Venture Capital Companies Worldwide

EuroGate is an investment syndicate active with private European technology companies that demonstrate high growth and near-term liquidity potential.

FinstarLabs is the corporate venture arm of Finstar Financial Group. FinstarLabs focuses exclusively on the financial services sector. Recent changes in consumer behaviour, coupled with advances in technology and data science are opening up new whitespace for emerging players, and challenging incumbents as never before. Our objective is to identify and deploy innovations that deliver sustainable competitive advantage to our existing operating businesses, and enable the creation of exciting and profitable new businesses.

We are a venture studio committed to impact. We build ventures improving daily life, global trade, common welfare and open society.

At First Degree, relationships matter. We’re here to connect founders, partners, and operators who want to change the way we work. If you want to know more about who we are and what we do — visit firstdegree.capital

The founding partner for maritime startups. The global maritime industry is at the cusp of a digital transformation that will fundamentally reshape the sector in the coming decade. At Flagship Founders we strongly believe that innovation lies at the confluence of deep sector insights, entrepreneurial thinking and information technology. We partner with ambitious founding teams to build agile and scalable solutions for the global maritime market. With an experienced team of seasoned entrepreneurs, investors and shipping experts, we provide our ventures with the support that makes all the difference.

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Early investors in Infra.Market, Enter, Permitflow, Tazapay, Speckle, Snaptrude, Wiz Freight. Foundamental partners with the most ambitious builders from day zero. Our minds are locked on our search for those who build the next 100 legendary technology companies in the real world. We search for vertical singularities often overlooked by others, spending 365 days a year dedicated to 3D design, construction, blue-collar workforce, robotics, supply chains, logistics, and opportunistically, industrial manufacturing and aerospace. Our expertise comes from our team's diverse background across technology, venture, and industrial operations, including prior successes with Spotify, Uber, Lyft, Zetwerk and more. Across the Foundamental portfolio, we had the privilege to build alongside daring category creators such as Infra.Market, Enter, Speckle, Snaptrude, Tazapay and SafeAI. We aspire to be the earliest partner, leading pre-seed, seed and Series-A rounds globally, and by principle reserving more than 50% of each fund for follow-ons. We put in the work outside of board meetings, leveraging our deep understanding and unique convictions to help founders navigate adversity in the critical early years. We are building the preeminent vertical technology investment firm for the real world, one legendary company at a time.

We look to acquire, manage and grow an existing business. Our targets are well-run businesses with growth potential and turnover between EUR 5m and EUR 25m located in the DACH and Benelux region.

Future Energy Ventures is a unique venture capital and collaboration platform that brings together world-class start-ups and corporate partners to shape the future energy landscape. Future Energy Ventures team advises to invest in digital and digitally enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape and make our cities more sustainable. From its operational hubs in Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, Future Energy Ventures looks for both investment opportunities and scaling opportunities for its portfolio globally and new investment opportunities. Please find our privacy policy here: https://fev.vc/privacy-policy/

GLOBAL VENTURES is the holistic end to end value creation partner for venture investments. Due to the combination of Investment Advisory, Management Consulting and Asset Management we can provide our clients with targeted, efficient and professional solutions out of one hand that are seamlessly integrated.

The GINKGO tree has been living on this planet for more than 300 million years - it stands for longterm success and as it has been adopting to very different conditions, it is my favorite symbol for steady transformation. My goal with Ginkgo Ventures are the following two: 1. Investing in relevant start-ups in pre-seed oder seed stage and fostering their success by leveraging my personal experience as a serial entrepreneur as well as my network. Main investment criteria are all three dimensions of sustainability (ecological, economical and social) and application of latest suitable technology to solve relevant problems of humans. 2. Sharing my experience, collected within 13 years of working and leading in innovation and transformation of products, services and organizations. Having worked in the field of innovative internal combustion engines for the world's biggest car company I know about the processes and mechanisms prevailing in big corporations. Having also built up and led Audi Denkwerkstatt - the intrapreneurship program to create digital products and services in the field of mobility and as a by product transforming Audi's working culture - I also know about the challenges of going far beyond the core business. Audi Denkwerkstatt has been awarded for being "Germany's best Innovation Lab" in 2019 and 2020 by Infront Consulting and Capital business magazine. During 4,5 years of building up and leading Denkwerkstatt, I learned a lot, which I want to share with others, who face similar challenges.

