We track 13 organisations in this sector across 5+ countries.
13 entries.
Operating since 1999. Venture capital arm of Allied Irish Banks (AIB) providing early-stage equity, growth capital, and bridge financing to Irish startups and SMEs. Support: equity funding, banking services, financial advisory. Scope: National.
A longtime PwC executive and innovation consultant, Beata received the 2022 Ecosystem Award for her role in mentoring startups. She is not a traditional high-volume investor, but her contributions in connecting and guiding founders have led her to take angel stakes in a few innovation-driven companies. Associated startups: Select advisory-driven investments (innovation ecosystem support, e.g. via PwC Collider).
Billon Group is a Polish-British DLT fintech that built a regulated distributed-ledger platform for tokenized cash payments, secure document delivery, and digital identity. The company is led by Wojtek Kostrzewa (also an active Polish angel) and has worked with major European banks and corporates on enterprise blockchain pilots. Billon's technology has been certified by EU regulators for handling regulated electronic-money flows.
Darktrace is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 in Cambridge by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge alongside former intelligence professionals. The company pioneered the use of self-learning AI for cyber defense, modeling the immune system to detect novel threats and anomalous behavior across enterprise networks, cloud, email, and operational technology. Darktrace listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024 in a deal valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion. Its products serve over 8,000 organizations globally.
Earlybird Venture Capital is one of Europe's longest-standing and most active venture firms, founded in Berlin in 1997 by Hendrik Brandis and Christian Nagel. It manages roughly €2.5bn across two active platforms — the flagship Earlybird technology fund (Fund VIII closed at €360M in 2026, its largest to date) and Earlybird Health (€173M second fund, 2024) — from offices in Berlin, Munich and London. Earlybird writes initial tickets up to €12M, concentrated at pre-seed and seed with follow-on into Series A and beyond. The firm targets Western Europe — Germany, the UK, France, Italy, the Nordics, Austria and Switzerland — with CEE coverage via a dedicated venture partner. Its focus has shifted toward AI and foundation models, software infrastructure and deep tech (space, fusion, photonics, quantum), alongside its independent health platform. LPs include the European Investment Fund, sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds and British Patient Capital. Across 29 years Earlybird has produced landmark outcomes including Peak Games (sold to Zynga for ~$1.85bn, 2020), UiPath (NYSE IPO 2021, from the Digital East franchise that later spun out as Bek Ventures), Trendyol (Alibaba, 2018) and ImCheck Therapeutics (up to €1bn, 2025), and counts N26, Aleph Alpha, Isar Aerospace, Aiven, Payhawk and Wefox among its portfolio. In 2026 it introduced a perpetual active-ownership governance model keeping ownership with active partners.
HRS Group is a Cologne-based corporate hotel solutions provider founded in 1972 that has transformed from a traditional hotel booking service into a technology-driven platform for corporate travel management. The company provides enterprise hotel programs, meeting and event booking, payment solutions, and rate auditing tools to large corporations. HRS manages hotel programs for many Fortune 500 companies and processes billions of euros in hotel spending annually. While not a startup in the traditional sense, HRS has reinvented itself through technology, building an enterprise platform that competes globally in the corporate lodging space.
Info-Tech LIVE is the EMEA flagship conference of analyst firm Info-Tech Research Group, gathering CIOs, senior IT leaders and technology executives at the Grand Hyatt Barcelona. The 2026 edition runs under the theme "Agentic IT: From Hype to Value", with 20+ keynotes, analyst-led sessions, hands-on workshops and peer roundtables on turning AI investments into measurable business value.
Founded in 2014, JME Venture Capital is a Madrid-based early-stage VC backed by prominent Spanish tech entrepreneurs and family offices. The firm manages over EUR 100M and invests EUR 0.5-3M at seed and Series A in consumer internet, enterprise software, and marketplaces. Notable portfolio companies include Jobandtalent (HR unicorn), Spotahome, and Lingokids. JME's LP base of successful founders provides portfolio companies with operational mentorship and strategic business development support across Southern Europe.
A British entrepreneur-turned-investor (co-founder of Notion Capital), Jos has angel-invested in Poland’s enterprise software space. He took part in early funding of Helpshift’s Polish office and has been scouting enterprise SaaS startups in Central Europe. Associated startups: Possibly NetworkedAssets (Polish-German IT firm) and other SaaS ventures.
Matillion is a Manchester-based data integration and transformation platform founded in 2011 that enables enterprises to load, transform, and orchestrate data across cloud data warehouses and lakes including Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, and Google BigQuery. The company raised over $300 million including a $150 million Series E at a $1.5 billion valuation. Matillion serves over 2,000 enterprise customers and is notable as one of the few UK tech unicorns headquartered outside London, representing Manchester's growing tech ecosystem.
CEO of Top Consulting SA, Robert is an example of a traditional industry executive who ventured into startup investing. Nominated as a top angel in 2018, he has provided capital to startups diversifying beyond his consulting business. Associated startups: Involvements kept fairly private; known in investment circles for supporting enterprise software startups.
A week-long series of 50+ startup events across Ireland organized by Enterprise Ireland and local partners. Events span Dublin, Cork, Galway, and Limerick with workshops, pitch competitions, and networking with Ireland's deep pool of multinational tech companies. Most events are free.
Thought Machine is a London-based core banking technology company founded in 2014 by Paul Taylor, a former Google engineer. Its flagship product Vault is a cloud-native core banking platform that allows banks to configure any financial product using smart contracts, replacing legacy mainframe systems. The company raised over $500 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $2.7 billion, and counts major banks including JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, Lloyds, and SEB among its customers. Thought Machine represents a key European player in the global core banking modernization wave.