Grid.vc invests into early-stage energy companies.
They’re often the first fund investor of a company and the only one on a round with angels and other non-institutional investors, leading the round. On later rounds they often co-invest with other funds.
They have a global mandate, but focus on investing into companies in the New Nordics and Germany.
Open family office: network of family offices and angels. They do financial investments and prefer co-investing alongside existing investors.
They invest in solutions that customers like and have demand for. Solution doesn’t need to be technological, but it can be if lead investor has done technological due diligence.
Also offer loans for companies with any business types, including B2C.
They’ve invested €41M in four years.
Impact investment fund by a group of angels. FIIL = Finnish Impact Investment Limited (Vaikuttavuussijoitus in Finnish). Investments have to fulfill UN SDG (sustainable development goals) criteria.
All members are active angel investors, who see themselves more as co-founders than just financial investors.
Prefer companies with traction and product-market fit (or very close). Occasionally also do pre-revenue investments.
MVP with traction (seed): €50k-200k, rounds €50k-€400k. Valuations below €2M.
Pre-seed (idea testing stage) €5k-20k, rounds max. €50k.
When lead investing, they take board chairperson position. When co-investing, prefer board membership.
€23M fund focusing on software technology in Finland and Baltics. Can invest also elsewhere in Europe. Hardware can be a minor component of an invested company’s offering, but software has to be the main part. Commonly co-invests with other funds. Can lead rounds in their focus geography.
Prefer B2B and B2C. B2G investments would require significant indications that the sales cycle is much faster than average in that area.
They look for traction before investing. In B2B there has to be revenue, in B2C traction can be proven in other ways as well.
They prefer to participate in companies at the board level.
Contrarian Ventures is a European fund investing into companies transforming the energy sector, including where and how it is used, with an emphasis on sustainability. They are also interested all energy tech, e-mobility, automation, AI, hydrogen, energy grids, and energy storage. They have an especial liking for software and hardware-enabled software.
They focus on B2B, but are interested in especially strong B2C and B2G cases as well.
The partners have extensive expertise and networks in energy and its associated sectors in addition to startups and venture capital. They have a singular focus on helping the best energy-related startups succeed.
They prefer to lead or co-lead in deals. They’re an active investor, seeking to add value through their network, expertise and services for all portfolio companies. They often look for a place on the board, at least as an observer. Their HQ is in Vilnius with partners based in London and other key European cities.
Helen Ventures is the €50M energy CVC fund of Helsinki energy company Helen. Their investments are connected to energy: production, storage, transmission, usage, saving, carbon neutrality, digital and other operational solutions for a large energy company, and related solution areas like mobility and circular economy.
Iron Wolf Capital invests in EU, with a focus on Baltics and nearby countries.
They prefer deep tech and other solutions with solid, defensible competitive advantage and teams that can show ability to sell the current solution (traction, e.g. crowdfunding sales).
Their preferred channel for new contacts is partners@ironwolfcapital.com.
SpeedUp invests in companies that have a connection with Poland. This can come in many forms within 5 years after the investment, for example R&D or sales.
Most of their investments are in B2B, B2B2C and SaaS companies. B2G is possible in cases with strong indications of ability to sell and scale.
It’s common for them to be the only investor in the round, but they’ll be happy to lead or co-invest as well.
SpeedUp has two funds with different investment criteria.
Ticket size €600k – 1M, sweet spot 750k, maximum total allocation per company 5M.
Product type: Any tech except pharma, very rarely also Marketplaces (connection with e.g. energy, IoT, industry, smart manufacturing, cleantech)
Revenue: €100k/y or more.
Product readiness level: Product or Scaling
Valuation: Max €10M
Ticket size €200k-250k, sweet spot 250k, maximum total allocation per company 250k (no follow-on).
Product type: Any tech that has an R&D component. No marketplaces. Pharma is possible.
Revenue: None or any.
Product stage: Proof of Concept, Prototype or Product.
Valuation: Max €4M
The company’s requirements for a connection with Poland are more strict.
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Apex Ventures is a deep tech fund headquartered in Vienna. Their home markets are the German-speaking DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). They’re happy to lead investment rounds into companies from these countries and co-invest in companies from elsewhere in Europe.
Prefer companies with revenue but have invested in strong pre-revenue companies as well. Most investments have a valuation €5-25M and typical tickets are €400k or more.
Especially interested in B2B and B2C companies in Automotive, IoT, Health, SaaS and Fintech fields.