Aidiom
Aidiom is a Norwegian deeptech investor focused on guiding technology companies from startup to exit. They aim to help solve big problems by providing long-term competent capital and strategic support to early-stage B2B companies with applied AI. The firm seeks domain-driven entrepreneurs with global ambitions and outstanding growth potential, investing in the EEA. They leverage their experience as both founders and funders to assist entrepreneurs in turning their ideas and visions into successful companies, acting as active owners.
CEA Investissement
CEA Investissement was created in 1999 as CEA Valorisation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CEA, to support its policy of creating businesses. In 2008, it became CEA Investissement with the objective of taking direct stakes in companies leveraging CEA technologies, targeting patent valorization and investments in start-ups. Their specific aims include investing during the start-up creation phase (taking founder shares) based on innovations linked to CEA research, supporting the scientific and commercial development of young companies originating from the CEA's spin-off policy or connected through research contracts, benefiting from financial returns in case of success, and maintaining control, even indirectly, over technologies originating from CEA laboratories. Beyond participating in creation, CEA Investissement has developed an investment activity in the best projects in its portfolio, supporting the initial rounds of many companies. In 2013, with the implementation of new state support mechanisms for start-up seed funding (Fonds National d’Amorçage), CEA Investissement initiated the raising of its first seed fund, ATI (Amorçage Technologique Investissement). CEA Investissement is the primary subscriber to this fund, alongside Bpifrance and several industrial partners, providing CEA-related start-ups with enhanced support opportunities in their initial development phases. In partnership with Amundi (Groupe Crédit Agricole), and leveraging its investment team's expertise, CEA Investissement created Supernova Invest in 2017, an AMF-approved management company. This was done to develop its fund-of-funds activity and expand its intervention capabilities towards deeptech start-ups originating from the CEA or the best French laboratories, at all development stages. CEA Investissement invests in the Supernova 2 (75 M€), Supernova Innovation 3 (74 M€) seed funds, and the Supernova Ambition Industrie growth fund which closed in 2023 at 204 M€. Through these "fund of funds" interventions, CEA Investissement has the capacity to support start-ups valorizing CEA technologies, from their creation to growth capital, including seed and private equity stages. Since 1999, CEA Investissement has financed and supported around a hundred start-ups, following the CEA's innovation policy across life sciences, energy, microelectronics, materials, and industrial equipment.
JR Holding
JR Holding ASI S.A. invests in the future by focusing on high-growth sectors and innovative companies. They aim to capitalize on emerging trends and disruptive technologies. Their investment strategy revolves around identifying companies with strong potential in AI & digital business, energy transformation, deeptech & space industry, biotech & med-tech, gaming, and sustainability & circular economy. The firm seeks to create value by supporting portfolio companies with capital and expertise, fostering their growth and market expansion.
Nordic Science Investments
Nordic Science Investments (NSI) partners with founders to transform groundbreaking university research into successful startups. They are committed to both profit and impact, accelerating the journey from scientific discovery to market, creating meaningful career opportunities, and driving technological advancement. NSI invests in early-stage, science-based startups and university spinouts in the New Nordics, focusing on bridging the gap between academia and commercialization. They derisk teams for further investment and co-invest with others. Their mission is to turn hidden scientific discoveries into groundbreaking innovations that redefine industries and improve lives. They partner with founders and universities who share a vision of promoting global sustainability and well-being. NSI fuels growth in disruptive sectors such as advanced materials, AI-driven technologies, and synthetic biology, empowering innovative solutions that address global challenges. They are dedicated to creating a lasting, positive impact on society by advancing science that truly matters. NSI excels in early-stage investing, supporting ventures from day one. Their value extends beyond capital, offering synergistic deals and a partner network managing similar vehicles in the UK and North America. This access accelerates growth and boosts outcomes. They strengthen Tech Transfer Offices’ commercialization efforts by partnering with universities, generating superb deal flow through their IP screening expertise. They also attract top spinout CEOs who value their specialist approach, helping mitigate early-phase investment risks. NSI focuses on investing in companies with the potential to disrupt, challenge the status quo, and even create entirely new markets. They back startups that tackle problems previously thought unsolvable, especially those originating as university spinouts.
