Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023
Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Europe in October 2023
| Investor | Retail Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Global Founders Capital | 15 |
| Venrex | 13 |
| Foresight Group | 9 |
| Cabiedes & Partners | 8 |
| P101 | 8 |
| LAUNCHub Ventures | 8 |
| Isai | 7 |
| M Capital Partners | 7 |
| HV Capital | 7 |
| SquareOne | 7 |
| Saarbruecker 21 | 7 |
| Partech | 7 |
| 468 Capital | 7 |
| Fuel Ventures | 7 |
| Big Sur Ventures | 6 |
| DN Capital | 6 |
| Club Italia Investimenti 2 | 6 |
| The FSE Group | 6 |
| Mobeus Equity Partners | 6 |
| Nauta Capital | 6 |
| Angels Den | 6 |
| Index Ventures | 6 |
| Naxicap Partners | 6 |
| Praetura Ventures | 6 |
| Otium Capital | 5 |
| Business Growth Fund | 5 |
| Seedrs | 5 |
| 360 Capital | 5 |
| Octopus Ventures | 5 |
| Balderton Capital | 5 |
| True. | 5 |
| Giovanni Gardelli | 5 |
| Enterprise Ireland | 5 |
| FJ Labs | 5 |
| Quadia | 5 |
| Redalpine | 5 |
| Forward Partners | 5 |
| Wellstreet | 5 |
| Angelsquare | 5 |
| Iron Wolf Capital | 4 |
| ETF Partners | 4 |
| Marc Menase | 4 |
| Monte Carlo Capital | 4 |
| Alven | 4 |
| Heliad Equity Partners | 4 |
| Movens Capital | 4 |
| Atomico | 4 |
| Point Nine | 4 |
| Paul Forster | 4 |
| François Derbaix | 4 |
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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
Portfolio highlights
- Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
- Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.
Venrex Investment Management is a UK-based venture capital firm that backs creative Founders to launch and build innovative businesses.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Integral — Compliantly connecting health data as securely and as quickly as possible.
- HUG — Discover new artists, and access innovative creator-friendly education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
- KittyCAD — Infrastructure for hardware design tools.
Foresight Group is a listed infrastructure and private equity investment manager which has been managing funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients for more than 35 years. Foresight has over £7.2 billion of assets under management across a number of funds on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors, family offices,private and high net-worth individuals and retail investors. Foresight's investment strategies are underpinned by a strong environmental, social & governance (“ESG”) focus, which increasingly meets the demands of today’s investors and ensures we are consistently working towards creating a sustainable legacy for future generations.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Jersey
Portfolio highlights
- Previsico — Previsico is a spinOut company from Loughborough University specialising in modelling flooding in real-time, using weather predictions to make street-level flood nowcasts and forecasts. The company's mission is to be the leading global provider of cutting-edge flood prediction that saves lives and livelihoods.Its FloodMap Live producesround the clock street-level flood risk predictions and analytics. Uniquely, these are continuously modelled and updated using a combination of different weather forecasts. This allows the company to map the likelihood of short and long-term surface water events in real-time to the street level.
- Looper Insights — Looper Insights - Optimizing Content and App Placement Across Connected TV Devices. The market leader in analytics on Connected TV devices.
- We Are Fulfilment — We Are Fulfillment is an e-commerce company that provides warehousing and management services.
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Shalion — Shalion provides eCommerce data solutions to help global brands like Heineken, Kellogg's, AB Inveb, ISDIN, Revlon, Wella or Hasbro.Beyond traditional Digital Shelf analytics, Shalion has started a true revolution with an integrated solution that helps brands measure the success of their overall online Visibility and eRetail Media. This toolhelps to monitor all types of retail Ads, Search results (organic or paid), their share of shelf, and promotional activity across the top retailer sites worldwide. The experienced team allows Shalion to adapt fast to the evolving eCommerce landscape and that’s why innovative solutions to monitor Q-Commerce Apps and our Amazon Market Share solution have been also launched recently.
- Tuio — Tuio is a insurance company that provides digital platform providing house or propety insurance.
