AP Ventures invests into energy-related innovations, especially hydrogen. They are headquartered in London and invest globally.
They do follow on their investments.
You can contact them at info@apventuresllp.com.
Business type: B2C
Red Brick Accelerator is held twice a year in Tampere, Finland. Teams must attend onsite for the 12 weeks of the program. Autumn batch starts in October. Current information on application period is preliminary.
Startup Journey by Boost Turku is a free early-stage acceleration program: no charges, no equity taken. Next batch is digital. Earlier ones have been onsite in Turku, Finland, and upcoming ones may be physical with digital participation possibly an option. Most selected teams will be from Turku region in Finland as the organization’s mission is to support the local ecosystem.
They select teams (not solo founders) that have done at least some work already on the idea, e.g. competitor identification and evaluation. Teams have to be able to clearly state their solution that has some competitive advantage.
The goal of the program is to help you develop your concept and get you towards first revenue.
Their community page with mentors etc. can be found at facebook.com/BoostStartupJourney.
Revo Capital invests into developing East-European markets. Traction is required and B2B is preferred, but B2C is also ok.
They often look for a board seat. Their home market is in Turkey.
They consider themselves active helpers of their companies, especially in expanding beyond the home market. Founders of the fund have C-level background in the largest Turkish telecom.
Rolling applications are also reviewed all the time and the program’s open network can help in many ways even outside the official program.
For the full program, spring application period is until 30.4.2020. Autumn application period will be opened after summer.
The program is geared especially for research-based teams and founders to develop their business in the health sector. Focusing on very early stage, from first proof-of-concept or traction onwards.
K Fund is based in Spain, investing especially in Spain but also elsewhere in Europe, Israel and Russia.
They’re the lead investor in most of their cases.
Software-focused, but do other investments as well. Especial expertise in B2B, both enterprises and SMEs, and SaaS or marketplace business models.
Geographically focused in Central Eastern Europe (80%), with a mandate to invest anywhere (20%). Often a co-investor, but do lead and solo investments as well.
Investment company of Ari Korhonen, one of the longest-standing angel investors in Finland. Invests into software companies. His sweet spot for initial tickets is €50-100k, other sizes are doable on a case-by-case basis.
Ari grew his original company Komartek to an internationally successful one, sold it to WM-data in in 2004, and served as a Vice President of WM-data. WM-data is nowadays known as CGI.
Within the last 14 years, Ari has made angel investments in 39 companies. In those he has participated totally to 128 investment rounds. The companies invested in include MariaDB, DealDash, Klevu, Miradore and Sympa. Of these investments, he has had six successful exits; Small Giant Games, Severa, Paytrail, Octo3, In4mo and The Switch.
Ari is also an investor in venture capital and buyout funds which include Seedcamp, 500 Startups, True Global Ventures, Spintop Ventures, Evli Growth Partners and KJK Capital. Of these investments, he has had one successful exit; Seedcamp fund II. In Spintop Ventures he is also a Senior Advisor and in Evli Growth Partners a Growth Partner. Ari is also Advisory Board member in Finnish Industry Investments (Tesi) and LUT University.
Ari was elected by FiBAN (Finish Business Angels Network) as Business Angel of the Year in Finland in 2014. He is a co-founder and honorary member of FiBAN and Vice Chairman of the Board during 2010-2012. Ari has been an EBAN (European Business Angels Network) board member and Vice-President during 2012-2016. He was awarded EBAN Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. He is also an active member in many international business angel networks, like EstBAN, NordicBAN, Global Super Angels Club, etc… Ari has been featured by EU-Startups as one of the top 40 of Europe’s most active and most influential angel investors.
Ari was awarded Honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration by LUT University in 2017. He holds a Master of Science degree in engineering from LUT University.
They do VC tickets of €100k-500k, and growth tickets €200k-5M. They invest only in software with an emphasis on B2B and deep tech. Traction and sales are required, preference for over €500k ARR.
Preferred contact point is contact@mmgp.fi.
Accelerator with ongoing applications. Programs start in batches. Currently everything online, but they plan to resume physical participation programs later.
Requirements: Deep tech. Significant understanding behind tech. Team of founders have to include at least one scientist and one entrepreneur. Have to be from EEA or UK or Switzerland or willing to move to Latvia. Have to establish a company in Latvia for the acceleration program.