◆ The Directory
Find the fund that writes your first check.
Filter 195 active early-stage investors across Europe and the US by check size, sector, stage, and geography — then open a full profile for each.
a16z START
a16z START is Andreessen Horowitz's day-zero company-formation program, offering a standard $1M check plus legal, recruiting, and back-office support for founders essentially before a company legally exists — leveraging one of the largest platforms in venture.
Backstage Capital
Backstage Capital, founded by Arlan Hamilton, was one of the earliest and most vocal funds built explicitly to invest in underrepresented founders — women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ founders — who statistically receive a tiny fraction of total VC dollars.
BoxGroup
BoxGroup, founded by David Tisch, is a high-volume New York seed investor that has made 300+ early bets across consumer, enterprise, healthcare, and fintech, including being the first institutional investor in Plaid. It writes relatively small, low-friction checks and is known for staying out of aggressive ownership or board-control fights in favor of broad portfolio coverage.
Creandum
Creandum is a Stockholm-founded venture firm and one of the longest-running seed investors in the Nordics, best known for being an early backer of Spotify and Klarna. It invests generalist-style in European technology companies at seed, with a reputation for pattern-matching category-defining consumer and fintech businesses early.
Entrepreneur First
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a "talent-first" program that invests in individuals before they've even formed a company or found a co-founder, then helps them team up and build inside the cohort. It specializes in deep tech, AI, enterprise, and biotech founders, particularly technical and research-background individuals. (Listed twice in the original directory as "Entrepreneur First" and "EF" — same organization.)
Felicis Ventures
Felicis Ventures invests generalist-style in transformative technology companies, with early stakes in Shopify, Canva, and Notion giving it one of the stronger recent track records among mid-sized seed funds.
First Round Capital
First Round Capital pioneered the modern "seed-only" fund model, deliberately staying out of later rounds so it can focus entirely on being a startup's first institutional investor. Beyond capital, it's known for building one of the earliest founder-support platforms in venture (First Round Review, alumni network, in-house recruiting and design help), and has backed several category-defining consumer and enterprise companies.
Index Ventures
Index Ventures is a multi-stage, multi-geography firm (originally founded in Geneva, now also headquartered in London and San Francisco) with one of the deepest track records in European tech. While best known today for its growth-stage checks, Index also runs seed-focused investing into European and US technology companies, spanning fintech, consumer, and enterprise software.
Initialized Capital
Initialized Capital was founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian along with Garry Tan and Harj Taggar, both former Y Combinator partners. It made its name with a $200,000 seed check into Coinbase in 2013 and has since built a 300+ company portfolio that includes over two dozen companies that later reached unicorn valuations, including Instacart.
Khosla Ventures
Founded by Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures is known for making high-conviction, science-driven bets on deep tech, sustainability, AI, and health — categories many funds consider too risky or too early. It invests at seed through growth and has a track record of backing breakthrough technology companies well before they were consensus.
Point Nine Capital
Point Nine is a Berlin-based seed fund with one of the sharpest sector theses in Europe: B2B SaaS and two-sided marketplaces. Founded by Christoph Janz and Pawel Chudzinski, the firm is known for its early conviction on SaaS metrics and benchmarking (Christoph Janz's SaaS napkin math is widely cited in the industry) and has backed several companies that went on to become category leaders.
Precursor Ventures
Founded by Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures is a San Francisco pre-seed specialist that has backed over 300 companies since 2015, often as the very first check a founder raises. It invests broadly across software, consumer, and fintech rather than committing to a narrow sector thesis, and is known for being founder-friendly toward first-time and underrepresented founders.
Seedcamp
One of Europe's original seed funds, Seedcamp has backed early-stage founders since 2007 through a mix of fund investment and hands-on platform support (its "Seedcamp Nation" network of founders and mentors). It invests generalist-style across fintech, SaaS, AI, marketplaces, and health tech, typically as the first institutional check into a European startup, and has a track record that includes several since-unicorn companies.
Techstars
Techstars runs one of the largest global accelerator networks, offering a standard check plus mentorship across dozens of sector- and city-specific cohort programs, with SendGrid and DigitalOcean among its alumni.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is the accelerator that popularized the modern cohort-based program: a fixed check (currently structured as $500K total across a standard deal), a few months of intensive mentorship, and a Demo Day in front of hundreds of investors. Its alumni network and brand recognition are unmatched among early-stage programs, and its portfolio includes some of the most valuable technology companies ever built.
2048 Ventures
2048 Ventures invests in deep tech, AI, and frontier technology founders at pre-seed, with a New York base giving it a different network than the more Bay-Area-centric deep-tech funds.
33East
33East is a generalist pre-seed and seed fund based in Cyprus, positioned to invest into founders across the Eastern Mediterranean and broader CEE region.
360 Capital
360 Capital operates across France and Italy, investing in deep tech, digital, and AI startups with a cross-border approach uncommon among Southern European funds still tied to a single home market.
