# Top 50 Travel VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Europe in October 2023 ## HOWZAT Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London. ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services 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. ## Openfund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Travel, E-Commerce Openfund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, Greece, the Openfund brings together an exceptional team of executives, an extensive list of advisors and a number of passionate investors to provide everything a team of entrepreneurs needs to turn ideas into products and success. ## Practica Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B Practica Capital ## VentureFriends - Type: VC Fund - Location: Athens, Attiki, Greece - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce We are an early stage investor investing in Seed and Series A startups. ## Angels Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Angels Capital philosophy is to find and support at 1 able to lead a project. Their goal is to support the entrepreneurial, helping to create new businesses, help grow their business sector, generate employment and create wealth. ## Index Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet 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. ## Partech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services 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. ## Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) invests in early stage businesses from angel investment, seed, VC and Series A rounds through a combination of equity and debt structures.FRC’s approach is to target investments that complement the skills and experience of its Founders so that they can bring more than just capital to help a business grow. Both FRC’sFounders have a core knowledge of technology, services, and an entrepreneurial history that they can bring to the benefit of an investment. FRC is Europe-centric, and with a base in Ljubljana, Slovenia, there is an additional focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Austria and Southern Germany. On an opportunistic basis FRC will look at deals throughout Europe and also the United States. The Founders are well-connected to accelerators in Central Europe and in Silicon Valley. ## Cabiedes & Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Fashion 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. ## Caixa Capital Risc - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce Caixa Capital Risc (CCR) is the VC arm of CriteriaCaixa which invests in innovative companies in their start-up and growth stages. The company has three specialised teams in the areas of Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Industrial technologies. Caixa Capital Risc currently manages more than €300m through 11 specialised vehicles. ## HR Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dreieich, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Information Technology, Software HR Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, which is part of the HahnAir Group. HR Ventures is based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. HR Ventures is also an EVCA member, the European private equity & venture capital association.HR Ventures was founded to support exceptional entrepreneurs in achieving their goals together aspartners. We define ourselves as an equal partner for all entrepreneurial challenges with in-depth expertise and a large network. The company builds a strong relationship with each founder to create outstanding companies. We are here to ## Bpifrance - Type: VC Fund - Location: Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Bpifrance provides financial solutions for companies that are booting up the listing on the stock exchange and credit equity. It includes OSEO, CDC Entreprises, FSI, and FSI Regions to offer in your area of financial solutions at every stage of the life of your business.Bpifrance was founded in 2012 and is based in Maisons-alfort, Ile-de-France,France. ## Connect Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Connect Ventures invests in the best product-led companies in Europe at seed stage. Categories: Consumer, Health, Fintech, SaaS ## Bankinter - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce Bankinter is an innovative Spanish commercial bank. From an investment perspective, Bankinter's Venture Capital team and Fundación Innovación Bankinter jointly develop a program called Venture Capital Program, focused on identifying and investing in high potential startups using the bank's resources. The program has been active since2013, and from that moment it has already invested in more than 40 startups. In addition to the investment itself, the program tries to add value to the companies with which it interacts through the sharing of experiences and best practices.A key part of the company's strategy is the quality of customer service and innovation. The spirit is defined by the values ​​agility, enthusiasm, integrity, and originality. The company offers a wide range of financial products and services, in addition to advising clients, aggregators, product simulators, and a variety of value-added services. The company's staff are trained, agile, flexible workforce, capable of adapting to technological and market changes.Bankinter was founded on 1965 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. ## Kibo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Kibo Ventures, based in Madrid (Spain) is a VC Fund focused on early-stage investments in digital companies. Kibo Ventures manages $130 million from a mix of institutional and private investors, including IEF, Telefonica, the Spanish Government (through CDTI), Mutua Madrileña (Spain's largest insurance company) and Axis (ICO's 25year-old private equity arm).Specifically, Kibo likes to invest in companies which combine exceptional and committed teams, aiming to digitalize a product or service in a big-enough market with international potential. Kibo is managed by an experienced team of professionals with a solid track record, who are actively involved in the companies in which they invest. Kibo follows a stage-investment approach and financially supports portfolio companies as they grow, whilst promoting co-investment from valuable investors. ## Charlotte Street Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology First money in for UK software startups. ## Monkfish Equity - Type: VC Fund - Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace Monkfish Equity is the investment vehicle of the trivago founders. As Co-investors, with a focus on later stage phases, they invest in companies which can benefit from their entrepreneurial experience. Running the world´s biggest travel meta portal with over 500 M$ revenue (2015), the people behind Monkfish Equity understand entrepreneurs needs andfocus on value adding activities. As “low maintenance” investors, they offer the leeway that entrepreneurs need to build their businesses. ## Isai - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology 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. ## QVentures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - 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 ## b2venture (formerly btov Partners) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Saint Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Btov Partners is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in digital and industrial technology companies. With investment teams in Digital and Industrial Tech, Btov invests EUR 50m per year in high-growth companies