How to raise capital in Europe in 2019
The world’s biggest European VC list.
Things are good in ‘Europe Startup Land’ From seed, to series A the ecosystem is thriving more than ever with lots of great active investors.
From the ideation to growth stage almost any start-up can find an incubator or accelerator programme. Investors, service providers, the big fours and top notch mentors are gravitating around them. The ecosystem is maturating and growing, and a lot of European entrepreneurs have now sold their company and become serial entrepreneurs and investors. But once you hit a path that reverberates with a couple of people. How do you raise capital if you don’t know where to start? How do you select the best investors and where do you even find them? If you don’t succeed to raise in your country, do you know who the other VCs are in the neighbor countries?
Since more capital is available, in London we see a lot of entrepreneurs becoming more picky. At the Microsoft Accelerator London, it is very common for entrepreneurs to turn down the money from the first investor as they believe they can find smarter capital, but of course not all start-ups can afford to play that game however, it does depend on the volume of capital flowing in your country. If you believe you need an investor based in your next market, do not waste your time doing big research as I have put together approximately 5 to 10 VCs per European country.
· How have you heard about them?
· If you know someone who’s received money from them?
· Total funding to date distinguished between non-founder outside-capital and founder self-funding
· Current annual and monthly recurring revenues
· Key milestone achieved and pending
· How much funding do you seek for?
· Top 5 reasons why you want to raise from them
AUSTRIA
Austria
Fiedler Capital
Fiedler Capital is a new venture capital firm specifically for seed and early stage venture capital. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs that build and are building disruptive, world-class startups. Target area is the CEE and the Baltic regions.
Austria
GCP Gamma Capital Partners — The VenturePreneurs — The MezzoPreneurs
With a portfolio of over 20 investments from four funds, GCP is the leading Austrian technology VC investor (VenturePreneurs). GCP which was founded in 2002 also has interests in the mezzanine finance field (MezzoPreneurs) in the first fund GMP I.
GCP has a proven track record, with exit success stories that include: Inode Telecomunications (2006), 123people (2010), Fatfogoo (2010), Fulterer (2010), and Gat Microencapsulation (2012).
Austria
ALEDA Advisory and Investment GmbH
We are a strategic advisory investment management company for Venture Capital and Private Equity funds, and SMEs and Start-ups, with special focus on IT and Tech-related companies.
We do:
· Investment Management (Acquisitions, valuation, negotiation, structuring and execution of transactions, due diligence, portfolio company controlling (e.g., as supervisory board member), exits)
· Strategy: Strategic reviews, strategy development, business planning for SME / growth companies
· Finance Management: Part-time/transitory CFO, raising of capital.
Austria
APEX Ventures GmbH
Based in Austria, Apex Ventures is an early stage Venture Capital Fund investor company with strong interests in start-ups that are grounded in unique and protectable technology. APEX Ventures with the initial focus areas which include Digital Media, Business Intelligence & Cybersecurity, FinTech, and the Future of Work actively provide support and resources with the aim to develop start-ups into global brands in their respective fields
Austria
Aws Gründerfonds
With special consideration for start-ups and early growth phase Austrian businesses, Aws Founders Fund invest venture capital and support for these businesses to thrive. This most times culminate in the company being a long-term investor/partner for these businesses, while at the same time, it helps them gain additional value through co-investments
Spiroton Venture GMBH
We’re an outsourcing and cooperation model development company with special consideration for the Telecommunications sector. As traditional businesses are expected to change their business models and then concentrate on key strategies, we help these companies transition to handle key strategies while we help them manage divisions in their telecommunications companies, while also helping them remodel their businesses for market cultivation.
BELGIUM
Invest Europe
Committed to adding value to businesses through not just capital but dynamism, innovation and expertise, Invest Europe is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. With these, we deliver strong and sustainable growth which leads to healthy returns on investment across all leading pension funds and insurers, to benefit millions of investors — the people.
In addition to these, we also provide research and we’re the most authoritative source of data on developments and trends in our industry.
We also guard and maintain industry standards, demand accountability, good governance and transparency from members
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Gimv
With over three decades of investment in private equity and venture capital, Gimv is a market leader with special considerations for connected consumer, healthcare, smart industries, and sustainable cities. We identify and support innovative companies with high growth potential and transform them into market leaders.
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Idealabs
We develop startup companies in the Tech and Media industries. We look for big problems that can be solved by technology, build a team to handle such problems and invest in startups that show huge promise.
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LRM
LRM exploits and promote economic growth in the Technology, Health, Sustainable societies, Space and experience, and Smart manufacturing industries. We are an investment company that supports businesses at all levels from development: startups, SMEs and huge enterprises.
Meusinvest
Le groupe Meusinvest contribue au développement et au redéploiement économique de la province de Liège en assurant le financement à long terme des projets d’entreprises.
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Capricorn Venture Partners
Operating from Belgium, Capricorn Venture Partners is an independent manager of venture capital and equity funds, with a commitment to investing in innovative European companies with special consideration for technology and disruptive ideas.
Vendis Capital
Vendis Capital is a small private equity firm that invests in branded consumer companies/products across Europe with special consideration for luxury, fashion, clothes, and jewelry.
Cobepa
We are a company committed to building and investing in companies with long-term growth potential and value. We also nurture these businesses through strategic partnerships and efficient cooperation with management in order to strengthen their market value and share.
DROIA
DROIA is a hands-on investor and can actively participate in the development of the portfolio companies. We have an in-house expert team with experience in clinical oncology, drug development and entrepreneurship. We focus on drug development, health care.
BULGARIA
StartUP Bulgaria
Connecting entrepreneurs with potential investors, strategic partners, and business service providers (lawyers, consultants, IT specialists, accountants, etc.), StartUp Bulgaria is a melting pot for startup companies in Bulgaria. Our focus is on developing these startups through sound business guidelines and mentorship.
LAUNCHub
We are a seed fund that support budding entrepreneurs and digital startups start-ups in South and Eastern Europe.
With investment focus on businesses that have already gained traction and have developed their concept, team and prototype, we invest between 30,000–200,000 Euros in these businesses, and we run a mentor-led programme where young businesses are mentored to achieve better business results.
As at July 2013, we have in invested in 20 companies from 5 countries in the region.
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SORTIS INVEST
Established in February 2007 to assist entrepreneurs in obtaining financing for their investment plans — business expansion, market penetration, acquisitions, etc., SORTIS Invest is an investment advisory company that uses an of equity, quasi-equity, mezzanine loans or project financing, depending on the particular project to achieve its financing aim.
We always seek the most suitable form of financing to minimize the cost of funds to our Clients.
Empower Capital Fund
Established by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Empower Capital Fund is a 16Million Euro fund advised by EMP Invest Bulgaria AD with the mandate to provide unique access to equity and quasi-equity funding to budding Bulgarian companies. The fund is built to support leading Bulgarian companies to achieve their full potential through extensive international operating experience, expertise and deep knowledge, along with a detailed understanding of SME financing.
Rioks Corporation
An Internationally operating company in the aviation, automotive, advertising and marketing, retail eCommerce, media, technologies and consulting services industries, Rioks Corporation is committed to producing excellent results across all mentioned industries.
StartUP@Plovdiv
We are a venture capital company located in Plovdiv. Our vision is to empower entrepreneurial Spirit in the locality, and then to and build up the startup ecosystem in Plovdiv.
CROATIA
Nexus Private Equity Partners
We seek to offer local and foreign investors that have their focus on Croatia and SEE markets, an alternative form of investment through the private equity and venture capital investments option. We also expect the Croatian economy to become the better for it due to our actions in the market.
Prosperus Invest
We are a team of skilled professionals with special consideration for the establishment and management of open private equity investment funds with private placement, in Croatia. With a wide experience in finance, corporate finance and venture capital, we have the experience, expertise and contacts that brings added value to companies in which we invest.
Honestas Private Equity Partners Ltd.
We are an equity company with special consideration for Production — Financial — Retail — Pharmaceutical and Health — Telecommunication and Media — Services/Tourism — Utilities.
Our preferred forms of investment are:
· Expansion finance
· Refinancing
· Acquisition by financial and strategic investor using financial leverage
· Acquisition by management using financial leverage
· Shareholder restructuring
CYPRUS
Zero T Capital
We are a Cyprus-based intellectual capital and management advisory firm with special preference for start-up and early growth stage companies. Our diverse and innovative portfolio include emerging technology, and payment and transactional services companies across the financial services sector.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Penta Investments
Founded in 1994, Penta specializes in long-term value investing. Today, Penta is an international company that is actively developing companies and projects primarily in healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and real estate
Penta operates in more than 10 markets across Europe, providing more than 30,000 jobs through investee companies.
With assets worth 6.5 billion Euros, Penta takes a very active part in managing companies and investments in its portfolio.
Credo Ventures
With focus on early stage investments in IT, Internet & Health in Central Europe, Credo Ventures is a venture capital company with a mission to identify and support the most innovative early stage companies in the aforementioned area, supporting them in their growth plans (including expansion to the U.S./global markets) and helping them to get measurable results.
We are always on the lookout for investment opportunities in high-growth potential companies with global ambitions, and competence to execute and produce results.
Rockaway
Rockaway has established itself as a global multi-stage VC firm with special considerations for the building and investment in Internet companies in emerging markets such as Central Europe and Brazil. Our focus are trained on e-commerce, financial technology, and transportation and travel sectors.
Hartenberg Capital
With an investment fund of 200 million EUR focused on investments in companies in the Central European Region, primarily Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany and Austria, Hartenberg Holding in conjunction with its general General Partner and Trustee — Hartenberg Capital manages the fund’s assets, seeks investment candidates, executes investment transactions, implements and manages the investment strategies in collaboration with company management and potentially exits investments.
Brno Investment Group
We are distinguished by our experience which cuts across finance, real estate, IT, marketing and trade. We are Brno Investment Group. We support smart entrepreneurs with projects with a high ceiling who have the courage to work hard and build a functioning company. Our major project focus are those with high potential for value either on a global scale, or with the ability to cover large parts of the value chains.
Metatron Global
We are a global investment firm with the mission to find, fund and groom companies offering solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. We seek out companies we can fully commit to and support as they grow, mature and transform. We invest in disruptive and innovative companies with the potential to influence global markets in short, medium and the long-term.
RMS Mezzanine a.s.
With vested interests in the enterprise non-banking financing market in the Central and Eastern Europe region, RMS Mezzanine a.s. is an independent company that specialize in giving credits to small and medium-size enterprises in sectors that the banks don’t provide financing in for various reasons, or due to their not being eligible for such financing. Minority or majority shares with prospect fir marked growth in in intrinsic value are also invested in.
Funds provided by our company are mostly in the form of a subordinated debt (mezzanine).
