# Top 50 Non Profit Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Federico Pirzio-Biroli
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

## Evolem Start
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Evolem is an evergreen fund sponsored by an entrepreneur with net worth > 850m€ (Bruno Rousset, Founder of April, listed insurance broker with 1B€ market cap). No external LP's, quick process and no exit deadline. We invest from 100k to 3M€ in french startup raising 500k€ to 10M€.

## IDIA Capital Investissement
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing

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## Holnest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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## ClearlySo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Communities, Association

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## Koinvesticinis Fondas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Machine Learning

The co-investment fund invests in start-ups and business start-ups with business angel groups or private venture capital funds.

## Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit, Communities, Charity

The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation is an independent grant-making foundations in the UK.

## The FSE Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing

FSE C.I.C. is an independent not-for-profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) whose surpluses are reinvested in the business, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners. FSE C.I.C. has a number of subsidiary companies to deliver its funds and services, which are collectively referred to as The FSE Group.All regulated activities are delivered through FSE Fund Managers Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Finance East Limited delivers funding for businesses based in the East of England region.

## Big Issue Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Grant
- Focus: Charity, Non Profit, Communities

Big Issue Invest empowers sustainable business solutions to deliver real social change.

## LIQUiDITY Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Private Equity
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Education

Liquidity provides growth funding from $3m to $100m - 24 hours to Term Sheet - No Covenants. A global fintech and fund management company, that provides rapid, scaled debt facilities to finance growth across all stages and verticals of the global tech market.

## Unexo
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rennes, Bretagne, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Medical, Telecommunications, Food and Beverage

Unexo is a private equity arm of Crédit Agricole SA specializing in investments in middle market and mature companies, growth capital, development srtages, leveraged management buyout, leveraged management buyin, owner's buyout, and recapitalization transactions.

## Social Tech Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Education

Social Tech Trust is a UK's leading dedicated investor of socially motivated tech.

## Supernova Invest
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Software

we believe that top scientists and ambitious entrepreneurs can build a world where cutting-edge technologies shape the next generation of industry leaders.

## Triple Point Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

Triple Point Ventures is an early stage VC based in London, investing in promising start-ups across multiple sectors including ecommerce, AI, platforms and wider tech. TP's team offers entrepreneurs something a bit different - a fusion of funding and operational expertise, helping investee companies fulfil their growth plans at speed whileensuring teams themselves reach their full potential as they expand.Triple Point has funded many companies, including Skin Analytics, LendInvest, Contis Group, Capital on Tap, Payment Sense, Flatfair and MWS Technology. Several TP-backed companies have featured in start-up charts such as The Sunday Times Tech Track 100. TP recently began raising its second £30 million venture fund to invest in early stage companies who are addressing identified challenges in the B2B or B2B2C world.Triple Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of the wider Triple Point Investment Management group. The Triple Point Group manages over £1.5 billion in assets across multiple strategies including debt, infrastructure, real estate and venture capital. The group was established in 2004 as a UK venture capital trust manager and has continued to provide strong risk-adjusted returns to investors throughout this time.

## Paladin Capital Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Information Technology

Paladin Capital Group is a leading global investor that supports and grows the world’s most innovative companies through venture investment, expansion, and growth capital. Paladin is a leader in investing in technologies, products, and services focused on dual use in both commercial and governmental markets with a strong value-add culture. ThePaladin team merges financial expertise with national security and technical competence to add value across a wide array of market sectors and company stages. Paladin is focused on being an active investor—bringing decades of experience, advice, access, and relationships to its portfolio companies.Their most recent fund focuses on digital infrastructure resilience, investing globally in advanced technologies and solutions which enable, monitor, manage, and defend critical infrastructure that is dependent on cyber space. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg.

## Livingbridge
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Consulting

Livingbridge is an independent private equity firm, based in the UK, the US and Australia. They have £1 billion ready to invest over the next 5 years and they invest anywhere from £2 million to £70 million in fast-growing companies. The Livingbridge team have been backing businesses together for twenty years.They have done it over a hundredtimes, turning many into household names both at home and abroad. They understand that for business owners it’s more than just business. They get growth.With UK offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester and an Australian office in Melbourne, Livingbridge have teams on the ground locally who can provide support to their portfolio companies on a daily basis.

## Barrow Cadbury Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit

We support grassroots community groups and social justice campaigns, with a focus on Birmingham and the surrounding...

## KIMPA - Impact Investing
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Retail, Food and Beverage, Software

KIMPA - Impact Family Office aims to deploy the capital of its clients towards investment that offers a positive environmental and social impact on our planet.

## Theodorus III
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Life Science, Medical

Theodorus is the spin-off fund of Université Libre de Bruxelles that invests ininvest in early stage projects based on proprietary disruptive technologies.

## Union Square Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.

## Invest Northern Ireland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland's economic development agency. Their overall goal is to help create wealth for the benefit of the whole community by strengthening the economy and helping it grow.

## Companion Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Pet, Health Care, Animal Feed

DV Investments provides venture capital to early-stage companies across life sciences, health technology & services, and animal health with the goal of supporting our portfolio companies throughout their development.

