Venture Capital directory in Europe
Browse venture capital organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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Investing Women Angels
Investing Women Angels is Scotland’s first all-female business angel syndicate, based in Edinburgh and focused on backing female-founded and female-led businesses seeking to create positive impact. The syndicate has backed 25 companies with £2.3 million in investment, with 90% directed toward female-founded enterprises. Led by Chair Lucy Henderson, it also works to attract more women into angel investing through education, community programmes, and its sister initiative AccelerateHER.
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Iron Wolf Capital
Iron Wolf Capital is Vilnius-founded deep tech and AI fund established in 2018, with additional offices in London and Tallinn. Its second fund, closed at €100 million, is the largest seed-stage deep tech fund in Baltic history, targeting 25 early-stage companies across AI, photonics, robotics, and space innovation built by Baltic founders and diaspora globally. The team combines backgrounds from Deutsche Bank, YPlan, and early Lithuanian VC history; initial tickets run €0.5–2 million and the fund typically leads or co-leads rounds. Iron Wolf has backed over 20 startups covering sectors from agritech and pharma to defence-adjacent AI.
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Karma Ventures
Founded in 2016 by Kristjan Laanemaa, Margus Uudam, and Tommi Uhari, Karma Ventures is one of Estonia's most prominent deep-tech venture capital firms. Its €70M Fund I and €100M Fund II back late-seed and Series A European deep-tech software startups, with tickets up to €5M. The firm is particularly active in AI, cybersecurity, health tech, and enterprise software across Europe. Notable portfolio companies include Starship Technologies, Tuum (formerly Modularbank), Sonarworks, Infermedica, and CybExer Technologies, establishing Karma as the go-to Tallinn-based partner for hard-tech European founders.
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KAYA Ventures
KAYA is a Prague-based venture capital firm that invests early in ambitious founders building category-defining technology companies, staying involved from inception through to market leadership. Operating as an equal partnership, it backs Central European and international startups across software and deep tech.
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Kedari Ventures
Kedari Ventures is a Tbilisi-based early-stage investment fund founded by Dimitry Kumsishvili, who served as Georgia's Minister of Finance and First Vice Prime Minister before moving to the private sector. The fund targets digital platforms with global expansion potential across e-commerce, logistics, education, and entertainment, and has built a portfolio of over 10 companies employing more than 100 people. Fund size is not publicly disclosed; the firm has deployed approximately 993,000 GEL in equity and 2.5 million GEL in loans across portfolio companies. Kedari also co-founded AXEL, Georgia's first structured business angel network, in partnership with Tbilisi Startup Bureau.
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Keen Venture Partners
Keen Venture Partners is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2015, investing at Series A and B in enterprise software, fintech, and consumer internet companies across Europe. The firm manages over EUR 200M and writes checks of EUR 2-10M, often leading or co-leading rounds alongside top-tier European and US co-investors. Keen's partners bring extensive operating experience from companies like Booking.com and Adyen, and the firm focuses on data-driven businesses with strong unit economics and clear paths to profitability.
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Kima Ventures
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most prolific seed-stage investors, founded in 2010 by Xavier Niel (founder of Free/Iliad) and Jeremie Berrebi. Based in Paris, Kima invests in approximately 100 startups per year with typical ticket sizes of EUR 150K, making it among the most active angel-style funds globally. The firm has backed over 1,000 companies across 50+ countries, with notable investments including Alan, Luko, Mistral AI, and Algolia. Kima focuses on technology generalists at pre-seed and seed, providing fast decision-making and access to Xavier Niel's extensive entrepreneurial network.
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Kinisis Ventures
Kinisis Ventures was co-founded in 2018 by Andreas Panayi and Yiannos Georgiades as a Cyprus-US bridge accelerator and investment firm, with its registered office in Nicosia. Its regulated KV Kinisis Ventures Fund RAIF VCIC (KV Fund I and II), managed in partnership with AIFCAP Managers and licensed by CySEC, is the first CySEC-registered early-stage VC focused exclusively on Cypriot technology companies targeting US market expansion. The fund writes seed tickets of €1.5M–€4M in cybersecurity, fintech, AI-enabled platforms, and energy-tech, with portfolio companies including Threedium (3D imaging), Phase3D (metal-printing quality assurance), and Autonomics Tech (autonomous industrial robotics).
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Kinnevik
Kinnevik is a Stockholm-based growth-stage investment company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm that backs innovative digital businesses in healthcare, software, consumer, and climate sectors. Originally a traditional Swedish industrial conglomerate founded in 1936, Kinnevik transformed into a focused growth investor and was an early backer of companies like Zalando, Tele2, and Millicom. The firm manages a portfolio valued at several billion euros and takes concentrated positions in companies it believes can become category leaders. Kinnevik provides patient capital with a long-term orientation unusual among European growth investors.
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Lakestar
Lakestar is a Zurich-headquartered venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Klaus Hommels, one of Europe's most prolific and publicly visible technology investors, whose pre-Lakestar angel track record included early bets on Skype, Spotify, and Facebook in Europe. The firm runs a multi-stage strategy spanning early-stage funds, growth funds, and public/crossover vehicles, with offices in Zurich, Berlin, London, and Zug. Notable portfolio companies include Revolut, N26, Mister Spex, Blockchain.com, GetYourGuide, FlixBus, and Opendoor. Lakestar manages over EUR 2 billion across funds and has been a vocal advocate at the EU level for scaling up European technology sovereignty, having been involved in initiatives like the European Tech Champions Initiative and the Scale-Up Europe pledge. It is one of the few continental European VCs that operates across the full venture lifecycle at significant scale.
