# Top 20 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Luxembourg in October 2023

## Guido Peters
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: CRM, Music, Mobile

Guido Peters - International Business Development Manager @ Continental

## Saviu Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Saviu is a venture capital fund focusing on African early-stage startups.

## Adam Caplan
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Analytics

Adam Caplan is a Co-Founding Partner at ID8 Investments, an investment firm focused on partnering with next generation disruptive consumer and technology companies.Adam has more than twenty years of financing, investing and executive experience spanning a variety of sectors including consumer products & services, CPG marketing, fintech, dataanalytics, gaming and digital advertising. From 2014 to 2018, Adam was President at PINCHme.com Inc., where he helped build a leading consumer product sampling and digital marketing platform for CPG manufacturers such as P&G, Kraft, Kellogg’s and L'Oréal. PINCHme listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in October 2018.Prior to PINCHme, he was a Co-Founder & President at ARM Insight, Inc., a provider of financial data business intelligence solutions for financial institutions, payment processors, investment companies, and retail corporations. ARM Insight was named a Top 10 Alternative Data Solutions Provider for 2018 by Capital Markets CIO Outlook.Previously, as President at Super Rewards, Adam helped build a leading social gaming monetization and virtual currency platform which reached $100 million in annual transaction revenue before selling to Adknowledge, Inc. in 2009. Following the acquisition of Super Rewards, Adam served as Vice President of Virtual Currency at Adknowledge for two years.Prior to working in technology, Adam was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley for eleven years, advising internet & media companies with public and private financing as well as strategic M&A transactions. Adam received a BComm (Hons) and an LLB (Hons) from The University of Melbourne.

## Xavier Buck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Farming, Software

Xavier has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1996. After co-founding several ventures like Datecenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS, eBrandServices and DomainInvest, Xavier's current role consists in deploying the group's international activities with a special focus on the domain name industry, internet traffic and traffic monetization. Xavierholds chairman positions in his formerly founded ventures and is director of a series of companies including DomainTools.com, eBrandServices, OpenRegistry and LeftoftheDot.

## Aston Motes
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools

Aston Motes is an engineer working at Dropbox.

## Expon Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Global investor in big ideas with the potential for positive impact & exponential growth

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

## Hans-Jurgen Schmitz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Internet

Hans-Jurgen Schmitz is one of the co-founders of Mangrove. He grew up in Germany in an entrepreneurial family where he was exposed early on to the chances and challenges of running a company. Always inclined to eventually start his own business, he co-founded his firm in 2000 with Mark and Gerard because he believed they were a complementary team,something he keep consideringa key success factor in every investment opportunity he look at. At Mangrove they live the philosophy of teamwork day in day out.He is focused on finding innovative and disruptive businesses in the universe of e-commerce across Europe and emerging countries such as Russia and India, recognizing that in this field solid execution skills from the outset are equally as crucial as entrepreneurial spirit and vision to build big businesses.

## Gaingels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

## Compass Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Moka, Moka, Mauritius
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Financial Services, Big Data

Compass is a venture capital fund. We invest in start-ups with scalable business models and strong growth potential. We work with companies based in Mauritius, the Indian Ocean region and the African continent. Compass is wholly owned by and benefits from support from the ENL Group, one of Mauritius’ largest business conglomerates. Alongside theTurbine, our sister organisation and the region’s leading incubator and start-up accelerator, Compass is working to create a vibrant, sustainable start-up ecosystem in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean.

## NetEase
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment

NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading internet technology company dedicated to providing premium online services centered around content, community, communication and commerce. NetEase develops and operates some of the most popular PC-client and mobile games. Also, we operate Yanxuan, an e-commerce platform that caters to the risingmiddle-class consumer market in China as well as offering advertising, e-mail and other innovative services including music and online education.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Khalid Zitouni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Logistics, E-Commerce

Khalid Zitouni

## Purple
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

Bringing together knowledge, people, best practices and capital, we invest from pre-seed to series A in companies we share values and vision.
Venture capital arm of Laurent Ritter (co-founder of Voodoo).

## Wedbush Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Wedbush Ventures is an early stage venture fund investing in seed and pre-seed stage companies founded by problem solving entrepreneurs.

## Growceanu Angel Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Growceanu is a group of business angels, active primarily in high-tech areas that contribute with money, professional and business expertise and personal connections to the development of tech startups with high potential of growth.

## PRYTEK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Prytek is a technological infrastructure as a service group driven by AI. Prytek builds vertically integrated ecosystems by combining top tier managed service companies and leading proprietary technologies under one roof via a decentralized organizational structure. We build infrastructure, outsource operations and provide managed services forFinancial institutions, Universities, and Enterprises.
The group is divided into two arms: the Corporate Arm which comprises of controlled service companies and the Technology Arm which comprises of minority stakes in start-up tech companies. The goal of the Corporate Arm is to build businesses, while the Technology Arm’s goal is to develop products for the Corporate Arm and generate equity value for Prytek.

## Studio Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics

Studio Management is a data-driven asset manager investing across public equities and venture capital.

## Kalon Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile Apps, Software

A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.

## Da Vinci Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: St. Peter Port, NA - Guernsey, Guernsey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Secondary Market
- Focus: Software, B2B, Credit Cards

Da Vinci Capital Management is a group of companies that focus on alternative investments, private equity and structured products in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States: comprising Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and other countries of the former Soviet Union). With offices in Guernsey, Moscow and London, Da Vinci Capital Groupcurrently has $400m under discretionary and advisory management.Da Vinci Capital was established in the summer of 2007 by a management team led by Oleg Jelezko. The partners in the Da Vinci Capital team are entrepreneurial professionals with extensive investment management, trading and private equity experience from the leading financial institutions in the emerging European markets.

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