VC-Verzeichnis

Europäisches VC-Verzeichnis

Kuratierter Index aktiver Venture-Capital-Fonds in Europa und Israel. Verfolge Investoren, Phasen und Ticketgrößen.

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Europa
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Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

capacura Investment Club

Europa
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capacura Investment Club focuses on investing in sustainable startups in the fields of education, health, and the environment. They aim to combine economic success with positive impact, allowing investors to participate in profitable investments while contributing to a better future. They offer investment opportunities starting from €120 per month or a one-time investment of €1,000, giving individuals access to hand-picked impact startups. Capacura employs a combination of artificial intelligence and experienced analysis to review and select the best startups based on their opportunity, return potential, and impact. The firm's investment model involves profit participation rights, where investors benefit from the economic success of the startups in which capacura invests alongside them. This differs from crowdinvesting, where capacura and/or its shareholders maintain a stake in the investments. Capacura positions itself as an alternative to traditional asset management by offering lower investment minimums and direct startup selection.

Not explicitly mentioned, but implied early-stage/seed due to focus on startups.EducationHealth

capcura

Europa
c

Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

capiton

Berlin, Deutschland

Capiton is a private equity firm based in the DACH region, investing in mid-sized companies since 1999. They partner with companies seeking to reposition themselves for the future, providing capital, expertise, and commitment. Capiton focuses on creating sustainable value and driving growth within its portfolio companies. They invest in innovative, profitable mid-sized companies with a turnover between 50 and 300 million euros and an average annual EBITDA growth of 18 percent. Capiton emphasizes a deep understanding of the challenges faced by mid-sized businesses, gained through long-term partnerships with portfolio companies. They aim to identify and capitalize on new opportunities through professional competence and a holistic perspective. Their investment approach is characterized by taking responsibility, and pursuing opportunities with courage and determination, ensuring the long-term success of their portfolio companies, employees, and investors. Capiton leverages a strong network, including the Global PE Alliance, to share best practices, provide access to international markets, and connect portfolio companies with specialists and advisors. This network facilitates international expansion and provides access to international investors. The firm builds dedicated partner teams for each investment, ensuring consistent support and a deep understanding of the specific challenges faced by each company. Capiton manages a fund volume of approximately 1.6 billion euros. They focus on future-oriented companies in the High-Tech Industrials and Healthcare & Life Sciences sectors. Their approach combines market experience with entrepreneurial thinking, enabling them to be a partner at eye level with the Mittelstand.

Mid-sized companiesHigh-Tech IndustrialsHealthcare & Life Sciences

chANGELS

Zug, CH

7Generations is a consulting company and international business school focused on promoting regenerative business structures and transformation through their Circle Business Model. They offer consulting, guidance, facilitation, and training to help businesses create self-organizing structures. The firm also strengthens initiatives through creativity, communication, and fundraising, aiming to cultivate regenerative change and grow healthy, strong, and energy-filled organizations. They operate with the goal of creating circle businesses for the next seven generations, emphasizing a long-term, sustainable approach to business development and education. While the firm's primary focus is on consulting and education, their work with businesses and organizations could involve early-stage support and guidance. They aim to support initiatives with creativity, communication, and fundraising. They operate in multiple locations, including Bern (Switzerland), Cape Town (South Africa), New Mexico (USA), Camiguin Island (Philippines), Taipeh, and Stockholm.

cocreatd

Großbritannien

Cocreatd is an investment firm that focuses on building companies, not portfolios, by incubating ideas, providing funding, and offering operational support. They reject the traditional VC model, foregoing predatory terms, preference shares, and misaligned incentives. Their approach centers around co-creation, working alongside founders from the earliest stages of an idea. They provide co-founder support, aiming to increase the odds of success, and connect founders to a community of entrepreneurs, creatives, and technologists. They position themselves as more than just investors, emphasizing a long-term view and sharing risks and rewards fairly, operating as genuine co-builders from day zero. Cocreatd focuses on co-creating tech, products, and services that disrupt the status quo alongside founders who challenge conventional industry practices and outdated business models. Their investment strategy is to identify ambitious ideas and partner with founders to build companies from the ground up. They offer hands-on support, capital, and access to a likeminded founder community. They aim to radically rethink how founders are supported and how companies are designed. They seem to focus on leveraging technology to improve business processes and consumer experiences. Examples include AI scheduling assistants, AI business admin operating systems, AI search and discovery tools, and AI development resources. Their ventures aim to solve real-world problems with practical applications, providing businesses and consumers with efficiencies and new opportunities.

