streetsupermarkets.One Planet Pizza is owned by a group of vegan and veggie business people, including Mike Hill (co-owner of River Green Café), Jan Wise (owner of The Beggie Red Lion Pub) and Tanya Chapman (owner of Luvegan Cakes in Leicester). The company is also supported and backed by a number of vegan bloggers and activists.
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