500 Global
500 Global runs a globally distributed accelerator and seed fund with particular strength in emerging markets outside the traditional US/Europe venture corridor; Canva is among its portfolio.
7percent Ventures
7percent Ventures backs "impossible until it isn't" bets in defence, aerospace, and AI — categories that were largely out of favor with generalist funds until the recent resurgence of interest in hard tech and dual-use technology. It writes first checks into deep, capital-intensive science.
Abstract Ventures
Abstract Ventures invests in consumer, commerce, and fintech founders, operating with a lean, syndicate-adjacent structure common among newer seed funds.
Accel (Europe)
Accel's European practice, run out of London, invests generalist-style in technology companies from seed through growth, drawing on the same global platform and network as Accel's US operation.
Acequia Capital
Acequia Capital invests generalist-style in Latino/a-founded startups, addressing a well-documented gap in venture funding reaching Latino entrepreneurs in the US.
Act One Ventures
Act One Ventures focuses on AI-native business software, backing founders building products designed around AI from the ground up rather than bolting AI features onto legacy software.
Ada Ventures
Ada Ventures invests at the intersection of overlooked markets and overlooked founders, with an explicit thesis that diverse teams and underserved problems (climate equity, economic empowerment) produce outsized returns precisely because they're under-invested by the rest of the market.
Afore Capital
Afore Capital was founded specifically to formalize "pre-seed" as its own distinct stage, investing in founders before they have meaningful traction or sometimes even a finished product.
Alliance VC
Alliance VC is a Stockholm generalist fund focused on Nordic startups, positioned as an accessible early check for founders in the region across a wide range of sectors.
Alumni Ventures
Alumni Ventures raises capital from university alumni communities across many schools and deploys it into a broad, diversified portfolio of generalist technology deals, functioning more like a venture fund-of-funds for individual accredited investors.
Alven
Alven is a leading French seed fund with a long track record backing SaaS, marketplace, and consumer startups, including an early stake in BlaBlaCar, one of France's best-known consumer tech exports.
Amplify LA
Amplify LA is a generalist early-stage fund and accelerator hybrid, one of the earlier institutions dedicated specifically to building up the Los Angeles startup ecosystem.
AngelList
AngelList is less a single fund than an entire infrastructure layer for early-stage investing — powering syndicates, rolling funds, and fund administration for thousands of individual angels and small funds across the industry.
Antler (Europe)
Antler is a global, cohort-based accelerator that recruits individual founders — sometimes without a co-founder or idea yet — and helps them team up and build a company through an intensive residency program, with hubs across multiple European cities.
Antler (US)
Antler's US operation runs the same talent-first, cohort-based model as its global program — recruiting individual founders and helping them form teams and companies — with hubs in New York and Austin.
Atlantic Labs
Atlantic Labs is a Berlin-based seed investor with a broad thesis spanning climate, future of work, AI, and fintech, known for backing founders very early — often pre-product — and staying closely involved through the first 12-18 months.
Atomico
Atomico was founded by Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype, and invests across the full lifecycle of European technology companies from seed through growth. It also publishes the widely-read annual "State of European Tech" report, giving it an outsized voice in shaping the narrative around the European startup ecosystem.
Backed VC
Backed VC is a European early-stage fund investing generalist-style across pre-seed and seed, with a partnership that includes former founders and operators supporting portfolio companies hands-on.
Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital is a London-based, Europe-only venture firm (originally launched as Benchmark Europe) that has been investing in the region's technology founders for over two decades. It writes seed and Series A checks across fintech, marketplaces, and SaaS, and is one of the most established names a European founder is likely to encounter while fundraising.
Baobab Ventures
Baobab Ventures backs deep-tech founders working on AI, robotics, and defence technology, with a dual London/Barcelona presence that gives it reach into both the UK and Southern European startup scenes.
Basecase Capital
Basecase Capital invests in next-generation enterprise software companies, targeting founders rebuilding categories of business software from the ground up rather than incrementally improving legacy tools.
Betaworks
Betaworks operates as a hybrid startup studio and fund, both building products in-house (it created Giphy and Bitly) and investing in AI, media, and consumer companies built by outside founders.
BlackWood Ventures
BlackWood Ventures is a Copenhagen-based early-stage fund investing generalist-style across European startups, with a smaller check size aimed at rounds where it can play a meaningful but not necessarily lead role.
Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg Beta, backed by Bloomberg LP, invests around a future-of-work thesis and is notable for publishing its own investment memo template and thinking publicly on GitHub — unusually transparent for an institutional fund.
Blossom Capital
Blossom Capital, founded by Ophelia Brown, is a European seed fund known for moving quickly and decisively on term sheets, positioning itself as an alternative to slower-moving legacy funds for founders who want speed and conviction.
Boldstart Ventures
Boldstart Ventures specializes in enterprise developer tools, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, investing as the very first institutional check for deeply technical founders, with Snyk among its standout portfolio companies.