Day zero startups, earliest stages of an ideaAImarketing

dParadigm Fund SPC

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Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

dmg ventures

London, Großbritannien

Backs consumer startups with a focus on building mainstream brands, offering capital, discounted media credits, and marketing expertise from dmg media to reach 155M+ global consumers monthly. Combines financial investment with media leverage for rapid brand scaling.

Seed to Series A (Headline Fund), Series B+ (Scale Fund)Consumer startups focused on mass-market adoptionleveraging media partnerships for brand scaling

e& capital

Abu Dhabi, AE

Based on the limited information available, e& capital appears to be the venture capital arm of e& (formerly Etisalat), a global technology group. The firm's investment strategy appears aligned with e&'s overall focus on technology and digital transformation, with potential emphasis on sectors that complement its existing telecommunications, enterprise, and digital services. The news overview showcases a focus on network technology and financial innovation, particularly in the Middle East. It seems to invest in companies working in digital financial service like E& money, an e& company which focuses on providing financial access leveraging data and AI driven credit models. Their partnership with MEVCA suggests a commitment to strengthening the venture capital and innovation ecosystem in the Middle East. Further research would be needed to determine specific investment criteria, target returns, and risk profile. However, the firm's parent company's existing footprint and resources likely provide a significant advantage in sourcing deals and supporting portfolio companies.

Series A, Series BDigital financial servicesnetwork technology

e&Co.

Munich, Deutschland

e&Co. AG is an entrepreneurial office that orchestrates a broad asset portfolio consisting of corporate holdings and tangible assets. They support the growth of companies in the manufacturing industry through entrepreneurial consulting expertise. They aim to provide sparring on an equal footing, offering experience, authenticity, and challenging perspectives, driven by curiosity and the passion to think big. They connect modern organizational concepts, data-driven decision-making processes, classic optimization, agile product development, radical experimentation, and maximum traction. With a holistic understanding of organizations, they combine agile approaches with elements of classic project management, including human relationship components and addressing taboos within companies. Their service portfolio focuses on complex organizational transformations, revitalization of sales in structure and processes, integration of top talent, and targeted use of technology and tools. They manage their own investment portfolio consisting of small/mid/large cap Private Equity Engagements, real estate and Start-ups. They partner with competence leaders in their relevant disciplines, such as sales agencies, HR service providers, automotive software project specialists, succession finders for SMEs and mobile apps & web experiences agencies. e&Co. also has a focus on the Biopharma-Industrie, offering together with selected experts a broad spectrum of management consulting services and acts as an entrepreneurial sparring partner to instigate impactful change. Through inspiring theses and forward-looking publications, they have positioned themselves as a reflective partner for industry, science, and society. They also look to invest in promising SMEs and scale them through entrepreneurial advisory.

small/mid/large cap Private Equity, Start-upsManufacturingBiopharma

eBay (via its VC arm)

USA

Based on the provided website content, it's not possible to extract a comprehensive investment thesis and strategy description for eBay's venture capital arm. The website primarily focuses on eBay's e-commerce marketplace operations, highlighting various product categories, deals, and trending items. There is no dedicated section or information about their investment philosophy, target sectors, or investment approach. The content lacks any explicit details related to venture capital activities or investments made by eBay.