- GoTrendier — Gotrendier.com.co is a platform to sell the clothes that you no longer use and to buy in the closet of other girls throughout Colombia. Posting your products on gotrendier.com.co is completely free! They are sure that in your closet you have many fashion garments that you have not even put on, or that are new, even with a label. At GoTrendier wegive you the opportunity to sell these items and earn money. In addition, you can buy clothes from other users, and find your new favorites
P101 is an Italian venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in the digital sector. Agreement to handle personal data I agree I don't agree
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Italy, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mundimoto — Mundimoto is a motor cycle trading platform.
- mama health — mama health is a platform to find others around the world living the same journey as you - and learn form each other's experience.
- Codemotion — Codemotion is the ecosystem devoted to innovation, focused on developers and coding, open to all programming languages and technologies. Pioneering spirits, it scout the future to deliver a first class experience to our people. Codemotion is one of the biggest tech-conferences in Europe, with an international network of 30.000 developers and 350speakers coming from all over the world and from the most important IT realities.Codemotion draw in its main conferences, thousands of attendees eager to discuss about hottest topics: it tailor for them disruptive proposals ranging from mobile to UX, develops, cloud, big data, gamedev, security, methods, languages, web, Internet of things. Codemotion is also a startup, providing a bunch of services and activities, for personal and business customers.
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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- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- 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.
- Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
- Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.
Isai is a tech entrepreneurs' fund that focuses on early-stage internet startups and small capital tech private equity deals. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the software, information technology, media, and industrial sectors. It brings together more than 300 tech entrepreneurs who have decided to invest their money and theirexperience in order to allow the emergence of new French Tech champions.Founded in 2010, Isai is headquartered in Paris, France.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ondorse — Ondorse provides a business identity solution that unifies third-party data, compliance, and fraud APIs into a single platform. Their platform allows users to evaluate and verify their new and existing vendors, customers, and compliance application programming interfaces in a single space, enabling clients to reduce manual reviews and verifycustomers.
- DataDome — Detect and mitigate bot & online fraud attacks with unparalleled accuracy and zero compromise. Deploy in minutes. No impact on User Experience.
- Pricemoov — Unlock your revenue potential with intelligent pricing. Manage and optimize your prices across channels with ease, and at scale.
M Capital is an independent investment company with +€500m AuM. A unique hub where entrepreneurs can have an equity finance and quasi-equity as well as a permanent support to accelerate their growth. In 2020, M Capital has funded over 200 French companies.
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- Health Care, Food and Beverage, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Ellona — Ellona develops environmental intelligence solutions-based devices for outdoor and indoor spaces. Its solutions help decision-makers improve their environments through the use of sensors capable of analyzing and monitoring both air quality and nuisances.
- Olino — Olino is the insurance for tomorrow's SME. A digital service, a turnkey solution tailored to VSBs and SMEs, meeting all insurance needs.
- Therapixel — Therapixel is one of the leading French software companies specializing in artificial intelligence applied to medical imaging.
We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
- Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
- NEURA Robotics — NEURA Robotics is revolutionizing the world of robotics by using cognitive capabilities to bring robots and humans closer together.
We invest in B2B tech entrepreneurs who are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets at pre-seed and seed stage
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
- Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
- Flinn Comply — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
They are a group of friends and internet/tech entrepreneurs who first met ten years ago in Saarbruecker Strasse 21 in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. All of them started successful businesses, they are founders and share a passion for building great companies. As active business angels, they also invest in young startups, either individually orcollectively as a group. They provide seed funding for killer-founders and great ideas. But way more important: they help to avoid mistakes that they have already made . They introduce to the right people. They provide with all the experience that they have. Not just talking about it but helping hands-on.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Kranus Health — Kranus Health is a global provider for Men‘s Health Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDTs). Our therapies make millions of men live a better and longer life and enable doctors to treat their patients more efficiently.
Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- CO2 AI — Empowering decision-makers to sustain our world via advanced software that shifts carbon emissions reduction from the theoretical to the impactful.
- UpSlide — Produce high-quality reports and presentations faster in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Save up to 8h each month in just a few clicks!
- Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
468 Capital is a Berlin and San Francisco based technology investment firm. We support leading software, AI and internet growth companies across multiple investment stages.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- askui — Use natural language to automate your UI tests. Our UI test solution is based on visual features and offers a real no-code black-box test.
- Metergrid — Metergrid is a developer of SaaS products for specific problems in decentralized energy systems. They offer a market-leading automated cloud solution for the profitable realization, management, and billing of tenant power projects and charging infrastructure.