Carpaterra Capital Partners
Carpaterra Capital Partners principally invests in CEE, primarily in the following countries; Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine. The investment focus is on sustainable energy, waste management, health care and real estate.
Central European Services a.s. (ND)
We help businesses run effective processes that produce enduring results and then help them add value in their respective areas of specialization. Our know-how, experience and employee knowledge which cuts across all businesses — local and foreign, will assist you in learning how to efficiently run business processes, save operating costs, optimize your tax burden, and effectively expand into other countries and to introduce new technologies for better management or communication within your company.
Our areas of specialization are consultancy in trade, finances, ITC services and office management. Our aim is to react quickly to changing customer needs. This is why we offer product packages set up in accordance with our customers’ requests.
Danube Capital
Danube Capital is an investment company that seeks to invest in budding investments. We’re committed to exceptional entrepreneurs in the CEE region that have demonstrated the ability to add real and measurable value.
DENMARK
SEED Capital Denmark
“SEED Capital is Denmark’s biggest venture capital fund with specialization in the identification, financing and developing of competent and innovative entrepreneurial Technology and Medtech companies. We invest in businesses of the future from the seed stage through to exit.
Axcel
With a vast industrial and international network of Danish and international companies, Axcel has established itself as an experienced business leader that creates strong companies through active ownership and management.
Sunstone Capital
Established in 2007, Sunstone Capital is an early-stage Life Science and Technology venture capital company that’s based in the Copenhagen, the Danish capital. They invest in European start-ups that have demonstrated a strong potential to achieve global success in their respective markets.
Sunstone Capital currently has a strong portfolio of 50 companies and have completed several successful trade sales and IPOs.
Via Venture Partners
With an excellent track record of building and transforming businesses into national and international industry leaders, Via Venture Partners, which is a leading Nordic multi-stage private equity firm has consistently proven its expertise as an industry leader. Via Ventures invest across various sectors with the core investment focus within a broad definition of the TMT and Services industries.
CataCap
CataCap is a Danish company that invests in Danish SMEs. We pride ourselves in the ability to significantly develop and also possess innovative business models that can be sustainable over the long haul. Our aim is to be a catalyst for sustainable step changes in these businesses through an empirical and consistent approach to business development strengthening, operational processes and management development, in active interaction with the managements and employees of the portfolio companies.
NorthcapVC
Northcap invests in startups (particularly B2B and B2B2C companies in Northern Europe) that are already in full revenue-generating operation in the information technology sector. Formed by a team of experienced ICT industry professionals with a strong track record in building and internationalizing rapidly growing companies, Northcap specializes in seed stage, early stage and growth stage investments.
Lundbeckfond Ventures
Established in 2009, we are an evergreen life science venture fund established and wholly owned by the Lundbeckfonden. With an annual investment of up to € 50 million, Lundbeckfonden Ventures allows flexibility in the investment approach and the possibility, when appropriate, to take a long-term perspective in the investments.
Private Equity Administrators
Founded in 2003, we are a European Administration House that is committed to administration model excellence. We provide unrivaled service to some of Europe’s Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure Fund Managers, and their stakeholders that are held in high regard
Value is given when funds administrators can solve increasingly complex problems in unerringly diverse markets. We add value through communication and technology that helps to simplify the value-chain.
Private Equity Administrators thrive on innovative best practice to deliver the best possible results to its growing client portfolio.
Firtal
Beginning in 2007 as a company with its primary focus on webshop ventures, we have quickly evolved into a venture company investing in internet, retail products and business services. In 2008, Firtal launched its first developed and patented retail product. Since then the list of ventures have expanded year on year. At the moment Firtal is engaged in a number of ventrures, both through partnerships and its subsidiaries.
Erhvervsinvest
We are a leading Danish private equity firm that specializes in acquiring majority shares in SMEs with revenues ranging from 10 to 100 million Euros. We have no specific industry focus but our current portfolio operate in the manufacturing or service industry. We add value to businesses where we have vested interests by working closely with the management to ensure these businesses achieve their potential.
ESTONIA
BaltCap
With business concentration in the Baltic States, BaltCap has established itself as the leading independent private equity firm focusing on small and midmarket buyout and expansion capital investment.
Estonian Development Fund
The Estonian Development Fund in partnership with the private sector does risk-based investment in startups and growth-oriented technology companies. It also carries out socio-economic and technology foresight.
A public law entity founded by the Estonian Parliament on the basis of an Act of 2006 with the objective of initiating and supporting changes in the Estonian economy and society; by helping it update the economic structure; ensuring the growth of export products; and creating new jobs for highly-skilled nationals.
Estonian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EstVCA)
EstVCA is the representative body of Estonia’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Industry with a vision to develop a sustainable and attractive ecosystem for the benefit of innovative, ambitious and high-growth potential enterprises, as well as fund managers and institutional investors.
SmartCap
We’re interested in Estonian businesses with Global ambitions. We search for a unique but market-realistic idea and backs it up with a highly motivated team to execute it. SmartCap manages two early stage venture capital funds — a fully invested Early Fund I and actively investing Early Fund II.
Although we have most of our portfolio in IT — from logistics to consumer internet, we are constantly on the look-out for the best opportunities in all industries.
U.S. Invest AS
With investments in fast growing businesses based in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine, we has established an impressive record of investing in and working with outstanding security services, real estate, facilities management and energy production companies. Established in 1991 as a private equity investment firm and with a current investment portfolio of 170 million Euros, we have also made strategic decisions to grow our business concerns.
Our team has over 18 years of cognate experience and unshaken positive reputation in the management of private equity investments.
Ichiban Group
ICHIBAN Group is one of the pioneers in the Active Participation Management. We have mastered the art of continuous market screening for the best picks, carefully select the companies to invest into, taking up a role in the Board and developing a plan to add substantial value to the company and its shareholders.
Our core areas of expertise are: defining, planning and implementing a converged digital strategy. In addition to the above, we also have vested interests in our customers’ associated funding/financing solutions to help them make the leap into this new dimension.
We have leveraged on our expertise and hands-on experience in digitalization of processes to gain an edge and our focus area is the digitalizing of companies’ operational businesses with special strategies to encompass: strategic set-up for overall online/mobile convergence, usage of virtual/alternative payment methods, choosing the appropriate digital distribution channels, multichannel marketing approach, search/discovery outside the traditional web environment, on- and off-portal strategy for mobile services.
Alta Veritas Investments AS
We are an investment company with the primary focus on funding innovative companies in their early stages of development. Our investments are concentrated in the Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or Russia) and include businesses with global market orientations and have great potential for fast growth.
Tera Ventures
We’re an Estonian company that delivers value to Estonian digital companies. Our targets are digital startups with possibilities for global reach which we will add value to through proven Silicon Valley strategies.
Estonia is on the way to become one of the main startup hotspots in Europe and we’re strategically placed to make this a reality
Aalto Venture Garage (Startup Sauna)
Located in Finland, Startup Sauna is a free co-working space where entrepreneurs meet and network. It also serves as the home of Startup Sauna Accelerator program and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (Aaltoes).
Finland
Reaktor Ventures
The best business models are simple. Ours is no different. We are interested in investing our time and money into the best seed stage companies. We also want to help them create and gain new markets, and then go on to become global leaders in their industry.
Tristan Ventures
Headquartered in downtown Helsinki, Finland and incorporated in Luxembourg, Switzerland, Russia and in the Cayman Islands with business networks in North America, Asia and throughout Europe, Tristan Ventures is an alternative investment company founded in 2003.
We have a valuable network of relationships that we leverage on to effectively source deals and relationships that benefit our portfolio companies. Our client list is a pot-pourri of great businesses and our business philosophy sets us apart from others.
Inventure
We are a leading early-stage venture capital company in Northern Europe. For over 10 years we have consistently added value to and worked with some of the best entrepreneurs in Finland, the Nordic and the Baltics countries, supporting innovative start-ups and high-tech companies. We are always in the hunt for the brightest ideas in order to turn them into global superstars with investments from 250,000 to 5 million Euros.
Lifeline Ventures
We are serial entrepreneurs that partner in creating growth companies in health and technology (web). We deploy our experience in funding, sales, technology, strategy and operations where it is most needed in early-stage companies.
Intera Partners
Intera is a Finnish growth-oriented private equity firm that seeks to invest in Finnish and Swedish companies with revenue of 10 million, and up to 200 million Euros at the time of the investment and where we can become the majority owner. We typically invest through the acceleration of organic growth and internationalization of target companies, industry consolidation and generation shifts in family-owned businesses.
Vendep
Our aim is to invest in a maximum of up to 15 startups with early revenue as proof of market profitability. Our strategy is to invest in business-to-business companies, which have a high-growth potential on an international scale, and a committed team. We look for market traction and competitive advantages which enable a strong market position.
3TS Capital Partners
We are one of the leading European tech-centric private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors which include: Technology & Internet, Media and Communications, and Technology-Enabled Services. Investors in the current and past 3TS funds totaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.
Butterfly Ventures
We invest in early stage startups that are either in pre-seed or seed stage of funding. Our operation model is based on increasing the value of our portfolio companies. Our operation style resembles having professional serial entrepreneur co-founders for the duration of the early stages of the company; including our knowledge and business networks. We are committed to the success of all our portfolio startups and to this end, we take actions that make sure our portfolio startups succeed. We typically do a direct seed investment at the initial stage; when the co-operation starts, and several follow-up investments as the businesses grow.
Conor Venture Partners
We are a “new techie” technology venture capital fund and management company that invests in early-stage companies that are based in Finland, Sweden and the Baltics. We concentrate our investments in the following niches: information and communications technology, embedded software, semiconductor technology, electronics, new materials and optics.
France
Serena Capital
Created in 2008, Serena Capital is a reputed investment firm in France and in Europe with more than 300 million Euros under management. Within a few years, Serena Capital has become a key player in financing and supporting early growth digital start-ups and has just launched the first fund in Europe dedicated to Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.
Serena I portfolio companies:
AramisAuto (sold to PSA), Bonitasoft, CoachClub, Arlettie, laFourchette (sold to Tripadvisor), Launchmetrics, Melty, Prestashop, Prixtel, Sequans (NYSE : SQNS), SantéVet, Selectron, RSI Video Technologies, Worldstores
Serena II portfolio companies:
Alkemics, Coorpacademy, TVTY, Work4, FinalCAD, Qualtera, Dataiku, TextMaster, Habiteo, Cheerz, Lengow, Evaneos, iContainers, Hopwork
Serena Data Ventures: Heuritech
Partech Ventures
With offices in San Francisco, Paris and Berlin, Partech Ventures has established itself as a top tier transatlantic venture capital firm that invest in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages. Partech’s mission since 1982 is to help outstanding entrepreneurs and disruptive companies succeed in a global economy. Partech has completed 21 initial public offerings, and more than 50 M&A transactions over $100 million with large international companies (such as eBay, SAP, Vivendi, VMware, IBM, Oracle or TripAdvisor) till date. With $850 million under active management, Partech is consistently ranked among the top 10 VC funds worldwide and the trailblazer in Europe by Preqin (the US leading independent research organisation).