Nordic Science Investments (NSI)
Nordic Science Investments (NSI) partners with founders to transform groundbreaking university research into successful startups. They focus on early-stage, science-based startups and university spinouts in the New Nordics, particularly in deeptech, healthtech, and life sciences. NSI aims to bridge the gap between academia and commercialization, derisking teams for further investment and co-investing with others. Their mission is to turn hidden scientific discoveries into groundbreaking innovations that redefine industries and improve lives. They partner with founders and universities who share a vision of promoting global sustainability and well-being. By fueling growth in disruptive sectors such as advanced materials, AI-driven technologies, and synthetic biology, they empower innovative solutions that address global challenges. NSI's value extends beyond capital, offering synergistic deals and a partner network managing similar vehicles in the UK and North America. They strengthen Tech Transfer Offices’ commercialization efforts by partnering with universities, generating deal flow through their IP screening expertise. They also attract top spinout CEOs who value their specialist approach, helping mitigate early-phase investment risks.
Psion Partners
Psion Partners focuses on B2B deeptech investments that bridge the gap between today and the future of mobility, with interconnected digital infrastructures both on Earth and in space. They aim to pinpoint how mobility technology will develop and find elusive investment opportunities. Their investment strategy revolves around the interconnected digital infrastructure that lays the building blocks for the 3D Urban Mobility continuum. They invest in early and high-growth companies building this digital infrastructure to enable a 3D Urban mobility future. Psion aims to make the right investment choices for tomorrow by backing future-looking leaders and bold ideas. The firm leverages domain expertise to build lasting value in their portfolio companies. The firm invests from late Seed to Growth stages. The firm is taking a "wartime innovation mindset" and aims to link venture capital with dual-use technology and sovereign capability.
UM6P Ventures
UM6P Ventures is the investment arm of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), established to foster entrepreneurship and accelerate the commercialization of scientific innovations in Morocco and the broader African continent. The firm operates two funds: a Digital Transformation Startup fund and a Deeptech Ventures fund. They invest in pre-seed and seed stages, providing capital and access to resources such as talent sourcing, subject domain expertise, and specialized equipment through the UM6P ecosystem. The firm's vision involves identifying early-stage startups with scalability potential and embedding a venture builder culture to support founding teams. UM6P Ventures aims to bootstrap startups from the pre-seed phase towards a Series A round. They are sector-agnostic but have a focus on deeptech and hardtech startups, particularly those in agriculture, chemicals, greentech, and healthtech. UM6P Ventures looks for startups with a minimum viable product, an identified target customer, high growth potential, a competitive advantage, a skilled and complementary founding team, and a viable business model. They aim to provide early-stage capital to help startups transition into established businesses and ensure continued capital injection and growth through direct investments or regional co-investments. Their model gives startups access to resources, labs, and the UM6P community, along with SMEs to facilitate launch and growth. UM6P Ventures fosters an experience-based learning community by connecting ventures with incubators, accelerators, angel investors, and VCs within a broad ecosystem.
Wind
Wind is a conviction-led VC firm based in Europe that focuses on backing deeptech companies addressing challenges related to sustainable change and European sovereignty. The firm aims to support entrepreneurs with sharp business instincts, bold ideas, and deep purpose, helping them reimagine various aspects of life, from how we eat and move to how we live, by creating more balanced and sustainable systems. They also focus on technologies that foster European strategic independence through investments in AI, cybersecurity, space, and defense. Wind aims to partner with founders relentlessly, providing advice and support, daring to innovate and investing in areas others might avoid, and propel positive change through their investments. Wind aims to provide substantial support for startups, leading to stellar returns for investors. They emphasize their commitment to advising and supporting founders through all stages, good or bad. The firm actively seeks game-changing innovators and seeks new ways to support them, investing boldly in areas others might avoid. The firm prioritizes investing in technologies that are impactful and contribute positively to society and the planet. Wind demonstrates a strong belief in the potential of deeptech to drive both economic growth and positive societal impact, investing in founders who are working to shape a better future. They actively seek out and support visionaries with the potential to transform industries and create strategic independence for Europe.