- Aleph Alpha — Aleph Alpha develops AI systems for modern security challenges.
Fuel Ventures - a leading early stage seed / growth stage EIS Fund based in London, UK. Investing in the most ambitious technology companies.
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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
- Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
- Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.
BSV invests early, commits personally and team up with exceptional founders to help build extraordinary companies. What we do: Seed Phase, Technology Based & Investments.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
- JOTELULU — JOTELULU is an online cloud platform that transforms traditional IT Companies into cloud service providers. Jotelulu offers IT and communication cloud services, system administration tools and many functionalities. All of them focused on solving the daily challenges of small IT Businesses and their customers (SMB and VSB).Very Small Business NEEDdigitalization, but they are no experts in technology. They generally rely on small IT companies that help them. Why not create a platform that helps traditional IT companies sell and manage cloud services easily? Founded in 2013 as an IT consulting company, Jotelulu has evolved into an exclusive cloud platform for IT companies. Independent Software Vendors, Software Integrators, Technical Support, IT Procurement Companies… there are many types and Jotelulu has been designed for all of them.Based in Spain, Jotelulu provides services from different datacenters located in Madrid. However, internationalization forecasts suggest a fast infrastructure deployment in different European and LATAM datacenters in the next few years.Jotelulu is growing fast, increasing the number of partners every week. Our dream is to help digitalize as many SMB and VSB as possible in the next few years and we are working hard to make it a reality.
- Trucksters — We are a transportation company that focuses on providing long distance FTL trucking service through an innovative relay system based on artificial intelligence. We achieve transit times similar to air transport while reducing the costs of traditional road transportation.
DN Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests primarily in Europe and North America. The firm focuses on companies that plan to establish operations on both sides of the Atlantic, and strives to help its companies build international businesses. Founded in 2000, the company has operations in London and Silicon Valley. DN Capital’sprevious funds are top performers and the firm is one of the lead investors in companies such as Endeca (sold to Oracle), Shazam (one of the world’s leading mobile app), Auto1 (world's largest used car marketplace), Purplebricks (IPO London) and Quandoo (sold to Recruit).
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cubyn — Cubyn picks your stuff up at your place, packages it and ships it for you to any destination worldwide. Cubyn allows any e-retailer to benefit from the power supply of an Amazon from her living room, without obligation.
- Aibidia — Discover the Aibidia TXM Platform and our digital transfer pricing applications, eliminating billions of euros in tax inefficiencies and risks.
- GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
Club Italia Investimenti is a Milan-based venture capital firm that assists startups in raising seed capital.
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- 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!
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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Debt Financing, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
- Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
- Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.
Mobeus is a leading equity investor in UK-based SMEs. We partner with talented and determined management teams of businesses with strong growth potential.
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- Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Intralink — Your international expansion made fast, easy and cost effective
- MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
- Lace Partners — LACE Partners are a leading HR and Payroll transformation consultancy. We're able to support organisations with strategy through to execution.
Nauta Capital is a Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies. Main areas of interest include B2B Software propositions, disruptive Digital Media companies, and enabling technologies for Mobile and the Internet. Nauta has over €300 million under management and invests across Europe. Nauta operates from London (UK), Barcelona(Spain) and Munich (Germany).
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- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Xonai — Big data analytics empowers large growing businesses worldwide by converting insights into actionable decisions and has become ubiquitous across modern data-driven businesses.
- NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
- BlackCurve — We help eCommerce businesses make pricing decisions
Angels Den is an angel-led investment platform that connects fast-growing companies with experienced investors.
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- 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.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
- Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
- Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.
Naxicap Partners is a financial partner responsible, active and present along with its holdings. Their concept of partnership is to provide their participants and their managers substantial support in periods of expansion as in times of difficulty, with lines of action to be effective and practical.
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- Manufacturing, Software, Retail
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series A
- France, Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- MYRE — With 17 years of professional experience, Deborah (founder) has devised a tailor-made tool adapted to the new challenges of an industry still waiting to be modernized, allowing real estate players to focus on tasks with high added value. MYRE help Asset Managers in taking the control of their datas (financials, legal,...) in the asset lifecycle.We provide Financials analysis and modeling capabilities, advanced dataroom, Debt management, Real Estate Master data management in an inclusive way with all the stakeholders (PM, brokers, bank, ...)MYRE is based on twofold expertise of both technology and real estate business needs.