Not specified

eQventure

Graz, AT

Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

Multi-Stage

embedded/capital

USA

Motive Partners employs a proven and repeatable model of Investing, Operating, and Innovating. They invest in financial technology opportunities through deep networks, sector insight, and disciplined underwriting. Their operators enhance, manage, and scale world-class companies across go-to-market, data, and operations. They leverage technology to unlock hidden opportunities and transform workflows, removing friction to drive better returns and make change real. The firm aims to unlock superior returns for their investors across relevant sectors while forming the future of finance with their portfolio companies and management teams. Motive Partners focuses on opportunities within Wealth & Asset Management, Banking & Payments, and Insurance. In Wealth & Asset Management, they back market-leading technology, data and service providers redefining how investment products are designed and distributed, leveraging data and AI to deliver scalable, frictionless services and democratize wealth and asset management. In Banking & Payments, they invest in payment technologies that transform commerce by streamlining transactions, improving efficiency, and opening new revenue through integrated solutions, replacing legacy pipelines to make payments faster, safer, and cheaper. In Insurance, they invest in next generation software, data, and services that modernize how risk is priced, distributed, and settled, enabling insurers to underwrite with greater precision, sell through digital channels, and resolve claims faster while delivering better outcomes for both carriers and customers. Their approach includes deep sector insights and a large network of investors, operators, and innovators. Their “Invest, Operate, Innovate” (IOI) model demonstrates their commitment to not only investing in, but actively building and improving companies.

From venture to growth & buyoutWealth & asset managementBanking & payments

eureKARE

Frankreich

eureKARE believes that synthetic biology, microbiome research, and the intersection between them can help tackle critical challenges and create a healthier, more prosperous, and sustainable world. They see Europe's strength in fundamental sciences as dramatically under-exploited and aim to harness the strengths of Europe's knowledge economy by investing in its brightest minds. They aim to support scientists' commercialization efforts, creating new jobs, companies, and novel industries along with the disruptive technology they bring to market. They focus on applications in healthcare, ranging from new cell therapies and microbiome-based medicines to life-saving gene therapies, and also environmental applications, such as creating better biofuels, restoring species diversity, and fighting pollution. The firm aims to fill the funding and support gap for entrepreneurship in the synthetic biology field, where Europe excels in research but lags in commercialization. They envision a world where synthetic biology plays a transformative role in solving some of the world's most pressing challenges, revolutionizing industries, creating new markets, and providing solutions to complex problems. eureKARE is committed to supporting the development and growth of synthetic biology companies, and their portfolio reflects their commitment to advancing the field and creating a more sustainable and equitable world.

Early StageSynthetic biologymicrobiome research

exist

Deutschland

exist is a program by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) designed to foster a thriving startup ecosystem within universities and research institutions. Their core strategy revolves around supporting students, graduates, and scientists in developing technology and knowledge-based ventures. They provide funding through various programs like the exist Start-up Grant and exist Research Transfer, specifically targeting individuals and projects with significant research and development components. A key element of their strategy is to increase the number and success rate of technology-oriented and knowledge-based companies emerging from academic environments. exist's approach encompasses various initiatives aimed at establishing a vibrant and sustainable startup culture. This includes competitive programs to incentivize universities, model projects to explore innovative approaches to startup support, and resources like the Global Certification and Consulting Center (GCCC) to assist international founders. Their involvement since 1998 demonstrates a long-term commitment to developing the German startup ecosystem. The program actively encourages universities and research institutions to integrate startup support into their teaching, research, and administration. This holistic approach aims to create an environment that naturally cultivates entrepreneurial thinking and action. By focusing on knowledge-based and technology-driven ventures, exist contributes to the German economy's growth and competitiveness in high-tech sectors. Ultimately, exist strives to bridge the gap between scientific research and commercial application by providing the necessary resources, guidance, and ecosystem support for researchers and students to transform their ideas into successful businesses. Their focus on early-stage, research-intensive ventures positions them as a crucial player in fostering innovation and technological advancement in Germany.

Pre-seed, Early-stageTechnology-orientedknowledge-based ventures

ff Red & White

LU

ff Red & White supports European early-stage startups, particularly from Central Europe, by leveraging cross-border expertise and Japanese corporate partnerships to help them scale into US and Asian markets. The firm targets AI, software engineering, and innovative solutions addressing Japan’s social challenges (e.g., aging society, labor shortages).