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LAUNCHub Ventures
Founded in 2012 by Lyuben Belov and partners, LAUNCHub Ventures is Sofia's largest dedicated early-stage VC, currently deploying its third fund which closed oversubscribed at €74M in late 2021 (first close €44M). The fund invests at pre-seed and seed stages with ticket sizes of €300K–€3M, backing founders across South-Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe. Sector focus spans fintech, proptech, future of work, devtools, health tech, and enterprise software; portfolio includes Quantive (strategy platform), OfficeRnD (flex-space SaaS), FintechOS, and Giraffe360. Seventy-five percent of portfolio companies have raised follow-on rounds, with aggregate follow-on capital exceeding €400M.
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Lead Ventures
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
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Lifeline Ventures
Lifeline Ventures was founded in 2009 in Helsinki by Petteri Koponen and Timo Ahopelto and has grown into Finland's largest VC focused on unlisted growth companies, raising its €400 million Fund VI in 2025. The firm invests at the angel and seed stage with tickets of €100,000–€2 million, backing sector-agnostic founders from day one across Europe. Lifeline has seeded most of Finland's best-known unicorns, including Supercell (acquired by Tencent for $8.6B), Wolt (acquired by DoorDash for $8.1B), Oura, ICEYE, and Aiven. With over 115 portfolio companies and more than a dozen exits, it is the benchmark early-stage firm in the Finnish ecosystem.
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Lightrock
Lightrock is an impact-focused growth equity platform backed by LGT Group, the private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein. Founded in 2019 as a spin-out from LGT's direct private equity activities, Lightrock deploys growth equity tickets of €10–50M into companies demonstrating measurable positive impact across climate, health, and financial inclusion. The firm operates from London with offices in Basel, New Delhi, São Paulo, and other cities, giving it an unusually broad emerging-market reach alongside its European portfolio. Notable portfolio companies include Bima, Karma Kitchen, and Proxona. Lightrock occupies a distinctive position in European impact investing: it combines the balance sheet credibility of a century-old royal banking group with a focused mandate, operational on-the-ground presence, and a willingness to invest in geographies and sectors that conventional growth equity skips. For Swiss and European founders building in healthcare access, climate solutions, or financial inclusion, Lightrock is one of the few growth-stage investors that evaluates impact metrics alongside financial ones.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners (Europe)
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global multi-stage venture capital firm with a dedicated European practice based in London. The firm has been a key growth-stage investor in major European companies including Mistral AI, Miro, and Epic Games, and focuses on enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, and AI. Lightspeed manages over $18 billion globally and has expanded its European team to source and support founders across the continent.
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LocalGlobe (Phoenix Court)
LocalGlobe is a London-based venture capital firm, part of the Phoenix Court group founded by Robin and Saul Klein, that focuses on seed-stage investments in the UK and Europe. It has been an early backer of companies such as Wise, Citymapper, Improbable and Zoopla, and runs a family of funds spanning seed through growth stages.
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Maki.vc
Maki.vc was founded in 2018 in Helsinki by serial entrepreneur and Slush Chairman Ilkka Kivimäki and former F-Secure executive Pirkka Palomäki, and now manages €260 million across three funds. Its November 2024 Fund III of €100 million targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Nordics and Northern Europe, with tickets of €300,000–€3 million, focusing on deep tech, AI-native, quantum computing, green tech, and brand-driven consumer startups. The fund is backed by LPs including founders of Skype, Wise, RELEX Solutions, Aiven, and Supercell. Portfolio includes IQM Quantum Computers (unicorn 2025) and Enfuce.
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Malta Venture Capital (MVC)
Malta Venture Capital (MVC) is a €10 million government-backed equity fund launched in 2024 and managed from offices in Sliema, under the auspices of Malta Government Investments. It co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage, high-growth digital and technology-driven businesses, with each eligible startup able to receive up to €500,000 in equity. Target sectors include video game development, fintech, e-sports, life sciences, agritech, AI, and green energy. Since launch MVC has invested in five companies and assembled a network of 30 accredited co-investors.
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Mangrove Capital Partners
Mangrove Capital Partners is one of Europe's most storied early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Luxembourg in 2000 by Mark Tluszcz, Gerard Lopez, and Hans-Jürgen Schmitz. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets and has backed 8 unicorns, including Skype (a $2 million investment that returned $200 million) and Wix (an $8 million bet that returned $700 million). Mangrove invests at pre-seed and seed stage across Europe and Israel, with a team spanning Luxembourg, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and London. Portfolio companies include Flo Health, WalkMe, K Health, Talkwalker, and Doctena.
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Manta Ray VC
Manta Ray VC is the technology venture arm of Kulczyk Investments, founded by Sebastian Kulczyk to back globally scalable Polish-rooted startups. The fund invests in growth-stage technology companies and has been associated with high-visibility outcomes such as ICEYE (SAR satellites) and Iceye-affiliated deep-tech bets. It complements the broader Kulczyk Investments ecosystem and the InCredibles founder programme.