XAnge
XAnge is a Siparex group venture brand since the 2015 merger between XAnge PE and Siparex. We are one of the top-10 French and German investors, with vested interests in ambitious entrepreneurs in the following areas: New use cases in Digital consumer, B2B Software and Cloud technologies, and Specialized high-tech (Cleantech, Biotech, Networks).
Our investment focus are on Early-Stage innovative companies that bring disruptive technologies to the market. We currently have €400m under management and 100 active participations.
XAnge is one of the most active European VC investors with investment capacity of €500m and €5m on average.”
33entrepreneurs
33entrepreneurs is a StartUp Accelerator and a global Venture Capital with focus on Tech StartUps that are disrupting the Wine and Spirits, and Food industries. Founded, funded, and driven by entrepreneurs and for entrepreneurs, our mission is to grow the next generation of Tech Champions that will impact the world. We help entrepreneurs accelerate their businesses’ growth and welcome entrepreneurial teams from all around the world. We provide pre-seed and seed investments, with follow-on options. We grow startups through our exclusive network of mentors, including Tech disruptors and Industry leaders from our verticals.
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ORKOS CAPITAL
Specializing in ICT (telecom, internet services, mobile services, e-commerce, digital media, social networks, service robotics), Orkos Capital is a leading independent VC firm. The Orkos team has invested over 400 million Euros in more than 50 companies. We’re currently launching “Robolution Capital” the first VC fund devoted to service robotics in association with Bruno Bonnell and with the support of CDC-Enterprises.
Daphni
Daphni is the first Venture Capital platform. We invest in Europe based user-oriented startups with strong international ambition. Daphni also rides on the support of a close-knit community of entrepreneurs, executives, academics, artists and advisors dedicated to the growth of our business portfolio.
SCH Consulting
We work for hi-tech companies to give startups the required resources that will aid growth and add value to established companies in order to help boost their innovation. We play the role of the objective outsider that help businesses see things the way they really are. Our clients are businesses that want to validate their business model, startups looking for funding, VC firms searching for startups to fund, and large corporations looking for acquisition targets.
Our business focus are: mergers and acquisitions, financing business model discovery, business validation, market segments; semiconductors Cloud Computing, Telecom — VoIP Network Infrastructure Software Enterprise/Residential Broadband Gateways and Services Wireless OTT / CDN.
SagaCity Ventures
SagaCity Ventures is an investment fund dedicated to new technologies (web, e-commerce, media, and fintech). We source and grow the best opportunities that exist among French businesses. We invest as a standalone business or co-invest with other VC partners in startups from early stage to capital development. We are also happy to assist and represent international investors in their selection and negotiation with potential opportunities in France and in other European countries. To help businesses make the most of their funds and opportunities available to them, we provide consulting to startups, improving vision, strategy and business development.
ID Invest
ID-invest Partners is a European leader in private equity specialized in the low and middle market segments. Id Invest is currently managed by Christophe Bavière and Benoist Grossmann, and have €4 billion under management.
Elaia
Elaia Partners is an independent private equity firm with its primary focus on the Digital Economy. Co-founded by Philippe Gire and Xavier Lazarus in 2002, Elaia Partners currently manage more than €125 million mainly through Elaia Ventures, a French FCPR fund backed by a diverse range of LPs — financial institutions, industrials and family offices– and through funds delegated by 123Venture, Neotec and Crédit Agricole Private Equity as well as through a seed investment fund, Elaia Alpha, raised in 2012 and dedicated to the investment in early stage companies in the digital economy.
A €45m fund was set aside particularly by the Fonds National d’Amorçage (FNA) and managed by the CDC, within the framework of Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir (PIA), the European Investment Fund (FSI), Pactinvest (SMABTP Group) and experimented entrepreneurs of the digital economy.
Elaia Partners is also co-founder of France Digitale (francedigitale.org), the VC & Start-ups independant association in digital economy.
Portfolio: 1001 Menus, AllMyApps, Carnets de mode, Criteo, ScoopIt, Goomeo, Mirakl”
SeVenture
Seventure is a subsidiary of Natixis Global Asset Management which is the corporate investment management and financial services arm of Groupe BPCE, the second-largest French bank. Since 1997, Seventure Partners has invested in innovative businesses with high growth potential in digital technologies especially fintech & assurtech, and have a shown ourselves to be the thought-leader in our industry. Our focus countries are France and Germany, with special consideration for the life sciences field across Europe and North America. As at the end of 2015, we had €600m in assets under management
The four areas of focus in life sciences are biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, connected health and medtech, industrial biotechnology, and the microbiome, nutrition, foodtech and personalized medicine.
Our investment range is between €500k and €10m per round, or up to €20m per company, from early to late stage. In December 2013, Seventure Partners successfully launched Health for Life Capital™ which has attracted strategic investments from prestigious organizations including Danone, Tereos, Tornier, Lesaffre, Bel and Novartis as well as entrepreneurs and financial institutions.
Innovacom
Innovacom is an active early stage investor. Working with some of the brightest minds in the business and focused on delivering new technologies; hardware and software products, services and content to corporations or consumers, we have invested 1 billion Euros in hundreds of technological start-ups in the digital economy such as Business Objects, ByteMobile, Digitick, Gemplus, Infovista, Intershop, Inventel, Kelkoo, LastMinute.com, Netcentrex, Netezza, Soitec, Steek, Streamezzo and Tumbleweed.
With strong foundation in international telecommunications and networking, we are uniquely positioned to help our portfolio companies gain access to the best partners and customers, as well as needed capital.
Our current portfolio companies include:
Bilendi, C4Mprod, Coach Club, Cozy Cloud, Dimelo, Drimki, Insiteo, Qobuz, Videoplaza ;
CAILabs, Heptagon, I-ten ;
Intersec, Matrixx, Olea Medical, Predicsis, Prim’X, Silkan ;
21.net, Astellia, Aviwest, Awox, G2mobility, Green Communications, IS2T, OneAcces, Plisch, Rob-Art, Teamcast, Vedicis, Witbe, Worldcast Systems.
Sofinnova Partners
Based in Paris, France, Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm with specializations in Life Sciences. Our firm is a congregation of 12 highly experienced investment gurus from all over Europe, the United States and China and we focus on disruptive technologies alongside visionary entrepreneurs.
We also seek to be the founding and lead investor in start-ups and corporate spin-offs. This led to our commitment to these kinds of businesses as we have backed nearly 500 companies over a period of more than 40 years, creating market leaders around the globe.
Today, Sofinnova Partners has over €1.5 billion under management
ISAI
Founded in 2008 by Pierre Kosciusko Morizet, Stephane Treppoz, Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux, Tariq Krim and Ouriel Ohayon, we are an early-stage funds company for early stage internet startups.
Our current portfolio include: Blablacar, Tinyclues or 360 Learning.
Newfund
We are a French Venture Capital firm founded in 2008 by Patrick Malka and François Veron, and our investment focus are tech startups, especially in the medical & health sector.
Alven Capital
Founded in 2000, Alven Capital is a venture capital company specialized in investing in internet, media & IT businesses. We’re currently in our fourth generation of funds investment.
Our portfolio include: Mailjet, Novapost, and Open Classrooms.
Germany
Earlybird Venture Capital
We are an entrepreneur-centric company that backs non-linear companies so they can create network effects, shorten value-chains, drive new economies and ultimately, improve lives. We back European companies that have a global profile starting from a few hundred thousand up to $15m.
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Project A Ventures
We are a Berlin-based early-stage investor and operational VC in the digital technology space. Project A helps startups to build up competences backed with financial support and operational expertise in these key areas: IT, Performance Marketing, Business Intelligence and Organization Building, and thus contribute to their sustainable success. Project A has invested in budding companies such as Treatwell, Nu3, Eyeota, Evino, Catawiki, WorldRemit or Tictail.
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Forbion Capital Partners
Forbion Capital Partners focuses on product development and invests in Life Sciences and Biomedical Technology companies, developing world-class drugs and technologies.
Our areas of specializations are in the evaluation of late stage preclinical/early stage clinical development programs. We focus on companies that have innovative technologies and drug development programs with unique advantages over current treatments. Furthermore, we invest in medical device companies with a focus on interventional cardiology and gastroenterology.
For businesses we invest in, we go beyond the initial investment as we work closely with scientists, academic institutions, entrepreneurs and industry experts to accelerate the development and then, optimize the commercial potential of our portfolio company’s technologies.
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC)
Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) is the corporate venture subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH, one of the largest private companies in the world with reported sales of 70 billion Euros. Founded in 1886, Bosch is a leading global supplier of automotive, industrial technology, consumer goods and building technology.
Yunus Social Business
Founded in 2011 by Saskia Bruysten, Sophie Eisenmann and Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Social Business is a non-profit venture fund that turn donations into investments in sustainable social businesses that provide employment, education, healthcare, clean water and clean energy to over a million people worldwide.
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BMP Beteiligungsmanagement AG
BMP is a venture capital firm based in Berlin. We have been committed to support exceptional entrepreneurs of Innovative, technology driven companies to build successful and sustainable companies
Hanse Ventures
Internet, mobile app building company based in Hamburg. We build businesses from the ground up and implement our tech concepts with the relevant founder teams.
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Wellington Partners
We are a pan-European venture capital firm that invest in European entrepreneurs with the potential to be global brands. Our investment focus are on Technology and Life Sciences companies and since the 1990s, we have invested over 800 million Euros in such businesses.
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TVM Capital Group
For over 30 years TVM Capital Life Science which is a group of advisories and fund managers for Venture Capital funds, has invested in biotech, pharmaceutical and medtech companies. We add value to healthcare by financing innovative products and technology.
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Hasso Plattner Ventures
information technology-driven companies
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Hub Raum
IOT, Cyber security, Health, cloud, consumer analysis, mobile payment and commerce, media, telecommunication
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Greece
Global Finance
We make investments in the manufacturing, information technology, specialty retail, media, telecommunications, services and real estate industries in South Eastern Europe.
