Top 5 Celebrity VC Funds & Investors in Europe (October 2023)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Speedinvest
VC Fund
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2 | Germany, United Kingdom, Austria | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $396k–$50M |
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startup300
VC Fund
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2 | Austria, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Analytics, Information Technology | $54k–$13M |
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Ascension Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom | Series B, Series A | Health Care, Medical Device, Medical | $2.5M–$105M |
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Angel Academe
VC Fund
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | $184k–$1.6M |
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Wayra
VC Fund
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1 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $96k–$2.1M |
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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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 390
- Round size: Seed $536k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $396k–$1.9M; Series A $1.4M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Austria, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $54k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Strategically investing in smarter technologies, bigger data, better alternatives, and healthier futures.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 91
- Round size: Series A $2.5M–$22M; Series B $6.1M–$105M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $285M in 2021
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.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $184k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 193
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.1M; Pre-Seed $96k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
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.
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