Startup Funding: Active European Investors Targeting Baltic Startups
Today many founders have concerns about raising investment to boost or maintain their company’s growth. The open-source initiative, sponsored by kanso.io, has collected a list of the idea stage to series B investors and feedback on their investment activities and priorities amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Of this exhaustive list, we have identified 8 venture capital firms that are still actively investing in early stage to series B stage startups and are targeting the Baltic region.
Vendep Capital is an early-stage venture capital that focuses on B2B Cloud/SaaS companies. Typically, the initial investment of €0.5–1 million goes into marketing and sales and establishing operations. Read more and apply: https://www.vendep.com/
Truesight Ventures — an early-stage tech venture capital firm, focused on seed-stage investments. The company supports founding teams by advising on strategic business decisions and providing relevant industry contacts. The typical investment varies from €0.05 to 0.2 million. Read more and apply: https://www.truesight.vc/
Trind VC is a venture capital firm that invests in start-ups across Europe, from seed rounds to sustainability, with a focus on ICT. The company commits €0.1–3 million and leads seed-round, be a syndicate member with business angels and help to lengthen the runway, with a focus on financial sustainability. Apply here: http://trind.vc/
Superhero Capital — the main focus of venture capital firm is on B2B software and services including health tech, fintech, IoT, SaaS, and various others. Superhero Capital supports startups by providing a large network of investors and industry experts. The company’s initial seed phase investments range from €0.2 to 1 million. Apply here: https://www.superherocapital.com/
NordicNinja VC is a venture capital fund that invests in tech startups, especially robotics, automation, health tech, AI and mobility. The investments are around €2–4 million, following the standard terms in the Nordics. The firm provides a network of great minds around the world, especially in Japan. Find out more: https://nordicninja.vc/
Evli Growth Partners — a venture capital that focuses on Series A and Series B, with a typical initial investment of €3–5 million and incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) aspects in their initial investment assessments. Evli Growth is looking for companies with proven unit economics and scalability, over €5M revenue and rapid growth. More information: https://egp.fi/
byFounders is an early-stage venture fund actively investing in tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics. They focus on opening the doors to the tech giants in Silicon Valley and the business world beyond and bringing startups in front of venture capitals from Europe and the US to accelerate growth. The initial investment — from €0.25 to 2 million. Apply here: https://byfounders.vc/