Pario Ventures
Pario Ventures backs founders who are building real businesses, focusing on companies that demonstrate pragmatism and commercial execution rather than hype. They invest at Seed and Series A stages, prioritizing partners who understand what it takes to build, scale, and survive the challenges of early-stage growth. The firm values founders who are resourceful, respect capital, and are focused on getting to market and building strong foundations. They are sector agnostic but highly value the team, resilience, and execution capabilities of the founders. They aren't looking for quick IPOs but sustainable growth, profitability, or strategic exits through M&A.
Philipp Angermann
PA Ventures GmbH, led by Philipp Angermann, focuses on early-stage fintech and B2B SaaS startups. As an angel investor and startup advisor, Philipp leverages his experience in product management, B2B marketing, B2B sales, and operations to support portfolio companies. His investment strategy centers around providing not only capital but also hands-on guidance to help startups navigate the challenges of early growth. He aims to connect them with a strong network of fellow angel investors, VCs, and family offices for subsequent fundraising rounds. Philipp also runs the PA Foundation to support non-profits and is committed to sustainability by offsetting his carbon footprint through Leaders for Climate Action.
Rulebreaker Ventures
Invests in ambitious, rule-breaking entrepreneurs building scalable international business models, with a focus on tech startups in Denmark and beyond.
Ugly Duckling Ventures
Ugly Duckling Ventures (UDV) focuses on backing Nordic founders at the pre-seed and seed stages. Their investment strategy centers around providing capital, know-how, and real-world application to early-stage ventures. They aim to be active GPs, leveraging their experience as builders and business angels to help startups scale rapidly. UDV emphasizes building relationships with founders, valuing transparency, and offering straightforward communication. They take a hands-on, operational approach, actively engaging with their portfolio companies to prepare them for growth. A key differentiator is their GPs-only model, ensuring that portfolio founders work directly with experienced partners rather than junior account managers. Furthermore, their established network within the Danish startup community provides access to investors and resources that can assist portfolio companies.
tokentus investment AG
tokentus investment AG is a venture capital firm focused on blockchain-based investments. They aim to capitalize on the growth of the global blockchain market by investing in companies that disrupt traditional business models using blockchain technology. The firm has evolved from a startup investor to focus on growth and later-stage opportunities. Their decision-making is guided by six core principles: seeking the best multiples through equity and selected token investments, focusing on growth and later stages for optimal risk/opportunity ratios, targeting classic sectors where blockchain serves as a means rather than an end, investing globally with top co-investors, maintaining transparency with partners, and prioritizing the business side, leveraging the seniority and expertise of tokentus shareholders. They look for targets that strive to change business from scratch. The firm emphasizes a results-oriented approach, measuring their success by the performance of their investments. They actively seek companies that can benefit from their competence and experience, viewing themselves as partners in their portfolio companies' journeys to success. They invest only in equity and selected tokens. tokentus is dedicated to helping portfolio companies along the path to success, and provides guidance and support and is a solid partner to invest. The firm also emphasizes a commitment to transparency, reflecting its status as a stock-listed company.
7percent Ventures
7percent Ventures focuses on backing determined founders solving significant problems with the potential for 200x returns. They seek to invest in technologies and products that will become indispensable in ten years, aiming for breakthrough companies and technologies rather than incremental market iterations. The firm looks for moonshots, indicating a high-risk, high-reward investment strategy. They aim to invest in solutions to problems which impact a lot of people. With experience as ex-founders in both the U.K. and U.S., the firm provides expertise and capital through the networks they've co-founded. Their guiding principle is to help, not hinder, startups, empathizing with the challenges founders face due to their own operational backgrounds. They believe the venture capital journey is best for big risk, big outcome businesses – startups with exponential growth potential and sector-defining change. The firm name is based on the idea that a good early-stage growth rate is 5-7% a week.
Kohli Ventures
Kohli Ventures is the investment vehicle of entrepreneur and investor Tej Kohli. The firm focuses on exponential growth opportunities derived from the rapid technological progression by backing the founders of visionary growth-stage ventures. Their investment strategy centers around identifying and supporting companies in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, and esports. Additionally, Kohli Ventures practices a unique brand of ‘venture philanthropy’ by backing commercial ventures that have the potential to substantially improve human life. Kohli Ventures' investment criteria are unique in that Tej Kohli prefers to be the sole investor in a venture. This allows him to work directly alongside founders, providing not only capital but also substantial intellectual capital support. The firm is willing to fund all future funding requirements until an exit is achieved, ensuring consistent support throughout the company's growth journey. Tej Kohli's passion for deep tech drives the investments of Kohli Ventures. He leverages his experience as a successful entrepreneur to provide hands-on guidance and strategic insights to portfolio companies, helping them navigate the challenges of scaling and achieving their full potential. Kohli Ventures seeks to accelerate the growth of innovative companies and contribute to advancements in technology and human well-being.