Albion VC
AlbionVC aims to support visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise, leveraging their know-how since 1996. They focus on early-stage software, healthcare, and deeptech companies, acting as partners to entrepreneurs throughout their journey. The firm's strategy involves identifying and investing in companies with high growth potential in these sectors, providing not only financial support but also strategic guidance and operational expertise to help them scale and succeed. AlbionVC also emphasizes its long track record and extensive network, positioning itself as a valuable partner for founders looking to build impactful and sustainable businesses. AlbionVC provides support in building the company and has a platform and talent arm.
Brunnur Ventures
Brunnur Ventures is a top venture capital firm in Iceland focusing on startups with high-growth potential. The firm is committed to creating value, fostering innovation, and driving economic growth by investing in the future of entrepreneurship. They foster visionary startups through an attentive approach to partnership, focusing on collaborative partnerships and long-term value creation with deep market understanding. Brunnur emphasizes a hands-on approach, leveraging its expansive network and strategic insight to support founders. Brunnur's investment strategy centers around supporting startups across various sectors, including healthtech, SaaS, gaming, deeptech, Climate & Industry 4.0, and B2C & Entertainment software. The firm provides a collaborative partnership, long-term value creation, and deep market understanding to its portfolio companies. They have executive and entrepreneurial experiences spanning the globe from the Nordics to North America and from Asia to Africa and is ready to support business building innovative and creative solutions anywhere. The firm's team brings extensive experience in startups, venture capital, private equity, and corporate finance, having executed over 100 transactions in multiple countries. They leverage this experience to provide pragmatic and thoughtful investment and leadership. Brunnur seeks to reshape how industries manage disruption and improve their bottom line. Overall, Brunnur Ventures positions itself as a trusted advocate for founders, driving operational efficiency and cost savings across sectors.
Seraphim Space
Seraphim Space is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on investing in SpaceTech companies. They aim to accelerate humanity's next giant leap by transforming science fiction into science fact, backing visionary space entrepreneurs and providing them with the capital, expertise, and global partnerships to achieve escape velocity. Seraphim invests across the full innovation lifecycle, from inception to exit, and supports companies that address global security, enable resilient infrastructure, and tackle the planet's most urgent challenges. They are particularly interested in companies involved in real-time Earth observation, secure communications, and climate intelligence. Seraphim Space operates multiple investment vehicles, including the Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC (a growth-stage listed fund), Seraphim Space Venture Fund II (an early-stage venture capital fund), and the Seraphim Space Accelerator (the world’s first and largest accelerator dedicated to SpaceTech). This allows them to support SpaceTech companies from the earliest stages of development through to IPO. Seraphim’s interconnected model identifies, supports, and grows early-stage SpaceTech companies, leveraging a network of leading space corporates and international space agencies. They see a future where space technology addresses some of the world's most pressing problems and build the next generation of game-changing companies. Their investment thesis centers around supporting pioneers charting a course to a better future on Earth by harnessing the power of space. They actively seek out companies at the forefront of global security, sustainability, and resilience, believing these areas represent significant opportunities for growth and impact.
Mundi Ventures
Mundi Ventures' website doesn't explicitly state a multi-paragraph investment thesis. However, based on the portfolio companies and team's background, it appears they focus on high-growth technology companies, particularly in fintech, insurtech, deeptech, and climatetech. They have a presence in both Europe, US, Asia and the Middle East. They look to invest in companies that can scale rapidly and disrupt traditional industries, prioritizing simplification, tech-enablement, and innovative approaches.