Impact Investing Boutique that provides professional investment advice for direct or impact fund investments as well as personal development trainings to align your investments with your value set. Maybe we don't need to fix or save the world but we can all fall in LOVE with the world again and put our energy (time, money, focus) on things we love and enjoy, on things that nourish and let us thrive. I support finding that sweet spot for you and accompany you on that journey of investing.

Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world. We invest across geographies, stages, and sectors, from consumer and fintech to infrastructure and software. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global. Our Early Stage Funds, based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, back Early Stage companies locally, while our Venture Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond. This allows us to see local trends up close, partner with winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Among the 300+ investments globally, current and former Headline portfolio companies include Acorns, Angi, AppFolio, Bumble, Bitwarden, Creditas, Farfetch, Fetch, Gopuff, Honeycomb, Mistral AI, NGINX, Numa, Pismo, Raisin, Scopely, Segment, SEMrush, Sonos, Staffbase, The RealReal, and Yeahka.

Helix Council is a global investment group on a mission to change the world through starting & investing in futuristic startups who are working towards making our world better. Currently, we are focused on countries such as Germany, France, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and India.

Heilemann Ventures ist die Early Stage Venture Capital Holding der DailyDeal-Gründer Fabian und Ferry Heilemann. Ihr Investmentfokus liegt auf transaktionsbasierten Geschäftsmodellen mit früh realisierbaren Umsätzen in den Bereichen SaaS und B2B, überwiegend in Deutschland. Heilemann Ventures hat seinen Sitz in Berlin, besteht aus einem sechsköpfigen Team und hält Beteiligungen an derzeit fünfzehn Unternehmen. Impressum: http://www.heilemann-ventures.com/en/impressum/

heuretes is a venture capital fund dedicated to investing in life science companies that are close to entering a clinical development programme and are eager to shape the healthcare solutions of tomorrow. We are driven by the belief that good ideas need to be encouraged by challenging the overall strategy and giving essential insights into the way that clinical programmes are executed. heuretes goes above and beyond what is normally expected of an “investment manager”: we focus on achieving operational excellence based on the knowledge of distinguished experts, embracing the full spectrum of potential challenges within the development process of a life science company. For us, it is all about smart capital: we are eager to identify, invest in and support the rising stars who address unmet medical needs and improve patient’s lives.

The focus of The House of Creative Entrepreneurship is not The House itself, but rather the success of the outputs of The House. We Invest. Optimise. And spread creative enterprise into the world.

IBB Ventures (www.ibbventures.de) has been providing venture capital to innovative Berlin-based companies since 1997 and has established itself as the market leader in early stage financing. The funds are primarily used for development and market launch of innovative products or services as well as for business concepts from creative industries. In addition to the two VC funds for technology and creative companies with a volume of EUR 90 million, an impact VC fund with a volume of EUR 30 million has been in the investment phase since 2022. All VC funds are financed by the Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), managed by the State of Berlin.

We invests in European startups with LGBTQ+ representation on founder or C-Level from pre-seed to seed across all sectors. Our Mission: Innovation happens when we break the norm. Great founders don’t follow the rules—they challenge, rewrite, and disrupt. No community embodies this more than the LGBTQ+ community. We have been reshaping culture, tech, and society by disrupting the norm. Disruption is in our DNA. We are born to disrupt. For LGBTQ+ founders, our community is an unparalleled unfair advantage—spanning borders, industries, and hierarchies. Together, we’re building a powerhouse of LGBTQ+ founders and investors, shaping Europe’s next League of Unicorns. 👉 LGBTQ+ founders seeking funding? No warm intro needed—just pitch us: https://1ef0q80pxr4.typeform.com/to/Plyakh2m?utm_source=linkedin 👉 Founders & investors, connect, stay updated, and access exclusive events. Join our community, the League of Unicorns: https://1ef0q80pxr4.typeform.com/to/jZfIUpna 👉 Join us in backing Europe’s next generation of diverse founders. We’re hiring at identity.vc, explore open positions here: 🔗 https://identity-vc.notion.site/

Technology and Entrepreneurship are changing our world for the better. Be the change you want to see. The Inception Collective is a venture equity and advisory firm focused on growth, transformation and new beginnings. We operate at the intersection of venture building, private equity, and technology advisory – combining investment, hands-on company building, and operational excellence. Our mission: creating lasting value for companies, their people, and their partners.

