Metsä Spring is looking for startups that add value to the Metsä Group ecosystem. They’re the CVC unit of Metsä Group, a large Finnish forest industry group.
On manufacturing model companies they focus on those in the pilot and demo phase. On service model companies they’re most interested in those in the proof-of-concept stage.
Valuatum is a company making credit risk asssessment with AI. They also make angel-type investments into early-stage companies in technology, especially B2B SaaS and energy, and traditional fields as well, such as machinery.
Their contact person for investments is Esa Mäkeläinen.
Katapult Ocean is an investor-accelerator looking for startups working in the ocean. They’ve invested in and support more than 30 ocean startups. As long as you are a startup with a positive impact on the ocean, they’d like to hear from you. Their tickets are €150k-500k. http://katapultocean.com/
Katapult Climate’s tickets are €120k-450k. https://www.katapultclimate.com/
Founders’ Edge is a syndicate of several active Finnish angels with expertise in areas such as medtech, analytics, B2B SaaS, machine learning and NLP.
Woodstock Fund invests globally into early-stage blockchain, web 3.0, decentralized finance and tokenization companies.
Their investment amounts are in dollars instead of euros.
Investiere is a Swiss fund that does VC investments and syndicates those with their network of Swiss HNIs, institutions etc. They have invested over €120M already.
They have a preference for B2B companies, but are interested in checking B2G and strong B2C cases as well.
They’re happy to do lead/solo/follow investments in Switzerland and mostly do follow investments outside Switzerland.
.Cocoon is a startup founder mentoring program by experienced angel investors who pre-screen founders for coachability. For the best business cases they invest up to €100k during the program.
The managing team includes the key people from Contriber Ventures, who invested into 35 startups after founding the second Estonian unicorn, Playtech, and a manager from Buildit Accelerator with experience from 60+ investments.
MatchingWINGS is a Dutch angel network, investing into startups seeking €150 – 500k investment rounds. They’re also happy to discuss with startups expanding to the Netherlands, even if they’re at a later stage.
They invest into companies in pre-revenue and early revenue stages. They generally don’t invest into capital-intensive companies (e.g. some medical or hardware companies).
Faraday Venture Partners invests into European early-stage digital startups that have their first product revenue and business metrics in place.
They prefer to co-invest or lead. Occasionally also do solo investments. They typically seek a observer seat on the board.
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.