Araya Ventures
Invests in exceptional founders globally at pre-seed and seed stages across AI, healthcare, commerce, fintech, and the future of work. Focuses on high-conviction opportunities domestically and globally, with dedicated funds for women-led startups in healthcare, climate, fintech, and deeptech/AI.
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.
Positron Ventures
Positron Ventures focuses on helping and funding Europe-based scientist-entrepreneurs who are pursuing moonshots for planetary health. They invest in scientist-entrepreneurs working on breakthroughs across the natural sciences, backing teams from day one in their pursuit of solving major global challenges. The firm often acts as the first believer and investor, offering support across all aspects of building a company. They proactively conduct deep dives in scientific niches to thoroughly understand the state of science in a given field before investing. Their investment strategy appears to be focused on early-stage, pre-seed deeptech companies. Positron Ventures aims to turn breakthrough research into successful companies by investing at the frontier of science and building systems that help deeptech founders succeed. This includes support across operations, people, communications, and LP engagement. Positron Ventures invests in deeptech funds in Europe and the US, and is launching the Positron Foundation to support high-risk, pre-commercial research.
Seraphim Accelerator
Seraphim VC is a global leader in SpaceTech investment, focusing on companies solving the world’s greatest problems. They invest in the brightest minds and smartest ideas to provide trailblazing, high-value solutions that disrupt, transform, and improve life. Their mission is to accelerate humanity’s next giant leap by transforming science fiction into science fact. They support space entrepreneurship from inception to exit, providing capital, expertise, and global partners. Seraphim backs pioneering space and deeptech ventures at the forefront of global security, sustainability, and resilience. Their portfolio companies redefine how critical infrastructure is protected, defense capabilities are strengthened, and pressing global challenges are tackled, including real-time Earth observation, secure communications, and climate intelligence. They aim to harness the power of space to build the next generation of game-changing companies. Their interconnected model is designed to identify, support, and grow early-stage SpaceTech companies across the full lifecycle, from inception to exit. They are backed by leading space corporations and international space agencies across their activities, including investors in their funds like Airbus, SES, Teledyne, and Telespazio, SSTL MDA. They also have accelerator partnerships with the UK and European Space Agency. Their approach generates co-investment opportunities for their LPs at Series B and beyond. Seraphim identifies as “mission control” for Spacetech founders.
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.
Galileo Ventures
Galileo Ventures is an Australian pre-seed to seed VC firm that invests in emerging founders building new technology for global markets. They focus on backing exceptional, unproven, and often overlooked entrepreneurs who are leveraging new technologies to build market-leading companies. The firm believes a revolution in entrepreneurship is underway, where anyone with an internet connection and an idea can build a global business. They aim to be the first investor in these founders, providing capital and hands-on support to help them succeed. Galileo co-invests with leading global VCs and provides follow-on funding support.
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.