◆ 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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.