Starttech Ventures
StartTech Ventures is an investment organization that focuses on the iterative growth of tech businesses from the pre-product/pre-revenue stage to the successful closing of Series-A round to achieve sustainable profitability. StartTech Ventures aims to create a next generation start-up accelerator via the introduction of the “”Entrepreneurial Ecosystem”” concept which is designed to support high-growth & innovative businesses to take advantage of economies of scale without compromising flexibility and strong entrepreneurial drive. We are a micro-VC Fund, an Incubator and an Angels Group rolled into one, and we capitalize on the experience gained from launching Virtual Trip, the first successful tech startup in Greece launched by undergraduate students, which later led to the creation of more than 10 high-tech companies via an accumulated investment of more than 4.5 million Euros.
7L Capital Partners
7L Capital Partners Emerging Europe L.P. is a private equity fund that focus on Emerging Europe, including: Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and the republics of former Yugoslavia. Sectors of interest are: Branded Goods and Services, Communications, and Technology and Applications.
Driin
We are an investment company with the mandate to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses into great technology-driven companies. This mandate is expressed through our leveraging on strategy, business development, advice, marketing synergies and access to funding to activate the full potential of businesses.
Driin aims to be the first investor in the company of interest and we always strive to be part of the business (alongside the entrepreneur) in recruitment moves, sales, marketing and business development in order to assure the effectiveness of the businesses in focus.
i4G S.A.
i4G is an incubator where companies cut across all sectors of the new economy meet. We create an environment for these business to partner and synergize. Companies can make use of shared areas (meeting rooms, photocopy room, computer room, and restaurant) and secretarial support thus reducing their initial operating costs. Companies have also access to business, legal, accounting and IT support and basic consulting services in innovation and intellectual property by i4G.
We were awarded the Most Promising New Science based Incubator in the international competition held in Turin, Italy in 2005 in recognition of the role we play in developing world-class mergers, ideas and talents.
i4G also boasts of significant partnerships in Greece and abroad.
Hungary
Buran Venture Capital
Our investment model is based on proprietary investment scoring system, which is predominantly working with and through entrepreneurs who have a potential to build niche-specific giants on or around the Internet. Our target sectors are e-commerce (services, marketplace platforms), on-line media (how-to guides, video, music, etc.), mobile Internet (apps, gaming), “communitament” (social networking), SaaS (Software as Service) and IoT (Internet of Things).
PortfoLion Venture Capital Fund Management
PortfoLion is the private equity arm of OTP Bank. We thrive in the domestic financial market, where we actively invest in SMEs cut across various industries. PortfoLion manages three funds: the Seed Investment, the Venture Capital and the Private Equity funds.
Euroventures Zrt
We are an investment advisory company. Since 1989, we have advised/are advising four investment programmes and our mission is to invest in private companies in exciting industries, with the goal of helping management teams build their businesses into great regional companies.
Our commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the regional economy is aptly illustrated in our approach to investing, and our nearly 40 current and former portfolio companies can attest to that.
Kaerous Capital
Established to manage two venture capital funds focusing on the Hungarian SME sector, Kaerous Capital is a venture capital company sponsored by the EU (Jeremie program) and a private investor. These venture capital funds: the Kairos Startup Fund focuses on early stage investments, while the Kairos Growth Fund is focused on development capital projects.
Agrianna
Agrianna is a private equity/venture capital and C level consultancy services company. We specialize in start-ups investments in Greentech, Energy/Oil&Gas, Waste Management and Recycling industries. We have partners spread across Europe, North America, Australia and Indochina.
Ireland
Frontline Ventures
We are a venture capital company that invest only in the best teams, who build capital-efficient businesses in high-growth markets. We build long-term trusted relationships with the people we invest in and seek to develop a community which fosters them and other budding entrepreneurs.
Investec Ventures Ireland Limited
We are a venture capital company with a track record of excellence as we deliver good returns on investments. The team manages a €75 million fund and is actively looking to invest in growing companies across Ireland. With over 40 years of venture capital experience in Information and communications technology, and investment in 25 companies in two previous funds, we are the best venture capital team to work with.
We have made 13 investments to date and our team specializes in:
· Digital media and eCommerce
· Business support services
· Healthcare equipment and services
· Clean technology and renewable energy
Consumer services
Atlantic Bridge
With a focus on high growth companies in the Cloud, SaaS, Mobile and Big Data Markets, Atlantic Bridge is a Growth Equity and late stage technology fund with deep domain and operations experience of the investment team. This has resulted in us achieving two realizations and five up-rounds completed.
The experience and reputation of the investment team with fifteen realizations and five NASDAQs IPO’s as both entrepreneurs and investors has generated unique and very strong deal flow through our networks.
Atlantic Bridge has launched 50% of Irish IPOs on NASDAQ. We have senior relationships at all Tier 1 Technology companies including Google, Microsoft, Apple, EMC, Samsung, Intel and others.
Delta Partners Ltd.
Established in 1994 and with €230 million under management, Delta Partners is a venture capital firm investment focus on early stage technology companies in Ireland and the United Kingdom. We have made over 50 investments in the following sectors: Information Technology, Communications, and Healthcare.
Tribal.VC
Tribal is a venture capital company and co-location hub rolled into one. We invest and work alongside the next wave of exceptional Irish technology startups with talent and at the early stage of growth. Tribal VC’s founders are a team of serial tech entrepreneurs and venture investors and we make between 5 and 8 investments a year and target meaningful ownership positions.
Seroba Life Sciences
Seroba is a life sciences venture capital firm with special focus on investing in breakthrough healthcare technologies that promise to improve lives and make a difference worldwide. At Seroba, we believe that investing in life sciences is the same as investing in life.
Powerscourt Capital Partners
Powerscourt Capital Partners Limited is a Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) boutique based in Dublin, Ireland. Our focus is on high-potential early-stage technology/technology related opportunities. We make sure we look out for stressed & de-stressed opportunities across a range of sectors in Ireland.
IPC Ventures
As a firm our goal is to build and scale early stage, mobile-first tech startups.
We focus on two key and complementary segments: Digital media content and Mobile Technologies as we believe mobile-first tech startups leverage on these segments to deliver effective results.
ScienceWorks Ventures Limited
ScienceWorks acquires market-ready IP-rich innovations, concepts and technologies and develops these into self-sustaining and funded start-ups. We pride ourselves in identifying technologies with commercial potential, seed-fund the innovation, source for an entrepreneurial management team and create a start-up company to exploit the technology.
Zoosh Group
Zoosh is a European ICT investment and technology firm with a twist. We provide end-to-end investment from financial support to hands-on skills that help to establish the commercial potential of great innovations.
Fountain Healthcare Partners
Fountain Healthcare Partners is a life science venture capital firm based in Dublin Ireland, with an office in New York.
Italy
Annapurna Ventures
Annapurna Ventures is a company that seeks to identify and support disruptive innovations in the digital media industry, thereby creating great companies with a proactive investment process.
We operate in the digital economy industry, with specific focus on web services, enterprise software and mobile technology.
LVenture
We are a firm that offer two types of financing: micro seed, and seed financing. For micro seed financing, we invest limited finances in selected startups that are included in the acceleration program run by LUISS ENLABS, the startup factory.
In seed financing, we invest in startups that are in more advanced stages of growth that require more financial resources to support product development and market entry.
Angelo Investments
Our mission is to work with talented entrepreneurs and management teams to develop new technologies and build substantial business enterprises around them. This we achieve by providing funding to seed early-stage hi-tech companies located worldwide, but most importantly, we create market-leading companies by deploying our team to work together with these entrepreneurs.
We do not work as venture capitalists with businesses, we work with them as partners even as we collaborate with them to achieve set targets.
dPixel
We are a firm with a mission to add value by investing seed capital and supporting the start-up phase of media and high-tech innovative companies.
PRINCIPIA SGR
Operating for more than 10 years in the venture and growth capital field, Principia SGR has established itself as one of the most important VC companies in Italy. Principia SGR consists of professionals in the venture and growth capital sector. Principia SGR currently manage three investment funds and focuses on investments in the cleantech, biotech and ICT sectors, which is the first fund ever launched by SGR.
Principia II specialty is technological and digital innovation sector investments. Principia III — funds the Health sector. This is the first VC fund in Italy to be dedicated to ventures in the healthcare sector, and it includes investments both in venture and growth capital.
Innogest Capital
Innogest invests in companies with high potential through a direct share in their equity. Innogest’s focus is on market potential and size and we leverage on our extensive network of contacts, working alongside our partners through our offices in Turin and Milan, to achieve great results.
IDEA Capital Funds SGR
Regulated by both the Bank of Italy and Consob (the Italian equivalent of the SEC), IDEA SGR‘s investment programs leverage on the consolidated expertise of its management team and sponsors. We have two areas of investments which are managed through different funds but are part of the same value-adding strategy. We can boast of successful long term private equity and direct investment track record, privileged access to top international private equity funds thanks to long-standing historical relationships, proven alternative assets and investment management capabilities coupled with successful and consolidated operational and industrial background, value-oriented investment approach with tight risk control.
Mandarin Capital Partners
We are an experienced and energetic group of professionals from six nationalities that seek for potential/new business opportunities in China. We do not just add value to our portfolio companies, we also make sure we enhance their market position so they can achieve more.
Piemontech
We are a Venture Capital Firm that invests seed-capital in the most promising Piedmont-based companies in the following sectors: Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), Biotechnologies, Biomedics, Advanced Mechanics, Energy, innovative Services.
United Ventures
We look for daring entrepreneurs that are willing to develop innovative products and technologies; entrepreneurs that acknowledge the challenges and risks of our times and still crave to be the best in their chosen business field.
As entrepreneurs ourselves, our mission is to spot winners and drive them to achieve success and worldwide recognition through our mentorship, financial and business development support. With a long-standing track record of both start-up and scale-up technological companies, we can boast the industry expertise, mentorship and business networking that it takes to create success stories.
We also provide support and funding across all the stages of new ventures; seed stage, early stage and growth capital, with both start-up companies and established ones launching onto new markets. This is made possible by our multistage investment strategy.
Latvia
FlyCap
FlyCap AIFP is the Funds management company that provides growth capital for Latvia based SMEs in form of investments in equity and mezzanine capital. Launched in August 2013 and with total fund value of 15.75 Million Euros, we manage “FlyCap Investment Fund I AIF”.
While our priority investment focus are established, successful companies that are seeking capital for their growth and development, the Fund will also consider early stage or start-up companies that has proved the viability of their business model, and their product or service is ready for commercialization. There must also be a stable and predictable demand for their products and services in the market.
Lithuania
Nextury Ventures
Established by prominent International Entrepreneur Ilja Laurs in partnership with Mindaugas Glodas, ICT business executive, Nextury Ventures has cemented its place as a savvy Venture Capital Fund.
Nextury Ventures invests in early-stage startups and new fast-growth and high-potential value ideas.
Practica Capital
Practica Capital is a venture capital (VC) firm that invest in Baltic startups and high-growth businesses. Our investment targets are businesses that target national markets or have an ambition to become regional, international or global players.