Launched as Impulse VC in 2013, it is the venture investment partner providing funding and operational support to the exceptional technology and media companies. Impulse VC works across all industries but is primarily focused on adtech and B2B SaaS industries. The fund’s portfolio encompasses adtech companies from the USA, UK and Russia, which run business globally. Examples of companies supported by Impulse VC include programmatic, influencer marketing, contextual advertising, creative management, online and offline targeting platforms.

Berlin-based DeepTech VC Fund PreSeed / Seed / Series A AI | Cyber Security | Defense | Cryptography | Quantum Computing |

KKA Partners is a Berlin-based private equity firm specializing in investments in medium-sized companies across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. In addition to delivering optimal returns for investors, KKA pursues a forward-looking vision: transforming portfolio companies for the future by driving technology-driven growth and enhancing business models. Founded in 2018 by Dominic Faber, Kaspar N. Hartmann, and Patrick Feller, the management team brings extensive experience as entrepreneurs and professionals from leading international companies. With strong roots in the German-speaking SME sector, KKA Partners combines expertise with a deep understanding of the market. KKA focuses on majority acquisitions of established, profitable medium-sized businesses. Preferred sectors include healthcare, engineering, service providers, and consumer goods manufacturers with a strong brand heritage.

kopa ventures is an established early-stage impact investor with a focus on European climate tech startups in the fields of Energy, Mobility, Nature and Carbon Tech. The kopa ventures team, located in Berlin, Munich, Mainz, and London, combines exceptional domain expertise, entrepreneurial acumen, and access to an extensive investment and expert network to support early-stage startups in achieving substantial positive financial and ecological impacts.

We are a global venture corporation dedicated to enhancing lives through sports and health tech. With a family of funds investing across all stages of venture and a cutting-edge advisory division, we have expanded on the traditional Venture Capital model. We are a leading collective of global investors, innovators, and athletes, joining forces to make meaningful progress, one idea at a time. Originally inspired by Adi Dassler and the entrepreneurial spirit he embodied, LEAD launched in Berlin in 2017. We were founded with the belief that greater investment in sports technology was on the horizon, so we built an academy to accelerate early-stage start-ups in the space. LEAD soon grew beyond an accelerator, becoming a collective of investors, advisors, and innovators who expanded their focus upon recognizing that the line between sports and health was blurring. Today, LEAD is a venture corporation with 70+ portfolio companies, $120 million in assets under management, and a strategic advisory arm supporting global organizations.

LARK is the combination of experienced Business Angels providing financial, strategic and operative support for start-ups with a clear tech focus - sector agnostic with regard to end industries. Our approach is based on long-lasting relationships, teamwork, trust and reliability. We believe in true partnerships and take time to listen, learn and understand the respective unique situations to jointly develop and realize growth. We back ambitious founding teams who are building bold, game-changing products with the potential to become tomorrow’s market leaders. • Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, and Pre-Series A • Region: Focus on DACH • Ticket size: €50k–200k initial investment, with follow-on in later rounds • Focus: Software and software-enabled consumer & B2B models • Approach: Sector and market agnostic • Value add: Beyond capital, we actively support founders in scaling to the next level