Bonfire Ventures
Bonfire Ventures invests exclusively in B2B software (SaaS and enterprise), a deliberately narrow mandate from a firm that argues focus improves both diligence quality and follow-on decision-making.
Boost VC
Boost VC runs a "sci-fi becoming reality" accelerator thesis, backing aerospace, VR, and crypto founders early; Kraken (the crypto exchange) is among its notable alumni.
Bpifrance Digital
Bpifrance is France's public investment bank, and its digital/tech arm co-invests small tickets alongside private funds into French startups across virtually every sector. It's often encountered as a co-investor rather than a lead in early rounds.
Breakwater VC
Breakwater VC invests in SaaS, fintech, and "real economy" businesses — companies serving traditionally non-tech industries — spreading its bets across sectors many pure software funds overlook.
Breega
Breega is a Paris seed fund with additional offices across Europe, run by former founders and positioned as an operationally hands-on partner across SaaS, fintech, digital health, and deep tech.
Bullpen Capital
Bullpen Capital specializes in the "post-seed" gap — companies that have found product-market fit but aren't yet ready for a traditional Series A — a stage many funds skip over entirely.
byFounders
byFounders was started by the founders of several successful Nordic and Baltic startups (including Trustpilot and Zendesk alumni), and invests generalist-style specifically in founders from that region, drawing on its founders-backing-founders network.
Cade Ventures
Cade Ventures invests across consumer tech, health tech, and hardware, spanning several categories under a single generalist-adjacent seed mandate.
Caixa Capital Risc
Caixa Capital Risc is the venture arm of CaixaBank, one of Spain's largest financial institutions, giving it deep balance-sheet backing to invest in tech, biotech, and deep-tech founders across Spain.
Calm/Storm Ventures
Calm/Storm Ventures is a Vienna-based angel-style fund writing some of the smallest checks in this directory, aimed at very early, often idea-stage European founders who need a modest first check to get moving.
Cherry Ventures
Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-based, founder-led seed fund built by former operators (including a co-founder of Zalando). It writes first checks into European B2B software, consumer, and deep-tech startups and is known for close operational involvement post-investment, drawing on its partners' own experience scaling companies.
Civilization Ventures
Civilization Ventures invests in enterprise and consumer companies framed around a "human progress" thesis, backing founders working on large, structural problems rather than incremental improvements.
Cleo Capital
Cleo Capital, founded by Sarah Kunst, invests in women and underrepresented founders, writing smaller checks aimed at getting capital to founders earlier in their fundraising journey.
Climate-KIC (EIT)
Climate-KIC is an EU-backed public innovation initiative (part of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology) that funds climate tech, clean energy, and circular-economy startups across multiple European cities, often as grant-like capital alongside private co-investment.
Collaborative Fund
Collaborative Fund invests across health, food, cities, climate, and fintech, publishing widely-read essays on culture and behavioral economics alongside its investing; Kickstarter and Sweetgreen are among its notable early bets.
Compound VC
Compound VC invests in AI/ML, robotics, biotech, and crypto founders, spanning several of the more technically demanding frontier categories within a single generalist-adjacent thesis.
Concept Ventures
Concept Ventures is a London seed fund that invests as a true first check across all sectors, without a fixed thesis on category. It's built around a small, high-conviction partnership that emphasizes founder-market fit over sector pattern-matching. (Specific portfolio companies should be confirmed via the fund's website, which lists current and past investments.)
Connect Ventures
Connect Ventures backs product-first founders — teams that win through design and user experience rather than pure distribution or capital advantage — across both consumer and B2B categories.
Contrary
Contrary sources heavily from a curated network of top university students and recent graduates, betting on talent pedigree as an early signal before a company has meaningful traction.
Correlation Ventures
Correlation Ventures uses a data-driven, largely automated model to co-invest quickly alongside a round's lead investor, rather than sourcing and leading its own deals — a distinctive approach built around speed and pattern data.
Cowboy Ventures
Cowboy Ventures, founded by Aileen Lee (who coined the term "unicorn" for the venture industry), invests generalist-style in seed-stage technology companies with an eye for category-shifting consumer and enterprise products.
Creator Fund
Creator Fund specializes in backing PhD and postdoc founders spinning technology out of university research labs into deep tech, AI, and robotics startups. It targets the earliest, often pre-product stage, when a founding team is still close to the academic lab that produced the underlying IP.
Credo Ventures
Credo Ventures is one of the most established CEE-focused funds, with an early stake in UiPath (now a NASDAQ-listed company) giving it one of the strongest exits of any fund headquartered in the region.
Crosscut Ventures
Crosscut Ventures is a foundational fund within the LA startup ecosystem, generalist in scope with an early stake in Dollar Shave Club among its more prominent exits.
Crowdcube
Crowdcube is one of the UK's original equity crowdfunding platforms, having helped fund early rounds for Monzo and Revolut by pooling capital from thousands of individual retail investors alongside institutional money.
