Sustainable Ventures

Annual acceleration fund and program for sustainable ventures.

Companies have to be UK tax registered. Investment tickets and mentioned sizes here are in British pounds.

Insta Ventures

Prefer B2B, certain B2C niches are also interesting. Prefer cases with over €15k monthly revenue.

Only co-invest in rounds that already have a lead investor. Majority of deals (70%) from Nordics and Baltics, especially Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Lithuania so far. 15% from Central and Eastern Europe and 15% elsewhere from the world.

Does not invest in mobile gaming or hardware. Hardware-enabled software is interesting.

Turing Studio

Fundraising, branding, design and business development consulting. Helping clients with development projects around the globe.

Does not organize clinical trials, but they do user research and interviews and help with all business areas.

Katalista Ventures

Hybrid accelerator / fund. Looking at triple top line benefit: people, planet, profit.

Prefer B2B and software. Others are possible in especially strong cases.

Active investor. Putting time into each company. Comfortable with minority stakes. Prefer to co-invest.

 

bValue

Focus on B2B, especially light-touch sales model SaaS for SMEs. B2C, B2B to large enterprises and B2G are also possible in strong cases.

Geographically focus is on CEE, but elsewhere in EU is also possible. Non-EU companies are investable if they establish an office in EU.

Focus on software and valuations below €20M, but occasionally invests in hardware, or especially strong cases with higher valuations.

Active investor. Normally doesn’t take a board seat.

Presto Ventures

Presto Ventures is a Czech family office. They prefer B2B companies, but can also invest in B2C with good unit economics.

Family office of Skoda transportation company’s ex-owner. Heavy machinery is a special expertise area. Fund preference is for not too capital-intensive companies.

Earth Capital

Doing sustainability and impact investing: mobility, food and agriculture, energy (renewable, efficiency, storage), water, waste etc. Looking for indications of repeat demand.

Looking for defensible market positions. Technology is not necessary, if the position of the company is otherwise strategically defensible.

Investing globally with a focus on Europe. Also investing actively in Africa and Asia.

Focus on B2B across all their funds.

Prefer to lead or co-invest. Prefer to take a board seat.

EnergySpin

Fidiasz EVC

Interested in hardware and deep tech software. Solutions should be hard for competitors to copy, and if they are, it’s not a must that they’re technological. They prefer companies having customer validation and preferably revenue, but in exceptional cases can invest in a proof-of-concept stage as well.

Companies can be based anywhere, but have to have some operations in Eastern Europe, for example considering Poland as an important target market.

In most cases they only co-invest or lead invest. For startups related to construction industry and chemicals, a CVC investment is possible.

GFR Fund

Focusing on digital entertainment (esports, gaming) and consumer tech. Social media, fitness etc. work well. No hardware. Interested especially in infrastructure and new genres of games and other formats.

In business models main focus is on B2C, can do also B2B or B2B2C.

Geographically North America, Europe and Southeast Asia are their main focus areas.