Linta Partners is a Berlin-based investment firm dedicated to backing exceptional entrepreneurs through the search fund model. We focus on Europe while selectively supporting searchers in the United States, partnering with them to acquire, operate, and grow enduring small and mid-sized companies. Linta was founded by Michael Röcker, an entrepreneur and operator with nearly 20 years of experience in the SME and Mittelstand sector. Early in his career, he led a successful turnaround as CEO of Confiserie Heilemann, a typical German Mittelstand company, before co-founding and scaling LionsHome, a European digital platform he later sold to private equity, and subsequently serving as Group CEO of a buy-and-build backed by the same investor. His background combines hands-on SME leadership with M&A and private equity expertise. At Linta, we are approachable partners to entrepreneurs – supportive, collaborative, and accessible throughout the search journey. At the same time, we are highly selective: we back only the most ambitious and driven searchers, those with the conviction and capability to acquire, build, and scale enduring companies. This combination allows us to offer genuine partnership while maintaining a sharp focus on quality. At Linta, we offer more than capital. Our searchers gain access to a trusted network of investors, seasoned operators, and advisors, as well as strategic support across the entire journey – from fundraising to acquisition to long-term company building.

Lymbersky Capital & Asset Management is a holding to manage exceptional investments in venture capital, real estate and shares in international corporations. We discreetly advise family offices and private investors on investment opportunities, asset and capital management.

Wir konzentrieren uns auf das, was wir am besten können; die Finanzierung von Unternehmen und Vorhaben. Dabei gehen wir grundsätzlich Minderheitsbeteiligungen ein und beraten bei Emission von Finanz-instrumenten aus der alten und der neuen (digitalen) Welt. PRIVATE EQUITY Wir investieren in börsennotierte und nicht-notierte Sondersituationen und unterstützen mit unseren Investitionen und Dienstleistungen Unternehmen und Unternehmer bei der Realisierung ihres Wachstumspotenzials. GOING PUBLIC Wir identifizieren Projekte, welche wirtschaftlich besonders effektiv in Börsenmänteln umgesetzt werden können und ermöglichen Kleinunternehmen oder Start-ups den Börsengang mittels eines Börsenmantels. BÖRSENMÄNTEL Wir bieten interessierten Erwerbern Börsenmäntel sowie noch nicht gelistete, girosammelfähige Aktiengesellschaften an. INSOLVENZVERWALTUNG Unsere Expertise richtet sich insbesondere an Insolvenzverwalter bei der Verwertung von Rechtsträgern im Insolvenzplan-verfahren.

Merantix Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm and a unit of Merantix, a group of companies and initiatives driving AI forward in Europe. We leverage our platform to attract and foster interactions between ideas, talent, industry, and policy. We combine our venture-building DNA, deep AI investing expertise, and our expansive community.

Merapar is a change-oriented European investment and advisory firm helping innovative technology, media, and telecoms companies develop disruptive technologies and business models. Through its in-house investment fund and its experienced team of entrepreneurs and executives, Merapar provides hands-on strategic, operational, and financial services. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Berlin and Eindhoven with a further presence in Brussels and London. http://www.merapar.com Vision Innovative and disruptive business models and technologies will emerge through targeted funding, expertise and strong entrepreneurship, fundamentally changing the way people live and work. Mission To be the leading investment and advisory firm in the European Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector creating superior value and being recognised for our unparalleled market expertise and entrepreneurship. Investment: Merapar takes and manages minority or controlling investments as lead or co-lead in TMT companies meeting its criteria via its in-house investment fund. Along with providing financial resources, Merapar typically contributes its strategic, operational & management strength in maximizing value of the portfolio companies. Advisory: Merapar helps TMT companies to plan its strategic journey, and executive successful transactions in capitalizing on the created value. Merapar’s unique hands-on approach allows for fast and cost-effective top management support within the company.

Metall-Chemie Holding GmbH strategically grows its subsidiaries and actively provides them with coaching, consulting and controlling. Along with choosing and staffing the management, Metall-Chemie Holding GmbH provides help and, if needed, support with corporate strategy, corporate organization, financing and issues of a general nature. Furthermore, acquisition projects are pursued in close coordination with the operational management.

MJM Capital Partners offers services in Mergers & Acquisitions, Fundraising and Corporate Finance. We focus on SMEs in the DACH region and strive be your ideal partner for your corporate finance endeavor.