Daphni
Daphni is a Paris fund built around a large collective of entrepreneur and executive "explorers" who help source and vet deals, giving it an unusually wide informal network for a fund of its size.
Dawn Capital
Dawn Capital is a B2B software specialist that has quietly built one of Europe's stronger enterprise SaaS track records, with a preference for founders selling into large enterprise or SMB software markets rather than consumer categories.
Day One Capital
Day One Capital invests generalist-style in Central and Eastern European founders from a Budapest base, serving a region with growing technical talent but historically less venture density than Western Europe.
Decibel Partners
Decibel Partners invests in enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, and infrastructure founders, with a partnership background steeped in enterprise software go-to-market experience.
DIG Ventures
DIG Ventures invests in B2B SaaS, AI, and cloud infrastructure startups, backing technical founders building the underlying software layer for other businesses rather than consumer-facing products.
Dreamit Ventures
Dreamit Ventures runs sector-focused accelerator programs in healthtech and securetech, targeting founders in regulated industries that benefit from structured customer and partner introductions.
E14 Fund
E14 Fund invests specifically in spinoffs and founders connected to MIT's Media Lab, giving it a uniquely narrow but deep pipeline into cutting-edge hardware and deep-tech research; Formlabs is among its portfolio.
Elad Gil
Elad Gil is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific individual angel investors (rather than a formal fund), with a personal track record that includes early stakes in Airbnb, Stripe, and Square, and a widely-read book on scaling startups ("High Growth Handbook").
Elaia
Elaia is a Paris-based fund with deep roots in the French deep-tech and research ecosystem (it grew out of connections to public research institutions), investing in health tech, AI, cybersecurity, and fintech founders, including an early stake in Criteo.
Eniac Ventures
Eniac Ventures was an early mover on the mobile-first thesis and has since broadened into AI, consumer, and enterprise software, with Pinterest and Instacart among its historical wins.
Episode 1
Episode 1 is a London seed fund that invests generalist-style in UK enterprise and consumer software, typically as one of the first institutional checks a company raises.
EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures is the early-stage venture arm of EQT, one of Europe's largest private equity groups, giving it deep-pocketed institutional backing rare among seed-focused funds. It invests generalist-style in technology companies from seed through growth.
Everywhere Ventures
Everywhere Ventures (formerly Hustle Fund's sister fund, now independent) invests in the future of money, health, and work, with a globally distributed scout and LP network that lives up to its name.
Felix Capital
Felix Capital, founded by Frederic Court, invests at the intersection of technology and creative/lifestyle industries — fashion, media, wellness, and design-led consumer brands. It has backed several companies that bridged tech and consumer culture particularly well.
Fifty Years
Fifty Years invests with a deliberately long time horizon in climate, health, and education companies, framing its thesis around solving problems that matter on a 50-year timescale rather than chasing short-term trends.
Fika Ventures
Fika Ventures invests in B2B SaaS, fintech, and marketplace startups from an LA base, contributing to the city's growing case as a legitimate alternative hub to the Bay Area.
Firstminute Capital
Firstminute Capital was co-founded by Brent Hoberman (co-founder of lastminute.com) and backs European founders at the earliest stage, drawing on a network of unicorn founders as scouts and advisors. It invests broadly across SaaS, consumer, and frontier technology.
Flashpoint
Flashpoint invests in Southeast European and Mediterranean founders from an Athens base, backing companies such as Blueground as the region's tech scene has matured.
Flight Ventures
Flight Ventures is a small generalist seed fund investing in US technology companies, part of the long tail of smaller-check funds that round out the seed ecosystem alongside the more established names in this directory.
Floodgate
Floodgate, co-founded by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko, was an early champion of the "seed is a distinct stage" thesis rather than treating it as a smaller version of Series A. It invests across consumer, enterprise, and deep tech, and was an early backer of several companies that went on to redefine their categories, including Twitter and Lyft.
Fly Ventures
Fly Ventures targets deeply technical founding teams building AI, data, and infrastructure products, with a partnership that includes former engineers and data scientists able to evaluate technical defensibility firsthand.
Founder Collective
Founder Collective is a seed-stage fund run by former founders, built around deliberately small fund sizes so partner incentives stay aligned with getting a handful of decisions right rather than deploying capital at volume. It backed Uber and BuzzFeed in their earliest rounds and has since seeded 24+ companies that went on to reach billion-dollar valuations.
Freestyle Capital
Freestyle Capital invests in consumer internet and marketplace companies, with Patreon and Poshmark among its notable early bets in the creator-economy and resale marketplace categories.
Fuel Capital
Fuel Capital invests generalist-style across consumer and enterprise seed-stage companies, part of the broader ecosystem of San Francisco-based small-check seed funds.
Fund F
Fund F invests specifically in startups with gender-diverse founding teams, addressing a well-documented funding gap for women and mixed-gender teams in the DACH region's venture ecosystem.
