Top 10 Celebrity Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023
Top 10 Celebrity Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023
| Investor | Celebrity Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Speedinvest | 2 |
| startup300 | 2 |
| Oleg Tscheltzoff | 1 |
| Portugal Ventures | 1 |
| Bynd Venture Capital | 1 |
| Seedrs | 1 |
| Angel Academe | 1 |
| Wayra | 1 |
| Ascension Ventures | 1 |
| Schöne Töchter GmbH | 1 |
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Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
- Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
- Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.
startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.
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- Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- Austria, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Venuzle — Venuzle offers a marketplace for sportsmen and sports providers at the same time. Sportsmen are able to search, compare, and book those offers like sports facilities, courses, and trainers on our sports portal. They can also find new teammates and join or manage their teams.With the help of different sports providers, they have developed aninnovative management solution for municipalities, local councils, clubs, schools, and every kind of sports providers. Already successfully in use in Graz since 2014, more than 20 institutions work with our system, managing more than 300 sports venues.The Venzle Sports Manager was submitted to the IMPULS - Municipal Innovation Award 2015 and achieved first place in the category "Best Administration Innovation".
- Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
- CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
- LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
- Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.
Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm that is part of the Banco Português de Fomento group, currently manages 170 million euros and has more than 130 portfolio companies. It invests in startups in the pre-seed, seed and series A stages that offer innovative solutions for the international market in the digital, engineering&industry, lifesciences, and tourism sectors. Since 2012, Portugal ventures has invested 164 million euros in 147 new businesses.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Portugal, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- HiJiffy — Increase direct bookings and upselling with HiJiffy's AI-powered communication solutions for hospitality.
- MyCareforce — The platform that connects nurses to available shifts.
- Floating Particle — Floating Particle is a technology and innovation company that drives an innovative solution for waste management and clean energy. Floating Particle specializes in IoT, Big Data and Machine Learning to provide cutting-edge technology to the customers.
Bynd Venture Capital, former Busy Angels, is a Portuguese venture capital investor with more than 30 active investments in the portfolio in different funds. At Bynd Venture Capital we invest in companies: - At the seed / early stage - In IT/Digital and Sustainability (including Lifesciences, Clean Tech, among others) sectors - FromPortugal, Spain and any startup that has a direct connection with these markets (founders, tech team, investors, ...).
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- Software, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Portugal, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ukio — Artfully designed fully furnished apartments available for extended stays
- Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
- Guud Woman — Verbeter je cyclus met Guud Woman. Onze supplementen ondersteunen je hormonen en vruchtbaarheid, bevorderen een gezonde huid en meer.
Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.
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- Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
- Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
- Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.
We're a fast-growing and award-winning angel network. We invest in female founders and introduce more women to angel investing.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ScaleXP — Smart Finance Automation - Unlock insights, streamline KPIs, track SaaS metrics, automate deferred revenue recognition, and save time.
- Deployed — Scope of Work (SoW) and Statement of Work (SoW) authoring and automation for the #futureofwork
- Cytochroma — Cytochroma manufacture genetically diverse stem cell-derived models to predict the safety and effect of drugs in a global population. Cytochroma’s automated cell manufacture, physiologically relevant models and rapid screening platform makes preclinical testing faster, safer and smarter.
Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
- Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
- AORA — Aora is a complete digital solution for home services. Headquartered in Equador.
Strategically investing in smarter technologies, bigger data, better alternatives, and healthier futures.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Instylla — Instylla delivers next-generation liquid embolics for interventional radiology, with initial clinical applications in interventional oncology and peripheral hemostasis.
- Qualis Flow — Qflow is the quickest and easiest route to reducing project carbon and supporting sustainable Construction.
- Strive Health — Strive Health is a built-for-purpose company working with innovative payors and providers to transform kidney care. Strive Health significantly improves patient outcomes and experience with a high-touch, technology-enabled clinical model that cares for chronic kidney disease patients across their entire healthcare journey, from primary care-levelengagement through dialysis. Strive was launched out of Oxeon’s Venture Studio and is backed by New Enterprise Associates, Town Hall Ventures, Echo Health Ventures, and Ascension Ventures.
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- Gift, Video, Celebrity
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- wewave — wewave.com is an online platform where fans and businesses can book personalized video shoutouts from celebrities. Every participating celebrity donates up to 100% of his earnings to a charity organisation of his/her choice! A perfect solution for celebrities to deal with video inquiries from fans, great opportunity for fans to getpersonalized video shoutouts as a gift for friends & families, cheap possibility for businesses to book celebrities for their advertising campaigns and charities profit financially from every video sold.
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