Climate Investment (CI)
Climate Investment invests in scalable, capital-efficient innovations that deliver measurable GHG reductions and economic value for industrial decarbonization. The firm combines venture/growth equity with deep industry partnerships to accelerate market adoption of technologies in energy, industry, built environments, and transportation.
Disruptive AI
Israel’s first AI-focused VC backing early-stage startups to growth
Forestay Capital
Forestay Capital focuses on partnering with entrepreneurial leaders building the next generation of technology companies. They aim to go "beyond capital" by being entrepreneurial partners. Their investments indicate a focus on AI-driven enterprise solutions, particularly in areas like data infrastructure, legal tech, engineering intelligence, and commercial decision-making. They actively lead or co-lead investment rounds and provide support beyond just financial capital. Based on their portfolio and news insights, Forestay Capital appears to be targeting companies leveraging AI to improve efficiency, provide predictive analytics, and automate processes across various industries. They also demonstrate an interest in cybersecurity, as evidenced by their "CISO Unlocked" series and research on AI security. This suggests a broader investment thesis around enterprise software and the technologies that enable data-driven decision-making and secure operations. The firm's investment approach is active, as they frequently lead rounds and participate in follow-on investments (e.g., Neural Concept). The "Fore"sights section indicates a dedication to proprietary research and thought leadership, highlighting their expertise and proactive approach to identifying emerging trends and investment opportunities within enterprise technology. Their overall strategy involves backing innovative companies with strong market positions and potential for significant growth.
5G Ventures
Phaistos Investment Fund, managed by 5G Ventures, is a venture capital fund established under Greek law to invest exclusively in businesses actively involved in 5G-related research and/or development of products and/or services in Greece. The fund targets sectors such as transport and logistics, manufacturing, public goods and utilities, health, tourism, information and media. Its objective is to foster innovation and growth within the Greek 5G ecosystem.
DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF)
The DeepTech & Climate Fonds (DTCF) invests in bold innovators and stellar investors to build industry-defining companies in DeepTech and ClimateTech. They provide long-term support to scale groundbreaking ideas, focusing on sustainable, long-term growth rather than rapid scaling. Funded by the German Future Fund and the ERP Special Fund, DTCF backs companies with long development cycles and high capital needs to transform entire industries, bridging investors, SMEs, and early growth tech startups.
Earlybird UNI-X
Earlybird invests in Europe’s tech innovators, providing financial resources, strategic support, and access to a global network to help founders scale from early-stage to IPO. Focused on backing breakthrough ideas before they achieve mainstream success, Earlybird supports companies across diverse tech sectors with a commitment to long-term growth and impact.
EdenBase
EdenBase invests in founders transforming frontier science into commercial advantage, focusing on quantum computing and deep tech. They act as investors, operators, and ecosystem builders, connecting startups with corporates, partners, and policymakers to accelerate adoption.
Emerge Education
Emerge Education is a pre-seed fund focused on democratizing access to opportunity by investing in early-stage founders building the future of work and learning. The firm aims to be a catalytic partner, providing not only capital but also access to a community of 100+ experienced operators in the future of work and learning space. Their investment approach centers on identifying ambitious founders with a desire to learn from those who have successfully navigated similar challenges, supporting them on their journey to becoming global category leaders. The firm believes in providing hands-on support and being mission-aligned with their portfolio companies from day one. Emerge Education's strategy involves leveraging its extensive network of venture partners, covering a wide range of skills, business models, and customer types relevant to the future of work and learning. By connecting portfolio companies with these experienced operators, Emerge aims to accelerate their growth and increase their chances of success. This community-driven approach is intended to offer early-stage companies valuable insights and mentorship that goes beyond traditional financial investment. They seek pre-seed and seed founders who are building innovative solutions that will shape the future of how people learn and work. The fund is committed to supporting companies with the potential to scale and become global leaders in their respective categories. Emerge Education positions itself as more than just a source of capital; they aim to be a true partner, offering strategic guidance and operational support through its network and dedicated team.