We offer a full range of VC financing from pre-seed to late seed/start-up, co-investments in round A and investments in SME’s expansion.
Open Coffee Club Vilnius
Open Coffee Club Vilnius is a Lithuanian NGO that was founded in 2008. OCC Vilnius is a virtues-based, results-orientated, ideas-driven organization with huge respect of efficiency, SMART-type goals and strategic planning. Originally intended to be a local chapter of worldwide OCC network (inspired and launched by Saul Klein in London, 2007), OCC Vilnius morphed into entrepreneurs-enabling organization with broad national and foreign partnerships and multifold activities.
Since inception, OCC Vilnius has assisted hundreds of startups so far, driving them towards raising capital, gathering teams, winning international competitions, and other goals.
During the few years of activity, the team behind OCC Vilnius has gone through few contractions and is now composed of several startup enthusiasts with business backgrounds.
UAB and Scaent Baltic
UAB/Scaent Baltic is an investment enterprise with a mission to carry out investment activity by drawing attention to a stable added value increase for every investment object, develop long-termed and reliable partnership relations which would be based on business expansion, confidence, and a socially responsible approach. We achieve all of these by planned and responsible operation, not waiting for daily benefit and easy profit, but adopting profit-sharing with others.
Together with its partner Scaent Baltic, UAB currently controls more than 25 companies operating in the finance, energy, publishing, and investment sectors in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ireland.
Luxembourg
360 Capital Partners
Capital Partners is a Venture Capital firm that invests in innovation-driven disruptive technology in Europe and more particularly in France and Italy. With a total capital commitment of over €100 M, we pride ourselves as an investor in ambitious, excellent and solid entrepreneurs, with clear vision and solid market knowledge. We also invest in all sectors with the exception of biotechnology, from seed-stage businesses to public companies.
Mangrove Capital Partners
Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian, bold but patient investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow global, disruptive companies. Our focus is on information technology companies with emphasis on mobile, software, e-commerce, and the mobility industry.
LPEA — Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
Boasting over 130 members, LPEA is the melting-pot of discussions and the development of the investment framework. We actively promote the industry on international frontiers and also, provide a dynamic and interactive platform for members to discuss and exchange information, then, organize working meetings and networking opportunities on a regular basis.
Adara Ventures
We are a venture capital firm with dedicated investments in early-stage companies in the information and communications technology space. With over US $130 million in capital, and an unflinching focus on European companies in the Digital Enterprise sector, particularly those that leverage the excellent and efficient engineering talent available in Spain, we have been able to add all-round value.
Our strategy is to develop a product and validate the value proposition in the local market, in order to quickly pursue a position in a global niche. We are also proud to work with some of the best entrepreneurs and managers in our market, and establish close working relationships with global venture capital firms.
Expon Capital
We are a venture capital firm that invests in private technology companies, preferably at an early/seed stage. Headquartered in Luxembourg, we aim to finance and support our portfolio companies on their path to become global leaders.
Pressiton Private Equity
We specialize in creating the most innovative business advice and management solutions using Cloud Computing, and in developing our own appraisals and financial analysis methods and strategies. We work with all businesses and have achieved exceptional success in all areas. We also make sure we accomplish our exceptional results based on the highest ethical standards.
Hunza Ventures
Hunza Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Luxembourg. Since incorporation in 1998, we have focused our investments on early and mid-stage life sciences and IT companies with outstanding growth potential. Hunza Ventures has built a large and well-balanced portfolio based on the strong entrepreneurial experience of the fund’s shareholders and managers, and we have backed 20 companies in Belgium, Israel, USA and Singapore since inception.
3 P Global Consortium
3P Global brings extensive experience and resources to help management teams assess and capitalize on business opportunities. Over the past 8 years, we have developed in-depth knowledge and networks in the following sectors: Industrial, Retail, Consumer products, Business Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Technology, and in the Food Sector.
Tandem Partners SARL
Tandem Partners is an administrative services firm specialized in the establishment and management of companies based in Luxembourg for global investment and structured financial product transactions.
Our industry expertise covers insurance, banking, real estate, shipping and telecommunications. Our partners and staff are experienced professionals based in Luxembourg, the UK and the US and we enjoy a multicultural environment which aid our ability to offer a multilingual client service. Partners and staff are from Luxembourg, France, Germany, Ireland, the UK and Scandinavia. We have significant industry experience in the introduction of financial institutions and investor pools to unique asset classes across the major sectors.
Bock Capital Investors
We are an investment firm with deep expertise in technology, financial services, business services, healthcare, and consumer industries. Our commitment to excellence and disruptive technology also open us to the consideration of other investments areas.
Malta
MMM Consulting Ltd
We are a consultancy and venture capital firm for growth ventures cut across all sectors. We are also a member firm of a global network of value-adding venture firms. Our focal areas are natural resources, innovative technologies, security, finance, construction, and F&B.
Tuffieh Funds SICAV PLC
Established in February 2011 as a multi-fund investment company with variable share capital under the laws of Malta, Tuffieh Funds has managed assets over CZK 2billion as at the end of 2012. We are licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority as a Professional Investor Fund umbrella which is available to qualifying individuals or institutions as Extraordinary and Qualified Investors.
Netherlands
AlpInvest Partners
AlpInvest Invests across the private equity spectrum. These include large and middle market buyout, growth capital, venture capital, as well as mezzanine and distressed debt, in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, emerging markets, and other non-traditional markets.
Our investment packages fall within three investment strategies: primary fund investments, secondary investments, and co-investments.
Bencis Capital Partners
Investing in strong and successful businesses in the Netherlands and Belgium and with extensive experience in the following sectors: Industry & Manufacturing, Food & Beverages, Business & Consumer Services, Healthcare & Leisure, and Wholesale & Retail.
Egeria
A fully independent Dutch private equity firm that targets controlling stakes in healthy, well-led mid-market companies in the Netherlands or in companies having a Dutch link, Egeria trains its focus on companies with an enterprise value of between € 50 and € 350 million.
We intend to create long-term value for all parties involved by growing and developing the companies in close co-operation — and based on mutual respect and trust — with the management.
NPM Capital
Any potential Market (food, e-commerce, energy, healthcare.
Peak Capital
Backed by seasoned TMT entrepreneurs, Peak Capital is a venture capital fund that focuses on rapidly growing Dutch companies in Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) industries. Founded in 2007 and with three funds with combined value of Euro 18 million: Peak Capital I (2007–2009) has investments in Nationale Beeldbank, Radionomy (exit to Vivendi in 2016) and IENS (exit to Tripadvisor in 2015). Peak Capital II (2009- 2014) has invested in NPEX, CheapCargo, Peecho, Catawiki, Flinders and TradeCloud. Peak Capital III launched in July 2015 and has Euro 12 million to invest in fast growing Netherland-based companies. Peak Capital III uses the TechnoPartner scheme.
Prime Technology Ventures
Prime Technology Ventures is a leading venture capital firm with a focus on European companies in the technology and related industries. It leverages its capital, experience, and network to actively groom these businesses into global leaders in their respective niches. The firm has invested in companies in the Benelux countries, United Kingdom, France, Finland and Sweden. From its offices in The Netherlands and the UK the independent partnership manages over 275 million euro in committed capital.
1&12 Ventures
1&12 is a flexible and value-centric firm that’s dedicated to building and actively creating value in seed and early-stage innovating companies cut across a broad range of services and technologies. 1&12 distinguishes itself from corporate investors and banks by its independence and ability to act quickly and flexibly. As successful former managers, company leaders and venture capitalists, we take a hands-on approach to company building. In addition to leading investments and contributing as board members of portfolio companies, we also help with company strategy, management recruiting, business development and fundraising, and sometimes, we take up short-term operating roles within businesses we manage/invest in.
Parcom Capital
Based in The Netherlands and founded in 1982, Parcom Capital has established its pedigree as a leading private equity firm with the focus on high-quality investments in leading middle market companies with management and operations. For over 30 years, we have invested in over 75 companies and was involved in over 25 add-ons across asset classes and economic cycles. Due to our affinity with the local business market, our investment team is locally-entrenched and comprises of twelve experienced investment professionals.
Pymwymic
Pymwymic is the “Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community” of impact investors. We are a European community of families, philanthropists and individual investors who support for-profit companies through innovations that create global solutions.
Over the last 22 years, we’ve together invested into many global-centric companies, helped over 60 companies with significant seed or growth funding, and supported many more hundreds of entrepreneurs through belief, support and connections.
Our motto is “Learn, Share, Invest.
Forbion Capital Partners
Forbion Capital Partners invests in Life Sciences and Biomedical Technology companies developing world-class drugs and technologies, with a clear focus on product development. Our team specialize in the evaluation of late stage preclinical/ early stage clinical development programs. We focus on companies that have innovative technologies and drug development programs with unique advantages over current treatments. We also invest in medical-devices companies with a focus on interventional cardiology and gastroenterology.
Norway
Norfund
Norfund is Norway’s biggest investor in microfinance through the Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI). We are also a prominent investor in SMEs through regional funds and direct investments. Norfund invests equity and/or debt capital, always as a financial minority together with partners, whether international or Norwegian. Our major focal point of investment is clean energy, both through the hydro power company — SN Power, and through direct investments.
Our geographical focus is Sub-Sahara Africa, where we operate three regional offices (Johannesburg, Nairobi and Maputo). We also invest in selected countries in Asia and Latin America, with regional offices in Costa Rica and Bangkok.
Norfund seeks to hire local staff in the regions, and as such, 15 nationalities are represented among the staff.
HitecVision
HitecVision is an entrepreneurial team that invests in the entire upstream oil and gas sector, including all segments of the oilfield services and technology sector, as well as exploration and production companies. We provide capital and competence to growth companies in the oil and gas sector in Europe and North America. The investment team’s extensive operational and investment experience from the oil and gas industry enables us to create value by partnering with entrepreneurial managers to build profitable and sustainable companies.
Viking Venture
Viking Venture invests in growth companies with active management and international potential. We manage five funds with total of 1.3 billion Krona. Located in Trondheim and Houston, Viking Venture invests in tech-centric companies in oil and gas, electronics and software.
Energy Ventures
We are an independent private equity firm that is dedicated to innovative technologies in upstream oil and gas. From initial investment to exit, we partner with our portfolio companies to ensure the most effective use of capital and talent. Our record speaks for us: since 2002 when we were founded, we’ve sealed more than 4,200 deals, made thirty-seven investments, and successfully exited eighteen companies.
Verdane Capital
Verdane private equity funds invest in companies with strong growth potential. We actively invest in the consumer internet, software, energy, and advanced industrial sectors.