- Dog Chef — Dog Chef is an exhibit supplier of homemade and natural food for dogs across the region.
- Witco — Witco is an app that centralizes all the services that power a great work experience. We provide flexible workplaces & coliving solutions.
Praetura Ventures has been supporting entrepreneurs with more than money since 2011. Click to find out more about how we can help businesses and investors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
- Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
- Percayso Inform — Percayso provides insurers with access to a wide range of data sources, allowing them to form a more comprehensive view of their customers.
In 2015, two independant investment teams were created in Paris inside Otium Capital, Pierre-Edouard Stérin's family office:* Otium Venture, focused on Seed investments in Tech companies (€40m invested in 14 companies among which Payfit, Doctrine, Owkin...)* Otium Brands, focused on Seed & Series A investments in Consumer GoodscompaniesIn 2019, the two teams spun off to become independant investment firms:* Otium Venture became frst* Otium Brands became Eutopia
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Giftory — We at Giftory think that the best presents are experiences rather than goods. That is why we developed a system that makes it simple to locate, choose, and provide unique experiences that will build memories that will last a lifetime. Your purchase now, and they book later!
- Hyppo — Hyppo leverages technology and Artificial Intelligence to democratize access to these sophisticated and little-known financial alternatives. They have surrounded themselves with real estate and financial engineering experts in order to develop novel solutions and market mortgage products in collaboration with banking partners.
- Portlogics — Portlogics provides standardised and advanced digital management systems and connects stakeholders through IT technology for imports and exports in order to become a top-tier digital System Provider in the global logistics industry.
BGF invests in hundreds of businesses from an evergreen balance sheet. But we offer more than just growth capital. Find out what makes us different.
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- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
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- Avoca Clinic — The Avoca Clinic is Ireland's only plastic surgery clinic. Our World Class Consultants are all Irish Medical Council Registered. Book a free consultation today
- Stellar Omada — Stellar Omada delivers leading business & digital transformation that exceeds expectations in a constantly changing world. Contact us.
- Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
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.
Early stage european VC investing on ClimateTech, DeepTech, Mass Consumption and Business Automation.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Italy, United States
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- Equixly — Equixly helps eliminate blind spots by testing your running APIs.
- Energy Dome — Energy Dome | Groundbreaking Long Duration Energy Storage. Using CO2 against climate change. Our Technology enables to store renewable energy efficiently.
- Via Sana — Via Sana provides healthcare workers with a fresh coworking environment as well as gorgeous and fully-furnished private offices.
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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- Software, Health Care, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
- Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
- Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
A unique model for investing, innovating & growing
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, France
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- Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
- Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
- Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Italy, United Kingdom
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- HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
- Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
- Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and funding of the indigenous business sector. Their mission is to accelerate the development of companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United States, United Kingdom
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- CergenX — CergenX produces cutting-edge technology for the analysis of baby brain waves that can be used to identify brain injuries early in the newborn period.
- Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
- Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
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- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
- Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.
Quadia is a regulated investment manager specialized in social and environmental finance. With more than CHF 70 million invested in over 20 companies, Quadia is a leading and pioneering impact investor. Our core investment thesis centers on sustainability as a pillar of risk management and economic valuation. It targets significantly impactfulcompanies which have positioned their products and services to meet a growing demand which is influenced by an irreversible paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is driven by worldwide interdependent social, environmental and economic stakes.
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- E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- France, Switzerland, United States
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- Rediv — Patatam is the european's most trusted online shop for buying and selling like-new clothing for kids and babies. Parents can send their quality kids' clothing in a free pre-paid bag (the Patabag), earn cash up front for their clothing selected, and can shop the best brands for their kids at Patatam.com for up to 90% off retail. Based inthe south west of France, Patatam was launched in 2013 by Mariève Bidart, Eric Gagnaire and Mathieu Bidart. The company is advised and backed by former Price Minister CEO and founder Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Frederic Mazzella and Francis Nappez (founders of BlaBlaCar) and several other investors.
- Fairphone — Fairphone is a social enterprise which aims at raising awareness about conflict minerals in electronics and the wars that the sourcing of these minerals is fueling in the DR Congo.