Future Energy Ventures
Future Energy Ventures (backed by energy utility E.ON) invests in energy, climate tech, and sustainability startups, giving portfolio companies a direct line to a large corporate energy partner alongside capital.
Gaingels
Gaingels invests in and alongside LGBTQ+ founders and allies, and is also frequently brought into other funds' cap tables specifically to improve diversity among a round's investor base.
GoAhead Ventures
GoAhead Ventures runs an unusually open process — founders submit a video pitch directly rather than needing a warm introduction — aimed at surfacing deal flow that traditional network-based sourcing misses.
Gradient Ventures
Gradient Ventures is Google's dedicated AI-focused venture fund, backing AI-first companies with access to Google's AI research community and infrastructure as part of its platform support.
Graph Ventures
Graph Ventures invests generalist-style in global technology companies, offering seed capital to founders regardless of headquarters location.
Great Oaks VC
Great Oaks VC invests across a wide range from pre-seed through Series A, giving it flexibility to follow founders across multiple rounds rather than being locked into a single stage.
GV (Google Ventures)
GV is Alphabet's venture arm, investing across life science, enterprise, and consumer technology with access to Google's internal technical resources and talent as part of its platform offering to portfolio companies.
Harlem Capital
Harlem Capital invests in minority- and women-led startups with an explicit long-term goal of changing the face of who gets funded in venture capital, backed by a growing, multi-fund track record.
HAX (SOSV)
HAX, also part of SOSV, is a hardware- and robotics-focused accelerator with a historical Shenzhen presence that gave portfolio companies direct access to the world's densest hardware manufacturing supply chain.
Haystack
Haystack, founded by Semil Shah, invests around a "people over sectors" philosophy — betting on founder quality first — and has backed Instacart and Cruise among its standout early investments.
HCVC (Hardware Club)
HCVC (Hardware Club) specializes in hardware, IoT, and deep-tech startups — a category that requires different diligence and follow-on capital planning than pure software, making sector-specific expertise particularly valuable.
Heartcore Capital
Heartcore Capital is a Copenhagen-based fund with a consistent focus on consumer technology across Europe, investing at seed with a preference for founders building products with strong organic growth loops.
Homebrew
Homebrew, founded by Hunter Walk and Satya Patel (both former Google and Twitter operators), invests in seed-stage companies building tools that help individuals and small businesses do more with less — a thesis that led it early into fintech infrastructure and workplace software. Its ~170-company portfolio includes multiple unicorns and a mix of IPOs and acquisitions.
Hummingbird Ventures
Hummingbird Ventures is one of the longer-running European seed funds, investing from pre-seed through Series A across a broad range of sectors with a stated preference for ambitious, globally-minded founders over narrow geographic focus.
Hustle Fund
Hustle Fund writes very small, high-volume checks into B2B SaaS, fintech, and digital health founders, deliberately targeting the earliest and most capital-efficient stage of company building.
Indico Capital
Indico Capital is one of Portugal's most active seed funds, investing in enterprise SaaS, AI, deep tech, and even spacetech founders as Lisbon's startup scene has grown in profile over the past decade.
IndieBio (SOSV)
IndieBio, part of the SOSV family, is a life-sciences-focused accelerator that helps biotech and synthetic-biology founders get from lab bench to company in a matter of months, with Upside Foods among its well-known alumni.
Inovo Venture Partners
Inovo Venture Partners is one of Poland's leading seed funds, backing CEE technology companies with a portfolio that includes Booksy and DocPlanner, two of the region's better-known consumer tech successes.
Inventure
Inventure is one of Finland's most established seed funds, with an early-mover advantage in a Nordic tech scene that has produced an outsized number of gaming and consumer tech successes relative to its population.
ISAI
ISAI was founded by a group of French internet entrepreneurs pooling capital to back the next generation of French tech founders, and has built a portfolio spanning SaaS, marketplaces, and consumer internet businesses.
Italian Founders Fund
Italian Founders Fund invests specifically in Italian pre-seed and seed startups, run by Italian founders who built companies abroad and returned capital and know-how to the domestic ecosystem.
January Ventures
January Ventures backs underrepresented founders — with a particular eye toward founders modernizing traditional, less "obviously venture-backable" industries — from a dual Boston/London base.
JME Ventures
JME Ventures is a Madrid-based generalist fund investing in Spanish technology companies at seed, with a portfolio spanning consumer and enterprise categories.
K9 Ventures
K9 Ventures, a solo-GP fund run by Manu Kumar, invests in technical founders working on AI, data, and enterprise products, with an early stake in Lyft among its standout wins.
Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital, founded by Mitch and Freada Kapor, invests in social-impact tech with a required "gap-closing" screen — every investment must plausibly close a disparity in outcomes for underserved communities. Early bets included Uber and Twilio.
Keen Venture Partners
Keen Venture Partners invests in B2B SaaS, marketplace, and enterprise startups from an Amsterdam base, targeting founders building toward European and eventually global scale.
