European VC Directory

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

HEARTFELT_/APX

Berlin, DE

APX invests in ambitious earliest-stage founder teams building startups with digital business models, often serving as their first investor. Based in Berlin, APX partners with pre-seed startups across Europe and beyond, backed by notable entities like Axel Springer and Porsche.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

HMI Capital is an investment management firm established during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. It operates with a long-term perspective, seeking to invest in the highest-quality businesses globally. The firm's strategy involves investing across the capital structure in both public and private companies, maintaining a market cap agnostic approach, and holding a concentrated portfolio. HMI Capital focuses on delivering high risk-adjusted real returns over long time frames while minimizing the probability of permanent loss of capital. This is achieved through a combination of careful business selection, a long-term investment horizon, and a concentrated portfolio of high-conviction investments. The firm's culture emphasizes openness, transparency, and a down-to-earth approach. They have an extremely selective process, prioritize longer-term thinking, and maintain a strong focus on growth.

HMI Capital LLC

San Francisco, US

HMI Capital focuses on investing in the highest-quality businesses globally, prioritizing long-term growth and risk-adjusted returns with a low probability of permanent capital loss. The firm adopts a selective, market-cap-agnostic approach across consumer/business services, financial services, and software/technology sectors.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

HPE Growth

GB

HPE Growth is a European growth investment platform that invests in fast-growing, early-to-mid-stage digital technology companies in Europe. They aim to achieve long-term financial returns for their partners while contributing to positive change in people and the planet. The firm focuses on supporting companies in executing their vision to become market leaders by providing equity and active support. They seek companies with sustainable and efficient growth, often enabled by built-in network effects, and look for businesses with efficient playbooks such as hybrid B2C/B2B2C models or original user acquisition strategies (SEO or content-driven methods). HPE Growth prioritizes backing businesses with a strong community or a large content library to lower customer acquisition costs and increase retention, demonstrating a commitment to long-term, profitable growth without reliance on massive capital injections. The firm also prioritizes the Venture Capital firm being a B Corporation, as well as their commitment to Principles for Responsible Investment, ILPA, and SDG Goals.

HQ Trust

Bad Homburg, DE

HQ Trust positions itself as an independent, client-centric family office and advisor, emphasizing long-term relationships, deep expertise, and global networks. Their approach combines human-centric decision-making, international presence, and specialized competence to deliver tailored, high-value financial solutions for private and institutional clients.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

allygatr focuses on shaping the future of work by building a pioneering HR Tech ecosystem. Their mission is to create value for startups, investors, experts, and companies within the HR Tech sector. They aim to help start-ups in the HR Tech sector take a foothold in the business and to support already growing companies to thrive. Their strategy involves designing, validating, and growing each venture by leveraging existing assets. They provide ongoing support with interdisciplinary experts until the companies are ready to operate independently. allygatr envisions building and investing in solutions covering the entire HR value chain, with a focus on people. This includes attracting, recruiting, and selecting talent; educating and developing employees; motivating, rewarding, and retaining staff; and providing support and organization. They have been building businesses in the HR Tech industry since 2012, combining the agility of a startup with knowledge and methodology. allygatr emphasizes a supportive, visionary, free, edgy, and hungry culture. They prioritize establishing a positive and supportive environment both within their own team and for the startups they support. They believe in thinking big and setting ambitious goals, value individual freedom and creativity, take risks to challenge the status quo, and are constantly seeking fresh opportunities for improvement and growth.

HSG invests in global technology, healthcare, and consumer companies with scalable, disruptive innovations and high-growth potential, serving customers across 150+ countries. Focuses on portfolio companies driving transformative change in their industries.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

HTGF

Berlin, DE

mediaire invests in life science startups with a focus on precision medicine, digital health, and innovative medical technologies. The firm targets companies addressing high unmet medical needs across pharmaceuticals, MedTech, and diagnostics.

HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds

Bonn, DE

HTGF invests in tech founders who have the courage to shape the future. They focus on pre-seed and seed stages, providing a strong network in business and science, experience in scaling startups, and in-depth tech know-how. Their mission extends beyond their track record, aiming to sustainably strengthen the technological backbone of Germany as a business location and create international market leaders. They invest across all major tech fields from software to hardware: From AI, deep tech to biotech. They have over 300 years of investment experience. They believe that long-term success is only possible if the impact of technologies and business models are considered from the start and managed responsibly, integrating ESG measures into their processes since 2019. HTGF contributes at the fund level, including active risk management, measuring and offsetting carbon footprint, vegetarian catering, and environmentally friendly travel policies. They also provide a healthy work environment for their employees, with flexible working hours, company bicycle leasing, subsidized sports memberships, and the maximum employer subsidy for the Deutschlandticket. They actively advocate for practical requirements for founding teams in relevant areas within their network, ensuring standardization and transparency in ESG reporting. They offer ESG Due Diligence before investing and provide ESG Support for Impact after the investment, supporting companies to set up sustainably from the very beginning. They help startups to collect relevant data for annual ESG reporting, helping them present themselves transparently and convincingly to customers and investors.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Venture capital firm investing in high-growth technology companies.

Hack VC

US

Hack VC is a thesis-driven venture capital firm that partners at the earliest stages with founders building the future of the Internet across crypto, AI, and other frontier technologies. They consider themselves one of the first institutional investors in frontier technologies like Web3 and AI, supporting founders from idea to global scale since 2014. The firm emphasizes building alongside the founders they back, leveraging a team comprised of VCs, founders, developers, and researchers. A core component of Hack VC's strategy is their internal R&D arm, hack.labs(), which includes engineers, quant traders, and an internal tech platform. This allows them to be early users of their own products and provides capabilities in on-chain crypto network participation, venture studio incubations, and dedicated research. This internal function allows Hack VC to understand and support the complexities of these nascent technologies. Another differentiating factor is Hack VC's dedication to building developer ecosystems. They manage hack.summit(), which is claimed to be one of the largest communities for Web3 developers, with over 130,000 engineers from 157 countries. This community building provides insight and connection to the developer community.