- Nous anti-gaspi — We anti-Gapsi is the network of anti-waste food stores. This grocery store project offers producers and manufacturers the opportunity to their downgraded and unsold products at a fair price. They are a qualitative environment, they market products excluded from the usual mass distribution circuits for small defects, physical defects, contract-datenot respected, and end of series. They offer consumers a new mode of consumption that gives priority to common sense and that is at the same time smart, qualitative, and eco-responsible. In their stores, they offer you to find, in a warm atmosphere, a complete choice of food products to save waste: fruits and vegetables, fresh and frozen products, groceries, and even a small bulk section.
Redalpine is one of the leading European Venture Capital investors with a focus on highly scalable start-ups. The firm's mission is to help talented entrepreneurs turn an ambitious vision into reality by providing money, experience, coaching, and a strong network. The firm is focused on seed and early-stage investments in disruptivetechnologies in tech and health tech. Redalpine launched its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007, following the founding partners’ track record of some excellent trade sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. In 2021 Redalpine closed its sixth fund (Redalpine Capital VI) and currently has approx. USD 1 Billion in AUM. The highly interdisciplinary Redalpine team supports more than 70 portfolio companies with operational and sector-specific expertise and with a rich international network.Redalpine started with its first fund (Redalpine Capital I) in 2007 based on the track-record of some excellent trade-sales and IPOs as serial entrepreneurs and professional angel investors. Redalpine sucessfully launched Redalpine Capital II in 2012 and Redalpine Capital III in 2016. The funds are registered in Luxemburg and backed by dozens of experienced entrepreneurs and investors representing various countries, and a broad range of industries.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Zealy — A simple, fun & creative way to join trendy communities, make an impact and earn rewards.
- Genialis — Genialis is a precision medicine data science company focused on new ways to treat disease. Blending computational biology and AI-based methods, Genialis merges and models data at the intersection of clinical and translational medicine and drug discovery. Genialis is trusted by biopharma and big pharma alike, to validate targets, predict biomarkersand optimally position novel drugs. Together, Genialis and its partners are bringing improved solutions to drug discovery to change people's lives.
- Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
Forward Partners is a venture capital firm in London specialising in technology businesses focused on eCommerce, marketplace and applied AI early-stage startups.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
- APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
- Makers — Start your tech journey in 16 weeks. Become a software developer, data engineer, cloud or quality engineer. Remote or hybrid options!
Wellstreet is an innovation and tech ecosystem that includes an investment company, a strategic consultancy firm and a venture building incubator.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Retail
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, Norway, Finland
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- Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
- Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
- Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.
AngelSquare is a venture capital firm that prefers to provide seed and series A investments to companies operating in the fintech, SaaS, artificial intelligence and software sectors.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Switzerland
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- 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 — Orosound is a tech company with a unique expertise in audio. Learn more about our technologies and our headsets, designed and made in France.
- Remotebase — Remotebase | Hire silicon valley caliber developers remotely | Remote software engineers jobs
We are here to make you succeed! Iron Wolf Capital is an international venture capital firm with an experienced team of professionals with global outlook and strong roots in the Baltics. and a mandate for helping entrepreneurs realise their ideas into successful businesses.
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- Software, Infrastructure, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Lithuania, Estonia, United Kingdom
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- Speiz — Speiz is a platform that enables revenue generation and sales for companies through the renting of warehousing space.
- Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
- Repsense — Repsense is a data company that mimics user journeys and predicts reactions to content found in search results pages. any of the clients can use the Repsense Index to quickly assess their reputation and compare it to competitors across different geographies and user intents.
ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Its funds come from institutional investors, global corporations, and family offices. The firm creates value by investing in and supporting great European companies that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation.
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- Software, Renewable Energy, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, France, Norway
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- Zeelo — Travel to major events, festivals, cities and many more in comfy coaches with Zeelo. Book your seat now.
- Gen Phoenix — ELeather, made with real leather material, is a cost effective & durable alternative to leather. Ideal for Aviation, Bus & Rail upholstery & interiors.
- Dexter Energy Services — Forecast & Trade Optimization. Powered By A.I.
Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, Spain
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- Elyn — Elyn is a developer of an automated and unified sales platform designed to facilitate try-before-you-buy sales. As orders are shipped and returned through the same logistics channels as a standard order, the company's platform easily integrates with the online store and automates the shopping experience from payment to returns management,allowing e-commerce companies to give their customers the freedom to try their items before paying for them, increasing average baskets and conversion rates.