The MLAB is a company builder born out of Metalsa, a well-funded privately owned global company. Our goal is to launch and grow novel and differentiated startups that will leverage and power the group’s future growth. Through incubations, strategic investments, partnerships, and acquisitions we aim to discover unique insights to launch new business models. Our focus is on mobility and manufacturing with a special focus on electrification, additive manufacturing, IoT, and digitalization of manufacturing processes. As part of our mission, we look to foster and promote an innovative culture within our current footprint. To help build that ecosystem, and support us in developing our startups. Mlab ventures is currently launching two incubations in the manufacturing area: one is focused on flexible and agile manufacturing for low volume production, and one incubation is targeting flexible low-cost assembly in the automotive sector for low volumes. For both incubations we are looking for enthusiastic entrepreneurs with experience in the broader manufacturing domain. Opportunities are posted here on LinkedIn as well as on our website www.mlabteam.com

Mobile @d ventures, is a company based in Saint Petersburg, Russia with the focus to launch start ups in Russia or provide assistance for Russian start ups to expand their services worldwide. Focused fields IT services, user centric IT applications (WEB 3.0), mobile marketing services, location based services (LBS), media and entertainment projects What we are looking for? Ideas that satify customers in the first place and secondly providing us good ROI rates. So send us your pitch. please no bla bla, stay focus and sell your service, we don't spend to much time on each application, till we like it. ;) Current investments: bipbip.com - mobile @d ventures bought the first Area License in Russia for this incredible mobile marketing application. We are launching the product in Petersburg at the 27th of febuary. fairagent.com - some words about this service, its incredible and probably the next BIG search engine ;) so much for now :) when I can tell more I will ;)

MOTU VENTURES is a Berlin-based seed fund focused on building lean startups and boosting talented entrepreneurs. We specialize in first round financing of seed stage companies. Leveraging our network and experience, we support our portfolio companies from their early stage and we accelerate them as active investor.

N47 is a global venture firm. We invest when the product speaks loudest—before the buzz and the metrics, when the truest expression of potential is the product itself. That’s when we partner with bold builders, those who begin with insight and move with urgency, and help them grow from belief to scale. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we back builders across the US, Europe, and Israel.

NAP is a Berlin-based pre-seed and seed venture capital investor, investing in European technology companies. NAP backs founders who turn non-obvious ideas into realities. The team includes builders and specialists with extensive experience in scaling companies. NAP supports its portfolio companies through capital, guidance, and connections. NAP’s key portfolio highlights include Aleph Alpha, Ampeco, Flip, PlanRadar, Spread, and Usercentrics.

Neon Bridges is a digital innovators and angel investors consortium. Our members and selected global corporations enable the creation of unapologetic and fast-scaling business models at the intersection of human life and digital technologies. Neon Bridges is a digital innovators and angel investors consortium. The Neon Bridges Consortium is not a company or venture capital fund. The firm operate as a networked circle of experienced entrepreneurs, senior executives and chosen global corporations. If you are interested in joning or doing business with us, please place your request in person via an individual member of the Neon Bridges Consortium.

At noa vc, we’re building Europe’s largest tech fund dedicated to transforming the built world. We believe the built world is more than just physical infrastructure: it is a manifestation of human ingenuity and a reflection of societal values. We call it humanity’s OS. noa invests in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise the built world. We're backing tech that matters.

The Founder & General Partners of NKP Digital are passionate about the internet and digital solutions. Having successfully grown their own businesses, the partners are now investing in high-potential companies in the digital sector. We are a prudent Investment company, driven by the Founders, and for the Founders. We aim to invest in outstanding, early-stage companies, with focus on pre-seed ventures. We target experienced entrepreneurs with a clear vision and a strong willingness to succeed. It is also ok if the founding team is usually not completed at this stage. These investments are primarily Pre-revenue. We are selective in the opportunities we invest in, where we believe we can also add value and bring skills which complement those of the talented teams which we actively support.

The NLA is a multi-corporate, logistics industry-focused accelerator located in Hamburg, Germany - one of the world’s leading logistics hot spots. With its highly experienced team, its worldwide successfully operating and innovative investors from the logistics or logistics-related industry, its supportive partners and sponsors and its extensively experienced 100+ mentors, the NLA offers access to a cutting-edge ecosystem which provides startups best prerequisites for future growth. The NLA offers the largest logistics-focused startup acceleration program across Europe. It supports promising startups from around the world in two six-month programs per year.