## dmg ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Consumer

Dmg ventures is the venture capital arm of Daily Mail and General Trust plc. dmg ventures is part of a large diversified group of consumer media and B2B information services companies spanning industries from Edtech, Energy, Property, Insurance and Events.
They focus on finding early-stage businesses where they can help grow their brands and marketpresence through their media properties and industry networks. They commit time, capital and resource to nurture these start-ups into mature, robust stand-alone businesses.

## Charity Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

Charity Bank was established as an FSA-regulated deposit-taking bank in 2002, with a unique mission to provide loans to meet the financial needs of small charities, community organisations and social enterprises that are not being served by other lenders. They achieve this through the support of a community of investors, depositors, and borrowers,who share the view that it is worthwhile to support these organisations when they undertake capital projects that achieve beneficial social impacts and can borrow for this purpose on a financially sustainable basis.

## Emmanuel Caeymaex
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Security, Non Profit, Association

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## T0 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Education, Insurance

T-0 Ventures is a FinTech focused Venture Capital fund investing across Europe from pre-seed to Series A.

## QVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

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

## City Bridge Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Communities, Charity, Non Profit

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## Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: York, York, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

## Social Investment Scotland
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit

Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is the largest not for profit provider of business loans to the third sector in Scotland as well as being a social enterprise and registered charity.

## Chalmers Ventures AB
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Energy, Health Care

We are a leading tech investor & venture builder in the Nordics. Taking deep tech from lab to market.WELCOMEINVESTMENTS

## North East Social Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit

North East Social Investment Fund

## Scale II
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Internet, Security, Wellness

ScaleFund is a post-business angel, pre-venture capital/corporate partnership fund operating across Belgium.

## Harpur Trust
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit

Harpur Trust

## Picus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.

## Sarona Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Retail, Micro Lending, E-Commerce Platforms

We invest and scale-up extraordinary founders, across B2B, B2E, B2D and B2SMB sectors.

## Midven
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology

Midven is a specialist venture capital company providing investment to fast growing small and medium sized enterprises ("SMEs"), run by an energetic, experienced and hands-on team of investment managers.

## FJ Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

## Finance.Brussels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, CleanTech, Information Technology

Regional Investment Company of Brussels

## The Accelerator Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mclean, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Finance

Based in London, The Accelerator Group (TAG) has been an advisor and investor in early stage and start-up companies since 1995. They focus on the Internet services, eCommerce and multi-channel retail sectors, investing primarily in the US and Europe.

## Marcel Hermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Security, Non Profit, Association

Marcel Hermann

## Shay Garvey
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services

Shay is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures and one of the most active and experienced early stage technology investors in Europe. He was part of the core team of Delta Partners that raised 4 funds and €235m between 1994-2007. He has invested in 25 early stage tech companies and achieved exits over a number of cycles. He has deep networksamong investors and the entrepreneurial community in Ireland and USA.Earlier in his career Shay worked in industry with Exxon and Corning before joining McKinsey. Shay then returned to Ireland and spent seven years in the Irish start up scene as a founder/investor in two companies and CEO of a major food exporter before joining the venture capital industry.Shay has served on the boards of the Irish Venture Capital Association, the Trinity College Science Gallery and the Harvard Business School European Leadership Council.

## John O'Farrell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Analytics

John O'Farrell is a general partner at the Andreessen Horowitz. John was responsible for partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions for Silver Spring Networks. He has more than 25 years of the US and international experience in corporate/business development and operational roles in the Internet, enterprisesoftware and telecommunications industries.Prior to joining Silver Spring Networks in January 2008, John was Executive Vice President, Business Development, for Opsware Inc. During his tenure at Opsware, John was responsible for four successful acquisitions, major strategic partnerships with EDS and Cisco, and other strategic transactions culminating in the sale of Opsware to HP for $1.65 Billion in September 2007. Prior to Opsware, John was Executive Vice President, International, for Excite@Home, where he founded the international division and grew it to $70M in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, John held positions in the United States and Europe with organizations including MediaOne Group/US West, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Telecom Ireland, the European Commission, Digital Equipment and Siemens.John has an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, where he graduated with First Class Honors. John speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.

## Helvetia Venture Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Helvetia has a long tradition: in over 150 years, it has grown from a number of Swiss and foreign insurance companies into a successful international insurance group. Today, Helvetia has subsidiaries in its home market Switzerland as well as in the countries that make up the Europe market area: Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain. Helvetia is alsopresent in France with its Specialty Markets market area and through selected regions worldwide.

## Lloyds Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Financial Services

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## MTech Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Insurance, InsurTech, FinTech

MTech Capital is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles (Santa Monica) and London investing in InsurTech - technology companies operating in the insurance industry.

## Social and Sustainable Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Non Profit, Communities, Transportation

Funding organisations that support communities and transform lives.

## Klass Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software

We acquire high quality and mission-critical software businesses with great people.

## Bynd Venture Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

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, ...).

## Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) is in the business of funding disruptors, innovators, and hackers of the status quo. From open source to the early days of the web and its recent resurgence, O'Reilly Media has played a key role as trend spotter and advocate for putting world-changing technologies on the map. OATV effort is to bring thelegacy, resources, and relationships of O'Reilly to each investment they make.

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