Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP) invests into B2B SaaS companies with approx. €5M ARR. They’re happy to get to know companies already at €1M ARR.
They do follow-on investments.
Revenue: €5M/year or more
Fazer is looking for food tech startups who focus on food (the substance), raw materials and food production process technologies.
For example solutions that help in berry or cocoa availability around the year would be interesting.
They’re interested especially in commercial cooperation, and also willing to invest in a few select startups.
Startup introductions can be sent to Jussi Loponen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zloponen/. Please include an introductory text in the connection request.
Change Ventures invests into startups in the Baltics, or with Baltic founders on their teams.
Tech Consulting Group TCG is a small team of Finnish serial entrepreneurs with a strong experience in growth, internationalization and digitalization. Team has deep roots in both tech and business side. They’re the founders behind companies like Eficode and ePassi.
They seek cases where they can actively participate in to help the company grow and internationalize. They seek a board seat.
OP Lab is the startup collaboration unit of OP, a major Finnish bank. They seek startups to purchase innovations from as an early adopter, while also seeking for more mature startups to acquire.
Their focus is on solutions that are linked to fields of banking, insurance & finance in general. Fields such as fintech, insurtech, AI, biometrics, customer experience, and loyalty etc. are of interest to them.
They’re happy to connect with startups that are interested in the Finnish market.
AI4Cities is looking for solutions that use articial intelligence to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption. The participating cities are Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris region Stavanger, Tallinn.
They’re seeking 40 consortiums to participate in phase 1 (up to €40k per company), of which 20 continue to phase 2 (up to €80k) and three to phase 3 (up to €240k).
An applying consortium can consist of one or more companies. The emphasis is on European companies (main applicant of consortium and at least 50% of the budget expenditure).
Companies can seek others to form consortiums with through the matchmaking of two pre-events as well as the form on the website.
Their applications are open from 1.12.2020 to 28.2.2021.
Contact through website and email: info@ai4cities.eu.
Lithuanian cluster of engineering, design and production companies, specializing in products of at least one cubic meter in size and orders from €30k upwards. They’re especially able to orchestrate complex offerings, up to 50 suppliers for one project. Their focus is in metal and plastic production.
Their ideal customers are from the following sectors:
- Micro- and macro-algae
- Aquaculture & marine
- Industry & offshore
- Indoor and outdoor marketing
Their offering is most often used by companies with a TRL of 4-8, but sometimes as early stage as 2.
They are also happy to help in the technical part of writing applications for Horizon and other grants. They’re also interested in discussing helping companies where management team wants to simplify their involvement or move on to something else.
Access 4 Future is a market entry program for startups wishing to help people in the target countries get better access to healthcare: India, Niger, Philippines, Egypt, Thailand.
The program’s support includes connections locally (piloting), regionally and globally (scalability) and covers startups’ piloting costs. Each location has a different challenge for startups to help in, and they have different application periods during autumn 2020. Challenges include for example furthering the education and training of doctors.
The chosen solutions have to be scaleable. For example a solution that will be piloted in two hospitals might later expand to the state, then the country and finally internationally.
LitCapital is focusing on funding small cap growth companies with proven traction and a scalable solution. They prefer B2B companies, but are interested in especially strong B2C or B2G cases as well. Their home market is Lithuania, and they’re also looking at companies from nearby EEA markets. A connection with Lithuania is a plus.
Most often they are the lead investor of a round. They seek a stake of 20% or more and will actively participate on the board level in growing the company.
Practica Capital is a Lithuanian fund investing especially into early-stage companies, focusing especially on tech companies in the Baltics. They also invest into companies in some nearby areas or with Baltic founders elsewhere in Europe.
They have an especial liking for marketplaces, SaaS, space tech, mobility, fintech, big data, AI, and interdisciplinary life science startups, including health tech and biotech. Drug discovery and other solutions with very long development time spans are out of their focus. They prefer tech solutions but are also interested in especially strong non-tech solutions as well. Idea stage companies are only interesting with founding teams that include serial entrepreneurs.
They are an active investor, helping the deals happen by getting the rest of the needed investors on board.
They have invested in more than 50 companies, leading to more than 20 exits.
If they lead the investment they often take a board seat, especially in fields where their experience is helpful.