Early-stageEarly-stage startups scaling globallywith a focus on Central European companies expanding into US and Asian markets (especially Japan).

ff Venture Capital

Europa
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Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

flaregames

Berlin, Deutschland

Based on the limited information available from the crawled website, it's impossible to determine flaregames' current investment thesis or strategy. The provided content consists only of legal and contact information, lacking any details about their investment approach, target companies, or areas of interest. No clues are given to the type of companies they invest in, what stage they invest at, or their desired outcomes.

hellowo

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Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.

hi5 Ventures

Kyiv, UA

hi5 Ventures is a Kyiv-based Venture Capital firm focused on investing in Early Stage Eastern European Tech companies. They aim to empower these companies with a hands-on approach and access to Tier-1 EU/US investors. The firm emphasizes providing support and guidance to its portfolio companies, allocating a significant portion of their time to assisting them. Their investment strategy prioritizes companies with a strong team, crystallized vision, and proven business model. The firm targets fast-growing tech companies in Pre-Seed, Seed, and Pre-A rounds. They evaluate businesses based on their potential to generate revenue and the founder's ability to drive revenue growth. The firm provides average investment checks of $50K at the Pre-Seed stage, $100K at the Seed stage, and $200K at the Pre-A stage. hi5 Ventures also focuses on building a strong partnership ecosystem, leveraging its network of contacts to benefit its portfolio companies. They have established relationships with over 50 accelerators, 1000+ CEOs, 300+ experts, and 100+ mentors. The firm's values are built on honesty, clarity, precision, and a practical working style. They emphasize the importance of revenue generation and maintain an informal yet pragmatic approach. They explicitly state their intolerance for poor execution and their refusal to work with individuals who do not behave as partners.

Pre-Seed, Seed, Pre-AB2CSaaS

i-Free

Saint Petersburg, RU

i-Free operates as a start-up studio, fostering a network of independent innovative companies primarily focusing on conversational AI, Foodtech, Fintech, and mobile gaming. They emphasize shared values and knowledge exchange within their community to facilitate success. Their core values include trust, responsibility, initiative, development, mutual attention, and support. They aim to support intrapreneurship, with a 20+ year history of backing ideas and people, currently supporting 10+ companies serving global customers. They invest in technologies across their focus areas and have a demonstrated history of M&A activity, indicating a willingness to exit investments when appropriate opportunities arise. i-Free's investment strategy seems centered on early-stage companies with high growth potential in specific technology sectors. The start-up studio model suggests they may take a more active role in helping these companies develop and scale. They focus on creating an ecosystem to help companies grow. Their portfolio highlights point to an active interest in AI, fintech, cloud infrastructure, and mobile entertainment. The mention of consulting companies within their portfolio indicates a value-add strategy, that provide support to IT businesses with legal, technical, and financial aspects of their businesses.

Early-stage (start-ups)Conversational AIFoodtech

i5invest

Vienna, AT

i5invest focuses on building bridges for outstanding Tech Founders. They act as long-term partners supporting innovative tech founders through their extensive network of top decision-makers in strategy, business development, and M&A. Their primary focus is managing strategic exit processes and cross-border acquisitions for extraordinary tech companies. They provide strategic and hands-on support for tech founders across capital, growth, and M&A. They offer in-house experts and Founders who provide strategic acquisition and M&A support and also provide growth capital from the very beginning as early partners. They also offer mentoring to help tech scale-ups become the next big thing. i5invest emphasizes its global experience and network, stating that they know what it takes to grow globally and their international team of Founders and operators brings hands-on experience, insight, and access to a worldwide network. Their success stories include over 250 global transactions and deals with influential tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Verizon, Canva, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Samsung.

Early stage, GrowthArtificial IntelligenceVisual AI

iAngels

IL

Transforming venture investing into a data-driven science by providing insider access to top Israeli tech startups via proprietary research and bespoke portfolios.[2][3]

Early-stage[1][6]

iAngles

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Venture-Capital-Firma, die in wachstumsstarke Technologieunternehmen investiert.