Sofokus Ventures invests into product-led digital startups on angel rounds. They prefer companies with recurring revenue and for which they are able to help with their expertise on building digital solutions.
Invest in country: China
Angelus Funding is a group of 45 international angel investors. They’re investing across the globe without any sector limitations. They seek startups that have traction with a clear path to revenue. They invest also in non-startups.
Contacts to Stephan Reckie, sreckie@angelusfunding.com.
Signals is the startup ecosystem branch of Signal Iduna, an insurance from Germany with a presence in the DACH region and parts of East Europe.
They prefer B2B and applied tech, but deep tech or B2B2C are also possible. Software and marketplaces only. Prefer to co-invest or lead.
They invest within two categories:
Pre-seed
Ticket size €150k – 250k
Round size: €250k – 1M
Invests into DE, AT, CH.
Venture
Ticket size: €1M – 5M
Round size: €1M –
Global, with focus on Europe.
Looking for digital solutions and digital native brands, e.g. fashion/food solutions that use digital opportunities fluently in branding, customer acquisition etc.
They have multiple funds with different focus areas but many similarities as well. Most of their funds focus on Europe, North America and Asia (except India), with one focusing on Africa and Middle East. Most do not seek hardware solutions.
Seed fund
Ticket size: €100k – 2M
Global. Hardware ok.
Usually co-lead, or when outside DE/FR, follow.
Venture fund
Ticket size: €4M – 12M
Global. Lead or co-lead.
Growth
Ticket size: €10M – 50M
European. Lead.
Partech Africa
Invests into African and Middle East opportunities. Agnostic on most other factors on the company, such as stage and company type.
Beiersdorf is a corporation focusing on skin care solutions, managing brands like Nivea and looking for companies that will help shape the future of skin care and wellbeing.
They’re interested in being the first pilot client of a startup, whether the offering is related software or a physical product.
Telia Lab is seeking startups with whom to test new customer-based business and technology ideas. They’re the startup partnership unit of Telia, a large telecom in the Nordics and Baltics.
An ideal outcome from a partnership would be a new product they can sell to their existing client base.
Their focus is on software solutions, especially those working with mobile data. They’re also interested in emerging business areas like circular economy data solutions.
F10 is a multi-corporate incubator and accelerator focusing on solutions for the Swiss financial sector.
As they are seeking matches to collaborate with their corporate partners, most of the startups they work with are B2B or B2B2C. They do work with especially strong or suitable B2C and B2G ones as well.
In their incubator program the invest CHF 200k for graduating startups, which are typically approx. 2/3 of companies who start the program. Their aim is that everyone would graduate. The investment is done as a convertible note.
Unknown Group does startup scouting for corporations and governments, helping them find startups to buy from or partner with.
Combient Foundry is the venture client unit of a group of Nordic industrial corporations, including Epiroc, KONE, Scania, Stora Enso, Husqvarna Group and Fazer. Together they outline new business opportunities and ensure the corporations are ready to cooperate with agile startups, and publish new opportunities two to three times a year.
The business opportunities typically aim to start pilot projects of €50-200k within a few months, with the goal of long-term cooperation as a client and/or other forms of partnership.
They most often seek physical or software solutions. New operational and business models have also been relevant for them. Most of their challenges are B2B or B2C, but there have been cases involving B2G clients as well.
Submissions for their autumn period are open until 22.10.2020. The next period is expected to open in 2/2021.
Maniv Mobility invests into mobility companies worldwide. They have extensive networks in the mobility industry and have many car companies as their limited partners.
They invest into both hardware and software, as well as deep tech and applied tech. They prefer B2B or B2C, but B2G is also possible. They’re often the lead or solo investor, but can be a follow investor in exceptional cases.
They’re based in Tel Aviv, Israel. They have approx. 30 companies in their portfolio and are currently managing their second fund by the end of 2020.