FSN Capital Partners
FSN Capital Partners identify investment opportunities for the FSN Capital Funds in companies with the potential to transform into more competitive, international and profitable entities during our management period. Our main focus is to advise the Capital Funds to make control buyout investments of mid-sized companies operating in the Nordic region with enterprise value of between €50 million to €250 million.
As an investment advisor, FSN Capital Partners help portfolio companies acquired by the FSN Capital Funds, develop the clear value propositions that they have the potential to be profitable.
Norvestor Equity AS
Norvestor focuses on investment opportunities in growth companies, making investments that are principally domiciled in the Norwegian and Swedish mid-market. These investments have the potential to help these businesses achieve leading Nordic or international positions either through domestic organic growth, through acquisitions in fragmented industries or by expanding into new countries.
Herkules Capital
With proven experience in working in partnership with existing shareholders, we have been able to raise a total of about NOK 15 billion. We are Herkules, a leading Private Equity firm based in Norway and that invest in companies located in the Nordic region, primarily in Norway, and acquire majority interests in established businesses with strong growth potential.
We have an industrial and long term approach to ownership, and we have built fundamental respect for the history, culture, and experience within each individual company.
Cubera Private Equity
Cubera Private Equity is a specialized investment firm with focus on the private equity secondary market. After pioneering an immature market 10 years ago, Cubera today holds a market leading position in the Nordic secondary market. Our investment scope comprises the acquisition of positions in existing Nordic buyout funds as well as tail end-solutions, fund restructurings and co-investments with Nordic buyout funds.
Cubera’s ROI over the last decade has significantly outperformed set benchmarks and resulted in strong growth. Today, Cubera provides investment advice to six funds with institutional investors from the Nordics, Europe and the United States.
Norwegian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (NVCA)
We handle the industry’s public relations and foreign contacts. In addition to this, the association publishes approved guidelines and a code of conduct to guide the industry. The NVCA offers no service or advisory functions for entrepreneurs, but provides information about private equity and the NVCA’s members through the member directory on our website.
Poland
Innovation Nest
Our business objective is to increase the success ratio of tech-entrepreneurs that receive our support. We support these high-tech companies to grow faster and scale their business globally. We look for Internet or other Web-based high technologies projects with global potential.
We are concerned with creating value and we also create platforms/clusters for projects, which in a given area allow common know-how and network to be used.
Enterprise Investors
Enterprise Investors is the oldest and one of the largest private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 1990, we have raised eight funds with total capital exceeding 2 billion Euros, and have invested over 1.7 billion Euros in 136 companies across a range of sectors, and exited 112 companies with total gross profit of 2.3 billion Euros.
The firm has completed 33 IPOs of portfolio companies on the stock exchanges in Warsaw (WSE), Prague (PSE) and New York (NYSE). We operate from six offices located in Warsaw, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague and New York. This shows the diverse background of our Enterprise Investors’ deal team which are almost 40 investment professionals in number
Innova Capital
Innova is a venture capital company that invests in middle market businesses in Central Europe with enterprise values that normally range from between € 50 to €125 million. The typical investment horizon is from three to five years, and exit is either by sale to a strategic investor or via an initial public offering of shares.
MCI Capital
MCI partners with the best European and global VC/PE funds to give substantial financial support to the best entrepreneurs and companies. The revised investment strategy is based on three growth pillars:
Digital disruption — investments in pure-play internet business models (pure players). Our forecast is that the strongest growth will be recorded in digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces, Fintech, Internet of Things, Software as a Service, cloud computing, mobile internet and digital entertainment.
Digital ecosystem — investments in companies operating on the internet infrastructure development market, such as telecoms and data storage centres.
Digital adaptation — investment support to companies already well established in the traditional economy that aspire to become European and global players by leveraging on the internet.
We are always on the lookout for companies with the potential to be successful regional champions.
Abris Capital Partners
Our aim is to invest in the most successful and well-managed privately owned businesses in Central & Eastern Europe, using our capital and expertise to accelerate the growth prospects of our chosen companies and so, build value over the medium term.
We are confident that with our professional capabilities, extensive personal and corporate relationships, broad and long-term experience in CEE, and strong operational focus which differentiate us from other active financial investors in the region, we can build world players and market leaders and, in so doing, deliver consistent returns to our investors.
Environmental Investment Partners
We are a US based investment company that invests in early stage Central European environmental projects (such as solar, wind, waste water, solid & liquid wastes, sustainable energy and recycling), and in companies that operate sustainably in all sectors of the economy (clean technology).
Hardgamma Ventures
Based in Warsaw, Poland, with a portfolio of investments domestically as well as abroad, including I the UK (we are an investor in Techstars London) and the United States, we are a venture capital firm (VC) that is managed by a team with extensive experience in starting and developing technology companies as well as strategic business consulting.
Our focus is ICT (hardware, mobile, and software).
EEC Ventures
EEC Ventures is a venture capital company that target companies with unique technology, know how or market position for the energy, water and waste management sectors.
These target companies are expected to provide the market with products or services that respond to the following global trends: steady energy demand increase, natural resources reduction, reduction in wastes generation, reduction of CO2 emissions, and upgrade of utilities infrastructure.
Penton Partners
Penton Partners is a Central European private equity firm that focuses on SMEs based in Poland. We deliberately invest generally in traditional sectors with developed expertise in the printing/packaging sector, healthcare, pharmaceutical and renewable energy (energy production from various renewable energy sources e.g. solar power, biomass etc.)
Online Venture
We are an early stage VC with focus on investing in seeds and startups. We invest in rapidly developing technology businesses in Poland and Eastern Europe and we are on active lookout for companies in ICT, Mobile and Digital Media. We are also interested in FMCG or other branches with products for young people between ages 15–30 years.
Portugal
Portugal Ventures
We are a Venture Capital firm with focus on investments in innovative, scientific and technology-based companies, with significant competitive advantages and export oriented strategies to global markets.
ECS Capital
ECS is a venture capital firm with investment activities focused on expanding capital financing, management buy-ins, management buy-outs, buy-and-build and recapitalizations. We decide on investment structures and acts as lead equity investor not only for companies with significant growth potential, but also distressed companies with long-term economic potential.
Fábrica de Startups S.A.
We help people with a penchant for entrepreneurship to become successful entrepreneurs. Working with our methodology, we help these entrepreneurs identify business ideas, create teams, design their business models, find customers and then, launch of the company.
Inter-Risco Private Equity
As a private equity firm, we keep our focus on the expansion and build-up of investments, developed through fragmented, regulated or growth markets, with the aim of creating leading businesses. Our prime targets are “Old-Economy” industries where we are able to contribute at both operational and strategic levels.
E.Gen Ventures
E.Gen Ventures is a capital investment group. We are a corporation with different companies handling different areas of activity/expertise, but following a common guideline: working in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.
We’re always on the lookout for startups that are willing to join this innovative ecosystem, and we’re committed to giving them the opportunity to develop their business side-by-side with the experienced and referenced companies of the group (which were, themselves, startups that grew and developed to be case studies and thought leaders in their respective fields)
InovCapital — Sociedade de Capital de Risco, S.A.
InovCapital is the Venture Capital Company of the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation. Our focus is capacity building and support for entrepreneurs, and SMEs in the areas of Innovation and Internationalization.
Espirito Santo Ventures SCR
Based in Lisbon, Portugal, ES Ventures is a venture capital firm with laser-focus on technology-based companies and innovative business projects with high-growth potential. We invest in technologies in Cleantech, IT and Healthcare, and Well-being. We invest in businesses with a global footprint.
Busy Angels
Busy Angels promotes and invests in the development of innovative businesses in various niches, industry and region, with special focus on early stage, high-potential businesses that promise high growth but without the necessary investment as backing for its start-up and mainly business management expertise.
Betwixt Ventures
We act as the go-between that bringing startups together with micro Venture Capital Investors. Our targets are startups with high growth potential and we also seek to add value through the following activities:
• Origination, screening, negotiation of deal terms, and monitoring of vetted startups
• Startup follow up, mentoring and value creation
• Attraction of venture capital funds and placement of further investment rounds
• Attraction of exit opportunities and facilitation of exit process Betwixt Ventures exclusively targets investments on early stage tech startups based out of Portugal.
Our pre-requisite is to either invest in startups previously vetted by other Business Angels, or co-invest with other seed or venture capital firm as partners, along with additional private co-investors. The focus of the investments is in the gap between seed and series A rounds.
After the success of the investments at this stage, we then aim to attract further institutional investment rounds.
Beta Capital
We are a privately held VC firm with investment focus on innovative, technology-driven early-stage companies. Our experience establishes us as a thought-leader as we help entrepreneurs achieve their goals and transform their business ideas into successful start-ups.
Romania
GECAD Group
Constantly on the lookout for companies with high growth potential and with the ability to innovate and deliver new ideas and products in their markets, GECAD primarily focuses on software and hi-tech companies, including security software, cloud technologies, eCommerce and payment methods.
Key investment criteria include a credible technology roadmap to support innovative products/services with the potential for a global roll-out. GECAD builds strong strategic and working relationships with the management teams running the portfolio companies and support them to achieve their objectives.
KEI Development
We are a Romanian joint-stock company which invests in innovations, and remarkable teams. KEI Development is linking engineering knowledge, operational and management experience, and investment planning in order to innovate and develop new markets with high economic potential in Romania and Europe.
Business Development Network
We are a management consultancy firm with a commitment to building entrepreneurs and businesses that will be the leaders in their chosen fields. We provide solutions in: Environment and Water management, Energy and Sustainable development, Agriculture, Horticulture and Food Industry, Production Outsourcing (metal, textile), Constructions and Real Estate Development.
Slovakia
JB Leon
We are an investment company that focus on the buyouts, M&A advisory, management consulting and restructuring of businesses. We help the SMEs survive in economic downturns, we review their intrinsic value and begin the negotiation processes with their creditors. With decrease in effective demand, we try to find the best way for the innovative anticipation of effects — both negative and positive — of the events that routinely occur throughout the business cycle, together with the shareholders and top management.
Slovenia
RSG Capital
Founded in 2006, RSG Capital is a leading Slovenian venture capital management company that currently manages VC fund Prvi sklad, which is the first venture capital fund based in Slovenia, among others. With VC fund Prvi sklad as platform, RSG Capital invests in early stage companies from CEE with high growth potential, credible and dedicated teams, and breakthrough technologies. We actively support the creation, identification and development of globally successful companies.
Spain
ROYAL OAKS CAPITAL PARTNERS
Royal Oaks Capital Partners is a network of private investors that invest in unlisted companies (private equity & Venture Capital) that has huge growth potential.