MVP Munich Venture Partners
MVP Munich Venture Partners is a European venture capital firm focused on driving the eco-industrial revolution. They invest in tech companies transforming value chains in emission-intensive sectors, aiming for ambitious growth while addressing pressing global challenges of decarbonization and digitalization. Their approach centers on partnering with tech-preneurs and backing pioneering companies across Industrial Tech, Energy Transition, Mobility & Logistics, and Agriculture & Foodtech. They seek transformative technologies contributing to sustainable prosperity.
ScaleFund
ScaleFund invests in digital transformation, deeptech, and cleantech companies with scalable, international-ready models. They focus on companies with committed teams, early revenue or usage growth, a clear path to Series A, and openness to strategic support. The fund typically leads rounds with ticket sizes ranging from €100K to €1M and provides hands-on operational support for a select number of portfolio companies.
WePlay Ventures
WePlay Ventures invests in early-stage gaming studios across Europe, Central Asia, and Turkey, providing strategic capital, industry expertise, and an extensive network to accelerate growth through active partnership and acceleration programs like WePlay HUB.
eEquity
eEquity is a growth equity firm focused on digitally enabled business models, primarily in the Nordics with ambitions to develop into European or global champions. They invest in the intersection between technology and retail, including companies with physical products, digital services, and software. As a sector-focused fund, they facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration among their portfolio companies. They consider themselves experienced entrepreneurs and prioritize coaching successful entrepreneurs in scaling their businesses. eEquity aims to be the first institutional investor in their portfolio companies. Their investment approach is hands-on, viewing eEquity and its portfolio companies as one family of entrepreneurs, united in pursuing success. They emphasize simplicity, scalability, automation, and incrementality as key principles driving their value creation process. eEquity actively invests in the digital space, deploying significant capital and resources to guide and support their portfolio companies. They seek to build strong partnerships with visionary founders. The firm prefers to take large minority or majority ownership stakes. Their strategy focuses on companies that have the potential to reshape industries, innovate through technology, and achieve international growth. They aim to actively contribute to the development of their portfolio companies, providing support and resources to help them scale and become market leaders.
70V
70V is a Revenue Accelerator that manages a portfolio of 50+ B2B high-growth companies. They appear to focus on helping these companies achieve successful exits, as demonstrated by their listed exits. The firm's partners indicate a strong focus on SaaS, B2B sales, and data-driven decision-making, suggesting a preference for technology-enabled businesses with scalable revenue models. While the specific investment thesis isn't explicitly detailed, the team's individual focuses hint at a data-driven, sales-oriented, and growth-focused approach to building and scaling B2B companies. They have a team of Sr. Associates which seem to indicate a robust deal sourcing and management operation. The partners' self-described focus on "unicorn hunting" also implies a willingness to take risks and invest in companies with the potential for significant growth and market leadership. Overall, the firm seems to offer a unique approach for European B2B companies focused on high-growth and successful exits.
AI.FUND
AI.FUND invests in **autonomous AI**—systems that act as an enterprise’s brain and memory, enabling category-defining AI-first companies built in Europe. Focused on **sovereign AI infrastructure**, they back startups that drive productivity, redefine industries, and scale AI capabilities. The fund emphasizes **AI at the core**, not just AI integration, with a mission to build globally competitive, EU-compliant AI champions.
AIP Seed VC
AIP Seed invests in AI-driven startups that have the potential to reshape industries and human progress as fundamentally as the internet or smartphones. The firm supports ambitious founders building breakthrough solutions with global impact, providing capital, strategic guidance, and long-term partnership to accelerate growth.
Adelie
Adelie is a multi-stage technology fund investing in fast-growing European tech companies powered by ambitious teams. The fund is supported by a network of over 100 experienced tech entrepreneurs, partners at private equity firms, C-levels at CAC 40 companies, and large family offices. They partner with Clipperton, a technology investment bank that has advised over 350 high-growth businesses on financing and M&A transactions since 2003. Adelie aims to provide not only capital but also strategic guidance and access to a valuable network to help their portfolio companies scale and succeed.
Blossom Capital
Blossom Capital invests in Europe’s most visionary founders, providing operational support, strategic guidance, and access to networks to help companies scale rapidly. They focus on companies that demonstrate ambition, innovation, and potential for high growth, often supporting them through multiple funding rounds to ensure long-term success.