Kima Ventures
Backed by French entrepreneur Xavier Niel and co-founder Jérémie Berrebi, Kima Ventures is one of the most active seed investors in the world by deal count, historically funding several new startups per week with a flat, no-negotiation check size. It invests globally and across virtually every sector, prioritizing speed and volume over deep sector specialization.
La Famiglia VC
La Famiglia VC differentiates itself by pairing venture capital with a network of established corporates and family-owned businesses across Europe, giving portfolio companies unusually direct access to enterprise customers and industry incumbents in AI, fintech, health tech, energy, and logistics.
Lachy Groom
Lachy Groom is an individual investor (a former Stripe executive) writing checks into fintech, infrastructure, and developer-tools founders, leaning on operator credibility from his time inside one of the industry's most successful companies.
Lakestar
Lakestar, founded by Klaus Hommels (an early Skype and Facebook investor), invests across the full lifecycle of technology companies from seed to growth, with a portfolio that spans several of Europe's best-known consumer and fintech companies.
LAUNCHub Ventures
LAUNCHub Ventures is one of the Balkans' most active early-stage funds, investing in B2B SaaS, deep tech, and fintech founders from a Sofia base with reach across Southeastern Europe.
Lerer Hippeau
Lerer Hippeau is a New York seed fund with one of the strongest consumer and DTC brand track records in venture, having backed Warby Parker, Casper, and Allbirds among a long list of category-defining consumer companies.
Liquid 2 Ventures
Liquid 2 Ventures, co-founded by NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana, invests generalist-style in early-stage technology companies and has backed several since-unicorn companies including Chime.
LocalGlobe
LocalGlobe is a London seed fund run by father-son team Robin and Saul Klein, whose family has backed UK tech since the dot-com era (including early involvement with Zoopla and Last.fm). It focuses exclusively on being a first-check, generalist investor into UK and European founders, with a companion later-stage fund (Latitude) for follow-on rounds.
Lunar Ventures
Lunar Ventures invests in deep tech at the research frontier — AI, quantum computing, and robotics — targeting founders whose technology is still close to fundamental research rather than product-market fit.
Lux Capital
Lux Capital invests at the frontier of science and technology — defense, space, robotics, and advanced manufacturing — sectors many generalist funds avoid due to long development timelines and regulatory complexity. It has been an early backer of the current wave of "hard tech" and defense-tech companies attracting renewed investor interest.
M13
M13 invests in consumer software, commerce, and fintech companies, and was an early investor in Ring (acquired by Amazon), giving it one of LA's more visible consumer-tech exits.
M25
M25 invests exclusively in Midwest-headquartered startups, betting that a market historically underserved by coastal VCs has a growing supply of strong founders and comparatively less competition for deals.
MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital invests around cultural-trend spotting and underrepresented founders, arguing that diverse teams have an information edge on emerging consumer and cultural shifts before they go mainstream.
Maia Ventures
Maia Ventures is a Milan-based fund specializing in food tech, agriculture, and food innovation — a natural sector focus given Italy's agricultural and culinary industry base.
Marathon VC
Marathon VC invests generalist-style in early-stage European startups from an Athens base, with a cross-border mandate rather than a strict Greece-only focus. (Listed twice in the original directory — once as a Greek entry, once as "pan-EU" — same fund.)
Moonfire Ventures
Moonfire Ventures is a London seed fund with a concentrated thesis on AI and frontier technology, notable for using its own machine-learning tools internally to help source and evaluate deals. It typically writes first checks into technical founding teams.
Mosaic Ventures
Mosaic Ventures focuses on deep tech, AI, and enterprise software, backing European founders building technically defensible companies rather than pursuing pure growth-hacking plays. It was an early investor in Wise.
Mucker Capital
Mucker Capital invests in enterprise SaaS, fintech, and payments companies from LA, with ServiceTitan — a home-services software unicorn — among its standout early bets.
Nauta Capital
Nauta Capital invests in B2B software and enterprise SaaS founders across Spain, the UK, and pan-European markets, with one of the longer track records among Southern European funds. (Listed twice in the original directory as a Barcelona entry and again as "pan-EU" — same fund.)
NextView Ventures
NextView Ventures invests around a distinctive "everyday economy" thesis — technology that touches ordinary daily life and routines rather than niche enterprise workflows — from a Boston/NYC base.
NFX
NFX invests around a specific, well-documented thesis on network effects, marketplaces, and gaming, and publishes widely-read frameworks on network-effect business models that shape how much of the industry thinks about the category.
Nordic Foodtech VC
Nordic Foodtech VC is a specialist fund investing exclusively in food tech, agriculture, and food innovation startups across the Nordic region, an area where the fund's narrow sector focus gives it deep domain expertise.
Northzone
Northzone is a Stockholm-founded venture firm with one of the longest track records in Nordic tech (over 240 investments since 1996), best known as an early backer of Spotify. It now invests across Europe at seed through growth.