- Omi — Omi platform is designed for today's marketer and requires no technical skills.
- Silvr — Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded.Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, equity is not the best fit for all. At Silvr, we empower entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. We leverage digital businesses data to predict futurerevenues and offer funding in 24 hours.We are headquartered in Paris, are backed by ISAI and Eurazeo and we deploy millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month.
Monte Carlo Capital was founded in 2009 by former investment banker Ian Sosso, winner of the 2019 “Best European Early Stage Investor” award from EBAN, the Brussels-based European trade association for business angels representing the 30,000 European angel community with a presence in 50 countries. Monte Carlo Capital combines the best featuresof business angels and venture capital. We invest via fund and via SPVs. We have been the Lead in many of our investments and are increasing our Co-Investments with some of the world’s leading VCs. Typical investments start at pre-seed/seed and we regularly follow on to Series A & Series B rounds. Monte Carlo Capital invests across sectors, including Saas, Fintech, DeepTech and Health Care, in the US, Europe and the UK.Our solo managing partner was a former investment banker, spending most of his career in Asia and the UK. He retired about 15 years ago, and set up his own angel group. After being quite successful, he decided to launch the fund (January this year).
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- Medical Device, Artificial Intelligence, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
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- HomeOptions — Home ownership redefined - We pay homeowners to be their future real estate broker.
- Auriga Space — Next-generation space launch company providing frequent, sustainable and affordable transport to low Earth orbit
- Immersive Fox — Immersive Fox develops a text-to-video B2B service to generate video content for companies remotely. It also creates AI-generated microlearning videos from any text for learning management systems and corporate communication.
Alven is an independent early-stage venture capital firm that backs European category-defining startups with global reach starting at Series A or Seed stage
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, United States, Italy
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- Qover — Plug & play solutions empowering any digital business to integrate insurance into its strategy. Our promise? A tailored insurance experience, right when your customers need it most.
- Stoïk — Stoïk provides insurance and security to free your business from cyber-risk
- Skarlett — Skarlett is a real estate firm that provides purchasing power to the old age people by releasing the wealth blocked in real estate assets.
Heliad - empowers Entrepreneurs. And Investors. Our mission is to empower both entrepreneurs and investors. We find, fund and support companies.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Germany, India, Austria
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- NewtonX — NewtonX is the world's leading B2B research company. 100% fraud-free research across 140 industries and 1.1 billion professionals.
- WorkMotion — WorkMotion offers Global HR Solutions to help companies navigate the New Ways of Working. Solutions fully compliant.
- InstaFreight — InstaFreight is a digital forwarding company for B2B customers, that enables fast and uncomplicated processing of freight transports.Their goal is to become Europe's leading B2B online freight forwarding company. They stand for reliability, quality, efficiency and transparency.By offering innovative solutions and providing first-classservice, they reduce the complexity of the supply chain and ensure absolute transparency for their customers and carriers.
Movens Capital manages two funds (early-stage VC and growth equity). Movens VC is oriented on supporting Polish/CEE tech
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Poland, Germany, Lithuania
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- Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
- Epinote — Epinote is Warsaw-based annotation boutique that provides high quality data annotation and collection services. We specialise in Computer Vision, NLP and search relevance projects including image, video, text and audio annotations. Our workforce consists of only in-house employees, mostly graduates of top Polish universities. Our managementconsists of experts who know exactly how to manage large human-intense projects and understand deeply Data Scientists needs. The highest delivered quality and facing unstable inflow of work is what we challenge everyday. Contact us. You will not be disappointed.
- Demoboost — A product demo software for revenue teams to improve buyer experience, supercharge journeys, and scale go-to-market without any hassle. Try it now!
Atomico invests in innovative technology companies around the world.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
- Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.
Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, United States, France
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- Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick-and-pack automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
- Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
- Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
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- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
- finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.
Francois Derbaix is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Indexa Capital and Co-founder and Director of Bewater Funds. He has also Co-founded Aplazame, Soysuper, Rentalia, and Toprural.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
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- Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
- Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
- Tu Lecho al Techo — Tu Lecho al Techo aiming to build a business by distributing ceiling bed.
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