InnoBAN Business Angel Network
InnoBAN (Red de Inversores Ángel para la Innovación), is a network of angel investors that help early-stage high-growth innovative businesses achieve market leadership though investment capital, strategic advice, and mentoring. We are a member of European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and we have a code of conduct, a screening process and established rules and regulations
Caixa Capital Risc
We invest in early-stage companies based in Spain in Technology, digital industries, and life sciences. Funds are provided primarily by ”la Caixa” Group, with minority participation by both public and private investors.
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Sherpa Capital Gestión
We’re a private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in turnaround and restructuring of businesses in middle markets. We mostly help distressed businesses with funds and management teams that will help them grow, consolidate and forge ahead.
Okuri Ventures
We help businesses grow through the following service offerings: advisory services, strategic planning and implementation for entrepreneurs and their businesses — usually through interim management and sweat equity, and trainings for entrepreneurs which contribute to the potential of startups.
We also offer exclusive programs and aid materials through our collaboration with business schools in Spain, Incubator and support services where we combine consulting and training packages tailored to each startup with flexible infrastructure and support services at competitive prices.
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Cabiedes & partners SCR
Founded in 2009 and with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, We are a venture capital firm that provides seed funding, early-stage and later-stage investment services. Our target industries are E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Design, Fintech
BeCapital Seed Money
We are an investment firm that seeks to invest in online and mobile businesses. We actively seek technology-driven innovations to invest in.
Miura Private Equity
We are a private equity firm with a focus on equity stakes holding primarily in SMEs based in Portugal and Spain. Our team is composed of a well-knit team of professionals, with solid careers, entrepreneurial spirit and a deep knowledge of the private equity industry, both in Spain and internationally. Miura support companies with leading positions in attractive sectors, with robust and successful business models and, above all, management teams with a high degree of motivation, commitment and ability to lead ambitious projects. These projects may entail growth, consolidation or restructuring.
SeedRocket
SeedRocket offers a complete Seed Funding Venture Program for Entrepreneurs with technology-based startups. Since 2008, we’ve been investing in technology startups with high growth potential.
COFIDES
Founded in 1988 to provide cost-effective, medium and long-term financial support for viable private investment companies/projects in foreign countries where there is a Spanish interest, COFIDES is a joint state and privately owned company that seeks to contribute profitably to the host country’s development as well as to the internationalization of Spanish enterprises and the Spanish economy.
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Nauta Capital
We are a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage disruptive technology companies. Operating from offices in Barcelona (Spain), Boston (USA), London (UK), we are committed to B2B Software propositions, disruptive Digital Media companies, while also enabling technologies for Mobile and the Internet.
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Sweden
Altor Equity Partners
We are the investment advisor to the Altor Funds. We are a Nordic investment team with extensive international experience in private equity, consulting, investment banking and various industrial sectors.
Creandum
We are a leading European venture capital investor with our focus on innovative and fast-growing technology companies within consumer, software, and hardware industries. For over ten years, we had invested in more than 50 companies including Spotify, Tictail, iZettle, and Vivino.
Industrifonden
We are a professional partner with strong capital resources and a long-term stance on all investments. As one of Sweden’s largest and most experienced investors in early-stage companies that are aiming for international growth, we serve as active owners in cooperation with business owners and other investors.
We invest in Technology and Life Science companies, and our total assets amount to SEK 4 billion.
HealthCap
HealthCap is a European venture capital firm that invests exclusively in life sciences. With a global focus on investments possibilities, our strategy focuses on diseases with high unmet medical needs and breakthrough therapies with the potential to be transformative, and change medical practice, diagnosis, and treatment.
Segulah Advisor AB
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, we are a private equity firm that own and develop mid-market companies. We invest in the buyouts of profitable and stable businesses run by experienced management team, with the intention of further enhancing them.
Priveq Investment
We are a private equity firm that thrive by creating the right conditions for entrepreneurs, family businesses and other ventures to grow. We are firm believers in the strength of integrating our ownership competence with the experience of entrepreneurs and the operational abilities of management teams. While we provide the capital and expertise companies need to ensure stable expansion, we also contribute explicit, active partnership and long-term honest commitment to our target businesses.
Chalmers Ventures
Chalmers Ventures has over 15 years of experience working with a variation of idea partners, cut across academic researchers to multinational corporations. Every year we start approximately 10–12 projects that we develop into new growth companies. As a first step we match you and your idea with a team of entrepreneurs and co-found a venture together.
For the duration of the program — one year, the co-founded venture will get access to a dedicated business coach, 24/7 office space, legal expertise, inspirational lectures and a valuable network, as well as the opportunity to apply for some initial funding from Chalmers Ventures. The entrepreneurs also get top education and support from the faculty at Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship.
After program completion, the best teams will be offered a spot on our Accelerator program.
To get accepted, your idea/business must be:
· Technology based
· Innovative/Unique
· Scalable business model with global potential.
We also accept idea pitches that meet the requirements stated above.
Volvo Group Venture Capital
Volvo Group Venture Capital is a corporate investment company with a mission to be a leading corporate investor in sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions while driving new business growth. Our value proposition to the companies we invest in, other investors as well as to our colleagues, is to accelerate growth.
Procuritas Partners
Procuritas Partners incorporate a holistic approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. This reduces risks and increases the long-term quality and value of portfolio companies, while ensuring they meet the expectations of investors, portfolio managers and other stakeholders.
Connect Sverige Region Uppsala
We are a non-profit that supports growth-oriented start-ups and SMEs. Our mission is to help these businesses grow in order to build more companies and more employment openings. As a networking organization in conjunction with the industry, we generate a unique platform that guides the entrepreneur to the resources needed to be able to succeed with commercialization and funding based on our supply of bespoke services and products; the SpringBoard and Financial Forum. With strong support of the industry and commerce our growth companies receive first class expertise throughout a number of different line of businesses at no cost or at largely subsidized rates.
Switzerland
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with offices in London, San Francisco, and Geneva. Since 1996, we’ve partnered with exceptional entrepreneurs in Europe, the United States, Israel and Russia, who are leveraging on technology to reshape the world around us. We have moved from being just technology investors as we are convinced that every aspect of human life and economic activity can be transformed and improved by technology and entrepreneurial passion, and we’re at the forefront of this movement.
LGT Capital Partners
We are a leading alternative investment management company with investment programs focused on: Private markets, Liquid alternatives and Multi-asset class solutions. We do high-quality alternative investments on behalf of insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension managers, banks, endowments and foundations.
Emerald Technology Ventures
Founded in 2000 and with the pedigree of being a globally recognized investment firm in the areas of energy, water, advanced materials and industrial IT., we are the trusted partner for numerous multi-national corporations in their open innovation activities. We managed three technology investment programs for third parties, raised three Venture Capital Funds, and completed almost 60 venture investments from offices in Zurich, Switzerland and Toronto, Canada. Till date, we have managed assets worth over USD 660 million.
Society3 Group — Innovation Financing Marketplace
We are the first US SEC and Swiss FINMA compliant Capital Marketplace and Accelerator for growth stage companies and startups. We provide investors with a way to sell startup stocks and also exit at any time. We provide company assessment tools, streamlined investment processes, follow-on investment programs and capital pooling for FinTech startups.
U-Start
U-Start is a professional advisory firm that structure club deals through a club of private investors that work in partnership with Venture Capital funds in series A to C rounds in digital and media, travel, consumer web, SaaS, fintech and mobile, across Europe, the United States, and Israel.
Venturelab (IFJ)
Venturelab aims to bring selected startup talents through a structured stress test of their entrepreneurial and business readiness. These exercises enhances their entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, and connect them to the community of high value adding founders, mentors and industry experts at the end of it all. The business readiness tests follow the following pattern:
• Identify high potential startup talents (Startup Casting)
• Provide structure and tools for stress test and execution, accelerated value creation and investment process (Startup Essentials — Acceleration Workshops)
• Get field insight from successful founders “in the making” and extend your network (Founders Secrets) • Connect with industry leaders (Startup Challenges)
• Exchange, network and mentoring by successful founders (Founders Circle)
• Facilitated access and investment from successful startup founders for the most promising startups projects (Founders Cash Pot).
Venturelab is free for all participants.
Capvis Equity Partners
Capvis Equity Partners AG is the exclusive advisor to the Capvis Funds and is domiciled in Baar, Switzerland. We aim to take substantial ownership stakes in attractive firms, support management teams in new entrepreneurial development, and to steer the businesses to new levels of excellence. The team is supported by former employees and industrial specialists.
Myanmar Access (MM Access Pte. Ltd.)
We engage and partner with both local and foreign firms cut across a variety of economic sectors that are concerned with developing businesses in Myanmar.
Our businesses are carried out through:
MM Interplast, a Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) approved Joint Venture Company between one local firm and two foreign companies. Our primary aim is to be the provider of choice of plastic packaging for the Myanmar food, beverage and consumer industry. (www.mminterplast.com)
My Yangon Office is a serviced office company which provides state-of-the-art office space for foreign businesses operating in the heart of Yangon.
MM Access is a consultancy firm engaged by several western and local companies to consult on their potential business ventures in Myanmar.
In partnership with Waterfront Trading, we also operate a trading and agency business for several different commodities.
Inventages Venture Capital
With US$ 1.5 billion committed capital in Healthcare, nutrition and wellness, Inventages is one of the world’s biggest life science and consumer goods venture capital investor. We invest globally and operate out of four offices: Nassau (Bahamas), Geneva (Switzerland), Auckland (New Zealand) and London (United Kingdom). Beyond capital infusion and board participation, we also strive to contribute to the growth of the management teams and companies in which we invest by leveraging their experience, network and relationships.
Turkey
TURKVEN
Established in 2000, Turkven is the first independent private equity firm in Turkey. Based in Istanbul and with a focus on opportunities in Turkey and the region, we have built a strong team of investment professionals that possess a culture of company-building and sectoral expertise, underpinned by the first-hand experience from its portfolio of leading firms across different industries.
ACT Ventures Capital
We are a venture capital firm that primarily invests in early stage technology and innovation opportunities in Turkey, through the Accelerating the Commercialization of Technology (ACT) Fund.
Hitay Holdings
Hitay holdings is an IT-centric company with investments in payment systems, eCommerce and security technologies, demonstrating our innovative approach.
We also run the following: Teknoser — Turkey’s leading field services and system integration company; DORinsight — Turkey’s largest online research company with more than 1.2 million registered users, and Napolyon.com — the permission-marketing database company operating within; Bilyoner.com — Turkey’s first and leading online gaming platform; 2nokta products and solutions for the retail and banking sectors and security technologies solutions company, Exim.
TRPE Capital
TRPE Capital is a private equity investment firm focused on investing in growing and innovative companies in Turkey. The TRPE team consists of seasoned professionals with extensive CEO/CFO/COO operational levels and with world-class international investment experience. TRPE Capital makes investments mainly in four focus sectors: healthcare, consumer, technology and business services. TRPE’s dedicated team at TRPE Venture Partners makes seed and early stage technology investments.