Notation Capital
Notation Capital, run by former founders, invests in technical founders building data, developer tools, and AI companies, with a hands-on approach informed by the partners' own experience building and selling a startup.
Outlander VC
Outlander VC invests in enterprise AI, industrial tech, and frontier technology founders, targeting the harder, more capital-intensive categories many micro-VCs avoid.
Outlast Ventures
Outlast Ventures invests in Baltic and Nordic founders from a Tallinn base, tapping into Estonia's outsized reputation for startup density (Skype, Wise, and Bolt all have Estonian roots) relative to its small population.
Overlooked Ventures
Overlooked Ventures invests specifically in Black and Latino founders, part of a wave of funds launched in the early 2020s to address long-standing funding gaps documented across the venture industry.
Partech
Partech is one of the oldest venture firms with a Paris base, investing across seed and growth stages internationally (including a dedicated Africa fund alongside its European and US activity). Its longevity gives it one of the broadest track records of any fund in this directory.
Passion Capital
Passion Capital is one of London's earlier seed funds, founded by Eileen Burbidge among others, with a focus on AI, fintech, and risk technology. It was an early backer of GoCardless, one of the UK's payments infrastructure success stories.
Peak Capital
Peak Capital is an Amsterdam fund specializing in SaaS and marketplace platform startups, with a track record that includes early involvement with WeTransfer, one of the Netherlands' best-known consumer/productivity products.
Pear VC
Pear VC has deep ties to Stanford's founder pipeline and was an early backer of DoorDash from before it had a name, investing generalist-style across consumer and enterprise categories.
Playfair Capital
Playfair Capital is a London-based pre-seed investor that positions itself as one of the first calls a European founder makes, often before a product exists. It invests generalist-style with a focus on backing exceptional early teams over a specific sector thesis.
Plug and Play
Plug and Play's Silicon Valley headquarters runs corporate-innovation-driven accelerator programs connecting startups directly with large corporate partners, alongside seed investment; early PayPal involvement is part of its founding story.
Plug and Play (Europe)
Plug and Play runs corporate-partnership-driven accelerator programs across multiple European offices, connecting startups directly with corporate innovation teams as part of its investment and program structure.
Portugal Ventures
Portugal Ventures is a state-backed fund investing in Portuguese tourism, digital, and social innovation startups, often co-investing alongside private funds to extend the reach of public capital.
Presto Ventures
Presto Ventures writes some of the smallest first checks in the CEE region, targeting pre-seed founders in Central and Eastern Europe before they've raised any institutional capital.
Primary Venture Partners
Primary Venture Partners invests generalist-style but exclusively in NYC-based founders, building one of the more focused local ecosystems within the broader US seed landscape.
PROfounders Capital
PROfounders Capital was founded by a group of serial entrepreneurs pooling their own capital and experience to back the next generation of European founders, investing generalist-style at pre-seed and seed.
Protagonist
Protagonist invests broadly across software, AI, fintech, consumer, and web3, based in Miami — a market that's grown as a secondary tech hub outside the traditional SF/NY corridor.
PSV
PSV is a Copenhagen-based fund focused on AI, software, and digital infrastructure companies, serving as an early institutional check for Nordic technical founders.
Redbud VC
Redbud VC invests in pre-seed technology founders outside the traditional coastal hubs, part of a broader wave of funds targeting overlooked geographies within the US.
Refactor Capital
Refactor Capital specifically targets software engineers transitioning into founders, betting that deep technical backgrounds correlate with defensible product decisions in early-stage software companies.
Resolute Ventures
Resolute Ventures invests generalist-style in seed-stage technology companies, running a small, focused fund model rather than scaling into a larger multi-stage platform.
Root Ventures
Root Ventures invests in hardware, engineering-heavy, and hard-tech founders, with a partnership of former engineers who can evaluate technical risk firsthand; Scale AI is among its portfolio.
RSCM
Right Side Capital Management (RSCM) is a high-volume, data-driven pre-seed fund that invests small checks into capital-efficient technology startups, using a largely systematized process rather than traditional relationship-driven sourcing.
Rubio Impact Ventures
Rubio Impact Ventures invests exclusively in impact-driven companies, requiring measurable social or environmental outcomes alongside financial returns as part of its investment thesis.
Samaipata
Samaipata is a Madrid-based fund with a focused thesis on marketplaces, platforms, and consumer tech, investing in Spanish and broader Southern European founders building two-sided or network-effect businesses.
SeedBlink
SeedBlink is a European equity crowdfunding and co-investment platform (similar in model to Seedrs/Republic) that lets a syndicate of investors participate alongside lead VCs in a startup's round, with particular strength in CEE deal flow.
Seedrs (Republic)
Seedrs (now part of Republic) is an equity crowdfunding platform rather than a traditional fund — it lets a large pool of retail and institutional investors each put in small amounts to collectively fund a raise. It's most useful for founders looking to combine community/customer investors with capital.
