Mitsubishi Corporation is investing mobility companies and funds worldwide. They company invest into companies with mature products. Marketplaces are especially interesting for them.
They prefer companies with over $20M in annual revenue.
They’re often the follow-investor on a round.
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.
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.
E2MC Ventures invests into space startups in Europe and globally. E2MC = Europe to Mars Capital. They’re looking for any and all kinds of space-related startups, including e.g. clinical trials or production in space.
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.
Valo is a multi-stage, thematic venture capital firm seeking companies that apply digital technologies to the physical world and create economic value as well as long-term societal and environmental benefits. They focus on 5 global megatrends. They typically invest $2-15M tickets and prefer to lead/co-lead with an active role. They are based out of Palo Alto, California, USA.
Investment scope in brief:
The anchor LP of Valo is the Finnish energy company Fortum.
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.