Esas Holding
Esas manages total assets of US$ 2.2 billion in the field of private equity where it has 11 well-known Turket-based portfolio companies in aviation, food, logistics, healthcare, retail and leisure. Esas also has total assets of US$ 2.0 billion in real estate via its investments in Turkey, Europe, US and UK.
Revo Capital
Our focus is on these super-targeted business niches:
B2B Cloud: Today’s SMEs and enterprises are forming/transforming their IT infrastructure through cloud computing and services. This area covers all cloud-based enterprise support services and emerging ICT solutions laser-targeted at businesses. Internet of Things: Distributed businesses are now able to track and manage their operations, through connectivity and M2M applications. Personal network of devices are also growing. This area covers all machine-to-machine solutions or any connected hardware products. Neo-Commerce and Enablers: eCommerce requires a ‘neo’ approach. This area covers truly disruptive digital commerce services that go beyond a typical e-retail store OR any enabler platform supporting the digitization of commerce.
iLab Ventures
iLab aims to play a critical role in Turkey’s digitization process by focusing on and investing in internet-based companies. So far, iLab has invested in Petrochemicals, Iron-steel, Human Resources, Software Development, and Insurance. Using latest advances in technology, especially those pertaining to the Internet, iLab companies continue to create value for their respective sectors.
TRPE Venture Partners
TRPE Venture Partners, a servicemark of TRPE Capital Limited, is a venture capital firm investing in ideas, seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential in the ICT sector with a greater focus on business to business solutions.
Private Equity
Private Equity represents the “smart money” which provides added value by investing in medium sized enterprises that are in expansion stage, and which operate in markets with high growth potential.
String Ventures (SV)
Founded in 2013 by Can Saraçoglu and Emrah Yalaz and touted to be a New Breed of Venture Capital, String Ventures (SV) is the Technology Holding Studio Connecting Turkey to Silicon Valley. Operating from Istanbul and San Francisco, we follow Peter Drucker’s principles which state that; (a.) every business has only two basic functions: innovation and marketing, and (b.) very entrepreneur’s purpose is to create a customer.
We invest in entrepreneurs using scientific Product Innovation know-how, fuelled by Growth Hacking methods, measured with Data Science practices, applied within Lean and Agile principles, from day one.
United Kingdom
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP)
We are a leading UK venture capital firm that operates from offices in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and we do up to £20 million of equity investments in high-growth technology, and technology-enabled companies. Our investment portfolio include some of Europe’s most exciting and innovative companies including Skyscanner — the world’s leading independent travel search company, Mister Spex — Europe’s leading online eyewear business, and MATCHESFASHION.COM, a luxury omni-channel fashion retailer.
Our typical work-value-pattern is playing an active and supportive role in the growth and development of our portfolio companies and in addition to venture capital for high growth companies, we also provide infrastructure finance for small scale clean energy projects.
We were named ‘Venture Capital Firm of the Year’ at the Unquote British Private Equity Awards 2015 for the fifth time in recent years.
MVM Life Science Partners
Founded in 1997, Life Science Partners LLP is a leading healthcare Venture Capital firm and manages three funds totaling over US$500 million. MVM invests broadly in the healthcare market including biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, drug platform technologies, diagnostics, drug delivery, OTC medicines, research tools, vaccines, and healthcare IT. MVM invests in startup and early stage companies as well as in companies with technologies in late stage clinical development or commercialization. MVM’s investments are made predominately in Europe and the US. The MVM team has broad experience in healthcare Venture Capital and Private Equity investing and maintains offices in London and Boston.
TVM Capital
TVM Capital is a group of globally acting venture capital and private equity firms with an operating track record of 30 years. Investment teams have financed more than 250 emerging companies across several industries since 1984. During the last 15 years the firm has become increasingly specialized in the most attractive and high-growth verticals in the broader healthcare markets, with focus areas in financing innovative products and technologies in the European and U.S. biopharmaceutical and medical device markets, as well as healthcare services in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and India. TVM Capital funds operate globally with dedicated Life Science venture capital funds advised by group members TVM Life Science Management in Montreal and TVM Capital in Munich, TVM Capital China in Hong Kong and its healthcare private equity funds managed by TVM Capital Healthcare Partners out of Dubai.
Advent Life Sciences
This London-based healthcare fund invests in a range of sectors within life sciences, including new drug discovery, enabling technologies, medtech and diagnostics.
Octopus Investments
The Ventures team manages funds of £300 million with total funds under management for the whole of Octopus Investments being £5 billion.
We invest across Europe wherever we find the talent and the right opportunity.
Our venture funds are Pan-European with around two thirds and an average investment of £2.6 million currently going into UK-based businesses.
We typically invest in Early-stage businesses (Series A to Series B).
Lakestar
Lakestar II has €350 million under management, and follows on from Lakestar I, which has €135 million under management. Our geographical focus embraces both Europe and the US — there will be partner representation in key cities in both continents.
As far as investments go, Lakestar II is designed to be totally flexible, and has only recently launched. However, Lakestar I has invested in UK-based companies, including Algomi.
Rather than focus on a particular segment within the digital industries, Lakestar is looking across a wide range of sectors — however, a Lakestar portfolio company is likely to have the potential to disrupt in major markets, with founders who are passionate about transforming that market.
Passion Capital
We are a Venture Capital company with investment preference for the United Kingdom and particularly for fintech, cyber security/infosec, edtech, health/medtech and any other sector at Seed stage. We currently have £86 million total (Fund I, Fund II and Focus FS [investment entity for Mondo]) of which Fund I include 8 European company investments (out of 42); Fund II (£45 million has £10 million set aside for European investments; rest/most of the fund is principally for the benefit of the UK economy)
Our average seed investment is less than £200,000 and we have 47 companies in our portfolio till date.
Index Ventures
Index Ventures has raised $5.2 billion since it was founded in 1996.
We invest across Europe and the United States with roughly half of our current portfolio based in Europe.
We are active in all of the major European tech hubs — Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, London, and we currently have 52 companies with headquarters in London and 100 companies have either an headquarter or office presence in the UK.
We invest from the very early stages in Seed and through all later stages of the company from A, B to growth. We’ve made 100+ Seed investments in the last five years. We make about 25 new venture and growth investments per year. We are very active across the board, investing in multiple stages, geographies and themes.
We love fearless entrepreneurs, who see building a transformational business as their destiny. We love teams who see opportunity where others just see obstacles. We love companies that challenge convention and break the rules …just a bit. Above all, we love building lifelong relationships with the entrepreneurs we back, which are based on trust, respect and a shared vision.
We are a multi stage investor, investing from earliest Seed through to explosive Growth.
We have offices in London (Mayfair), San Francisco and Geneva. We try to go where the best founders are, so we want to be easy to reach, active in the ecosystem and present in their markets. We have companies in 39 cities in 24 countries.
Balderton Capital
How much of this are you investing in European companies?
We are a venture capital company that focuses entirely on backing European companies and founders with a global vision. We currently have a fund value of $2.3 billion and about 35 percent of our portfolio (80 companies) started in the UK but that’s not by design and, even in those cases, the entrepreneurs themselves are a diverse bunch.
On average, we invest between $5 million — $8 million but we’ve made exceptions that are both a lot smaller and a lot larger than that before.
We are sector-agnostic but founder-specific. We believe that incredible companies are built by incredible people, so that’s where we start.
Funding stages are increasingly meaningless in a world of continuous fund-raising but our $5–8M focus would traditionally have been labeled as ’Series A’.
Angel CoFund
The Angel CoFund is a private sector entity that was launched in November 2011 with clear objectives to boost the quality and quantity of business angel investing in the UK, and to support long-term, high quality jobs in growing companies.
The fund has been designed and established by a consortium of private and public bodies with expertise in business angel investment. It has been created with a grant from the Regional Growth Fund and the British Business Bank, and invests alongside business angel syndicates from across the UK.
Initial equity investments in SMEs range from between £100K and £1M in partnership with strong syndicates of business angels, with an upper limit of 49% of any investment round. It will only make investments alongside Syndicates of business angels, who must be investing in a given business for the first time. Any final decision to invest will be made by the independent Investment Committee of the fund based on the detailed proposals put forward by business angel syndicates. The fund will only make commercial investments.
Accel Partners
Accel is a leading early and growth-stage venture capital firm, powering a global community of entrepreneurs. Founded in 1983, Accel brings more than three decades of experience building and supporting hundreds of companies by backing entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build world-class, niche-defining businesses. Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries.
Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media and others.
MMC Ventures
Founded in 2000, MMC Ventures is an active investor and award-winning venture fund manager, focused on technology-enabled sectors where the UK is a world leader — particularly financial and business services, software, digital media and consumer internet. Having raised a total of approximately £150 million, MMC invests around £25 million per annum, in a combination of new investments and follow-on capital for existing portfolio companies. We specialize in high-growth early-stage UK-based businesses, partnering with entrepreneurs and impressive management teams to achieve substantial scale and profitability.
MMC’s existing portfolio include: Appear Here, Bloom & Wild, Gousto, Interactive Investor, LoveHomeSwap, Reevoo, Sky-Futures and Tyres on the Drive.
Smedvig Capital
We are a growth/venture capital firm that provides funding for UK-based businesses across many industries. We work with ambitious teams to build great businesses and we’re currently hunting for businesses with global growth potential.
Northzone
We are a European-focused fund with a couple of great US investments in sectors like media ecosystems and fintech, where we have particular expertise, and have brought these to bear in these industries.
We have a flexible, European focus, and are seeing a lot of exciting companies coming out of the Europe’s key tech hubs — the Nordics, Berlin, and of course, London.
With €650 million (£504 million) under management, 46 active companies currently in our portfolio, and a number of exits from our earlier funds, we invest in early stage to expansion businesses.
We are also on the lookout for great teams building businesses with global market potential.
We have offices in London (Soho), Stockholm, New York and Oslo.
Consilience Ventures is a data-driven venture capital platform using it’s own digital currency (not a crypto-currency) to invest in carefully selected b2b start-ups from pre-seed to Series A. It uses a combination a data and human driven decision making to raise the probability of selecting the best start-ups to which CV offers unparalleled support to achieve massive growth.
We believe that investors can invest in start-up/scale-ups without risking their capital and should be able to liquidate their investment anytime. We do this by redefining start-up financing and enable start-ups to launch twice as fast. We engage the best ecosystem players as part of their start-ups team at the heart of a vibrant marketplace. CV aims to give investors more flexibility and higher returns by making their investment liquid.
Investors in CV don’t pay any management, carry or transaction fees and benefit from the IP value developed over time.