Seedstars
Seedstars runs a global network of startup competitions and investment programs with a particular focus on emerging markets, giving it visibility into B2B tech founders outside the traditional Western Europe/US venture corridor. (The directory lists this fund twice — once as a Swiss-based entry and again as "pan-European" — same organization.)
Serena Capital
Serena Capital invests in enterprise SaaS, deep tech, and AI founders from Paris, with a portfolio that includes Shift Technology, an AI-driven insurance software company.
SHIFT Invest
SHIFT Invest is a generalist Amsterdam-based fund focused on Northwest European startups, offering seed-stage capital without a narrow sector mandate.
Side Capital
Side Capital is a Paris-based generalist fund writing smaller first checks into pre-seed and seed French startups, positioning itself as an accessible early partner for first-time founders.
Slow Ventures
Slow Ventures invests in consumer, creator-economy, and culture-driven companies, with early stakes in Robinhood and Slack among a portfolio that consistently looks for products tapping into cultural shifts before they're consensus.
Soma Capital
Soma Capital is a high-volume generalist seed and pre-seed investor in technology startups, known for a fast, founder-friendly process aimed at being easy to work with in a competitive round.
SOSV
SOSV runs several specialized deep-tech accelerator brands under one umbrella (including HAX for hardware and IndieBio for life sciences), giving founders in capital-intensive hard-science categories dedicated program support.
South Loop Ventures
South Loop Ventures invests in underrepresented, particularly Black and Latino, founders from a Houston base, part of a growing set of funds explicitly targeting founders of color.
Spacecadet Ventures
Spacecadet Ventures is a micro-VC investing in pre-seed technology founders, operating with a lean, distributed team model common among newer, smaller-check funds.
Speedinvest
Speedinvest is one of Europe's most active early-stage funds, organized into specialist sub-teams (fintech, deep tech, industrial tech, SaaS, marketplaces, and more) rather than a single generalist partnership. Based in Vienna with offices across seven European cities, it invests pan-continentally and pairs capital with dedicated in-house talent, growth, and platform teams for portfolio companies.
Startupbootcamp
Startupbootcamp runs sector-specific accelerator programs (fintech, smart city, energy, and others) across multiple European cities, offering a small check alongside a structured mentorship program.
Stride VC
Stride VC is a London seed fund founded by a group of experienced European operators and investors, backing consumer and enterprise startups at seed with a strong emphasis on hands-on support through the earliest scaling stages.
SV Angel
SV Angel, founded by Ron Conway, is one of Silicon Valley's original super-angel platforms, having built an enormous early-stage portfolio across the last generation of consumer and enterprise breakout companies.
Target Global
Target Global invests across fintech, insurtech, proptech, and mobility from a dual Berlin/London base, with a portfolio that includes some of Europe's larger consumer and marketplace exits.
Techstars (Europe)
Techstars runs cohort-based, sector-specific accelerator programs across several European hub cities, offering a standard check alongside mentorship and a global alumni network built over nearly two decades.
The Artemis Fund
The Artemis Fund invests in femtech, fintech, and future-of-work founders, run by an all-women investment team with a specific focus on categories historically underinvested relative to their addressable market size.
Trucks VC
Trucks VC invests in transportation technology, logistics, and autonomous vehicle startups, a specialist niche that benefits from deep domain networks in a highly regulated, capital-intensive industry.
Two Sigma Ventures
Two Sigma Ventures is the venture arm of the quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma, investing in data science, AI/ML, fintech, and enterprise founders with deep technical resources to draw on for diligence.
Unconventional Ventures
Unconventional Ventures is an impact-oriented fund investing in climate, health, and education startups, with a stated focus on backing underrepresented founders solving problems mainstream venture has historically underfunded.
Unshackled Ventures
Unshackled Ventures invests exclusively in immigrant-founded startups, and distinctively also helps handle visa and immigration logistics for founders — a genuine practical barrier that's otherwise outside most funds' scope.
Ventech
Ventech is a long-established Paris fund investing generalist-style across European tech, with an early stake in Criteo giving it one of the more notable exits among French seed-stage investors.
Village Global
Village Global is backed by an unusually high-profile group of tech founder LPs (including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg), and leans heavily on that network for deal sourcing and founder support.
Volta Ventures
Volta Ventures backs B2B software, SaaS, and AI startups across the Benelux region, investing at seed with follow-on capacity for companies that reach product-market fit.
Wischoff Ventures
Wischoff Ventures is a micro-VC investing in pre-seed and seed technology companies, part of the long tail of smaller, specialized funds that have proliferated alongside the traditional name-brand firms.
Wonder Ventures
Wonder Ventures is one of the earlier institutional seed funds built specifically around the LA startup ecosystem, backing enterprise and consumer founders in a market historically overshadowed by the Bay Area.
XAnge
XAnge (backed by Groupe SEB and other institutional LPs) invests in B2B SaaS, deep tech, and fintech founders across France and neighboring markets, with a fund structure that gives it a longer capital runway than many independent seed funds.