with ticket sizes from EUR 0.25m to 3.5m. ## ETF Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology 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. ## aws Gründerfonds (aws Founders Fund) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology aws Gründerfonds is Austria's 70m venture capital fund. We invest as co-investor in Austrian high-growth start-ups in their later seed and (pre-)series-A stages. ## Russmedia Equity Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Schan, Schaan, Liechtenstein - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Travel, Rental, iOS This is really our website. We invest time into building companies, not websites. ## MairDumont Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ostfildern, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Internet, SaaS MairDumont Ventures invests in companies in travel sector. ## Cherry Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of theirbusinesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm. ## LocalGlobe - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next? ## NFQ Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Tourism NFQ accelerates the success of entrepreneurs with a current team of 250 specialists delivering company-building services. ## ENISA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects. ## Italian Angels for Growth - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care IAG is an angel investor network that offers access to its affiliates to early-stage venture opportunities. Its members to date have deployed over 22 million Euros to support 41 startups in the series seed/series A stage in many verticals, among which: Medtech, SAAS, e-commerce, Fintech, and high tech at large. Every investment opportunityat IAG is vetted by a professional team together with expert members of the group. Once invested, the company receives the support of up to two Investment champions, who bring their expertise to the table and help them succeed. ## Frontline Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Frontline is the venture firm for globally ambitious B2B companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Frontline Seed speeds up ideas at inception across Europe. Frontline X is a growth-stage fund, for fast and frictionless US-Europe expansion. ## Venture Stars - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Pet, Software Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models. ## Capnamic Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Capnamic is a Venture Capital firm supporting ambitious founders in the German-speaking regions. Our focus is on the early stages, from (Pre-)Seed to Series A. ## Delta Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Early stage VC investments and funding for start-ups / founders in Ireland. ## Enterprise Ireland - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## HV Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software We support exceptional founders in building market leading digital companies. ## LAUNCHub Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software LAUNCHUB is a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in startups in South-Eastern (SEE) and Central-Eastern (CEE) Europe. ## Karista - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care Karista is an early-stage venture capital firm created in 2001 investing in Health, Digital, Tech, and NewSpace. ## SyndicateRoom - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Health Care, Software, Medical SyndicateRoom is fintech company made up of data-scientists, investment professionals, software developers and marketers with one mission: to be an early investor in every British startup success story.To do this – and make fund investors money – we don’t try to spot the next Big Thing.Instead, we apply a data-driven model to portfolioconstruction; a repeatable process designed to maximise returns and minimise risk for fund investors. As such, we build startup portfolios that don’t attempt to predict the future; they work to stack the odds in investors’ favour.Our fund, Access EIS, aims to build investors a diversified portfolio of 50+ companies by co‑investing exclusively with some of the UK’s best-performing angel investors. ## bmp Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing bmp Ventures is an innovative Venture Capital Company from Berlin. Since 1997 we’ve been investing Smart Money in Early Stage and Growth Startups. We finance ingenious business models with outstanding teams, who build fast-growing and sustainably profitable enterprises. ## Seedrs - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs. ## 360 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Early stage european VC investing on ClimateTech, DeepTech, Mass Consumption and Business Automation. ## PROfounders Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Apps, Travel We are PROfounders. We are the proactive European early-stage venture fund. ## Lakestar - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expandedand broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London.Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage. ## InMotion Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Transportation, Travel, Software POWERED BY JLR The Venture Capital team invest in early stage businesses,from Seed to Series B Venture Capital InMotion Venture Studio is a venture development studiothat builds new business and services. Venture Studio ## Axel Springer Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Real Estate, Internet, Digital Media Axel Springer Digital Ventures is the Venture Capital unit of Axel Springer SE, investing in digital companies globally. ## P101 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Internet 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 ## Nekko Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Travel, Internet, SaaS Nekko Capital, a Barcelona-based Venture Capital firm aimed at investing in scalable early stage digital transformation companies led by outstanding teams with global ambitions and excellent execution capabilities. Nekko Capital has offices in Barcelona, London, Madrid & Paris. ## Sabadell Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Sabadell Venture Capital's main purpose is to support entrepreneurial Spanish projects during their initial stages (Seed and Early Stage). They want to be the financial partner of the startups and to be part of its innovative and transformative projects. They add value to the company through the different stages of its growth. Banco Sabadellis defined by its entrepreneurial spirit: “A bank by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, helping entrepreneurs". ## coparion - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Coparion provides venture capital to accelerate momentum and growth. With a currently active fund of EUR 275 million, Coparion has the means to do so.Coparion supports entrepreneurial vision with know-how, but without intervening in daily business operations. Thanks to in-depth experience in venture capital and in building companies, the Coparionteam discerns potential and opens up new perspectives. Coparion has the substance, tenacity, and creativity required to mutually manage difficult situations successfully.Coparion only invests with co-investors. The fund invests up to EUR 15M per company, usually in several financing rounds of EUR 0.5-8M each. The investment focus is on German companies in the start-up and early growth phases. Coparion is based in Cologne and Berlin. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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