Neulogy Ventures
Neulogy Ventures is a Luxembourg-based regulated venture capital fund established in 2014, targeting investment opportunities in early-stage tech companies established or operating in Slovakia. Built by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, the fund seeks to nurture the next generation of innovators to transition toward a knowledge economy. The firm invests in moonshot ideas pushing the frontier in technology, climate, and health, looking for mission-driven entrepreneurs with bold ambitions taking audacious bets. They are focused on supporting ventures that reconcile planet, people, and profit for a positive impact, fostering a culture of inclusion and recognizing the value of diversity. They follow the 'Invest Europe ESG Reporting Guidelines' as the industry standard, and work with their portfolio companies to evaluate their sustainability performance. Neulogy Ventures aims to create a future that is progressive rather than regressive, transcending defeatist views and exploring new visions. Their guiding principles emphasize their experience as entrepreneurs, their focus on real innovation over hype, fast and transparent decision-making, adding value beyond financing, helping with fundraising, strategic guidance, and business development. They also emphasize keeping founders in the driving seat, aligning interests, caring about each entrepreneurial story, taking a long-term view, valuing humility and competence, and serving entrepreneurs rather than the other way around. Their investment strategy targets deeptech investments leveraging CEE engineering talent, specifically SMEs established or operating in Slovakia. They look for passion and ambition, aiming to create a better future by supporting companies with a positive impact. They value shared values and aim for headache-free partnerships, focusing on long-term growth rather than fast exits.
ScaleFund
ScaleFund focuses on leading companies into their next growth chapter by engaging capital, structuring investment rounds, and carefully selecting advisors from a European network. They provide operational support in business development, team building, and fundraising preparation, aiming to turn ambition into lasting growth. They prioritize companies driving digital transformation, deeptech, and cleantech, looking for committed teams, early revenue or usage growth, a clear Series A plan, scalable models, and openness to strategic support. ScaleFund emphasizes structuring rounds, providing operational support, and maintaining long-term involvement.
Deeptech Seed Fund
Deeptech Seed Fund focuses on early-stage deeptech ventures, specifically spinouts from research institutions in Europe and North America. They target companies commercializing defensible intellectual property with established connections to potential customers. The fund aims to accelerate growth by providing capital and access to a network of international later-stage investors, ensuring ventures are well-funded from the outset. They seek to bridge the gap between research and market readiness by investing in ventures showing early signs of global demand but are considered too early for traditional investors. The fund emphasizes its ability to identify high-potential deeptech ventures earlier than others through its proprietary Deeptech Seed Fund Scorecard, which quantifies the level of pre-revenue commitment a spinout-stage venture has secured. By focusing on pre-revenue commitment Deeptech Seed Fund can derisk the investments for future investors.
Technofounders
Technofounders is a Startup Studio focused on investing in technology to build impactful ventures, specifically in the DeepTech ecosystem. They aim to multiply the impact of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs by funding and orienting technological innovation towards practical solutions that address major global challenges. Their strategy involves identifying disruptive technologies, primarily stemming from research institutions, and structuring investment vehicles to fund and develop innovative projects into successful industrial companies. They have a comprehensive team-based approach, ensuring startups have access to the right expertise at the right time, from pre-seed to exit, including Venture Partners for initial evaluation and interim CEO roles, Operating Partners for operational and strategic support, and Managing Partners for strategic guidance and board participation. Technofounders aims to drive positive impact through deeptech innovation across various sectors. Their investment approach is stage-specific. In the feasibility phase, Venture Partners assess technologies and commercialization paths. During the pre-seed phase, Venture Partners act as interim CEOs, building initial products and teams. Seed acceleration involves Operating Partners providing operational support and Support Services handling administrative tasks. Finally, in the growth phase, Managing Partners offer strategic guidance through board participation, focusing on strategic priorities, funding strategies, and exit planning. Technofounders emphasizes collaboration with academic institutions and industry partners to transform research projects into viable businesses. They actively engage with major research institutions in France, such as CEA and CNRS, to identify and commercialize innovative technologies. Their team structure is designed to provide comprehensive support throughout the startup lifecycle, from initial technology assessment to successful market entry and growth. They prioritize investments with the potential to address pressing societal challenges and create sustainable solutions.
the Untitled Ventures
The Untitled Ventures focuses on investing in early-stage B2B deeptech products created by expats in Europe. They aim to help technology startups transform advanced technologies into real-world products, supporting their development from small startups to international businesses. Their areas of interest include AI, computer vision, robotics, agritech, medtech, and data management. The firm seeks companies with innovative products, talented teams, and global ambitions. They provide a balanced blend of expertise in technology, business, investment, and international markets to support portfolio companies' growth and international expansion. The name reflects their philosophy: focusing on the businesses in which they invest.