We build long-term relationships with businesses that are designed to grow fast. Our mechanism to forge a long-term relationship with founders, investors and service partners is based on equity participation, joint projects and exchange of resources. Nidobirds are the nucleus of a powerful network of companies that is built on best-practice and knowledge sharing to protect member firms against the risk of failure, thus facilitating the long-term high growth strategies.

Fueling pioneers, turning bold science into planetary resilience. Nucleus is a first check deep-tech VC focused on Programmable Biology (Synbio & TechBio), Food Technology and Neo Industrials.

We invest into early-stage, tech-oriented start-ups (med-tech, internet, B2B) and offer consulting services for early-stage start-ups with a focus on software development and med-tech. Impressum / Datenschutz: https://www.oezbek-ventures.com/imprint

A boutique family office working together with international investors and selected startups to deploy venture capital in: OceanTech | Maritime | Smart Ports | OceanEnergy | Decarbonisation core geographic focus: Europe | Asia Pacific | Middle East

As one of the first VCs in the European food industry, we invest in impact driven start-ups such as Oatly!, Air Up, Peas of Heaven and GoodBytz.    Oyster Bay Funds focuses on start-ups along the food value chain from field to consumer goods to recycling and waste.     The food industry is responsible for around a third of greenhouse gases - while also being the first sector to feel the effects of climate change. Harvests are deteriorating, soils are depleting and supply chains are breaking down.     To change that we invest in Seed and Series A rounds. If you want to be part of that change – no matter if you are an investor or a startup founder – feel free to contact us.   Oyster Bay Funds focuses on start-ups along the food value chain from field to consumer goods to recycling and waste. The food industry is responsible for around a third of greenhouse gases - while also being the first sector to feel the effects of climate change. Harvests are deteriorating, soils are depleting and supply chains are breaking down. To change that we invest in Seed and Series A rounds. If you want to be part of that change – no matter if you are an investor or a startup founder – feel free to contact us.

Platform Horizons is where capital meets category creation. We’re a next-generation investment firm architecting institutional-scale platforms for the post-AI world. Our model fuses private equity rigor, venture speed, and founder DNA. Instead of just backing startups or optimizing mature companies, we orchestrate platforms—built via acquisitions, category design, and AI-native infrastructure. We call this Wave 3 Private Equity. Our founding team has scaled companies to over $1B in value, raised $800M+ in capital, and now partners with exceptional builders to create enduring platforms in sectors like logistics, fintech, industrial tech, and digital services. We don’t chase trends. We invent categories.

Wir verfolgen das Leitbild des “zweiflügligen” Business Angels, der sich sowohl mit Kapital, als auch mit Know-how an jungen, innovativen Startups beteiligt. Business Angels sind oft „Senioren/innen der Wirtschaft“. Sie stehen häufig am Anfang der Finanzierungskette, dort, wo der Engpass am größten ist. Darüber hinaus spielen Business Angels zunehmend auch in Folgefinanzierungsrunden eine nicht unbedeutende Rolle. Möchten Sie in Startups investieren und sich als Business Angel engagieren? Dann kommen Sie auf uns zu! Nehmen Sie am besten direkt hier über LinkedIn Kontakt zu uns auf. Business Angels sind häufig in Netzwerken organisiert. In Deutschland gibt es zurzeit etwa 40 Netzwerke, meist mit regionaler Ausprägung. Sie dienen als Anlaufstelle für Kapital suchende Unternehmen und stellen Kontakte zu Business-Angels her. PALATINA ist ein regionales B.A.-Netzwerk mit regionalen Schwerpunkten im Gebiet der ehemaligen Kurpfalz (lateinisch: Palatina). Zentral sind die Großstädte Mannheim, Ludwigshafen und Heidelberg.

Pathfinder Partners was founded to provide the tools and means for outstanding seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies to kickstart, expand and scale on their journey. We leverage our diverse experience to scale and exit ventures that improve the environment, health and wellbeing. Thereby, having a positive social and environmental impact. We help you find the way.